Apr 12, 2012 - Sale 2275

Sale 2275 - Lot 76

Price Realized: $ 1,020
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
NODIER, CHARLES. Journal de l'Expédition des Portes de Fer. 40 mounted wood-engraved plates on papier de Chine after Adrien Dauzats, Alexandre Decamps, and Auguste Raffet, with lettered tissue guards; over 150 text illustrations; folding lithographed map. Half-title. Large 8vo, contemporary red morocco elegantly gilt in Romantic style, pale blue silk doublures and endleaves; tissue guards foxed, minor marginal foxing on a few text leaves and plates. handsome copy. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1844

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first edition, privately printed. one of 1525 copies of an account of the 1839 expedition to Algeria by the Duc d'Orléans, composed from his notes by Nodier. Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book 235; Vicaire VI, 142.