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PABLO PICASSO Histoire Naturelle: Eaux-Fortes Originales pour des Textes de Buffon.
Portfolio with complete text and 31 aquatints with etching and drypoint, 1942. 373x282 mm; 14 5/8x11 1/8 inches (sheets), full margins.
One of 135 copies on vélin de Vidalon, from a total edition of 225. Numbered 135 on the justification page. Vollard watermarks. Text printed by Fequet and Baudier, Paris; etchings printed by Roger Lacourière, Paris. Published by Martin Fabiani, Paris. Red Morocco binding, with marbled endpapers and boards, gilt-lettered spine and raised bands, and with the original cover bound in at the end of the volume. Superb, richly-inked impressions. Bloch 328-358; Baer 575-605; Cramer Books 37.
