Apr 20, 2006 - Sale 2075

Sale 2075 - Lot 63

Price Realized: $ 11,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
REDOUTÉ, PIERRE-JOSEPH; and THORY, CLAUDE-ANTOINE. Les Roses. 2 uncolored lithographed portraits of Redouté and Thory; 184 stipple-engraved botanical plates partly printed in color and finished by hand. Half-titles. 3 volumes. 8vo, 244x165 mm, later 19th-century 1/2 black morocco gilt, Volumes 1 and 3 rebacked retaining original backstrips, Volume 2 spine ends chipped; light foxing on portraits and some text leaves, insignificant marginal foxing on roughly a quarter of the plates. Paris, 1828-30

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Third edition, and second in octavo format. Dunthorne 233; MacPhail 22; Nissen BBI 233.