Live auction - Lot 160
[French]
Suite of 12 engravings for "La Henriade" by Voltaire.
Paris, "l'auteur", 1787-1788
€ 100 / 200
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Lot description
Folio, ca. 28 x 20 cm, silky papers (some water stains and foxing mostly marg., 1 torn silky paper and repair with adhesive paper).
19th-c. three quarter bordeaux morocco, gilt orn. flat spine (1 scratch, sm. worm-hole on lower spine).
Nice suite, complete (incl. Voltaire's portrait), made for the Kehl ed. of 1789 and also found in a Didot ed. (1790).
Ref. Cohen 604. - Bengesco I:403.
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