CHATEAUBRIAND: The Adventures of the Last Abancer. Les Bib - Lot 238

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CHATEAUBRIAND: The Adventures of the Last Abancer. Les Bib - Lot 238
CHATEAUBRIAND: The Adventures of the Last Abancer. Les Bibliophiles de l'Amérique Latine, 1930. Large in-8 red half-maroquin with corners, spine ribbed, gilt head, untrimmed, cover on board. (Jacquet-Riffieux) qq light rubbing to spine. Superb realization of Émile Poëncin after François Louis Schmied. This edition includes 38 colour compositions: the Society's mark, 1 frontispiece, 16 full-page engravings, 5 large vignettes in the text and 15 lettering extended by decorative bands. Mr Poëcin was then the director of Mr Schmied's bookbinding workshop. Edition of 140 copies, this one 1/100 printed for Charles Miguet. A fine copy.
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