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Les Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon, avec le poème d'Adonis, par La Fontaine.: >>MINIATURE BOOK FROM EARLIEST TRAVELLING LIBRARY<<
by La Fontaine, Jean de
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
231 printed pages. Lacks haf title (publisher imprint partly illegible due to misprint or historic stain; some page edges very slightly kinked). Pale yellow endpapers (lacks front free endpaper). Inner gilt dentelles. All edges gilt (somewhat worn). One of the Bibliotheque Portative du Voyageur series, renowned for being the earliest travelling library, a set of which was supposed to have been carried by Napoleon Bonaparte on his military campaigns. 69 x 92 mm. Original red morocco; spine with gilt hand-tooled leaves in lozenge shaped motifs, within scrolling french fillet horizontal gilt rules; gilt panelled covers (corners very slightly worn). Nauroy, 22. Pistner, B229:1. Welsh, 4215. OCLC, 458211201. WorldCat locates one copy worldwide (Bibliotheque Nationale de France in Paris).
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- Bookseller
- Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5422
- Title
- Les Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon, avec le poème d'Adonis, par La Fontaine.
- Author
- La Fontaine, Jean de
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Fournier, J.B. Pere et fils. .
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1801
- Pages
- 231 printed pages.
- Size
- 69 x 92 mm.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- FINE BINDING, LITERARY CLASSICS, MINIATURE, Poetry, Minuscule , MINITURE BOOKS, Miniature Books , Miniature Book , Miniature, MINIATUR-AUSGABE, MINI-LIVRES , Livre Minuscule, LITERATURE, Literary Classics, Literary , French , Fine binding, Classic
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Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.
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Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.
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I also am joint owner of Burley Fisher Books , an independent bookshop offering new and secondhand books.
My book expertise came with four years as Chairman of London P.B.F.A. , many more years of exhibiting at monthly London Rare Book Fairs & owning my own bookshops continuously since 1984.
Every book here was valued by the person who first bought it and will be just as prized by the person who buys it now from my shopping website.
I am an accredited professional & a full member of the ABA, ILAB and the IOBA, "Setting the standard. The books you want...from booksellers you can trust".
You can meet me on my stand at Firsts 2024, London's Rare Book Fair, at the Saatchi Gallery, London SW3 4RY, 16-19 May 2024.
I also am joint owner of Burley Fisher Books , an independent bookshop offering new and secondhand books.
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