La Henriade (proof set of etchings after Charles Eisen)
by Voltaire (Charles Eisen)
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Sitges (BCN), Barcelona, Spain
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About This Item
1750 - 1751. Charles Eisen Aliamet Le Mire. A COMPLETE SET OF PROOFS AFTER CHARLES EISEN (etched by Tardieu, Alamet, and Le Mire), ON CHINE APPLIQUÉ. Eleven sheets (frontispiece plus ten plates), each with an etching on fine Chinese paper mounted on fine wove paper. This set is not to be confused with vastly inferior etchings made decades later after the same drawings. 8vo. OUTSTANDING IMPRESSIONS IN PERFECT CONDITION, with no defects. Of the greatest rarity: only a handful of such sets were printed, and I have been unable to locate another one that has survived complete.
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- Bookseller
- Cole & Contreras (ES)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39108
- Title
- La Henriade (proof set of etchings after Charles Eisen)
- Author
- Voltaire (Charles Eisen)
- Illustrator
- Charles Eisen Aliamet Le Mire
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1750 - 1751
- Keywords
- coleprints coleillus coleantiq
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About the Seller
Cole & Contreras
Biblio member since 2004
Sitges (BCN), Barcelona
About Cole & Contreras
We are located in sunny Sitges, on the Mediterranean Coast, half an hour from Barcelona. We have been dealing in rare books since 1991.
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