"La Corbeille De Fruits By Charles Malo, Coloured Engraving, Paris 1818 - Rare"
La Corbeille de Fruits by Charles MaloJanet, libraire, rue S. Jacques Paris, sd [1818]
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8 x 12 cm
Cardboard à la Bradel covered with cream paper, spine anepigraph [original binding], all golden slices.
In its original cardboard case with ornate back (florets, title and lines).
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2 ff. + VIII + 188 p. + 4 ff.
Complete with twelve coloured engraving [frontispiece + 11 botanical], engraved by Pancrace Bessa (1772-1846, pupil of Redouté) and protected by their original serpentine. The calendar for the year 1818 occupies the last four leaves.
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Some light freckles.
The tail flap of the holster is peeled off.
The cover is stained at the jacks of the holster.
Small family chronicle on the cover page (in light pencil)
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Superb and rare in this state of freshness
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