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Detaille
by Vachon, Marius
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Paris: A. Lahure, 1898. First edition. Beautifully bound in fine three-quarter Morocco leather in heavy boards with raised bands, gilt titles and intricate spine designs, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilting, ribbon marker bound-in. Published Paris: A. Lahure, 1898, printed November, 1897. Folio, 10 1/4", 13 1/2", 172pp., illustratred with 24 tissue-guarded intaglio engraved plates and 236 vignettes engraved in the text. A reference monograph on the painter Jean-Baptiste Edouard Detaille who specialized in military scenes and was regarded as as the "semi-official artist of the French army." Minor foxing on edges of page block, else a near fine, stunningly bound, attractive copy. . 1st. Three-Quarter Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. Folio.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010263
- Title
- Detaille
- Author
- Vachon, Marius
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- A. Lahure
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1898
- Size
- Folio
- Bookseller catalogs
- England & Europe; Military;
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The Wild Muse
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Granville, New York
About The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- Folio
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- Morocco
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Edges
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- Spine
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