Lot 126
  • 126

Books from the library of Robert I, Duke of Parma.

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description

  • A collection of 373 volumes, mostly on French history (including published correspondence and memoirs from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century figures), mostly printed in Paris in the late-nineteenth century
  • Paper
8vo, all but a few bound uniformly by Albert Günther in Vienna in crushed half morocco of varying colours, marbled boards and endpapers, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, a very few sets incomplete

Provenance

Robert I, duke of Parma, armorial bookplates

Condition

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