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Lot 480
  • 480

Prisse d'Avennes, Emile.

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 EUR
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Description

The Oriental Album or historical, pictorial and ethnographical sketches illustrating the human facilities in the Valley of the Nile, their costumes, usages, habits, modes of life... [London, James Madden, 1848] in-folio demi-veau blond, dos lisse.

Première édition mise dans le commerce, 25 planches en noir sur 30, d'après Prisse d'Avennes, par Lemoine, Lehnert, Mouilleron et autres, dont 1 frontispice en or et couleurs, portrait de George Lloyd.



Prisse d'Avennes explora la nécropole de Thèbes, entre 1839 et 1843, en compagnie du botaniste George LLoyd.



Fortes rousseurs.



Atabey 1001.

Condition

Fortes rousseurs.
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