Lot 138
Botany.- Verneuil (Maurice Pillard) Encyclopedie Artistique et Documentaire de la Plante, 4 vol., 320 botanical plates only, Paris, Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, [c.1910].
Hammer Price: £300
Description
Botany.- Verneuil (Maurice Pillard) Encyclopedie Artistique et Documentaire de la Plante, 4 vol., half-title to all but vol. 2, 320 lithographed, chromolithographed or photo-lithographed botanical plates only (of 384), Preface and Table des Planches bound in vol. 4, plates not bound according to Table, each with pencil number to upper blank corner and occasional pencil annotation to caption, vol. 2 one plate frayed at lower-margin, the odd small marginal chip or short tear and repair, more pronounced tears/repairs to half-titles, some soiling, light toning to margins, mounted on stubs throughout, ex-Royal College of Art Library with bookplate/labels to endpapers, ink-stamp to verso of titles, embossed stamp to foot of titles and small to head of each plate, modern library cloth, stickers to foot of spines, 4to, Paris, Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, [c.1910].
⁂ Scarce at auction, with plates after various artists including Alphonse Mucha, Mathurin Méheut, Jules Habert-Dys and Louis de Schryve.
Description
Botany.- Verneuil (Maurice Pillard) Encyclopedie Artistique et Documentaire de la Plante, 4 vol., half-title to all but vol. 2, 320 lithographed, chromolithographed or photo-lithographed botanical plates only (of 384), Preface and Table des Planches bound in vol. 4, plates not bound according to Table, each with pencil number to upper blank corner and occasional pencil annotation to caption, vol. 2 one plate frayed at lower-margin, the odd small marginal chip or short tear and repair, more pronounced tears/repairs to half-titles, some soiling, light toning to margins, mounted on stubs throughout, ex-Royal College of Art Library with bookplate/labels to endpapers, ink-stamp to verso of titles, embossed stamp to foot of titles and small to head of each plate, modern library cloth, stickers to foot of spines, 4to, Paris, Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, [c.1910].
⁂ Scarce at auction, with plates after various artists including Alphonse Mucha, Mathurin Méheut, Jules Habert-Dys and Louis de Schryve.
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