Lot 122
Opium.- Laloy (Louis) Le Livre de la Fumée, one of 100 copies "impression en noir, dessins tirés de teintes diverses", Paris, Dorbon-Ainé, [1913].
Hammer Price: £500
Description
Opium.- Laloy (Louis) Le Livre de la Fumée, preface by Claude Farrère, one of 100 copies "impression en noir, dessins tirés de teintes diverses", from an edition limited to 220, woodcut illustrations and decorations by Dalny, slightly browned throughout, upper hinge tender but holding, uncut in original pictorial wrappers, gilt, slight shelf-lean, short tear to foot of spine, some light marks to lower wrapper, some rubbing and wear to spine and extremities, still overall a very good and bright example, 4to, Paris, Dorbon-Ainé, [1913].
⁂ Influential manual on opium smoking. Louis Laloy (1874-1944) was a French music critic, writer and sinologist.
Description
Opium.- Laloy (Louis) Le Livre de la Fumée, preface by Claude Farrère, one of 100 copies "impression en noir, dessins tirés de teintes diverses", from an edition limited to 220, woodcut illustrations and decorations by Dalny, slightly browned throughout, upper hinge tender but holding, uncut in original pictorial wrappers, gilt, slight shelf-lean, short tear to foot of spine, some light marks to lower wrapper, some rubbing and wear to spine and extremities, still overall a very good and bright example, 4to, Paris, Dorbon-Ainé, [1913].
⁂ Influential manual on opium smoking. Louis Laloy (1874-1944) was a French music critic, writer and sinologist.
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