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PRISSE D'AVENNES (ACHILLE CONSTANT T. EMILE)
Oriental Album. Characters, Costumes, and Modes of Life, in the Valley of the Nile. Illustrated from Designs Taken on the Spot... With Descriptive Letter-press, by James Augustus St. John

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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PRISSE D'AVENNES (ACHILLE CONSTANT T. EMILE)

Oriental Album. Characters, Costumes, and Modes of Life, in the Valley of the Nile. Illustrated from Designs Taken on the Spot... With Descriptive Letter-press, by James Augustus St. John, 31 tinted lithographed plates after Prisse d'Avennes by Lemoine, Lehnert, Mouilleron, and others, wood-engraved illustrations in the text, lacks additional chromolithographed title, dampstaining in upper margin throughout (affecting image on approximately 10), contemporary half morocco gilt, g.e., worn with loss to lower cover [Atabey 1001; Blackmer 1357; Colas 2427; Lipperheide 1599], folio (548 x 380mm.), James Madden, 1848

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