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PANOFKA (THÉODORE)
Antiques du cabinet du comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier, FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, Paris, Firmin Didot, 1834

27 November 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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PANOFKA (THÉODORE)

Antiques du cabinet du comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier, FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, half-title, engraved vignette on title, 41 lithographed or engraved plates (29 hand-coloured), tissue guards, modern quarter blue morocco, gilt lettered on spine [Blackmer 1242], folio (435 x 288mm.), Paris, Firmin Didot, 1834

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The only edition of a scarce attractively illustrated volume devoted to the Pourtalès-Gorgier collection, founded over a thirty year period, of important Greek vases, and several busts and bas-reliefs. The text consists of essays on the objects, including one by Ennio Visconti. We have traced only 2 other copies offered at auction in the past fifty years.

Provenance: Richard Hugh Sennett, bookplate.

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