Set Reminder2022-02-26 12:00:002022-02-26 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-21955 Our first book sale of the year features an array of items not seen on the market in over a century. Among the Americana lots crossing the block is one of the rarest and important Revolutionary War narratives, being Ethan Allen’s account of his captivity in British prisons printed in 1779.
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[BINDING]. ELDER, Marc (1884?1933). La Belle Eug?nie. Paris: ?ditions Pittoresques, 1929. Small 4to (264 x 178 mm). Numerous plates and in text illustrations in pochoir by Guy Arnoux. Contemporary full red morocco, upper cover with a central barque or three masted ship inlaid with yellows, blues, and brown morocco, framed within a geometric border inlaid with grey and brown morocco with gilt decorations, spine with a firing ships cannon inlaid with grey, brown and red morocco, gilt lettering within a billow of smoke from cannon inlaid with tan morocco, top edge gilt, turn ins with geometric designs gilt with cornerpieces inlaid with black morocco, marbled endpapers (spine a bit darkened, some touch ups to joints); morocco?edged slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 106 of 350 copies from a total edition of 425. A HANDSOME ART DECO BINDING.