Set Reminder2025-09-04 12:00:002025-09-04 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Select Rarities: Exceptional Books & Manuscripts https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/select-rarities-exceptional-books-manuscripts-21876 This premier auction features a select group of unusual, uncommon, and choice rarities. A carefully curated offering of printed matter, autographs, and other ephemeral objects, the sale will be led by a first edition of The Book of Mormon, the most important nineteenth century religious book printed in the United States.
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[COLOR-PLATE BOOKS]. [CIRCUS]. ARTAUD, Fran?ois (1767-1838). Description d'une Mosaique representant de Jeux du Cirque. Lyons: Ballanche, p?re et fils, 1806. Folio. Illustrated with the famous hand-colored frontispiece of the Circus Mosaic (ca. 180 A.D.) discovered at Lyon, and publisher's engraved vignette on title-page. [viii], 1-20 pp. Half-title present. Original printed wrappers (wrappers detached, chipped, worn, torn, the first few leaves a bit loose, some soiling rubbing, creasing to margins of text). Very good.THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS EXCEEDINGLY RARE PUBLICATION, ONE OF ONLY 60 COPIES PRINTED. The mosaic featured in this publication was discovered in the same year of publication.Measurements: 30"L x 24"W x 1"H.