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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KYSELA, Frantisek, illustrator (1881-1941). ?? ALCOFORADO, Mariana. Portugalske Listy. [Letters of a Portuguese Nun.] Prague: by Neubert for Nova Edice n.d. [ca. 1910s]. 12mo. Three chromolithographs after Kysela mounted on black card with the original patterned tissue guards. Original publisher?s color printed paper-covered boards, printed label mounted on upper cover, printed endpapers, uncut (spine extremes lightly rubbed). LIMITED EDITION, one of 700 copies on hot press paper. A RARE JUGENDSTIL PRODUCTION. Although the imprint states 700 copies were printed, only one example has been offered at auction and OCLC locates just one, at the National Library of the Czech Republic.