Peter Bichsel Fine Books
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ALLIX. – Longus. Daphnis and Chloe. Translation by Andrew M. Burnett. |
Longus. Allix, Susan. Daphnis and Chloe. Translation by Andrew M. Burnett.With 21 full-page color etchings (including 6 uncolored, a few with sepia) by Susan Allix, signed in pencil . 91 (1) pp., 2 leaves. 4to. Full light brown morocco tooled and painted to an abstract design with double fillet in blue and yellow, both covers with abstract designs in blue, brown, black, yellow and orange and blind-stamped shapes. In quarter morocco box with an octagona glass window set into the top cover to reveal the binding (by Allix). – London, Willow Press, 1982. One of 55 numbered copies, with an autograph dedication by Allix in colophon „To Arnold and Mimi Elkind ... 1982“, signed. Signed as well by A. M. Burnett. An exceptional binding matching the color engravings. – Best.-Nr. 8526 |
CHF 2500.— |
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Longus. Les amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé ... translatées en François par Jacques Amyot. |
Longus. Les amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé ... translatées en François par Jacques Amyot.With engr. frontispiece after Coypel, and 29 partly folded copperplates after Philippe d’Orléans. XII, 207 pp. Small 8vo. Contemp. green tinted half vellum with ms. title on spine. – Bouillon, Société Typographique, 1776. With two prefaces, one by the editor, one by the translator. The present plates drawn by Philippe d’Orléans, nephew of Louis XIV, were first published in 1718. – Cf. Brunet III, 1157f. (eds. of 1718 and 1745). – Good copy. – Best.-Nr. 7315 |
CHF 400.— |
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MAILLOL. – Longus (Sophista). Daphnis et Chloé. (Les Pastorales.) Traduction d’Amyot revue et complétée par P.-L. Courier. Bois originaux d’Aristide Maillol . |
Longus Sophista. Maillol, Aristide. Daphnis et Chloé. (Les Pastorales.) Traduction d’Amyot revue et complétée par P.-L. Courier. Bois originaux d’Aristide Maillol .With 48 orig. woodcuts (incl. 1 on wrappers) by A. Maillol. (4) leaves, 217, (1) pp., (3) leaves, (4) blank leaves. Large 8vo. Full ivory pigskin over 4 raised bands with gilt-lettered spine and gilt tooled title and vignette on front board. Top edge gilt, slipcase (sign. Morf). – Paris, (Frères Gonin), 1937. One of 500 numbered copies on greyish Maillol/Gonin paper. Signed in the colophon by Maillol. The Swiss bookbinder Friedhold Morf (1901-1960) was a student of F. H. Ehmcke in Munich. In 1933, he returned to Switzerland, where he became a teacher for bookbinding at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich. – (Added:) Separate suite of 49 woodcuts (2 repeated) on single leaves. 8vo. In publisher’s folder. – Carteret IV, 243 (“Belle édition, très cotée”); Guérin nos. 76–127; Monod 7261; Rauch 141; cf. The Artist and the Book 174 (English version published in the same year by Zwemmer, London); Editions Gonin, no. 32. – Fine copy in a handsome handcraft binding. The folder and some of the leaves of the extra suite with some foxing in parts. – Best.-Nr. 26804 |
CHF 1600.— |