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• Auction House:
  Davidson Auctions
• Sale Name:
  Estate & Collector
• Sale Date:
  02 Aug 2014 ~ 10am: Part 1 - Various Collections - Lots 1 - 522
  02 Aug 2014 ~ 2.30pm: Part 2 - The David Spode Collection - Lots 601 - 1326
• Lot #:
  1177
• Lot Description:
  Books Biographies Of Prominent European Figures (7)
  [Duchesse de St.-Leu, ex-Reine de Hollande]. Memoires sur Madame la Duchesse de St.-Leu, ex-Reine de Hollande: suivis des Romances composees et mises en musique par elle-meme, et ornes d'un portrait et de douze gravures. Londres, Colburn et Bentley, 1832. Portrait frontis., 12 plates in etching and aquatint printed in sepia, with similar title and 12 plates of engraved music with text, all printed recto only, some marginal spots of foxing, [&] xi,84pp., oblong 4to., publisher's cloth with original leather title on front board, neatly rebacked to match. Text in French, and a 10-page memoir in English.The plates are etched by W. Read after drawings by the Duchess; TELFER, Captain J. Buchan. The Strange Career of the Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont. London, Longmans Green, 1885. First edition.Frontis. portrait and 2 other portrait plates with some minor spotting, folding facsimile mounted on linen, (24),378pp. with some minor spotting adjacent to plates, blank endpapers foxed/browned, mar
• Estimate:
  A$350 - 500
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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