細節
[TORTOISE-SHELL BINDING.] Pequeño oficio divino. Paris: Sanchez, ca. 1885.
8o (115 x 78 mm). Color frontispiece, plates, illustrations in text. Contemporary tortoise-shell, the covers hinged and on pins pierced through textblock, scrolling silver-work inlaid on covers, the front with a shield surmounted by a Latin cross in lower corner, with etched inscription "From Papa to Teresa," silver clasp with initials "T.D.C.", red silk lining; one Latin silver cross and two small medallions attached to silk ribbons as a marker laid in (lacks one cross on marker). Provenance: Roger W. Barrett (his sale Parke-Bernet, 8 January 1952, lot 280, Emil Offenbacher agent).
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注意事項
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