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CELLINI, Benvenuto (1500-1571) La Vie de Benvenuto Cellini écrite par lui-même, translated by Léopold Leclancheé. Paris: A. Quantin, 1881. Large 8° (244 x 160mm). Half title, frontispiece and 8 plates in four states engraved by A. Quantin after F. Laquillermie, title printed in red and black with vignette, 15 head- and tail-pieces highlighted in gilt. Later red half morocco, gilt spine compartments with floral motif, original wrappers bound in. Provenance: purchased from Baudot, 1923. NUMBER 20 OF 20 ON JAPAN PAPER, IN A LIMITATION OF 100 DELUXE EDITIONS. Vicaire II, 150.
With 6 other works, 8° and 18°: Pierre Gustave Brunet, Quelques contes du Pogge. Geneva: 1868. Number 13 of 104 copies; Pietro Aretino, Dialogue de l'Arétin. Strasbourg: 1871. Number 2 of 100 numbered copies; Alrotto Mainairdi and Paul Ristelhuber, Les contes et facéties d'Arlotto. Paris: 1873; Dante Alighieri, La divine comédie, translated by Francisque Reynard. Paris: 1878. 2 vols; Poggio Bracciolini, Les facéties de Pogge, Florentin. Paris: 1878. 2 vols. Number 323 of 700 copies; Lodovico Ariosto, Roland Furieux, translated by Francisque Reynard. Paris: 1880. 4 vols. All bound in full or half morocco. (12)
With 6 other works, 8° and 18°: Pierre Gustave Brunet, Quelques contes du Pogge. Geneva: 1868. Number 13 of 104 copies; Pietro Aretino, Dialogue de l'Arétin. Strasbourg: 1871. Number 2 of 100 numbered copies; Alrotto Mainairdi and Paul Ristelhuber, Les contes et facéties d'Arlotto. Paris: 1873; Dante Alighieri, La divine comédie, translated by Francisque Reynard. Paris: 1878. 2 vols; Poggio Bracciolini, Les facéties de Pogge, Florentin. Paris: 1878. 2 vols. Number 323 of 700 copies; Lodovico Ariosto, Roland Furieux, translated by Francisque Reynard. Paris: 1880. 4 vols. All bound in full or half morocco. (12)