Sale 5481
Paris
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20 November 2007
Price realised
EUR 8,050
Estimate
FLAUBERT, Gustave (1821-1880). Bouvard et Pécuchet. Oeuvre posthume. Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1881. In-12 (180 x 113 mm). (Pâle mouillure marginale à un feuillet, petite tache à une page.) Maroquin janséniste vert mousse de Marius Michel, dos à nerfs, doublure de maroquin havane, gardes de soie brochée, doubles gardes, tranches dorées sur témoins, couverture et dos conservés (dos passé, dos de la couverture remonté). ÉDITION ORIGINALE posthume parue peu de mois après la mort de Flaubert. UN DES 10 EXEMPLAIRES SUR CHINE, celui-ci non justifié. Carteret Romantique IV, 320; Vicaire III, 733.
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