Antoine-Eugène GENOUDE
La vie de Jésus-Christ et des apotres tirée des saints évangiles
Pourrat frères|Paris 1836|17 x 26 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition, illustrated with a folding map of Palestine in colors and 33 plates on chine collé mounted on strong paper. Text framed with a gothic wooden border. La vie de Jésus-Christ is followed by Objections contre le christianisme et réponses.
Contemporary full red morocco bindings with long grain (Russia leather) signed Malibert. Smooth spines richly decorated with a large plate. Boards decorated with a large central iron in the form of a cross and a large frame plate with various motifs. Frame fillets. Blue and red morocco doublures on the pastedowns with geometric decoration. Gilt edges. Headcaps lightly rubbed. Corners rubbed. A small tear to a lower border of 1cm. A hole on the lower joint of volume 2. Fresh set with light and rare small worming due to tissue guards on the margins of some engravings.
Splendid signed romantic binding perfectly executed in morocco with doublures.
Contemporary full red morocco bindings with long grain (Russia leather) signed Malibert. Smooth spines richly decorated with a large plate. Boards decorated with a large central iron in the form of a cross and a large frame plate with various motifs. Frame fillets. Blue and red morocco doublures on the pastedowns with geometric decoration. Gilt edges. Headcaps lightly rubbed. Corners rubbed. A small tear to a lower border of 1cm. A hole on the lower joint of volume 2. Fresh set with light and rare small worming due to tissue guards on the margins of some engravings.
Splendid signed romantic binding perfectly executed in morocco with doublures.
€1,000