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Alfred Edmund BREHM & Johannes DUMICHEN & Charles WERNER Le Nil

Alfred Edmund BREHM & Johannes DUMICHEN & Charles WERNER

Le Nil

A. Lévy, Paris 1882, 28x37cm, reliure de l'éditeur.



A rare copy with 24 illustrations of the Nile River with an Arabic inspired binding




First edition in French, printed on vergé paper.
Publisher's Arabesque yellow paper binding by A. Lenègre, spine with gilt, black, and turquoise Arabic decorative motifs (head- and tail-pieces slightly rubbed), upper cover richly ornamented with Arabic decorative motifs in gilt, black and turquoise with a frame of gilt and black fillets, turquoise paper pastedowns and endpapers (corners slightly bumped), all edges gilt, a few small insignificant spots to lower cover.
Text by Alfred Edmund Brehm & Johannes Dumichen.
The work is illustrated with 24 watercolors after nature by Charles Werner.
A few small spots, mostly affecting endpapers.
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2 000 €

Réf : 44882

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