Forty original watercolors for Lamartine’s L'Histoire des Girondins

by Auguste Raffet

$40,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Signed

Raffet, Auguste. Forty watercolors 39 portraits, 1 device with liberty cap , signed by the artist in lower right or left of each. 1 vols. 4to. Red janseniste morocco, with green morocco doublures with wide gilt dentelle borders, marbled flyleaves, a.e.g., by Capé. Finely rebacked, one lower flyleaf replaced, covers with some traces of staining, light foxing to a few watercolors. Ray, France, pp. 185-187. Provenance: Ricardo Heredia y Livermore ownership

• Binding: Leather

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