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BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE M. RÉNE DESCAMPS-SCRIVE.
3 volumes, complete.

- Paris : Leopold Carteret and Lille: Émile Raoust-Leleu 1925 - 4to. - stiff paper wrappers. - (iv),vi,98,(4); (iv),203,(7); (iv),vi,247,(7) pages. - Order Nr. 25152 - Price: $ 225.00

(Blogie Volume II, pp.299,300,301) The complete set of this important auction sale. Filled with tipped-in plates showing many of the fine bindings in the collection. The plates for volumes two and three are loosely inserted in separate paper portfolios as issued. Wrappers worn; pages fine. Spine mostly missing on volume one, but complete. Volume three, spine missing, covers detached, but complete.

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