Lot no. 150
MARGUERITE D'ANGOULÊME. [French Heptameron]. Les Nouvelles de Marguerite, reine de Navarre. Berne, Nouvelle société typographique, 1780-1781. 3 volumes in-8, green morocco, ornate spine, gilt inner border, gilt edges (Binding of the period). Luxurious edition of L'Heptaméron illustrated in the first printing with a frontispiece by Dunker, finished by Eichler and repeated in each volume, 73 out-of-text figures by Sigmund Freudeberg engraved by Guttenberg, Halbou, Henriquez, Delaunay and others, and 72 vignettes and 72 culs-de-lampe drawn by Dunker and engraved by himself, Eichler and Richter.
A very fine copy, finely bound in the 18th century.
Minor rubbing to the nerves, some foxing and old repairs to about ten plates in the first and third volumes.
Cohen, 680.
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