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LANGLE, Caliste de. Le grillon. Paris: by Donnaud, and sold in Paris and St. Petersburg by Durand and Dufour, 1860.
8° (208 x 130mm). Printed arms on title page coloured by hand. Contemporary dark green morocco, the sides with a floral border in gilt, the upper side centred with the double-headed eagle of the Russian Empire, pale-blue moiré style endpapers, gilt edges (endpapers slightly discoloured). Provenance: Tsarskoe Selo (stamp, binding) -- Plaza Book Auction, New York (sold, 21-24 November 1933, lot 452; description tipped-in).
FIRST EDITION. THE TSARSKOE SELO COPY, in green morocco, of this collection of Breton legends.
8° (208 x 130mm). Printed arms on title page coloured by hand. Contemporary dark green morocco, the sides with a floral border in gilt, the upper side centred with the double-headed eagle of the Russian Empire, pale-blue moiré style endpapers, gilt edges (endpapers slightly discoloured). Provenance: Tsarskoe Selo (stamp, binding) -- Plaza Book Auction, New York (sold, 21-24 November 1933, lot 452; description tipped-in).
FIRST EDITION. THE TSARSKOE SELO COPY, in green morocco, of this collection of Breton legends.
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