Author: Theophile Gautier
Title: La Nature Chez Elle
Description: Paris, Imprimerie de l'Illustration, 1870. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce work dedicated to the beauty of nature, beautifully captured in engravings by Karl Bodmer. The very scarce first edition of this work, rarely seen on the market. A beautiful ode to the scenery and animals of nature written in prose by Karl Bodmer. In the original French. Text is accompanied by lovely etchings by Karl Bodmer, Swiss-French printmaker, etcher, lithographer, and painter. With thirty-seven illustrations, each protected by tissue guard. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally with shelf wear, bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities, with damp marks scattered to boards, cloth lightly lifting to tail of spine, revealing tail-band. Boards warped. Previous ownership pencil inscription to front free endpaper dated 1878. Internally, firmly bound. Light minor spotting to odd leaf, particularly to leaves of plates and tissue guards, otherwise pages generally bright and clean. Good . Ill.: Karl Bodmer. Good .
Keywords: first editions nature illustrated karl bodmer nature Karl Bodmer
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Title: La Nature Chez Elle
Description: Paris, Imprimerie de l'Illustration, 1870. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce work dedicated to the beauty of nature, beautifully captured in engravings by Karl Bodmer. The very scarce first edition of this work, rarely seen on the market. A beautiful ode to the scenery and animals of nature written in prose by Karl Bodmer. In the original French. Text is accompanied by lovely etchings by Karl Bodmer, Swiss-French printmaker, etcher, lithographer, and painter. With thirty-seven illustrations, each protected by tissue guard. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally with shelf wear, bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities, with damp marks scattered to boards, cloth lightly lifting to tail of spine, revealing tail-band. Boards warped. Previous ownership pencil inscription to front free endpaper dated 1878. Internally, firmly bound. Light minor spotting to odd leaf, particularly to leaves of plates and tissue guards, otherwise pages generally bright and clean. Good . Ill.: Karl Bodmer. Good .
Keywords: first editions nature illustrated karl bodmer nature Karl Bodmer
Price: GBP 150.00 = appr. US$ 214.20 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 849A14
- Book number: 849A14
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