Alphabet des insectes
BECKER, Léon. Alphabet des insectes. 24 ff., 8 pp. of publisher's catalogue, including 23 b&w engravings with text in red. 275 x 185 mm., publisher's boards, in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Bibliothèque d'éducation et de récréation. Hetzel & Cie, [1883].
A wonderful late nineteenth-century alphabet conjuring up the work of Doré and Grandville by the Belgian artist, Léon Becker. A fine copy, still preserved in its original decorated publisher's boards. Very rare. OCLC lists Newberry, Princeton. British Library, BN and Royal Library in the Hague.
Item nr. 171666
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$4,750.00
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