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Auction Details

Auction House Sothebys
Website www.sothebys.com/
Auction Name Safra Collection
Sale Number NO8822
Auction Date Oct 18, 2011 - Oct 18, 2011

Lot Details : Sothebys

Lot Number 424     
Author UZANNE, OCTAVE
Title The Fan.
Year Published 1884
Place Printed London J.C. Nimmo & Bain
Description The Fan. London: J.C. Nimmo & Bain, 1884 8vo (10 3/8 x 7 in.; 264 x 178 mm). Half-title, title in three colors with engraved vignette, text in two colors with decorative and illustrative borders, all after Paul Avril. IVORY
Lot Note A magnificent Cosway binding by Rivière & Son, with 10 fan-shaped miniatures (5 on each cover), painted in watercolor on ivory behind glass by C. B. Currie. Blue crushed morocco, red morocco inlays in the form of ribbons with gilt lines, tan morocco inlays forming the top edges and handles of the fans gilt-tooled with floral sprays, all on a dense field of gilt-stamped dotted circles and dots, russet watered-silk doublures and endleaves, in a brown morocco solander case.
Estimated Price USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00
Actual Price USD 74,500.00