GATINE, Georges Jacques Gatine (1773-1824) - da Louis Marie LANTE (1789-1871) - Galerie Francaise de Femmes Celebres. Paris: presso l'editore, 1827.   A complete copy, with plates in fine contemporary handcolouring and sometimes finished in gold, of the first edition of this work dedicated to illustrious women of historical and literary France.   4to (341 x 255mm). Half-title, 70 fine handcoloured plates sometimes finished in gold (some foxing and browning). Contemporary red calf elaborately decorated in blind and gilt, gilt spine, edges and dentelles, marbled endpapers (lower edge of spine chipped, weak joints, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Hermann Marx (bookplate).

Estimate € 200 - 300

Sold € 180