2 volume set.
2006
12″ x 8.5″
Vol. Number 1:
[318] pp.
Vol. Number 2:
[287] pp.
Two volumes (30.5 cm), I (11 October 2006): 318 pp., illustrations (most in colour). Lots numbered 1-269. II (12 October 2006): 287 (1) pp., illustrations (most in colour). Lots numbered 270-518. Publisher’s printed boards, slipcase. – Collection of the Romanian chemical engineer Fred Feinsilber, ostensibly documenting the forerunners of Surrealism (Souren Melikian, “A passion for rare books inspires a journey into the past” in The New York Times, 6 October 2006). The first quarter of the sale was devoted to older (pre-1900) books; the most spectacular was the coloured copy of the 1610 Voyage du Roy à Metz from the library of Jean Ballesdens (€67,200); the peak of the sale came with the holograph manuscript of Camus “Le mythe de Sisyphe”, bound by Bonet (1958), for which Benoît Forgeot paid €404,000 (now Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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