Estimate

£80 - £120

Mission Marchand - Journal de la route de Dr J Emily, Librarie Hachette et co (1913). Librarie Hachette et co. Light scuffs to corners.and spine ends. Leather with marbled boards and endpapers. Pre-title page and frontispiece with tissue guard partially detached. Remainder very clean and tight with rough cut page edges. Only the partially detached pages as described deny a higher grading.

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Librarie Hachette et co. Light scuffs to corners.and spine ends. Leather with marbled boards and endpapers. Pre-title page and frontispiece with tissue guard partially detached. Remainder very clean and tight with rough cut page edges. Only the partially detached pages as described deny a higher grading. Provenance: This lot was amongst a collection from the house of a wealthy French family who lived in the 16th arrondissment of Paris, known for ornate buildings and wide boulevards and a favourite of Parisian high society. The gentleman who purchased them was born in 1877 and spent the war years in the same house, having sent his wife children to stay in the Pyrenees to avoid the Nazi occupation of Paris.  He was unable to get out in time but was fortunate enough to be able to sit out the occupation, keeping these and all other books in the collection safe from the Nazis.