Siren, OsvaldBiblio.com
Siren, OsvaldBiblio.com
Leonard de Vinci: L'Artiste et L'Homme 3 Volumes
1928185011Paris France: G. Van Oest 1928. Hardcover. Good leather worn & rubbed w/ some chips; areas of fading & smuding. bands rubbed. vol2 upper section of spine missing but included; larger rubbed area to lower section. vol2 back hinge split; binding joints firm; plate 191 nearly detached. vol2 & 3 have some cracking to pastedown/gutters. all volumes have evidence of binding repairs to sections of textblock. leather boards w/ inlaid marbled paper speckled in gilt; five raised bands; gilt printing. top edge gilt. Volume 1: Text viii 210 pp. Volume 2: Plates 1-99. Volume 3: Plates 99 to 204. Text in French. Foxing to textblock edges; remnants to page edges. Pages bright and appear clean but may have smudges marks etc. A skillfull high quality crafted rebound of the original soft cover versions. Very solid copies. A spectacular set of these three books penned and assembled by Swedish art historian Osvald Siren. With 204BW illustrations of works rendered by Italian man of many talents Leonard da Vinci 1452-1519. This set includes both the text and the two plates volumes and is derived from old publisher stock. G. Van Oest hardcover
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB · États-Unis200,00 $US≈ 169,22 €
