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Published by Genève, Charles Eggimann & Cie., 1894. [Genf], 1894
Seller: C O - L I B R I , Bremen - Berlin ; Deutschland / Germany ., Berlin, Germany
Gilt-armoured blank sheet, brown-parchment-wrapper, 2 blank sheets; XI pages, including foretitle, titlepage printed in red and black; 16 pages fac-simile; 1 blank seet with colophone, 3 blank sheeets, brown parchment rear-wrapper, 1 blank sheet; all made of untrimmed handmade paper 'Van-Gelder d'Amsterdam' with watermarks. - Publisher's gilt-ornamented strong full vellum binding with white moirée endpapers and gilt topedge, in publ. ornamental interior-dark-blue-velvet covered cardboard-with-cloth-joints clamshell-box; 4to.(ca. 29 x 20 cm). *** [Endgültig ausklingender FRÜHLINGS-VERKAUF / Ultimately fading SPRING-SALE: um über 45% REDUZIERTER PREIS bis Montag 06.05.2024, 24 Uhr (PRICE REDUCTION of over 45% until Monday, May 6th 2024); ursprünglicher Preis / originally EUR 850,-] --- FIRST EDITION, LARGESIZE VELLUMBOUND ORIGINAL IN THE ORIG. CARDBOARD/VELVET-BOX; 1 OF ONLY 30 COPIES: ''Exemplaire de M. Paul Stroehlin'' who - with Emile Gauchat - served as co-founder of Eggiman's bibliophile Press. Eggiman stood in the tradition of William Morris who claimed that each culture should preserve and stand to its aethetic tradition. - Claire Turrettini was the daughter of Genève-citizen and nobleman Francois Turrettini and his wife Camille Burlamachi. She died at the age of 20 just when her 'fiancé-par-lettres' Jean-Louis Calendrini, a nobleman born in Frankfurt/Germany in 1585 was on the way towards Genève to marry her. Claire's grave was decorated with a large tombstone which carried poems and sayings by Bénédict Turrettini (frère de Claire), Simon Goulart (écrivain celèbre), Jean Jaquemot (pasteur et recteur de l'Académie de Genève), Noé Soenori, Marc Offredo (medecin), Paul Cambiago and Giovanni Ludovico Calendrini (poet); Jean-Louis married her sister. . . --- Corners of the elaborated box slightly rubbed; THE BOOK IN BEST CONDITION; also in stock, from Eggiman's bibliophile press: Charles Pascal 'LES BAINS DE PFÄFFERS. - Poème latin; imité en vers français par Marc Lescarbot et réimprimé sur l'édition de Genève 1613'(1894). . .