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Contes de L'Ermitage, ou, Souvenirs de la Jeunesse ... Recueil d'histoirettes instructives et amusantes; traduits de l'anglais, par F.T. Bertin; ornées de dix gravures en taille-douce.

Accession number
PML 86682 JPW 5681
Creator
Bertin, F. T.
Published
Paris : Chez Vauquelin, 1821.
Credit line
Gift; Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes
Last leaf laid down to back wrapper.
Seven leaves of plates with 9 engravings.
De l'Imprimerie de Denugon." -- p. [ii].
A center section of blank leaves between pp. 108-110 is glued together and formed into a box that holds a small painted wooden doll in a silk dress and apron and a removable straw hat with silk ties. Pp. 108-109 not available.
Laid in: a two-page letter from Maggs regarding provenance; from 1869 the book belonged to Alphonse Chevalier de Stuers, Netherlands envoy to France, 1880-1919, later to his grandson Count von Oberndorff.
Description
[4], 210, [2] p. leaves of plates : ill. + 1 doll ; 15 cm.
Provenance
Alphonse Chevalier de Stuers, Graaf V. Oberndorff; from the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Original pink wrappers. In a slipcase.
Classification
Department