$1,500
Bailly, Christian. Automata The Golden Age. London: Sotheby’s Publications, 1987. Number 15 from the publisher’s limited deluxe edition of 25 copies. Full leather embellished with a miniature hand painted by Madame Andree Kiefer, and with three original pen-and-ink with watercolor drawings of automata laid in. All edges gilded. In leather-trimmed marbled slipcase. 4to. Inscribed and signed by the author on a label tipped on to the half-title, as issued. Spine sunned. Very good.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2014-02-08