Artcurial / Briest – Poulain – F. Tajan (Paris)

(28 cm), 226 (22) pp., illustrations (most in colour). 190 lots. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - The sale included “Manuscrits et livres anciens” (lots 102-125) and “Livres illustrés modernes et estampes” (lots 126-144), together with antiquities, Pre-Columbian artefacts, tribal art, modern art, etc. A sale of the same material by the same auctioneer, scheduled for December 2012, was cancelled owing to “a conflict within the family”. ¶ As new.