Honoré de Balzac / Ansaldi - Contes Étranges - 1976

Exciting numbered edition 116 with a magnificent original color illustration as well as a purple suite of text-free illustrations! Works on vellum by Lana, watermarked Sefer with the Leopard and enriched with beautiful engravings, including 30 illustrations by Ansaldi: 15 text-free illustrations of which 1 double-page, all under serpentine, 2 ornate titles, 6 frames and 7 chapter heads all colored by stenciling - Unlike a strictly fantastical work based on the supernatural, Balzac's strangeness often stems from an exceptional situation, from a passion pushed to obsession, from an inexplicable event or from human behavior so extreme that it seems to come from outside the ordinary frame - This feature allows the novelist to maintain a strong realistic dimension while introducing into his narratives an atmosphere of mystery, unease, or wonder - Honoré de Balzac / Ansaldi - Strange Tales - 1976 - Volumes I and II - Le Chant des Sphères - 272 + 254 Pages - Very good condition of the bindings, books in full garnet morocco leather with blind tooling and gilt publisher’s ornaments, in cases, rare signs of use, top edges gilded, spine with raised bands, gilt titles and volume numbers - Very good interior condition, books enriched with beautiful engravings out of text, including 30 illustrations by Ansaldi: 15 out-of-text illustrations of which 1 double-page, all under serpentine, 2 ornate titles, 6 frames and 7 chapter heads all colored by stencil, numbered edition 116 with a magnificent original color illustration as well as a purple suite of the out-of-text illustrations, on Lana vellum, watermark Sefer with the Leopard, garnet moiré endpapers in very good condition, a pleasant copy - Delivery service guaranteed within a few days –

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