La Mort de Philae
Geo Colucci, Pierre LotiParis: Editions Rene Kieffer, 1924.
First Thus.
27.5cm x 22cm. [vi], 164, [4] pages, 21 plates, title vignette. Half leather binding signed Ch. De Samblax. Text is in French.
The Death of Philae (English title: Egypt), a tale set around the submerging of the island of Philae with the construction of the Aswan Low Dam on the river Nile. The first edition with illustrations by Geo Colucci. One of 460 numbered copies on vellum (of a total edition of 500), in a fine half leather binding signed Ch. De Samblax with the original wrappers bound in.
Some discolouration to spine. Near Fine Condition.
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AU$400