Recueil d’Ornements d’après les Maîtres les Plus Célèbres des XV, XVI, XVII et XVIIIe Siècles Agatha Christie with dust wrapper showing price

with dust wrapper showing price 8/6 net to front flap

and black European cloth covering the spine and back cover

The Life of Birds (1998): very good copy

a bit of wear to front panel and a tiny portion of loss to spine top

a fine-looking copy

Recueil d’Ornements d’après les Maîtres les Plus Célèbres des XV, XVI, XVII et XVIIIe Siècles Agatha Christie with dust wrapper showing priceBALDUS, douard. Recueil dOrnements daprs les Matres les Plus Clbres des XV, XVI, XVII et XVIIIe Sicles, or, Collection of Ornaments after the most famous masters of the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Paris: Heliogravure par Edouard Baldus, 1866. Large folio, 448 x 328 mm. French text. First edition. Ornamental heliogravure title, 99 further heliogravure plates of designs after Aldegraver, Beham, Durer, Delaune, and others