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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Breuil (Abbé Henri)

SOUTHERN RHODESIA, THE DISTRICT OF FORT VICTORIA AND OTHER SITES.

With the collaboration of Mary E. Boyle. Foreword by Roger Heim.

Published: The Trianon Press, France, 1966

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Frontispiece, 119 pages of letterpress, 60 colour plates and 18 figures – 2 double-page, full brown leather gilt, edges uncut, light foxing throughout – heaviest on the preliminary and final pages, contained in a grey buckram slip case with a leather lip. 

The first edition of SOUTHERN RHODESIA consists of 420 copies, 388 numbered copies.

5 copies numbered I to V, printed on pure rag paper made by hand at the Moulin de Val de Laga, Auvergne. 

This is copy: No. III 

The book was designed by Arnold Fawcus, and produced in France for the Singer-Polignac, Foundation, Paris by the Trianon Press, Château de Boissea, Clairvaux, Jura and 125 Avenue du Maine, Paris. 

  • Binding Condition: Very good
  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: Folio (390 x 290 mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
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  • Country: South Africa
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