[ROBIDA (Albert)] - MINIME (Doctor). - Lot 62

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[ROBIDA (Albert)] - MINIME (Doctor). - Lot 62
[ROBIDA (Albert)] - MINIME (Doctor). The Hippocratic Parnassus. A collection of fantasy poems from different authors more or less funny. On Hippocratic Subjects of various kinds, except the boring kind. Paris: A. Maloine, 1896. - In-8, 230 x 155: (4 ff.), III, 269 pp., printed cover. Lemon morocco at the bradel, first dish decorated with a beautiful gold, silver and mosaic composition representing two busts of satyrs, two masks, a Bacchus on a garland of bells, snakes holding a mirror, etc.. in a frame made of a gilt roulette wheel and a gilt ribbon at the corners; second plate decorated with 3 silver swallows and a gilt butterfly, smooth back decorated with a gilt flying owl, inside gilt fillet and motifs, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and back preserved, case (Ch. Meunier). Original edition of this collection of poems relating to medicine, taken from various sometimes naughty authors, published by Auguste Lutaud under the pseudonym of Doctor Minime. It is illustrated with 50 compositions by Albert Robida , 25 of which are full-page. One of the 30 paper copies of the Imperial Manufactures of Japan. UNIQUE, unnumbered EXAMPLE, enriched with 18 original drawings signed by Robida in Indian ink, for 18 of the 25 full-page compositions, each placed opposite the corresponding illustration. It comes from the collection of the pharmacist and bibliophile Ange François Mariani, known as Angelo Mariani (1838-1914), inventor of the Mariani coca wine from Peru. Very nice mosaic binding by Charles Meunier. Thinned back, label mark on the lower back. Provenance: Angelo Mariani, with ex-libris. - Dr. M. Pedat, with ex-libris.
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