[HENRI DE ROTHSCHILD - COLLECTOR] ROTHSCHILD... - Lot 70 - Ader

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[HENRI DE ROTHSCHILD - COLLECTOR] ROTHSCHILD... - Lot 70 - Ader
[HENRI DE ROTHSCHILD - COLLECTOR] ROTHSCHILD (Arthur de). Notice on the origin of the uniform price of the letter tax and on the creation of postage stamps in England. Paris : Librairie Nouvelle, 1872. - In-16, red morocco, crowned figure gilt in the center of the first plate, spine ribbed, gilt inside, gilt edges, untrimmed, cover retained (Petit). First edition of 600 copies of this booklet sold for the benefit of the Society for the Relief of Peasants Ruined by War. ONE OF THE 50 COPIES ON CHINA PAPER. A superb copy bound by Petit with the figure "G. de R." crowned, designating, according to a pencil note on the first endpaper, Baron Gustave de Rothschild. It is enriched with a photograph of the funeral of Gustave de Rothschild in 1911. A very nice copy. ROTHSCHILD (Henri James Nathaniel Charles de), Les timbre-postes et leurs amis. Paris: Theodore Champion, 1938. Arthur de Rothschild and Henri de Rothschild were ranked among the greatest philatelists of the world.
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