HILLEMACHER, Frédéric. Le Cirque Franconi. Détails historiques sur cet établissement hippique et sur ses principaux écuyers. 1875.
HILLEMACHER, Frédéric.
Le Cirque Franconi. Détails historiques sur cet établissement hippique et sur ses principaux écuyers.
Lyon, Louis Perrin & Marinet, 1875.
8vo (228x142 mm), 69-(3) pages and 8 engraved portraits. binding : Contemporary full chagreen, from Victor Champs. Original printed wrappers bound in. Binding a little rubbed.
Cirque Franconi known as the Olympic Circus is the oldest Parisian circus.
Rare work retracing the history of the Cirque Franconi, illustrated with 8 portraits of Franconi by Frédéric Hillemacher.
Limited edition of 200 copies. This copy, No. 1 on chinese papier.
references: Viacaire [I, 402].
provenance: Jacques Rumpf with its stamped anagram ex libris (Cirque Pamfus. Fac Primusque. 1915).
Price : 950 €