Description

Hardcover bound in burgundy moire like cloth, heavily stamped with gold lettering on cover and spine, in original publisher’s dust-jacket. 283 pages. Original stiff pictorial card bookmark bound in with fabric cord. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of color photographs throughout. Text in English and Japanese. First edition. An important auction catalog featuring the extraordinary timepieces of Patek Philippe from the Fine Art Auctioneer Antiquorum. Each of the three-hundred lots provides a textual summary in English and Japanese, an auction estimate and a full page color photograph on facing page. No previous ownership marks. Dust-jacket shows 2.5 inch tear on upper rear panel, which has been clear tape repaired with archival tape on verso. ABook is clean, fresh unmarked and like new. Dust-jacket as complete, clean and as described. Fine in a near very good dust-jacket.