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Daguerre Val de Loire

268 - [Works of Art & Furniture]. [Sculpture & Drawing]. [Paris]. …
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[Works of Art & Furniture]. [Sculpture & Drawing]. [Paris]. LOT of 7 volumes comprising: -LABARTE (Jules). Description of the works of art comprising the Debruge Dumenil collection, preceded by a historical introduction. Paris, Didron, 1847. Large 8vo, X-858 pp., 5 plates, a few illustrations, contemporary green half-basane, ribbed spine, author’s name and title in gilt, decorated panels (caps slightly rubbed, stains in the margins on pp. 407–408). Provenance: Eugène Scribe (1791–1861), playwright (autograph letter signed by the author). -[Provence]. ARNAUD D’AGNEL (G.). Le meuble. Provençal and Comtadin furniture from the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century. Preface by H. Havard. Paris, Laveur; Marseille, Jouvène, 1913. Two quarto volumes, in period plum-coloured half-shagreen, ribbed spine, gilt head (spine faded, cap and ribs rubbed, corners worn). First edition of this ever-useful study, illustrated with 128 phototype plates. Limited edition of 650 copies: one of the 36 head copies (known as ‘collectors’ copies’) on imperial Japanese paper (no. 14, inscribed). Provenance: Théodore Mante, director of a trading and shipping firm in Marseille, Officer of the Legion of Honour in 1890 (inscribed copy). -DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC. DIVOIRE (Fernand). Drawings on the dances of Isadora Duncan… preceded by *La danseuse de Diane*. Paris, La Belle Edition, [c. 1920]. In-4, paperback (dirt-stained cover, foxing). 27 drawings by Dunoyer de Ségonzac, including 20 insert illustrations. Copy on fine laid paper marked ‘A.C.’, unsigned by the authors. -AFFRY DE LA MONNOYE (Alfred d’). The tokens of the Parisian aldermen’s council. Documents for a monetary history of the city council and various Parisian institutions… Paris, Impr. nationale, (Histoire générale de Paris), 1878. Folio, XXVIII–416 pp., illustrations, publisher’s cardboard binding (caps, edges and corners worn). -BOURGEOIS (Paul). New Falaise Album. Twenty-five sketches of sites and monuments, drawn and lithographed… Falaise, Trolonge-Levavasseur Press, 1872. Oblong quarto, [2] leaves (title page, preface), 25 lithographic plates, commentary on unnumbered leaves, publisher’s green half-shagreen binding, spine with 5 raised bands, title gilded on the spine and upper cover. (some foxing). -NEWTON (P. A.). A Catalogue of Medieval Stained Glass in the County of Oxford. London, Oxford University Press, 1979. In-4, publisher’s binding, dust jacket. First volume on Great Britain published in the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi series). -[HOUDON]. GIACOMETTI (G.). The Life and Work of Houdon. Preface by Camille Mauclair. Paris, Camoin, 1929. Two substantial in-4 volumes, paperback, in a slipcase (dust on the slipcase). Numerous full-page illustrations with captions. Limited edition of 600 copies: one of the 550 printed on pure-fibre Rives vellum (no. 335, the only paper edition following the 50 ‘Japon’ copies).
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