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111 - BOURBONNAIS: 8 works
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BOURBONNAIS: 8 works - DES ECHEROLLES (Alexandrine). A Few Years of My Life. Moulins, Place, 1843, 2 volumes in-8, 4ff.-Vpp.-1f.-328pp. 3ff.-338pp.-2ff. of advertisements. Bound in one volume in green half-basane, with faux raised bands and gilt fillets. (Contemporary binding). Copy without the 5 separate engravings, which are often missing, nor the 2 leaves of advertisements at the end. Binding slightly faded, pinholes, a few sections foxed. First edition. - BOULANGER (C.). Geological and Mineralogical Statistics of the Department of Allier. Moulins, Desrosiers, 1844, 8vo, 2 leaves–VIII–482 pp.–1 leaf of errata. Contemporary fawn half-basane binding, smooth spine, title label, gilt fillets and fleurons, blue-tinged edges. - Light foxing, more pronounced on the half-title and title page. First edition. - CALL NUMBER (Léon). Le Saint-Denis Bourbonnais. History of the Cluniac Priory of Souvigny. Moulins, Crépin-Leblond, 1942, 8vo, XXI–452 pages – 8 plates of photographs, as inserts. Paperback, cloth-bound cover. - Copy printed on pure Auvergne rag paper (watermark ‘au sabot’, thickness: 6 cm), unjustified. It contains numerous typographical corrections in pencil. Interior very fresh, spine split. Proof copy, on ‘large paper’. First edition. - FAURE (Henri). Illustrations of the Bourbonnais (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries). Antoine de Laval and the Bourbonnais writers of his time. Second edition... Moulins, Place, 1870, in-8, 4ff.n.ch.-IIpp.-477 pages – 1 folded plate. Contemporary fawn half-basane, plain spine, title label. – Author’s autograph. Good condition. Second, expanded edition. - FAYE (Pierre-Polycarpe). A New Treatise on the Thermal and Mineral Waters of Bourbon-l’Archambault, in the Department of Allier, or A Physical, Chemical and Medical History of the Waters.. Published at Bourbon-l’Archambault and in Paris by Croullebois, 1804, in-8, 1f.-XVI-220 pp.-2 ff.- Folded plate. Bound in a plain unprinted cover of unbleached paper, entirely untrimmed. (As published). – Fragile spine, corners slightly creased, a few scattered small stains. First edition. – GREGOIRE (Gustave-Camille). The Canton of Chantelle. Illustrations by J.-C. Grégoire. Moulins, Grégoire, 1909, 8vo (14.5 x 22.5 cm), 377 pp. – 1 folio – 14 plates. Paperback. - Minor flaws to the cover; interior in good condition. Rare first edition. 12 plates of illustrations by the author’s son, 2 fold-out maps. - ANDRE-GERVAIS (Stéphane-Amédée Pannetier, known as..). Santons Bourbonnais. Written, illustrated and published by André Gervais. Paris, published by the author, 1950, square in-8 booklet, 42 pp. – 3 folios – 4 plates. Paperback. - Author’s gift to Marcel Génermont, “to whom nothing of the Bourbonnais region could be unfamiliar”. First edition printed in a run of 321 copies, all not for sale, on Auvergne paper. - COIFFIER-DEMORET (Simon de). *Le Cheveu*. A moral tale. A verbatim reprint of the 1808 edition. Illustrated with 10 gallant drawings by Amédée Lynen. Brussels, Kistemaeckers, 1883, 12mo, xi–135 pp. Paperback. - Minor flaws to the cover; binding slightly loose. Text printed on heavy paper. A verbatim reprint by the renowned Belgian publisher of this amusing gallant tale, based on the legend of the fairy Mélusine. It was first published in Paris in 1808. This edition is illustrated with 10 drawings, in black or red chalk, by the Brussels painter Amédée Lynen.

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111 - BOURBONNAIS: 8 works See original version (French)

111 - BOURBONNAIS: 8 works
See original version (French)