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275 - BIBLIOPHILIA – DOCUMENTATION:
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BIBLIOPHILIA – DOCUMENTATION: - Lyon City Library. Palaeographic, typographic and iconographic documents. Lyon, Friends of the Library, 1923–1936, 11 instalments, in-8. Loose sheets, covers. – Minor tears to some covers, faint foxing on 2 instalments. A periodical published with the utmost care, printed in a run of approximately 350 copies on laid paper by Protat in Mâcon. Numerous plates of reproductions and facsimiles, some in colour: manuscripts, book bindings, portolan charts, typographical specimens… A few documents are inserted as inserts. No. III–IV, a double issue, is accompanied by a separate collection of plates. The most prestigious books and manuscripts held in Lyon, along with their printers, illustrators and calligraphers. - *Le Courrier graphique* nos. 3; 4; 9; 14; 36. A journal of the graphic arts and related industries. Paris, 1937, 5 instalments, in-4 – Illustrations. Paperback. – In good condition. - LABITTE (Adolphe). Catalogue of rare and valuable manuscripts and printed books forming part of the collection of L. Potier, bookseller to the National Library. Part Two. Paris, Librairie Potier, Librairie Labitte, 1872, in-8, XII pp. – 392 pp. Paperback. – Unbound copy; the last leaf is creased; the front cover is damaged; the back cover is missing. -VIMONT (Ed.). Catalogue of printed and manuscript books from the library of the city of Clermont-Ferrand... Part One [only] Printed works relating to Auvergne. Clermont-Ferrand, Mont-Louis, 1878, 8vo (15.5 x 24 cm), XII pp. – 393 pp. – 39 pp. for the table of contents. Paperback. – Volume in good condition, partly uncut. – ESPEZEL (Pierre d’). French Illustrators of the Bible, from the Origins of Printing. 1499–1950. Paris, Club Bibliophile de France, 1950, in-4, 64 pp. – 1 folio. Paperback, burgundy cover folded. - Unused. - Catalogue of rare and valuable books comprising the library of the late Mr Gillet, Councillor at the Imperial Court of Nancy, the sale of which is to take place on Wednesday 13 December 1865, and on the following three days... Compiled by Mr Delbergue-Cormont... Paris, Potier, 1865, in-8 booklet, 104 pages. Paperback. – Untrimmed, soiled cover. - LAFFONT (Robert). Robert Laffont. 1941–1991: fifty years of publishing, fifty years of passion. Paris, Laffont, 1991, in-8, 126 pages, colour and black-and-white illustrations. Paperback. – Good condition. - CORDROC’H (Marie). From Balzac to Jules Verne: a great 19th-century publisher, P.-J. Hetzel. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, 1966, in-8, 92 pages, a few black-and-white illustrations on coated paper. Paperback. - Good condition; note: some ink graffiti on the back cover. - [Catalogue]. The French Book from the 15th Century to the Present Day. Aix-en-Provence, 1955, in-8, XXIV pp.–70 pp.–1 folio and 16 plates of reproductions. Paperback, decorated cover. - Minor foxing. Etc.
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About the sale ANTIQUE AND MODERN BOOKS at 11.00 am and 2.00 pm
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Auction time 10/29/2026 at 11:00 AM
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