Gros & Delettrez
101
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[PARIS, 19th century].
See original version (French)
101
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[PARIS, 19th century].
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
[PARIS, 19th century].
SET of 3 titles in 4 volumes.
-CRAFTY.
Paris in woodcuts.
First edition, a very complete copy with all 16 colour plates.
A fine copy in its gilt cardboard binding with bevelled edges.
-LURINE.
Les Rues de Paris.
2 volumes, large 8vo. Contemporary navy half-calf (with foxing).
-ROBIDA.
Le Cœur de Paris.
Very small folio.
Impressive embossed and tinted fawn leather binding with cold-stamped title and large motif on the covers.
Beautiful cover paper with minor foxing, not serious.
Included:
Paris.
Flamamion, 1961.
Photograph book. Black heliogravure. Large quarto, publisher’s cloth binding.
Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné.
Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller with a passion for bookbinding, a flautist and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, frequented both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the Decorative Arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and Academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were mainly staged in the Paris region.
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