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LABOUREUR. MAETERLINK.
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187
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LABOUREUR. MAETERLINK.
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
LABOUREUR. MAETERLINK.
The Life of Bees [with] The Life of Termites [with] The Life of Ants.
Paris, L’Artisan du Livre, 1930.
3 square in-8 volumes, publisher’s paperback bound in an orange slipcase and cover. Frontispiece, 313 pp., (3 blank leaves at the end), 2 plates, printed cover; frontispiece, 186 pp., (3 blank leaves at the end), printed cover; frontispiece, 234 pp., (3 blank folios at the end), printed cover. Black half-chagrin with corners, ribbed spine decorated with a gilded bee in the centre, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, publisher’s slipcase. Slight wear; slipcase slightly tarnished.
ENTOMOLOGY
A fine copy.
-Sylvain Laboureur, Complete Catalogue of the Works of Jean-Emile Laboureur, II, pp. 206–213, no. 425, 426 and 427.
A fine edition of three of Maeterlinck’s works devoted to the life of nature, superbly illustrated with drawings and engravings by Jean-Emile LABOUREUR (1877–1943).
*The Life of Bees* includes a frontispiece, two plates and seven chapter headings. *The Life of Termites* is adorned with a frontispiece and 11 chapter headings, whilst *The Life of Ants* is illustrated with a frontispiece and nine chapter headings.
Printed in an edition of 750 copies. One of the tinted Rives vellum copies, this one being no. 406.
A perfectly preserved copy, in a modern binding.
Also included:
-FABRE, J.-H. *Souvenir entomologiques*
Paris, Delagrave, 1914.
Large 8vo, contemporary aubergine morocco half-leather binding, ribbed spine, gilt title.
Spine slightly faded but a fine copy printed on laid paper with beautiful sepia heliogravure plates.
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, moved in both 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.
Complete Catalogue of the Works of Jean-Emile Laboureur, Vol. II, no. 425
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