Gros & Delettrez
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MISCELLANEOUS LOT. MODERN
See original version (French)
239
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MISCELLANEOUS LOT. MODERN
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
MISCELLANEOUS LOT. MODERN
A substantial lot comprising 20 volumes.
- Bonnet NRF Gallimard hardbacks
3 NRF editions in bindings reproduced from designs by Paul Bonet. Paris, Gallimard, Fasquelle, Galerie de la Pléiade, 1955–1957.
[VAN DONGEN] The Book of a Thousand and One Nights. 1955
AYME, Marcel. Novels of the Province. 1956
MALRAUX, André. The Metamorphosis of the Gods. Volume I only. 1957.
3 works in 5 in-8 volumes (23 x 18.5 cm), publisher’s binding in plain cream percaline in the Bradel style with painted decoration based on designs by Paul Bonet, in the publisher’s cardboard slipcase (in good overall condition; the upper joint of Volume I of *The Thousand and One Nights* is split; the Malraux volume is without its slipcase).
- DE NICH. WOOD. *A Practical Treatise on Railways*, translated from the English original (second edition). Paris: Carilian-Goeury, 1834. In-4, contemporary red half-basane.
- DAUDET, Alphonse. *Tartarin of Tarscon*. Colour illustrations by Dubout. Paris: *À l’Emblème du Secrétraire*, 1939. Small in-4, publisher’s paperback.
- MARTIN, William. The St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre before the Venetian Senate. Reports by Ambassadors Giovani Michel and Sigismondo Cavalli. Paris, Sandoz and Fischbacher, 1872. 8vo, contemporary brown morocco-bound half-basane.
- MARTIN, William. Research on the Roman Roads of the Seine-Inférieure. Paris, Librairie Ch. Delagrave, 1877. 8vo, contemporary brown half-morocco.
- LE MOUVEMENT SOCIAL. Quarterly journal of the French Institute of Social History. No. 45 (October–December 1963), 8vo, publisher’s paperback.
- CHAMPFLEURY. History of Ancient Caricature. Paris, E. Dentu, (1865).
In-18, xx–248 pp., 21 plates, ill., fawn half-calf with corners, ribbed spine, fawn title label, richly decorated panels, blind-stamped fillet on the covers, marbled edges [binding signed E. Petit] (corners, caps and jaws slightly rubbed).
-COHEN. Guide to 18th-century books with vignettes. Paris, 1870. In-12, period percaline with corners.
- LE HERICHER (Edouard). *Scandinavian Normandy, or a Glossary of Scandinavian Elements in the Norman Dialect*. Avranches, Henri Tribouillard, 1861. In-12, (2) ff., 117 pp., green half-shagreen with period corners, ribbed spine, author, title and date gilt, (spine faded, corners slightly rubbed).
- DUCHESSE D’ABRANTES. Famous Women from All Countries: Their Lives and Portraits. Paris, 1835. (Flecks of foxing, wormholes in the lower margin). Contemporary tortoiseshell-coloured sheepskin.
-FEUILLET DE CONCHES. Conversations of the Curious: Varieties of History and Art. Paris, 1862. 2 volumes, in-8.
-REGNAULT-DELALANDE (F.-L.). Catalogue raisonné of the works of art from the collection of the late M. de Silvestre, formerly drawing master to the Enfants de France. Paris, Published by the author, 1810. 8vo, XVI-555-16 pp., 19th-century marbled cardboard binding, black sheepskin title label, gilt title. First edition.
-LUNOIS. LITHOGRAPHIC DRAWINGS. ANDRE, Edouard. Studies on certain original artists. Alexandre Lunois, painter, engraver and lithographer. Paris, Floury, 1914. Quarto, (3) leaves (half-title, frontispiece, title page), 246 pp., 25 plates, red half-percaline, plain spine, gilt title, cover preserved. A monograph followed by a catalogue of the artist’s works and illustrated with 26 plates, in etching or heliogravure, some of which are in colour, including a frontispiece, and with reproductions within the text. Spine slightly faded, tears at the top of the spine, browning at the margins of a few plates.
- MARQUET, Albert (1875–1947). The Apse of Notre-Dame. 1939. Original black lithograph, signed on the plate beneath a captioned serpent (28 x 22 cm including margins), work created for or based on his painting (oil on canvas) of the same title, executed in 1913. Published in the *Gazette des Beaux-Arts*, March 1939, the issue of which is enclosed (cover slightly faded, small tear on the spine), containing an article on Marquet by Claude-Roger Marx. Large quarto format, 199 pp., black-and-white illustrations, two-colour cover.
- Bulletin of the French Society for Reproductions of Manuscripts and Paintings, 20th year. Paris, for members of the Society, 1936. In-4, midnight blue half-maroquin binding with period corners.
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