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(Lot) – Auguste MAQUET. 5 volumes.
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205
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(Lot) – Auguste MAQUET. 5 volumes.
See original version (French)
Estimate €80 - €100
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Description
(Lot) – Auguste MAQUET. 5 volumes.
- *Dettes de cœur*. Librairie Nouvelle, Bourdilliat, 1860.
In-12, black half-basane with 4 raised bands, speckled edges.
[2 ff.], 293 pp.
Minor losses of leather on the spine, worn corners.
- *La Rose blanche*. Paris, Michel Lévy, 1863.
In-12, brown morocco half-leather with corners, spine with 5 raised bands, title and date gilt, untrimmed, dedicatory inscription.
[2 ff.], 287 pp.
Spine faded, cap bands rubbed, corners worn.
The novel is set at the end of the 15th century.
Dedication: ‘To my dear friend Mr Adolphe Buchère’.
- Auguste MAQUET, Arnould et Alboize, History of the Bastille, from its foundation (1374) to its destruction (1789). No place, no date [1890?].
Quarto, plum-coloured half-basane, spine with five faded raised bands, decorated with gilt fleurons. Binding rubbed. Foxing.
781 pp. Text in two columns.
- Theatre. Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1893–1897 and undated.
4 volumes, 12mo, fawn half-basane.
[2 ff.] 383 pp.; [2 ff.], 234 pp., [1 f.]; [2 ff.], 240 pp., [1 f.]; [2 ff.], 360 pp., [1 f.]
Only Maquet’s name appears on the cover and the title page, although it is acknowledged at the beginning of *La Jeunesse des Mousquetaires*, *Les Mousquetaires*, *Monte-Cristo*, *La Reine Margot*, *La Dame de Monsoreau* that these works were written ‘in collaboration with Alexandre Dumas’.
Volume III is by Maquet alone and includes *La Belle Gabrielle* and *La Maison du Baigneur*.
Caps, corners and edges rubbed, two edges split.
- one volume (Volume IV), a paperback edition of *Théâtre*. Foxing.
- Gustave SIMON. *Histoire d’une collaboration*. Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet. Unpublished documents.
Paris, Georges Crès, 1919. In-12, paperback, damage to the spine, paper discoloured at the margins.
[2 ff.], 204 pp.
Included:
- 1 folder of documentation compiled by Jean HOURNON.
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