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three books are lined up in a row on a white surfacean open book with a picture of a bird in a cage on top of ita picture of a coat of arms with a crown on itan old book with a bunch of shoes on itan old book with a picture of a man and a woman sitting in a chaira book with pictures of different types of objects in itthree books are lined up in a row on a white surfacean old book with a picture of a building on itan open book with illustrations of different types of shoes on it
Maître Paul PASTAUD

699 - LACROIX (Paul) & DUCHESNE (Alphonse). A History of Footwear …
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LACROIX (Paul) & DUCHESNE (Alphonse). A History of Footwear from the Earliest Antiquity to the Present Day, followed by a serious and humorous account of shoemakers and craftsmen whose trades are connected with shoemaking. Paris, Delahays, 1862. Quarto, 2 unnumbered folios, 271 pp. Black speckled half-cloth, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, black title label, label at the foot, speckled edges (contemporary binding). Browned paper, pronounced foxing in places. Second edition of this scholarly study, illustrated with 250 black-and-white woodcuts in the text, 27 plates separate from the text—including 4 chromolithographs—and two atlases at the end: the Armorial of Shoemakers (34 plates) and the Armorial of Sandal-Makers (14 plates), reproducing a total of 452 coats of arms. A well-bound copy. Also included: [CHAUSSURES RAOUL]. Three Raoul Shoes diaries. 3 volumes in-8, in cloth-bound cardboard in different colours—ochre, red and green—with title and date on the front cover. Paris, Chaussures Raoul, 1907–1911–1913. An advertising diary featuring, in addition to advertisements for Raoul’s shops, two dates per page, pages for notes, some advice or information, and a sheet of blotting paper bearing the company’s name for the year 1907. The 1911 edition also includes a calendar, 8 pages illustrated with men’s and women’s shoe designs, and three sheets of blotting paper. The 1913 edition follows the same format as the previous one, with its fourth sheet of pink blotting paper. Enclosed are two illustrated blotting papers advertising slippers. One is for ‘Docteur Louis’ slippers, the other for those by ‘Docteur Émile Bérard’, bearing a stamp from the ‘Au bon chasseur’ establishment in Aire-sur-la-Lys.
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About the sale MONTIGNAC – 31st BOOK SALE – Day 2 of 4 – Nos. 550 to 1084
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Auction time 08/20/2026 at 11:00 AM
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