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150 - 15 VOLUMES: LITERATURE - *L'image de la femme*, Armand DAYOT…
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15 VOLUMES: LITERATURE - *L'image de la femme*, Armand DAYOT, Librairie Hachette, 1899, 397 pp. Beautiful red half-leather binding with corner pieces, richly illustrated - *Jerusalem Delivered*, new translation with a biography of Tasso, A. Mazuy, published by F. Knab, 1838, 432 pp., a few black-and-white engravings, half-leather binding with corner pieces (damaged), some foxing - *The Insect*, by Jules Michelet, Hachette, 1884, 463 pp., illustrated with 140 woodcut vignettes drawn by H. Giacomelli, cloth-bound, all edges gilt - Dictionary of Ancient Biography, Mythology and Geography, accompanied by nearly 1,000 engravings based on antiquity, translated from Dr Smith by N. Theil, published by Firmin Didot, 1865, 675 pp., half-leather binding - *Les braves gens*, by Girardin, 115 vignettes by Emile Bayard, Hachette, 1891, 307 pp., publisher’s cardboard binding, all edges gilt - *Essays on Chateaubriand*, by Gabriel Faure, published by Arthaud, 1946, 166 pp. (uncut) - A Literary Study of the Genius and Writings of M. de Chateaubriand, by A. Buhot de Kersers, Bourges, published by A. Tripault, 1875, 71 pp. (uncut) - Complete Works of Casimir Delavigne, published by Lecou & Delloye, 1838, VII+617 pp. and around ten engravings as inserts, half-leather binding (5 pages damp at the beginning) - *Les matinées du printemps ou les récits de la pépinière*, by J.-B.-J. Champagnac, published by P.-C. Lehuby, 1847, XVI+380 pp., 18 engravings as inserts, cloth-bound (foxing) - *The Devil in Paris*, various authors (Sand, Stahl, Nodier, Balzac, etc.), published by Hetzel, 1845, XXXII+380 pp., with a *History of Paris* by Théophile Lavallée, engravings with captions by Gavarni, half-leather binding - *The King of the Mountains*, by Edmond ABOUT, 158 drawings by Gustave Doré, Hachette, 1931, 298 pp., half-leather binding with corner protectors - *Les gaietés de l’année*, Grosclaude, illustrations by Caran d’Ache, *Librairie moderne*, 310 pp., half-leather binding (poor condition, p. 51 with a gap in the paper). - *Perrault’s Tales*, a children’s picture book, numerous colour and black-and-white illustrations by Maby, Librairie Garnier, chromotypogravure by Brun et Cie, 67 pp., half-cloth binding - *The Comedy of the Day under the Athenian Republic*, Albert Millaud, illustrations by Caran d’Ache, 1886, 388 pp., Plon Nourrit et Cie, gilt head edge, half-leather binding with corner protectors - *Ariel, or the Life of Shelley*, André Maurois, Editions M.-P. Trémois, 1929, 242 pp. (uncut), numerous en-plaque engravings, no. 283/600 on Arches vellum Expert: Mr Geoffroi PICARD DU CHAMBON
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