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HDVB - Me Maudieu

373 - POESIES (weight 10kg). - ‘The Flowers of French Poetry from …
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POESIES (weight 10kg). - ‘The Flowers of French Poetry from the Beginning of the 16th Century to the Present Day. With a note on each poet by Abbé RABION’. Tours, Mame, 1851. 396 pages, frontispiece portrait of Racine, foxing on some pages, attractive hardback binding decorated by the publisher, all edges gilt, 22.5 x 14 x 2.5 cm. - Maurice ALLEM, ‘The Napoleonic Epic in French Poetry’. Paris, Librairie des Annales, 1912. Frontispiece, illustrations by H.T., black-and-white plates, original cover preserved, numbered copy, half-leather binding with corner pieces, green leather, decorated spine, gilt title, gilt head, 26 x 17 x 3 cm. - J. ESMENARD, ‘La navigation, a poem’. Paris, Giguet and Michaud, 1806. 412 pages, full leather binding, decorated spine and covers, title labels on the spine, 19.5 x 13 x 3 cm. -J. DU BELLAY ‘Poésies ’. Engravings by Deusenry, Richelieu and René Gross. 1954–1955. 5 volumes, red half-leather binding with corner caps, ribbed spine, gilt titles, covers and spine preserved, gilt headbands, Volume I: 374 pages, Volume II: 405 pages, Volume III: 375 pages, Volume IV: 421 pages, Volume V: 334 pages, 22.5 x 17 cm. - LECONTE DE LISLE, ‘Poèmes antiques’. Paris, Lemerre, undated (circa 1900); portrait of the author on the frontispiece, brown half-gloss leather, ornate ribbed spine, wear at the mouth, gilt head; 317 pages, 16.5 x 10 x 2.5 cm. - Charles BAUDELAIRE, ‘Les fleurs du mal’. Paris, Garnier, 1921. Portrait of the author on the frontispiece. 332 pages, cover and spine preserved, numbered copy; fawn half-leather binding with corner pieces, spine with decorated raised bands, gilt head, gilt title; some wear, 20.5 x 15 x 3.5 cm. - P. VALERY, *Mauvaises pensées et autres*. Gallimard, 1947. 223 pages, fawn-coloured half-leather binding, decorated spine, gilt title, 19.5 x 12 x 2 cm. First edition. - ‘Les saisons, poèmes’, translated from the English by THOMPSON. Paris, Didot, 1796. An edition illustrated with drawings by LEBARBIER, engraved under his supervision; 272 pages, decorated spine, gilt title, 22.5 x 14.5 cm.
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