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409 - LITERATURE: - SAINTE-BEUVE, *Nouvelle galerie des grands écr…
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LITERATURE: - SAINTE-BEUVE, *Nouvelle galerie des grands écrivains français*; illustrated with engraved portraits. Paris, Garnier, 1881. 649 pages, publisher’s red cardboard binding, ribbed spine decorated by FOCK, all edges gilt, some foxing, 27.5 x 19 cm. - MONTHERLANT, *Le démon du bien*. Marguerat, 1947. Red half-leather binding, numbered copy, 237 pages, covers and spine preserved, 21 x 14.5 cm. - J. BREDIER, ‘Le roman de Tristan et Iseut’. Paris, Piazza, 1922. Fawn-coloured half-leather binding with corner pieces, ribbed spine, gilt title, 224 pages, initials, 2 full-page illustrations, 18.5 x 13 cm. - L’ABBÉ… (MICHON), ‘Le moine’. Paris, Marpon, undated (c. 1870?). Abbé MICHON is known as one of the founding fathers of graphology. He is also the author of *Le Maudit*, *La Religieuse* and *Le Jésuite*... Some pages with foxing; black half-leather binding, gilt title; 394 pages; 18 x 12 cm. - TOPFFER, ‘Reflections and Musings of a Genevan Painter, or An Essay on Beauty in the Arts’. Paris, Lecou, 1853. A few foxing spots. Black half-leather binding, decorated spine, gilt titles, 374 pages, 18 x 12 cm. - ‘Anthology of French Prose Writers’. Paris, Lemerre, undated (c. 1900). 463 pages, green leather half-binding with corner caps, decorated ribbed spine, gilt title, 16 x 10 cm. - BUSSY-RABUTIN, ‘A Romantic History of Gaul’. Paris, Nilsson, 1933. 233 pages, a few full-page colour illustrations, worn half-leather binding, split spine, 18 x 12 cm. - G. FLAUBERT. Works. ‘Bouvard and Pécuchet’. Paris, Lemerre, 1884. 457 pages, half-leather binding with corner pieces, gilt head, decorated ribbed spine, 16 x 10 cm. - A. DUMAS, *La reine Margot*. Paris, Conard, 1929. Engraved black-and-white illustrations. 2 volumes, fawn-coloured half-leather binding, ribbed and decorated spine, gilt titles, 401 pages and 424 pages, 21.5 x 15 cm. - H. BALZAC. ‘Les paysans’. 1876, 376 pages. *La peau de chagrin*, 1881, 309 pages. *Mémoire de deux jeunes mariées* and *La fille d’Eve*, 1879, 347 pages. Paris, Lévy. 3 similarly bound volumes: red half-leather binding, decorated spine, gilt title, wear and foxing, 16 x 10.5 cm. - A. DAUDET, *The Extraordinary Adventures of Tartarin of Tarascon* and *Letters from My Mill*. Paris, Dentu, 1884. Frontispiece and one illustration; foxing on a few pages, 373 pages, fawn leather half-binding, decorated raised bands on the spine, green title labels; bears the date: ‘1884’; 24.5 x 16.5 cm. -VAN DER MEERSCH, *Corps et Âmes*. Lausanne, Grand chêne, 1947. 2 paperback volumes in a cardboard slipcase; 425 pages and 385 pages, numbered copy, 20.5 x 15 cm. - ‘Memoirs of the Countess de Boigne, née d’Osmond: An Aunt’s Stories’. Mercure de France, 1971. 2 paperback volumes, 541 pages and 510 pages, 20.5 x 14 cm. - A. DAUDET, ‘Le nabab. Mœurs parisiennes’. Paris, Dentu, 1886. Frontispiece and one illustration; foxing on a few pages; original cover preserved; 612 pages; fawn half-leather binding with decorated raised bands, green title label dated 1886, gilt head; 24.5 x 16.5 cm.
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