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1927stela1315Paris: Éditions du Trianon 1927. 1927. 8vo. pp. 295 4. French text. 24 b/w plates. wrs. some browning to endleaves with some staining. glassine dw. chips & tears to head & foot of spine. Edition limited to 575 copies of which this is one of 10 copies on Holland Van Gelder. Hardcover. Paris: Éditions du Trianon, 1927. Hardcover
195021344Paris: Le Impressions Des Roses 1950. leather_bound. Full crimson morocco top edge marbled. Fine. 427 pages. Limited edition copy 190 of 300. 20 full page erotic pochoir plates by Pierre Leconte and a host decorated initial letters and color chapter decorations. French text with wide text margins original decorated stiff wrappers printed in two colors laid-in. Raised bands spine panels gilt decorated and lettered. Le Impressions Des Roses unknown
1924130814Golden Cockerel Press 1924. hardcover. Very Good. 1924 Golden Cockerel Press two volume set vellum over paper covered boards. Privately printed for subscribers only illustrated with woodcuts by Robert Gibbings. Armorial book plates to the front paste downs. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. Golden Cockerel Press hardcover
1901539902Paris: Ch. Carrington 1901. Hardcover. Fine. First edition thus Nouvelle édition réimprimée sur l'originale de 1666 augmentée de notes et additions. Two volumes. Large octavos. 50 handcolored plates. Quarter brown morocco with green morocco labels gilt and marbled paper over boards. A trifle rubbed about fine. Ch. Carrington hardcover
1938132808Paris: Éditions de la Belle Etoile 1938. First edition of Brantôme's sensational work on 17th century Parisian court life. Quarto 2 volumes original wrappers illustrations in color by Jacques Touchet. One of 1250 numbered copies. this is number 940. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare particularly so in the original wrappers. French historian soldier and biographer Pierre de Bourdeille seigneur de Brantôme's works give a picture of the general court-life of the time with its unblushing and undisguised profligacy. There is not an homme illustre or a dame galante in all his gallery of portraits who has not engaged in sexual immorality; and yet the whole is narrated with the most complete unconsciousness that there is anything objectionable in their conduct. Éditions de la Belle Etoile unknown
190180095Paris: Chez Carrington 1901. Fine. Chez Carrington Paris 1901 15.50 x 23.50 cm 2 volumes reliés Edition illustrated with 50 hand-colored plates by Ad. Lambrecht. Limited edition of 750 numbered copies this being number 82. Printed on Vergé d'Arches paper after the 1666 original. The plates are hand-colored with pochoir by Gréningaire and protected by captioned tissue guards. Title page in red and black chapter titles in red throughout the text. Contemporary binding signed by Thierry successor to Petit-Simier in dark green half morocco with corners smooth spine decorated with wide gilt and mosaic ornament top edge gilt covers and spine preserved. Separation fillets on boards. Uncut copy perfectly fresh. Very handsome copy in an elegant binding. Preface and notes by Charles Grolleau. Chez Carrington hardcover
191176223London: Arthur L. Humphreys 1902-11. 8vo. An 11 volume set of historical works finely bound by Hatchard's in an elegant gilt-decorated morocco. All edges gilt. Bindings very firm; a few minor dark spots to bindings and minimal rubbing. With red and black title pages and bright clean contents; endpapers lightly faded to edges. The 11 volumes comprise: three volumes of Horace Walpole's Letters to the Countess of Ossory; Charles the Second by John Heneage Jesse; The Borgias by Alexandre Dumas; Gabrielle D'Estrees by Adrien Desclozeaux; Famous Women by Brantome; Cleopatra her life and reign by Desire de Bernath; Grammont's Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second by Anthony Hamilton; The Love Letters of Mirabeau; Ninon de Lenclos. A fine beautiful set of historical works. . Near Fine. Gilt-decorated Morocco. 1911. Arthur L. Humphreys 1902-11 unknown