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167144411Paris: S. Mabre-Cramoisy for Imprimerie Royale 1671. <p>Perrault Claude 1613-88. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des animaux. Bound with: Picard Jean-Félix 1620-82. Mesure de la terre. 12 91 1; 2 30 2pp. Frontispiece and 14 plates by Sébastien LeClerc Mémoires; 5 plates Mesure. With: Perrault. Suite des mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des animaux. 4 93-205 3pp. 15 engraved plates by LeClerc. Together 3 works in 2 vols. double folio. Paris: Imprimerie Royale 1671-76. 561 x 403 mm. Mottled calf ca. 1676 rebacked arms of Louis XIV in gilt on front and back covers light wear edge of Vol. II back cover a little bumped. A few leaves creased light marginal dampstains on 2 or 3 plates but very good. 19th century armorial bookplate; bookplate of Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow.</p> <p> First Editions. Perrault was the leader of a team of comparative anatomists that included Guichard Joseph Duverney Jean Pecquet Moyse Charas and Philippe de la Hire; they were often called the "Parisians" in contemporary literature because of their membership in the Académie Royale des Sciences. Their investigations began with a thresher shark and lion from the royal menagerie and went on to encompass forty-nine vertebrate species. "Although some of the discoveries on which the Parisians most prided themselves—including the nictitating membrane that Perrault first observed in a cassowary the external lobation of the kidneys in the bear and the castoreal glands of the beaver—had been observed earlier no such detailed and exact descriptions and illustrations had been published before" Dictionary of Scientific Biography. In the spirit of rationalism Perrault and his team investigated and debunked many popular myths attached to certain species such as the legend that salamanders live in fire or that chameleons subsist on air. They also recorded their methods of work along with their results providing the only contemporary disclosure of how such anatomical research was conducted in the seventeenth century.</p> <p> The Mémoires were originally issued in two parts in 1671 and 1676 as in our copy; they were later reissued in 1676 with slight changes as one volume with a new title-leaf. The two volumes of the Mémoires contain descriptions of twenty-nine species including the lion the chameleon the shark the lynx the porcupine the eagle the cormorant and the ostrich. Our copy was bound for presentation by Louis XIV patron of the Académie des Sciences; a significant portion of the edition was bound this way. </p> <p>Vol. I of our copy also includes the first edition of Jean-Félix Picard's Mesure de la terre 1671 which contains the first reasonably accurate calculation of the size of the Earth. Picard based his calculation on his measurements of a degree of latitude along the Paris meridian. Using sophisticated instruments Picard obtained a value for the Earth's polar radius of 6328.9 kilometers only 0.44% below the correct value of 6357 km.; his results were thirty to forty times more precise than any that had been obtained previously. Dibner Heralds of Science 84. Norman 1687 Perrault.</p> . S. Mabre-Cramoisy for Imprimerie Royale unknown books
19185087London: Cyril Beaumont 1918. First edition. First edition. 7 x 9 1/4 inches. ONE OF ONLY TEN COPIES Printed on Papier Chine and Signed by the Artist this is Copy #2 and another forty unsigned copies were printed on Van Gelder paper. Original color-printed pictorial boards with interpretive circular illustration and design elements and decorative stamped spine in colors. With original red silk stitching at spine interface to cover. Endpapers with delightful repeating blossom pattern in green yellow blue and red. WITH SIXTEEN SUPERB FULL-PAGE LINOCUT ILLUSTRATIONS BY EDGARD TIJTGAT each printed in two states one in color and the other in red-brown. Born Edgard Tytgat 1879-1957 in Brussels the artist was immensely popular on the Continent as a critic cited: "Tytgat pulled out all the visual stops to retell myths legends and fairy tales in his paintings and prints. Like the filmmakers of his time he depicted a world full of imagination absurdity and humour. TytgatÃs ëfairy talesà bring back to life and show a wide range of emotions." Somewhat soiled and scratched spine chipped and toned. Internally generally clean; scattered and uneven foxing minor toning other minor scattered wear. A lovely version of Perrault's popular tale combining avant-garde and folk-art styles. No other copies located in the marketplace. Housed in attractive quarter green morocco box raised bands gilt spine superbly marbled side boards and felt-lined by Sean Eric Rios. Cyril Beaumont unknown books
04706Sussex: 1933. A Wonderful Pen and Ink Drawing from Arthur Rackham's Little Red Riding Hood.<br/><br/>RACKHAM Arthur artist. "Put the cake and the little pot of butter upon the bread-bin and come and lie down with me." Sussex 1933. <br/><br/>Original pen-and-ink drawing signed "A Rackham" on lower left-hand corner for the full-page drawing on page 275 in the The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1933. <br/><br/>Image size: 4 3/8 x 6 1/8 inches; 112 x 157 mm. Matted framed and glazed 15 7/8 x 13 5/8 inches; 404 x 346 mm.<br/><br/>This wonderfully executed pen and ink drawing depicts the moment when Little Red Riding Hood sees the wolf dressed up as her Grandmother. The wolf is in her Grandmother's bed and tells Little Red Riding Hood to "Put the cake and the little pot of butter upon the bread-bin and come and lie down with me". Of course the rest is history !!<br/><br/>The wolf is dressed in a mop cap wearing glasses and hiding behind the curtains of the bed. Grandmother's slippers are sitting neatly on the floor by the bed and next to the bed there is a candle and a bowl on a small table. Little Riding Hood is dressed in her riding hood holding some flowers she has picked for her Grandmother and carrying a large basket with the pot of butter sticking out of it.<br/><br/>As always Rackham has created a moment in time - one which is universally recognized.<br/><br/>"Little Red Riding Hood" is a European fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf. Its origins can be traced back to the 10th century to several European folk tales including one from Italy called The False Grandmother Italian: La finta nonna later written among others by Italo Calvino in the Italian Folk Tales collection. The best known versions were written by Charles Perrault and then later by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Arthur Rackham chose the original Charles Perrault version.<br/><br/>The Moral of the Story. Children especially attractive well bred young ladies should never talk to strangers for if they should do so they may well provide dinner for a wolf. [Sussex]: , 1933 unknown books
426Fine woodcut vignette on title & five fine folding engraved plates. 120 pp. 4to fine antique calf spine nicely gilt. Paris: F. Leonard 1669. First edition of the second publication of the "Parisians" a famous group of anatomists in Paris; their publications mark the beginnings of modern comparative anatomy. "The constitution of the French Academy of Science in 1666 established a school of morphology to which the modern development of comparative anatomy may be directly traced.The longevity of the early Parisian anatomists was remarkable.Their leader was the veteran Claude Perrault.it was due mainly to his influence that a number of the early members of the French Academy who are often conveniently referred to in the literature of the period as the 'Parisians' laid the foundations of our modern knowledge of comparative anatomy."-Cole A History of Comparative Anatomy pp. 393-95 & see pp. 393-425. The leading members of the "Parisians" were beside Perrault Guichard Joseph Duverney Jean Pecquet Moyse Charas and Philippe de la Hire. "In June 1667 the Academy was invited to dissect a thresher shark and a lion which had died at the royal menagerie. The reports on these dissections were the first of a long series of anatomical descriptions which ultimately included those of twenty-five species of mammals seventeen birds five reptiles one amphibian and one fish. "Although some of the discoveries on which the Parisians most prided themselves - including the nictitating membrane that Perrault first observed in a cassowary the external lobation of the kidneys in the bear and the castoreal glands of the beaver - had been observed earlier no such detailed and exact descriptions and illustrations had been published before."-D.S.B. X pp. 519-20. Fine copy. unknown books
1742047109Amsterdam: Chez Jaques Desbordes 1742. Early Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Near Fine Condition. Rebound in 19th century half red morocco over marbled boards marbled endapers with old bookplate and bookseller ticket. Half trimmed alternating trimmed and untrimmed signatures. Very slight occasional soiling but just about fine overall - a lovely copy of a rare Amsterdam edition with the illustrationsafter Clouzier but new engravings from the earlier Desbordes editions. With frontis and 8 headpieces. 6 184pp.<br/><br/>First published in 1697 Perrault's fairy tales are some of the most timeless ever written. In an attractive binding by L. Claessens of Brussels. Desbordes published unauthorized editions in 1697 1708 1721 and 1729 as well Brunet Supp. 2 206; all Desbordes editions are rare. This one was no doubt occasioned by a new 1742 edition in Paris. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 047109. Chez Jaques Desbordes hardcover books
1734D4425Paris: Par La Compagnie des Libraires 1734. Hardcover. Very Good. Three volumes comprising Vol. III parts I to III of Memoires de lAcadémie Royale des Sciences depuis 1666 jusquà 1699. Paris: Par La Compagnie des Libraires 1733-1734. Part I: 231pp.; Part II: 294pp.; Part III: 215pp. 97 engraved folding plates depicting animals and skeletal diagrams. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Claude Perrault in first volume. Contemporary French calf spines gilt edges red; some occasional browning; repairs to joints some rubbing. Unidentified armorial bookplate to front pastedown beneath monogrammed bookplate D.P. with chipmunk and two mice. A later reduced format edition of Perraults Memoires of 1671-1676 Perraults study of this nature was first published in 1669 with the results of investigations of five animals and later expanded with studies of over forty animals. Prior to 1670 most descriptions of animals paid little attention to their internal structure and there were very few images in natural history encyclopedias that depicted skeletons or muscles. That changed with the establishment of the Académie des Sciences in Paris in 1666 by Jean-Baptiste Colbert with the approval of King Louis XIV. The Academy functioned with neither statutes nor regulations until 1699. At that time the Academy used the term mathématique to encompass the fields that are now called astronomy mathematics and physics and the term physique to encompass the fields that are now called anatomy botany zoology and chemistry. In January 1699 Louis reorganized the Academy giving it first regulations. The effect was to give the King more control over their activities in exchange for becoming an official institution under his protection with the new name Académie Royale des Sciences. One of the original academicians the physician Claude Perrault organized regular sessions at which participants could dissect deceased animals from Louis XIVs royal menagerie and record all they observed. Lions chameleons bears gazelles wolves ostriches crocodiles monkeys eagles tigers porcupines and salamanders among some were all laid open by the academics scalpels. These superb folding plates record in great detail the pioneering work at the Academy. These three volumes in three parts focus on the transformative and foundational years of the French Royal Academy of Sciences and Claude Perraults efforts which had made comparative anatomy a vital tool for the classifying naturalist. <br/><br/> Par La Compagnie des Libraires hardcover books
1669D6035Paris: Frederic Leonard 1669. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 242 x 185 mm. 120pp. Printers woodcut device on title depicting the winged lion of Evangelist Mark and motto Virtute invidiam vince Virtue overcometh envy and the legend Pax tibi marce Evangelista meus. 5 engraved folding plates 4 by Sebastien Le Clerc and one by Abraham Bosse depicting a chameleon on a branch and a plate with chameleons skeleton and organs in the upper part on a trompe-loeil sheet; and the same anatomical analysis for the beaver the camel the bear and the gazelle decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary mottled calf spine gilt in compartments plates with some tears along folds repaired on verso some light darkening minor marginal worming at end; light edgewear. From the collection of Charles Philippe Robin 1821-1885 French doctor anatomist and politician bibliographical note at foot of title. Other early inscriptions to title referring to the engraver M. LeClerc and on rear pastedown to the state of the engravings. <br/><br/>First Edition and second publication dealing with the comparative anatomy of the animals the chameleon the beaver the camel the bear and the gazelle. Perrault scientist and naturalist was the leader of a team of comparative anatomists called the Parisians that included Guichard-Joseph Duverney Jean Pecquet Moyse Charas and Philippe de la Hire. Their investigations began in June 1667 with a thresher shark and lion from the royal academy and went on to encompass forty-nine vertebrate species. The detailed reports and exact descriptions on these dissections were the first of a long series of anatomical descriptions which ultimately included those of twenty-five species of mammals seventeen birds five reptiles one amphibian and one fish. Perrault and the team of Parisians prided themselves on several discoveries and in the process debunked many popular myths attached to certain species such as the legend that salamanders live in fire or that chameleons subsist on air. The scientists also recorded how they obtained their results providing a glimpse of how such anatomical research was conducted in the seventeenth century. The work is illustrated beautifully with five large folding plates by the expert painter engraver and writer Sebastian Leclerc 1637-1714 four of which were engraved by Leclerc and one by the watercolor painter writer and printmaker Abraham Bosse c. 1604-1676. Very fine work; the large folding plates remain fresh and intact. No such detailed and exact descriptions and illustrations had been published before. It is hard to measure another such important addition to the anatomical study of animals. Frederic Leonard hardcover books
17003805Paris: Chez Antoine Dezallier 1700. First edition. First edition. Two volumes. Large folios. Contemporary full calf over boards seven raised bands with one one morocco label and the rest ornately gilt. Volume one: 100pp. 3ff. including table; Volume two: 2ff. 102p. 1f. with various mispaginations owing to placement of portraits. A portrait of Perrault and 202 portraits engraved in intaglio by Edelinck Lubin Van Schuppen and Duflos including the two censored portraits of Arnauld and Pascal. First edition of this famous work a wonderful copy with scuffing to calf covers internally clean and bright. With contemporary owner inscriptions on both leaves opposite title pages: "Henry and Jane Birkbeck April 1820." <br/><br/> Chez Antoine Dezallier hardcover books
168333221Paris: Jean Baptiste Coignard 1683. Folio 37.3 cm 14.75". 8 xxvii 1 124 pp.; 6 plts. <br><br>First edition of this influential treatise on the five orders of classical architecture written by the physician and scientist generally credited with the design of the eastern façade of the Louvre. => Perrault's theory of proportion introduced a lasting debate over ideas of positive and arbitrary beauty.<br>Â Â Â Â In addition to the => six leaves of plates done by Pierre Le Pautre Louis de Chastillon and Sebastien Le Clerc the work is illustrated with several in-text uses of a woodcut diagram comparing the five types as well as a title-page vignette of the arms of Louis XIV and a distinctively rendered headpiece signed by Chastillon of the Colbert serpent coat of arms supported by a dog and a unicorn.<br>Â Â Â Â And yes Claude was related to brother in fact of Charles Perrault the fabulist and reteller of the Cinderella story and other tales. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Brunet IV 507; Graesse V 207; Cicognara I 607. Contemporary speckled calf spine with gilt-stamped title and compartment decorations board edges with gilt roll; joints and extremities carefully and unobtrusively repaired and refurbished edge gilt rubbed. Pages slightly age-toned with scattered spots; last few leaves with margins a bit darkened. Small area of pinhole worming to outer margins not touching text three plates each with tiny portion of one line touched; some instances nicely refurbished with long-fiber tissue. => A clean wide-margined attractive copy of an attractive book. Jean Baptiste Coignard unknown books
20065299Chevreuse France: Biennales Mondiales de la Reliure D' Art 2006. Limited Edition/Unique Binding. Hardcover. Fine in Fine Slipcase. Tight bright and unmarred. Slipcase bright and clean. Full celadon green goatskin boards 12 recessed panels each decorated in various media fabrics fur paper leather snakeskin etc to illustrate one of the 11 stories plus one with the endpage as a unifying element black ink lettering at spine on green and red leather labels custom silk headbands top of textblock colored to match endpages marbled endpages leather hinges; slipcase has in blind tooled leather label lined with padded brushed white denim. 8vo. 171pp. Illus. b/w plates. Limited edition this being copy 246. <br/><br/>Text in French. This binding was produced for an international competition/exhibition in France for which this textblock was specially produced the signatures provided to the binders "in sheets". The artist chose collage as a means to bring the various tales to light the endpages and balancing block in the front was chosen as the various colors and feeling of the marbled papers tie all the various panels together. The stories/panels are: Front Board: "Red Riding Hood": Red wool cloth & wolf/coyote fur. "Sleeping Beauty": William Morris paper. "The Faries": Snakeskin ostrich skin for the toads Redoute rose paper the prince rhinestones. Sample of the endpaper's marbled paper. "Griselidis": Finely-curled sheepskin the shepardess and a Florentine paper the prince. "Cinderella": Fabric used in Cinderella's dress for a play over fleur de lys paper. Back Board: "Bluebeard": Blue-dyed curly fur over a Gibson Girls paper in red. "The Silly Wishes": The peasant's elongated nose in flesh leather over paper. "Riquet of the Tuft": Paper with an 18th cent. courtly scene over a formal paper. "Donkey Skin": Fabrics of sky-blue moire gold lace and cloth of silver under ratty gray leather. "Puss-In-Boots": Rabbit fur in a course linen "sack" over a paper with cat. A whimsical and beautifully excuted binding. Biennales Mondiales de la Reliure D' Art hardcover books
1679045233Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale 1679. Second Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Good Condition. Willem Swidde. Contemporary full mottled calf gilt with armorial stamp to both boards. Dry and cracked hinges weak but holding. Tide mark to bottom corner of the volume heavy at the beginning largely effecting the text but lightly to the plates as well. On Perrault's advise Louis XIV included 39 fountains in the gardens of Versailles each illustrating one of the fables of Aesop. The 41 plates here are of the 39 fountains plus a map of the garden and a view of the entrance. The first edition was published in 1677 later editions followed in Dutch English etc. Tchemerzine - Volume 9/10 167 Brunet III p.723 the 1st edition. Size: Quarto 4to. Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Illustrator: Willem Swidde. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Myths Legends & Folklore; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 045233. <br/><br/> De L'Imprimerie Royale hardcover books
1899007161France: Eragny Press 1899. Published in an edition of 224 copies 200 of which were for sale. In original pale blue decorative paper boards gilt lettering front cover 2 gilt decorations at spine with lovely wood engravings and decorative initials designed by Lucien Pissarro and engraved by Lucien and Esther Pissarro printed on handmade paper. Very Good spine a bit darkened endpages with usual toning small bookseller's stickers bottom edge front and rear paste downs. A quite charming edition of these classic fairy tales. . Limited Edition. Decorative Paper Covered Board. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Eragny Press Hardcover books
1702LD15300London: printed for R. Smith 1702. Full Calf. Very Good. Tall 4to. 267 pp. index. 40 pp. Measure of the Earth bound in after index. Contemporary calf Cambridge style binding. Early armorial bookplate of Hopetoun and a second modern bookplate. First published in English in 1688 both that edition and this one have become surprisingly scarce on the market. This is a very nice copy; leather rubbed along the spine but still quite sound with fresh pages throughout and fine impressions of the handsome plates. <br/><br/> printed for R. Smith unknown books
1843W1002137Paris: L. Curmer 1843. Dark green morocco spine and tips 4 raised bands gilt. Green marbled boards all edges sprinkled red. Some shelfwear and bumping on edges especially bottom of lower cover though this is a very sturdy binding. Spine expertly repaired with original spine laid down. Top corner of lower cover is new and beautifully matched to other tips. An engraved title page dated 1842 appears followed by the usual 1843 title page. Owner bookplates one over the other on front pastedown. Endpapers and pastedowns have some staining which extends into margins of book not affecting text or plates. First page of Sleeping Beauty repaired at top with Japanese paper. Heavily illustrated with Blanchard engravings after Paquet Marvy Jeanron Jacque and Beauce. All of Perrault's most famous fairy tales included beautifully illustrated both in full page and in text. Probably the finest Perrault work extant. First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by M. Blanchard. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade. L. Curmer Hardcover books
246606Paris: Hachette. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Colored mounted frontispiece and many silhouette illustrations full page and throughout the text by Arthur Rackham occasional offsetting. 110 pages tall slim 4to handsomely rebound in 3/4 green morocco marbled boards. Paris: Hachette no date ca. 1910. Near fine.<br/><br/> One of 500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator.<br/><br/> Hachette unknown books
04596Paris: Librairie Hachette 1919. The First of Arthur Rackham's Two Great Silhouette Books<br/>The French Edition de Luxe<br/><br/>RACKHAM Arthur illustrator. PERRAULT Charles. Cendrillon. D'Apres Ch. Perrault avec illustrations par Arthur Rackham. Paris: Librairie Hachette 1919. <br/><br/>French Edition de Luxe. Limited to 500 copies signed by the illustrator of which this is no. 96. Large quarto 11 1/4 x 8 7/8 inches; 286 x 226 mm. 110 2 blank pp. Mounted color frontispiece with color pictorial border and tissue guard. Three double-page silhouette drawings with color one single-page silhouette drawing with color not included in the trade edition thirteen single-page silhouette drawings without color and thirty-six silhouette drawings in the text. Title with color pictorial border. Title-page slightly browned from frontispiece tissue-guard. Some very light occasional offsetting from illustrations to text.<br/><br/>Original cream parchment over boards pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt others uncut. Pictorial end-papers in green and white. Boards very slightly 'mottled' otherwise a fine copy.<br/><br/>"Rackham gave his talk to on Silhouettes to the Art Workers' Guild in November 1919 the month in which Cinderella the first of his two great silhouette books was published. Cinderella and The Sleeping Beauty differed from Rackhams' preceding books in relying almost wholly for their effect on silhouette. It is immediately clear that Rackham is a master of the medium being able to evoke character and humour by profile and gesture alone and allowing the two-dimensional effect of his pen work to lead the reader through the book and keep the story going. Silhouette books even with additional colours had lower production costs than their colour plate equivalents and so were an attractive option both for publishers and customers in the uncertain post-war market." James Hamilton. Arthur Rackham A Biography p. 188.<br/><br/>Latimore and Haskell pp. 49-50. Riall pp. 134-135. Hamilton p. 189. Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1919 unknown books
192864547Signed Limited Edition DULAC Edmund illustrator. PERRAULT Charles author. A Fairy Garland. Being Tales from the Old French. London: Cassell & Company Limited 1928. First Edition. Limited to 1000 copies signed by Dulac this being number 572. Large quarto 8 7/8 x 11 1/8 inches; 225 x 282 mm. 251 pp. With twelve color plates. Quarter vellum over blue cloth. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt others uncut. Spine tips very lightly bumped. A near fine signed edition. Hughey. HBS 64547. $1100 Cassell & Company, Limited hardcover books
1786135223Strasburg: Amand Koenig 1786. hardcover. near fine. Translated from the English of M. Raff by M. Perrault. 12 engraved folding plates 509pp. 592pp. 2 volumes 8vo full early leather decoratively gilt spines with green and tan leather labels. Strasbourg and Paris: Amand Koenig and Barrois 1786. Near Fine.<br/><br/> An educational natural history work for children with text in question and answer conversational form.<br/><br/> Amand Koenig unknown books
1930LD5795Paris: L'Edition d'Art n.d. 1930. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Lovely purple calf gilt-stamped lettering on spine t.e.g.; in slipcase. Beautifully illustrated in color throughout. Number 38 from a limited edition of 200 copies on Japan Imperial paper. Spine just a little bit darkened with tiny scuff marks at tips; otherwise fine. <br/><br/> L'Edition d'Art hardcover books
WN47219Paris: Librairie Renouard Original maroon cloth portfolios with gilt lettering and cloth ties at each edge; foreedge tie Tome II missing. Some wear at spine ends and at edges. Folios are text and outstanding drawings and photographs of the cathedrals of France reproduced in heliogravure. Large bookplate of The Montclair Art Association on each pastedown with name of donee. Gilt library code at bottom of spines. Extra shipping charges may be necessary due to size and weight. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Portfolio Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Folio. Librairie Renouard Hardcover books
1823010885London: J. Harris and Sons 1823. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Original pink printed boards with elements of title forntispiece on front cover and seal of Harris & Sons Original Juvenile Library on rear. New quarter leather rebacked. iv 269 2 adverts illustrated with frontis plus 23 engraved plates. 1824 gift inscription front pastedown. Internals clean and unfoxed. Covers heavily soiled. Scarce. J. Harris and Sons hardcover books
19129026716Paris: Henri Jules Piazza 1912. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Umberto Brunelleschi. Bound in publisher's original stiff brown paper. One of 400 numbered copies printed on Japan paper. Five fairy tales of Charles Perrault in the original French. Twenty tipped-in in color illustrations by Umberto Brunelleschi . Slight wear at head of spine otherwise fine condition. <br/><br/> Henri Jules Piazza hardcover books
1886276052Asnieres: Boussod Valadon et Cie 1886. Limited. unbound. near fine. Edouard de Beaumont. Folio. 34 unnumbered sheets loose as issued in a cloth-backed marbled board chemise folder with ribbon ties. Each page with text and beautifully printed illustrations by de Beaumont mostly in color. The title page and rear of final page are toned otherwise a very clean copy of this lovely and unusual production. Asnieres: Boussod Valadon et Cie 1886. First edition thus certainly a limited edition but with an unspecified printing.<br/><br/> Boussod, Valadon et Cie unknown books
1888222960<p>First edition large paper issue. Small 4to. 2 illustrations. 278 pages of text 125 pages comprise Lang’s introduction. Introduction is in English; Perrault’s Tales are in the original French. Original 1/2 vellum over red cloth t.e.g. uncut original binder’s ticket present. Very good. With Autograph Letter Signed "A. Lang" in black fountain pen ink tipped on the front free endpaper discussing a publishing matter on his 1 Marloes Road Kensington letterhead. Some fairy tales include: Little Red Riding Hood. Puss’n Boots. Cinderella.</p> Clarendon Press hardcover books
191616092Cupples & Leon 1916. Boards. Fine. Johnny Gruelle. GRUELLEJOHNNY illus. MOTHER GOOSE GIFT BOX: THREE "ALL ABOUT" BOOKS BY GRUELLE. NY: Cupples & Leon 1916. The box has a pictorial label and measures 4 1/2 x 6" and except for slight soil is in Near Fine condition. Inside the box are 3 titles in the All About series bound in pictorial boards with color labels. They are in Fine condition each featuring 8 color plates and pen and ink drawings in text. Titles include All About Old Mother Goose All About Cinderella and All About Little Red Riding Hood. A wonderful item. <br/><br/> Cupples & Leon hardcover books
