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192029725Paris: Maurice Devries n.d. ca. 1920. First Edition. Slim folio 31.75cm.; original string-bound simulated limp pig over cloth; 4pp. & 9 facsimile documents including a few bifolia mounted to stiff stock printed in green and ruled in gilt. Several facsimiles separated but present with tiny pieces of perished tape. Still About Very Good overall. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label inside upper wrapper. Collection of autograph letters by various noted French figures requesting financial aid. Includes pieces by Baudelaire Verlaine Nodier Daumier Lamartine and Louis Pasteur. OCLC locates 2 copies in North America as of May 2016 at Stanford and Vanderbilt. Maurice Devries unknown books
5908vii 1 200 pp. 8vo cont. red morocco-backed marbled boards flat spine gilt. Paris: J. Techener 1844. The sale catalogue of the final library of the great bibliophile and literary figure Charles Nodier 1780-1844. Author book collector and since 1823 librarian of the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal Nodier was the progenitor of French romantic literature and of the kind of bibliophily practiced in France to the present day; he was also an unrivalled seller of books by auction. In 1838 he declared that God had made him rich enough five times to buy books and five times so poor that he had to sell them again. Nice copy. 1244 lots including MSS. While a relatively small library this sale produced the large sum of about 64000 fr. Bookplates of Michel Wittock and Eric Speeckaert. ❧ Brunet IV 89. hardcover books
