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1930216788Paris: Gründ 1930. First edition no. 509 of 1000 copies. With 55 plates 17 in color. 453 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Original boards. Spine somewhat rubbed lower board scuffed. Very good plus internally fine largely unopened. First edition no. 509 of 1000 copies. With 55 plates 17 in color. 453 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Gründ unknown
1950D9040Paris: Librairie Grund 1950. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Full-color illustrated paper over boards; folio; pp. 237 4 with b/w illustrations in text plus a frontispiece 16 double-page colored plates and 32 double-page plates in b/w. Number 57 from a limited edition of 100 copies for collaborators family and friends total edition of 700 copies. Boards lightly rubbed and soiled; spine tips lightly rubbed; corners bumped. Endpapers a bit foxed otherwise text block is bright and clean -- some pages still unopened. A massive and lavishly produced history of the French "Game of the Goose" and its many variations. Includes a bibliography. <br/><br/> Librairie Grund hardcover
3-37726Bologna Forni 1975 due massicci volumi in-4to cm. 35 x 25 tutta tela editoriale con sovraccoperta illustrata a colori pp. 504 640 con centinaia di immagini in nero e a colori nel testo e fuori testo. Ristampa anastatica dell'edizione di Parigi 1906 di questa pregevole opera ancora ineguagliata sull'argomento. Bella copia con solo lievi segni del tempo. hardcover
1924200251Paris: J. Schemit 1924. Hardcover. VG- light wear to leather particularly the 5 bands on the spine and cover corners bindings quite strong. Two volume set 3/4 leather with 5-raised bands and tope edge gilt. Volume 1: xxviii text ccvi bw plates. Volume 2: viii text bw plates ccvii-ccccxv. Rear of volume 2 has a xxiv page master index. Text is in French. First volume: Serrurerie Monumntale. 206 plates containing 2225 documents from the 12th to the end of the 18th century. Second volume Ferronnerie Ancienne 208 plates containing 2300 documents. Second volume has a table of content booklet in the rear listing all the plates for both volumes. A stunning and comprehensive presentation of 4500 objects of pre-industrial wrought iron items on display at Musee Le Secq des Tournelles France the museum is housed in in a 16th-century church. J. Schemit hardcover
190274567Paris: Librairie Hachette & Cie. 1902. Large 4to. FRENCH LANGUAGE. 316 pp. 250 in-text illustrations and 100 engravings including 50 plates hand-finished in watercolour. Pictorial parchment covered boards with top edge gilt. Wear to extremities particularly at top edge with a couple of stains or spots to boards. Purple royal cipher ER ink stamp to ffep otherwise clean. Henry Rene was a French librarian and historian who specialised in decorative arts including here a history of toys. . Very Good. Parchment Paper Covered Boards. 1902. Librairie Hachette & Cie. [1902] hardcover
194332904-365Paris Librairie Gründ 1943. 310 pp. of text vol. 1 and 167 plates vol.2 loose as issued. In portfolio. 4to. Orig. boards. Paris Librairie Gründ 1943. First edition. No. 327 of 600 copies printed. Artistic examples of decorative works handcrafted by ancient locksmiths from the 16th to the 18th century. ART - GENERAL & APPLIED ; Paris, Librairie Gründ hardcover
1970121119Hacker Art Books. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1970. Hardcover. Hacker Art Books hardcover
1891153807Paris France: Alphonse Picard 1891. Hardcover. VG original; wraps bound into sturdy clean gree buckram. NOT exlibrary. Green cloth buckram binding; 702 pp.; 80 duotone plates; 500 bw figures chromolithographed front and rear covers. Text in French; An extensive look at the history of lighting from Roman times through the nineteenth century; Wonderfully illustrated this is one of the copiues printed on vellum. Heavy and a very very nice copy. Covers are printed in the style of Illuminated manusripts by S. Krakow. Alphonse Picard paperback
1935216787Paris: Gründ 1935. First edition one of 500 copies. With 48 plates 12 in color. 222 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Original printed boards. Fine copy largely unopened. Scarce. First edition one of 500 copies. With 48 plates 12 in color. 222 pp. 1 vols. Folio. The author's second work on Saint-Simonism and its impact on the economic and political development of nineteenth-century France. Includes discussion of the colonization of Algerie construction of the Suez Canal establishment of financial institutions. Illustrated with caricatures of contemporary figures and events. Gründ unknown
1903648936Librairie Hachette & Cie 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio. 10.5 x 13 in. 382pp. With more than 400 illustrations including one hundred full page plates of which twenty-nine are hand-colored. In a full binding of paper covered boards printed in colors and the front cover and spine with some additional hand-finishing with marbled paper endsheets. Top edge gilt. Boards have some evidence of small abrasions and minor markings top outside corner bumped apparent in the text block as well spine and corners with some small nicks and wear. Altogether a nice copy of this fragile book in the original publisher's binding. Discreet private library bookplate of Auguste Lambiotte on the front pastedown and a warm presentation inscription from him to Louis Marx American toy maker and businessman on the first blank. A wonderful encyclopedia of sports and games their history and rules fully illustrated. Librairie Hachette & Cie hardcover
190644881Paris: Librerie Hachette. Very Good-. 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volume set. Very oversized original pictorial boards TEG dulled. V1 has rubbing exposed edges PO name inked to top of front board joint splitting at spine head. Front hinge cracked hinges tape reinforced. PO name stamped to title page. Contents generally nice with occasional handsoil. V2 paper on spine is perished covers soiled/toned. Reinforced hinges. Block edge a bit bumped. Contents generally near fine. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 504640 pages . Librerie Hachette hardcover
190667254Paris: Librairie Hachette et cie 1906. PLAYING CARDS. Les Cartes a Jouer du Quatorzieme au Vingtieme Siecle . Ouvrage contenant 3200 reproductions de cartes dont 956 en couleur 12 planches hors texte coloriees a l'aquarelle 25 phototypies 116 enveloppes illustrees pour jeux de cartes et 340 vignettes et vues diverses. Paris: Librairie Hachette et cie 1906.<br> <br> First edition. Two large quarto volumes 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches; 320 x 250 mm. Complete with three-thousand two-hundred reproductions of historical playing cards nine-hundred fifty-six of which are in color; five mounted color plates; and four-hundred fifty-six intertextual illustrations. Title-pages in red and black.<br> <br> Quarter nineteenth century brown calf over marbled boards spines decorated in gilt with five raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Original front and rear wrappers bound in. Board extremities rubbed. A bit of sunning to top of front cover on Vol. 1. Overall a very good copy.<br> <br> A standard reference work on the history and art of playing cards Henry Rene D'Allemagne's Les Cartes a Jouer du Quatorzieme au Vingtieme Siecle "Playing Cards from the Fourteenth to Twentieth Century" is an extraordinarily exhaustive work of scholarship that covers the origins evolution and social aspects of playing cards and associated games from the 1370s through the first decade of the twentieth-century. The two large volumes contain thousands of magnificent illustrations many of which are in color. In addition to over three-thousand reproductions of playing cards themselves included among the representations are historical images of gaming as well as reproductions of nearly one-hundred fifty playing card packs.<br> <br> Hargrave p.373. Hoffman The Playing Card p.62.<br> <br> HBS 67254.<br> <br> $2000. Librairie Hachette et cie unknown
190044880Saint-cloud: Imprimerie Belin Freres. Very Good. 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Three volume set. Quarter leather titled in gilt marbled boards and endpages. Peeling and scuffing to the leather mild soil/wear to the boards. Contents nice with minor foxing/soil. Firm binding. Scarce works that traces the history of various games and forms of play. Hundreds of plates some in color. Text in French. ; quarto; 379380 320 pages . Imprimerie Belin Freres hardcover
19002109220016Saint-Cloud : Imprimerie Belin freres 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 3 volume set. Bound in contemporary 1/3 vellum over marbled boards. Good bindings and cover with minor shelf wear one head of spine bumped. Morocco and gilt spine labels. Top edges stained red. Marbled end sheets. Original wraps bound in. 74 color plates. Pages are clean and bright. Quite handsome! Jeux: t.1: 379 pp; t.2.: 380 pp.; Jouets: 320 p. This is an oversized or heavy set which WILL require additional postage for Priority Mail or International delivery outside the US. [Saint-Cloud] : [Imprimerie Belin freres] hardcover
191154890Paris: Hachette et Cie 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Very good to fine condition. 41/250. Folio. 10 viii228pp. plates 4 250 3pp. plates 4 271pp. plates 4 323 1pp. 55 plates. Bound in burgundy half cloth over marbled paper-covered boards with gilt lettering on spines; raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Two frontispieces in color with decorative full-page lithos on versos. Printed to vellum paper. Original color-illustrated wraps including decorative spines with tan lettering bound in. Multicolored ribbon markers. Decorative head and endpieces and initials rendered lithography and in offset.<br /> <br /> Exceptional and significant work giving an richly illustrated account of three months of travel in Persia. Volumes one and two deliberate on Persia's geography agriculture commerce industry political and military situation as well as religious customs. Volumes three and four are an account of the 1907 return to Persia via Ishqabad Mashhad etc. and return via Isfhan Tehran and the Caspian Sea. On his second voyage D'Allemagne was accompanied by Jean Vinchon taking photographs and field notes which became the basis of this work.<br /> <br /> The work is beautifully illustrated with 255 full page illustrations on plates including several maps 26 full page color lithographs 18 high-quality color offset reproductions all with captioned tissue guards. In addition the set contains a multitude of in-text illustrations including full page reproductions rendered in lithography and high quality offset. The collection represents an important ethnographic collection featuring Persian rugs and ceramics.<br /> <br /> Henry-René D'Allemagne was a French historian librarian author and collector who amassed a large collection of Islamic items acquired by P. T. Brooke-Sewell who presented it to the British Museum in 1956. Text in French. Light wear along edges of bindings and blocks lightly age-toned. Hachette et Cie hardcover
1911B6474Paris: Hachette et Cie. 1911. Binding: Contemporary full decorative soft covers title in gilt on flat spine upper and lower boards with decorative motifs uncut edges. <br><br> Notes: The first two volumes are dedicated to the study of Persia's geography agriculture commerce industry and art as well as its political military and religious customs. The final two volumes document their return to Persia in 1907 via Ishqabad Mashhad Nichapoor Sebzevar Sharoudi Tehran Qom Isfahan Djoumougoum the Bakhtiari and back via Isfahan Tehran and the Caspian Sea.<br><br>There were only 500 copies of the first edition published. D'Allemagne was an archivist of the library of Arsenal. He travelled to Persia and Russian Turkistan in 1899 and again in 1907 accompanied by Jean Vinchon who took a number of interesting photographs and field notes that served as the basis of D'Allemagne's book. The route of this scientific mission passes through Kiev Odessa Vladikavkaz Tiflis Baku Krasnovodsk. The objective is the archaeological study of Transcaspian monuments and of Turkestan. It will bring together an important ethnographic collection in particular Persian rugs and ceramics. Returning in 1907 in the company of Jean Vinchon he visited the towns of Khiva and the surroundings of his oasis. He donated to the Louvre a fragment of a funerary stele brought back from Samarkand. Very nice copies with oriental bindings designed by Jean Tabourier and produced by Canape.<br><br> Size: Folio 330 x 255 mm. Illustration: First edition of this luxurious book dedicated to Persia and Turkestan. It is illustrated with 960 photographic illustrations in the text and 255 plates out of text including 47 in color. <br>Text in French. Volume: 4 volumes. Category: Book Voyages General; Book Asia Middle East Iran; Book Plate Books General; Hachette et Cie. paperback