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19032253<p>26 illustrated silk leaves including title sizes from 140 x 170 m to 400 x 180 mm mounted within blind embossed frames on 22 white cardboards. The illustrations woven color images are after various French Fin de Siècle and Art Noveau artists like Alphonse Mucha 6 including a series of 4 leaves illustrating the seasons Ernest Meissonier Lionel Royer Achille Fould P. A. Cot and others. Loosely contained in cont. green half morocco portfolio with gilt title on front cover <em>La section Stéphanoise de la société de géographie commerciale de Paris. A son secrétaire perpétuel M. Charles Gauthiot Décembre 1903. </em>Doublures. Paste-downs with watered silk covering framed by richly gilt green morocco borders. Folio 540 x 335 mm. Ties lacking front cover rubbed extremeties slightly worn.</p><p>Charles Gauthiot 1832-1905 was a French journalist and secretary-general of the Société de Geographie Commerciale de Paris founded in 1873 by M. Meurand E. Levasseur C. Gauthiot M. Tourasse B. Garnier M. Dietz-Mounin E. Berge F. de Lesseps M. Peghoux. No other copy found unique a fine specimen of the French craftsmanship of silk weaving with only minor traces of use. Title-leaf with a yellowish spot in lower right corner probably due to the adhesive used.</p> Société de géographie commerciale de Paris
19059620<p>Complete with forty numbered lithographic plates and two preliminary leaves each measuring 13 x 18 in 33 x 46 cm. Housed in a quarter cloth illustrated portfolio with remnants of the original ribbon ties. Some wear to cloth on spine and around edges of the exterior. Plates remain bright and clean with bump to bottom right foredge & slight crease to lower fore edge. No previous owners' names stamps or other defacements. Scarce.</p> Libraire Centrale des Beaux Arts hardcover
