BERTALL

Honoré de BALZAC & Honoré DAUMIER & Charles Constant Albert Nicolas d'Arnoux de Limoges Saint-Saëns dit BERTALL & Paul GAVARNI & Tony JOHANNOT & Célestin NANTEUIL
œuvres complètes de H. de Balzac
[Complete Works]

First collective edition sold as the Works, comprising – as well as numerous texts published for the first time – a new version of the Human Comedy, reviewed and revised by Balzac.
This is also the first illustrated edition.
Contemporary half blue shagreen over marbled paper boards, spines slightly sunned, in five compartments with thin raised bands...

First edition.
Work illustrated with a frontispiece, 94 hors-texte plates and numerous black vignettes in the text by Bertall.
Light dampstains at foot, spine lightly sunned with lacks at head and foot, small tears with occasional minor lacks to board margins, tear at foot of spine which also has two lacks at head.
Handsome interior condition.

First edition, containing 23 tales by Andersen translated by David Soldi, together with a biographical essay by Xavier Marmier.

 

Illustrated with 40 vignettes by Bertall, engraved by Jacques G. J. Midderich and Alphonse Minne.

 

Full blue cloth binding, flat spine, gilt-stamped title, faint rubbing to the joints, light scattered marks to the boards, contemporary binding.

 

A very rare copy of this collection of Andersen’s tales, “the first translation of Andersen’s tales into French directly from the Danish, which long remained the finest [...]. This translation achieved wide circulation and continues to be published to this day” (Poul Høybye, H. C. Andersen og Frankrig).

 

 

Le Diable à Paris [Devil in Paris]
J. Hetzel | Paris 1845 & 1846 | 18.5 x 27 cm
| contemporary romantic shagreen
First edition and first printing of the 207 plates by Gavarni and 4 plates by Bertall. Many vignette illustrations.
Contemporary Romantic binding of half red shagreen over red paper boards, spines with gilt Romantic arabesques, gilt name of a previous owner to foot, marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns.
Contributions from George Sand, Charles Nodier, Honoré de Balzac, Gérard de Nerval, Théophile Gautier, Alfred de Musset, Léon Gozlan and others.
This copy without any trace of foxing. A few pale and tiny dampstains to margins of some leaves.
Complete with the extremely rare and famous...

BERTALL
Pierre l'Irrésolu
Librairie Hachette et Cie | Paris 1876 | 22 x 30 cm | publisher's binding
First edition illustrated with drawings in color by Bertall.
Publisher's cloth, upper board with a large illustration engraved by Souze. A nice copy without foxing.

BERTALL
Jean le Paresseux
Librairie Hachette et Cie | Paris 1880 | 22 x 30 cm | publisher's binding
First edition illustrated with drawings in colors by Bertall.
Publisher's cloth, upper board illustrated by Souze. A very nice copy without foxing.