Charles Magnier

Charles Magnier

Born13/06/1821
Died29/05/1904
LanguageFrench
NationalityFrance
Relieur industriel. - Travaille dans l'atelier de Lenègre de 1841 à 1853 avant de s'intaller à son compte. - Établi à Paris 8 rue Larrey en 1853, puis rue Séguier (1854-1868) enfin 7 rue de l'Estrapade. - Ses fils Henri, Ernest et Paul lui succèdent en 1887
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Charles Magnier
  1. Les cinq cents millions de la Begum suivi de Les révoltés de la Bounty
    Jules VERNE, Léon BENETT

    Les cinq cents millions de la Begum suivi de Les révoltés de la Bounty[The Begum’s Five Hundred Millions followed by The Mutineers of the Bounty]

    Hetzel|Paris s. d. [ca 1892]|17.8 x 27.2 cm|Reliure de l'éditeur

    Red-medallion Steamer binding edition (single volume), illustrated with 48 drawings by Léon Benett (40 for the first title and 5 for the second). 

    Catalogue FX at end.
    Publisher’s full polychrome pictorial boards signed Charles Magnier, headcaps slightly sagging as almost always, upper-cover plaque signed Paul Souze, a few small foxing spots.

    A pleasing copy, the binding retaining fine freshness.
    Two heirs, one French and one German, divide 500 million francs between them. Each builds a city in keeping with his dreams: the Frenchman an hygienist city, the German a city of steel.

    €500
  2. Le chancellor suivi de Martin Paz
    Jules VERNE

    Le chancellor suivi de Martin Paz

    Hetzel|Paris 1875|18 x 27.30 cm|relié
    First illustrated edition, 53 drawings by Riou and Férat engraved by Hildibrand and Pannemaker. Catalogue J for 1876.
    Publisher's binding known as "Aux initiales" in the rarest havana color, signed Magnier at foot. Back board of Magnier B type.
    Fine first cover with well-marked and brilliant gilding (small black spots in a thin area). Clean spine with clearly readable gilding. The 2 bottom corners slightly bumped. Headcaps worn. Back board very good. Light scattered foxing more present on the first leaves, rather discreet thereafter. Handsome copy.
    Le Chancellor, initially published in 1874 is a maritime adventure novel inspired by the raft of the medusa...
    €600
  3. Douze années comiques, 1868-1879, 1000 dessins
    CHAM [pen name of Amédée de NOE]

    Douze années comiques, 1868-1879, 1000 dessins

    Chez Calmann Lévy|Paris 1882|22 x 31 cm|relié
    Illustrated edition with 1000 drawings by Cham.
    Publisher's binding in full red cloth signed Magnier. Spine slightly faded, headcaps rubbed, scratch on one of the leading edges.
    €100
  4. L'étoile du sud. Le pays des diamants
    Jules VERNE

    L'étoile du sud. Le pays des diamants

    Hetzel|Paris 1884|-|relié
    First illustrated edition. 63 engravings and one map after Benett. CH catalogue in fine.
    Publisher's binding called "Aux initiales" in dark green signed Magnier at tail. Second board with blind rosette. Handsome first plate with particularly brilliant gilt. Corners rubbed, and the 2 of the pastedown slightly turned in. Spine with faded gilt. Headcaps rubbed. Traces of rubbing on joints. Blue stamp in the form of a label on half-title. Lescude bookshop label, Pau on pastedown.
    Paper overall very fresh, with some pale foxing on title page and on first leaf of catalogue.
    Handsome copy.
    L'Étoile du Sud is an adventure novel by Paschal Grousset, sold to publisher Hetzel, then...
    €500
  5. Voyage à travers la Mongolie et la Chine
    Pavel PIASSETSKY

    Voyage à travers la Mongolie et la Chine

    Hachette|Paris 1883|19 x 27.50 cm|relié
    First edition illustrated with 90 engravings after the author's sketches and one map, including 61 plates and one in color.
    Publisher's half red shagreen binding signed by Magnier at foot. Spine with false raised bands decorated with richly ornamented compartments. Red percaline boards. Rubbing to headcaps. 3 corners slightly bumped. Scattered foxing.
    The author (1843-1919) participated in the commercial and scientific expedition of Sosnovsky and Matoussovsky who traveled through Siberia, Lake Baikal and Mongolia during the years 1874 and 1875. They were the first explorers to cross the entire Gobi Desert from Berkul to Lanjou, and made a circuit between Beijing and Shanghai before...
    €450
  6. Voyages et aventures dans l'Alaska (ancienne Amérique Russe)
    Frederick WHYMPER

    Voyages et aventures dans l'Alaska (ancienne Amérique Russe)

    Hachette|Paris 1871|16 x 24 cm|relié
    First French edition, illustrated with 37 wood-engraved plates and several in-text illustrations, as well as a map. The first English edition appeared in 1868, the American edition in 1869.
    Contemporary half red shagreen binding signed Magnier. Spine with false raised bands decorated with radiating compartments. Red grained cloth boards with blind-ruled borders. Edges gilt. Rubbing to headcaps and joints. Corners slightly bumped. Some scattered foxing, particularly at the beginning of the work, quite rare thereafter.
    A member of several scientific expeditions, the author, before reaching the Yukon (the principal river crossing Alaska from east to west), whose exploration forms the...
    €400
  7. En Suisse le sac au dos
    Albert LAPORTE

    En Suisse le sac au dos

    Théodore Lefèvre|Paris 1878|15.50 x 24.50 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Half black shagreen binding, spine slightly faded with four raised bands decorated with quadruple gilt fillets and adorned with a gilt fleuron enriched with a red shagreen mosaic piece, light scratches of no consequence to the joints, cold-stamped fillet and interlacing frame on boards, gilt edges, binding signed by Charles Magnier.
    Work illustrated with 73 engravings in and outside the text.
    Some minor foxing.
    €150
  8. Le Château des Carpathes
    Jules VERNE, after Léon BENETT

    Le Château des Carpathes[The Castle of the Carpathians]

    Collection Hetzel|Paris s. d. [1911]|18.1 x 27.2 cm|Reliure de l'éditeur

    Copy of the large octavo illustrated edition, from the collection Les Voyages Extraordinaires, Les Mondes connus et inconnus, complete with its frontispiece with tissue guard and its three full-page chromotypograph plates, painted by Léon Benett.

    Publisher's polychrome cloth binding known as the "aux feuilles d'acanthe" binding, with a gilt roundel, blue endpapers with minor and marginal discolouration as often, gilt edges. Binding by Magnier et ses fils.

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  9. Histoire des croisades
    Joseph MICHAUD, Gustave DORÉ

    Histoire des croisades[The History of the Crusades]

    Furne, Jouvet & Cie|Paris 1877|31.50 x 43.60 cm|2 volumes reliés

    First edition illustrated with 2 frontispiece portraits and 100 hors-texte plates by Gustave Doré engraved by Bellanger, Pannemaker, Pisan...



    Publisher's binding in full vermillion percaline cloth signed Magnier. Smooth spine decorated with 6 richly ornamented compartments. Large plate on the upper cover with a cross with pointed ends at center, 4 swords, 4 blazoned shields and 4 crescents in the corners. The second cover repeats the central part of the decoration of the first cover. Spine slightly sunned. Minor cuts at head and tail. Some foxing on otherwise white paper. Corners slightly turned.
    Fine copy of this capital text, the fruit of 30 years of research...

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