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Charles Magnier

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  1. Histoire des croisades
    Joseph MICHAUD, Gustave DORÉ
    Histoire des croisades
    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, which profoundly renewed the vision of the Middle Ages and Middle East. Published in 1821, this new historical manner transformed narration with a concern for greater objectivity. Doré's penultimate work, "The artist's capacity to transform facts into myths, to transcend reality, finds in this work terrain as fertile as in Perrault's Tales or the Divine Comedy", Margot Renard, «The siege and assault in Joseph-François Michaud's History of the Crusades illustrated by Gustave Doré (1877)» In Michaud's text, Doré chooses emblematic episodes that nourish the text with his own dark and baroque, visionary and Christlike vision.

    €1,000
  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. Martin Paz is set in Peru. One of Verne's only titles dealing with discourse on races and hatred of mixed race, the hero being an Indian in love with a Jewish woman.
    €600
  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 reworked and signed by Jules Verne. The action takes place in Griqualand in South Africa where mining engineer Cyprien Méré conducts organic chemistry studies on diamond deposits. He succeeds in creating a synthetic diamond, the black star, which many will seek to appropriate.
    €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 returning first to Mongolia, then again across the Gobi Desert, to finally reach their native country. This work is the only account of this journey, which was first published in Russian in 1880.
    €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 central part of the work, begins with a description of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, then upon his return from the voyage, describes California and its evolution over 3 chapters, notably San Francisco.

    €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
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