E. Niédrée

Illustrated edition with a triple-state portrait of the author as frontispiece, as well as numerous portraits outside the text.
Half dark green morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands decorated with fillets and double gilt compartments, top edge gilt retaining its deckled edges. Binding signed Niedrée.
Scattered worming, otherwise a handsome copy.

First edition of this very rare piece concerning the establishment of public sedan chairs in France. Arms of France engraved on wood to the title.
Nineteenth-century binding in half cherry red calf with corners, signed E. Niédrée. Spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt fillets. Blind fillet on the boards.
From the library of Henri Gallice, with his bookplate, an eminent bibliophile who assembled at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century a formidable collection on hunting, subsequently acquired en bloc by Marcel Jeanson.
Small red ink stamp of F. Plane.

Second edition by Garnier in a new expanded format, after the first by Delloye in 1843, in 125 installments of 4 leaves comprising a notice, the score and 4 recto-verso pages of steel engravings (extraordinary compositions framing the song text), in addition to three frontispieces. Illustrations by Trimollet, Daubigny, Meissonnier... The first edition by Delloye contained only 84 installments and songs. Printed on heavy laid paper.
Half dark green morocco binding with corners signed Niedrée at foot. Spine with raised bands ornately decorated in grotesque style with stylized wavelets. Top edges gilt. Thin split to upper joint at head of volume 1 and at foot of volume 3. 2 corners of...