Lucien Durvand: Rare and antiquarian books, inscribed books and letters, and manuscripts

Lucien Durvand

The copy of L'Immortel owned by two Immortals
The copy of L'Immortel owned by two Immortals
Alphonse DAUDET (inscribed to Frédéric MASSON)
L'immortel. - Moeurs parisiennes[The Immortal. – Parisian Manners]
Alphonse Lemerre|Paris 1888|12.2 x 19 cm|Relié
First edition.
Contemporary Bradel binding in full Empire-green cloth, smooth spine decorated with a gilt fleurion, date and double gilt fillet at foot, black morocco lettering-piece with a small marginal loss, original wrappers preserved, corners very slightly rubbed, without consequence, contemporary binding signed Durvand.

Precious signed presentation copy from Alphonse Daudet to the distinguished historian of the Napoleonic era and fellow member of the Académie française, Frédéric Masson.

Provenance: from the library of Émile Henriot, with his manuscript ex-libris beside the binder's name at the head of an endpaper ; on the facing page appears...
€1,000
Anatole FRANCE
Le Mannequin d'Osier
Calmann Lévy|Paris 1897|11 x 19 cm|relié
First edition on ordinary paper.
Bradel binding in half chocolate brown morocco with corners, smooth spine decorated with a gilt floral motif, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards, combed paper endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, elegant contemporary binding signed by Durvand
A handsome copy beautifully executed.
€180
Anatole FRANCE
L'Anneau d'Améthyste
Calmann Lévy|Paris 1899|11.50 x 18.50 cm|relié
First edition on ordinary paper.
Half red morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands, marbled paper boards, combed paper endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, contemporary binding signed Durvand.
A handsome copy beautifully executed.
€180
HERMANN-PAUL
Le veau gras
Charpentier & Fasquelle|Paris 1904|14.50 x 22.50 cm|relié
First edition, one of 50 copies on China paper printed specially for the bookseller Carteret, ours bearing No. 1, the only deluxe copies.
Work consisting of 87 plates of drawings by the author which he captioned in order to ridicule bourgeois marriage.
Bradel binding in half green morocco with corners, smooth spine slightly discolored, gilt date at foot, marbled paper sides, covers and spine preserved, endpapers and pastedowns of combed paper, top edge gilt on deckled edges, contemporary binding signed Durvand.
Handsome full-margined copy agreeably bound in contemporary binding signed Durvand.
€500
Frédéric MASSON
L'impératrice Marie-Louise
Goupil & Cie|Paris 1902|24 x 32 cm|relié
First edition printed in 1000 copies on laid paper. No. 870. One frontispiece heightened in colors and 51 illustrations printed in sepia and various tints, of superb execution.
Deluxe publisher's binding in full olive green long-grain morocco signed Durvand at foot of upper cover. Smooth spine richly decorated with 2 compartments with grotesques and the Empress's monogram, and various roulettes. Covers stamped with the Empress's arms at center, with a wide framing frieze with foliage in the corners. Interior frieze composed of Empire motifs. Edges gilt. Spine evenly faded. Traces of rubbing. Narrow leather split along upper joint after headcap, for several cm. Fresh overall but some...
€850
Paul GAVARNI, Eugène DELACROIX
Les Français peints par eux-mêmes. Encyclopédie morale du dix-neuvième siècle - Le prisme [Avec] Les Anglais peints par eux-mêmes[The French Painted by Themselves. Moral Encyclopaedia of the Nineteenth Century – The Prism [With] The English Painted by Themselves]
Léon Curmer|Paris 1840-1842|18 x 26.50 cm|11 volumes reliés
Les Français peints par eux-mêmes. Encyclopédie morale du dix-neuvième siècle – Le Prisme [with] Les Anglais peints par eux-mêmes [The French painted by themselves – The English painted by themselves]

Léon Curmer | Paris 1840-1842 | 18 x 26,5 cm 11 volumes in half morocco

First edition, one of the grand papier (deluxe) copies with two states of the illustrations for the 8 volumes of Les Français peints par eux-mêmes: one in black on tinted paper, and one enhanced by hand using the so-called “coloris gommé” technique with watercolour and varnish on...
€10,000
Albéric SECOND
Les Petits Mystères de l'opéra
Kugelmann|Paris 1844|14 x 22.80 cm|relié
First edition illustrated with vignettes by Gavarni.
Half red glacé long-grained morocco binding signed on endpaper by Durvand. Yellow printed wrappers preserved. Smooth spine decorated with a tool at head and 2 mirrored tools. Gilt title. Date at tail. Uncut copy, perfectly fresh, very clean. Top edge gilt. Discreet restorations to front wrapper. Very handsome copy.
Satirical writing on the world of the Paris Opera, its singers, its dancers, its audience, its administration, its stagehands, etc.

€450
Alexandre DUMAS FILS
La princesse de Bagdad
Calmann Lévy|Paris 1881|16 x 25 cm|relié
First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies with 10 on China paper.
Bradel binding in half blue-green cloth, smooth spine decorated with a gilt fleuron, date at foot, chocolate shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, upper corners slightly bumped, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding signed by Durvand Thivet.
Handsome copy almost entirely free from foxing.
€150
Charles-Marie LECONTE DE LISLE
Idylles de Théocrite et odes anacréontiques
Poulet Malassis & De Broise|Paris 1861|12.50 x 19 cm|relié
First edition of the French translation established by Leconte de Lisle.
Half red morocco with corners, smooth spine decorated with gilt interlaced patterns, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed by Durvand.
Handsome copy attractively bound.
€200
Georges SCOTT, Alfred de VIGNY
Stello
Société artistique du livre illustré|Paris 1901|15 x 23 cm|relié
Edition illustrated with 65 original compositions by Georges Scott engraved on wood by Eugène Dété, one of 350 numbered copies on laid paper.
Half red morocco binding, spine with five raised bands with a tear in its middle, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt, contemporary binding signed by Durvand.
Some foxing.
Copy in a charming signed contemporary binding.
€80
Marcel PRÉVOST
Les anges gardiens
Alphonse Lemerre|Paris 1913|15 x 19.50 cm|relié
First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Holland paper.
Half dark green morocco with corners, faded spine with five raised bands, gilt date at tail, small trace of rubbing to one band, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt retaining deckled edges, contemporary binding signed by Durvand.
€80
Edmond & Jules de GONCOURT
Renée Mauperin
Charpentier|Paris 1864|11.50 x 18.50 cm|relié
First edition.
Bound in half dark green morocco with corners, spine with five raised bands, black fillets framing the marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, upper corners slightly bumped, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed by Durvand.
Our copy is enhanced with a fine etching printed on China paper bound between the backed half-title and the first page of text.
A rare copy established in a charming binding signed by Durvand.
€350
Edmond & Jules de GONCOURT
Journal des Goncourt - Mémoires de la vie littéraire - Exemplaire de Frédéric Masson[Goncourt Journal – Memoirs of Literary Life – Copy of Frédéric Masson]
Charpentier & Cie|Paris 1887-1896|12 x 19 cm|9 volumes reliés
First edition on ordinary paper for each of the volumes.
Bradel bindings in full cherry percaline, smooth spines decorated with a central gilt floral motif, dates and double gilt fillets at the tails, navy blue shagreen title pieces, covers preserved, contemporary bindings signed by Durvand.
Precious autograph presentation inscription signed by Edmond de Goncourt, in each volume, to the Napoleonic historian Frédéric Masson, cousin by marriage of the Goncourt brothers. A republican fascinated by the Revolution in his youth, he became a staunch Bonapartist after the defeat of 1870. In 1874, Edmond de Goncourt witnessed his marriage to Marguerite Cottin, daughter of...
€3,500
Honoré de BALZAC, Alcide-Joseph LORENTZ
Histoire de l'Empereur racontée dans une grange par un vieux soldat
J.J. Dubochet et Cie|Paris [Paris] 1842|11 x 15.5 cm|Relié
First edition, illustrated with in-text drawings by Lorentz.

Some occasional foxing.

Bradel binding in green Empire morocco, spine very slightly faded, gilt date at foot, gilt decorative rolls at head and foot, marbled paper-covered boards, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, bookplate mounted on one endpaper, trace of a removed bookplate at the head of a pastedown. Original wrappers preserved. Binding signed by Durvand.

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