Gabriel de Gonet

First illustrated edition, by Bertall. Eight plates hors texte (on China paper mounted on heavy paper), including a portrait of the author, engraved by Ch. Geoffroy and numerous figures in the text engraved by Midderigh. Introduction and biography by Alphonse Karr.
Contemporary half brown shagreen binding with marbled paper boards. Spine with raised bands decorated with compartments in blind and blind fleurons. Traces of rubbing. Some pale scattered foxing. Handsome copy.
Delightful and humorous illustration.

NUS Eugène & MERAY Antony
watercolor by VARIN Amédée
Les Papillons, métamorphoses terrestres des peuples de l'air
[The Butterflies, Terrestrial Metamorphoses of the People of the Air]
Gabriel de Gonet, Paris n. d. [1852], 18 x 27,5 cm, half green shagreen
First edition illustrated with 35 hand-colored insert plates and a few black-and-white illustrations.
Half green shagreen, spine in four compartments with blind tooled double panels and gilt garlands, lettered in gilt, a few signs of minor wear and tear to the tips of the spine, blind tooled fillets on the fir-green covers, marbled endpapers, speckled edges, contemporary binding.
Occasional light spotting.
A rare copy of one of the finest Romantic illustrated books.
$ 1 250

First edition.
Contemporary half black shagreen over black paper boards, spine in five compartments with black fillets, joints lightly but insignificantly scratched, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, one lower corner rubbed.
With 35 hors texte hand-colored plates and woodcut illustrations to text.
A little light spotting (not serious) principally to endpapers
A rare copy of one of the most attractive illustrated Romantic books.