Fine Bindings

First edition, one of 5 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe copy.
Half mint green morocco with corners, spine with five raised bands set with gilt fillets and decorated with triple gilt compartments, date at foot, gilt fillet frames on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, bookplate pasted on endpaper, top edge gilt, elegant binding signed by Semet & Plumelle.
Rare and very handsome copy in perfect condition.
Provenance: from Albert Natural's collection of French Swiss poets which he assembled from the nineteen twenties.

First edition, one of 10 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe copy.
Half chocolate morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands set with gilt fillets decorated with triple gilt compartments, gilt fillet frames on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, elegant binding signed Semet & Plumelle.
Rare and very handsome copy perfectly bound.
Provenance: from Albert Natural's collection of Swiss Romand poets which he assembled from the twenties onwards.

Extremely rare copy of the very first printing, without title page, containing a "typographical rarity" whose origin is related by the author in a two-page autograph letter addressed to Miguet, inserted on the endpaper: in order to save about fifty pages on the printing of Henry Bataille's complete Theatre, the publisher Flammarion composed the text of the two plays in volume II by having the names of the characters, placed at the head of each line, immediately followed by the text of the dialogue. Only two or three copies (including ours) composed in this way, from the final proofs, were printed.
Half chocolate morocco binding with corners, spine with raised bands, one minute scratch in a compartment, cold fillet framing the marbled paper boards, top edge gilt on deckled edges, binding signed Canape.
Signed autograph inscription from Henry Bataille on his visiting card, pasted onto an endpaper.

New edition from La collection des classiques français, illustrated with a portrait and a folding map of Spain. Fine edition with classical typography and wide margins.

Full glazed wine-red calf bindings, sky blue title and volume labels, smooth spines richly decorated with cathedral tools and rolls, boards stamped in blind with a large central monastic medallion, a blind border frieze and a second in gilt, boards with slight worm damage, marbled edges.

Magnificent romantic binding by a great binder of the period.

It should be noted that the preface by the Comte de Neufchâteau, academician, is actually by Victor Hugo (then aged 16); the count found it so remarkably written that he published it as is. Furthermore, all the footnotes are also by Victor Hugo.

Fine copy in a magnificent contemporary romantic binding signed by Vogel.

First edition, illustrated with 148 steel-engraved plates, including 96 in the first three volumes, by Thomas Allom; the fourth volume comprises 52 plates including 36 by Eugène Lami and 16 by Allom.
Full midnight blue glazed calf. Flat spine with false raised bands decorated with various roulettes and fillets with some compartments in morocco. Covers decorated with rich Romantic frieze and angular blind stamps. Red morocco title-label. Marbled edges. Scratches to covers. Headcaps and joints lightly rubbed. Superb English binding.
Volume IV, which is often lacking, is the translation of Un été à Paris, by Jules Janin. Through its illustrations, one finds a Balzacian Paris. It should be noted that the first volume contains numerous scenes of the Pyrenees, very fashionable at the time. Another volume contains numerous scenes of the Loire (Saumur, Angers, Amboise...).
The work thus seeks to bring together everything remarkable to be found in France, both from an architectural and landscape perspective, with illustrations accompanying the historical and descriptive text. The illustrative richness is remarkable, and one can admire equally the château de Pau and the Panthéon, the cirque de Gavarni and the cathedral of Orléans. What is interesting is that following the trends of the time, the engravings feature figures in period costume, and often show places as they were then.

Second edition with some parts in first edition.
Half red Russia morocco binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt and blind fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Copy virtually free from foxing.

First edition of the Portuguese translation and first Brazilian edition.
Full red cloth binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with fleurons, dotwork and gilt fillets, gilt dentelle at head and foot, covers richly decorated with triple gilt compartments, with a central lozenge with hatched borders surrounded by a garland, black morocco inlays, gilt rolls framing the pastedowns and on the leading edges, edges gilt, endpapers and pastedowns of moiré paper, publisher's binding, binder's label pasted.
Minimal traces of rubbing, occasional light foxing, otherwise a handsome and well-established copy.

First edition.
Publisher's full red boards, smooth spine decorated with a cartouche and gilt typographical motifs, boards framed with gilt fillet and decorated with a medallion and typographical motifs in blind, edges gilt.
Contributions by M. de Boinville, E. Gonzalès, G. Molé, T. Coffinier, M. Aycard...
Work illustrated with 19 steel engravings.
Some light foxing.
Rare copy presented in romantic boards of pleasant freshness.

First edition.
Half olive calf bindings, smooth brownish spines decorated with gilt typographical motifs.
Rare autograph inscription from Bonnejoy-Perignon to the Countess of Chalon.
Foxing affecting almost exclusively the endpapers, half-title and title pages.

First separate edition.
Bound in full red paper simulating morocco, smooth spine in red Russia morocco decorated with gilt fillets, gilt roulettes at head and foot, slight rubbing at head and foot of spine, one upper corner lightly bumped, yellow edges, contemporary binding.
A pale marginal dampstain affecting most leaves, copy almost entirely free from foxing.

First edition.
Half dark green morocco with corners, spine with five raised bands, date in gilt at foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt.
Work illustrated with 15 maps and plans in colors.
Printed collector's stamps on the half-title, title and list of plates pages having become illegible with red ink discharge on the facing pages, occasional minor foxing.
Handsome copy nicely bound.