New illustrated edition with a portrait as frontispiece, 3 title vignettes, and 41 folding plates. According to Brunet, the first octavo edition following the original quarto published in 1769 of these Commentaries. Title pages printed in red and black.
Contemporary full mottled calf binding. Spine with raised bands, gilt-tooled. Beige morocco title-piece, black basane volume label. Head of volume 2 restored. Surface abrasions on the boards, polished with wax. Traces of rubbing. A handsome copy, the paper of remarkable freshness.
Ex libris with 18th-century armorial bookplate of Biel D. de Lislemont.
Rare first edition of this catalogue presenting jewellery creations by the Maison Templier.
Very nice copy.
Illustrated catalogue with 3 photographs by Laure Albin-Guillot.
Second edition, a reprint of the first folio edition published in 1756 by the same publisher. A rare edition, illustrated with 40 plates including 4 folding and 16 double-page (arms, costumes, plans, manoeuvres...). Large vignette with coat of arms on the title-page, and 41 ornaments (headpieces, tailpieces). Title-page printed in red and black. At the end, Supplement aux Reveries, with its own title-page; this short addition, spanning only a few pages, contains the corrections made to the original. A two-volume quarto edition appeared in Paris in 1757.
Bound in later full marbled brown calf; a skilful early 20th-century pastiche signed Saingy at foot. Spine with raised bands richly decorated, gilt rolls at head and tail. Red morocco lettering-piece, black morocco date-piece gilt. Rubbing to head- and tailcaps, edges, corners, and lower board. Plate XXXIV has been refolded, having been badly folded. An exceptionally fresh copy, the paper only slightly toned. One leaf misbound among the preliminary pages. A handsome copy.
Tenth edition statement, after the original published in 1700. It is illustrated with 38 numbered plates including two folding ones, 17 for the first volume and 21 for the second, and 35 woodcut figures in the text.
Contemporary full marbled blonde sheep binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with fillets. Red morocco title label and black morocco volume label (lacking the volume label for tome I, though the gilt lettering remains visible). Rubbed throughout. Some plates are cut shorter. Fresh throughout. Lacking at head of tome I. Tear to lower joint at foot of tome I. 4 corners bumped. Cuts to boards.
First edition.
Work complete with its 49 plates hors-texte including 6 in color.
Spine and boards of the chemise lightly and marginally discolored and sunned as usual.
First edition.
Full mottled brown calf bindings. Spines with raised bands, gilt-tooled. Title and volume labels in Havana morocco. Losses at the head of volume I. Upper border of volume I partly trimmed. Abrasions to the boards with a loss on the lower board of volume I. Overall, a good copy.
First edition.
Bound in slightly later (ca. 1820) half navy sheep. Smooth spines decorated with four small tools and fillets. Some rubbing, particularly to the boards. A pleasing copy, relatively clean, printed on good laid paper.
Copy in original wrappers without cream interim covers. Manuscript annotation on first endpaper.
Some marginal tears to endpapers which serve as covers.
Presumed author: Henri de Goyon de la Plombanie. In the journal des savans of 1752, article titled: Mémoire sur la manière d'élever les vers à soye.
The first part is a series of advice for successful silkworm breeding; the second consists of observations on the management of silkworms; the last relates a method for harvesting silkworm eggs. Following, a detailed table of the work's contents.
Rare.
First edition of 30 copies printed on Japon paper of this offprint of L'Artiste for November 1890.
Contemporary Bradel binding of beige paper boards, ex-libris to pastedown.
Autograph inscription signed from Paul Verlaine to Edmond Bonnaffé on the justification of printing at end: “Exemplaire de Monsieur E. Bonnaffé. P. Verlaine [Monsieur E. Bonnaffé's copy. P. Verlaine]”. Edmond Bonnaffé (1825-1903) was a wealthy collector and noted historian of art, very close to the artistic movements of the age.
These pages by Verlaine are a critical review of the book by Roger Marx of the same name (Paris, 1890). In it, the poet discusses the great names in Art Nouveau, such as Bapst, Chaplet and Gallé. But above all, he writes his famous condemnation of the Eiffel Tower: “This skeletal belfry, that will never outlive, to the contrary indeed! the archi-centenarians of France and Belgium…”. Indeed, on 14 February 1887, Paul Verlaine signed a manifesto of protest published by Le Temps, along with other personalities in the arts and literature, including Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle, Guy de Maupassant, Alexandre Dumas fils, Sully Prudhomme, and so on.
Illustrated with figures in text.
A good and rare copy.
Provenance: collections of Edmond Bonnaffé (ex dono), André Lefèvre (his sale, Paris 16 November 1966), Colonel Daniel Sickles (his sale, Paris 28 & 29 October 1992), Edouard-Henri Fischer.
The finest edition of this work, augmented and enriched by the author, whose original appeared in 1706. The author explains the interest of this new revised edition in a foreword. One frontispiece, 3 fine title vignettes by Cochin and 13 folding plates (the 1741 edition contained only 8). Explanations of the plates and vignettes after the table of contents.
Full marbled and glazed blonde calf binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label. Head worn, tail torn and largely missing from the last compartment. Paper of fine freshness, free from foxing. Despite the binding defects, fairly good copy.
