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Auction House:
Auction Location:
Sydney
Date:
2-Aug-2014
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Description:
Books relating to France (5). Sanborn, Alvin Francis, Paris and the Social Revolution. a Study of the Revolutionary Elements in the Various Classes of Parisian Society. with Illustrative Drawings by Vaughan Trowbridge, London, Hutchinson, 1905, Numerous line illustrations, (20),404pp., 4to., pictorial cloth gilt. Gilt ownership stamp of parliamentary library on front board and stamp on title page. No other markings. Nice copy; Sue, Eugene, Paula Monti, or, the Hotel Lambert, London, Chapman and Hall, 1845. First edition in English, 20 wood-engraved plates after Jules David, (4),388pp., marbled endpapers, bookplate on front pastedown, 8vo., later binding by riviere and Son in red morocco and cloth, spine gilt, tips and spine edges a little rubbed. Old repaired small tear in one leaf. a very good copy. the gilt cloth of the spine and front cover of the original publisher's binding have been mounted and bound in at the back of the book; Flaubert, Gustave, Bouvard and Pecuchet. Translated ... with an introduction by D.F.Hannigan, London, H.S.Nichols, 1896. First edition in English, 9 illustrations by S.Gorski with tissue guards, guards with some foxing, (16),458pp., t.e.g., 8vo., publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, spine slightly darkened, tips and spine ends slightly rubbed. a very good copy; Bernardin De Saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri, Paul et Virginie, suivi de La Chaumiere Indienne, du Cafe de Surate, du Voyage en Silesie, de l'eloge de mon Ami et du Vieux Paysan Polonais, Paris, Aime Andre, 1823, 4 engraved plates by Heath after Desenne, engraved titlepage with vignette, iv, 409,(1)pp., some intermittent foxing or spotting, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, 8vo., fine contemporary binding in burgundy polished calf, spine gilt in panels, boards with large central gilt motif and bordered in gilt and blind, gilt dentelles. the binding in very good condition. Without the map of Ile-de-France found in some copies (never present in this copy); Bernardin De Saint Pierre J.H., Paul and Virginia: Translated From the French of Bernardin Saint-Pierre By Helen Maria Williams, London, Printed for John Sharpe, 1828, Extra steel engraved title page and 4 plates by William Westall, engraved by William Finden, viii,166pp., marbled endpapers and edges, 12mo., publisher's(?) luxury binding in blind-stamped green calf, gilt borders, spine gilt in panels. a fine, clean copy of a Romantic classic.
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Unclassified