Lot 136
  • 136

Gilt and Polychrome Trade Bindings

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description

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A fine group of 10 titles (in 12 volumes) in mid-19th century examples, as follows:



Emmanuel Le Maout. Botanique organographie et taxonomie histoire naturelle des familles végétales. Paris: L. Curmer, 1852. 8vo, frontispiece, steel-engraved plates (colored) and text illustrations, publisher's green morocco, elaborately gilt-stamped covers and spine, edges gilt — Théophile Lavallée. Histoire de L'Empire Ottoman. Paris: Garnier Frères, 1855. 8vo, frontispiece, steel-engraved plates with guard tissue, publisher's blue pebbled cloth, gilt-stamped pictorial cover with blue, red, green and pink highlights, edges gilt. — J.J. Grandville.  Les Fleur animées ... texte par Taxile Delord. Paris: Gabriel de Gonet, 1847. 2 volumes, 8vo, hand-colored full-page steel engravings by Grandville; some spotting, contemporary red morocco, covers and backstrip completely covered with gilt plaque with blue center pieces and green ornaments at the sides, plaque signed Haarhaus; light wear at extremities. — Alexandre de Saillet. Les Jeunes français de toutes les époques. Paris: Lehuby, n.d. 8vo, steel-engraved sepia frontispiece and plates; some marginal spotting especially in plates, contemporary red morocco, covers and backstrip completely covered with gilt plaque, leafy designs in red, black and green, yellow endpapers; light signs of wear at extremities. — [Lodovico  Ariosto]. a Jérusalem délivrée ... illustrée par Mm. Baron et C. Nanteuil. Paris: J. Mallet & Cie, 1841. 8vo, steel-engraved sepia frontispiece and plates, text illustrations, publisher's green morocco with gilt-stamped gothic frame and coats-of-arms centerpiece. Bookplate of Fd Gauthier. — plus 5 others similar: Jules Janin, La Bretagne — Amédée Varin, Les Papillons, 2 vols. — Méry, Constantinople et la Mer Noire — Théophile Gauthier et al, Les Beautés de l'Opera — W.A. Duckett, La Turquie pittoresque.

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