Lot 150
  • 150

Grandville, Jean Ignace Julien Gérard

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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A fine group of 7 works in 10 volumes, plus 4 pen-and-ink drawings, as follows:



Scènes de la Vie Privée et Publique des Animaux. Paris: J. Hetzel, 1842. 2 volumes, 8vo, half-title, frontispiece, wood-engraved plates mounted; some occasional spotting mostly marginal, publisher's black morocco ruled in gilt and blind, edges gilt; joints and edges scraped. Bookplate of Paul de Barral Montferrat (motto:Nul ne barraille à Barral). — Scènes de la Vie Privée et Publique des Animaux. Paris: J. Hetzel et Paulin, 1842. 2 volumes, 8vo, half-title, frontispiece, wood- engraved plates mounted. Contemporary black morocco gilt, in a dark green slipcase. Ray, French 194 — Un Autre Monde. Paris: H. Fournier, 1844. Large 8vo, half-title with limitation on verso, frontispiece, title in red, plates and illustrations all colored, old half-calf and marbled boards; rebacked with original spine laid down. — Another copy in publisher's black morocco gilt; extremities rubbed. — Old Nick et Grandville. Petites Misères de la Vie Humaine. Paris: H. Fournier, 1843. 8vo, wood-engraved plates and text illustrations, in the original 50 parts with individual wrappers and the general wrapper, with the prospectus laid in, in a gray cloth drop-box; head of general wrapper backstrip mended. —  Les Métamorphoses du Jour. Paris, Gustave Havard, 1854. 8vo, half-title, wood-engraved plates colored, proof copy of title vignette laid in, publisher's dark brown pebbled cloth with gilt-stamped pictorial cover with green, blue and pink highlights. — Les Fleurs Animées. Paris: Gabriel de Gonet, 1847. 2 volumes, 8vo, half-title, additional engraved title and engraved plates all colored, publisher's green pebbled cloth gilt; extremities rubbed. — 4 pen-and-ink drawings, of which one is 7 x 5 1/2 in.; 178 x 140 mm, the others 4 x 4 in.; 102 x 102 mm, and 3 are signed by the artist, matted.

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