Paris: Pierre Berès, (1977). large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. not paginated. Catalogue 76 from Pierre Berès of Paris offering French 19th century illustrated books, book bindings, napoleonica, etc. 370 books are offered for sale. Each entry is described and given a price. Illustrated in black-and-white. Indexed at rear. READ MORE about DIX-NEUVIÈME SIÈCLE ESSAIS, ÉTUDES, ART
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 62625
(Paris, France): Bibliothèque Nationale, 1980. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 257, (3) pages. Text in French. Preface, introduction. Indices of manuscripts, illuminators, designers and painters. Table of contents follows text. Eight color plates. Black and white frontispiece and illustrations throughout text. Includes books, manuscripts, and bindings. Covers scuffed at edges and along spine. READ MORE about TRÉSORS DE LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE L'ARSENAL
Price: $18.00 Order nr. 128018
Paris, France: A. Durel, 1902. 4to. cloth, spine gilt-stamped. viii, 84, (2) plates. Text in French. Auction of the collection of Alexis, Vicomte de La Croix-Laval.(Blogie II, 245). 171 lots, with plates illustrating each. Alphabetical index precedes text. Ex-library with markings. Lacks plate 106. READ MORE about ALBUM DE CENT SOIXANTE-ET-ONZE REPRODUCTIONS DE RELIURES D'ART EXÉCUTÉES SUR DES ÉDITIOINS DE...
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 130544
Paris: L. Giraud-Badin, 1937. 4to. later cloth, leather spine label. (iv), 70, (4) pages and 16 plates. Blogie II, 338. The expert was Étienne Ader. With 267 lots for sale. 16 plates mostly depicting these fine bindings. With the Randeria bookplate. READ MORE about BEAUX LIVRES ANCIENS, RARES ET PRÉCIEUX, MANUSCRITS ET IMPRIMÉS, RICHES RELIURES ARMORIÉES
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 71518
Paris: L. Giraud-Badin, 1939. 4to. later cloth, leather spine label. 64 pages followed by the 24 plates. Blogie II, 344. The expert was Étienne Ader. With 176 lots for sale. 24 full-page plates mostly showing fine bindings. With the Randeria bookplate. READ MORE about BEAUX LIVRES MODERNES LA PLUPART REVÊTUS DE TRÈS RICHES RELIURES ET ENRICHIS DE PRÉCIEUX...
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 71515
Paris: Giraud-Badin, 1934. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 56 pages followed by the plates. Catalogue of Sale held October 30, 1934. (Blogie II, 327). Identified in pencil on the wrapper as the Blumenthal collection. Covers chipped around edges. Contains 15 plates printed on special glossy paper. 124 items auctioned and with an index of provenance. READ MORE about BIBLIOTHÈQUE B***, LIVRES ANCIENS RARES ET PRÉCIEUX, RICHES RELIURES ANCIENNES ARMORIÉES
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 72497
(Paris, France: M. Étienne Ader), 1964. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 57, (3) pages. Text in French. Blogie II, 383. 159 lots. Featuring Romantic era bookbindings. 12 black and white plates. Wrappers lightly soiled and torn at top and bottom of spine. READ MORE about BIBLIOTHÈQUE D'UN AMATEUR TRÈS BEAUX LIVRES ILLUSTRÉS DE L'ÉPOQUE ROMANTIQUE DONT CERTAINS...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 119977
Paris: Georges Blaizot, (1966). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 43, (3) pages. Auction sale catalogue with illustrations in black and white. Newspaper clipping with prices realized loosely inserted (which has yellowed facing pages. READ MORE about BIBLIOTHÈQUE D'UN AMATEUR TRÈS BEAUX LIVRES MODERNES ... IMPORTANTES RELIURES DE P. BONET, G....
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 88388
Paris, France: Georges Blaizot, (1968). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 51+(1) pages. Text in French. Blogie II, 395. 135 lots. Features books bound by noteworthy French binders. Four black and white plates. Wrappers sunned at edges. Prices for some lots pencilled in margins. READ MORE about BIBLIOTHÈQUE DU PROFESSEUR GEORGES MARCHAL TRÈS BEAUX LIVERS MODERNES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 119968
Paris: n.p., 1936. small 4to. sewn, stiff paper wrappers, protector. 178, (4) pages, with 18 additional pages and 5 additional leaves of plates. Auction catalogue for the sale of 511 lots from the library of Gabriel Thomas on March 26-28, 1936 (Blogie 334). Offered were books of the 16th to 18th centuries, often in fine bindings, drawings and watercolors by Maurice Denis (1870-1943), first editions, illustrated books, and autographs and manuscripts, including the autograph manuscript..... READ MORE about BIBLIOTHEQUE GABRIEL THOMAS, BEAUX LIVRES ANCIENS AUX ARMES, EDITIONS ORIGINALES ROMANTIQUES ET...
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 52274
(Paris, France): n.p., n.d., but 1996. 4to. paper-covered boards. unpaginated. Text in French. Limited to 200 numbered copies. Introductory comments by Jean Toulet. Alphabetical list of authors. Indices of artists and binders. Foldout color frontispiece and color illustrations throughout. A catalogue of the bindings in the library of Henri Paricaud, arranged chronologically, from 1886 to 1991. Bumped at bottom edge and top fore-edge corner. READ MORE about BIBLIOTHÈQUE HENRI PARICAUD: LIVRES ILLUSTRÉS DU XXE SIÈLE
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 129247
Livres Illustrés du XVIIIe Siècle reliès en maroquin la pluplart armories ou ornés de dentelles
Paris: L. Carteret, 1926. 4to. stiff paper wrappers with dust jacket. (iv), 86, (2). Livres Illustrés du XVIIIe Siècle reliès en maroquin la pluplart armories ou ornés de dentelles. As the sale did not take place, there were few catalogues issued. Not in Blogie. Contains 61 black-and-white plates, many of which show more than one book. There are 247 items listed. The catalogue is worn at the edges and lightly soiled. Minor paper loss at..... READ MORE about BIBLIOTHÈQUE LÉON ABRAMI
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 87298
Paris: Librairie L. Carteret, 1935. small 4to. later cloth, leather spine label. 115+(1) pages and 16 plates. Blogie II, 330. Expert was Étienne Ader. A total of 596 lots. The first part of this sale was especially strong in "riches reliures dorée ou Mosaïquées". The text is accompanied by 16 separate plates of bindings. With the Randeria bookplate. READ MORE about BIBLIOTHÈQUES PROVENANT DE DEUX AMATEURS ET DE LA SUCCESSION DE M.L.A***
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 71514
Bruxelles: Bibliothèque Royale Albert Ier, 1975. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. x, 70, (8) pages. S-K 6536. Filled with illustrations in black and white. With contributions by Martin Wittek and Jacques Guignard. Tear along front hinge at top of spine. READ MORE about RELIURES FRANCAISES CONTEMPORAINES, QUELQUES TENDANCES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 126259
Paris: Librairie L. Carteret, 1932. small 4to. later cloth. (iv), 42, (2) pages with 16 plates. Catalogue of 167 items offered for auction including many beautiful examples of the binding work of Marius-Michel and Mercier. With fourteen black-and-white and two color plates, list of prices realized bound in back. Minor foxing. With Randeria bookplate. READ MORE about CATALOGUE DE LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE M.R. DE C.-M. MEMBRE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ LES CENT BIBLIOPHILES
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 72235
Paris: Gumuchian & Cie, n.d. (circa 1930s). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. vi, 182 pages and 135 plates of bindings including some in full color. Catalogue no.12 issued by this bookselling firm. (Brenni no.288). The catalogue has descriptions of 398 bindings with well over one-third of them illustrated. The descriptions are detailed and the text is aided by indices to provenance and authors. Crease through middle of dust jacket; chipping along edges of jacket being more..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE DE RELIURES DU XVE AU XIXE SIÈCLE, EN VENTE A LA LIBRAIRIE GUMUCHIAN & CIE
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 5713
Paris: S.A. Georg, Libraires, 1929. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 64, (3) pages. Bookseller's catalogue spotlighting works that were printed using new techniques in typography, illustration and binding that gained favor during the Romantic Era. Listed chronologically, 82 entries describe bindings in detail and cite information about illustrations therein. Handsomely printed with 82 plates, two in color. Separate indexes for works, authors and illustrators. Printed by A. Lahure. Library bookplate on inside front cover..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE DE TRÈS BEAUX LIVRES DE L'ÉPOQUE ROMANTIQUE IMPRIMÉS ENTRE LES ANNÉES 1803 - 1848,...
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 64104
Paris: S.A. Georg, Libraires, 1929. small 4to. contemporary half cloth and marbled paper-covered boards with original stiff paper wrappers bound-in. (iv), 64, (3) pages. Bookseller's catalogue spotlighting works that were printed using new techniques in typography, illustration and binding that gained favor during the Romantic Era. Listed chronologically, 82 entries describe bindings in detail and cite information about illustrations therein. Handsomely printed with 82 plates, two in color. Separate indexes for works, authors and illustrators..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE DE TRÈS BEAUX LIVRES DE L'ÉPOQUE ROMANTIQUE IMPRIMÉS ENTRE LES ANNÉES 1803 - 1848,...
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 75712
Paris, France: Librairie Damascène, 1911. 8vo. half leather, paper-covered boards, five raised bands on spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. viii, 64 pages. Text in French. Blogie II, 278. Auction May 18-19, 1911, 229 lots. Introductory comment. Black and white plates. Front cover detached. READ MORE about CATALOGUE DES LIVRES DE LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE M.L. DE MONTGERMONT
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 119986
London: Sotheby & Co., 1939. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 88 pages + illustrations. Sale held May 1-2. 512 lots. (Blogie, 117) Staples visible through front and back panel. Black and white illustrations of book bindings. Front panel lightly soiled. Pencil marks in text on pages 7-25. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF A VALUABLE LIBRARY OF FRENCH & OTHER LITERATURE IN FINE OLD AND MODERN BINDINGS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 87524
N.P. The Arts Council, 1949. 8vo. paper wrappers. 31 pages and 16 plates. With short biographies of the binders represented. (Brenni no.635 & 929). Spine lightly worn, else near fine. With an introduction by Philip James. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about AN EXHIBITION OF MODERN ENGLISH & FRENCH BINDINGS FROM THE COLLECTION OF J.R. ABBEY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 5682
Paris, France: Collections Fontaine, Leclercq, et X, 1978. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Text in French. Blogie 442. 107 lots. Auction, December 15, 1978. Includes a number of fine bindings. Estimated price list laid in. Covers bent at lower fore-edge. READ MORE about IMPORTANTS LIVRES ILLUSTRÉS ET OEUVRES ORIGINALES D'ARTISTES MODERNES, GOUACHES, DESSINS, GRAVURES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 126416
London: The British Library, 1997. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. viii, 112 pages, with 83 additional plates. First edition. Spine lightly faded, else a near fine copy, and very difficult to find. The published record of the 13th series of Panizzi Lectures, delivered by Dr. Foot at The British Library in the Autumn of 1997. A well illustrated survey exploring the use and purpose of bookbindings and the purpose of the study of the book..... READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING AS A MIRROR OF SOCIETY
Price: $395.00 Order nr. 55597
A Bilingual Treatise on Bookbinding Translated from the French by Claude Benaiteau. With an Introduction by John P. Chalmers. Edited by Elaine B. Smyth.
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1987. tall 8vo. quarter cloth over boards, paper spine label. 130, (4) pages. A Bilingual Treatise on Bookbinding Translated from the French by Claude Benaiteau. With an Introduction by John P. Chalmers. Edited by Elaine B. Smyth. Limited to 300 copies printed letterpress on Frankfurt White mouldmade paper. A reprint of the very scarce first edition of this French bookbinding manual, printed by its author in 1763. Translated into English and..... READ MORE about TRAITÉ DE LA RELIEURE DES LIVRES
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 20856
New York: Cambridge University Press, (1989). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xix, 296 pages. First edition. Spine of jacket lightly faded, with very tears to edges, else fine. An important new study of north Italian and Parisian bindings which examines the transformation of decorative binding in the later half of the fifteenth century. Successive chapters discuss the influence of Islamic sources; classical sources; coins, medals and plaquettes; etc. Included in the appendices is an interesting article..... READ MORE about HUMANISTS AND BOOKBINDERS, THE ORIGINS AND DIFFUSION OF THE HUMANISTIC BOOKBINDING 1459-1559 WITH...
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 28120
