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  other currencies  Order nr. 130544

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  other currencies  Order nr. 71515

(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  other currencies  Order nr. 119977

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  other currencies  Order nr. 119968

(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  other currencies  Order nr. 129247

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  other currencies  Order nr. 71514

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  other currencies  Order nr. 72235

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  other currencies  Order nr. 64104

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  other currencies  Order nr. 119986

Norwood: The Holliston Mills, 1926. 8vo. red cloth. viii, 144 pages. S-K 1827. First edition. Five chapters; Beginnings of Bindings, and Binding in Italy, France, England and America. Presentation on free endpaper "To Fran Fortney with the cordial greetings of Meiric K. Dutton, 8/2/46. New York, N.Y." READ MORE about HISTORICAL SKETCH OF BOOKBINDING AS AN ART

Price: $45.00  other currencies  Order nr. 104846

2 volumes.
Paris: Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1984. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xvi, 726 pages. 2 volumes. First edition. Comprehensive catalogue of French blind-stamped bookbindings done "à froid," or without heated tools, from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries from the collection of the Bibliothèque Mazarine. The heart of this library was the personal collection of Cardinal Mazarin who bequeathed it to the newly formed collège Mazarin or the Quatres Nations with the stipulation..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE DES RELIURES FRANÇAISES ESTAMPÉES À FROID (XVe-XVIe SIÈCLE) DE LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE...

Price: $112.50  other currencies  Order nr. 69995

Contenant les Arts de l'Assembleur, du Satineur, de la Plieuse, de la Brocheuse, du Rogneur, du Cartonneur, et suivi des arts du Marbreur sur Tranches et du Doreur sur Tranches et sur Cuir.
Paris: Socièté française d'éditions littéraires et techniques, 1932. 12mo. paper wrappers. viii, 428 pages. Contenant les Arts de l'Assembleur, du Satineur, de la Plieuse, de la Brocheuse, du Rogneur, du Cartonneur, et suivi des arts du Marbreur sur Tranches et du Doreur sur Tranches et sur Cuir. Reprint of this 19th-century manual. Taken from the new edition, enlarged and revised. (Pollard no. 53). One of the classic binding manuals. Four large foldout plates in the..... READ MORE about NOUVEAU MANUEL COMPLET DU RELIURE EN TOUS GENRES

Price: $100.00  other currencies  Order nr. 102764

Paris: Maggs Bros. (1938). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 84 pages and 50 plates, some of which are in full color. Catalogue 12. Part of the Serie Francaise issued by Maggs. With many illustrations of fine bindings. Spine chipped with pieces of covering missing. READ MORE about CHOIX DE BEAUX LIVRES DU XVe AU XIXe SIÈCLE, AUTOGRAPHES

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 11758

Brussels: Editions Technorama, n.d. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated. 87 exhibits described and with many illustrations including most in color. Preface by Michel Wittock. READ MORE about RELIURES DE MONIQUE MATHIEU A LA BIBLIOTHECA WITTOCKIANA DU 17 OCTOBRE 1992 AU 9 JANVIER 1993....

Price: $45.00  other currencies  Order nr. 81555

Paris: Francisque Lefrançois, 1938. small 4to. quarter red calf stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. (iv), 113, (3) pages. The sixth and last part of this famous sale (Blogie 341). Édouard Rahir (1862-1924) was a well-known antiquarian bookseller, bibliographer, and publisher in Paris (for a time the publisher for the Société des Bibliophiles François). He had a long-standing business relationship with Quaritch in London and was the author of La Bibliothèque de l'amateur (1909 &..... READ MORE about LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE FEU ÉDOUARD RAHIR, ANCIEN LIBRAIRE. SIXIÈME ET DERNIÈRE PARTIE

Price: $95.00  other currencies  Order nr. 102020

10 volumes in 8
(Paris, France: J. Conan le Meriadec), 1952-3. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. variously paginated. 10 volumes in 8. Text in French. The first ten issues of this French periodical, which ran from 1952 to 1963. Each volume contains "La Chronique de Pierre d'Espezel," which discusses various bibliophilic topics, "Les Illustrateurs du Libre," discussing different book illustrators with a sample of his/her work, along with other articles of interest fo bibliophiles. Issues individually paginated. Issues 5 and..... READ MORE about CAHIERS DU BIBLIOPHILE

Price: $100.00  other currencies  Order nr. 124532

Paris: Ernest Flammarion, n.d. (circa 1920s). 12mo. quarter brown leather with marbled paper covered boards, four raised bands, with original paper wrappers bound-in. 254, (2) pages. Extracted by Cim from his five-volume work, l'Encyclopédie du Livre (Flammarion, 1905-8). Includes discussions of paper, format, printing, binding, arrangement of libraries, bibliographic classification. Several illustrations of contemporary book shelving. Leather rubbed on spine. Printed on cheaper paper. READ MORE about PETIT MANUEL DE L'AMATEUR DES LIVRES

Price: $65.00  other currencies  Order nr. 114412

Nieuwkoop: B. de Graaf, 1970. thick 8vo. cloth. xlix, (iii), 491+(1) pages. Reprint of the 1866 first edition. (See S-K 1287; St. Bride Catalogue p.530). Grolier (1479-1565) was a famous French bibliophile who commissioned the best binders of the day to bind his book. Over 600 of these bindings exist today that can be attributed to his library. Includes a biography, an alphabetical catalogue of his library and reprints of correspondence. Ownership inscription in pencil..... READ MORE about RECHERCHES SUR JEAN GROLIER SUR SA VIE ET SA BIBLIOTHÈQUE SUIVIES D'UN CATALOGUE DES LIVRES QUI...

Price: $165.00  other currencies  Order nr. 102695

Paris, France: A. Ferroud-F. Ferroud, 1912. 8vo. leather, front cover gilt-stamped, five raised bands on spine, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. 54, (2) pages. Text in French. Limited to 1000 numbered copies, initialed by the publisher. Table of contents follows text. Frontispiece engraved by G.D.V. Guillonnet. Hand colored emblems on title and front cover of original wrappers. Original wrappers bound in. Later binding, identified on back pastedown, by M. Marshall, believed to have been..... READ MORE about LES NUITS

Price: $750.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134073

Paris, France: René Kieffer, (1924). 8vo. stamped leather, suede clamshell box with leather spine label. (x), 183, (3), illustrations. Text in French. Table of contents. Illustrations by Jacques Touchet. Signed binding by René Kieffer. Leather with gilt, green, blue, red, and orange stamping on both covers. A touch of humor in the depictions of birds, three trees, and grass on the covers. Spine gilt stamped with title, author, and decorations. Gilt decorated turn-ins with plaid..... READ MORE about MERVEILLEUSES HISTOIRES DE NASR' EDDINE

Price: $3,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134441

Philadelphia, PA: Wm. F. Murphy's Sons, n.d., but circa 1867. broadside, 4 by 9 5/8 inches. An advertising card for the Murphy firm, established in 1820. The founder's sons assumed the business as William F. Murphy's Sons in 1853 (LCP website). With the seal of the Universal Exposition of 1867 in Paris, and an image of Emperor Napoleon III of France. Foxed, with small tear at upper right hand corner. READ MORE about Wm. F. Murphy's Sons Manufacturers of Blank Books

Price: $45.00  other currencies  Order nr. 118848

Chartres: Librairie Sourget, 1996. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (iv), 343, (4) pages. Sumptuously produced catalogue XIV. Includes 150 entries spanning all topics, accompanied by detailed descriptions, photos of the beautifully-bound books and illustrations from them, most full-page and in lavish color. Portrays maps from l'Histoire de la Nouvelle France1609), by Marc Lescarbot; samples of the watercolor plants and flowers attributed to Pierre-Joseph Garidel in Recueil des Plantes qui Naissent en Provence(1705); beautiful color prints by..... READ MORE about QUATRE SIÈCLES DE BIBLIOPHILE. DU BERCEAU DE L'IMPRIMERIE AU ROMANTISME

Price: $75.00  other currencies  Order nr. 65542