Search Results: Titles starting with B from LIBRAIRIE CAMILLE SOURGET

Leiden, Pieter Vander Aa, 1707.
Folio [355 x 227 mm], (8) ll. including 1 colored frontispiece, 1 large folding map in color enhanced with gold, 80 pp., 84 pp., 128 pp., 1 folding engraving bound between pp. 98 and 99, tiny hole in white margin p. 12, 52 pp. 56 pp., 32 ll., text leaves slightly browned as usual.
Full stiff vellum, double blind-stamped framing on the covers with central medallion, spine ribbed with handwritten title in ink, sprinkled edges. Publisher's contemporary binding.
First folio edition, the most beautiful of all, and first Dutch edition illustrated in first issue with the superb folding map "Novissima et Accuratissima Tabula Regnorum Hispania et Portugalliae Publicis Ac Regiis Viis ornata Excudit Petrus Vander Aa ", representing Spain, Portugal and part of South-West France - (it measures about 630 x 530 mm) -, the frontispiece drawn by J. Goercée and the folding view of Barcelona.
Palau, 212.
The text is illustrated with 164 copper engravingssimilar to those in the French 8vo… Read More

Esslingen, I.F. Schreiber, 1835.Small folio of (4) ll., 80 plates bound face to face, few stains and foxing, small tear restored without loss in the first plate. Bradel binding in decorated paper, small round hole in the center of the front cover which shows on the endleaf and old wood engraved fleuron glued. Binding towards 1900.304 x 194 mm.Precious educational album composed of 40 double-page lithographs entirely watercolored showing kitchen tools, musical instruments, houses, characters, animal species (from farms, birds, wild, etc.), flowers, plants…The plates are preceded with a title and handwritten tables listing the 40 double-page plates. They are surmounted with a printed title.Copies we could locate only contain 30 plates and not 40 like this one.FrançaisEsslingen, I.F. Schreiber, 1835.Petit in-folio de (4) ff., 80 planches reliées en vis-à-vis, qq. taches et rousseurs, déchirure restaurée sans manque ds. la première planche.Bradel plein papier décoré au pochoir, petite fenêtre… Read More

Paris, Delpech, [ca 1828].
Oblong 4to [249 x 303 mm]. Series of 6 lithographs contemporary colored, the first two plates a little yellowed. Green buckram bradel, eggplant morocco title on the first plate.
Very rare suite of lithographs in first issue dedicated by Henry Monnier to Parisian stores.
" Rare suite " (Bulletin de la Librairie Damascène Morgand, 1512).
The illustration is composed of 6 humoristic lithographs by Delpech after Henri Monnier, enhanced with watercolors at the time: Marchandes de Modes, Un Café, Apothicaire, Marchand d'Estampes, Bouquiniste, Restaurateur.
Henry Monnier
(1799-1877) was a French playwright, caricaturist and actor. Between 1827 and 1832, he produced several albums of lithographs, sketching the morals and physiognomies of his contemporaries, from the grisette to the office worker.
Nice copy of this rare suite of lithographs contemporary colored.

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Paris, Delpech, [ca 1828].
In-4 oblong. Série de 6 lithographies au trait coloriées à l'époque, deux… Read More

Paris, Denis du Pré, 1572.
4to [235 x 157 mm] of 53 ll., (1), 9 full-page engravings in the text and one folding engraving out of pagination ; 10 ll., 26, (2) ll. including 1 bl., 9, (2) bl.ll., 6 full-page engravings in the text. Handwritten manuscript on the title.
Bound in full granite-like calf, blind-stamped fillet on the covers, spine ribbed and decorated, mottled edges. Old restorations on the spine. Early 18th century binding.
First edition of one of the most beautiful entries of the French Renaissance containing several plays by Ronsard, Antoine de Baïf, Amadis Jamyn, Jean Dorat, Du Faur de Pibrac, Pasquier,... in first edition.
Mortimer, French, 205-206; Rahir, Dutuit, 676; Picot, Rothschild, 3117; Brunet, II, 1001; Pichon, 4897; Fairfax Murray, French, 152.
One of the beautiful French celebration books of the 16th century recounting the coronation of Queen Elisabeth of Austria, wife of Charles ix and daughter of the Emperor Maximilian ii, which took place in the Abbey of Saint Denis, as… Read More