E. COLLET (Active in the 19th - 20th centuries) Villefranche-sur-Mer Watercolor on paper. Signed and dated 1908 lower right. Framed under glass. Sight: 19 x 26.5 cm

Missale Romanum ex decreto Sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum...Venice, Giuseppe Orlandelli, 1800 Folio; 330x240 mm. Coeval binding in full brown leather with blind embossing and gold ornaments on the plates; gilt and decorated cuts. Copper-engraved vignette on frontispiece in red and black, figured initials and xylogr. friezes, text in red and black; f. t. Table copper-engraved by Antonio Leonardis. Binding with traces of use and excoriations, internally traces of use and slight water marks on some pages but good preservation. Rare edition that despite bearing the date 1800 on the title page has all the characteristics, both in binding and interior composition, of 18th-century Venetian figured books. Joined with: GIROLAMO - ATANASIO. Prato spirituale ossiano Vite de' Santi Padri descritte da' Santi Girolamo ed Atanasio...Venezia, Antonio Zatta e figli, 1789 4to; 240x175 mm. Coeval binding in rustic hardback; pp. 324; text in two columns, xylogr. Test. and Iniz. Traces of use but handsome copy. Interesting Venetian edition of a hagiographic work divided into six books compiled by St. Jerome, St. Eradio, St. Lawrence. The volume is divided as follows: Of St. Paul the First Hermit; Of the Most Holy Life of Isidore; How St. Francis patendosi from the city...; Of Zacharias; Theophilus, Sergius, and Elchinus; Spiritual Meadow. Joined with: COLLET, Peter. Compendium of the History of St. Vincent de Paul...Genoa, Paolo Scionico, 1774 4to; 235x170 mm. Coeval binding in stiff vellum, marbled cuts. Pp. XXVIII (including Frontispiece), 376; Beginning fig. Missing at top of spine, internally very good conservation. Hagiographical work on the life of St. Vincent de Paul, founder of the congregation of the mission, and the Daughters of Charity, called servants of the poor. The volume is divided into 5 books; the first four concern the life of the saint, the last investigates his virtues, missions, and cult. Joined with: Il Mese di Maria o sia il mese di maggio consecrato a Maria SS. coll'esercizio di varii fiori di virtù.Ferrara, Eredi di Gius. Rinaldi, 1801 8vo small; 130x75 mm. Coeval binding in marbled hardback; pp. 192. Traces of use to binding, but good preservation.