111 - BOURBONNAIS: 8 works

BOURBONNAIS: 8 works - DES ECHEROLLES (Alexandrine). A Few Years of My Life. Moulins, Place, 1843, 2 volumes in-8, 4ff.—Vpp.—1f.—328pp. 3ff.-338pp.-2ff. of advertisements. Bound in one volume in green half-basane, with faux raised bands and gilt fillets. (Contemporary binding). Copy without the 5 separate engravings, which are often missing, nor the 2 leaves of advertisements at the end. Binding slightly faded, pinholes, a few foxed quires. First edition. - BOULANGER (C.). Geological and Mineralogical Statistics of the Department of Allier. Moulins, Desrosiers, 1844, 8vo, 2 leaves–VIII–482 pp.–1 leaf of errata. Contemporary fawn half-basane binding, smooth spine, title label, gold fillets and fleurons, bluish edges. - Light foxing, more pronounced on the half-title page and title page. First edition. - CALL NUMBER (Léon). Le Saint-Denis Bourbonnais. History of the Cluniac Priory of Souvigny. Moulins, Crépin-Leblond, 1942, 8vo, XXI–452 pages—8 plates of photographs, inserted as separate sheets. Paperback, cloth-bound cover. - Copy printed on pure Auvergne rag paper (watermark: “au sabot,” thickness: 6 cm), not justified. It contains numerous typographical corrections in pencil. Interior in very fresh condition; spine joint cracked. Proof copy, on “large paper.” First edition. - FAURE (Henri). Illustrations of the Bourbonnais (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries). Antoine de Laval and the Bourbonnais writers of his time. Second edition... Moulins, Place, 1870, in-8, 4ff.n.ch.-IIpp.-477 pages - 1 folded plate. Contemporary fawn half-basane, smooth spine, title label. - Author’s autograph. Good condition. Second, expanded edition. - FAYE (Pierre-Polycarpe). A New Essay on the Thermal and Mineral Waters of Bourbon-l’Archambault, Department of Allier, or A Physical, Chemical, and Medical History of the Waters... Published in Bourbon-l’Archambault and Paris by Croullebois, 1804, in-8, 1f.-XVI-220 pp.-2 ff.- Folded plate. Bound in a plain unprinted cover of laid paper, entirely untrimmed. (As published). - Fragile spine, corners slightly creased, a few scattered small stains. First edition. - GREGOIRE (Gustave-Camille). The Canton of Chantelle. Illustrations by J.-C. Grégoire. Moulins, Grégoire, 1909, in-8 (14.5 x 22.5 cm), 377 pp.—1 f.—14 plates. Paperback. — Minor defects on the cover; interior in good condition. Rare first edition. 12 plates of illustrations by the author’s son, 2 fold-out maps. - ANDRE-GERVAIS (Stéphane-Amédée Pannetier, known as...). Santons Bourbonnais. Written, illustrated, and published by André Gervais. Paris, published by the author, 1950, square in-8 booklet, 42 pp., 3 folios, 4 plates. Paperback. - Author’s gift to Marcel Génermont, “to whom nothing from the Bourbonnais region could be foreign.” First edition printed in a run of 321 copies, all not for sale, on Auvergne paper. - COIFFIER-DEMORET (Simon de). *Le Cheveu*. A moral tale. Verbatim reprint of the 1808 edition. Illustrated with 10 gallant drawings by Amédée Lynen. Brussels, Kistemaeckers, 1883, 12mo, XI–135 pp. Paperback. - Minor flaws on the cover; binding slightly loose. Text printed on heavy paper. A verbatim reprint by the renowned Belgian publisher of this amusing romantic tale, based on the legend of the fairy Melusine. It was first published in Paris in 1808. This edition is illustrated with 10 drawings, executed in black or red chalk, by the Brussels painter Amédée Lynen.