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BIBLIOPHILIA - DOCUMENTATION: - Lyon City Library. Paleographic, typographic, and iconographic documents. Lyon, Friends of the Library, 1923–1936, 11 issues, in-8. Loose sheets with covers. - Small tears on a few covers; faint foxing on 2 issues. A periodical published with the utmost care, printed in a run of approximately 350 copies on laid paper by Protat in Mâcon. Numerous plates of reproductions and facsimiles, some in color: manuscripts, bookbindings, portolan charts, typographic specimens... A few documents are included as inserts. No. III-IV, a double issue, is accompanied by a separate collection of plates. The most prestigious books and manuscripts preserved in Lyon, along with their printers, illustrators, and calligraphers. - *Le Courrier graphique*, Nos. 3; 4; 9; 14; 36. A journal of the graphic arts and related industries. Paris, 1937, 5 issues, in-4 format—Illustrations. Paperback. - In excellent condition. - LABITTE (Adolphe). Catalog of rare and valuable manuscripts and printed books from the collection of L. Potier, bookseller to the National Library. Part Two. Paris, Librairie Potier, Librairie Labitte, 1872, in-8, XII pp.—392 pp. Paperback. - Unbound copy; the last leaf is creased; the front cover is damaged; the back cover is missing. -VIMONT (Ed.). Catalog of Printed and Manuscript Books from the Library of the City of Clermont-Ferrand... Part One [only] Printed Works Relating to Auvergne. Clermont-Ferrand, Mont-Louis, 1878, 8vo (15.5 x 24 cm), XII pp. – 393 pp. – 39 pp. for the table of contents. Paperback. - Volume in good condition, partially uncut. - ESPEZEL (Pierre d'). French Illustrators of the Bible, from the Origins of Printing. 1499–1950. Paris, Club Bibliophile de France, 1950, in-4, 64 pp.—1 folio. Paperback, burgundy cover folded. - Unused. - Catalog of rare and valuable books comprising the library of the late Mr. Gillet, Counselor to the Imperial Court of Nancy, whose sale will take place on Wednesday, December 13, 1865, and the following three days... Compiled by Mr. Delbergue-Cormont... Paris, Potier, 1865, in-8 booklet, 104 pages. Paperback. - Untrimmed, soiled cover. - LAFFONT (Robert). Robert Laffont. 1941–1991: Fifty Years of Publishing, Fifty Years of Passion. Paris, Laffont, 1991, in-8, 126 pages, color and black-and-white illustrations. Paperback. - Good condition. - CORDROC’H (Marie). From Balzac to Jules Verne: A Great 19th-Century Publisher, P.-J. Hetzel. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, 1966, in-8, 92 pages, a few black-and-white illustrations on coated paper. Paperback. - Good condition; note: ink graffiti on the back cover. - [Catalog]. The French Book from the 15th Century to the Present. Aix-en-Provence, 1955, in-8, XXIV pp., 70 pp., 1 folio, and 16 plates of reproductions. Paperback, decorated cover. - Minor foxing. Etc.