239 - MISCELLANEOUS LOT. MODERN

MISCELLANEOUS LOT. MODERN Substantial lot, 20 volumes. -Bonnet NRF Gallimard hardcovers 3 NRF editions in bindings reproduced based on designs by Paul Bonet. Paris, Gallimard, Fasquelle, Galerie de la Pléiade, 1955–1957. [VAN DONGEN] The Book of One Thousand and One Nights. 1955 AYME, Marcel. Novels of the Province. 1956 MALRAUX, André. The Metamorphosis of the Gods. Volume I only. 1957. 3 works in 5 in-8 volumes (23 x 18.5 cm), publisher’s binding in plain cream percaline in the Bradel style with painted decoration based on designs by Paul Bonet, in the publisher’s cardboard slipcase (in generally good condition; the upper joint of Volume I of *The Thousand and One Nights* is split; the Malraux volume is without its slipcase). - DE NICH. WOOD. *Practical Treatise on Railroads*, translated from the English original (second edition). Paris: Carilian-Goeury, 1834. In-4, red half-basane binding of the period. - DAUDET, Alphonse. *Tartarin of Tarscon*. Color illustrations by Dubout. Paris, A l’Emblème du Secrétraire, 1939. Small in-4, publisher’s paperback. - MARTIN, William. The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre before the Venetian Senate. Reports by Ambassadors Giovani Michel and Sigismondo Cavalli. Paris, Sandoz and Fischbacher, 1872. 8vo, contemporary brown morocco-bound half-basane. - MARTIN, William. Research on the Roman Roads of the Seine-Inférieure. Paris, Librairie Ch. Delagrave, 1877. 8vo, brown morocco half-leather binding of the period. - LE MOUVEMENT SOCIAL. Quarterly journal of the French Institute of Social History. No. 45 (October–December 1963), 8vo, publisher’s paperback. - CHAMPFLEURY. History of Ancient Caricature. Paris, E. Dentu, (1865). In-18, XX-248 pp., 21 plates, figs., fawn half-calf with corners, ribbed spine, fawn title label, richly decorated panels, blind-stamped fillet on the covers, marbled edges [binding signed E. Petit] (corners, caps, and jaws slightly rubbed). -COHEN. Guide to 18th-Century Books with Vignettes. Paris, 1870. In-12, period percaline with corners. - LE HERICHER (Edouard). Scandinavian Normandy, or Glossary of Scandinavian Elements in the Norman Dialect. Avranches, Henri Tribouillard, 1861. In-12, (2) ff., 117 pp., green half-shagreen with period corners, ribbed spine, author, title, and date gilt, (spine faded, corners slightly rubbed). - DUCHESSE D'ABRANTES. Famous Women from All Countries: Their Lives and Portraits. Paris, 1835. (Flecks of foxing, wormholes in the lower margin). Contemporary tortoiseshell-patterned sheepskin. -FEUILLET DE CONCHES. Conversations of the Curious: Varieties of History and Art. Paris, 1862. 2 volumes, in-8. -REGNAULT-DELALANDE (F.-L.). A Catalog Raisonné of the Works of Art from the Collection of the Late Mr. de Silvestre, formerly Drawing Instructor for the Enfants de France. Paris, Published by the author, 1810. In-8, XVI-555-16 pp., 19th-century marbled cardboard binding, black sheepskin title label, gilt title. First edition. -LUNOIS. LITHOGRAPHIC DRAWINGS. ANDRE, Edouard. Studies on Several Original Artists. Alexandre Lunois, Painter, Engraver, and Lithographer. Paris, Floury, 1914. Quarto, (3) leaves (half-title, frontispiece, title page), 246 pp., 25 plates, red half-percale, plain spine, gilt title, cover preserved. Monograph followed by a catalog of the artist’s works and illustrated with 26 plates, in etching or heliogravure, some of which are in color, including a frontispiece, and reproductions within the text. Spine slightly faded, tears at the top of the spine, browning along the margins of a few plates. - MARQUET, Albert (1875–1947). The Apse of Notre-Dame. 1939. Original black-and-white lithograph, signed on the plate beneath a captioned serpent (28 x 22 cm, including margins), created for or based on his painting (oil on canvas) of the same title, executed in 1913. Published in the *Gazette des Beaux-Arts*, March 1939, with the issue enclosed (cover slightly faded, small tear on the spine), containing an article on Marquet by Claude-Roger Marx. Large in-4 format, 199 pp., black-and-white illustrations, two-color cover. - Bulletin of the French Society for Reproductions of Manuscripts and Paintings, 20th year. Paris, for members of the society, 1936. In-4, midnight blue half-maroquin binding with period corners.