Livres anciens et modernes

Lot 101 - DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC (André) - BRISSON (Pierre). Le Lierre. Paris : Imprimerie nationale, André Sauret, [1953]. - In-4, 315 x 252: 267 pp, (2 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. Dark green morocco, vertical band of 19 gilt fillets surmounting five mosaic ivy leaves in light green calf, smooth spine decorated with a band of 15 gilt fillets and the title of the work in full in dark green box, dark green morocco framed inside, decorated with a double gilt fillet, green moiré silk lining and endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, dark green morocco spine folder and overlapping bands, lined slipcase (E & A Maylander). Very fine edition illustrated with 28 original etchings by André DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC (1884-1974), including one on the cover, 11 in the text and 16 full-page. Limited edition of 108 copies, signed by the author and artist at the justification. One of 21 on Arches vellum including a complete suite of etchings on the same paper. A very fine copy bound by Émile and André Maylander, with an autograph card from Pierre Brisson, on the letterhead of Le Figaro newspaper, and 3 autograph postcards from Dunoyer de Segonzac. A copy for Professor Henri Mondor, to whom the enclosed autograph cards are certainly addressed. He was an acquaintance of the artist, who engraved his portrait. Cracking to one hinge of the dust jacket, otherwise a very well preserved copy. Provenance: Henri Mondor, with bookplate.

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 102 - DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC (André) - VIRGILE. Les Géorgiques. Translated by Michel de Marolles. Paris: chez l'artiste, 1947. - 3 volumes in-folio, 449 x 335: (2 blank ff.), 201 pp. (3 ff. last 2 blank), printed cover; (2 blank ff.), 213 pp. (7 ff. last 2 blank), printed cover. Dark green morocco, boards richly decorated with a large distinct motif representing a kind of stylized tree, "whose broad decorative arabesques may give the impression of branches", mosaiced with calfskin in five shades graded from pink to dark red for volume 1, from brown to yellow for the second volume, and from orange to brown for the third, all parts remaining in green morocco are adorned with gilded arabesques, smooth spine, edge-to-edge lining and light green box endpapers decorated with gilded, palladium and box mosaic irons in the same tones as the decoration on the boards, gilded edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, dark green morocco spine and flap edge folder, lined slipcase (Paul Bonet 1956). Lioré et Cailler, V, pp. 11-13. - Paul Bonet, Carnets 1924-1971, no. 1133, 1137 and 1150. A remarkable publication with an edition of 250 copies, all on Arches wove paper, watermarked with an ear of wheat and a bee. This is the most important illustrated work by André DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC (1884-1974), his masterpiece, and one of the great illustrated books of the 20th century. It includes 119 original etchings, 99 of them full-page, engraved between 1933 and 1946. Lioré and Cailler, in the Catalogue de l'œuvre gravé de Dunoyer de Segonzac, reported what the artist wrote about this book: "If I chose the theme of the Georgics, it was to try to accompany with etchings the scenes of rural life that have remained almost the same since Antiquity. Nowadays, with motorization having taken over the fields, it would no longer be possible to illustrate Virgil's text by observing peasant life as it has become. It was the poet Roger Allard who, around 1920, first had the idea of having me engrave etchings on Virgilian themes. Later, when the great publisher Ambroise Vollard asked me to illustrate a book with etchings, he suggested a text by Colette, but, remembering Roger Allard's advice, I steered him towards Virgil's Georgics, and he agreed... I engraved all the plates in Les Géorgiques in front of the eternal theme of rural life: the ploughing of wheat and vines, sowing, harvesting, grape-picking, bees... For Chant III, devoted to livestock, I set up with my coppers in the pastures, among the herds of cows and oxen, engraving directly and striving to express their powerful and peaceful plastic beauty..." (Lioré and Cailler, 2005, p. 3). (Lioré et Cailler, Catalogue de l'œuvre gravé de Dunoyer de Segonzac, V, pp. 11-13). ONE OF THE FIRST 50 COPIES (NO. 25) WITH A SUITE OF 25 ETCHINGS ON WATERMARKED VELLUM IN THE SHAPE OF A BUNCH OF GRAPES AND AN OX HEAD, NUMBERED AND SIGNED AT THE HEAD BY THE ARTIST. It is preceded by a second, unsigned suite of 199 etchings on the same paper, bound separately and forming the third volume. This is undoubtedly one of the finest copies of this edition, in sumptuous triplicate bindings produced by Paul Bonet in 1956. The decorations, which are in the same style, are distinct and in different colors. In his notebooks, the bookbinder tells us that he began these bindings in November 1955 and completed them in January 1956 for the first volume, in April 56 for the second and in July of the same year for the last. René Desmules for the binding and Robert Cochet for the gilding, were entrusted with the execution of this work. Despite the sumptuousness of these bindings, Paul Bonet admitted that he found them "too rich". The first volume of this copy was the seventh binding he had done for this work, and despite this, he admitted that he had not yet managed to find the right binding for this work, which he otherwise greatly appreciated. A perfectly preserved copy.

Estim. 15 000 - 20 000 EUR

Lot 103 - ÉDY-LEGRAND. Le Cantique des Cantiques. Paris: N. Matzneff, Editions Orion, [1930]. - 2 volumes in-4, 323 x 249: (1 blank f.), 106 pp. (5 ff. last 2 blank), printed cover. Black box, three horizontal parallel bands of cream box decorated with gilt fillets and gilt foliage in the center and continuously on the boards and spine, gilt title mosaicked in cream box on the upper part of the first board, and composition representing a hand holding grapes, mosaicked in red, dark green and cream box, on the lower part, smooth spine, gilt fillet inside, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, bordered slipcase, and black half-box, gilt fillet, smooth spine decorated in the center with three horizontal parallel bands of cream box decorated with gilt fillets and gilt foliage, and three gilt fillets at the tail, gilt head, untrimmed, for the volume of suites (M. Bernard 1933). Edition of 115 copies, with 35 original intaglio engravings by the painter and illustrator ÉDY-LEGRAND (1892-1970), including 23 full-page engravings, 8 chapter headings and 4 culs-de-lampe. One of 99 copies on Montval white vellum containing 3 suites of engravings, including one in first state. These suites have been bound here in a separate volume in black half-box. A very fine copy in period binding by Marguerite Bernard, active from 1922 to 1939, who was a pupil of Noulhac for bookbinding and Cuzin for gilding. She won a bronze medal at the 1925 Exposition des Arts décoratifs. A very well preserved copy.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 104 - ERNST (Max) - PÉRET (Benjamin). La Brebis galante. Paris: Premières, 1949. - In-8, 238 x 190: 119 pp, (1 f.), 2 plates, illustrated cover. Bordeaux box, first cover decorated with an abstract figure in gilt and palladium fillets, small pastilles in the same colors, as well as mosaic pieces in red, green, yellow, orange, ochre, white, gray and black box, and glossy and holographic papers, second plate decorated with horizontal gilded fillets representing the shape of the character on the first plate, smooth spine, grey suede lining and endpapers, gilded head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, burgundy box spine and cover bands folder, lined case (M. Richard, 1991). First edition of this text composed by Benjamin Péret in 1924, constituting the first work in the GBMZ collection. It is illustrated with 37 compositions by Max ERNST (1891-1976), including 3 original etchings (title and two out-of-text figures), 21 full-page compositions, most colored with stencils, 13 bistre lettering and one vignette in black. Edition of 321 copies; this is one of 300 on Grand Vélin d'Arches, not numbered. A superb copy in Michel Richard's original mosaic binding made in 1991, remarkably executed. A perfectly preserved copy.

Estim. 3 000 - 4 000 EUR

Lot 105 - FORAIN (Jean-Louis) - COQUIOT (Gustave). Les Pantins de Paris. Paris : Auguste Blaizot, 1920 [1921]. - In-4, 298 x 210 : (3 ff. first blank), 160 pp., (1 f.), printed cover. Eggplant half-maroquin with corners, spine with three large nerfs, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (René Kieffer). Beautiful and interesting edition illustrated with 134 black and colored compositions by Jean-Louis FORAIN (1851-1931). According to Carteret (IV, p. 123), this edition brings together drawings "that have appeared in various publications". The title and cover are dated 1920, but there is a printed note at the end: "The printing of this work, begun in 1914 and interrupted by the war, was resumed in 1919 and completed in 1921...". Edition of 250 copies. One of 200 on Arches wove paper. A fine copy in a Kieffer binding, with a large original ink drawing by Forain, with an original sketch on the verso, two etchings by the artist, including one for Huysmans' Croquis parisiens, and a color woodcut illustration by Florian after Forain. Spine slightly faded. Light brown spots on cover.

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

Lot 106 - FOUJITA (Léonard). Petits Métiers et gagne petit. [Paris: Pierre de Tartas, éditions Rombaldi, 1960]. - In-folio, 373 x 280: 118 pp, (5 FF. last two blank), illustrated cover. In leaves, publisher's blue cloth slipcase. One of the finest works illustrated by Léonard FOUJITA (1886-1968). Prefaced by Maurice Genevoix, the edition includes texts by Albert Fournier accompanied by 22 wood-engraved compositions by Léonard Foujita by Henri Renaud, including one on the title, repeated on the cover, one full-page self-portrait by the artist, 18 in the text and 2 on double-page spreads, all in color except for the gray title. The book ends with a text by Guy Dornand entitled Foujita Parisien de Tokyo. Print run announced at 262 copies. This one, on Arches vellum, is unnumbered but nominative, specially printed for Pierre Barthélémy, and includes this autograph signed letter from the artist: to Mr Pierre Barthelemy // Tributes from the artist // Leonard Foujita The copy has been exceptionally enriched with the following items: - a special suite of color plates on large Arches vellum (without the proofs of the illustrations on pages 25 and 69), - two silk proofs, including that of the second double-page illustration, - color breakdown of two different plates, - the enclosed letter signed by publisher Pierre du Tartas, on company letterhead, indicating the items added to this copy. Wrapper discolored and showing wear to the cloth.

Estim. 10 000 - 15 000 EUR

Lot 107 - FOUJITA (Léonard). La Mésangère. [Bièvres: Pierre du Tartas, 1963]. - In-folio, 365 x 280: (4 ff. first blank), III pp. 9-85, (3 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. Leaves, filled cover, publisher's red cloth slipcase. Superb edition with a preface by Jean Cocteau, illustrated with 20 original lithographs signed in the plate by Léonard FOUJITA (1886-1968), including three full-page, one double-page and sixteen three-quarter-page lithographs. Edition of 261 copies signed by the artist at the justification. One of 210 on large Rives vellum, this being one of 50 on this paper including a suite of lithographs on Rives vellum and a color silk signed by Foujita. A very well preserved copy, without the lithograph entitled L'Académie française, which is more often included with copies on Rives without a suite.

Estim. 4 000 - 6 000 EUR

Lot 108 - GOERG (Édouard) - POE (Edgar Allan). L'Ange du bizarre suivi d'autres contes. Paris : Marcel Sautier, [1947]. - 3 volumes in-4, 313 x 227: frontispiece, (2 blank ff.), 94 pp., (6 ff. last 3 blank), printed cover. Gray box, boards decorated with a succession of horizontal gilt fillets arranged to form the title of the work, smooth spine, gray suede lining and endpapers, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, lined slipcase (text volume); gray banded half-box, smooth spine, slipcase (suites and copperplates) (M. Richard 1985). Fine edition printed at 275 copies on Arches pure rag paper, bringing together 6 tales by Edgar Allan Poe in Charles Baudelaire's translation: L'Ange du Bizarre. - Colloque entre Monos et Una. - Eiros's conversation with Charmion. - Shadow. - Silence. - Eleonora. Illustrated with 28 original etchings by painter and engraver Édouard GOERG (1893-1969), including a frontispiece, 25 in the text and 2 full-page. ONE OF 15 FIRST EDITIONS accompanied by a first state suite on white Malacca, two definitive state suites with remarks, one in black on white Malacca, the other in sanguine on tinted Malacca, an original drawing and a copperplate. The suites have been bound separately and the copper placed in a special folder. Copy enriched with the following items: - two drawings in addition to the one indicated in the justification, one of which is a draft for the title page, - a woodcut for the cover and slipcase, - two proofs with variations for the illustration on pages 67 and 73, - a second state proof of the illustration on page 77, - the 2-sheet booklet, printed in an edition of 150 copies, published by Marcel Sautier and including the speech delivered by Waldemar George on the occasion of the presentation to Edouard Goerg of the Académicien sword designed by Gilbert Poillerat on October 13, 1965, - an additional copper plate. A very fine copy in bindings by Michel Richard. Traces of wetness on the lower spines of the suite volume and the plate folder.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 109 - HAYTER (Stanley William) - COFFEY (Brian). Death of Hektor. [Guildford]: Circle Press, 1979. - In-folio, 397 x 292: frontispiece, 23 pp. 8 plates. Leaves, in publisher's slipcase. First edition of this epic poem by Irish poet-artist Brian Coffey (1905-1995), inspired by Homer's account of The Iliad. It is illustrated with 9 superb original out-of-text etchings, including 3 in color, by British artist Stanley William HAYTER (1901-1988). Limited edition of 350 numbered copies on wove paper. This is one of 35 artist's proofs, signed by Coffey and Hayter at the justification, and including all engravings signed and numbered by the artist. It is enriched by this autograph dispatch signed by Hayter on the justification leaf: for my old friend Luigi // with affection // Will Hayter. 3.4.82 A very well preserved copy.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 110 - LA FONTAINE (Jean de). Fables choisies. Paris: Louis Conard, 1930-1933. - In-8, 201 x 137: LXII, 234 pp. (2 ff. last blank), illustrated cover; 290 pp. (3 ff. last 2 blanks), illustrated cover; 355 pp. (2 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. Green half-maroquin with stripes, gilt fillets, spine decorated in the central box with a scene from a fable by La Fontaine, mosaic of different types of morocco, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, case (G. Levitsky). Charming edition illustrated with a portrait of the author drawn and engraved by Baudier, 12 decorative compositions by Pierre de LAPRADE, and 250 headpieces by Edmond MALASSIS and FRED-MONEY, all wood-engraved in color by Paul and André Baudier. A copy of the ordinary edition on vellum pur chiffon, but beautifully bound in the period by Grégoire Levitzky. It has been enriched with 3 fine original watercolors signed by the painter and illustrator Fred-Money (1882-1956), whose real name was François-Raoul Billon. A pupil of Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse, he was a friend of Renoir and Montézin, and distinguished himself as one of the great post-impressionist painters of the period. The watercolors are hors texte, placed at the head of each volume; they represent fables by La Fontaine: Le Corbeau et le renard (The Raven and the Fox), Un animal dans la lune (An Animal in the Moon) and La Lionne et l'ours (The Lioness and the Bear). A very well preserved copy, despite one side of the slipcase being loose.

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

Lot 111 - LAURENCIN (Marie) - LA FAYETTE (Madame de). La Princesse de Clèves. Paris: Robert Laffont, 1947. - In-4, 280 x 223: 205 pp, (3 ff. last 2 blank), illustrated cover. Leaves, filled cover, publisher's black folder and slipcase. Edition of 300 numbered copies on Papeteries du Marais vellum, printed by Daragnès and illustrated with 10 original etchings by Marie LAURENCIN (1883-1956), including 6 full-page etchings and 4 at the head of each section. Unnumbered copy, with a suite of the 10 color etchings on Lana vellum. Cover browned.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 112 - LAURENCIN (Marie) - LA FAYETTE (Madame de). La Princesse de Clèves. Paris: Robert Laffont, 1947. - In-4, 280 x 223: 205 pp, (3 ff. last 2 blank), illustrated cover. Leaves, filled cover, publisher's beige folder and slipcase. Edition of 300 numbered copies on Papeteries du Marais vellum, printed by Daragnès and illustrated with 10 original etchings by Marie LAURENCIN (1883-1956), including 6 full-page etchings and 4 at the head of each section. One of 230 copies numbered from 51 to 280. Some soiling and wear to boards. Cover browned. 2-centimeter tear at one cover hinge.

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

Lot 113 - LÉGER (Nadia). Suprematism. Paris: Éditions Art-C.C., 1972. - In-folio, 341 x 254: 235 pp, (2 blank ff.), 1 plate. Black velvet, gilt brass metal sculpture in relief on front cover, smooth spine, publisher's Plexiglas folder and slipcase. Very fine monograph devoted to the work of painter and ceramist Nadia LÉGER (1904-1982), published by Christophe Czwiklitzer. It includes nearly 100 full-page reproductions of the artist's works. One of 250 copies of the French-language deluxe edition, signed by the publisher and the artist at the justification, bound in full leather and including an original color lithograph numbered and signed by Nadia Léger, and an original gilded brass metal sculpture by the artist on the first cover, monogrammed H.X.N.L. and numbered. A very well-preserved copy. A post in the box is offset, preventing integration of the folder.

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

Lot 114 - LYDIS (Mariette) - MONTHERLANT (Henry de). Le Chant des Amazones. Paris : Govone, 1931. - In-4, 278 x 223: 95 pp, (3 ff. last 2 blank), printed cover. Jansenist brown morocco, ribbed spine, dark green morocco lining edged with three gilt fillets, brown moiré silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, edged slipcase (Semet et Plumelle). Partly first edition, with 5 poems or essays from Les Onze devant la Porte Dorée (1924) and two previously unpublished poems. It is illustrated with 8 original full-page lithographs by Mariette LYDIS (1887-1970). Limited edition of 165 copies. This is ONE OF 10 ON IMPERIAL JAPON (no. 7), including a line suite of the illustrations, the third paper after 1 copy on tinted chine and 4 on old japon. Exemplaire de Jules Exbrayat (1880-1958), president-founder of the Société des Bibliophiles Franco-Suisses, with this autograph signed letter from the artist on the false title: Pour Monsieur Exbrayat, // ami des beaux livres // Mariette Lydis // Paris 1931 A very fine copy in lined binding by Semet et Plumelle, including the color frontispiece, signed by Mariette Lydis, as well as a refused plate on chine collé, signed and dated 1931 by Mariette Lydis, who also indicated "pierre cassée". This lithograph is a variant of the one on page 13. Spine slightly faded. Provenance: Jules Exbrayat, with consignment and bookplate (cat. III, 1962, no. 204).

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

Lot 115 - MANESSE (Georges-Henri) - FROMENTIN (Eugène). Les Maîtres d'autrefois. Belgium. Hollande. Paris: L. Carteret, 1914. - In-4, 276 x 189: portrait, (2 ff.), IV, 349 pp. illustrated cover. Red morocco, gilded and cold-stamped fillets and burgundy morocco listel framing the boards, ribbed spine decorated in the same spirit, gilded bold fillet between two gilded thin triple fillets inside, gilded edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, lined slipcase (Noulhac). A very handsome edition printed at 200 copies on wove paper, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author, 27 chapter headings and 27 culs-de-lampe, etched by the engraver and watercolorist Georges-Henri MANESSE (1854-1913). Nominative copy, specially printed for the poet André Sciama, including : - an original watercolor signed by Manesse, depicting the tower of the old church in Delft, also bearing an autograph dedication signed by Carteret ("to my friend A. Sciama. L. Carteret"), - all etchings in 3 states, including the portrait. A very fine copy bound by Noulhac. One freckle on page III. Provenance: André Sciama, with bookplate and dedication. - Robert Beauvillain, with bookplate engraved by Charles Jouas.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 116 - MARTIN (Charles) - MONTESQUIEU. Lettres persanes de Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu. Preceded by a foreword by Paul Valéry. Paris: Jean Terquem, 1926. - In-4, 248 x 183: frontispiece, (6 ff. first 2 blank), XI, 293 pp. (3 ff. last 2 blank), 19 plates, printed cover. Jansenist red morocco, ribbed spine, blue morocco lining decorated with gilded fillets and dotted lines, red moiré silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilded edges, slipcase (G. Levitzky). Fine edition printed at 265 copies on Rives vellum, illustrated with more than 150 woodcut letterplates and 20 original color hors texte etchings by Charles MARTIN (1884-1934). ONE OF THE 20 FIRST EDITED EXAMPLES (no. 2) : - a suite of second state etchings in black with remarks, - a suite of etchings in the first state in black with remarks, - a suite of crossed-out etchings, - a color decomposition of one of the etchings, - an original signed engraving drawing, - 7 original lettering drawings, - a print order for one of the copperplates. The decomposition, the original drawing and the bon à tirer concern here the second plate of the work, located opposite page 12. The crossed-out gilt copper plate is missing. A very fine copy in Levitsky's lined binding.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 117 - MARTY (André-Édouard) - HARAUCOURT (Edmond). Héro et Léandre. Dramatic poem in three acts. Paris: Le Livre contemporain, 1930. - In-8, 225 x 168: 115 pp, (1 f.), printed cover. Fawn morocco, boards decorated with a repeating decoration alternating horizontally 2 gilt fillets, 2 cold fillets, a frieze of small gilt squares, a line of 4 cold suns, this decoration continuous on the smooth spine, dark brown suede lining and endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, spine folder and overlapping bands of fawn morocco, case (Georges Cretté). Uncommon edition of 125 copies on Montval paper, illustrated with over 50 black compositions by André-Édouard MARTY (1882-1974), including 40 etchings. Specially printed for P. Lièvre. Beautiful binding by Georges Cretté. Transfers of the etchings to the facing leaves.

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 118 - [MIRÓ (Joan)]. Behind the mirror. N° triple 57-58-59. Paris : Pierre à Feu, Maeght, August 1953. - In-folio, 380 x 281. In sheets. Cramer, 26. This triple issue of Derrière le miroir is one of the rarest in the series. Dedicated to Joan MIRÓ, it was published for the exhibition of 63 paintings and 36 etchings by the artist at Galerie Maeght. It includes 12 original lithographs, one on a double page and one on a quintuple page. Enriched with a signed autograph on the first page: pour Claudine, cordialement. Miró A very well preserved copy, despite a few minor traces of folding. Small tear at the bottom of the fold of the central double leaf.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 119 - MIRÓ (Joan) - TORREILLES (Pierre). Errantes graminées. Paris: GLM, 1971. - Small in-8, 192 x 140: 42 pp, (3 ff. last blank), 1 plate, printed cover. In sheets, filled cover, in cardboard window folder and slipcase. P. Cramer, Joan Miró, 1989, no. 142. First edition of this collection of prose poems, printed in an edition of 578 copies. One of the 103 first copies on Arches vellum, with an original signed double-page lithograph in color by Joan MIRÓ (1893-1983). A very well preserved copy. The folder and slipcase are not those of the publisher; they were made especially for this copy. The folder bears a signature that is difficult to decipher and the date 1993. Also by the same author: - Solve et coagula. Paris: GLM, [1953]. - In-12, paperback. Original edition of 420 copies, this one of the first 20 on Marais vellum, perfectly preserved. - L'Arrière pays clos. Paris : GLM, [1961]. - In-12, paperback. Original edition of 475 copies. One of 460 on offset, perfectly preserved, uncut. - Répons, une amphore, et soudain l'oiseau n'irrigue plus l'espace. Paris : GLM, [1963]. - In-8, leaves, filled cover. Original edition printed in 320 copies on Renage vellum. - Mesure de la Terre. Paris : GLM, [1966]. - In-8, paperback, filled cover. Original edition of 480 copies. One of the 20 first copies on Marais vellum, perfectly preserved, uncut.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 120 - MONTORGUEIL (Georges). Paris ses eaux et ses fontaines. [Paris]: Société de Saint-Éloy, 1925. - In-4, 283 x 224: (4 ff. first 2 blank), 189 pp. (4 ff. last 2 blank), printed cover. Dark green morocco, boards decorated in the center with an oval silver plate representing a fountain, on a blue morocco background and within a frame of two silver fillets, ribbed spine, double gilt fillet and gilt motif at the corners framed inside, light green moiré silk lining and endpapers, double endpapers, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, lined slipcase (René Kieffer). Rare first edition, printed in an edition of 100 copies on Arches vellum, specially composed by Georges Montorgueil for the Société de Saint-Éloy. It is illustrated with 15 original full-page etchings by some of the Society's artists: Auguste BROUET, Charles JOUAS, Pierre-Adrien BOUROUX, Georges LE MEILLEUR, Charles HALLO, Edgar CHAHINE, Amédée FÉAU, Henry CHEFFER, Bernard NAUDIN, Georges GOBÔ, André DAUCHEZ, Louis WILLAUME, Georges JEANNIOT, Pierre GUSMAN and Tigrane POLAT. Copy number 4, specially printed for the famous painter and illustrator Georges Auriol (1863-1938). Beautiful copy bound in the workshops of René Kieffer. Spine slightly faded. Provenance: Georges Auriol, underwritten copy, with bookplate ?

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

Lot 121 - [ORLINSKI (Richard) - CHAINE (Sonia). Richard Orlinski. English translation by Anne Muller and Sinead Healy. Paris : Cimarosa, 2012. - Square folio, 405 x 400: 177 pp. (20 ff.). Publisher's illustrated boards, in wood and Plexiglas slipcase, also containing a lacquered and resin-pressed plate featuring a Kong in half-round hump, all in a wooden military case. First bilingual French-English edition of this monograph devoted to the artist and sculptor Richard ORLINSKI (b. 1966), featuring numerous photographs of his work, reproductions of drawings and system elements. Limited edition of 2,500 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, enhanced by a half-round resin sculpture of Kong. The book is numbered 34, while the sculpture is numbered 245. Enriched with a 33-centimeter "Wild Kong" sculpture in red resin numbered 13/100, part of the "Wild Born Concept" series, and a computer-retouched color photograph of a giant Kong imprisoned behind the facade of a metal building, signed by the artist and numbered 245/2500. The whole was placed in a large military-style wooden box (L 46 x W 46 x H 40 cm), with inscriptions in Russian on the lid and one of the sides.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 122 - PAN (Imre). Tribute to Imre Pan. Paris: Mireille Pan, 1978. - In-4, 280 x 227: (4 ff. first 3 blank), 48 pp. (8 ff. 3rd and last 3 blank), 19 plates, printed cover. In sheets, filled cover, publisher's folder and slipcase. Posthumous first edition of Commentary on the Century by writer and publisher Imre Pan (1904-1972), which was "delivered as a lecture at the University of Aix-Marseille in July 1971 and represents this thinker's final expression on the reality of art and contemporary problems of civilization" (preface). This edition was published as a tribute to the author, and illustrated with 20 compositions made especially for the book, including a frontispiece and 19 hors texte, by 20 different artists: Geneviève ASSE (etching), Juhana BLOMSTEDT (etching), Colette BRUNSCHWIG (etching), Camille BRYEN (etching), CARLIER (etching), Serge CHARCHOUNE (woodcut), Duarte GONÇALO (etching), CORNEILLE (lithography), Yves DELOULE (etching), Jacques DOUCET (etching), Georges FOISSY (etching), Marc GIAI-MINIET (etching), François JOUSSELIN (etching), Lourdes CASTRO (phototypesetting), André MARFAING (etching), Aurélie NEMOURS (woodcut), Armand PETITJEAN (etching), Pierre SKIRA (etching), Victor VASARELY (silkscreen) and Hugh WEISS (etching). Limited edition of 340 copies. One of the first 130 on Arches vellum, including the 20 original etchings signed by the artists, this being one of the 30 artists' copies, numbered I. The engravings are not numbered, with the exception of the lithograph by Corneille. The Charchoune woodcut is signed "S. C." by a hand other than that of the artist, who died in 1975. EXEMPLAIRE OF THE POET AND PUBLISHER PIERRE LECUIRE (1922-2013), enriched with two autograph letters signed and addressed to him, one from Mireille Pan, the author's widow, the other from his daughter Sophie Pan. Mireille's letter is dated December 21, 1978, and accompanied the copy: "à Pierre Lecuire sans lequel ce livre ne serait pas". The second is dated April 9, 1979, and refers to the exhibition in tribute to Imre Pan that took place at the Editions de l'Hermitage gallery from March 2, 1979: "I read the text you (sic) wrote for my guest book and I am very touched [...] It will be for me a very beautiful memory of this exhibition, of my father and his friends who helped the book to appear. I'm delighted that we were able to pay such a beautiful tribute to my father." Pierre Lecuire also enclosed two copies of the invitation to the exhibition opening. A very well preserved copy. Provenance : Pierre Lecuire.

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

Lot 123 - PICASSO (Pablo) - ARAGON (Louis). Five sonnets by Petrarch. S.l. À la fontaine de Vaucluse, 1947. - In-4, 330 x 254: (26 ff. first and last two blank), printed cover. Paperback, lined cover. Cramer, no. 47. Bilingual edition of this selection of 5 sonnets by Petrarch. The anonymous French translation is by Louis Aragon. "This book, published "A la Fontaine de Vaucluse" in 1947, includes 5 sonnets from the Canzoniere, nos. I, CLXXVI, CLXXXVII, CII, CCLXXXIII. They have been freely translated into French by a translator who wished to remain anonymous, but who, having left his mark in the epigraph, introduction and autograph proverb at the end of the book, is easily recognizable. It's Louis Aragon, paying tribute to Elsa Triolet, his companion from Russia, whom he met in 1928, after a suicide attempt, and who changed his life in so many ways" (Cramer). Only 110 copies of this edition were printed on Arches vellum, illustrated with a full-page ORIGINAL EAU-FORTE BY PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973), dated on the copperplate "9 janvier 45" (138 x 188 mm), unsigned. "Picasso's engraving shows a beautiful oval face surrounded by abundant hair. There's nothing to prevent us from seeing in it an idealized portrait of Laure-Elsa, who, on that January 9th, was already taking on, for Picasso, the features of Françoise Gilot. It remains to be noted that, on the same January day, Picasso made the engraving for Le Marteau sans maître, showing the surrealist transformation of the same face" (Cramer). All copies bear a different autograph proverb by Louis Aragon. In this one, number 45, he wrote: "45 - Il n'est ombre // que d'étendards." A copy by the French-Tunisian writer and essayist Albert Memmi (1920-2020), enriched with this autograph letter signed by Louis Aragon on the false title: to Albert Memmi // for his patience // and my concern // Aragon Dusty cover, two traces of wetness on the lower edge of both covers, small tears at the bottom of the spine. Perfect condition inside. Also included: - ROY (Claude). Élégie des lieux communs, story-poem with a portrait of the author and Claire by Picasso. S.l. Rougerie, [1952]. - In-4, 319 x 240 : 31 pp. in sheets, filled cover. First edition printed in an edition of 865 copies, illustrated with a full-page drawing by Pablo Picasso, depicting a portrait of Claude Roy accompanied by Claire Vervin. One of 600 copies on 125-gram afnor VII vellum, this one given to Albert and Germaine Memmi, bearing this autograph signed letter from the author on Picasso's drawing, in Claude Roy's hand: For Albert and Germaine // Memmi // the hand of their friend // Claude Roy Soiling to cover.

Estim. 3 000 - 4 000 EUR

Lot 124 - PICASSO (Pablo). Carnet de la Californie. Introduction by Georges Boudaille. Paris : Cercle d'Art, 1959. - Carnet in-4, 421 x 270 and brochure in-8 oblong, 210 x 249: (25 ff.), printed cover (carnet) and 13 pp. (1 f.), for the brochure. Spiral-bound notebook and stapled brochure, in publisher's illustrated cloth folder. First edition of this album, "an exact facsimile of the sketchbook on which Picasso worked from November 1, 1955 to January 14, 1956. Under the same cardboard cover as the notebook he bought, twenty-five sheets of the same thickness are joined together by a similar spiral binding. On each sheet, everything drawn by Picasso's hand has been reproduced with the extreme fidelity permitted by the most modern reproduction processes and the zeal of the best lithographers" (Introduction). The work was published simultaneously in France, Germany, Italy and the United States. This one (no. 1167) is one of 1,400 copies reserved for France, numbered from 101 to 1,500. A very well preserved copy, complete with Georges Boudaille's introduction, which is sometimes missing. Spine of slipcase slightly browned, wear to covers, one corner damaged.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 125 - PICASSO (Pablo) - DELGADO Y GÁLVEZ (José). La Tauromaquia o arte de torear. Obra utilisima para los toreros de profesion, para los aficionados y para toda clase de sujetos que gusten de toros por José Delgado alias Pepe Illo. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1959. - Oblong folio, 350 x 500: (2 blank ff.), 142 pp. (3 last blank ff.), 26 plates, illustrated cover. In sheets, parchment-covered cardboard folder and case with yellow cloth boards and parchment edges. Cramer, no. 100. Beautiful and highly sought-after edition of the famous and monumental treatise on bullfighting by 18th-century Spanish bullfighter José Delgado y Gálvez (1754-1801), known as Pepe Illo or Hillo, illustrated with a drypoint on the cover and 26 original, unsigned out-of-text sugar aquatints by Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973). "This book had been commissioned by Gustavo Gili père in 1927 for his bibliophile collection "Ediciones de la Cometa" (...) Picasso had done some engravings (...); Henry de Montherlant wrote a preface; then the wars, in Spain and elsewhere, put an end to the project. Then, in 1956, Gustavo Gili fils reminded Picasso of the project. In the spring of 1957, in Cannes, a few days after the Easter bullfight he had attended in Arles, Picasso drew this light-and-shadow shorthand of a bullfight in copper, creating a modern counterpart to Goya's "La Tauromaquia" (1815). The 26 aquatints accompany the text of what was, in 1796, the first manual for bullfighters and "aficionados"; its author, the famous bullfighter Pepe Illo" (Cramer). This edition was printed in an edition of 263 numbered copies on Guarro vellum, watermarked with a bull's head motif designed by Picasso. This is one of 200 numbered from 31 to 250, and does not bear the artist's signature, but as Cramer explains: "The "achever d'imprimer" mistakenly states that all copies are signed in pencil by the artist, whereas a certain number are not. Copy complete with the two brochures announcing the publication of the work, one containing reproductions of the 26 aquatints, the second, entitled La Cometa, with an introductory text in Spanish. A perfectly preserved copy, in spite of a few rare foxing marks, as is almost always the case, notably on the false title. Some foxing to the plate entitled La Cometa.

Estim. 30 000 - 35 000 EUR

Lot 126 - PICASSO (Pablo) - SABARTÉS (Jaime). A Los toros with Picasso. Monte-Carlo: André Sauret, [1961]. - In-4 oblong, 245 x 318 : 153 pp, (1 blank f.). Illustrated gray cloth boards and publisher's illustrated red card slipcase. Cramer, no. 113. Very fine work by André Sauret, printed by Draeger frères and comprising 103 reproductions in black of works by Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) around the theme of bullfighting and 4 ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHIES created especially for the book by the artist, included in the pagination, including 3 in black and one in color, printed by Mourlot frères. Accompanied by a text by Jaime Sabartés printed in red. A very well preserved copy, despite an edge of the slipcase that has been damaged.

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 127 - [MAGAZINE] - BEHIND THE MIRROR. Derrière le miroir. Paris: Pierre à feu, [then] Maeght, 1948-1981. - 35 folio issues, in sheets. Collection of 26 first-edition issues of "Derrière le miroir": - N° 7, February 1948, Jean Villeri. - N° 8, March 1948, Jean Peyrissac. - N° 9, April 1948, Pierre Pallut. - N° 31, July 1950, Calder. - N° 32, October 1950, Les Mains éblouies. - N° 33, November 1950, Arp (horizontal center fold, spine fold torn). - N° 34, December 1950, Raoul Ubac. - N° 42, November-December 1951. Kandisky 1900 1910 (tears to spine and edges of cover. Attached newspaper clippings and anonymous manuscripts). - N° 43, February 1952, Bram van Velde. - N° 48-49, June-July 1952, G. Braque (slight foxing on edges of cover). - N° 50, October 1952, "Tendance octobre 1952". - N° 52, February 1953, Lam. - Other copy of no. 52 (spine browned). - N° 53-54, March-April 1953, Steinberg (tears and stains on cover). - N° 101-102-103, September, October and November 1957, Kandinsky. - N° 138, May 1963, "Georges Braque Papiers collés 1912-1914" (tears to spine and edge of cover). - N° 154, November 1965, "Kandinsky. Bauhaus de Dessau 1927-1933" (tears to spine). - N° 166, June 1967, "G. Braque. Derniers messages" (tears on spine). - N° 195, December 1971, (multiple artists) (tears on spine, one corner bent). - N° 205, September 1973, Steinberg 1973. - N° 216, November 1975, Bram van Velde. - N° 231, November 1978, Miró. - N° 223, March 1977, Arakawa (autograph signed letter from the artist, in Japanese, on back cover). - N° 236, December 1979, Kienholz (small tear at spine ends). - N° 245, May 1981, "Noguchi, Granits, basaltes, obsidians" (slight foxing on front cover). - N° 247, (October 1981, Alechinsky (foxing on cover). The following 9 second-edition issues are enclosed: - N°1, [December 1946], "Le Noir est une couleur". - N° 2, [February-March 1947], "Sur 4 murs 1947". - N° 3, [April-May 1947], Rigaud. - N° 5, [October 1947], "Les Mains éblouies". - N° 6, [November 1947], "Baya Exhibition". - N° 10, [May 1948], E. Béothy. - N° 11-12, [June 1948], Bram and Geer van Velde. - N° 13, [1948], Germaine Richier. - N° 32, [October 1950], "Les Mains éblouies".

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 128 - ROUAULT (Georges) - SUARÈS (André). Passion. Paris : Ambroise Vollard, 1939. - In-folio, 440 x 340: (4 ff. first 2 blanks), 143 pp. (8 ff. last 2 blanks), 17 plates. In sheets, filled cover. First edition of this vast poetic work by André Suarès, printed in an edition of 270 copies on Montval laid paper. One of the great modern illustrated books, it is adorned with 99 compositions by Georges ROUAULT (1871-1958), including 17 original aquatints in color out of text, and 82 woodcuts drawn by the artist and engraved by Georges Aubert, including one on the cover, one on the title, 25 at the head of a chapter, 18 in the cul-de-lampe, and 37 full-page woodcuts. Copy 183, one of 245 numbered in Arabic numerals. It is complete with the table of hors-texts, in which the subjects engraved in black by Rouault are reproduced on a double sheet. A very well preserved copy. Minor light spotting on the upper cover.

Estim. 6 000 - 8 000 EUR

Lot 129 - SAUVAGE (Sylvain) - LA FONTAINE (Jean de). Five tales in verse. With figures by the wise Y. A. Suliwan, engraved by Brother André. [S.l.: chez l'artiste], 1931. - In-8, 251 x 185: (4 ff. first 2 blanks), 143 pp. (4 ff. last 3 blanks), illustrated cover. Dark-green morocco, multiple gilt and cold-stamped fillets framing the boards, ornate ribbed spine, framed by two wide bands of dark-green and light-green morocco inside, decorated with gilt and cold-stamped fillets, and in addition with a gilt fleuron at the corners of the light-green morocco frame, dark-green moiré silk lining and endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, lined slipcase (Huser). A very rare edition of one of the finest works illustrated by Sylvain SAUVAGE (1888-1948). The book contains 5 tales by La Fontaine: Joconde. - La Fiancée du roi de Garbe. - Le Faiseur d'oreilles et le raccommodeur de moules. - La Gageure des trois commères. - Les Cordeliers de Catalogne. The illustrator, under the pseudonyms Y. A. Sulliwan and Brother André, created 97 color compositions, most of them erotic, including 26 etchings. This edition was printed in a limited edition of 56 numbered copies on japon à la forme paper. A very fine copy bound by Huser, with the original signed drawing of the vignette on page 103. Spine slightly faded. Provenance: Unidentified red Japanese seals.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 130 - SCHMIED (François-Louis) - KIPLING (Rudyard). Kim. Translated by Louis Fabulet and Ch. Fountaine-Walker. Lausanne: Gonin et Cie, [1930]. - 3 volumes in-4, 306 x 247: frontispiece, 267 pp, (4 ff. first and 2 last blank), 8 plates, illustrated cover; (2 blank ff.), 263 pp, (4 ff. first and last blank), 6 plates, illustrated cover. Red morocco, boards entirely covered with a geometrical and symmetrical decoration, distinct for each binding, composed of gilt and black fillets as well as mosaic motifs in black and white morocco, smooth spine decorated with diamond-shaped motifs in gilt and black morocco, framed in red morocco decorated with circular motifs in black morocco and gilt on the inside, red moiré silk lining and endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, lined slipcase (R. Laurent). A brilliant edition of 160 copies on japon paper, illustrated with 57 superb color compositions by François-Louis SCHMIED (1873-1941), including 1 frontispiece, 15 chapter headings, 15 lettering, 11 culs-de-lampe, 1 colophon vignette and 14 plates. The hors-texts and chapter headings bear the artist's printed signature. Copy no. 39, signed by the publisher on the justification, one of 30 with a double suite of engravings, in black on vellum and in color on japon. This double suite has been bound in a separate third volume. The frontispiece and second headband are in a single state on japon. PRECIOUS EXEMPLAIRE BINDED IN THE EPOQUE BY RENÉ LAURENT, a Belgian bookbinder who was a pupil of Charles de Samblanx. These bindings are decorated in the purest Art Deco style, with great elegance and perfect execution. Each binding has a very similar but distinct composition in the center. Designed for the famous Belgian bibliophile General Jacques Willems (1879-1937), president of the Société des Bibliophiles et Iconophiles de Belgique. It is enriched with the following items. Text volumes : - ORIGINAL GOUACHE BY SCHMIED, signed and dedicated in pencil: "pour Kim // à Monsieur le général Willems // en attachement respectueux // F. L. Schmied." - L.A.S. from Schmied to Jacques Willems, two pages in-8, with particular reference to the original composition mentioned above: "I have just finished your two watercolors. The one intended for "Kim", depicting a Tibetan city as I imagine it, is, I believe, one of my best creations." - One of 160 suites on japon nacré of the 15 additional plates drawn and engraved by François-Louis Schmied. - Color state of 8 of the 15 chapter headings, including 2 on japon nacré and one with the handwritten note "1er essai". - A color proof on japon nacré of plate XIII. Volume of suites: - Suite no. 7 of 15 additional plates in double state, black on vellum and in color on Japon nacré. - Color decomposition on japon for plate IX of this suite. A perfectly preserved copy. Provenance : Jacques Willems.

Estim. 6 000 - 8 000 EUR

Lot 131 - SCHMIED (François-Louis) - MARDRUS (Jean Charles). Ruth and Booz. Literal translation of the Semitic texts by Doctor J. C. Mardrus. Paris: F. L. Schmied, 1930. - In-4, 355 x 285: (38 ff. 3 first and 2 last blank), mute cover. Leaves, filled cover, publisher's folder and slipcase. Very fine edition illustrated with 28 mid-page compositions by François-Louis SCHMIED (1873-1941), wood-engraved in color and printed, like the text, under the direction of his son Théo Schmied. Edition of 172 copies signed by François-Louis Schmied at the justification. This is one of 155 on Madagascar. A very well preserved copy, despite some rare spotting and traces of wetness on the slipcase covers.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 132 - SCHMIED (François-Louis) - ESCHYLE. Prométhée enchaîné. Paris: Société des Médecins Bibliophiles, 1941. - In-4, 330 x 257: (2 blank ff.), 107 pp. (4 last blank ff.), illustrated cover. Leaves, filled cover, publisher's folder and slipcase. Edition of Prométhée enchaîné in the translation by Paul Mazon, illustrated with 39 compositions by François-Louis SCHMIED (1873-1941) woodcut by his son Théo, including the mark of the Société des Médecins bibliophiles at the head, 17 full-page figures, 20 in the text and the ornament on page 111. This was the last work by François-Louis Schmied, who died on January 19, 1941. The edition will be printed in the spring of this year. Limited edition of 150 copies on Arches wove paper. This one bears the number 101, which does not correspond to what is indicated in the justification where it is written that only the first 100 were numbered in Arabic numerals. It was specially printed for Dr. C. Lepoutre. A separate copy, in a publisher's cardboard folder, with an ORIGINAL GOUACHE signed by François Louis Schmied for the illustration on page 60, and two rare suites of illustrations on japon, one in color, signed by Théo Schmied on the first engraving, and the other in black, unsigned. Some proofs are on japon nacré. A very well preserved copy. Provenance : Doctor C. Lepoutre, with ex-libris and mention in the justification.

Estim. 2 500 - 3 500 EUR

Lot 133 - SILVESTRE (Charles). Le Voyage rustique. [Paris]: Société de Saint-Éloy, 1932. - In-4, 282 x 197: (4 ff. first 2 blank), 270 pp. (3 ff. last 2 blank), printed cover. Brown morocco, mosaic grapes and grape leaves framed on first board, mosaic grape leaves in center of second board, smooth spine decorated with mosaic grapes and grape leaves, brown morocco framing inside, decorated with an olive morocco scroll between two black fillets, The corners are trimmed with an olive morocco square, with curved edges and a red morocco rose in the center, brocaded silk lining and endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, brown morocco spine folder and flap bands, lined slipcase (Charles Lanoé). First illustrated edition, published by the Société de Saint-Éloy, printed in an edition of 128 numbered copies on Arches wove paper. It is decorated with 49 original etchings, including a title vignette, 16 chapter headings, 16 in-text compositions and 16 culs-de-lampe, by 16 member artists, namely: Charles JOUAS, André DAUCHEZ, Georges GOBÔ, Paul-Adrien BOUROUX, Eugène VEDER, Tigrane POLAT, Auguste BROUET, Henry CHEFFER, Pierre GUSMAN, Georges JEANNIOT, Edgar CHAHINE, Charles HALLO, Louis WILLAUME, Georges LE MEILLEUR, Amédée FÉAU and Albert DECARIS. Copy no. 45, specially printed for Albert Sancholle-Henraux (1881-1953), art lover, president of the Société des Amis du Louvre, curator of the Musée Condé in Chantilly and president of the Conseil artistique de la Réunion des musées nationaux. A superb copy in a mosaic binding by Charles Lanoé. Some very rare freckling. Provenance: Albert Sancholle-Henraux.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 134 - THOMAS (Auguste-Henri) - BARRÈS (Maurice). En Italie. Paris : Auguste Blaizot, René Kieffer, 1911. - Large in-8, 276 x 207: frontispiece, 136 pp, (2 ff.), 11 plates, illustrated cover. Havana morocco, boards decorated with rich, identical and symmetrical decoration by P. Soudée, comprising curved bands of havana, green, black and blue morocco, underlined by roulettes of gilded dots or fillets, bordered in the lower corner by a cold plate, and incorporating in the center an Italian landscape mosaic of black, orange, havana and old rose morocco, and on the upper part the design of a female bust in small vertical cold-stamped fillets on a gilt background, ornate smooth spine, printed silk lining, decorated with an illustration by Thomas, black and gold brocaded silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (René Kieffer et P. Soudée). Edition of 250 copies on Rives vellum in the "Collection éclectique", illustrated with 23 original color etchings by Belgian painter and engraver Auguste-Henri THOMAS (1878-1924), including 12 hors texte and 11 at the head of chapters, and numerous vignettes and ornaments by the same artist. ONE OF 20 FIRST EDITIONS containing 3 states of the etchings, the suite of vignettes in separate edition and ONE ORIGINAL AQUARELLE signed by the illustrator. The latter depicts an exterior view of the Villa Doria Pamphilj in Rome. A superb copy in a binding by René Kieffer, with mosaic decoration on the boards by Pierre Soudée. Signed bindings by Soudée are very rare. He took part in the book arts exhibition at the Musée Galliéra in February-March 1925, alongside such great bookbinders as René Kieffer, Blanchetière, Canape, Frany, Paul Bonet, Louise-Denise Germain and Marius Michel. He exhibited in the "Reliures" category in the section devoted to advertising. His bindings were described as "curious and original", and he usually signed them "artisan relieur, doreur, décorateur". A very well preserved copy, despite a scratch on the gilt on the top of the first cover. Scattered foxing.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 135 - VAN DONGEN (Kees) - FRANCE (Anatole). La Révolte des anges. Paris: Scripta et Picta, 1951. - 2 in-4 volumes, one with plate, 361 x 272: (1 blank f.), 220 pp, (5 last blank ff.), illustrated cover. Blue morocco chagrin, book title in gilt lettering on first board, untrimmed smooth spine, cover and spine retained for text volume; blue morocco chagrin spine folder with overlapping bands for suite volume, common slipcase (V. Déro). Superb edition by Dr. A. Roudinesco, printed in an edition of 225 copies on Lana vellum plus a few nominative copies, illustrated with 58 original color lithographs by the painter Kees VAN DONGEN (1877-1968). A precious copy, specially printed for Luc Roudinesco, enriched in a separate volume with a 48-leaf proof of the book, a rejected plate in black, and a double suite in black and in color on Lana vellum of all the illustrations. A perfectly preserved copy, in an elegant and sober binding by Véronique Déro.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 136 - VAN DONGEN (Kees) - VOLTAIRE. La Princesse de Babylone. Paris: Scripta et Picta, 1948. - In-folio, 333 x 238: 121 pp, (3 ff. last 2 blank), illustrated cover. Ivory morocco, boards richly decorated with interlaced and mosaic gilt loops in red and dark blue morocco, surrounding several dark green morocco lozenges, smooth spine decorated in the same spirit, edge-to-edge lining and green box endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, spine folder with dark blue morocco flap bands, lined slipcase (Georges Cretté). Superb edition prepared by Dr. A. Roudinesco for the "Scripta et Picta" group of bibliophiles and art lovers, in an edition of 198 copies. It is illustrated with 71 original color lithographs by the painter Kees VAN DONGEN (1877-1968), printed on the Mourlot frères presses, including 22 letterplates, a frontispiece, a title vignette and 47 compositions in the text. One of a few nominative copies reserved for key contributors, this one SPECIAL PRINT FOR DOCTOR ROUDINESCO, on Lana vellum, ENRICHED WITH A TRIPLE SUITE OF LITHOGRAPHS, in black, in color and in black on China paper. A superb copy in a triple binding by Georges Cretté. Spine of folder and book slightly faded, otherwise a perfectly preserved copy. Provenance : Docteur Roudinesco.

Estim. 10 000 - 15 000 EUR

Lot 137 - VAN DONGEN (Kees) - VOLTAIRE. La Princesse de Babylone. Paris: Scripta et Picta, 1948. - In-folio, 340 x 241: 121 pp, (3 ff. last 2 blank), illustrated cover. Leaves, publisher's folder and slipcase. Same edition as previous issue. One of 186 copies on Lana vellum, THIS ONE BEARING NUMBER 1, very well preserved. Spine of dust jacket faded.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 138 - VILLERS (André) - BUTOR (Michel). Pliages d'ombres. S.l., [1977]. - In-plano, 505 x 408 : (3 ff.), 5 photographs. Leaves, publisher's cardboard slipcase. Very rare first edition of Michel Butor's poem, accompanied by 5 large original photographs by André VILLERS (1930-2016), all numbered and signed by the photographer on the verso. Villers was a close friend of Pablo Picasso, with whom he published Diurnes in 1962. Having made numerous portraits of artists and writers, he was quick to experiment with other ways of doing photography. This book is the fruit of one of these experiments, and includes 5 photographs made from tracing or cigarette paper, folded, burned and used in negative. They are accompanied by a poem by Michel Butor, whom the artist met in 1972 through the painter Cesare Peverelli, and whose first collaboration this is. Limited edition of 95 copies on Arches vellum, numbered and signed by the author and photographer at the justification. This is one of the first 20 copies with an original pastel signed by André Villers. A very well preserved copy.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 139 - VILLON (Jacques) - VALÉRY (Paul). Les Bucoliques de Virgile. Paris: Scripta & Picta, 1953. - One volume in-4, 376 x 278: XXX pp., (1 f.), 126 pp., (5 ff.), printed cover; and 2 volumes large oblong in-folio for the sequels. Blue box covered on boards and spines with a geometrical composition of grey, pink, green, salmon, beige, light blue, light green and mustard box pieces, distinguishable by the letter V on the first board, smooth spine, violet suede lining and endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, folder with blue box spine and cover bands, lined slipcase; the two volumes of suites are bound in blue half-box with bands and slipcase for one, and in yellow half-buffle with bands and slipcase for the other (A. Lobstein 1990, the half-buffle binding is unsigned). First edition of Paul Valéry's translation, placed opposite the Latin text. It is illustrated with 43 original color lithographs by the painter Jacques VILLON (1875-1963). As stated in the colophon: "This work was written by Paul Valéry during the years 1942-1944 for the "Scripta et Picta" Society to make a beautiful book. This book was compiled by Doctor A. Roudinesco. The images were drawn on stone in color by Jacques Villon, who engraved each color on a different stone in his own hand. Three hundred and twenty stones were used. The lithographs were printed by Célestin on Mourlot Frères presses." The print run was limited to 269 copies, plus a few nominative copies reserved for key contributors. This is one of those few nominative copies, here on japon, specially printed for Dr. A. Roudinesco, a great bibliophile and founder in 1935 of the publishing house "Scripta & Picta", which published this book. A superb copy in mosaic binding by Lobstein, enriched separately in two large oblong folio volumes with the following items: Volume in blue half-calf with bands: - tracing and enhanced proof signed by Villon, - japon nacré proof of the portrait of Paul Valéry and an illustration, signed by the artist and stamped "Épreuve d'exposition", - 13 original sketches and trial proofs, most signed, on various papers, - 1 signed exhibition proof of two lithographs on japon nacré, - 1 signed color proof on vellum of the lithograph on pages 46-47, in a different state from that used in the book, - 1 suite of signed color lithographs on Japon nacré, including 5 in two states, - 1 signed suite of black lithographs on Rives vellum, including 5 in two states. Yellow half-buffle binding with wide bands: - original drawing signed on tracing paper, study for the lithograph on pages 2-3, - 1 suite of signed color lithographs on Japon nacré, including 5 in two states, - 1 signed suite of black lithographs on Rives vellum, 5 of which in two states. The proof of the third plate corresponding to the lithograph on pages 2-3 is missing. In addition, framed separately, 7 original drawings, including 2 on tracing paper, and 3 watercolor proofs, namely: - Alexis. Ink and watercolor, signed lower right (250 x 510), - Alexis. One ink and watercolor drawing and two watercolor proofs, signed. - Tityre. Watercolor and gouache on engraved ground, signed (250 x 510), - Landscape. Ink signed and watercolor proof signed, - La ville. Ink signed, - Les Bucoliques. Two transfer tracings, inks, signed (accidents). Superb copy and rare set. Under the justification is Roudinesco's pencil signature, which was preceded by a small text in her hand, which has been erased.

Estim. 6 000 - 8 000 EUR

Lot 140 - VLAMINCK (Maurice de). Haute folie. Paris: Scripta & Picta, 1964. - Large in-4, 385 x 280: 154 pp, (3 ff. first and last blank), printed cover. In sheets, filled cover, publisher's folder and slipcase. Published by Dr. A. Roudinesco with the collaboration of Colonel Sicklès, illustrated with 48 original color lithographs by Maurice de VLAMINCK (1876-1958) and 40 lettering designs by Paul BONET (1889-1971). Edition of 260 copies on Arches vellum, plus a few copies on japon nacré reserved for key contributors. This is one of the few on Japon nacré, among those specially printed for Dr. Roudinesco. It is enhanced by three suites of Vlaminck's 48 original lithographs, one on japon nacré in color, a second on vélin de Rives in three tones, and a third on japon pelure in black. A perfectly preserved copy.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 141 - ZWORYKIN (Boris Vasilyevich) - PUCHKIN (Alexander). Boris Godounov. Paris : H. Piazza, [1927]. - In-8, 233 x 167: title, 135 pp. (4 ff. last three blank), 15 plates, printed cover. Paperback, filled cover, slipcase. Edition illustrated with 26 color compositions by Russian painter Boris Vasilyevich ZWORYKINE (1872-1942), including a title and 15 hors-texts. One of the first 180 numbered copies on imperial Japanese paper, this being one of 145 containing a black suite of hors-texts. A very well preserved copy, despite the slightly faded spine.

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

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