Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Gavarni. Les Parures. Fantaisie. Histoire de la Mode par le Conte Foelix. – (And:) Les Joyaux. Fantaisie. Mineralogie des Dames par le Conte Foelix. 2 vols.

With 2 engr. frontispieces (repeated, 1 coloured) and 32 plates in total. Half title, title, 300 pp.; half title, title, 316 pp. 4to. Contemp. half calf (rubbed, upper spine end of vol. I defective). – Paris, G. de Gonet, n. d. (1850).

„Perles et Parures“. First edition. The plates after Gavarni, text by Méry. Printed by Lacour et Comp. and distributed by Martinon and Veuve Luis Janet, both in Paris, and by Charles Twietmeyer in Leipzig. Conte Foelix est le pseudonyme pour Louis-François Raban (1795–1870). Usually there is only one frontispiece for both volumes, here both volumes are fitted out with the frontispiece, one loosely inserted. – Brivois 318f.; Sander 468 and 469. – Inner joints and top end of spine of the „Parures“ volume restored. Some foxing in parts. Good and uncut copies in all. – Best.-Nr. 16829