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Le Drageoir aux épices BROUET. – Huysmans, J(oris)-K(arl).
Le Drageoir aux épices.

. Brouet, Auguste. Le Drageoir aux épices.

With 54 orig. etchings by Auguste Brouet. 172, (4) pp. 4to. Full dark morocco with inlaid decoration on both boards, spine with labels, gilt. Top edge gilt. Double flyleaves, one in green cloth, the other one in marbled paper. Orig. printed wrappers bound-in. In slipcase.(Paris, Les graveurs modernes, 1929).

„Graveurs modernes“, no. 1. One of 14 artist copies on different papers, marked „exemplaire d’artiste“ besides a total limited trade edition of 200. This copy with four additional „planches libres“ which were not published in the ordinary part of the book. – Vicaire IV, 211 (“Belle publication cotée“). – Exlibris on second flyleaf. – Best.-Nr. 18578

CHF 630.—
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Croquis Parisiens Huysmans, J(oris) K(arl).
Croquis Parisiens.

. Forain, Jean-Louis. Croquis Parisiens.

With 8 orig. etchings by Jean-Louis Forain (4) and Jean-François Raffaelli (4) on plates. 108 pp., 1 leaf. Large 8vo. Full red morocco, flat spine with gilt lettering, matching slipcase (by W. Hellwig & H. Peller). Orig. wrappers preserved (dusty).Paris, Henri Vaton, 1880.

First edition. One of 500 copies on Hollande. “These early etchings of Forain, though somewhat hasty in execution, have a freshness of approach and a spontaneity unusual in illustrations of this date” (Garvey). – Carteret IV, 211 („rare et recherché“); The Artist and the Book, 108; Guérin nos. 16-21 – Best.-Nr. 9060

CHF 750.—
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La Cathédrale Huysmans, J(oris)-K(arl).
La Cathédrale.

. La Cathédrale.

With engr. frontispiece by Eugène Delâtre and a colour illus. on vellum (parchemin églomisé) by Pierre Roche. 488 pp., 1 leaf impressum. 8vo. Contemp. green half morocco over 5 raised bands, spine and top edge gilt. Orig. printed wrappers bound in.Paris, P.-V. Stock, 1898.

Edition originale. One of 100 numbered copies on papier de Hollande after 21 on Japan and 10 on China paper. This one being no. 47 and printed for the bookseller Stock. Complete with both plates which were only added to the 131 luxury copies. The etching by Eugène Delâtre (1864–1938) shows a portrait of the author with a black cat on his neck. The Art Nouveau colour plate by Pierre Roche (1855–1922) shows the inside of a Gothic cathedral with a female figure in the centre. – Not in Vicaire. – Clean copy in a nice appropriate binding. The vellum of the frontispiece bent. – Best.-Nr. 20938

CHF 2500.—
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