Sales catalogue 526: Maggs Bros

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/81
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 526: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    French Literature and History—continued. 254 DES MURS (O.). Nouveau Recueil Cénéral de Planches Peintes d’Oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enlu- minées de Buffon, etc. Et aux planches coloriées de MM. Temminck et Laugier de Chartrouse, mémes formats, accompagné d’un texte raisonné, critique et descriptif. With 72 large plates in colours, of birds, designed and painted by Oudard (Painter attaché au Muséum a’ Histoire naturelle de Paris). 4to, half morocco, t. é. g. Paris, Friedrich Klincksieck, 1849. — £9 9s 255 DESPERIERS (B.). Nouvelles Récréations et Joyeux Devis. Avec une Notice, des Notes et un Glossaire par Louis Lacour. One of 30 copies printed on ‘‘ Papier de Chine.” 2 vols., 8vo, half blue morocco, t.e. g. Paris, Jouaust, 1874. £5 18s 2560 FLAUBERT (Gustave). Madame Bovary, moeurs de Province. With twelve plates after Albert Fourié, engraved by E. Abot et D. Mordant. Royal 8vo, half board. Paris, A. Quantin, 1885. 17s 6d 257 FLORE (Jeanne). Comptes Amoureux . . . touchant la punition de ceux qui contemnent et mesprisent le vray Amour. With small woodcut vignette of Psyche on title. 16mo, polished calf gilt lines on sides and back, inside dentelles. Lyon, Benotst Rigaud, 1574. £25 Longchamp (II, p. 165) cites an edition of this date @ la marque d’Icarus. Baudrier, Bibliographie Lyonnaise, III, p. 301. Brunet, IJ, 1295. The seven comptes, sup- posed to be related by as many neighbours of Jeanne Flore, are all based on love episodes from the classics and mythology, and are collected for the delectation of ‘* young ladies who loyally serve true love.’’ 258 FLORIAN (J. P. ce). Oeuvres. With engraved portrait of the author and several plates in two states. 16 vols., small 8vo, laght calf. Paris, 1820. £21 With a ten-line autograph inscription on an attached sheet inside cover, signed by the author. N.D.
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