Sales catalogue 55: Martin Breslauer

Date:
1942
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/27/7
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 55: Martin Breslauer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    34 Is) 36 1 38 (DORAT, C.J.| Lettre de Barnevelt, dans son prison, 4 Truman, son ami, précédée d’une lettre de l’auteur. Nouvelle édition. Paris, Jorry, 1764. With 1 plate, 1 headpiece and 1 tailpiece by De Longueil after Eisen. Modern blue mor., gilt back, triple gold lines on sides, inside dentelles, g.e. £1 10s. Attractive copy, upper cover of binding neatly repaired in one place. — Lettre de Zéila, jeune sauvage, esclave a Constantinople, a Valcour, officier frangois > précédée d’une lettre 4 Madame de C***. Nouvelle édition. Paris, Jorry, 1764. With a plate, headpiece and tailpiece by De Longueil after Eisen. Modern blue morocco, gilt back, triple filet of gold lines on sides, inside dentelles, g.e., beautiful copy. £1 10s. FLAUBERT, G. The Complete Works. Embracing Romances, Travels, Comedies, Sketches and Correspondence. With a Critical Introduction by Ferdinand Brunetiére and a Biographical Preface by R. Arnot. 10 vols. New York, 1904. With ornamental title-pages, printed in gold and colours, 10 coloured frontispieces, and 26 engraved plates. 10 black morocco vols., richly gold tooled on backs and front covers, with initial ‘“‘ F’’ and other details of ornament painted in red and white. (St. Dunstan binding). £7 The edition de luxe (Mazarine edition), limited to 750 copies, with the pictorial titles and plates on Japanese paper. A MASTERPIECE OF MODERN CZECH BOOKBINDING. DORGELES, R. Montmartre mon Pays. With coloured plate and ills. by Zimmermann. Paris, 1928. Magnificently bound in Bordeaux crushed levant morocco, elaborately tooled in gold, silver and black and inlaid in olive morocco, to a modern geometrical design on the front cover; very fine gold and silver lettering on back, gold and silver toolings on lower cover, broad inlaid and gold and silver tooled inside morocco borders, and doublures and end- papers of Bordeaux watered silk, t.e.g., in case, signed L. Alexandrova. £17 10s. An impressive contemporary binding of a fine unusual design and executed with perfect mastery of the craft. Madame Alexandrova, a Czechoslovakian, is no doubt the foremost contemporary artistic bookbinder of her country, a distinction shared only by M. A. Jirout, her husband. Both were represented at the International Exhibition in Paris, 1937, by works of theirs and received the Grand Prix. The above volume was exhibited at an exhibition at Smith & Cie in Paris, and at the Exhibition of Czech Bibliophiles, in Prague, in 1932. FRENCH REVOLUTION. A collection of 10 political pamphlets published between 1781 and 1802, as detailed below, bound in one vol., calf gilt, lettered on back ‘ Jacobins,”’ edges gilt on the rough. £7 7s. An interesting collection of rare revolutionary satirical pamphlets]; only two of them were known to Barbier (Dictionn. des ouvrages anonymes) ; Camille Desmoulins’ Discours de la lanterne, perhaps the most remarkable of the pamphlets, appeared in three editions in the same year, our copy apparently belongs to the first edition. The volume contains the following pamphlets :— (Delaunay). Histoire d’un Pou frangois ; ou |’espion d’une nouvelle espéce tant en France qu’en Angleterre, contenant les portraits de personnages intéressans dans ces deux royaumes. 1781. (112 pp.). Description et vente curieuse des animaux féroces males et fémelles, de la ménagerie du cabinet d’histoire naturelle des ci-devant Jacobins. Imprimerie de Gaulemeriti. (16 pp.). Vision allégorique accompagnée de notes servant d’éclaircissemens. An XI (1802). (14 pp.). Testament de Desbrugnieres. N.D. (16 pp.). Priéres pour les Aristocrates agonisans, avec |’office des morts et les litanies de la lanterne. Paris, |’Imprimérie du Clergé, 1790. With engraved frontispiece ‘‘ Tombeau des Aristocrates.’’ (31 pp.). ears el poo a Discours de la Lanterne aux Parisiens. En France (Paris, Le Jay fils) l’an premier de la liberté. 1789). (62 pp.). été des anguilles de Melun ; et !a députation des grenouilles. 4 M.T... Député de l’Assemblée Nationale, qui a fait surseoir a l’abolition du Droit de Péche. N.p. (7 pp.). Le Bonnet rouge détréné par le bonnet vert. Dialogue. N.p. (14 pp.). ; Histoire naturelle, philosophique et politique des anes, traduite de I’Italien. 1789. (90 pp.). Pétition des Anes, au corps législatif de la République francaise. Relativement 4 la restauration des finances. N.D. BOUND FOR GASTON DE FRANCE, BROTHER OF LOUIS XIII. 40 41 Brevarium Latinum, MS. on paper, with 10 engravings by Messager, Mallery, Gaultier and Galle pasted in, ca. 1650. Folio. Contemporary brown morocco, gilt sides panelled and decorated all over with an intricate pattern of fleurs-de-lys, in centres monogram of Gaston de France, two interlaced “ G’s,’’ enclosed in a crowned shield in form of a heart, back richly decorated with a similar design, g.e. £38 An extremely beautiful and elaborate binding of a rare provenance. See Plate No. Y. KLEIST, HEINRICH VON. Der zerbrochene Krug. Ein Lustspiel. Berlin, Realschul- buchhandlung, 1811. Orig. wrappers, entirely uncut. £3 Rare first edition of one of the classic comedies in German literature, fine large copy. From the library of Count Thun-Hohenstein, with his library stamp on back of title-page. LESSING, G. E. Ein Vademecum fiir den Hrn. Sam. Gotth. Lange, Pastor in Laubingen. In diesem Taschenformate ausgefertigt. Berlin, 1754. 12mo. Contemp. marbled roan. £22 10s. Of extreme rarity ; only a very few copies are known to exist. This is the most famous of Lessing’s pamphlets and a masterpiece of its kind. Mr. H. B. Garland, in “ Lessing, the Founder of Modern German Literature ’’ (1937), writes about Lessing as scholar, pamphleteer and personality, as follows: ‘‘ Lessing’s passion for accuracy, his sanity and his clear and emphatic mode of writing make of him the perfect journalist... At the same time his journalistic gift came to the assistance of Lessing’s sound and precise knowledge in another field. If Lessing was the perfect journalist he was also the perfect scholar. He had the necessary thoroughness, breadth of reading and of view and the love of exactitude. But he had also the gift of making his subject alive... Lessing’s independence of mind, penetrative power, breadth of interest and freedom from prejudice make him the most admirable figure in the history of German thought and literature...’’ A fine copy, very reasonably priced in comparison with the prices of the two or three which have appeared in the market during the last 40 years.
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