•  Martin & Walter, II, 13122.   Folded as issued. Title-page with paper shelving label in lower inner corner, touching three letters without obscuring sense, and with pencilled monogram in upper outer corner. Page edges uncut, slightly ragged.  (30835)

This isnumbered copy 71 of 1250 for sale in England.

Binding: Special signed binding of brown morocco, covers with leather bird inlays and gilt-stamped line of falling leaves, spine with blind-stamped leather title and author labels between raised bands. The back pastedown bears a blind-stamped omega, dated 1955.

•  Binding as above, corners and joints lightly rubbed. Inside, fresh and clean. An elegant volume.  (33519)

At the top of the first page: “Convention Nationale.”

WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only four U.S. institutional holdings.

•  Removed from a nonce volume, first page with paper shelving label and pencilled initials in upper corners. Resewn. Scattered light spotting.  (35411)

•  Evans 36517. Recent cloth. Released from the New Hampshire Historical Society with its bookplate and one small, inoffensive rubber-stamped number in the upper margin of page 1. No other markings. Stray stains (last third). A crisp copy.  (2930)

two trumpet-blowing angels and a flaming fleur-de-lis

WorldCat locates only three U.S. institutional holdings. This is an uncut, unbound copy.

•  Uncut, inner margin with two stab marks. First page with inked Dewey decimal call number in lower inner corner. Untrimmed edges ragged, with two short tears extending inwards from outer margin, not touching text. Slightly age-toned, otherwise clean.  (33245)

•  Not in Palau. Disbound from a volume of pamphlets, but in very good condition.  (4751)

The binding is full blue linen stamped in gold on the spine and front cover, with additional ornamentation to both covers in deep pink. Top edges are gilt, others deckle; one leaf is left unopened.

•  Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 49.   Binding as above; spine sunned and with thumbnail sized dark patch at head and foot. Some cracking along the top edges and spine of the slipcase, which is still sturdy; spine of case sunned, paper label a little soiled. Pages clean; no ownership markings or labels. A very good, clean copy.  (22313)

•  Near-contemporary quarter red morocco with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; edges and extremities rubbed, front cover and joint with small scuffs. Original wrappers not present here. Pages very slightly age-toned, otherwise clean.  (33470)

•  Publisher's elaborately blind-embossed and gilt-stamped deep blue paper in imitation of leather; spine chipped and worn at tips with some loss of paper to covers (notably at bottom front corner).  (8004)

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, COPAC, and KVK find only one copy of the almanac and one of the New Testament, bound together. They are in the Württembergische Landesbibliothek. However Chambers lists five copies in addition to that one, including one at the National Library of Scotland that is not findable via COPAC.

Provenance:  The Howell Bible Collection, Pacific School of Religion (properly released).

•  Van Eys, Bibles French, pt. II, 118; Chambers, French Bibles, 340; not in Darlow & Moule.   Bound as above, rebacked, with gentle rubbing. Light general age-toning with this greater at edges, Bible title-page lacking; two early leaves darkened and one repaired, some leaves closely trimmed touching captions or with loss of a letter or two from marginal notes, two leaves with short tears and three each with a small spot. Ex-library as above: pencilling on endpapers, five-digit acquisition stamp and call number on title-page verso, booklabel at back. A compact and dare it be said “darling” book.  (36407)

•  Contemporary mottled calf, round spine without raised bands, gilt spine extra, marbled endpapers, all edges red; some leather abraded from covers and a very little from the spine's base, lacking spine label once reading “MELANGE” (and this now blind-embossed in that compartment). Light age-toning; bookplate as above.  (36671)

Provenance:  The Pacific School of Religion (properly released).

•  Adams F1066; Grässe, II, 638; Brunet, II, 1405.   18th-century calf with modest gilt triple rule border on boards, rebacked and forecorners of the boards restored; new endpapers. Oval library stamp (as above) on title-page and in the margins of a few text pages only; stamping is minimal. Fore- and bottom margins with old, light dampstaining; upper margins of a few leaves with a small semicircular brown stain; otherwise, an occasional spot or smudge only. Overall, a rather good copy of a standard and still important workhandsomely printed by the royal printer.  (36777)

The volume opens with acopper-engraved frontispiece done by Harrewyn, featuring a satyr and a jester in addition to muses crowning Furetière with a laurel wreath; the title-page is printed in red and black, and the text is ornamented with two woodcut headpieces, two tailpieces, and two decorative capitals. This nicely printed edition is not widely held in the United States; WorldCat locatesonly four American institutional holdings and these perhaps unexpected ones, with no holdings added by NUC Pre-1956.

•  This edition not in Brunet.   Contemporary speckled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped floral decorations in compartments, board edges with gilt roll; worn and rubbed, leather lost at extremities, front joint cracked and back joint starting (sewing holding). All edges speckled red and brown. Front pastedown and free endpaper with modern collector's inscriptions, front pastedown with early inked numerals and later pencilled annotations; one obscured name in text annotated in pencil in the margin. Pages gently age-toned with occasional tiny spots of foxing. Externally worn, interior beautifully preserving the author's irrepressible, biting wit.  (36242)

Binding:  In the style of a percaline mosaïquée, but the gilt and mosaic are applied to a textured pebbled cloth. Spine gilt extra with added “mosaic” of green, white, red and blue. Front cover with a blind-stamped border incorporating elegant corner-pieces; within this, “Souvenir de Versailles” gilt-stamped in an arc above a large on-laid crowned coat of arms flanked by banners and flags, this embellished in gilt with rich use of blue, white, red, blue, and green. Rear cover with similar blind-stamped border and a different large gilt-stamped center device strikingly incorporating an on-lay of blue stamped in gilt with a military medal. All edges gilt.

•  On this type of binding, see: Morris & Levin, The Art of Publishers' Bookbindings, pp. 94–97.   Binding as above, rubbed to the underlying boards at the corners of the boards and top of spine slightly pulled with one bit of rubbing. Scattered pale brown stains mostly on interleaves and sometimes visible on versos of plates; some discoloration in some margins of plates and occasionally into one; overwhelmingly a clean copy, remarkably bright and unfoxed. A strong and nice example of this category of “souvenir” and of a gilt mosaic binding.  (30464)

Uncommon: WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only three U.S. institutional holdings. There seems to have been a 36-page variant of the same year, which is also uncommon.

•  Martin & Walter, II, 15045.   Never bound, simply sewn as issued. Title-page with affixed paper shelving label in lower inner corner (not touching text) and with pencilled monogram in upper outer corner. Signatures unopened, page edges untrimmed. Pages slightly age-toned and/or dust-soiled, title-page with light spotting.  (30815)

•  Original printed wrappers; dusty, with chipping, and front one now separated. Paper lost at top of spine along front joint. The whole, fragile and wanting to separate between signatures. (Our interior image tends a bit to pink tone that is not actually present, FYI.) Now housed in a simple acid-free phase box.  (4701)

The little volume also offers astriking wood-engraved frontispiece in orange and black by Jean Gabriel Daragnès (1886–1950) who additionally provided the wood-engraved headpieces, and the colophon notes the item was printed by Ducros, Lefèvre, & Colas.

•  Red and black printed cream wrappers, gently worn around edges; light age-toning with a few occasional spots, frontispiece offset onto title-page. A very nice copy.  (36392)

•  Martin & Walter 15618. Removed from a nonce volume; sewing holes present but stitching perished; gatherings now loose. Page edges untrimmed. Half-title lacking, title-page with paper shelving label in lower inner corner and inked numeral, old pencilling, and a light ink-smear. Pages age-toned with occasional small spots of mild staining or foxing; one word corrected in text in old ink.  (32622)

Uncommon:  WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only four U.S. institutional holdings.

•  Folded as issued, never sewn; outermost signature chipped at spine. First page with paper shelving label, not touching text, and with pencilled monogram in upper outer corner. Mild to moderate foxing.  (30820)

•  Removed from a nonce volume. Pages lightly creased but clean.  (27789)

Uncommon: WorldCat, ESTC, and NUC Pre-1956 locate only three U.S. institutional holdings.

•  ESTC T38592.   Simply sewn in later plain deep blue paper wrappers, back wrapper lacking, front wrapper with paper shelving label in lower inner corner and pencilled date and monogram. Title-page with monogram likewise. Page edges untrimmed; pages slightly age-toned, otherwise clean.  (30877)

Binding:  Contemporary mottled calf, front cover with elaborate gilt-stamped EC monogram and coronet, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt compartment decorations. Marbled endpapers and all edges marbled; original silk bookmark present and intact.

•  DeBacker-Sommervogel, IV, 860. Brunet gives only the Hague edition of the same year.   Binding as above, leather scuffed and rubbed with spine head chipped yet gilt still bright. Pages gently age-toned and cockled, with some offsetting front and rear from the binding and scattered small spots of foxing; a few corners bumped. A handsome volume and an interesting 18th-century perspective on the near-mythic rebel queen.  (36250)

Uncommon: WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only two U.S. institutional holdings.

•  Martin & Walter, II, 16531.   Folded as issued, page edges untrimmed. First page with paper shelving label in lower inner corner, barely touching but not obscuring five letters. Pages age-toned and dust-soiled, with a few faint spots.  (30880)

The listings are augmented in the first three volumes by numerous in-text reproductions of illustrations and title-pages from the books. This copy includesauction prices neatly inked alongside every book.

•  Contemporary treed sheep, spines with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels and gilt-ruled bands; sides showing minor rubbing, edges, joints, and extremities moreso. All hinges (inside) cracked or tender, some endpapers with pencilled notations. Vol. I: Two pages with light offsetting from now-absent item, one leaf with lower outer corner torn away. Vol. IV with bookplate of Alvaro de Fontagud y Aguilera. Pages gently age-toned, most noticeably in vol. IV, with occasional light smudges; each volume with last page browned.  (29161)

Provenance:  Ex–Allyn K. Ford Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, recently deaccessioned.

•  Written in a clear hand. In very good condition.  (33763)

The pamphlet is rather nicely printed, with an engraved title-page vignette, one headpiece, and footnotes set in small but neat and attractive type. WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only eight U.S. institutional holdings.

•  Martin & Walter 16971.   Removed from a nonce volume; title-page with affixed paper shelving label in lower inner corner, not touching text. Faint spotting throughout. An impassioned expression of horror and dismay.  (30682)