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GRANDVILLE
Scenes from the private and public lives of animals. Paris, Hetzel and Paulin, 1842.2 volumes in-4, long-grained dark green half-marroquin with corners, spine decorated, untrimmed, cover and spine (Noulhac). Original edition.
Very beautiful illustration of Grandville, in first edition, including 2 frontispices, 199 plates out of text, 89 (49 + 40) vignettes in the text, including a large composition serving as a frame for page 1 of volume II, a vignette on each title, and 31 (17 + 14) small vignettes decorating
the table pages.
superb copy, luxuriously
bound by noulhac.
It has been
enriched with
:- a suite on china pasted with off-text (the plate opposite p. 380 in Volume I is in double proof on china, in first state and in later state with
a different
caption
). -
6
delivery
blankets
. -
the prospectus (4
pages).
André Sciama and Étienne Beauvillain libraries.
Scenes from the private and public lives of animals. Paris, Hetzel and Paulin, 1842.2 volumes in-4, long-grained dark green half-marroquin with corners, spine decorated, untrimmed, cover and spine (Noulhac). Original edition.
Very beautiful illustration of Grandville, in first edition, including 2 frontispices, 199 plates out of text, 89 (49 + 40) vignettes in the text, including a large composition serving as a frame for page 1 of volume II, a vignette on each title, and 31 (17 + 14) small vignettes decorating
the table pages.
superb copy, luxuriously
bound by noulhac.
It has been
enriched with
:- a suite on china pasted with off-text (the plate opposite p. 380 in Volume I is in double proof on china, in first state and in later state with
a different
caption
). -
6
delivery
blankets
. -
the prospectus (4
pages).
André Sciama and Étienne Beauvillain libraries.