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- VERTÈS Marcel (1895-1961), Entrée interdite au public. S. l., s. ed., [1926]. In-4 (325 x 242 mm), in sheets, in a titled publisher's folder.
Unique edition of 250 numbered copies on Japon impérial (this one n°25), illustrated with 20 heliogravures in black and in very free colours, under matting, by Marcel Vertès.
Autograph address with original pen drawing: "to M. Valotaire "don V. fils de Zorro" (on the back cover of the folder) (Flaps of the folder partly torn, spine partly detached).
- DUPLESSIS BERTHAULT - [VOLTAIRE], La Pucelle d'Orléans. Poem in twenty-one songs. London, s. éd., 1780, volume II only. Large in-8 (253 x 170 mm), 175 pp. Full burgundy morocco, boards decorated with a double triple gilt fillet with fleurons at the corners of the central frame, ribbed, titled, tomé, dated, and decorated, gilt head, large gilt inner lace (binding signed Lanscelin).
Edition illustrated with colour engraved figures by Duplessis Berthault.
A very fine copy with large margins. PROVENANCE: "Juin 40. Le
Luet", bookplate pasted on. (Damage to the upper cover).
- Set of 23 18th century vignettes pasted and numbered in ink on 22 numbered leaves, about fifteen late 19th century watercolour drawings, some of them captioned in pencil, and various 18th-19th century engravings and watercolour drawings, some of them Japanese enhanced in colour.
The whole is preserved in a large in-4 portfolio.