ANTIQUE & MODERN BOOKS

_10h30

Sale without catalogue - without live

lot 329 to 349 included

_14h

Catalogued and live sale

lot 1 to lot 328 included

Experts : Jean-Luc Boisseau & Loup Axmann

Auctioneer : Eric LACOMBE

Public exhibitions

27 October 2021 from 2pm to 6pm

October 28, 2021 from 9:00 am to 10:30 am

Antique books from the 16th to the 19th century, including Favyn, Histoire de Navarre, 1612. Copy with the arms of Nicolas Hennequin. New dictionary of natural history in 24 volumes, illustrated with 264 plates. Grew's Anatomy of Plants, 1675. Reunion des protestants à Strasbourg, 1687, in red morocco with the arms of France. Atlas of plates from Tobiesen Duby's Traité des monnaies des barons, 1790. Encyclopedic dictionary of the amusements of the mathematical and physical sciences, of the processes (...) of white magic, 1792, with its atlas of 86 plates. Medical works in O.E. including Pinel, Gintrac. 19th century fashion magazines with patterns. Suite of 18 lithographs of costumes by Numa. First editions of Balzac, Chateaubriand, Lamartine, Mauriac, Morand, etc. Nice set of 730 plates concerning Victor Hugo. Illustrated books by Boullaire, Lemarié, Cocteau, Picasso, etc.

Geographical atlases, numerous maps in sets or individually, watercolor puzzle-atlases (circa 1850), Koranic manuscripts, Judaïca, first albums of the Pléiade, photo albums, works on earthenware, etc.

Various works of regionalism concerning the Basque country, the Pyrenees, the Vendée, etc.

Bordeaux regionalism, including Constant's Album du voyageur à Bordeaux illustrated with 104 plates; Léo Drouyn's Un coin de l'Entre-Deux-Mers au XVIIe siècle; Saint-Rieul-Dupouy's L'Eté et l'Hiver à Bordeaux with beautiful dispatches, a handwritten Bordeaux armorial by Vacher de Boisville which has remained unpublished and contains numerous heraldic descriptions.