[LEFéVRE-UTILE / ART NOUVEAU ALBUM / ]

Album des célébrités contemporaine publié par Lefèvre-Utile Nantes [Title on front cover]. Nantes about 1905.

. Oblong 4to. (36.5 x 27 cm) Lvs. (11) With 48 inserted embossed chromolithograph autograph cards of famous actors, composers, authors, etc. placed in Art Nouveau decorated frames. One sheet with content. Last two leaves titled "Biscuites Levèvre-Utile" missing eight cards. Bound in publisher's decorated boards, printed in silver and gold.An exclusive promotional album produced to celebrate Levèvre-Utile winning the grand prize for making biscuits at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. Lefèvre Utiel (LU) is a renowned French manufacturer of biscuits and chocolate based in Nantes (now part of Mondelez International). The lavishly decorated cards were included in packages of cookies and were intended as a collector's item. Each card has a colourful artistic scene associated with a contemporary celebrity, and includes a photographic portrait of the same. The artwork was created by leading French artists and photographers of the day.

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Book number: 121350

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, French, france, advertisement, cookies, biscuits, promotional, album, art nouveau, jugend,

[ART NOUVEAU].

Documents d'art décoratif. Trente planches en couleurs et en noire. Paris, Librairie Renourd, H. Laurens (ca 1910).

. Folio. Thirty mounted plates, of which sixteen in colour, on thick cardboard. As issued loose in original cloth-backed illustrated portfolio with cotton ties. Title page slightly browned but otherwise in excellent condition. First edition. A collection of various Art Nouveau designs for ceramics, decorative panels, furniture, silver and ironworks, jewellery, etc made by famous artists of the time, including Roubille, Brandt, Bacard, Daurat, and Ségaud. There are many textile patterns from this period that date back to earlier centuries. Some of the plates were also published in "Documents de décoration moderne" issued about 1900.

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Book number: 100760

Catalogue: Art Nouveau

Keywords: Art Nouveau, art nouveau, jugend, design, exploration, france, french, decoratif, decoration, konst, art, textiles, textile,

[GODARD D'AUCOURT, CLAUDE]:

Mémoires turcs, ou histoire galante de deux turcs, pendant leur séjour en France. Par un auteur turc de toutes les Académies Mahométanes, licencié en droit turc, & Maître-ès-Arts de l'Université de Constantinople. Two parts in one volume. Francfort, chez la veuve Knoch & J.G. Eslinger, 1765.

. 12mo. Pp. (Iv), 160; (iv), 234. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with five raised bands and title label, worn and hinges weak, spine ends chipped. First edition was published in 1743. It's a novel about Paris seen through the eyes of an observant Turkish man written in the new literary genre developed at this time. Cf Atabey 508. Gay v, 49. Cf Hayn-Got. v, 273.

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Book number: 23117

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, turkey, turkish, near east, east, eastern, levant, ottoman, travel, exploration, asia, asie, asien, asiatic

[FRENCH FASHION].

La Mode Illustrée Journal de la Famille. Cinquième année de la publication. Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1864.

. Folio.Pp. iv, 416. With numerous woodcut illustrations throughout the text depicting clothes, accessories, hairstyles, patterns, etc. Without any coloured plates. Contemporary quarter cloth on marbled boards, lightly rubbed. The journal was first published in 1859 and became one of the most important French magazines at the later half of the 19th century. Distributed on a weekly basis, each issue featured a description of women's fashion and hair styles of the day, accompanied by numerous illustrations as well as inserted hand-coloured prints.

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Book number: 120696

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Fashion, design, fashion, mode, journal, style, illustration, illustrated, french, france, magazine, women, woman,

[FRENCH FASHION].

La Mode Illustrée Journal de la Famille. Sixième année de la publication. Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1865.

. Folio.Pp. iv, 416. With fourteen beautiful hand-coloured fashion plates (all?) and numerous woodcut illustrations throughout the text depicting clothes, accessories, hairstyles, patterns, etc. Contemporary quarter cloth on marbled boards, lightly rubbed. The journal was first published in 1859 and became one of the most important French magazines at the later half of the 19th century. Distributed on a weekly basis, each issue featured a description of women's fashion and hair styles of the day, accompanied by numerous illustrations as well as inserted hand-coloured prints. 

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Book number: 120698

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Fashion, design, fashion, mode, journal, style, illustration, illustrated, french, france, magazine, women, woman,

[FRENCH FASHION]

La Mode féminine de 1795 à 1900. Comprend 4 series: 1. de 1795 à 1820; II. de 1820à 1845; III. de 1845 à 1870; IV. de 1870 à 1900. Four volumes. Paris, Editions Nilsson, 1900 (?)

. 8vo (14 x 19 cm). Album complete with 80 coloured plates, loosely inserted in four pictorial wrappers, as issued. Outer edge of rear covers slightly creased. Housed in original cloth covered boards, with printed title labels, spine expertly restored with most of the original preserved, new cotton ties. Some minor toning and occasionally some small mark but a lovely set of French women's fashion of the time. (Two more similar sets with fashion plates from 1490-1795 and 1900-1920 were published and also a smaller-size version).

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Book number: 121575

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, fashion, mode, costumes, clothes, europe, european, france, french,

[PERFUME TRADE CATALOGUE].

Parfums Bienaimé. Paris, Draeger, 1947.

. 4to (30.4 x 24.3 cm). Pp. (30) and twenty exclusive colour illustrations printed on glossy paper, with gold highlights. Original cream coloured card covers, lettered in gilt. A few small creases to the cover.Extravagant trade catalogue promoting exclusive perfume brands with exquisite pictures. Robert Bienaimé was a French perfumer who is known for his work at Houbigant Parfum where he created several well-known fragrances for the company. In 1935 he established his own business Parfums Bienaimé in Paris. A superb copy of a rare work.

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Book number: 121237

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Fashion, perfume, parfym, french, france, bienaimé, design, fashion,

[JUVENILE]

Petit tableau des arts et métiers, ou notions sur les principaux travaux des hommes; ouvrage instructif et amusant, à l'usage de la jeunesse de l'un et l'autre sexe. Troisième édition, ornée de nouvelles gravures. Paris, chez Pierre Blanchard, 1825.

. 12mo. Pp. 238. With coloured engraved frontispiece and five engraved plates of various arts and crafts. Contemporary calf, flat spine decorated in gilt and with red title label, Extremities lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers and edges. Old bookseller label on front paste down. Old handwritten note dated 1832 pasted in. Some leaves with staining, mainly in margin. Third edition of a charming work dealing with different professions, written for a young audience.

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Book number: 121463

Catalogue: Old and Rare Books

Keywords: Old and Rare Books, children, juvenile, art, crafts, professions, occupations, illustrated, french, france,

[TRADE CATALOGUE / FASHION / ART DÉCO].

Les premiers beaux jours. La Grand Maison du Blanc, Paris, Place del' Opera. (Paris, Draeger, ca 1929).

. Lovely catalogue with stylish design and visual impact in the Art Déco style. Irregular shaped 8vo. Pp. (12) including covers. Publisher's stapled colour decorated wrappers. Text in French by Paul Reboux. Illustrations in b/w and colour by Charles Martin (1884-1934), a French artist and contributor to fashion magazines of the time. A well-preserved catalogue by the famous Parisian designer printer Draeger. Ref. Modern Publicity 1930, The Studio p. 76. / Pages dÕor de lÕedition publicitaire, 94. / Alain Draeger, Draeger, les pages d'or de l'édition, (2019) pp. 112-3.

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Book number: 121496

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Fashion, france, french, design, fashion, trade, marketing, mode,

BARBIER, GEORGE:

"Isola Bella". Robes du soie de Redfern. (Gazette de Bon Ton. No. 6. Juin 1914. - Pl. 57.) Paris, Lucien Vogel, 1914.

. Original pochoir coloured plate printed on vergé paper, signed in the plate. Size: 38.2 x 24.5 cm. Mounted in a passe-partout. A lovely, well preserved, Art Déco plate with three elegantly dressed ladies on a balcony in front of the Italian lake Lake Maggiore. They are wearing evening gowns by the couture house Redfern in London.

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Book number: 121581

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Fashion, fashion, mode, art deco, design, france, french, itlay, lake maggiore

BENSON, ROBERT:

Sketches of Corsica; or, a Journal Written During a Visit to that Island, in 1823. With an Outline of its History, and Specimens of the Language and Poetry of the People. London 1825.

. Pp. (vi), 195, (5). Without half-title. With wood engraved vignette on title, four sepia engraved plates and one hand-coloured aquatint. Some light offsetting from the plates. Contemporary half calf, flat spine ruled and lettered in gilt, upper joint weak, lightly rubbed, joints expertly restored. Faint traces of removed bookplate on front paste down. First edition. Robert Benson, a British judge and historian who accompanied a group of commissioners to Corsica with the aim to carry into effect the bequests of the Corsican patriot General Pasquale Paoli (1725-1807) who spent his last years in exile in Britain. Benson's account based on his own experiences describers the country and its culture, political history and language including specimens of Corsican poetry. Abbey Travel 76. Lowndes i, p.156.

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Book number: 100112

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, france, french, frankrike, europe, european, corsica, travel, explorationhttp://copac.jisc.ac.uk/

BENZENBERG, JOHANN FRIEDRICH:

Bref, författade under en resa till Paris. Örebro, N.M. Lindh, 1811.

. Pp. (iv), 192. With title vignette, one folding engraved map of Paris and three engraved plates; of Pantheon, Tuileries Palace and Temple Tower. Contemporary half calf on marbled paper boards, gilt spine, rubbed. Old ownership signatures. A collection of letters written during a visit to Paris in 1804 by a German astronomer and geologist. It's translated into Swedish from the German (Dortmund 1806) by J.P. Wåhlin.

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Book number: 100852

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, france, french, frankreich, frankrike, francois, travel, exploration, paris, europe

BENZENBERG, J.F.:

Bref, Foerfattade under en resa till Paris. Oerebro, N.M. Lindh, 1811.

. Pp. (iv), 191, (1). With title-vignette, one folding plan of Paris and 3 engraved plates (2 folding). Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with title-labl, slightly rubbed. Old ownership signatures on front free-endpaper. Translated from the German. A nice and crisp copy with beautiful engravings. A collection of letters written during a visit to Paris by a German professor from Düsseldorf.

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Book number: 13140

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, europa, europe, travel, voyage, paris, france, viajes, viaggio, reisen, frankreich

VON BERLEPSCH, HERMANN ALEXANDER:

Alperna, deras natur och folk. Stockholm 1871.

. Pp. (iv), 400. With extra illustrated title and 22 fullpage plates by Emil Rittmeyer. Original brown cloth, richly gilt, top of spine slightly chipped, inner lower hinge split. First Swedish edition of this classical work, first published as "Die Alpen in Natur und Lebensbildern" in 1861. A lovely copy. Cf Perret 398.

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Book number: 99995

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, alps, alperna, france, frecnh, italy, italian, schweiz, switzerland, travel, exploration

BORN, INIGO (IGNAZ) DE:

Voyage minéralogique fait en Hongrie et en Transilvanie. Traduit de l'allemand, avec quelques notes, par M. Monnet, Inspecteur-Général des Mines de France, des Académies Royales des Scienes de Stockholm, de Turin, &c. &c. Paris 1780.

. 12mo. Pp. xvi, (iv), 406. Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt with five raised bands and title-label. A description, in the form of letters, of mines and mountains in the Bannat of Temeswar, Transilvania and Hungary. The author, a famous mineralogist, was born in Transilvania. Poggendorff i,242.

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Book number: 26029

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, hungary, transilvania, hungarian, travel, exploration, explore, europe, european, mineral,