EEKMAN, NICOLAS (ILL.) / GAUTHIER-VILLARS, MARGUERITE (COMP.):

Voyageur immobile. 33 petits poèmes dont un avec musique. Textes, dessins en couleurs et agréments de Eekman. Musique de Mlle. M. Gauthier-Villars. Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1933.

. Small 4to. (19 x 24.3 cm). Pp. 73, (1). With 16 colour lithographs, one coloured plate of music and 25 text illustrations. Publisher's coil binding, pictorial front cover, some light wear to covers. First edition of this charming book with poems for children together with lovely imaginative illustrations. (Not one of the signed copies). Nicolas Eekman, a Belgian-born artist who in 1921 settled in Paris and was a part of all the artistic movements of the time.

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LINNÉ, CARL VON & GEORGII, GEORG EBERHARD:

Opium, quod, dissertatione medica, venia experient. Fac. Medicae in Reg. Acad. Upsaliensi, praeside ... Carolo à Linné. ... Publice ventilandum sistit Georgius Eberhardus Georgii. ... In audit. Carol. Majori, die XV. Nov. MDCCLXXV. Upsala, Typis Edmannianis, [1775].

. 4to. Pp. (ii), 17, (1). Contemporary wrappers, stained and worn. Old ownership signature on title. Rare dissertation about the opium plant "Papaver somniferum", the manufacturing process and it's use in medicine. Georg Eberhard Georgii (1755-1816) was a Swedish court pharmacist. Soulsby no. 2444. Lidén p. 319.

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[AESOP] / MORVAN DE BELLEGARDE, JEAN BAPTIST (TRANSLATOR):

Les Cinq fabulistes, ou les trois cents fables d'Ésope, de Lockmann, de Philelphe, de Gabrias et d'Avienus. Dixieme édition. Two volumes. Paris 1802.

. PP. (iv), lx, 222; (iv), 284. With 168 engraved illustrations. Some waterstain in upper corner of frontespiece to volume one. Contemporary calf, covers with decorated borders in gilt, spines richly gilt and with title labels. Binding rubbed and hinges weak but overall a lovely copy. First published in 1708, reprinted and translated many times. Brunet 96. Graesse i, 35.

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