Saint-Pierre (Bernardin de), Paul et Virginie, Illustrations...

Hammer

£95

Saint-Pierre (Bernardin de), Paul et Virginie, Illustrations de Maurice Leloir, Paris: Libraire Artistique, 1888, portrait frontispiece, full-page plate, and in-text illustrations, contemporary quarter brown morocco gilt over marbled boards, preserving original pictorial wrappers, top-edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, 4to, (1); Sainte-Beuve [(Charles Augustin)], Galerie de Femmes Célèbres [...], Paris: Garnier Frères, [n.d., 1872], full-page portrait steel engravings, contemporary blue half-morocco gilt over boards, all-edges gilt, marbled endpapers, with Rolandi, London, their ticket, 4to, (1); Lacroix (Paul), Moeurs, Usages et Costumes au Moyen Age et a l'Époque de la Renaissance [...], Paris: Libraire de Firmon Didot Frères, 1871, full-page chromolithograph plates, monochrome in-text illustrations, contemporary red morocco gilt over cloth boards, all-edges gilt, marbled endpapers, slightly later rhyming book label: Harriett Sarah Chamberlain (1844-1939), a benefactor of the British Museum, then Ex-Libris: Stephen Gryska C.M.B.H.I., F.G.A., 4to, (1), [3]