![Item #30485 [Two 1930s French Billheads for Nestle Chocolates]. Anonymous designer](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30485.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633024523)
Paris: J. Simon (printer), n.d. [ca. 1933]. No stated edition. Two unbound sheets. Two unused French billheads for Nestle chocolates. One is headed by a bucolic illustration of a milkmaid and dairy cow, printed in red and green. Its verso promotes the health advantages of sugar in the diet of..... More
Paris: Musee d'Art Juif, 1959. First edition. Soft cover. [8]p, no ills. Addenda slip laid in. Ex-lib. Exhibition catalogue. Checklist of 55 watercolors, gouaches, and wash drawings by Jewish artists in Paris (nos. 54 and 55 are listed on the "hors catalogue" slip). With a list of all the museum's..... More
Ecouen: Office de Tourisme d'Ecouen, 2012. Limited edition (1 of 1000 copies). Soft cover. 152p, many ills., many in color. In French. Trace of old price sticker on front cover. Very comprehensive survey of the French, British, and American painters and printmakers who frequented this lesser-known artists' colony just north..... More
Lyon: Braun, 1943. Walch, First edition. Soft cover. 16p, ca. 15 ills. Jacket rather torn. Despite having been born with a deformed leg and arm, Alsatian-born Charles Walch achieved artistic renown in France between the world wars. Besson was the first critic to champion him. Some of the paintings reproduced..... More
New York: Bignou Gallery, 1938. Dufy, Raoul. First edition. Soft cover. [20]p, 6 black-and-white plates. Exhibition of 17 mostly recent paintings, with their exhibition history if any. Following a Bignou exhibition of Dufy's watercolors in January 1938, this exhibition in March-April seems to be his second solo show in New..... More
Clermont: Typographie de Paul Hubler, 1861. First edition. Soft cover. 212p, no ills. Institutional library discard, minimally marked. Housed in card-stock folder. First edition of this catalogue and visitor's guide to the recently established provincial museum in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Short introduction, list of donors and subscribers, over 500 entries for..... More
New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1974. First edition. Soft cover. 113p + over 100 ills. Printed by Meriden Gravure Company, designed by Leonard Baskin. The first comprehensive exhibition devoted to Meryon since 1917. It also traveled to Toledo and St. Louis. With a detailed catalogue of the 111 works..... More
Saint-Remy-en-l'Eau: Editions d'Art Monelle Hayot, 1994. Cazaux. First edition. Hardcover. 160p, many ills., most in color. Photo is cropped on the sides. Definitive monograph on this inter-war French ceramist and sculptor and his wide variety of work. A beautiful production. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 116p, over 100 photos and line ills., 1 folding. Jacket is shelf-scuffed. (Yale Publications in the History of Art, 21, ed. by Vincent Scully). Detailed analysis of this previously lost mid-12th-century bas-relief and "its importance for an understanding of the Saint-Denis..... More
Paris: Delestre & Coutanceau, 1903. First edition. Unbound sheets. 56 large plates, loose within soft covers, as issued. Plate album only of part 1 of this sale of "livres modernes en editions de grand luxe [and] reliures d'art par les principaux maitres contemporains." The binders include Michel, Joly, Meunier, Canape..... More
![Item #25552 Raoul Dufy 1877-1953 [large memorial exhibition]. Bernard Dorival](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/25552.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633278631)
Paris: Editions des Musees Nationaux, 1953. Dufy. First edition. Soft cover. 63p (ca. 260 items) + 40 black-and-white pls. In French. A large exhibition at the Musee National d'Art Moderne, long in the planning and mounted after Dufy's death. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default..... More
![Item #30383 Cahier d'entrainement a l'ecriture [handwriting manual]; Anglaise Penchee...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30383.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1630356387)
Paris: Magnard, n.d. [1960s]. No stated edition. Sewn soft cover. 24p, several line ills. and many handwriting examples. Printed in grey. French elementary student's exercise book for learning to write cursive lowercase letters in the "sloping English" style. Sixth and last in the series. Each spread is gridded, with examples..... More
Paris: L. Giraud-Badin, 1931. First edition. Soft cover. 58p, 1 plate (portrait of Delteil after a painting by Paul Mathey). Auction catalogue of over 400 art books from Delteil's estate, including many limited editions and presentation copies. Emphais on prints and illustrated books. Can be sent outside the US for..... More
![Item #26138 Louis-Auguste Brun [1 of 1000]; Peintre de Marie-Antoinette 1758-1814....](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26138.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1632502346)
Paris: Goupil, 1911. Brun, Louis Auguste. Limited edition. Hardcover (buckram with leather label, original wrappers bound in). 150p, many ills. No. 73 of 1000 copies. Focuses on Brun's early career--portraits, landscapes, and a chapter of interesting studies of horsemen and horsewomen astride and aside. More
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 238p, 34 ills. In the publisher's series RES Monographs on Anthropology and Aesthetics. "Historical and theoretical examination of French court ballet over a hundred-year period, beginning in 1573, that spans the late Renaissance and early Baroque. Utilizing aesthetic and ideological criteria..... More
New York: Galerie Reine, n.d. [1967?]. Dufy. First edition. Soft cover. [12]p, 12 black-and-white ills. With short biographies of each artist. Checklist of the 45 works exhibited, 8 by Raoul and 39 by his brother, Jean. "Madame Reine is proud to present for the first time in America an exhibit..... More
Paris: L. Giraud-Badin, 1932. First edition. Soft cover (plain paper covers). 60p, a few line ills. of binders' stamps. No ills. of the bindings. Introd. by Seymour de Ricci. Auction catalogue of 169 lots of signed bindings, with many 17th-19th-century examples; some emphasis on France. Listed by binder, with an..... More
Paris: Galerie Louise Leiris; printed by Draeger Freres, Montrouges, 1959. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., 36 pls. (5 of them tipped-in color). In French. Catalogue of 36 illustrated books published by Kahnweiler from 1909 to 1959, with summary details. Contributors include Stein, Picasso, Tzara, Satie, Braque, Masson, Apollinaire, and many..... More
Paris: Musee Jacquemart-Andre; printed by Busson, 1963. First edition. Paperbound. 56p + many pls., several in color. In French. Erratum slip laid in. Large exhibition of this fashionable Paris-based Italian painter (checklist of 270 items). Texts by Jean-Louis Vaudoyer and others. Dashing society portraits, landscapes in the Macchiaioli tradition, Venice..... More
Paris: Lair-Dubreuil, 1923. First edition. Soft cover. Catalogue: 204p, no ills. Album: 28 loose plates of bindings. Catalogue skewed, spine chipped. Album covers worn and detached, plate margins smudged. The auction was held from February 26 to March 2, 1923. It offered 844 lots, chiefly books of the 16th-18th centuries..... More
Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, 1979. Bakst. First edition. Soft cover. 168p, many ills. + 4 color pls. and color cover. In French. Catalogue of the huge exhibition mounted to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Diaghilev's death, covering his entire career. Over 400 costumes, photos, manuscripts, scores, and other artifacts, drawn mostly..... More
Bordeaux: Librairie Joseph Vincent, n.d. [ca. 1890-1900]. First edition. Soft cover. 16p (self wrs.), color ills. on covers and each page. Ca. 4 x 6 inches. Bookseller catalogue of French children's picture books illustrated by Mars, Boutet de Monvel, Crafty, and Caran d'Ache, all published by Plon. Each page reproduces..... More
Paris: Promodis, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 539p, many ills. + many color ills. on 38 plates. Masterful history of the 19th-century French book, with chapters by various experts. Covers book production, publishing and bookselling, the illustrated press, genres and reading audiences, etc. Large and heavy; shipping/handling will be extra. Please..... More
Paris: Villand & Galanis, 1965. Dayez. First edition. Soft cover. [24]p, many ills. Ex-lib., with label and ink stamps. Red ink notes on the title page and inside front cover by a member of the Horton family (Caroline, Ruth, or Miles C. Jr.). Exhibition catalogue. Checklist of 32 semi-abstract paintings..... More
Paris: Fernand Nathan, n.d. [1930s?]. No stated edition. Soft cover. 48p, 48 line ills. All printed in black and red. Small initials of the artist printed in some of the illustrations. Reading, spelling, and handwriting manual for French primary school pupils. Cautionary tales and short episodes of daily life and..... More
