Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 1988. Revised edition (1st pub. 1986). Hard cover. 347p, ca. 380 photos and line ills., 86 in color. Comprehensive study of the structure, design, manufacture, and symbolism of the Kashmir shawl from the 17th century on, including many 19th-century French examples. About half the book..... More
![Two 1930s French Billheads for Nestle Chocolates]. Anonymous designer](/pictures/thumb/30485.jpg?v=1633973598)
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
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
Beaufort-en-Vallee, France: Bergmans en Brouwer, 1983. First edition. Soft cover. 80p, many ills. In English and French. A remarkable offering of 389 items relating to the Paris Salon through the years. With short historical texts, selected bibliography of secondary sources, and a list of publications on the Salon, 1800-1900 (in..... More
Lyon: Braun, 1943. Walch, First edition. Soft cover. 16p, ca. 15 ills. 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 here recall Chagall's..... More
Minneapolis: Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, 1958. First edition. Soft cover. 28p, 21 ills. One of 1000 copies designed by Rob Roy Kelly. Back cover and last few pages dampstained along spine. Covers age soiled. Catalogue for a loan exhibition that aimed to assemble all the major Poussin paintings in..... 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
![Raoul Dufy 1877-1953 [large memorial exhibition]. Bernard Dorival](/pictures/thumb/25552.jpg?v=1633973459)
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
![Cahier d'Entrainement a l'Ecriture [handwriting manual]; Anglaise Penchee -- Minuscules (Suite)...](/pictures/thumb/30383.jpg?v=1633973573)
Paris: Magnard, n.d. [1960s]. No stated edition. Sewn soft cover. 24p, several line ills. and many handwriting examples. Printed in grey. Covers and pages age-browned. 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..... More
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
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: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1984. First edition. Soft cover (lightly shelfsoiled, stained). 197p, many photos and other ills. In French. Large exhibition catalogue on all aspects of Kahnweiler's influential career as modern art dealer, publisher, and writer. Texts and documentation by Jardot, Werner Spies, Liliane Meffre, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, and Claude..... More
Paris: Le Courrier Graphique, 1956. First edition. Soft cover. 108p, many ills. and ads (some in flat color). Issue 86 of this French trade journal devoted to book design and the printing and publishing industries. Surveys a decade of French typography, fine press books, photography books, pocket books ("un probleme..... More
Bordeaux: Librairie Joseph Vincent, n.d. [ca. 1890-1900]. First edition. Soft cover. 16p (self wrs.), color ills. on covers and each page. Bookseller's 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 a page from one of..... More
Paris: Promodis, 1985. First edition. Original cloth. 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..... More
Paris: Fernand Nathan, n.d. [1930s?]. No stated edition. 48p, 48 line ills. All printed in black and red. Small initials printed in some of the illustrations. Fair (covers and margins a little chewed; front cover stained, internally very good, unused). . Reading, spelling, and handwriting manual for French primary school..... More
![Arts et Metiers Graphiques 1 [with English summary]. Charles Peignot, director, Paul Valery](/pictures/thumb/30561.jpg?v=1638368522)
Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphiques, August 31, 1927. First edition. Soft cover. 66, viii pp., many ills. + 8 pls. (some in color, some tipped in). In French; 4-page English summaries of the articles laid in. Errata slip tipped onto inside back cover. First issue of this lavish journal devoted..... More
![Histoires Naturelles [1904 first edition]. Jules Renard](/pictures/thumb/30572.jpg?v=1638378615)
Paris: Ernest Flammarion, n.d. [1904]. Bonnard, Vallotton. First edition. Sewn soft cover. 346p, 67 pls. by Pierre Bonnard. Front cover color ill. by Bonnard; back cover color ill. by Felix Vallotton for Renard's Poil de Carotte (1902). In original glassine jacket (spine chipped). In custom-made later box. Ex libris Deirdre..... More
Paris: Sold at Librairie des Mathurins, 1900-1901. First edition. Three-quarter leather (front cover detached). Originally subtitled Revue Elegante et Pratique. Volume 1, numbers 1-12 (May 1900-April 1901). Variously paged, many ills. and plates. Plate 5 in no. 2 is misbound in no. 3. Retitled and redesigned with number 5 (September)..... More
Paris: J. Claye, printer, 1864. No stated edition. Soft cover. 30p, 12 line ills. Official report to the government minister Vaillant on the condition of this cliffside Normandy castle, and recommendations for further repairs and restoration, in order of priority. It dominates the town of Falaise, birthplace of William the..... More
Paris: Andre Bonne, 1951. First trade edition. Limp paper-covered boards. Cover reads: Album du Marechal Petain. N.p., many gravure photos and other ills., many from Petain's personal collection. Marginal dampstain to last few pages. Jacket soiled, chipped. Celebration of the life of Petain--World War I hero of Verdun, Prime Minister..... More
![46 postcards documenting World War I devastation in France, assembled by architect Cass Gilbert]....](/pictures/thumb/30343.jpg?v=1633973559)
Paris, Dijon, and elsewhere in France: Various publishers, n.d. [ca. 1915-20]. No stated edition. Reproduced in collotype or gravure. Captioned in French and/or English, sometimes with the year. Unused. Some backs are smudged (probably offsetting from the black album pages they were once slotted in). One or two are stained..... More
