Search Results: FRANCE from Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

New York: French & European Pub, [n.d.]. Small folio, 9-1/4 x 10-3/4 in., in a cloth-backed printed board portfolio. Ex-library. Edgeworn, some faint discoloration of plates and portfolio, a very good copy overall. Sixty vivid pochoir plates illustrating 19th century French costumes, by region.

Paris: Dechristé, 1892. First edition. Duhem, Henri. Quarto, 11 in x 14-3/4 in. Printed wrapper, detached at spine, interior very good, in worn chemise and slipcase. Copy 143 of 500 copies, presentation to a Dr Bouchez. Frontispiece by Ferdinand Dutert and illustrations by Henri Duhem, including 30 hors texte plates and 172 in-text line drawings. Several items have been laid or tipped in to the front of the book: an original Duhem watercolor, signed and dated 1886; a chromolithograph reproduction of a Duhem watercolor, and its inscribed (to Dr Bouchez) proof, along with a letter about them; and an original watercolor border design, also by Duhem for Dr Bouchez, dated 1930. Dr Bouchez is not among the listed subscribers; this copy appears to have been presented directly by the artist.

Paris: Editions Nilsson, n.d.. Fashion illustration. 240 hand colored pochoir fashion plates, originally issued loose in slipcases, here in calf bindings with broken spines, lilbrary marks on the endpapers, but all the plates are clean and unmarked.