1666 - 1987 FINE PRINTING and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS (including CARICATURE)
- Spine-ends chipped; joints heavily rubbed.
= Van Dijk 145. One of 10 numb. copies on Impérial du Japon with an extra suite of the woodcuts, one printed on Japanese and one on Hollande, both numb. in pencil.
- Fine copy.
= Breugelmans 83. One of 20 copies in orig. black wr. w. lettering in silver. With SIGNED DEDICATON by the printer on the colophon.
= Breugelmans 98. With the invitation for the celebration of the anniversary loosely inserted.
Komrij, G. Van de seconde die een eeuw wil zijn. (Amst.), Sub Signo Libelli, 1982, broadside, 26,8x18 cm., printed in black and orange, colophon on verso.
- Vague fold in lower blank corner. = Breugelmans 95a.
AND 5 others publ. by the same: Breugelmans 4, 50, 59, 66a and 119.
= Breugelmans a.o. 280b. Printed for the members of Nonpareil; with the orig. envelope.
Melijs & Amicus. (Ibid.), idem, 1997, (4)p., printed in black, red and blue in approx. 45 copies.
= Bruegelmans a.o. 223. Printed for the member of Nonpareil on 19th cent. paper.
AND 4 others publ. by the same: Breugelmans 4 (plain wr. w. mounted letterpiece), 8, 26 and 33.
= Breugelmans 11 and 23b.
AND 11 other small publications (incl. brochures, New Year's wishes etc.) by the same. - ADDED: R. BREUGELMANS a.o., 107 maal Sub Signo Libelli/ De laatste loodjes (Utr./ Amst., 1983/ 2013, ills., orig. (not unif.) wr.).
- Very fine/ mint copy.
= DELUXE edition, containing a loosely inserted col. offset print (24,5x18 cm.) signed and numb. in pencil by the artist.
- Fine. = With 2 unrelated specimen lvs. printed on vellum loosely inserted in box.
- Rebacked w. use of contemp. backstrip.
= "Monument esthématique du XIXe siècle". Colas 2952; Lipperheide Fc 56; Monod 10836; Carteret V, p.190.
- Untrimmed; some occas. foxing. Backstrip tanned. = Franklin p.256; Tomkinson 37.
- Foot of spine sl. worn, otherwise fine.
= One of 30 numb. copies printed on Japon imperial. Monod 6294.
WITH a loosely inserted tinted woodengr. portrait of Paul Valéry by Achille OUVRÉ (16,4x15,5 cm., signed in pencil and w. autograph dedication "A Charles Blanchard avec sympathie [signed:] Ouvré" below image).
- Trifle yellowed; a few textlvs. dustsoiled in outer blank margin(s); flimsies yellowed and frayed. Wrapper partly yellowed and w. tears along joints at spine-ends.
= Monod 10885; Carteret IV, p.386.
Idem. Suite. Colmar, P. Hartmann, 1930 LIII,(2)p., printed in 348 numb. copies (285), contemp. giltlettered hmor. w. dec. covers. Anacreon. Les odes. Traduites de Grec en Français par Remu Belleau de Nogent-au-Perche. Ensemble quelques petites Hymnes de son invention. Paris, La Connaissance, 1928, (6),VIII,171p., woodengr. portr. and vignette by P. GANDON, printed in black, red and blue in 305 numb. copies (130), contemp. gilt hmor., t.e.g., orig. wr. pres., large 8vo.
- Gilding on spine a few sl. defective spots. Good/ fine copy.
= La Collection d'Art 18. Monod 235; not in Carteret.
AND 5 others.
- Some foxed spots.
= Unnumb. copy. With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION "à Alexander Stols. bien cordialement, Paul Valéry".
- Occas. trifle foxed. Binding trifle rubbed along extremities.
= Rare and remarkable publication with beautiful plates.
- Some usual foxing (plates only sl. yellowed and occas. trifle foxed). Binding sl. rubbed along extremities; upper joint starting at foot.
= Vicaire VI, p.243; Carteret III, p.218; Sander 536. The rare first edition, recognizable by the plate "Ils étaient calmes" (missing in the 2nd ed. of 1861), without the printed list of plates and p.310 starting with "Un ministre". Witty plates in the style of Grandville.

































