Forty-five catalogues (24 cm), in publisher’s wrappers, as issued. ¶ Excellent copies. ● Catalogues 39, 61-63, 65 and all Catalogues hors série, are not shown in our photograph.
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 15] Livres anciens et modernes
Paris, Librairie Laurent Coulet, [1994?]
(24 cm), [80] pp., illustrations. 100 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Includes Piranesi’s Vedute di Roma in early states (item 48, FF1,200,000) and Antichità d’Albano 1762-1764 (item 57).
(24 cm), [80] pp., illustrations. 100 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Includes (item 34) a detailed description of the Oeuvre de Jean Pillement, peintre et dessinateur (Paris 1767).
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 17] Catalogue 17 : La Gazette de Théophraste Renaudot : Livres anciens : Livres des XIXe et XXe siècles
Paris, Librairie Laurent Coulet, [1996?]
(24 cm), [88] pp., illustrations. 100 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes (item 1, FF1,500,000) Renaudot’s Gazette 1631-1764, bound in 133 quarto volumes, from the library Madame de Pompadour (her sale 1765, lot 2452). ¶ Good, unmarked copy.
(24 cm), [72] pp., illustrations. 101 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Includes (item 12) Arnaud Berquin, Oeuvres complètes (Paris 1803), on grand papier vélin with 335 drawings by Borel, Marillier, Monnet, Le Barbier, and other artists.
(24 cm), [96] pp., illustrations (some in colour). 100 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Includes a group of bindings from the collections of Paul and Léon Gruel, including one signed by Clement Alexandre (active at Angers, 1510-1538), and Castiglione, Il Cortegiano (Lyon: Guillaume Rouillé, 1562) ornamented with the device of the publisher Gryphius (item 32).
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 23] Livres anciens et modernes : Premières éditions – Livres illustrés – Reliures
Paris, Librairie Laurent Coulet, 2000
(24 cm), [104] pp., illustrations (some in colour). 150 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Includes (item 2) the Landau – Brunschwig – A.-L. Natural copy of Martin Le Franc, Le Champion des dames (Lyon c. 1488).
(24 cm), [92] pp., illustrations (some in colour). 114 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Includes (item 87) an album of 58 photographs taken by Louis Vignes in 1864 during a tour of Syria and Jordan. ¶ Two page corners bent.
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 30] Livres anciens et modernes : Premières éditions – Livres illustrés – Reliures – Manuscrits
Paris, Librairie Laurent Coulet, [2004]
(24 cm), [96] pp., illustrations (some in colour). 116 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Includes the last copy remaining in private hands of c. 1465 Fust & Schoeffer pseudo-Augustinus De Vita christiana (ex-George Abrams; resold Sotheby’s, New York, 12 December 2001, lot 12).
(24 cm), [76] pp., illustrations (some in colour). 133 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Includes (item 1) a Coffret de messager with a 15th-century woodcut of St Jerome pasted inside (from the Jammes sale, Pierre Bergé, Paris, 7 November 2007, lot 20).
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 45] Livres anciens et modernes : Premières éditions : Livres illustrés : Manuscrits : Reliures
Paris, Librairie Laurent Coulet, 2010
(24 cm), [104] pp., illustrations (some in colour). 115 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Includes the 1502 Aldine Lucan in a contemporary binding with arms of the Ughi family; and the 1562 Estienne Greek New Testament from the library of Pierre de l’Estoile (1546-1611).
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 48] Livres anciens et modernes : Premières éditions : Livres illustrés : Manuscrits : Reliures
Paris, Librairie Laurent Coulet, 2011
(24 cm), [102] pp., illustrations (some in colour). 85 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Includes a rolled Genealogie des treschretiens Roys de France with illuminated woodcuts (277 × 63 cm), printed on vellum, by Pierre Vidoue for Galliot du Pré, 1520 (Phillipps Ms 36573, perhaps acquired by him from Willis & Sotheran, Current notes, 1857, item 504). ¶ Pencil annotation opposite item 1.
(24 cm), [84] pp., illustrations (some in colour). 139 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - “Avec la collaboration de Pierre Wachenheim et Frédéric Moulin”.
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 54] Livres anciens et modernes
Paris, Librairie Laurent Coulet, 2013
(24 cm), [108] pp., illustrations (some in colour). 109 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. “Catalogue avec la collaboration de Pierre Wachenheim et Frédéric Moulin”.
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 65] Livres anciens et modernes : Ensemble d'éditions originales de Guez de Balzac, la plupart en vélin de l'époque : Carnet autographe de Guillaume Apollinaire : Premières éditions - Livres illustrés, Lettres autographes