Four volumes (28 cm), in the publisher’s printed wrappers. - The celebrated catalogue XII: Catalogue de reliures du XVe au XIXe siècle (1930) is offered here in the unillustrated issue. ¶ Wrappers decayed and damaged.
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 10] Manuscrits, incunables, beaux livres en tous genres. Dix-huitième illustrés, très belles reliures, médecine, sciences et voyages anciens, gravures et cartes anciennes et rares
Paris, Gumuchian & Cie., 1928
(25.5 cm), 123 (1) pp., [11] leaves of plates (planche I-XX; pl.I printed with title, pl. XI double-page). 322 items; priced. Publisher’s wrappers. ¶ Only a fragment of the wrapper survives (upper cover), and it is torn.
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 11] Manuscrits, incunables, beaux livres en tous genres. Dix-huitième illustrés, très belles reliures, médecine, sciences et voyages anciens, gastronomie, musique, aérostation, Amérique
Paris, Gumuchian & Cie., 1929
(25.5 cm), 158 pp., [17] leaves of plates (planche I-XXXIII; pl.I printed with title). 300 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Ordinary issue (”Il a été tiré de ce catalogue cinquante exemplaires sur papier de Rives numérotés de 1 à 50”). ¶ Wrappers damaged, with loss of all paper across the spine; pencil inscription on upper cover.
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 12] Catalogue de reliures du XVe au XIXe siècle [other title:] Belles reliures
Paris, Gumuchian & Cie., 1930
(31.5 cm), 180 pp., 398 items. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Unillustrated issue (”There has been printed an edition deluxe of this present catalogue limited to 100 numbered copies on hand made paper and 1000 copies on fine paper: These special copies are illustrated with 125 plates in collotype and 11 plates in colour giving the facsimiles of 300 bindings”). Descriptions in French and English. ¶ Well-preserved copy.
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 14] Manuscrits, incunables, beaux livres en tous genres. Très belles reliures dix-huitième illustrés, médecine, sciences et voyages anciens, livres anglais avec planches coloriées
Paris, Gumuchian & Cie., 1931
(25.5 cm), (6) 300 pp., [25] leaves of plates (planche1-48; pl. 1 printed with recto blank, pl. 11 double-page), illustrations (some printed red & black). 675 items; priced. - Ordinary issue (”Il a été tiré de ce catalogue vingt-cinq exemplaires sur papier de Rives numérotés de 1 à 25”, p.2). ¶ An unusually well-preserved copy, retaining the tissue guasrdsheets inserted by the publisher against pages printed in two colours.