Librairie Lardanchet (Paris)
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 44] Catalogue de beaux livres anciens et modernes
Paris, Librairie Lardanchet, 1950
(21.5 cm), 224 pp., frontispiece in colour, 1 colour plates (inserted after p.50), illustrations. 773 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - “1939-1950 Apres une interruption de dix longues années, nous reprenons la publication de nos Catalogues de Beaux Livres, dont le dernier numéro (43) date du printemps 1939…” The frontispiece reproduces a page in a XIIIth century Bible illuminated at Bologna in the style of Oderisi da Gubbio (ex-Dietrichstein library, and Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Katalog 265, item 2); the colour plate reproduces one of 44 drawings by Gravelot for the 1768-1774 Geneva edition of Voltaire’s Oeuvres (ex-Henri Beraldi, his sale, Paris, 29 May-1 June 1934, lot 103; apparently sold to Raphaël Esmerian, his sale, Paris, 6 June 1973, lot 103; returned to the market, Christie’s, New York, 19 May 1995, lot 155 $107,000). “Tables des reliures a provenances” (p.139). ¶ Wrapper worn, minor losses.