![- KEEPSAKE] - The Pleiades. Ballads, fables, short stories and legends. Homer, Veda-Vyasa, Marie de France, Burger, Hoffmann, Ludwig Tieck, Ch. Dickens, Gavarni, H. Blaze. Paris, L. Curmer, 1841-42, in-8, multiple pagination, with 11 serpents frontispieces (including one general frontispiece and one double), 10 etchings on China paper applied in the text and 56 wood-engraved vignettes also in the text, bradel purple half-maroquin with corners, spine decorated with long fillets, title-piece, gilt-lettered head (later binding). Light spotting on the back of the pages, foxing, but a good copy. First edition of this sought-after collection published in ten issues, which contain the following pieces 1. Bürger's Lenore, translated from the German by E. de Labédollière ([4]-20 pp., one f. n. of table of illustrations, with a frontispiece). - 2. the Councillor Krespel, by Hoffmann, translated from the German by E. de Labédollière ([4]-40 pp., one f. n. ch. of table of illustrations, with a frontispiece) - 3 The Baron of Grogszwig, by Dickens, translated from the English by E. de Labédollière (xiv-20 pp., one f. n. c., with a frontispiece) - 4. Geneviève de Brabant, by Matthias Emmich, translated from the Latin by E. de Labédollière (x-24 pp., one f. n. c., with a frontispiece). - 5. Le Combat des rats et des grenouilles, by Homer, translated from the Greek by M. Trianon (34 pp., one f. n. c., with a frontispiece). 6. - 6 Rosemonde, a legend by Henri Blaze (34 pp., one f. n. c., with a frontispiece). - 7) Sâvitrî, an episode from the Mahabharata, translated from the Sanskrit by G. Pauthier ([4]-xij-53 pp., one f. n. c., with a double frontispiece). - 8 Madame Acker, a short story by Gavarni (25 pp., with a frontispiece) - 9. Le Lai des deux amants, by Marie de France (21 pp., with a frontispiece). - 10. The Reconciliation, a legend by Ludwig Tieck. Translation by E. de Labédollière (20 pp., [2] ff. n. ch. of table of illustrations for the last two pieces and of general table of the collection). Vicaire VI, 704-709. Escoffier, 1886 (1852 edition).](https://cdn.drouot.com/d/lot/fullHD/6/115165/be438f6ce33b6783469d2ab7229b89f8)
- KEEPSAKE] - The Pleiades. Ballads, fables, short stories and legends. Homer, Veda-Vyasa, Marie de France, Burger, Hoffmann, Ludwig Tieck, Ch. Dickens, Gavarni, H. Blaze. Paris, L. Curmer, 1841-42, in-8, multiple pagination, with 11 serpents frontispieces (including one general frontispiece and one double), 10 etchings on China paper applied in the text and 56 wood-engraved vignettes also in the text, bradel purple half-maroquin with corners, spine decorated with long fillets, title-piece, gilt-lettered head (later binding). Light spotting on the back of the pages, foxing, but a good copy. First edition of this sought-after collection published in ten issues, which contain the following pieces 1. Bürger's Lenore, translated from the German by E. de Labédollière ([4]-20 pp., one f. n. of table of illustrations, with a frontispiece). - 2. the Councillor Krespel, by Hoffmann, translated from the German by E. de Labédollière ([4]-40 pp., one f. n. ch. of table of illustrations, with a frontispiece) - 3 The Baron of Grogszwig, by Dickens, translated from the English by E. de Labédollière (xiv-20 pp., one f. n. c., with a frontispiece) - 4. Geneviève de Brabant, by Matthias Emmich, translated from the Latin by E. de Labédollière (x-24 pp., one f. n. c., with a frontispiece). - 5. Le Combat des rats et des grenouilles, by Homer, translated from the Greek by M. Trianon (34 pp., one f. n. c., with a frontispiece). 6. - 6 Rosemonde, a legend by Henri Blaze (34 pp., one f. n. c., with a frontispiece). - 7) Sâvitrî, an episode from the Mahabharata, translated from the Sanskrit by G. Pauthier ([4]-xij-53 pp., one f. n. c., with a double frontispiece). - 8 Madame Acker, a short story by Gavarni (25 pp., with a frontispiece) - 9. Le Lai des deux amants, by Marie de France (21 pp., with a frontispiece). - 10. The Reconciliation, a legend by Ludwig Tieck. Translation by E. de Labédollière (20 pp., [2] ff. n. ch. of table of illustrations for the last two pieces and of general table of the collection). Vicaire VI, 704-709. Escoffier, 1886 (1852 edition).
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- KEEPSAKE] - The Pleiades. Ballads, fables, short stories and legends. Homer, Veda-Vyasa, Marie de France, Burger, Hoffmann, Ludwig Tieck, Ch. Dickens, Gavarni, H. Blaze. Paris, L. Curmer, 1841-42, in-8, multiple pagination, with 11 serpents frontispieces (including one general frontispiece and one double), 10 etchings on China paper applied in the text and 56 wood-engraved vignettes also in the text, bradel purple half-maroquin with corners, spine decorated with long fillets, title-piece, gilt-lettered head (later binding). Light spotting on the back of the pages, foxing, but a good copy. First edition of this sought-after collection published in ten issues, which contain the following pieces 1. Bürger's Lenore, translated from the German by E. de Labédollière ([4]-20 pp., one f. n. of table of illustrations, with a frontispiece). - 2. the Councillor Krespel, by Hoffmann, translated from the German by E. de Labédollière ([4]-40 pp., one f. n. ch. of table of illustrations, with a frontispiece) - 3 The Baron of Grogszwig, by Dickens, translated from the English by E. de Labédollière (xiv-20 pp., one f. n. c., with a frontispiece) - 4. Geneviève de Brabant, by Matthias Emmich, translated from the Latin by E. de Labédollière (x-24 pp., one f. n. c., with a frontispiece). - 5. Le Combat des rats et des grenouilles, by Homer, translated from the Greek by M. Trianon (34 pp., one f. n. c., with a frontispiece). 6. - 6 Rosemonde, a legend by Henri Blaze (34 pp., one f. n. c., with a frontispiece). - 7) Sâvitrî, an episode from the Mahabharata, translated from the Sanskrit by G. Pauthier ([4]-xij-53 pp., one f. n. c., with a double frontispiece). - 8 Madame Acker, a short story by Gavarni (25 pp., with a frontispiece) - 9. Le Lai des deux amants, by Marie de France (21 pp., with a frontispiece). - 10. The Reconciliation, a legend by Ludwig Tieck. Translation by E. de Labédollière (20 pp., [2] ff. n. ch. of table of illustrations for the last two pieces and of general table of the collection). Vicaire VI, 704-709. Escoffier, 1886 (1852 edition).
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