Lemoine Engraver (19 results)

Condition: Good. Original B&W gravure. 14.75 x 10.25 inches. Good. Moderate foxing throughout. Signed in the plate. Scarce.Girardin was born in Paris. After a brilliant career at the University in the city, he began in 1828 to contribute to the journal de Debats, in which state he remained for nearly half a century. After the July revolution and the reign of Louis-Philippe as king of Frances liberal July monarchy, he was appointed Professor of history at the Sorbonne and master of requests in the Conseil dEtat. Soon after, he changed the Department of history for one of poetry, continuing to contribute political articles to the journal de Debats, and sits as a Deputy in the Chamber from 1835 to 1848. In 1833 he was charged with a mission to study German methods of teaching, and has published a report advocating the necessity of new methods and technical instructions. In 1844 he was elected a member of the French Academy. During the revolution of February 1848 Girardin was for a moment a Minister, but after the establishment of the second French Republic, he was not re-elected Deputy of the National Assembly. After the Franco-Prussian war, he was returned to the Assembly of Bordeaux in his old Department - Haute-Vienne. It Orleanists tendencies and their objections to the Third Republic were strong, and although he at first supported Adolphe Thiers, he afterwards became the leader of the opposition to the President. He died, however, in 1873 at Morsang-sur-Seine before they were actually removed from power.…

Condition: Good. Original B&W gravure. 12.25 x 9 inches. Good. Creasing along top edge. Light spots of foxing, particularly in bottom margin. Handwritten penciled notations in bottom margin.

Condition: Good. Original B&W gravure. 14.75 x 10.25 inches. Light surface wear along right edge. Signed in the plate. Scarce.Paul Bins, comte de Saint-Victor (11 July 1827 in Paris - 9 July 1881 in Paris), known as Paul de Saint-Victor, a French author and critic. He is likely most known today as a French cultural figure mentioned by Marcel Proust in the novel In Search of Lost Time.…

Condition: Good. Original B&W gravure. 14.5 x 10.5 inches. Very Good. Signed in the plate. Scarce.

Condition: Good. Original B&W gravure. 15 x 10.5 inches. Very Good. Very faint signs of foxing at bottom of image. Signed in the plate. Scarce.Jean-Baptiste Sanson de Pongerville (3 March 1782, Abbeville - 22 January 1870, Paris) was a French a man of letters and poet. He was elected the tenth occupant of Académie française seat 31 in 1830.…

Condition: Good. Original B&W gravure. 14.75 x 10.25 inches. One light spot of foxing at top of image, else fine. Signed in the plate. Scarce.

Condition: Good. Original B&W gravure. 15.5 x 10.75 inches. Very Good. Signed in the plate. Scarce.Dramatic poet, he was the leader of the school of common sense which stood in the middle between the classics and the romantics. His first play Lucretia, performed in 1843, achieved great success and was crowned by the Academy; he gave Charlotte Corday in 1850, Honor and Money in 1853, The Loving Lion in 1866. Beaten at the Academy by Ernest Legouvé, he was elected on March 22, 1855 to replace Louis-Pierre Baour-Lormian, Émile Augier having withdrawn before him, and received by Désiré Nisard, on December 4, 1856.…

Condition: Good. Original B&W gravure. 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Very Good. Very light signs of foxing in top margin, not affecting image. Signed in the plate. Scarce.Étienne Vincent Arago (9 February 1802 - 7 March 1892) was a French writer and politician, and co-founder (with Maurice Alhoy) of the newspaper Le Figaro.…

Condition: Good. Original B&W gravure. 14.75 x 10.25 inches. Very Good. Spots of foxing in lower section. Signed in the plate. Scarce.

Condition: Good. Original B&W gravure. 15.5 x 10.5 inches. Very Good. Very faint signs of foxing at bottom of image. Signed in the plate. Scarce.

Condition: Good. Original B&W gravure. 15.5 x 10.5 inches. Very Good. Signed in the plate. Scarce.

Condition: Good. Original B&W gravure. 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Very Good. Signed in the plate. Scarce.

Condition: Good. Original B&W gravure. 15 x 10.25 inches. Very Good. Very light wear across surface. Signed in the plate. Scarce.

Condition: Good. Original B&W gravure. 15.5 x 10.75 inches. Very Good. Light signs of handling, else fine. Signed in the plate. Scarce.

Condition: Good. Original B&W gravure. 11.75 x 9 inches. Very Good. Some wear along edges. Light spots of foxing in right margin. Handwritten penciled notations in bottom margin.

Condition: Good. Original B&W gravure. 14.75 x 10 inches. Very Good. Very slight signs of foxing in margins, not affecting image. Signed in the plate. Scarce.

Condition: Good. Original B&W gravure. 14.75 x 10 inches. Very Good. Signed in the plate. Scarce.

Condition: Good. Original B&W gravure. 15.5 x 10.75 inches. Very Good. Signed in the plate. Scarce.Henri Martin (1810-1883), French historian and publicist, He was mayor of the XVIth arrondissement in Paris then became deputy in 1871, Member of the Academie Francaise.

Condition: Good. 2 vols. 4to, 22.5 x 31 cm. Qtr. contemporary morocco. 2 pages loose in vol. 2. Tissue guards in place with light foxing. 48 engraved portraits by Luigi Ceroni. Section on each subject by a notable author. Not paginated. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:181873276; Bibliothèque nationale de France: ark:/12148/bpt6k97381539. 2 vol. in 4, demi-maroquin début XXe (2 feuillets détachés au tome 2).…