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Paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Undated, but circa 1889]. Quarter roan, marbled endpapers, cover title, "EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE / 1889 / ECOLE NORMALE D'INSTITUTRICES / DE VERSAILLES / RECITATION A L'ÉCOLE PRIMAIRE / MORCEAUX CHOISIS". Spine splitting slightly and showing some wear. Numbered in an official blue crayon "1054" and inscribed (in a later hand, violet ink) "M.V. [?] Turnbull from Tante Ernestine Ecole Normale Paris". 108pp.: blank, prelims, 94pp. text, 4pp. "Table", two blanks; with 38 pen-and-ink drawings, two coloured, most signed "E.L.", one "E. LAVAND". Fine and well-spaced manuscript transcriptions of poems by Florian, Hugo, La Fontaine and others illustrated with highly accomplished drawings, some decorative vignettes, others more fully developed, of children, birds, flowers, fruit, a cicada, a snail, a basket, a violin; a charming volume. The Exposition Universelle of 1889, held in Paris, celebrated the centenary of the storming of the Bastille; it is best remembered for erecting the Eiffel Tower, but its remit was broad - extending generously to instruction publique.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. TRADE CATALOGUE] 6e Chahier. Pinsonniere, suc d'Osmont editeur. Rue Vivienne 14. Oblong. Binding worn, spine new Title page, 9 unnumbered plates, 10-49. All canopy plates are hand coloured but the last two, that depict the interior of the boudoir. These are heavily foxed in the margins. Osmont Tapissier. Vend des Cahiers de Defense pour le décor des appartements de Paris. 3e cahier. Repaired tear in the title page. Oblong, contemporary cardboard, new linen spine. 50 hand-coloured plates. Another trade catalogue. No title page. Coloured plates 3-4, 10-16, 20-50 Rare group of trade catalogues for beds, windows and canopy designs, with richly coloured draperies. These notebooks issued from about 1810 to 1840 by three publishers of whom little is known other thantheir surnames: d'Hallavant, Osmont (a Parisian upholsterer) and Pinsonnière. Only a handful of major institutions in the world own assorted volumes from this series.…