Set of 5 volumes: - Lot 1

Set of 5 volumes: - DOUCET (Jérôme). Princesses d'Or et d'Orient. Paris, Aux dépens de l'Auteur, 1922. In-8 square, green half-basin, decorated spine, illustrated cover (period binding). Author's edition of 500 copies. Printed on fine water-green vellum, decorated with 15 illustrations in gold on white or black ground from drawings by Ternat, including 5 full-page illustrations and 10 chapter vignettes and headbands. Each page is framed by a gilded bold and lean double fillet. Spine faded. - LE NOBLE (Alexandre)]. La Rapinéide ou L'Atelier, poème burlesco-comico-tragique en 7 chants par un ancien Rapin des ateliers Gros et Girodet. Paris, Barraud, 1870. In-8, bottle-green glazed calf, triple gilt fillet, central cold cartouche, smooth spine decorated with long title, interior roulette, gilt head, cover (Behrends). Illustrated by Henry Somm, including cover, frontispiece, 15 etchings including 7 full-page figures, and 10 woodcuts (headbands and tailpieces). One of 20 copies on chine. Slight rubbing to binding (spine, headpieces and corners). - LA GOURNERIE (Eugène de). Histoire de Paris et de ses monuments. Tours, Mame et Cie, 1852. In-8, publisher's percaline decorated on boards and spine with polychrome plates, the one on the first board signed Haarhaus. Some foxing, rubbing to boards. - Set of 2 bindings. - LEGOUVE. Le Mérite des femmes. Third edition. Paris, Imprimerie Didot, Louis, An IX. In-12. Binding with odorless varnish, decorated on the front board with a pelican feeding its young with its flesh. One plate missing. Interior foxing and spotting. - ALBUM E. ARNAUD. Words by MM. Barateau, Lonlay, Constantin & Tourte. Drawings by F. Grenier. Paris, Ménestrel, Meissonnier fils, s.d. [mid-nineteenth century]. In-4, brown leather embossed with Renaissance decoration, black velvet spine (Dulud & Cie) Curious binding decorated with relief decoration in the style of Renaissance sculptures. Executed around 1860, it bears the signature of Dulud & Cie in Paris. Damage to binding.