MARCILLY, (publisher). Le Jardinier Fleuriste Dédié aux Dames Par un Amateur. Paris: J.- M.Eberhart for Marcilly, [n.d.]. 12° (116 x 74mm). Half-title. Engraved title with hand-coloured vignette, engraved dedicatory poem as frontispiece, 12 hand-coloured stipple-engraved botanical plates. Later red morocco gilt, g.e. -- [J.B.GOURIET (d.1867)] L'Antigastronomie, ou l'homme de ville sortant de table, poème en IV chants. Paris: Hubert & Co., 1806. 12° (137 x 85mm). Half-title. Engraved frontispiece by Bovinet after Desrais. (Some light old dampstaining.) Contemporary sheep-backed boards. Second edition. Cf. Vicaire 27. -- Jean de LA FONTAINE (1621-1695). Fables. Tours: Alfred Mame & Son, 1864. 12° (174 x 110mm). Wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations after J.J.Grandville. Contemporary light brown morocco, covers with elaborate grolieresque strap-work of inlaid green morocco outlined in gilt, spine in six sections with raised bands, lettered in one, the others with strapwork decoration, watered silk liners, morocco doublures with strapwork tooled in gilt, g.e., by A.Mame. -- and 4 others, finely bound. (7)

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MARCILLY, (publisher). Le Jardinier Fleuriste Dédié aux Dames Par un Amateur. Paris: J.- M.Eberhart for Marcilly, [n.d.]. 12° (116 x 74mm). Half-title. Engraved title with hand-coloured vignette, engraved dedicatory poem as frontispiece, 12 hand-coloured stipple-engraved botanical plates. Later red morocco gilt, g.e. -- [J.B.GOURIET (d.1867)] L'Antigastronomie, ou l'homme de ville sortant de table, poème en IV chants. Paris: Hubert & Co., 1806. 12° (137 x 85mm). Half-title. Engraved frontispiece by Bovinet after Desrais. (Some light old dampstaining.) Contemporary sheep-backed boards. Second edition. Cf. Vicaire 27. -- Jean de LA FONTAINE (1621-1695). Fables. Tours: Alfred Mame & Son, 1864. 12° (174 x 110mm). Wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations after J.J.Grandville. Contemporary light brown morocco, covers with elaborate grolieresque strap-work of inlaid green morocco outlined in gilt, spine in six sections with raised bands, lettered in one, the others with strapwork decoration, watered silk liners, morocco doublures with strapwork tooled in gilt, g.e., by A.Mame. -- and 4 others, finely bound. (7)

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