Jun 21, 2012 - Sale 2282

Sale 2282 - Lot 160

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
GRANDVILLE IN PERIOD BINDINGS (GRANDVILLE, J. J.) Swift, Jonathan. Voyages de Gulliver dans des Contrées Lointaines. 2 volumes in 1. Illustrations, head- and tail-pieces illustrated by Grandville. 8vo, handsome polished red calf gilt by Lardière, some moderate rubbing and light scuffing, spine evenly faded; half-title present for Part 2, lower outer tip of frontispiece missing. first edition with grandville illustrations and considered among his best literary illustrations. Carteret III, 578; Vicaire VIII, 718. Paris: H. Fournier Aine, et Furne, 1938

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with--Reybaud. Jérome Paturot a la Recherche d'une Position Sociale. Illustrated by Grandville. 4to, contemporary 1/4 green morocco with black borders in spine compartments, by Quinet. First Edition with the Grandville illustrations. Vicaire VI, p. 1101; Sander 587; Ray 197. Paris: Dubochet, Le Chevalier, 1846 Florian. Fables . . . suivies de Tobie et de Ruth . . . précédées d'une notice sure la vie et les ouvrages de Florian par P. J. Shahl. Frontispiece and 79 illustrations by Grandville plus vignettes. 4to, publisher's gilt-pictorial blue cloth, joints and hinges cracked. Early edition. Paris: Dubochet, 1842. Carteret III, 238 (for first edition).