Gavarni - Perles et parures - 1850

MÉRY, Joseph; GAVARNI, Paul; FOELIX (cte) [RABAN, Louis-François]. Pearls and jewels. The Jewels. Fantaisie by Gavarni. Text by Méry. Mineralogy of ladies by the Count Fœlix. [and] The Adornments. Fantaisie by Gavarni. Text by Méry. History of fashion by the Count Fœlix. Paris, G. de Gonet, Martinon, Mme widow Janet; Leipzig, Charles Twietmeyer, [1850]. 2 volumes in-8, 27.5 x 18.7 cm, [1] f., 316 pp., frontispiece and 16 plates; 300 pp., frontispiece and 15 plates, half-ruled ruby morocco with gilt fillet of the period, spine adorned with four ribs, general and title pieces in black calf, covers of percaline embossed, head-piece set, not cut, illustrated cover. Beautiful condition, one extra band, minute browning.

Original edition of these precious illustrated works in total with two identical frontispieces and 31 copper engravings by Geoffroy after Gavarni, in the first printing. Copy complete with the general covers printed in red, in a pleasant contemporary binding, and containing the colored plates of the period, printed on vellum paper with frames cut in lace. Carteret, III, 460; Vicaire V, 770-71.

Ex-libris Fondation Napoléon - Bibliothèque Martial Lapeyre, with dry stamp (Artcurial sale of May 27, 2013, no. 45); K. Fritsch.