BINDINGS (Pocket Size)- Brantome, Pierre de Bourdeille:

Mémoires de Messire Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur de Brantome, 9 Vols. (Vols. 1-4: Les Vies des Hommes Illustres & grands Capitaines François de son temps; 5-6: grands Capitaines estrangers; 7-8: Dames galante; & 9: Dames illustres de France). 12mo. (13.5x8 cm). Cont. full speckled calf, rubbed & hinges cracked; KARR, Alphonse: Les Guepes. 27 volumes bound in 9. Paris, 1839-45. (12.5x8.5 cm). Cont. leather backed boards; Satyre Ménippée de la vertu du catholicon d'Espagne, et de la tenue des Etats de Paris. Ratisbonne, Mathias Kerner, 1664. With 3 engraved plates (one folding), 12mo. (13.5x8 cm). 336pp. Lovely full red morocco, gilt lettering to spine, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers & t.e.g. Fine copy; Breviarium Romanum ex decreto SS. Concilii. Mecheln, Hanicquiana, 1836. PP: xxxiv, 734, ccxcii. (14x8.5 cm), Bound by "Philip, of Aberdeen" in rull red leather with blind decoration, gilt lettering to spine & a.e.g. VG; [Pascal, Blaise]: Les Provinciales ou les lettres ecrites par Louis de Montalte a un provincial de ses amis. Cologne, Nicolas Schoute, 1669. PP: (xxiv), 476. 12mo. (13.5x7.5 cm). Fine cont. full leather, gilt ruling and decoration to spine & a.e.g. Little rubbed; Augustine, Saint: Les confessions de Saint Augustin. Rouen, Jean Viret, et al. 1647. 12mo. ((14x8.5 cm), PP: (xii), 635, (1). Lovely full green morocco, gilt lettering to spine, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers & t.e.g. Fine copy; Lesage, Alain-Rene: Les Avantures de Gil Blas de Santillane, in 4 Vols. L, Jean Nourse, 1749. 12mo. (13.5x8.5 cm). Cont. full polished calf, rubbed; BYRON: Don Juan. 1827, frontispiece. (10.7x7 cm). Cont. full leather, gilt decoration & a.e.g; HOMER: The Iliad. Nd, ca 1830. (13.5x8.3 cm), Cont. half leather gilt, rubbed; PLUS: 14 OTHERS. (42)

Provenance:

From the library of Michael Kuczynski