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    Convolute: Pélagie la sainte. Quarter red buckram over marbled papers with brown gilt-lettered calf label to spine, 399 x 290 mm. Consists of: One blank leaf
    • Gérard de Nerval. Mémoires d'un parisien: Sainte-Pélagie, en. 1832. Published in L'Artiste : journal de la littérature et des beaux-arts 1841 (SER2,T7). L'ARTISTE, | JOURNAL DE LA LITTÉRATURE ET DES BEAUX-ARTS. | 2° Série. – Tome 6 (ms pencil 7 et 8) | {vignette signed M. ALOPHE} | PARIS. | AUX BUREAUX DE L'ARTISTE, RUE DE SEINE-SAINT-GERMAIN, 39 | 1840. (crossed out, ms pencil 1841) || Engraved title, h.t./imprint, t.p., pp. 251-256 (six leaves); p. 252-5:
    • Talon / Maison de Sainte-Pélagie November 18, 1822 (One leaf)
    • Maxime du Camp. Les prisons de Paris. Published in: Revue de deux mondes, 83, № 3 (1eroctobre 1869), pp. [598]-634 (17 leaves).
    • Philibert Audebrand. La Gazette de Sainte-Pélagie. Published in: L'Intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux, № 518, 10 Dec 1889, p. 711. (Newspaper clip).
    Three blank leaves
    • Pélagie la Sainte 1889. Numero unique. Edité par les soins du Journal « la France » | SOUS LA DIRECTION DE M. PILLARD D'ARKAÏ || Title engraved on wood and hand-painted. Texts by Paul Adam, Paul Bonnetain, Simon Boubée, Léon Cladel, Camille Dreyfus, Ch. Gilbert-Martin, Victor Hugo, Camille Lemonnier, Maurice Mac-Nab, Louise Michel, Félix Pyat, Rachilde, Xavier Raspail, Jean Richepin, Henri Rochefort, Laurent Tailhade, Émile Zola, etc. Illustrations by Ch. Clérice, Ch. Gilbert-Martin, Alfred Le Petit, Eugène Rapp. Pp. 1-24 (12 leaves). Gallica: Pélagie la sainte, 1889 / [signé Pillard d'Arkaï]
    Two blank leaves Contributors: Maxime du Camp (French, 1822 – 1984) Marie-Alexandre Alophe (French, 1812 – 1883) Arkaï, Léo d' (French, 1869-19..?) Philibert Audebrand (French, 1815 – 1906) Eugène Rapp (French, 1863 – 1889)
  • Cover: LES | RÉUNIONS PUBLIQUES | A PARIS | 1868 — 1869 | PAR | AUGUSTE VITU | TROISIÈME ÉDITION | Augmentée d’un Appendice contenant les Jugements et Arrêts | rendus à Paris en matière de réunions publiques | PARIS | E. DENTU, LIBRAIRE-ÉDITEUR | PALAIS-ROYAL, 17-19, GALERIE D’ORLÉANS | MAI 1869 || ; t.p. similar with no dash between 17 and 19 in the bottom. Pagination: [1-5] 6-151 [1]; collation: 8vo, [1]8 2-98 103; 23 x 14 cm, publisher’s lettered blue paper wrappers. Printer: Dubuisson et Cie (Paris). Vitu, Auguste-Charles-Joseph (French, 1823 – 1891)
  • Half-title: BARON MUNCHAUSEN Title: THE TRAVELS | AND | SURPRISING ADVENTURES | OF | BARON MUNCHAUSEN. | ILLUSTRATED WITH | THIRTY-SEVEN CURIOUS ENGRAVINGS, | FROM | THE BARON'S OWN DESIGNS, | AND FIVE WOODCUTS, | BY G. CRUIKSHANK. | [device] | LONDON : WILLIAM TEGG. | 1869.|| [RASPE, Rudolf Erich]. The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen. / Illustrated with 37 curious engravings, from the Baron's own designs, and five woodcuts, by G. Cruikshank. — London: William Tegg, 1869. Pagination: xii + [10] + 268 pp, 23 plates: hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, 5 woodcuts by Cruikshank, other b/w etchings, two folding plates. Binding: 19 x 13 cm; hardbound, 8vo, early 20th century 3/4 dark plum morocco gilt-ruled, raised bands, title label, gilt lettering, gilt in compartments, top edge gilt. Catalogue raisonné: A. Cohn: #584, p. 172. This edition is an identical re-issue of the 1867 edition.