Search Results: ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS from Varennes Books

London, Gay and Bird, 1903 Miniature hardback, 5 x 3 inches. Embossed calf leather covers (possibly the work of the Zaensdorf Bindery) with lettering and decorative patterns and gilt-edged pages. In very good condition. Some rubbing to edges and corners. Otherwise very clean and tight copy. 150pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontis portrait, decorative chapter headings, letter and tailpieces. With silk pagemark. Introduction by J. Potter Briscoe.

C.A. Demoustier, Lettres à Emilie - (1817) Ménard & Désenne, Finely bound Popular lessons to a schoolgirl on Mythology in the form of letters published in the series of "la Bibliothèque Française" illustrated with 18 plates by Johannot, Leroux, Müller, noted artists of the period. Engraved frontispiece to each part. 3 vols. 12mo. Gilt stamped maroon morocco decoratively tooled and ruled in gilt, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt, bound by Thouvenin, Condition: Some wear and rubbing to edges and covers; some internal toning, offsetting, and foxing; overall very good.

De Blegny, Etienne,Very Rare original edition of L'Ortografe françoise. Paris: G. André, 1667, 155 pp., elegantly rebound in green leather with gilt titles and gilt decoration to spine; top edge gilt, slight bumping to corners. First book published by Writing Master and Calligrapher Etienne de Blégny. a member of the guild of maîtres écrivains. This early pedagogical work is a treatise on French orthography. Notation inside front cover suggests this volume is from library of Augustin de Backer (1809-1873), Belgian Jesuit and renowned bibliographer.