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December 20, Friend Bertrand in his blog Modern Bibliophile us store with her usual enthusiasm and sense of beauty, a handsome cardboard Romance he had found under number 124 in the catalog of a colleague. Here's the gist of his remarks:
catalog number 124, is an example of cardboard rare romantic, more interesting to a in my opinion, and remember. Bernard will certainly give us his opinion on the matter. Here's what it is:
124 - THE QUARRY (CA). Journey to the gold countries. Africa, Mexico, California, Peru, Chile, New Caledonia, Australia, Russia. Paris, A. Courcier, [1855]. In-8 (2) ff., 328 pp. ; Black buckram, polychrome decoration on the back and the front cover, gilt finial in the center of the back cover, gilt edges (binding to the editor). First and only edition. It is illustrated with a vignette on title, woodcut vignettes in text and 12 lithographed plates with tinted Jules Arnout. Travel philosophical and anthropological sites in the major global gold. The book contains three chapters devoted to California including episodes of the gold rush, a description of San Francisco and a board showing the burning of the city. Another chapter is devoted to Australia. Rare and fine copy in illustrated boards publisher. Ferguson, 7977. - Sabin 38450.
This completes the description of this book. Interesting theme, even rare. Binding of time in perfect condition. Everything comes together to make this book a room coveted by bibliophiles. The book is priced at 2,500 euros.
Personally I have never met this item. By searching the search engine vialibri I could locate duplicate under different conditions and at different prices.
- Copy editor percaline (same one?), Modest copy reseat, wear, foxing, etc.. About 1150 euros (Anglo-Saxon library).
- Copy half grief red binder announced in perfect condition, but the spots. 550 euros by a French bookstore.
I let you express yourself on this item and this pretty binding editor. The opinion of our friend Bernard will be most valuable to judge properly.
Notice that I promised to Bertrand upon my return from holidays. I was just searching my shelves and I found the copy reproduced above. Identical to the front as that proposed by our colleague and with the back iron that is relatively common generic Robinson hung like a barnacle to a rock. Iron is the reproduction of the woodcut frontispiece contained in Structure and captioned:
"A Place in California"
But within that radius, I have a second copy absolutely identical as regards the title, publisher, date of irons but with quite different. On the front in a floral design that my readers will find the latest on other volumes, is the center a standing figure leaning on a barrel and supervises the unloading of a boat. The iron front is a reproduction of a woodcut appearing in the book and named: "Trafficking of gum." the back, a vase with flowers and arabesques of banal.
And then on my boards, I find a third copy with the front of the iron in Place California, ie our two Chinese digging in the same circle and back, an iron that I know well and contained a pasha boarding a ship, greeted by a sailor, an old man in a turban and smoking chibouque her sitting in the background. The gold of the book are of poor quality. It's not like the gold chains of the two previous copies but a mixture of metals including copper called "German gold" by suppliers and that was much cheaper but wore out quickly. Mégard in Rouen as Barbou Limoges have extensively used this material.
Title: George Anson Byron-Ross. Travel around the World and the countries of the world's most curious since Christopher Columbus to the present day by the most popular browsers. Paris, Charles de Lamotte and Co. 1860. A volume in-8 ° (150x245) illustrated with 8 beautiful plates
engraved on steel. Brown buckram. Irons unsigned.
And to continue the round, always in the same radius of Travel I found a copy of Around the World or a flower in each country, a book J.-B.-J. Champagnac not uncommon for boards and I know of at least five different irons. We have here the second edition published in Paris in Lehuby 1850. It is a large volume in-8 ° (165x260) with 20 boards off text. The copy is in blue buckram, gold chains and mosaics and found the front of this volume of the iron we had Pacha on the back of the previous volume, all within the framework of the first and third volume, our Chinese digging. Against the back face by a three-masted, iron generic very common. He runs, he runs the Iron Ladies of wood, he went through here, that again ..... The rhyme is not over.
That now that I come away with a book chains identical to the first except of course the central iron. The front still our pasha who boarded the Iron is also the reproduction of the frontispiece of this book, oddly enough lithography caption:
"A seaport in Sicily." These are the Nile and Danube, souvenirs of a Tourist. Egypt, Turkey, Crimea, Danubian Provinces JD Bois-Robert, illustrated book of 12 prints in two colors and numerous vignettes by JB Arnout Father Carey. An In-8 °
(153x241) published in 1850 in Paris by A. Courcier. A blue buckram gilt and mosaic. On the back we find our Robinson and his rock. come full circle with the first volume. Same face except iron specific central even reverse.
issues remain. As a publisher Courcier used twice this iron core and with different motives. Lamotte, after almost ten years later and after Lehuby. How this iron was circulated? who kept during those 10 years? Why do we have decided to make the cover of Around the World, while the original lithograph belongs to Nile and Danube?
One day I may be the answer to these questions. In the meantime I hope you enjoy my little round iron which has no other aim than make you participate in this study Cartonnages Romantics. Personally, I find it exciting and hopefully not the only one. Good evening.
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