Catalogue of a valuable library of French and other literature in fine old and modern bindings […] : [vente du 1er mai 1939]

Catalogue of a valuable library of French and other literature in fine old and modern bindings comprising a collection of 18th century illustrated books, including the Fermier-Généraux edition of La Fontaine's Contes, and a coloured copy of Oudry's edition of the Fables, Daphnis and Chloë, 1757, Tasso's La Gerusalemme Liberata, 1784, Virgil's Georgics, 1794, with four original drawings by Eisen, the Kehl Voltaire and others, in contemporary morocco bindings, books with plates printed in colour, and collections of theatrical costume, books from the libraries of Napoleon I and Marie-Louise bound by Bozérian and Simier, finely illustrated editions of works by Balzac, Baudelaire, Bourget, Dumas, Flaubert, Anatole France, Gautier, Halévy, Victor Hugo, Maupassant, de Musset and Zola, presentation copies of the works of modern French writers […] Verlaine's poems, copiously annotated by the author, etc. etc. the property of a gentleman, resident in France which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. G. D. Hobson, M.V.O., F. W. Warre, O.B.E., M.C., C. G. des Graz, C. V. Pilkington, P. Wilson auctioneers of literary property & works illustrative of the fine arts at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond Street, W. 1 on Monday, May 1st, 1939, and following day, at one o'clock precisely