Lot 23: LE PETIT, Jules (1845-1915). L'art d'aimer les livres et les connaître. Lettres à un jeune bibliophile . Paris: Georges Chamerot for the author, 26 April 1884. 8° (198 x 125mm). Title in red and black with vignette, etching by Alfred

LE PETIT, Jules (1845-1915). L'art d'aimer les livres et les connaître. Lettres à un jeune bibliophile. Paris: Georges Chamerot for the author, 26 April 1884. 8° (198 x 125mm). Title in red and black with vignette, etching by Alfred Gérardin, page ornaments, printer's device at end. (Title spotted.) Brown half morocco by Lortic, 1925, flat spine gilt-tooled in art nouveau style, original wrappers bound in (front wrapper spotted). Provenance: Ch. Bosse, 1925. FIRST EDITION. Vicaire V, 212.

Together with 6 other works in various formats: Edmond Bonnaffé, Les collectionneurs de l'ancienne Rome. Paris: 1867; Edmond Bonnaffé, Physiologie du curieux. Paris: 1881; Annales Littéraires. [Paris]: 1892. Number 8 of 600 copies; Charles Nodier, Le bibliomane. Paris: 1894. Frontispiece, illustrations throughout. Number 357 of 500 copies; Francesco Lumachi, Historie per gli amici de libri. Florence: 1910. Gabriel Hanotaux, Bibliophiles. Paris: 1924; and a second copy of Le Petit's work. All bound in morocco gilt. (7)