HISTORY and miscellaneous. XIXth-XXth centuries. -Set of abo - Lot 143

HISTORY and miscellaneous. XIXth-XXth centuries. -Set of about 20 volumes; some defects and incompleteness. Courier (Paul-Louis). Collection complète des pamphlets politiques et opuscules littéraires. Bruxelles, chez tous les libraires, 1826. In-8, half calf; worn binding (period binding). First collective edition. Copper-engraved portrait-frontispiece. -Defoe (Daniel). Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Paris, H.Fournier, 1840. In-4, ornate half-chagrin with corners; spine faded and spotted (period binding). Wood-engraved illustration by Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard dit Grandville. -Florian (Jean-Pierre Claris de). Fables. Paris, Delloye, Desmé etCie, 1838. In-4, threaded half-basane; binding worn and stained (period binding). With notice by Charles Nodier. Illustrated from drawings by Victor Adam, hors-texte etchings on chine appliqué, woodcuts in the text. -Hours of the Middle Ages. Paris, Gruel, Engelmann, 1862. In-16, decorated morocco, metal clasps, gilt edges, volume placed in folder and percaline case (publisher's binding). Entirely chromolithographed. -LouisXVIII]. Relation d'un voyage à Bruxelles et à Coblentz (1791). Paris, Baudouin frères, 1823. In-8, half calf fleurdelisé; long split at upper spine (period binding). Provenance: Léon Brun (stamp on title). -Maeterlinck (Maurice). LaVie des termites. Paris, Bibliothèque-Charpentier, Eugène Fasquelle, 1926. In-16, decorated morocco, gilt head. First edition. Frontispiece. -Satyre ménippée de la vertu du catholicon d'Espagne et de la tenue des estats de Paris. ÀParis, chez N.Delangle, et chez Dalibon, 1824. 2volumes in-8, rubbed half calf (slightly later binding). With preface by Charles Nodier. Out-of-text etchings by Tony and Alfred Johannot after Achille Devéria, printed on chine appliqué. -Thomas a Kempis (Thomas Hemerken, dit). The Imitation of Jesus Christ. Tournai, Desclée, Lefebvre etCie, 1881. In-16, decorated morocco, gilt edges (publisher's binding). -Verronnais (François). Annuaire historique, statistique, administratif, militaire, judiciaire et commrecial du département de la Moselle pour 1850-1851. Metz, Verronnais; Paris, Courcier, 1850. In-12, ornate half-chagrin (period binding). -Etc.