ARETINO, Pietro (1492-1556). Le premier livre des Ragionamenti. Paris: Georges Briffaut, 1939, 4° (220 x 151mm). Pochoir-coloured plates, illustrations, after Berthommé Saint André. Purple and brown moroccco by Beauchesne, with various onlays and gilt tooling on covers and spine to represent the sexual organs within a strapwork frame, top edges gilt, others uncut, slipcase. ONE OF 1500 COPIES with the plates in colour.
BILITIS. Les Chansons de ... traduites du Grec par Pierre Louÿs. Brussels: Éditions du Carrefour, [1943]. Small 4°, 16 coloured plates after Suzanne Ballivet, and an extra suite of 16 more explicit coloured plates at end. (Lightly soiled.) Contemporary shaped red leather with applied figure of a female nude in white (somewhat rubbed). Limited edition. -- SOREL, Charles. La vraie histoire comique de Francion. Paris: Imprimerie Union, 1955. Large 8° (271 x 179mm). Illustrations, some full-page, in colour after Schem. Citron half morocco. EXEMPLAIRE D'ARTISTE signed by Schem; and 14 others of similar taste bound in modern morocco (Pierre Louys's Les aventures du Roi Pausole apparently imperfect). (17)
ARETINO, Pietro (1492-1556). Le premier livre des Ragionamenti. Paris: Georges Briffaut, 1939, 4° (220 x 151mm). Pochoir-coloured plates, illustrations, after Berthommé Saint André. Purple and brown moroccco by Beauchesne, with various onlays and gilt tooling on covers and spine to represent the sexual organs within a strapwork frame, top edges gilt, others uncut, slipcase. ONE OF 1500 COPIES with the plates in colour.
BILITIS. Les Chansons de ... traduites du Grec par Pierre Louÿs. Brussels: Éditions du Carrefour, [1943]. Small 4°, 16 coloured plates after Suzanne Ballivet, and an extra suite of 16 more explicit coloured plates at end. (Lightly soiled.) Contemporary shaped red leather with applied figure of a female nude in white (somewhat rubbed). Limited edition. -- SOREL, Charles. La vraie histoire comique de Francion. Paris: Imprimerie Union, 1955. Large 8° (271 x 179mm). Illustrations, some full-page, in colour after Schem. Citron half morocco. EXEMPLAIRE D'ARTISTE signed by Schem; and 14 others of similar taste bound in modern morocco (Pierre Louys's Les aventures du Roi Pausole apparently imperfect). (17)