Lot 98
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[French theatrical costume]
Galérie théâtrale
Auction: 02 October 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
collection de 144 portraits en pieds des principaux acteurs et actrices qui ont illustré la scène française depuis 1552 jusqu'à nos jours. Paris: A. Barraud, 1873. 2 volumes, folio (34 x 25cm), contemporary red half morocco, gilt spines, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, 144 engraved hand-coloured plates, many heightened in gold, similar additional vignette title-page to volume 1, armorial bookplates (Edward Milner, West Retford House), etched headpieces;
[Ballooning] Comte de la Vaulx, Paul Tissandier, and Charles Dollfus. L'Aéronautique des origines à 1922. Paris: H. Floury, 1922. One of 500 copies, folio, contemporary half morocco, numerous plates including facsimiles of letters and documents, original pictorial cloth covers bound in;
[Ballooning]. Livre d'or de la conquête de l'aire. Paris: Pierre Lafitte et Cie, 1909. One of 500 copies, 4to, contemporary half morocco;
Vollard, Ambroise. Tableaux, pastels, et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Paris: chez Ambroise Vollard, 1918. One of 900 copies 'sur beau papier teinté), 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary half morocco gilt, top edges gilt, 2 etched plates by Renoir, original wrappers bound in, photographic reproductions throughout;
Jamot, Paul and Georges Wildenstein. Manet. Catalogue critique. Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, 1932. 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary half morocco;
Robiquet, Jean. La Femme dans la peinture française xve-xxe siècle. Paris: Editions nationales, 1938. Folio, contemporary half morocco;
Bainbridge, Henry Charles. Peter Carl Fabergé … An Illustrated Record and Review of his Life and Work. London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1949. 4to, contemporary half morocco, custom slipcase;
and 7 others similar (including Paul-Louis de Giafferi, The L'histoire du costume féminin mondial, 2 volumes, L'histoire du costume féminin français de l'an 1037 à l'an 1870, and The History of French Masculine Costume, all containing loose fascicules of colour plates and text in original portfolios; Havard, La France artistique et monumentale, c.1895, volumes 1, 2 and 6, 4to, contemporary red half morocco) (21)
Provenance
Property from the Estate of Virginia Fortune Ryan, Dowager Countess of Airlie (1933-2024).