MISCELLANY, 19th CENTURY - J. J. GRANDVILLE (1803-47, [pseudonym of Jean Ignace Isidore GÉRARD]). Les Fleurs Animées. [etc.]

MISCELLANY, 19th CENTURY - J. J. GRANDVILLE (1803-47, [pseudonym of Jean Ignace Isidore GÉRARD]).  Les Fleurs Animées … Nouvelle Édition. Paris: Garnier Frères, [?1867]. 2 volumes, 4to (267 x 185mm). 2 hand-coloured frontispieces and 50 hand-coloured wood-engraved plates by Grandville, 2 uncoloured plates, vignettes (some spotting and staining). Contemporary pebbled red cloth, original wrappers bound in. With 15 other miscellaneous 19^th-century works in 17 volumes, namely John Bull … Vol. III. From January 5, 1823, to December 28, 1823 (London, 1823, issues 108-159 bound in one vol., contemporary half roan, crudely rebacked), John Locke’s An Essay concerning Human Understanding … Twenty Fifth Edition (London, 1824, attractively bound in contemporary black half calf gilt), [William Makepeace Thackeray’s] Mrs Perkins’s Ball ([London, 1847], tinted plates, contemporary half calf), A. Soyer’s The Gastronomic Regenerator: a Simplified and Entirely New System of Cookery … Fourth Edition (London, 1847, plates, original cloth), The Illustrated Exhibitor, a Tribute to the World’s Industrial Jubilee; comprising Sketches, by Pen and Pencil, of the Principal Objects in the Great Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations, 1851 (London, [1851], 10 folding plates, contemporary half calf), Oliver Goldsmith’s The Poems (London, 1859, text within gilt-ruled border throughout, illustrations printed in colours, contemporary elaborate decorated morocco), John Beckmann’s A History of Inventions, Discoveries and Origins … Translated from the German, by William Johnston (London, Bohn’s Standard Library, 1846, 2 vols., original cloth decorated in blind), J. J. Grandville’s Vie Privée et Publique des Animaux (Paris, 1867, contemporary red morocco gilt, joints splitting, rubbed), Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Christophe’s Répertoire de la Comédie Humaine de H. de Balzac (Paris, 1887, contemporary half morocco), Guillemette Desgranges’s La Famille le Jarriel (Paris, 1889, fine original pictorial cloth gilt), Rudyard Kipling’s Under the Deodars (Allahabad, 1890, third edition, original pictorial wrappers, torn with severe loss and laid down, RARE), Lord de Tabley’s Poems Dramatic and Lyrical (London, 1893, illustrations by C. S. Ricketts, original decorated cloth designed by Ricketts), Mary Russell Mitford’s Our Village (London, 1893, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, original pictorial cloth gilt), Alphonse Daudet’s Le Trésor d’ Arlatan (Paris, 1897, illustrations by H. Laurent-Desrousseaux printed in colours, morocco-backed boards), Rudyard Kipling’s A Fleet in Being (London, 1898, original pictorial cloth) and Robert Louis Stephenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses (London, 1898, illustrations by Charles Robinson, original pictorial cloth gilt). Provenance: From the Library of the late Sir George Engle. Please note that only a part of this lot is illustrated. The lot sold not subject to return. (19)