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  • Voyage autour de ma Chambre – Xavier de Maistre – Beautifully Illustrated by Maggy Monier

    Voyage autour de ma Chambre – Xavier de Maistre – Beautifully Illustrated by Maggy Monier

    Published by Nilsson, Paris the “Collection Emeraude [Emerald]” c 1930 with twelve aquarelles (watercolours) by Maggy Monier tipped in at front and throughout. A striking and delightful production.

    The author Xavier de Maistre (1763-1852) wrote this work in 1790 and it was published in 1794 when he was under arrest in Turin as a result of a duel.

    Voyage autour de ma chambre is a parody set in the tradition of the grand travel narrative. An autobiographical account of how a young official, imprisoned in his room for six weeks, looks at the furniture, engravings, etc., as if they were scenes from a voyage in a strange land. He praises this voyage because it does not cost anything, for and he recommends it to the poor, the infirm, and the lazy. “When I travel through my room,” he writes, “I rarely follow a straight line: I go from the table towards a picture hanging in a corner; from there, I set out obliquely towards the door; but even though, when I begin, it really is my intention to go there, if I happen to meet my armchair en route, I don’t think twice about it, and settle down in it without further ado.” Later, proceeding North, he encounters his bed, and in this way he light heartedly continues his “Voyage”.

    It was later quoted or referenced by Somerset Maugham, D H Lawrence. Jorge Luis Borges and other literary greats.

    Another beautiful french illustrated book

    $120.00

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  • Candide – Voltaire – With Beautiful Full Page Pochoir Illustrations

    Candide – Voltaire – With Beautiful Full Page Pochoir Illustrations

    Voltaire wrote Candide in three days in 1759. It is hilarious and must have inspired many comedic scribes. Martin Seymour-Smith regarded Candide as one of “The 100 Most influential Books Ever Written”.

    This beautiful edition from the 1920’s published in Paris on the Champs-Elysees. It contains six unusual and striking aquarelles (watercolours) by Robert Polack.

    Candide Beautifully Illustrated- French

    $140.00

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  • Legendes d’Orient et d’Occident – Edouard Schure – Hand Coloured Illustrations by Maggy Monier

    Legendes d’Orient et d’Occident – Edouard Schure – Hand Coloured Illustrations by Maggy Monier

    Published Paris in the 1920′s and in the French language beautifully illustrated with hand coloured plates by Maggy Monier.

    In original beautifully illustrated wrappers. Rather browned throughout in the text but the tipped in striking illustrations are bright and clean as new.

    Edouard Schure (1841-1929) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist and publicist of esoteric literature.

    No better illustrations

    $140.00

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