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Les Etoiles Dernière féerie avec Astronomie des dames par le Comte Foelix The Stars. Last Fairy Tale with Ladies Astronomy by Count Foelix
1849réf. 79131Paris: G. de Gonet 1849. Fine. One of the rarest Romantic illustrated books in the publishers pictorial binding G. de Gonet Paris s. d. 1849 18 x 27 cm relié First edition of this posthumous work illustrated with 15 hand-coloured steel engravings by Charles Geoffroy including two frontispieces and a portrait of Grandville. Publishers full pictorial cloth binding the spine slightly faded signed ""Haaraus"" in the plate original yellow endpapers and pastedowns a little soiled at the margins. Discreet restoration to the head of the upper joint. Foxing to the half-title the first endpaper and some leaves also affecting the tissue guards and more lightly the plates. A splendid publication undoubtedly one of Granvilles most poetic works in whichas in his Fleurs animéesthe artist personifies the celestial bodies as young women. G. de Gonet hardcover
