Lot: 64
Eugene Francois Joseph Tailliar: Four Historical Pamphlets comprising Notice sur la langue romane d'oil et sur son etat, dans le nord de la France, aux XIIe et XIIIe siecles, [1837], 80pp; Essais sur L'Historie des Institutions, [n.d.]; Etudes sur les Institutions Dans leurs rapports avec les monuments. 2me Etude Domination Romaine. Periode Anterieure a L'Avenement de Diocletien en 284. [n.d.],46pp + 12 plates; and Notice sur Origine et l'Organisation des Commune dans le Nord de la France. [n.d.]; bound together in a worn & chipped quarto half-leather binding, gilt, title label still fine; marbled endpapers; two private library stamps of Francois Toraven; some pages with spotting but generally clean, the architectural essay & plates fine.
Lot: 66
Jean-Paul Marat, and A. Vermorel (Editor) Oeuvres de J.P. Marat, Decembre-Alonnier, Paris, 1869; octavo, quarter red morocco, gilt, marbled boards & endpapers, a little worn; ownership signature top of title page; tear to lower margin pp.11/12 needs repair; o/w fine internally; vii,326pp
Lot: 77
H. Lartilluex Geographie Des Chemins de Fer Francais, Chaix, 1948-1958, five volumes, tall quarto, quarter cloth, including the rare volumes for the French Colonies (ex Library of Congress) and North Africa; together with the two scarce companion volumes Chemins de Fer d'Europe 1951-53, both ex-library. Some external wear but text & illustrations fine. (7)
Lot: 117
Foreign selection 1900s to 1956, including Ceylon (5), Barbados (2), Fiji (4), Latvia (4), Aden (4), Belgian embossed stamp card, Senegal, good France (13) including early chromo and aviation, Finland (2 RPs) including fine street scene of Rovaniemi, etc. Mainly good to VF (50)
Lot: 165
Mainly 20th Century M&U Foreign on stockleaves etc, with some good items noted including France 1949-50 1000Fr Air UM, good Monaco mini-sheets UM and SG 509a FU, fine UM range of 1950s Saar UM (STC £685), plus useful French Colonies and others. (Several 100s)
Lot: 184
Maurice Knepper & Claude Pochet La Poste et le Rail, Le Vie Du Rail, 1999, large format h/bk, pictorial boards, numerous photos historical & contemporary, and many diagrams of sorting carriages. A superb history of the French Travelling Post Offices. French text. VG, no internal inscriptions. 207pp