Collection du Marquis de Biron : première vente ; catalogue des dessins, pastels, peintures et sculptures principalement de l'école française du XVIIIe siècle ; objects d'art et d'ameublement ... etc. ; [Paris, 9. - 11. 6. 1914.]
In French. 1914 Galerie Georges Petit (Paris), 10 1/4 x 13 inches tall red buckram cloth hardcover, gilt ruling and lettering to spine, title page in red and black, profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs, 192 pp. plus 390 full-page plates. Very slight soiling and rubbing to covers. Signature of prior owner (who likely had this volume bound), noted collector of European ceramics Dorothy Condon Falkner to blank front free-endpaper. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked.
A magnificently illustrated catalog of the art objects in the collection of Guillaume Marie Etienne de Gontaut-Biron, Marquis de Gontaut-Biron (1859-1939).