From the Library of the Tissandier Brothers

TISSANDIER, Gaston.

Livres Minuscules. La plus Grande Bibliothèque des plus Petits Livres du Monde. Collection de M. Georges Salomon...Extrait de La Nature.

Illus. in the text. 2 p.l., 20 pp. Small 4to, orig. printed wrappers bound in cont. red straight-grained morocco (upper cover with the slightest abrasions), single gilt fillet round sides, flat spine gilt, t.e.g. Paris: G. Masson, 1894.

First edition of this very uncommon bibliography of miniature books, based on the celebrated collection of Georges Salomon. He formed the largest 19th-century collection of such books, numbering about 700 volumes. They were later dispersed; many of them found their way into the library of Arthur A. Houghton Jr. and were sold at auction in 1979.

This copy, specially bound in fine red straight-grained morocco, comes from the library of the Tissandier Brothers. Fine copy.

❧ Besterman 3975-76.

Price: $1,750.00

Item ID: 4948