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164. LEVY, Albert. Repertoire du Gout Moderne. No.1. Published by Editions Albert Levy, Paris, 1928. The first of five to be issued between 1928-1932. Loose as issued and in the original portfolio with ties. Forty pochoir-colored plates by Saudé, many heightened with gold & silver, illustrate interior designs by contemporary French architects and designers including Djo-Bourgeois, E. Kohlmann, Francis Jourdain, Jean Luce and Maurice Matet. 323 x 250 mm.
£1,000
165 165. LICHINE, Alexis. Wines of France. Cassell. 1964. £350
8vo., sometime finely bound in half green morocco with gilt rules over cloth covered boards, spine lettered and panelled in gilt with raised bands with gilt rules, all edges gilt. Spine very lightly sunned, a near fine copy.
Sixth edition, revised and enlarged. Inscribed by Lichine to the film director, actor and writer Bryan Forbes and his wife Nanette Newman “To Nanette & Bryan Forbes whose appetites, I hope will be wetted by this book, to guide them to Chateau Lacombes & Prieuré where a royal welcome awaits them. With warmest best wishes, Alexis.” With Forbes’s bookplate.
166. LICHTENBERGER, André (author). Mariette LYDIS (illustrator). Angomar et Priscilla. Paris; Calmann-Lévy. 1935. £78
Royal 8vo. Original lilac grey pictorial boards, pictorial pink butterfly endpapers; pp. [ii] + 32; with coloured lithographs throughout including 3 full-page and one double-page; an unusually clean and attractive copy.
First edition, with text in French. A gloriously ethereal book.
167. LILLY, William An Introduction to Astrology. Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper. 1835.
£200
8vo. Later half brown calf with marbled boards, gilt spine red morocco label to spine with gilt lettering; pp. xvi + 342, frontispiece portrait of Lilly, astrological charts in text; slight rubbing to edges, a little light foxing to frontispiece, otherwise very good.
A later edition, edited by ‘Zadkiel’, of the astrological teachings of William Lilly (1602 - 1681), a still influential astrologer. Lilly was famed in his time for his predictions of future events based on horary astrology,
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in which he cast a chart for a given time and drew conclusions from it depending on the positions of the stars and the moon. A number of horary charts are included in this work. So accurate was his 1652 prediction of the Great Fire of London that he was later suspected of having started it. A firm Parliamentarian who backed up his political views with astological predictions, he fell out of favour during the Restoration, which may have had some bearing on the allegations brought against him.
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168. LIND, Jenny. The Jenny Lind Illustrated Almanac for Leap Year, 1848. Printed for the Booksellers, 1848.
£148
8vo, original full parchment, upper board blind stamped with outline of Jenny Lind and facsimile of her signature, upper board with wavy blind- stamped borders with floral cornerpieces in blind, lower board similar, with broad cornerpieces, enclosing large blind-stamped floral figure, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, patented brass clasp; pp. 24 [alphabetically-divided lined pages], 295 [blank lined pages], 15 [almanac proper]; engraved portrait of Jenny Lind at start of almanac, 9 small decorative woodcut headers in almanac; very good, unused.
Alamanac comprises: ‘Portrait of Jenny Lind, Daily Calendar, Remarkable Events, Moon’s Changes, Weather for every day in the Year, Stamp Tables, Interest Tables, Table to calculate Wages, Window Duties, Domestic Recipes, Medicinal Recipes, Eclipses for 1848, Observations on the Weather, Reigning Soverigns [sic] & Princes, Railway Speed, with a List of Fairs.’
Almanacs flourished during the Victorian era with the emergence of increasingly literate populations, cheaper paper-making, printing and illustrating, and the removal of taxes on the press. As important as the sheer
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