Exploitation Des Mines. Livres I, II & III. From the Library of Charlie Watts.

Three volumes bound in one. Livre I undated; Livres II&III dated 1907. 1/2 red leather over marbled boards, gilt titles, marbled endpapers. B/w diagrams throughout, some folding. Printed throughout in script type font. French. Cours d'Exploitation Des Mines. Professeur M. Debay. Condition: Very Good. Light edge wear and sunning to spine. Browning/foxing to beginning and end of volume 1, and the end of vols 2 and 3, but otherwise generally clean and bright. No inscriptions. Binding firm. Size: 9x7in / 23x18cm. Each volume numbered separately: 171/150/300pp. Weight: 1.28kg. Provenance: From the library of Charlie Watts. Exeter May 2026 Auction. ?Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood are proud and delighted to have been entrusted with the sale of the Collection of the Late Charlie and Shirley Watts. The drummer of the greatest Rock and Roll band and the love of his life, the talented horse breeder and sculptress Shirley chose Devonshire as their retreat - and it was at Halsdon House, near the village of Dolton that they lived out their lives together in rural happiness? Watts was an incorrigible bibliophile and Christie?s have already held two remarkable sales of some of his most desirable tomes - famously successful auctions of Literature and Jazz, which they described as ?a fitting tribute to the exquisite taste of the legendary Rolling Stones drummer, Charlie Watts..…