French Paper (14 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Has short illustrated history of paper, and the French company in the front, illustrated in a classic 50s comic style.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 16 pp., bound in pictorial boards. Light wear on head/tail spine, very small chip from 1 page. Very good copy. Six large pop-ups. 'Soundmachine' needs a new battery. 26 x 30 cm.

Condition: Very Good. A clever promotional piece for an American paper company called the French Paper Company, family owned and founded in 1871. They are know for their promotional pieces and for their premium paper. This piece is a box containing 24 cards, each being a paper sample, that can be fit together to form the image of a construction worker or can be used to make 3-D constructions of a rambler, luxury hotel, world trade center, of building of your choice. The cards are housed in a folding paper box with a grain pattern. A screw pierces the deck of cards and is held in place with a wingnut. Clean and bright. Size: about 3.75 x 2.75 inches. MINI/012125.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Thillaye, L[ouis] J[acques] S[ylvestre]. Manuel du fabricant d' indiennes - renfermant les impressions des laines, des chalis et des soies; précédeé de la descripition botanique et chimique des matières colorantes. Ouvrage . destiné à faire suite au manuel du fabricant d'étoffes imprimées et de papiers peints. Paris, Librairie encyclopédique de Roret, 1834.16mo. viii + 338 p + 3 folding plates with 68 illustrations engraved by Guiget + errata leaf + 36 p of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary marbled calf, backstrip gilt with red title labels; marbled book block. First edition of an illustrated pocket manual on the colour-printing process of woollen and silk fabrics, shawls and paper. Including a specialist technical index on pp313-338. Thillaye (1776-1860) was professor of physics at the College Louis le Grand. Corners scuffed, isolated light foxing, otherwise an attractive copy in a contemporary binding.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original illustrated and decorative wrappers. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 14, [2] p., 9 unnumbered b/w ills. Early unusual and attractive pamphlet including French photographic papers and plates of famous French manufacturer Guilleminot's products printed for the Ottoman Empire, pre-Republic in 1923. Guilleminot (R. Guilleminot, B?spflug et Cie) based in Paris, France was a photographic paper, and plate manufacturer established by Gustave Guilleminot in 1858. The company closed in 1994, but employee Guy Gerard (a chemical engineer for 30 years) went on to start a new company, Bergger. The suburb of Chantilly in Paris was the headquarters for Guilleminot (also known as R. Guilleminot, Boespflug et Cie), which, founded in 1858, was one of the oldest photographic paper manufacturers in the world. Popular Guilleminot brands included Riviera, Étoile, and Dinox. This rare product brochure and advertisement pamphlet indicate that this photographer was very active in the Ottoman market. Not in Özege.; Not in OCLC. Extremely rare.

in the foreground is a well attired man talking to a woman similarly attired. The composition of the scene suggests that the well dressed couple in the foreground may well be the sheep farmer and his wife visiting their flock in the evening as the sun goes down over the horizon in the background. It was common practise for shepherd's to wear stilts in areas of grazing land that were subject to flooding, the flute playing may be to ward off foxes with the approach of night. The illustrator Georges Redon ( 1896 - 1943 ) was a French painter , illustrator , cartoonist , poster artist ,engraver and lithographer.

Bound in contemporary full vellum, edges painted red, traces of leather ties. Watermark : narrow cross in a circle with a crown on top on the other page the initials C.R.

Bound in contemporary half vellum, boards covered with blue marbled paper, with traces of ties. With a muscript label pasted on the first paste down : '' Mr. Joseph Mazoillier, Vice-Consul à Tarfoux Asie-Mineure''. The register contains 78 pages, all entirely blank. Some wear at the marbled boards, but on the whole very well preserved , srainless collection of early 19th c. handmade paper.

12. Bound in contemporary full vellum, edges painted red, traces of leather ties. The register contains 192 pages. The first 89 are numbered in ink and contains some text. ( as indicatede in the title). The rest of the pages ( 102) are unnumbered and entirely blank. Watermark : a winged four-legged animal half-upright ( sort of harmless looking dragon - griffon in French - ca. 90 mm long). On most opposite leaves the text '' FIN . 1778 / V. HARIUEL.'' . The dragon resembles Briquet n° 7464.

11. Bound in cont. half vellum, marbled boards, with ties, edges painted yellow. Watermark ; a shell (ca. 35 x 35 mm) and the name '' PORTES ''. Nicely preserved, allthough with some sparse tiny spots betraying the use of iron equipment during the fabrication process.

Paper size is 395 x 255 mm, ca. 45 unnumbered blank leaves, handmade watermark ; a grape on one page and the letters ''V. SACÉ '' on the other page. First page a bit dus dustsoiled, some very minor foxing spots on the outer margin of some pages. Still a collection of mostly clean pages.

Paper size is 375 x 245 mm, ca. 47 unnumbered blank leaves, paper with a slight bluish colour, handmade watermark ; a double circle ca. 4 cm diameter; and the name P RABELIER or RABELIEN (difficult to read). Very clean leaves.

12. Bound in contemporary half vellum, edges painted yellow, the register contained 396 numbered pages (manuscript numbering in upper corner), 32 leaves have been removed removed at the beginning, the register is dated on the last leaf ; '' Bergerac (France) 1825 ''. Paper quality is beatiful strong laid paper, pure white. All the leaves bear a tax stamp at the upper margin which reduces the usable size of the leaves to 370 x 265 mm for a single leaf , or 370 x 530 ( for a double leaf, with binding pinholes in the middle). Watermark is a stylised tulip with 4 leaves within a coar of arms topped by a crown. ( ca. 115 x 65 mm) .

14. Bound in cont. full vellum (worn and soiled), the original binding , some leaves have been removed, no watermark. Leaves clean and fine, one leaf with a damaged corner.