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Books · Illustrated editions · Maps
Books and documents chosen for their presence, history or provenance. Each item is offered with a clear price, a precise description and photographs of the copy itself.
7 items
FM S 0006 · Available only as a set
Two square Babar illustrated record books issued by Festival with Librairie Hachette in 1957. Each illustrated booklet retains its 17 cm Super 45 rpm vinyl record; the pair is offered only as an indivisible set.
FM S 0005 · Available · condition documented
A bound gathering of the Geneva periodical La Patrie suisse, richly illustrated with photographs and engravings, beginning with the title page of the third volume dated 1896 and also containing at least one issue from 1897.
FM S 0001 · Available
The 1928 prize-winning novel in an elegant half-leather binding with marbled boards and a private Christmas inscription.
FM S 0002 · Available
A carefully printed Lausanne edition on fine white laid paper, with wide untrimmed margins and its modest original wrappers.
FM S 0003 · Available · condition documented · fragile
A first-year copy of Jean de Brunhoff’s monkey story, preserved with its original pictorial boards, yellow elephant endpapers and a Brussels family inscription dated 1936.
FM 0004 · Available · condition documented · fragile book
A small Latin Horace with John Bond’s commentary, preserved in a striking but severely damaged gilt leather binding.
FM S 0004 · Available
A colour road map created for early cyclists, covering the Canton of Vaud and its surroundings and mounted on linen for repeated opening while travelling.