LIBRAIRIE CAMILLE SOURGET
France
93 rue de Seine, 75006 Paris
Phone: +33 (0)1 42 84 16 68
contact@camillesourget.com
www.camillesourget.com
Camille Sourget opened a « bookshop-apartment » in Paris in 2005. Then, in 2008, she established a prestigious bookshop at 93 rue de Seine, 75006 Paris, in Saint-Germain-des-Près quarter. And since 14 years now, this is where the team of the Bookshop Camille Sourget welcomes passionate collectors from all over the world. Camille Sourget and her team take part in the most prestigious international fairs, and among them the TEFAF Maastricht, Fine Art Paris & La Biennale, the New York Antiquarian Book Fair, the Salon international du Livre Rare in Paris, etc.
The bookshop Camille Sourget offers a total guarantee as for the books she sells: all the books offered for sale have been carefully collated first, and their rare defects are always mentioned.
Competence, genuineness and honesty are the commitments of this dynamic internationally renowned bookshop, willing to provide its interlocutors with all the guarantees necessary for their passion. The bookshop publishes and sends worldwide 4 luxurious paper catalogs a year and is also proud to be one of the most dynamic antiquarian bookshops on the social media through instagram, facebook, twitter, etc.
The area of expertise of the bookshop Camille Sourget spans from the 15th to the beginning of the 20th century. Its main specialties are natural history, literary first editions, travel books, atlases, as well as any beautifully illustrated book that marked their century in various fields. The gallery focuses on rare antiquarian books with great provenances, rich bindings or any other specificity that makes them unique.
Jean de LA FONTAINE
(1621-1695)
Fables choisies mises en vers
1755-1759
4 folio volumes
Part I : (2) ll., 1 portrait, XXX pp., xviii pp. and 124 pp., plus 1 frontispiece and 70 figures.
Part II : (2) ll., II pp. and 135 pp., and 68 figures.
Part III : (2) ll., iv and 146 pp., and 68 figures.
Part IV : (2) ll., ii and 188 p., and 69 figures.
Full red morocco decorated with a wide gilt dentelle decorated with fleurs de lys,
spines ribbed and richly decorated,
arms gilt-stamped at the foot of the spines, inner gilt border, gilt edges.
Contemporary armorial morocco binding decorated with dentelle.
428 x 287 mm