ORLÉANS, Louis Philippe Robert, Duc d' - Lot 187

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ORLÉANS, Louis Philippe Robert, Duc d' - Lot 187
ORLÉANS, Louis Philippe Robert, Duc d' Une Expédition de chasse au Népaul Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1892 SENT BY THE DUC D'ORLÉANS TO THE BIBLIOPHILE ARTHUR MEYER AND TRUFFLED ACCORDING TO HIS METHOD FIRST EDITION. In-8 (276 x 185 mm). (2) ff, II-235 pp, (1) f. Unique EDITION of 200 copies. 15 black & white hors-texte plates, including 1 frontispiece, 1 folding engraved color map. SIGNED ENVOI: À Monsieur Arthur Meyer, souvenir de qui se souvient, Philippe duc d'Orléans. ADDED ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATION: 1 original signed drawing by Emmanuel Frémiet depicting the capture of a young elephant, black ink and wash on paper (229 x 140 mm), mounted on a book-sized folio. ATTACHMENTS: (1): l.a.s. from François Coppée to Arthur Meyer: "j'ai essayé, ces jours-ci, de trouver quelques vers sur le jeune Prince, dont l'acte m'a paru chevaleresque...", [s.l.n.d.], 1. p. in-8, brown ink; (2) l.a.s. from the Duc d'Orléans entitled "Aux conscrits de ma classe" : "j'avais demandé à faire mes trois ans comme soldat...", [s.l.n.d.], 3 pp. in-12, headed paper, brown ink, envelope preserved. SIGNED BINDING BY MARIUS MICHEL. Midnight-blue morocco, gilt decoration, framed fillets, mosaic fleur-de-lys in the corners, ornate ribbed spine, similarly gilt and mosaic, cover boards preserved, gilt edges. PROVENANCE: Arthur Meyer, director of Le Gaulois (1844-1924; bookplate with the motto "Je chante clair"; gilded figure at the tail of the spine; Paris, June 1924, no. 443). This copy is described by Meyer himself in Mes livres. Mes dessins. Mes autographes (Paris, 1921, p. 99, no. 390) Thiébaud, 705. Figure on spine partially faded
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