Group of Books on French Decorative Arts

Including the following volumes in French: Maisons de France: Plaisir de France with an introduction by Olivier Queant, Les Publications de France, 1950, first edition; Merveiles des Chateâux du Val de Loire edited by Gaston d'Angélis, Hachette, 1964, first edition; Merveiles des Chateâux de I'Ile-de-France edited by Pierre Levallois and Gaston d'Angélis, Hachette, 1963, first edition; Mobilier Restauration by Chantal Bizot, Editions Ch. Massin, Paris, ca. 1975; Collection Connaissance des Arts: La Décoration edited by Pierre Levallois, Librarie Hachette, 1962; Aujourd'hui s'installer en restauration, Louis Philippe, Napoleon III by Pierre-Marie Favelac, Editions Charles Massin, 1990, first edition, including a holiday card in an envelope illustrated with sketches by Niall Smith; Merveilles des Chateâux de Provence edited by Gaston d'Angélis, Hachette, 1965, first edition; Aujourd'hui s'installer en Régence Louis XV by Pierre-Marie Favelac, Editions Charles Massin, 1990, first edition; and Aujourd'hui s'installer en Directoire: Empire by Pierre-Marie Favelac, Editions Charles Massin, 1990, first edition.

Together with the following volumes in English:

French Cabinetmakers of the Eighteenth Century edited by Pierre Levallois and Gaston d'Angélis, French and European Publications, 1965; French Master Goldsmiths and Silversmiths from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century edited by Claude Frégnac, French and European Publications, 1966; Collection Yves Saint Laurent et Pierre Bergé, Christies Auction Catalogue; Jansen by James Archer Abbott, Acanthus Press, 2006; The Best in European Decoration edited by Georges and Rosamond Bernier, Reynal and Co. Inc., 1963; Decoration edited by Pierre Levallois, French and European Publications, 1963; The Great Houses of Paris by Claude Frégnac and Wayne Andrews, translated by James Emmons, The Vendome Press, 1979, with some damage to the jacket cover; The World of Madeleine Castaing by Emily Evans Eerdmans, Rizzoli, 2013; and Orbis Connoisseur's Library: Empire Style 1804–1815 translated by Nietta Aprà, Orbis Publishing Ltd., 1972, with some damage to the jacket cover (18).

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