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Chapelle. Voyage de Chapelle et Bachaumont, suivi de quelques autres voyages dans le même genre. Genève (Cazin), 1777, 8vo., a charming frontispiece by Delaunay after Marillier (3s.). Chapelle. Voyage de Chapelle et Bachaumont. Londres

(Cazin), 1782, frontispiece, not signed (3s.). Chappe d'Auteroche (L'abbé). Voyage en Sibérie, fait par ordre du Roi en 1761, contenant les mœurs, les usages des Russes, et l'état actuel de cette puissance, etc. Paris, De Bure père, 1768, 2 vols. in 3, fol. and Atlas roy. fol., frontispiece by Tilliard after Le Prince, fleuron on title by Duclos after Le Prince, vignette designed and engraved by Moreau, and 50 plates by Duclos, Le Bas, Baquoy, de Launay, Martinet, A. de Saint-Aubin, F. and B. Tilliard, and C. de Fecamp, after Le Prince (28), Moreau le jeune (8), Caresme de Fecamp (12), and Martinet (2), plus frontispiece for the Atlas by Tilliard after Le Prince. It is essential that the Atlas should have the "Cartes des Vosges," which is frequently missing; the Atlas alone is scarce (£3).

The edition of Amsterdam, 6 vols., 12mo., 1769-70, folding frontispiece, and 5 plates after de Bokker, is only an abridged one. The original drawings of Le Prince and Moreau à la sépia and à l'encre de Chine are in the collection of Louis Roederer at Reims.

Charlevoix (R. P. F. Xavier de). Histoire et Description générale de la Nouvelle France . . . Paris, P. F. Giffart, 1744, 3 vols., 4to., numerous plates (30s. to 40s.).

Charlevoix (de). Histoire du Paraguay

Paris, Desaint et Saillant, 1756, 3 vols., 4to., maps and 3 charming vignettes, not signed (15s.).

Charnois (J. Ch. Le Vacher de). Nouvelles. Paris, veuve Duchesne, 1782, 12mo., frontispiece and plate by Duclos (4s.).

Charnois. Nouvelles. Bruxelles, chez Emmanuel Flon, 1782, 12mo., frontispiece and plate after J. B. Q. D. by de La Rue (38.).

Charnois (J. Ch. Le Vacher de). Costumes et Annales des grands Théâtres de Paris, avec figures au lavis et coloriées, ouvrage destiné à representer le costume exact de nos comédiens les plus éclairés, à relever les erreurs des faux costumes, à offrir des modèles de ceux qui sont inconnus ou alterés, accompagnés de notices interessantes curieuses. A Paris, chez Janinet, de 1786 à 1789, 7

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parts in 4 vols., 8vo., 176 plates tinted and coloured after D. Bertaux, Dutertre, Le Barbier, Desrais, Janinet, etc., or not signed and engraved by Janinet. A periodical publication of which appeared yearly 48 numbers with 24 coloured plates, 24 plates after the antique, and 36 plates of music. In the first 3 years there were 48 numbers each, in the fourth year 33 numbers only. The work has a twofold interestthe costumes of the period, and the information given in relation to the theatres as well as the pretty portraits of famous actresses, among which may be noticed those of Mlle. Contat (rôle of Suzanne in La Folle Journée), Madame Dugazon (rôle of Nina), Mlle. Guimard, Mlle Colombe, Mme. Vestris, Mme. Favart, Sophie Arnould, Adrieme Lecouvreur, Raucourt, etc. (£25 to £30, and more than double on large paper 4to., particularly on superfine paper). Charnois (J. Ch. Le Vacher de). Recherches sur les Costumes et sur les Théâtres de toutes les nations tant anciennes que modernes, etc., avec estampes en couleur et au lavis, dessinées par M. Chéry et gravées par P. M. Alix. Paris, Drouhin, 1790, 2 vols., 4to., portrait of Charnois by Alix after Violet in colours (done after his assassination in 1792), frontispiece coloured, and 53 plates, mostly in colours by Alix, Ridé, and Sergent after Chéry (£2).

Reprinted 1802, with 56 coloured plates.

Charpentier (R.). Premier Livre de differents Trophées, inventez par R. Charpentier, Sculpteur du Roy, et gravé par Huquier. A Paris, chez Huquier, s.d., oblong 4to., engraved title and 10 plates (15s. to 20s.).

Charrière (Madame de). Les Trois femmes, par Mme. de Charrière, auteur des Lettres écrites de Lausanne, etc. Paris, Nepveu, libraire, passage des Panoramas, 26, 1809, post 8vo., frontispiece and 6 plates by Choffard, Couché, and Duplessis-Bertaux after Legrand (10s.).

Charron (Pierre). De la Sagesse, trois livres . . . Genève, 1777, 3 vols., 16mo., fine portrait by de Launay (3s.). Charron. De la Sagesse. De la Sagesse. Paris, Bastien, 1783, 8vo., portrait by and after Pruneau, and a charming plate copied from the frontispiece of the famous undated Elzevir edition (4s., and double on large paper 4to.).

Charte constitutionelle des Français, ornée de gravures, dediée au Roi, par M. Ponce, graveur de S. A. R. Monsieur. Paris,

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chez Ponce et Didot, 1814, 4to., 6 plates by Ponce and Helman after Monnet (12s., and more than double on vellum paper with unlettered proofs).

Chassaignon (J. M.). Cataractes de l'Imagination, déluge de la scribomanie, vomissement littéraire, hémorrhagie encyclopédique, monstres des monstres, par Epimenide l'inspiré. Dans l'antre de Trophonius, au pays des visions, 1779, 4 vols., 12mo., 2 fantastic plates, not signed (in first and last volume) (10s.).

Some information of an astounding literary and artistic nature is treasured in this work.

Chaucer (G.). The Works, compared with the former Editions and many valuable MSS. out of which three Tales added which were never before printed by John Urry, together with a Glossary (by Dr. J. Thomas). With the Author's Life, newly written, and a Preface giving an Account of this edition. London, 1721, fol., pp. 760, with portraits of Chaucer by Vertue, and of Urry by Pigné, and engravings of the Pilgrims (10s., and more on large paper, of which only 250 copies were printed).

Chaulieu. Œuvres. La Hay, chez Gosse junior (Cazin), 2 vols., 16mo., pretty portrait, not signed (3s.).

Chaulieu, Elite des Poésies de Chaulieu. Paris, chez Desessarts, an VII., 12mo., frontispiece by Thomas after Le Barbier (3s.). Chauncy (Sir H.). The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire. London, 1700, fol., portrait, map, and 46 plates (£8 to £10).

Three plates at pages 99, 220, and 262, as well as the "Printed Directions for placing the Cuts" subsequently issued, are frequently missing, but they should be there.

Chaussard. Le Nouveau Diable boiteux, tableau philosophique et moral de Paris: Mémoires mis en lumière et enrichis de notes par le Dr. Didasculus, de Louvain. Paris, Buisson, an VII. (1799), 2 vols., 8vo., 2 frontispieces by Baquoy and Delignon after Garnerey (10s.).

Chaussard. Fêtes et Courtisanes de la Grèce, comprenant la chronique religieuse des anciens Grecs, la chronique scandaleuse, tableau de leurs mœurs privées, etc. Paris, chez Buisson, an IX. (1801), 4 vols., 8vo., 4 plates by Michel after Garnerey, 2 leaves of engraved music, an Athénian