[Miniature books] Lot with 3 French miniature books
2x 19th century and 1x 18th century.
Comprises: (1) Journée du Chrétien. Dijon, Defay, 1784, 187,(5) p., finely contemporaneously bound in gilt and blindstamped calf with "Journé" on spine, 64mo, 3.2 x 2.5 cm. Several leaves at the front and the back with traces of previous adhesion to boards (title sl. dam.). Extremely rare, no other copies traced; (2) Etrennes lyriques pour l'année 1816. Paris, Janet, (1815), 64 p., with 8 full-page engraved ills., original gilt red morocco, all edges gilt, 64mo, 2.8 x 2 cm.; (3) Le petit paroissien de l'enfance. Paris, Ad. B. Lainé, n.d. (c. 1835), 92 p., with woodcut ills., contemporary gilt leather, all edges gilt, 64mo, 3 x 2.4 cm. Partly trimmed short and several leaves otherwise incomplete. Lot sold w.a.f. (total 3)