SEGUY (Emile Alain). Insects. - Lot 292

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SEGUY (Emile Alain). Insects. - Lot 292
SEGUY (Emile Alain). Insects. Paris, Editions Duchartre et Van Buggenhoudt, [1929]. In folio in sheets, illustrated hardback portfolio of the publisher, ribbons. Unique edition of this very rare album comprising 20 carefully stenciled SPECTACULAR PLATES showing 80 insects (dragonflies, grasshoppers, cicadas, etc...) and 16 decorative compositions. Emile Alain Séguy, was a professor at the Estienne school and contributed in a decisive way to the development of the Art Deco style. Foreword and table of scientific names placed at the beginning. Mottling on the first cover of the cardboard, the copy bears an ex-dono from the author to "Colette Gueden, la Fée Primavera, his friend E.A. Seguy, July 39". The latter (1905-2000), designer and then director of Primavera, art workshop for Parisian department stores.
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