LIVRE D'OR DE L'ADRET A VILLARS DE LANS.1 volume in-4°, navy - Lot 114

LIVRE D'OR DE L'ADRET A VILLARS DE LANS.1 volume in-4°, navy-blue morocco, broad, richly framed with gilded fillets on the boards, smooth spine adorned with long cream listels with gilded motifs, duck-blue morocco lining, framed with gilded fillets and dotted lines underlined by a red morocco listel, broad gilded motifs, lavender moire endpapers, gilded edges (binding circa 1925). Magnificent binding stamped by Maquet in Nice, the most luxurious leather goods manufacturer of the period, founded in 1841 and supplier to Empress Eugenie. This guestbook was commissioned by Pierre Chabert, who had partly transformed a former preventorium (1927) into a luxury hotel called l'Adret (to evoke the sunny slope). The first 10 leaves are filled with handwritten tributes signed by personalities, writers, politicians and others. Prince Achille Murat, Prince Sixte de Bourbon, Pierre Brisson of Figaro, the director of Guides Bleus, the French ambassador to Rome, the New York Herald Tribune, etc... Small tear to lower cover.