A collection of treasures: glassware, jadeite, semi-precious - Lot 211

A collection of treasures: glassware, jadeite, semi-precious stones, books, and paperweights, including: FRANCE, late 18th century–early 19th century, snuffbox in blond tortoiseshell with a lid decorated with eglomé glass inlaid with silver leaf depicting a lion attacking a wild boar, 5.5 cm (Chips, cracks, missing pieces) CHINA, 20th century, three objects in green jadeite with rust-colored veining Glass bottle with engraved decoration enamelled in black and gold with foliage motifs The neck and sides feature hot-applied relief decoration of small waves Chip on the neck 1950s, stoneware bottle vase with a recessed motif on the body; the neck is glazed brown-green; marked beneath the base with a framed “O”; H.: 33 cm, Diam.: 12 cm (Chip on the rim) Set of hardstone paperweights depicting eggs Included: faceted ball made of bone veneer and blackened wood CHOMPRE (Pierre) - Dictionnaire abrégé de la fable, Paris, Chez Desaint, 1745; in-12, 254 pp., contemporary binding, spine decorated with 5 raised bands, edges painted red. THIERS (Adolphe) - History of the French Revolution - Paris; Lecointe, 1834—10 volumes, in-8—100 engraved plates of portraits and historical scenes,—contemporary black half-leather binding—attractive spines, gilt titles and volume numbers, scattered foxing— Abbé PREVOST - The Story of Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut, illustrated by Charles Martin, paperback volume, Paris, 1934, (sun damage) TOUSSAINT (Franz) The Garden of Caresses. 1 vol. in-12, bound in full embossed green morocco, cover and spine preserved. Embossed binding. Paris: Piazza, 1929. Color frontispiece by Léon Carré. The pages are framed with bluish motifs in the margins. (Frontispiece slightly torn) Almanac Dedicated to Young Ladies, Paris, Louis Janet, n.d. (1823). 1 vol., in-18, color-illustrated cardboard binding. Gilded edges. A lovely illustrated almanac, in its original illustrated cardboard binding (with some wear and missing sections) Chants du Hoggar, L'édition d'art Piazza, 1928, 1 paperback volume, 10th edition (sun damage) As is