French Book-plates Part 38

Libraire Techener.

Philippe Burty.

Bibliotheque du Chateau d'Aramon.

(M. Jules Jacquemart, a clever _eau-fortiste_, died in Paris in 1880.)

JACQUES (_a Rouen_). 18th cent.

C. Bailliere. Academ. Rothom.

(Rouen). Pictorial, with scientific instruments.

JACQUOT. 18th cent.

JANINET, F. 18th cent.

JEANJEAN. 18th cent.

A nameless armorial, signed _Jeanjean sculp._ is described in "Les Archives de la Societe Francaise," April, 1895.

JEUNE, DAVID. Nimes, 1885.

Vauvert, "_Prosper Falgairolle_."

JONVEAUX _f._ 19th cent.

Claudius Na.s.se, pastor.

Armorial.

JONVEAUX. (Of Verdun.) 18th cent.

Signed an armorial plate for Raimondus Lamarre, and another almost identical for a Doctor Clouet. Both plates are reproduced in the "Archives de la Societe Francaise," vol. ii., p. 37.

L. JOUBERT _inv. et sc._ Ex Libris Annemundi Charret.

Armorial. 18th cent.

FME. JOURDAN _sculp._ 1788.

Bibliotheque de M. le V^{te}. de Bourbon-Busset, Premier Gentilhomme de la Chambre, etc.

On this plate the Vicomte claimed relations.h.i.+p with the Royal family of France, by his arms and supporters, but in 1793 he deemed it advisable to cover his arms and high sounding t.i.tles with a simple label bearing the inscription "_Bibliotheque de Louis Antoine Paul Bourbon-Busset, Citoyen Francais, 1793_." (See reproductions.)

Bourbon-Busset was born at Busset, the 19th November, 1753; he survived the Terror and died in Paris, February 9, 1802. Guigard mentions the "_Catalogue des livres_ _de la Bibliotheque de feu le citoyen Bourbon-Busset, 20 nivose an xi. Paris: Silvestre._"

JUDeE. 19th cent.

JUNDT, GUSTAVE. _De Strasbourg_, 19th cent.

Composed the book-plate for M. Charles Mehl. See "Ex-Libris Alsaciens."

[Ill.u.s.tration: BOOK-PLATE OF PONTILLY.

By G. Huot.]

KRAUS, J. U.

Ex-libris Bibliothecae D.

Zach. Conr. ab Uffenbach.

M. F. Two sizes. See "Ex-Libris Alsaciens."

P. L.

Jean Louis Gourgas.

Armorial.

LACHAPPELLE, P. 18th cent.

LACHAUMeE. 18th cent.

LA COMPARDE. 18th cent.

LACOSTE. 19th cent.

LADAME. 17th cent.

Engraved several book-plates which were afterwards reproduced in the "Armorial de Segoing."

LALAUZE. 19th cent.

LALAUZE, ADOLPHE. 19th cent.

Ex Libris Aubert Raymond.

This pretty little fantaisie plate is reproduced in "Les Bibliophiles Remois," page 110.

A. D. (Adolphe Dauphinot, membre t.i.tulaire de l'Academie de Reims.) This design is also reproduced in "Les Bibliophiles Remois,"

page 96. It represents the Muse of Painting supporting a s.h.i.+eld on which are the arms of Reims; below are books, engravings, and guns, whilst above are two dolphins, in allusion to the name of the owner.

M. Dauphinot is an enthusiastic collector of engravings.

C. Glinel. Fantaisie.

Mons. Charles Glinel was the author of a "Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas," published in Reims, in 1884.

E. L. (Mons. Ernest Lemaitre, a solicitor of Laon). Fantaisie.

Motto, "_Mieux qui pourra_."

V. M. (Mons. Victor Marteau, who designed this plate for himself, and had it engraved by Mons. Lalauze). The design shows a cupid sitting on a book, holding a hammer (marteau). In the background are emblems of manufacturing industry.

This plate is reproduced in "Les Bibliophiles Remois,"

page 110.

LAMcON _fecit_. 18th cent.

Charles Francois Dumars de Vaudoncour. Armorial.

About 1750.

LANCELEVeE, L. Modern.

Le Theil pres Bernay (Eure).