This auction catalog was prepared after Maurice Escoffier has met financial difficulties due to the crisis of 1929.
Maurice Escoffier was Professor of Diplomatic History at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques in the first half of the 20th century. He also was the school librarian and editor-in-chief of the Annales des Sciences Politiques and the Journal Revue des sciences politiques. Professor Escoffier had a particular fondness for the Romanticism and, along with these activities, his passion for books led him to open a bookstore of old books The House of the bibliophile ("La Maison du bibliophile") in 1922. He had to close the shop at the beginning of the 1930s due to financial difficulties brought by the crisis of 1929.
The catalog of his collection was prepared by Librairie Giraud-Badin in 1933.
95 pages with 44 facsimile illustrations in color and black ink.
