First edition

Jacqueline MORAND

Les idées politiques de Louis-Ferdinand Céline

R. Pichon & R. Durand-Auzias, Paris 1972, 16,5x25,5cm, broché.

First edition of this thesis for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Pleasant full copy of his prayer to insert.

150 €

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First edition

Louis-Ferdinand CELINE

Cahiers Céline : collection complète

Gallimard, Paris 1976-1988, 14x20,5cm, 8 volumes brochés.

First edition of which it was not drawn of large papers (except for N ° 7) for each volume.
Our complete series consists of:
Cahiers Céline 1: Celine and the literary news 1932-1957.
Cahiers Céline 2: Celine and the literary news 1957-1961
Cahiers Céline 3: Semmelweis and other [...]

600 €

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First edition

Jacques François GROBERT

Description des pyramides de Guizé, de la ville du Caire et de ses environs

Chez Logerot-Petiet & Rémont, à Paris 1801, In-4, (6) 160pp., relié.

Illustrated first edition of 5 plates (a Mameluke figure on horseback, a view of the Mourat Bey palace, a plan, elevation and a section of the pyramids of Giza) and a large folding map of Cairo.
Binding half marbled mauve modern fawn with small corners. The back is a clever and confusing [...]

1 500 €

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First edition

CAZOTTE

Oeuvres badines et morales de M. *******

Chez Esprit, à Amsterdam 1776, In-8 (12x18,5cm), xij, 205pp. (1) et (2) 206pp. et (4) 475pp., 2 tomes en 3 volumes reliés.

Illustrated edition of 2 frontispieces by Cochin and engraved by Prevost and Choffart.
Binding full brown marbled vintage calf. Smooth back decorated. title labels in green morocco, pieces of tomaison in red morocco. Triple framing net on the boards. Stony slices. Discreet and fine restorations [...]

750 €

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First edition

MILLIET DE SAINT ADOLPHE

Diccionario geographico, historico e descriptivo, do Imperio do Brazil

J. P. Aillaud, Pariz 1845, In-8 (12,5x20cm), 566pp. et 794pp., relié.

First edition, translated into Portuguese of the unpublished French manuscript by Gaetano Lopez de Moura. The map of Brazil and the 5 city maps have not been linked in this copy.
Binding half shagreen green fir contemporary. Back with false nerves adorned with 3 fetuses caissonés. Title and [...]

1 200 €

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Guillaume Thomas RAYNAL

Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des Européens dans les deux ...

Chez Jean-Léonard Pellet, Genève 1781, in-8 (12,5x20cm), xvj ; 348pp. (1) et xij, 378pp. (1) et (4) VII (1) 372pp. (1)

Third and last edition, the best and the most complete as to the text, bringing the number of volumes to 10 against 7 published until then. The work published in a luxurious version, in 4 and in this version in-8. The illustration includes a portrait of Raynal by Cochin (with the mention: The [...]

3 300 €

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First edition, Signed book

Georges DUMEZIL

Le Mahabarat et le Bhagavat du colonel de Polier

Gallimard, Paris 1986, 14x20,5cm, broché.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Back slightly cleared.
Signed autograph of Georges Dumézil to Jacques Soustelle: "... these reveries Euro-Asian ..."

120 €

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André POTTIER

La Normandie illustrée. Monuments, sites et costumes de la Seine-Inférieure, de l'Eure, du ...

Charpentier, Nantes 1852, In-Folio (35x47cm), relié.

First edition, copiously illustrated with a map in color, 5 frontispieces, 150 boards with a bistre bottom by F. Benoist, including 22 costumes designed and engraved by Lalaisse.
Publisher's binding in half blue shagreen to flat of percaline.

1 800 €

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