First edition, Signed book

Edmond de PONCINS

Album photographique - Ulwar

1894, 26x19cm, 1 album.

Photograph album – Ulwar
1894 | 26 x 19 cm | one album
Album bringing together a total of 49 contemporary albumen print photographs (15.5 x 10.5 cm), laminated on thick card and mounted on guards. All of the shots are captioned by hand in the lower margin. Three other albums, [...]

1 500 €

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First edition, Signed book

Pablo NERUDA

Fin de mundo

Editorial Losada, Buenos Aires 1970, 15,5x22,5cm, broché.

Second edition.
A small tear glued down to head of spine, nice copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Pablo Neruda, in Spanish, to a friend : "Claudio, qué libro del diablo ! Pablo Neruda 1971."

800 €

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First edition, Signed book

Eugénie SCHUMANN

Robert Schumann

Gallimard, Paris 1937, 14,5x20,5cm, broché.

First edition of the French translation prepared by Louise Servicen, a copy of the press service.
Back slightly burnished and marginally soiled boards.
Autograph signed by Louise Servicen to (Lucien) Rebatet.

80 €

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TROGUE POMPEE

Iustini ex Trogi Pompeii historiis externis libri XXXXIIII

ApudHieronymum de Marnef, Parisiorum 1585, In-12 (8x13cm), 210ff. (18f.), relié.

12 figures of portraits of emperors in medallions.
German binding in full morocco brown seventeenth.

800 €

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Joseph Aignan SIGAUD DE LA FOND

Description et usage d'un cabinet de physique experimentale

Chez Gueffier, à Paris 1775, in 8 (12,5x20,3cm), xxiv, 342pp. 24Pl. et (4) 456pp. 28Pl., 2 volumes reliés.

First edition, illustrated with 51 folding plates (23 for volume I and 28 for the second, at the end of volumes) on hard paper.
Binding full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back to ornate nerve. title label in red morocco and tomaison in black morocco. Headdresses of Volume II removed. Grip of [...]

800 €

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First edition

Jacques Christophe VALMONT DE BOMARE

Minéralogie, ou nouvelle exposition du regne minéral

Chez Vincent, à Paris 1774, In-8 (13x20cm), LXII (2) 590pp. (2) et (2) 640pp. (4 pp.), 2 volumes reliés.

Mention second edition, after the first published in 1762, with 14 unfolding tables (most copies' nen annoking only 13).

Binding full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin. Back with ornate nerves. title label in red morocco, piece of tomaison in black morocco. Headdress of volume I [...]

800 €

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Joseph MARRYAT

Histoire des poteries, faïences, et porcelaines

Veuve Jules Renouard, Paris 1866, 15,5x24cm, 2 volumes reliés.

Illustrated edition of 618 in-text figures and plates inset at the end of the second volume.
Preface by Mr Riocreux.
Bindings in half green sheepskin, lined smooth back decorated with nets and golden dotted, scuffs on the marble paper plates, flat struck in their centers of gilded [...]

80 €

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Marc-Antoine Girard, sieur de SAINT-AMANT

Moyse sauvé, Idile heroïque

ChezAntoine de Sommaville, à Paris 1660, in-12 (8,5x14cm), (48) 184pp., relié.

New edition, after the first published in 1653. An allegorical frontispiece, unsigned, quite finely engraved.
Bound in full contemporary soft vellum. Smooth spine, with illegible and faded penned title. Small brown stain on upper board. Frontispiece faded in margin. A good, fresh copy.
The [...]

250 €

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