First edition

Hippolyte TAINE, Gustave DORE

Voyage aux Pyrénées

Hachette, Paris 1860, 15,5x24,5cm, relié.

First edition in-8 and first with this new title. The work was published under the title Voyage aux eaux des Pyrénées in 1855, in a small format and with 64 vignettes on wood by Gustave Doré; in this one, 9 woods published in 1855 are not included, so there are 332 woods unpublished [...]

450 €

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First edition

Frances BROOKE

Histoire d'Emilie Montague

ChezChanguion, A Amsterdam 1770, in-12 (10x16,5cm), (4) 192pp. ; (2) 193-384p. et (2) 162pp. (2) ; (2) 156pp., 4 parties reliées en 2 volumes.

Original French edition, rare, translated by Jean-Baptiste Robinet, after the English premiere published in 1769. Four beautiful title pages engraved and separated. Changuion catalog in fine of the third part.
Binding full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin. Back with ornate nerves. title [...]

650 €

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First edition, Signed book

Marc SCHEPS, Antoni TAPIES

Tapies

Galerie Lelong, Paris 2006, 22x31cm, broché.

First edition of this issue devoted entirely to Antoni Tapies on the occasion of the exhibition of works by the Catalan artist at the Lelong gallery from November 8 to December 9, 2006.
Beautiful illustrated copy of reproductions of works by Antoni Tapies.
Text by Marc [...]

400 €

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First edition

Pierre DRIEU LA ROCHELLE

Notes pour comprendre le siècle

Gallimard, Paris 1941, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Rare and nice copy.

1 500 €

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Charles DICKENS

The posthumous papers of the Pickwick club

Chapman and Hall, London 1842, Fort in-8 (15x23cm), xiv (2) 609pp., relié.

New edition after the original of 1837 and illustrated with 43 boards with a frontispiece and title-frontispiece dated 1837.
Posterior binding ca 1880 in half brown shagreen. False nerves decorated with caissons and cold nets. Golden title. Burnings on the back of the false title, otherwise [...]

550 €

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First edition, Signed book

Roland BARTHES

Lettre autographe signée à Georges Raillard

Paris 16 décembre 1968, 21x27cm, 2 pages sur un feuillet.

Long autograph letter signed by Roland Barthes addressed to Georges Raillard. Two pages written in blue ink on a letterhead of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. Envelope with identical header attached.
Two central folds inherent in enveloping the envelope.
"Dear [...]

450 €

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First edition

Philippe PETIT-RADEL

De amoribus Pancharitis et Zoroae, poema eroticon seu Umbratica lucubratio De cultu veneris

Apud Molini, Parisiis 1798 (An VI), In-8 (13x20,5cm), xxiv, 286pp. (2), relié.

First edition, rare. An allegorical frontispiece signed Clément. Print on vellum.
Binding full red morocco long grain glazed contemporary in the style of Derome. Smooth back decorated with 7 nets, title and date golden. Double cold framing thread on the plates with small angular irons. [...]

500 €

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First edition, Signed book

Roland BARTHES

Lettre autographe signée à Georges Raillard

Paris 16 avril 1967, 21x13,5cm, une feuille et son enveloppe.

Autograph letter signed by Roland Barthes addressed to Georges Raillard. Nine lines in blue ink on a letterhead of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. Envelope with this same attached header.
Dear Friend, I find your letter of the 1st of March on my return from Japan, whence my delay [...]

450 €

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