First edition

Antoine de LA SALLE

L'histoire plaisante, et chronique du petit Jehan de Saintré, de la jeune dame des belles cousines

1750, In-4 (18,5x24,5cm), 400pp., relié.

Manuscript realized on the original Gothic edition of 1523, with the black pen, of a relatively readable writing. The manuscript is paginated from p.1 to 400. About 28 lines per page.

Binding full icy blond calf vintage. Back with ornate nerves. title label in red morocco. 2 corners [...]

600 €

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First edition

Albert ROBIDA, Georges TOUDOUZE

François Ier (Le roi chevalier)

Boivin & Cie, Paris 1909, 30x37cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

First edition and first print of the insert illustrations, full page and in colour by Albert Robida.
Publisher's binding in full grey glazed calico, first board illustrated with a polychrome composition by Albert Robida, the Paris coat of arms gold stamped on the second board, blue-grey [...]

400 €

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Signed book

Heinrich MANN

Macht und Mensch

Kurt Wolff Verlag, München 1919, 12,5x19cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

First edition.
Publisher's binding in full brown cardboard, smooth back, yellow head, blue head, jacket attached in very bad condition.
Charming interior of the first slightly fragile dish, two small snags without gravity in the margin of the first board.
Rare autograph [...]

600 €

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First edition

Edouard AUBERT

La vallée d'Aoste

Amyot, Paris 1860, 34x27cm, relié.

Amyot, Paris 1860, 11.5 x 18.5 cm, bound
First edition published the same year the Aosta Valley became part of Italy. The work is illustrated with 97 wood engravings in the text, 33 steel insert engravings, 6 chromotypographies and a map.
Bound in half red shagreen, spine decorated [...]

7 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Lawrence DURRELL

"Vaumort" : poème autographe signé et illustré par l'auteur à son amante française

1969, 30,4x39,5cm, une feuille.

“I knew that whenever
I want to be perfectly alone
With the memory of you, of that whole day,
It's to Vaumort that I'll be turning.”
 
Exceptional handwritten poem dated 1969, signed and illustrated with original drawings in graphite, markers and colour pencils [...]

1 700 €

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First edition

Raymond DUNCAN

Exangelos : pamphlet bimensuel imprimé par Raymond Duncan, Series B N°8

Raymond Duncan, Paris 19 octobre 1921, 55,5x22,6cm, une feuille rempliée.

Rare first issue of issue 3 of the contemporaryical Exangelos directed and printed by Raymond Duncan.
Folds inherent to the enveloping of the document, tears in the folds, marginal gaps.
Raymond Duncan, brother of the famous dancer Isadora Duncan, installed in 1911 [...]

150 €

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First edition

Antoine LA PLACE

Pièces intéressantes et peu connues pour servir à l'histoire

S.n., à Bruxelles 1781 - 1785, In-12 (10x17cm), viij, 430pp. et x (2) 484pp. et (4) 495pp., relié.

First edition
Binding full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin. Smooth back decorated. title label in red morocco, piece of tomaison in green morocco. A lack in the head of the volume I. Friction various. 3 blunt corners. Good copy.

300 €

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First edition

Albert PAJOL & Adolphe COUTURET, Félix VALLOTTON

Paroles de "Ah! La pé... la pé... la pépinière !!!" (Concert de la Pépinière) illustrées par ...

Pajol & Cie, Paris 1900, 15,2x22cm, broché.

Albert PAJOL & Adolphe COUTURET
& Charles JACOUTOT & Félix VALLOTTON
Operetta's lyrics
« Ah ! La pé... la pé... la pépinière !!! »
Pajol & Cie | Paris 1900 | 15.2 x 22 cm | original wrappers
Rare first edition of the operetta's lyrics “Ah! La [...]

800 €

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