First edition, Signed book

Oscar NIEMEYER

Rio

Avenir editora, Rio de Janeiro 1980, 21,5x26,5cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

First edition consisting of the facsimile of the autograph manuscript of the book.
Publisher's binding in full white cardboard, smooth back, boards illustrated with Oscar Niemeyer's drawings.
Beautiful full copy of his illustrated jacket with very slight tears and lacks without [...]

800 €

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First edition

René Georges HERMANN-PAUL, LUCIEN-GRAUX DOCTEUR

Le saint homme de Huestra

Manuel Bruker, Paris 1928, 23,5x28,5cm, broché.

First edition, one of 275 numbered copies on vellum Arches paper, only draw with 5 Madagascar and 25 Japan.
Illustrated book of original woods in colors of Hermann-Paul.
Pleasant copy despite two slight insolations head and foot of the spine.

100 €

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First edition, Signed book

Guy de MAUPASSANT

Manuscrit autographe à la Comtesse Potocka : « Vous prenez un chien enragé que vous faites ...

s.l. s.d. [juillet-août 1885], 9,6x15,5cm, une feuille.

Autograph manuscript by Guy de Maupassant to Countess Potocka, 36 lines in ink on one page. Horizontal fold at center. Published in Philippe Dahhan, "Guy de Maupassant et les femmes : essai", Bertout, 1996.
Unusual manuscript by Maupassant, giving a false rabies vaccine formula he calls [...]

3 800 €

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Jules VERNE

Deux ans de vacances

Hetzel, Paris 1888, 18x28cm, cartonnage de l'éditeur.

First illustrated in-8 edition of 92 illustrations by Benett, including an inset color map: this is the first appearance of polychromy for an illustration of a Jules Verne novel.
Cartonnage editor Hetzel "with two elephants" full red percaline signed Lenègre type 3, first board signed Souze, [...]

700 €

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Jules VERNE

L'Agence Thompson and Co.

Hetzel, Paris 1907, 18x28cm, cartonnage de l'éditeur.

First and only edition in-8 illustrated by L. Benett also including many photographs and planks in chromotypography.
Cartonnage editor Hetzel "with the fan and the elephant" full red percaline signed Engel, first flat polychrome signed Engel, second flat type "i" as indicated by Jauzac, back to [...]

700 €

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First edition

[MAZARINADE] La resiouissance publique et banquet provincial au retour du roy en sa bonne ville de ...

Chez Pierre Margat & Thomas La Carriere, à Paris 1649, In-4 (15,5x21,5cm), (4) 19pp. (1), relié.

First edition.
Binding in maroon half navy sheepskin Ca 1860. Back smooth, golden title. Traces of friction in caps, bits, boards and corners. Good copy.

300 €

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First edition

L. P. COURET

Etat ecclésiastique, civil et mlitaire, du département du Loiret ; Etrennes orléanoise et ...

Chez L. P. Couret, à Orléans 1791, 284pp., relié.

First Edition with a folding map on the frontispiece.
Binding full morocco contemporary olive green. Smooth back mute decorated with 4 fleur de lys boxed. Triple fillet of framing on boards with angular irons. Golden slices. A minucule lacks the lower bit in the lead. Traces of friction. [...]

250 €

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First edition, Signed book

André MASSON, Edith BOISSONNAS

Limbe

P.A.B., Alès 1959, 13,5x13,5cm, en feuilles.

First edition printed in 59 numbered copies on vélin d'Arche papers, signed by Pierre-André Benoit and André Masson under the justification.
Cover repaired.
Illustrated with 2 original engravings by André Masson.
Rare.
 

2 500 €

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