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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Claude GODARD D'AUCOURT

Mémoires turcs

Par la Société, Amsterdam 1776, In-12 (10x17,2cm), xxiv (2) 176pp. ; 238pp., relié.

New edition, after the first published in 1743.
Binding full porphyry vintage calf. Smooth back decorated. title label in tawny morocco. 2 corners blunt and bare. Nice copy.
In full fashion "turqueries", and after Marana, Montesquieu, Godard d'Aucourt in turn gives his contribution to this [...]

500 €

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First edition

Johannes MEURSIUS & Nicolas CHORIER

Elegantiae latini sermonis seu Aloisia segaea Toletana. De arcanis amoris & veneris. Adjunctis ...

S.n., Londres 1781, in-18 (8,5x12cm), (4) xxx 31-330 pp. et (4) 233 pp., relié.

New edition.
Binding full green morocco crisscross contemporary. Smooth back decorated with 3 florets, wheels and nets. Double framing net on the boards. Golden slices. Inland frieze. Back insolated and thinned. 2 wormholes along the upper joint of volume 2.
Superb copy, in a quality binding.

900 €

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First edition, Signed book

Paul GUIMARD

Les faux-frères

Denoël, Paris 1955, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers, one of the review copies service.
Some small foxing, ex-dono and a date at the head of a guard.
Autograph dedication signed by Paul Guimard to Pascal Pia.

50 €

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