Comte Lancelot TURPIN DE CRISSE

Memoires de Montecuculi

Chez Arkstée et Merkus, A Amsterdam & à Leipzig 1770, In-8 (12,5x20cm), XXIV, 398pp. (2) et (4) 432pp. (2) et (4) 493pp. (3), relié.

New illustrated edition of a frontispiece portrait, 3 title vignettes, and 41 folding plates
Binding full brown calf vintage. Back with ornate nerves. title label of beige morocco, piece of tomaison of black sheepskin. Missed at the head of Volume 2 filled. Epidermures on boards reglacé with [...]

1 200 €

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First edition

COLLECTIF

La Nrf N°515 de Décembre 1995

Nrf, Paris 1995, 14,5x23,5cm, broché.

First edition, one of the rare numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, only leading copies.
Contributions by Claude Roy "Poems", Marc Baconnet "The labyrinths of Ariadne", Jean-Pierre Colombi "Torn Ligaments", Jean Roudot "Christmas Devaulx on the sidelines of the cadastre" ...
Nice copy.

50 €

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First edition

COLLECTIF

La Nrf N°502 de Novembre 1994

Nrf, Paris 1994, 14,5x23,5cm, broché.

First edition, one of the rare numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, only leading copies.
Contributions of Ludovic Janvier "Listen", Nguyên Huy Thiêp "Nostalgia of the campaign", Henri Raczymow "The Pounem", Philippe Barthelet "Visit to Mr. Gracq" ...
Nice copy.

50 €

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First edition, Signed book

Yves BONNEFOY

Lieux et destins de l'image - Un cours de poétique au Collège de France 1981-1993

Seuil, Paris 1999, 14x20,5cm, broché.

Collective first edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Nice full copy of his trailer.
Autograph signed by Yves Bonnefoy Anne Sarraute.

100 €

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Charles MARTY-LAVEAUX

La Pléiade françoise

Alphonse Lemerre, Paris 1896-1898, 13,5x21,5cm, 2 volumes reliés.

New edition enriched with notes and biographical notes of Charles Marty-Laveaux, one of 230 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only print after 18 China.
Braziers binding in half black morocco, smooth backs, golden dates in back tails, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade [...]

300 €

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First edition

William Makepeace THACKERAY

The history of Pendennis. His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy

Bradbury and Evans, London 1849 - 1850, In-8 (14,5x21,5cm), 384pp. et 372pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First edition
English binding in half green calfskin with contemporary corners. Back to fake nerves richly adorned. title labels and tomaison of brown shagreen. Friction in caps, joints and corners. Trace of brown wetting on the titles engraved in the margin, and on the first 3 insets, the [...]

800 €

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Simon NANQUIER

De lubrico temporis (ut vocant) curriculo. Deque hominis miseria opusculum

Apud Benedictum rigaudum (Rigaud), Lugduni 1570, in-8 (10,5x17cm), 44 pp. (4), relié.

New edition. The oldest edition is at the British Library, 1498; it is undoubtedly the original, Charles VIII dying that same year. The book was reissued several times during the 16th century. It is the same for the piece of Gnapheus.
Binding semi rigid vellum late nineteenth. Jansenist smooth [...]

1 300 €

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First edition

Alain DECAUX & André CASTELOT

Autour d'une épée

Perrin, Paris 1980, 13,5x20cm, broché.

First edition printed in small numbers on "pur-fil" paper for the friends of Alain Decaux.
Beautiful illustrated copy of photographs.
We enclose a typed one-page letter from André Castelot, headed by Perrin editions, thanking the generous donors who contributed to the funding of Alain [...]

30 €

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