Marquis de COLBERT CHABANAIS

Traditions et souvenirs touchant le temps et la vie du général Auguste Colbert 1793-1809 par le ...

Garnier frères, Paris 1882, 12x19cm, 3 volumes reliés.

Second edition.
Bradel bindings in half cloth.
Ink ex-donos from a former owner on the half-title pages, occasional foxing.
Rare.





 

600 €

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First edition

Balthasar de SCHAUENBOURG

La tactique et la discipline dans les armées de la Révolution. Correspondance du général ...

R. Chapelot & Cie, Paris 1902, 16,5x26cm, relié.

First edition.
Binding in half percaline Siena bradel, smooth back decorated with a golden floral pattern, double gilded nets in tail, title piece of black shagreen, marble paper plates, guards and contreplats of orange paper, Contemporary binding.
Ex-dono pen of a previous owner of the [...]

230 €

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Eugène de CIVRY

De l'armée française, sa mission et son histoire (496-1852)

Ledoyen, Paris 1852, 14,5x23cm, relié.

First Edition published anonymously.
Binding in half red percaline, smooth back very slightly faded adorned with a golden floret, double gilded nets in tail, title piece of black shagreen, boards of marbled paper, guards and contreplats of orange paper.
Ex-dono pen of a previous owner [...]

200 €

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First edition

Jérome Romand, capitaine LAUGIER

Les cahiers du capitaine Laugier. De la guerre et de l'anarchie ou mémoires historiques des ...

Imp. & lith. J. Remondet-Aubin, Aix-en-Provence 1893, 15,5x23,5cm, relié.

Rare and sought after first edition.
Binding in half percaline Siena land, smooth back adorned with a golden floral pattern, double gilded nets tail, flat marbled paper, Contemporary binding.
Ex-dono at the pen of a previous owner of the book on the page of false title, a few small foxinges [...]

500 €

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First edition

Honoré de BALZAC

Le dernier chouan ou la Bretagne en 1800

Urbain Canel, Paris 1829, 10x17,5cm, 4 volumes reliés.

Very rare and highly sought-after first edition of Balzac's first novel signed by his name. Published a small number of copies, this first novel whose original title is inspired by the last of the Mohicans James Cooper, reappeared, reworked in 1834 under a new title: The Chouans .
This [...]

14 000 €

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Signed book

Louis-Ferdinand CELINE

Lettre autographe signée adressée à Léon Deffoux

Paris [3 mai 1934], 21x27cm, 2 pages sur un feuillet, une enveloppe jointe.

Autograph letter signed "LF Destouches" addressed to the journalist Léon Deffoux. 24 lines written in black ink, several underlines and erasures of Celine's hand.
Envelope attached.
Folds inherent to the enveloping of the mail as well as some very tiny pinholes in the right margin of the leaflet.

1 350 €

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Jean DESLYONS

Traitez singuliers et nouveaux contre le paganisme du Roy Boit. Le I. Du jeune ancien de l’Eglise ...

Chez la veuve Savreux, à Paris 1670, in 12 (9x15,5cm), (56) 346pp., relié.

First edition, rare. This is the second book devoted by the author on this subject.
Binding half calf iced camel. Back with false nerves adorned with florets. Long grain morocco boards with framing roulette.
Binding full brown sheepskin contemporary speckled. Back to nerves adorned. Golden [...]

600 €

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First edition

Charles KESSLER

Tactique des trois armes

R. Chapelot & Cie, Paris 1902, 14,5x23cm, relié.

First edition.
Binding in half red percaline, smooth back adorned with a golden floret, double golden nets in tail, title piece of navy shagreen, boards of marbled paper, guards and contreplats of orange paper, Contemporary binding.
Ex-dono pen of a previous owner of the book on the page of [...]

50 €

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