First edition

Mungo PARK

Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique fait en 1795, 1796 et 1797, par M. Mungo Park

Chez Dentu, à Paris 1799 (An XII), In-8 (11,5x19,8cm), xij, 412pp. et (4) 376pp., 2 volumes reliés.

first edition illustrated with a portrait at the frontispiece, 2 boards of botany, 3 views and 3 folding maps.
Bindings of half brown contemporary brown. Back Jansenists. Parts of title in red morocco, pieces of tomato in green morocco. A snag at the tail of volume 2.

780 €

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Georges LIMBOUR, André BEAUDIN

André Beaudin

Verve, Paris 1961, 22,5x30cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

first edition.
Binding of the publisher in full cartonnage, smooth back mute, boards illustrated with 2 lithographs original André Beaudin.
Book illustrated with 10 original lithographs in colors by André Beaudin (including 2 on the cover) as well as 157 reproductions of his works.
Beautiful copy.

200 €

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First edition

HUMBERT de ROMANS

Humberti quinti generalis sacrosancti ordinis predicatorum magistri Sermones ad diversos status. ...

Pallas Spangel, impensis Johann Rynmann in officina industrii Henrici Gran, Haguenau 1508, In Folio (20x29cm), 82f. sig.

In the absence of a copy of 1507 in public libraries (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, French Catalogs, English Catalogs, British Library, German and Swiss catalogs), or a copy prior to that date, this edition appears to be the Very first, one finds only editions of 1508 in Haguenau at the [...]

1 800 €

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Alfred de MUSSET

Comédies et proverbes

Charpentier, Paris 1853, In-12 (11,5x18cm), 454pp. et 423pp., 2 volumes reliés.

An original collective edition, partly original, containing for the first time: One must have a door open or closed (whose first edition appeared in 1849), One can not think of everything (first edition), Louison In 1849), Bettine (first edition published in [...]

450 €

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First edition

Théophile GAUTIER

Zigzags

Victor Magen, Paris 1845, 14x22,5cm, relié.

first edition.
Bradel binding in half brown morocco with corners, back with five nerves set with golden fillets and decorated with double golden caissons decorated with golden floral motifs, date and place golden in tail, double golden threads on marbled paper plates, guards and Paper counter [...]

1 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

John DOS PASSOS

L'initiation d'un homme 1917

F. Rieder & Cie, Paris 1925, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition of the French translation, one of 300 numbered copies on vélin Lafuma.
Rare autograph inscription signed by John Dos Passos, in English and dated 1945, to Maurice Saillet.

 

1 500 €

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First edition, Signed book

Carson MAC CULLERS

Le coeur est un chasseur solitaire

Stock, Paris 1943, 13x19,5cm, broché.

first edition of the French translation, one of the 100 non-trade copies numbered on Swedish vellum.
Rare autograph autograph dedication of the author of Carson Mac Cullers, in English, to Marcel Arland.
spineely insolated, the last three letters of the author's name [...]

1 200 €

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Romain GARY

Frère Océan : Pour Sganarelle. - La danse de Gengis Cohn. - La tête coupable

Gallimard, Paris 1965-1968, 14,5x21,5cm, 3 volumes brochés.

First edition, one of the 27 copies (for the first volume) and of the 23 copies (for the two other) numbered on Hollande paper, the tirage de tête for each volume.
A very slight tear to head of first cover of the first volume.
Extremely rare and nice set of the complete trilogy Frère Océan.

12 000 €

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