First edition

Jules JANIN

Voyage en Italie

Ernest Bourdin, Paris 1839, Grd. in-8 (16,5x26cm), 342pp., relié.

first edition illustrated with a large vignette of title on wood and 14 boards inset on steel
Binding in full red antique shade signed Rivage. Smooth back decorated with a composition in long floral irons and rocailles. Flat cold-stripped of a large ornamental plate with foliage, birds, and [...]

500 €

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First edition

Joseph TOWNSEND

Voyage en Espagne, fait dans les années 1786 et 1787

Dentu, Paris 1809, In-8 (12,5x20,2cm), (4) iv (4) 401pp. (3) et (4) 398pp. (2) et (4) 379pp. (1), 3 volumes reliés.

first edition, very rare, without the atlas. Translated from English on the second edition by Pictet-Mallet.
Bindings in full flamed swan from the time. Smooth backs decorated with 2 different irons, castors and a large box to the grotesque. Parts of title in red morocco, and of tomaison in [...]

900 €

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First edition

Pierre SONNERAT

Voyage aux Indes orientales et à la Chine depuis 1774 jusqu'en 1781 : Dans Lequel on Traite Des ...

Chez l'auteur & Froulé & Nyon, à Paris 1782, In-8 (14x22cm), xxij, 340pp. et (6) 376pp. et (6) 362pp., 3 volumes reliés.

first edition illustrated with 7 folding boards.
Bindings in half emerald slightly posterior. Smooth back with 4 irons and castors. Title and tomato pieces in red morocco.

1 800 €

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First edition

Charles de COURCY

Tableau religieux et politique de l'Indostan, ou précis historique des révolutions de l'Inde, où ...

Chez Marchant, à Paris 1803, In-8 (12,5x20cm), (4) xxiij, 472pp., relié.

Edition originale, rare. L'ouvrage est suivi de deux mémoires présentés en 1781, à Louis XVI, par l'auteur de cet ouvrage, contenant un plan pour anéantir la puissance anglaise dans l'Inde, et d'un troisième sur les moyens actuels d'y parvenir encore.

Reliure en plein veau raciné [...]

650 €

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First edition

Jean-François PEYRON

Essais sur l'Espagne faits en 1777 et 1778 ; où l'on traite des moeurs, du caractere, des ...

S.n., Geneve 1780, In-8 (13x20cm), 3 volumes reliés.

first edition, rare.
Bindings in full veal blond speckled vintage. Smooth ornate back, wheels in tails and heads. Title and tomato pieces in red morocco.

1 200 €

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First edition, Signed book

François MITTERRAND

Ma part de vérité

Fayard, Paris 1969, 15x21,5cm, broché.

First edition of which there were no grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Autograph inscription signed by François Mitterrand to Charles Zelman.
A small pale dampstain to head of first cover, internally good.

600 €

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First edition

Richard RANFT

L'illustre famille

Paul Ollendorff, Paris s.d. (1912), 13,5x20cm, relié.

first edition, one of the 5 numbered copies on Japan, only large papers before 10 China.
Half maroquin binding with brown corners, smooth back decorated with a gilded cartouche decorated with typographic patterns and golden fillets, framing of golden fillets on the marbled paper plates, guards [...]

200 €

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First edition

Gabrielle REVAL

Lycéennes

Paul Ollendorff, Paris 1902, 13x19cm, relié.

first edition, one of the 5 numbered copies on Holland paper, only large papers.
Black half-morocco binding with corners, lightly illuminated smooth back decorated with a gilded cartouche embellished with gilded typographic motifs, golden date in the tail, framing of golden threads on marbled [...]

200 €

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