First edition

Robert SMITH

Cours complet d'optique

Chez La veuve Girard & chez Charles Antoine Jombert, à Avignon se vend à Paris 1767, In-4 (20x25,5cm), (6) iij-xxviij

French Edition in translating Spirit Pézenas, and illustrated 73 plates engraved by Faure.
Binders full mottled calf contemporary. Back with nerves decorated. as exhibits in red morocco and volume number in black leather.

2 000 €

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Signed book

Gaston BACHELARD

L'eau et les rêves - Essai sur l'imagination de la matière

José Corti, Paris 1947, 12x18,5cm, broché.

New edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Signed autograph Gaston Bachelard Xavier Regnauld: "... the daydreams of a philosopher champenois ..."

480 €

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First edition, Signed book

Marcel BEALU

La millanderie

Deux Rives, s.l. 1949, 12x18,5cm, broché.

Edition of wich no leading copies exists.
Signed autograph of Marcel Béalu Henri-Louis Mill and his wife Renée: "... that I will not forget in my prayers ..."
Tris spots in margins also affecting first flat, tapering in the following sheets.
complete copy of its peière insert.

40 €

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Catulle MENDES, Lucien METIVET

Les plus jolies chansons du pays de France, chansons tendres

Plon, Paris 1888, 20x29,5cm, relié.

Edition features original illustrations Lucien Métivet.
Binding to bradel half gray calico, smooth back with a gold jewel, double golden tail thread, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers, gilded head.
Some foxing.

100 €

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Théophile GAUTIER, Alexandre LUNOIS

Fortunio

Librairie des Bibliophiles, Paris 1898, 20x27cm, relié.

Edition illustrated with 24 original lithographs in colors Lunois Alexander, one of 500 numbered copies on vellum of the Marais.
Binding half blue shagreen, back with five nerves, gilded tail date marbled paper plates, a scratch in head first board, guard and contreplats of handmade paper, [...]

200 €

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Victor de PERRODIL

Dictionnaire des hérésies, des erreurs et des schismes ou mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des ...

A. Royer, Paris 1845, 11x18cm, 2 volumes reliés.

New edition in the partly original as corrected and augmented.
Binders half red shagreen, back with four nerves decorated with gilded finials, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, sprinkled edges.
Some minor foxing.

70 €

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Albert Henri de SALLENGRES

Memoires de litterature

Chez Henri Du Sauzet, à La Haye 1715, In-12 (10x16cm), (14) 207pp. (1) ; (4) 211-464p. (10) et (4) 240pp. ; (4) 299pp. (5), 2 volumes reliés.

First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece of Bleyswyk, two vignettes title and 4 beautiful portraits of the same. Title pages in red and black.
Binders full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back to boxed nerves. parts of title and volume number in red morocco. Mors top of Volume I open mind. [...]

280 €

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Eléazar de MAUVILLON

Histoire du prince François Eugene de Savoye

Chez Briffaut, à Vienne en Autriche 1755, In 12 (10x17cm), (4) XII 360pp. et (4) 279pp. et (2) 351pp. et (2) 343pp. et

New edition, illustrated with a portrait by Schmidt on strong paper and 12 shots military battles flyers. The first edition was published by the same publisher in 1741. The book is no author name, and was awarded to Mauvillon by Barbier.
Binders full glossy brown calf contemporary. Back with [...]

1 000 €

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