First edition

Giovanni Battista CINI

Descritione della pompa funerale fatta nelle essequie del Ser. Sig. Cosimo de Medici Gran Duca de ...

Giunta, In Fiorenza (Florence) 1574, in-8 (15x22cm), 20f., relié.

first edition. Brand from the printer to the last leaf verso. Framed for Renaissance engraved title page with a title vignette representing the city of Florence. A medallion portrait of Cosimo de Medici on the back of the title page. italicized print.
Binding full rigid vellum nineteenth to [...]

800 €

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QUINTILIEN

Declamationes innumeris locis emendatae ex recensione Ulrici Obrechti

Sumptibus Joh. Reinhold Dusseck, Argentorati (Strasbourg) 1698, in-8 (16x22cm), (56) 801pp. (84), relié.

first edition.
Binding half contemporary vellum with corners. Smooth back with respect to the pen. rugged head cap without missing .. tail cap with torn vellum but lack (visible box).
The Declamationes are speech drafts, sort of school exercises for rhétorique.On are 19 [...]

400 €

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Jean de LA FONTAINE

Les Oeuvres posthumes de Monsieur de La Fontaine

Chez Jean Pohier, à Paris 1696, in-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (24) 276pp., relié.

Contemporary binding in full brown calf, back with five nerves ornate, cold boards mesh frame, golden roll on turns and headdresses, all red edges.
Mors slightly rubbed and some very discrete restorations.

1 500 €

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Auguste-Jean BOYER d'AGEN

Au pays de jasmin. I. - Vieil Agen

Alphonse Lemerre, Paris 1924, 13x20cm, broché.

first edition for which there is no mention of leading copies.
Autorgaphe dispatch dated and signed Auguste-Jean Boyer d'Agen: "To my friend the same letters and oil oc, and my compatriot from the same land Gascon, an exile, like him, the cradle where expensive he wants to return [...]

80 €

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CAMI

Les farfelus

Editions Baudinière, Paris 1952, 14,5x20cm, broché.

first edition on the current paper.
Bicolor autograph and signed Cami in Jacques Guéritat enriched with a self-portrait in the smoking cigarette.
Book illustrated with 30 drawings by the author.

150 €

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Solomon Alhadef RHODES

Within a cactus grove

The Christopher publishing house, Boston 1933, 14x21cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

first edition.
Binding of the editor in full black calico, smooth back.
Rare autograph dated and signed Solomon Alhadef Rhodes, in French, to André Rolland Renéville: "... for his judex librorum prohibitorum ..." on guard.
Guards partially shaded.
 

200 €

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Charles MONSELET

Rétif de la Bretonne, sa vie et ses amours ; documents inédits ; ses malheurs, sa vieillesse et ...

Alvarès fils, Paris 1854, 11,5x19,5cm, relié.

First edition, one of the 20 copies on pink paper, deluxe edition.
Binding half calf navy blue, back with five nerves set with gold dotted, golden tail date marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, wrappers preserved and bound in.
Illustrated book of a facsimile and a [...]

400 €

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Raymond GUERIN

Parmi tant d'autres feux

Gallimard, Paris 1949, 14x21cm, broché.

First edition, one of 109 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, only leading copies.
Back with discrete restorations.

120 €

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