First edition

Louis de LOMENIE

Discours de M. de Loménie prononcé à l'Académie Française le jour de sa réception, 8 Janvier ...

Didier & Cie, Paris 1874, 14x22,5cm, relié.

first edition.
Binding half caramel shagreen, back with five nerves set with black nets decorated with double black boxes to centers which include the golden initials of the great bibliophile Roger Cormenin repeated five times, as part of turquoise shagreen, marbled paper plates, guards and [...]

100 €

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Alexander POPE

Les principes de la morale et du goût [suivi de] La boucle de cheveux enlevée

ChezBriasson, à Paris 1755, in-12 (10x17cm), viij ; lx ; 60-225pp. (7) 69pp. (3), 2 textes reliés en un volume.

Contemporary binding in full golden calf. Back smooth decorated with lace and golden jewels as well as a piece of brown morocco. Triple net gold bezel of the boards. Golden roll on turns and headdresses. All edges gilt.
Beautiful copy.

250 €

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First edition

Jean PASSERAT

Le Premier Livre des poemes de Jean Passerat

Par la veuveMamert Patisson, à Paris 1602, Pet. in-8 (9,5x14,8cm), (2f.) 44ff., relié.

Partly first edition.
Bound in full morocco pine green late nineteenth. Back with nerves decorated with florets 5. boards decorated with the Duseuil, inétrieur supervision with the jewels in the spandrels. Rich inner frieze. spine cleared. Light rubbing to corners, joint and caps. The copy [...]

1 000 €

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First edition

CALIXTE & MELIBEE

La Célestine

Librairie de Charles Gosselin, Paris 1843, 11,5x19,5cm, relié.

First edition of the French translation by Germond de Lavigne.
Binding half calf mint green, slightly thinned back smoothes decorated with gilded nets, golden tail frieze, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, bookplate engraved and glued on a contreplat, then binding [...]

100 €

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Père & fils GUILLAUMOT, Jean-Baptiste Louis GRESSET

Ver-vert ou les voyages du perroquet de la visitation de Nevers, poème héroï-comique en quatre ...

Rouquette , Paris 1877, 18,5x27cm, relié.

Edition published by Georges Heylli and illustrated with original etchings Guillaumot father and son, one of 30 numbered copies on China, with 30 deluxe edition Whatman.
Binding half caramel calf, back with five nerves set with gold decorated with double gilded coffered nets embellished angles [...]

120 €

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Henri-Frédéric AMIEL

Fragments d'un journal intime

H. Georg, Genève & Paris & Bâle 1892, 12x19,5cm, 2 volumes reliés.

Sixth edition preceded by a study by Edmond Scherer.
Binders full chocolate brown morocco, back with five nerves, gilded wheels on headdresses, marbled paper plates, platter struck first in their centers with a gold monogram, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, golden lace coaching [...]

300 €

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Stanislaw REJCHAN, Octave FEUILLET

Monsieur de Camors

Calmann Lévy, Paris 1885, 20x29cm, relié.

Edition illustrated with 11 original compositions of Stanislaw Rejchan, one of 100 numbered copies on Japan, deluxe edition.
Binding half morocco navy blue with corners, lightened spine five bands set with golden dotted decorated with double gilded boxes decorated with golden typographical [...]

250 €

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JUVENAL

Satires

Dalibon, Paris 1826, 15,5x25,5cm, 2 volumes reliés.

Second edition of the French translation by J. Dusaulx and expanded notes and preceded by historical notes on the life of Juvenal and that of Dusaulx.
Binders half morocco with long grain pine green with corners, back with four nerves set with double nets gilded ornate triple gold boxes, [...]

350 €

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