First edition

James FORDYCE

Sermons pour les jeunes dames et les jeunes demoiselles

Chez les frères Estienne, à Paris 1778, In-12 (10x17cm), cv (1) 465pp. (3), relié.

Original French edition translated into the seventh English edition.
Binding in full marbled and glazed brown calf of the time. Smooth decorated back. title label in red morocco. Flared headdress. Upper joint split at the head on 5cm. Traces of friction. Good copy.
Scottish Protestant [...]

150 €

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First edition, Signed book

CARZOU, Florent FELS

Carzou

Pierre Cailler, Genève 1959, 16x18,5cm, broché.

Second edition partly original as revised and enlarged.
Autograph shipment signed by Florent Fels to Doctor Collet enriched with an autograph shipment signed by Carzou as well as an original drawing in colored pencils representing a floral decoration.
Iconography.
Back [...]

150 €

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First edition

Gaston BACHELARD, Albert FLOCON

Traité du burin

Librairie Auguste Blaizot, Paris 1952, en feuilles sous couverture, chemise et étui.

Edition originale imprimée à 250 exemplaires, un des 10 premiers exemplaires sur papier chiffon spécialement enrichis d'une suite expérimentale, tirage de tête.
Préface de Gaston Bachelard.
Ouvrage illustré de 23 gravures au burin dont une en frontispice, 8 en hors-texte, 7 en [...]

1 200 €

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First edition

André Pierre LE GUAY DE PRETMONVAL & Bernard le [...]

L'esprit de Fontenelle. Ou recueil de pensées tirées de ses ouvrages

Chez Pierre Gosse, à La Haye 1744, In-12 (10x17cm), (4) lx (2) 276pp., relié.

First edition, illustrated with a captioned, unsigned frontispiece and a title sticker with the banner banner: Illuminat et foecundat. Title page in red and black.
Dutch binding in full vintage brown morocco. Back to nerve decorated with cold decorated boxes. title label of cold brown morocco. [...]

350 €

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First edition

Thomas CORNEILLE & Bernard le Bovier de FONTENELLE

Le dictionnaire universel des arts et des sciences

Chez Jean-Baptiste Coignard, à Paris 1732, In-Folio (26x40cm), (10) 678pp. et (4) 645pp. (1), 2 volumes reliés.

Nouvelle édition, corrigée et augmentée par Fontenelle. Le tome I s'étend de A à L, le tome II de M à Z. 2 vignettes de titre et de lettrines gravés par Mariette. Pages de titre en rouge et noir. Impression sur 2 colonnes.
Exemplaire aux armes totalement grattées. On distingue encore [...]

600 €

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First edition

John FISKE

La destinée de l'homme

Charles Carrington, Paris 1904, 15,5x23cm, broché.

First edition of the French translation and preface by Charles Grolleau.
Braid binding in full red percaline, smooth back decorated with a floral golden pattern, golden date and double fillet in tail, piece of brown shagreen with scratches, Contemporary binding signed cold Pierson.

60 €

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First edition, Signed book

Benjamin FONDANE

Faux traité d'esthétique

Denoël, Paris 1938, 14x22,5cm, broché.

First Edition for which he was not drawn from large paper.
Some bites on the boards.
Rare autograph dedication signed by Benjamin Fondane to the poet Raymond Datheil.

1 200 €

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First edition, Signed book

André FRENAUD

Notre inhabileté fatale. Entretiens avec Bernard Pingaud

Gallimard, Paris 1979, 14x20,5cm, broché.

First edition on current paper.
Nice copy.
Beautiful autograph signed by André Frénaud Georges Raillard and Annabel and Jean-Marie Queneau: "... in memory of his father who is one of the men I loved the most."

70 €

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