First edition

Madame de LA FAYETTE (Marie-Madeleine PIOCHE DE LA [...]

Memoires de la cour de France, pour les années 1688 & 1689

Chez Jean-Frederic Bernard, à Amsterdam 1731, In 12 (9,5x16cm), (2) 234pp., relié.

First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece by Bernard Picart, engraved by Bush. Title page in red and black. Full red morocco late nineteenth. Spine decorated with 5 small florets. Gilt. Inner wheel. Golden head. Beautiful conditions. As announced preface, Madame de La Fayette's memoirs from [...]

1 000 €

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Jean GENET

Les nègres

Marc Barbezat, Décines 1958, 15,5x20,5cm, broché.

First edition, one of 32 numbered copies on Japon nacre paper, the tirage de tête.
A fine copy. %

2 300 €

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Jean GENET, Alberto GIACOMETTI

Le balcon

Marc Barbezat, Décines 1956, 15,5x20,5cm, broché.

First edition, one of 32 numbered copies on Japon nacré, the tirage de tête.
Covers illustrated with an original lithograph by Alberto Giacometti.
A fine copy. %

2 500 €

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Roland LE VAYER DE BOUTIGNY

Tarsis et Zélie

Chez Musier fils, à Paris 1774, 6 parties en 3 Vol. in 8 (13x21,8cm), xxiij, 563pp. et 563pp. et 597pp., relié.

Illustrated new edition first printing. The figure includes three frontispiece by Cochin, Moreau and Eisen, engraved by Gaucher, Ponce Born; and 20 headers by Eisen, engraved by Helman, De Longueuil, Masquelier and Massard. Elegant shown in the layout soignée.Demi morocco olive green late [...]

850 €

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ANACREON & SAPHO, Charles EISEN

Anacréon, Sapho, Bion et Moschus, traduction nouvelle en Prose, suivie De la veillée des fêtes ...

Chez Le Boucher, à Paphos & se trouve à Paris 1773, In 8 (14x22,2cm), (4) iv, 280pp., relié.

First edition of this translation of Moutonnet Clairfonds and first print of the illustration, which includes a frontispiece, 12 headers and 13 tail-lamp Eisen, engraved by Massard and Duclos. Title page in red and red morocco noir.Plein late nineteenth signed Pickering. Spine ribbed Jansenist. [...]

800 €

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Magdeleine-Alexis COSSONNET

Pratique raisonnée de la taille des arbres fruitiers et de la vigne

Chez l'auteur & Vve Bouchard-Huzard & Bossin Louesse & Cie & Gontier..., Paris & Montrouge & Versailles 1849, 16x25cm, broché.

First Edition rare.Ouvrage adorned with 21 boards inset lithographiées.Un split bit Length, marginal bites on the boards, a few freckles, a clear angular wetness affecting the body of the book in foot tower, two pale foxing on garde.Rare first. --- Please note that the translation in english is [...]

200 €

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Victor HUGO & Stéphane MALLARME

Le tombeau de Théophile Gautier

Alphonse Lemerre, Paris 1873, 19,5x27cm, relié.

First edition, one of 10 numbered copies on Whatman paper initialed by the author, the tirage de tête.
Half brown morocco over marbled paper boards by Goy & Vilaine, spine in six compartments, gilt date to foot, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, fragile parchment-effect covers preserved [...]

1 500 €

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Guy de MAUPASSANT

Fort comme la mort

Paul Ollendorff, Paris 1889, 13,5x18cm, relié.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Hollande paper, the only large paper copies after 5 on Japon
Morocco-effect black shagreen Jansenist binding by Goy & Vilaine, spine in six compartments, date to foot, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, [...]

3 000 €

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