First edition

Georges CUVIER

Recueil des éloges historiques lus dans les séances publiques

F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg 1819, 2 tomes en 2 Vol. in 8 (12x20cm), viij, 430pp; (1) et (4) 484pp., relié.

First Edition, a sequel published in 1827, then another until 1832. Sheepskin Half brunette time. Back smooth and net roulette. Yellow edges. Permanent Secretary of the Academy of Sciences, he was in the allocation of Cuvier to compose these biographies of famous scientists who were members. These [...]

300 €

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First edition

LE GRAND D'AUSSY

Voyage d'Auvergne

Chez Eugène Onfroy, à Paris 1788, In 8 (12x21cm), XII, 551pp., relié.

First edition, rare, illustrated with a view of the city of Clermont and surrounding volcanoes. Half Calf midnight blue boards. Smooth back to great romantic long iron. Good copy. The last page of the table is so frayed margins. The author who spent five months in Clermont Ferrand and Auvergne [...]

700 €

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First edition

Marquis de la. FERTE-SENECTERE

Monographie des Anthicus et genres voisins, coléoptères hétéromères de la tribu des ...

Imprimerie de Sapia, Paris 1848, 14x22cm, relié.

First Edition.
Bound in brown half shagreen, flat spine decorated with gilt fillets and cold, golden head and tail lace, contemporary binding.
Book decorated with 12 boards in-fine
Some spots. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if [...]

350 €

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Pierre Laurent Buirette de BELLOYS

Recueil des edicts de pacification, ordonnances et déclarations faites par les Rois de France sur ...

S.n., s.l. 1612, in-12 (8x14,7cm), 426pp. (15), relié.

New expanded edition edicts until 1610; in all likelihood, the first was published in 1599. Velin Full time. Smooth back. Title in black pen partly illegible. Endpapers are detached from the boards. Loose seams with some projections of notebooks. A gallery to 1 cm in the right margin affecting a [...]

650 €

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Henry Wadsworth LONGFELLOW

Poetical works

Routlege, London 1864, Fort in 12 (10x17cm), X 310pp., relié.

New edition, including the oldest illustrations of Gilbert back to 1856, the publisher has increased the unpublished text based on the date of publishing. A portrait frontispiece and numerous inset wood after John Gilbert.Plein shagreen green fir time. Back to nerves decorated boxes; roulette tail. [...]

450 €

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First edition, Signed book

DOUGHMANI

Faites vos jeux

Amédée Chiroutre, Paris s.d. (circa 1935), 27x18cm, broché retenu par un lacet.

Original, one of 10 ex numbered on Madagascar, the only major paper with 10 Japan Edition.
Recognizing autograph dedication signed by the author to a friend who supported him from the beginning.
Rare collection of player portraits sketched by the artist.
Slight traces of marginal minor [...]

250 €

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First edition, Signed book

Alphonse DAUDET & Adolphe BELOT

Sapho

Charpentier & Fasquelle, Paris 1893, 15,5x23,5cm, relié.

First edition of the theatrical adaptation of the novel by Alphonse Daudet, there is no mention of leading copies. Binding half hazelnut shagreen, back with five nerves, date tail, plates, guards and contreplats paper bowl, cover and spine preserved, gilded head. Autograph signed by Alphonse Daudet [...]

800 €

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First edition, Signed book

Louis PERGAUD

Le roman de Miraut, chien de chasse

Mercure de France, Paris 1913, 12x19cm, relié sous chemise et étui.

First edition, one of 19 numbered copies on Hollande, the only large paper copies.
Elegant light brown morocco Jansenist binding by Devauchelle, spine in six compartments, date at foot of spine, gilt roulettes to head- and tail-pieces, green morocco endpapers, pastedowns of green calf, gilt [...]

6 800 €

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