First edition

[ VOLTAIRE] & [Pierre Louis Claude GIN]

Prix de la justice et de l'humanité. [Ensemble] Les vrais principes du gouvernement françois, ...

S.n., Geneve 1777, in-8 (12x20cm), (6) vij, (1) 316pp. (3) ; iv, 120pp., relié.

first editions, rare both Full mottled calf contemporary. Smooth back 4 irons. Parts of title and volume number in red morocco. Triple fillet border on covers. Little lack in mind. Lack the upper joint head. Upper joint split tail. Slight lack tail. Friction. Gin's work is primarily a defense [...]

1 400 €

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First edition, Signed book

Joris-Karl HUYSMANS

En route

Tresse & Stock, Paris 1895, 11,5x18,5cm, relié.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Contemporary half black shagreen over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments (slightly rubbed), marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Autograph inscription signed by Joris-Karl Huysmans.
A very pale dampstain to foot of first leaf.

1 500 €

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Laurence STERNE

Voyage sentimental

Ernest Bourdin, Paris s.d. (1841), 17x26cm, relié.

New edition of the French translation, first printing illustrations T. Johannot and Jacque. Binding to bradel half shagreen hazelnut, smooth back, a word very lightly rubbed head, flat marbled, endpapers and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers, gilded head. Book illustrated with a [...]

200 €

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First edition, Signed book

Jean DUTOURD

L'école des jocrisses

Flammarion, Paris 1970, 12,5x20cm, broché.

First edition, one of 30 numbered hors commerce copies on green paper, reserved for the author.
Autograph inscription from Jean Dutourd.
A very good copy.

100 €

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First edition

Abraham Nicolas AMELOT DE LA HOUSSAYE

Histoire du gouvernement de Venise, avec le supplément; et l'examen de la liberté originaire de ...

Chez Frédéric Léonard, à Paris 1677, Fort in-12 (7,5x13,8cm), (26) 550pp; (2) ; 237pp; (3) ; (12) 211pp. (39), relié.

Edition partly original, rare, much preferable to the original 1676 which contains only the first part; it is thereby significantly increased by major parts. A frontispiece representing the Piazza San Marco in Venice. The 1677 edition contains 3 titles for each section plus an added title [...]

1 800 €

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First edition

Jacques BOILEAU

Historia Flagellantium De Recto Et Perverso Flagrorum Usu Apud Christianos

chez Jean Anisson, à Paris 1700, in-12 (8,5x16,2cm), (20) 341pp. (19), relié.

Originale.Pleine Edition Sheepskin contemporary. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. A lack in lower cap. Bit split tail 1cm. Corners bumped. The first sheet is white. Snack according to the copy of flagellants Oxford.Les first appear in the eleventh century and the movement will [...]

550 €

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First edition

Germain-François Poullain de SAINT-FOIX

Oeuvres complettes

Chez La veuve Duchesne, à Paris 1778, in-8 (9,5x17,5cm), (2) xvj, (20) 504 pp. et (25) 527 pp. et (1) 455 pp.et (1)

First Edition collective. A portrait frontispiece and two engravings by Marillier the second volume (one of these prints often lack). False titles and titles in red and black.
Full sheepskin slightly later blonde. Smooth spine decorated with boxes and wheels. Part of title in red morocco, and [...]

800 €

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Ferdinand FABRE

L'abbé Tigrane

Alphonse Lemerre, Paris 1888, 9,5x16,5cm, relié.

New edition, drawn from the complete works of the author on the current paper. Binding to bradel half morocco caramel, smooth back adorned with a golden double cartridge and boxes decorated angles, when the tail, plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers, gilded head, [...]

80 €

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