Pierre CHARRON

De la sagesse, trois livres

Chez Barrois l'aîné, De l'imprimerie de Didot l'aîné, Paris 1789, 2 Vol. in-12 (10x16cm), 588pp. et (4) 589-992pp., 2 volumes reliés.

Binders full post blond calf. Back with five nerves decorated with coffered grotesque and parts of title and volume number red and green morocco. Triple net gilded on the boards. Net gilded on the cuts and caps. Golden lace coaching contreplats. All edges gilt.

350 €

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First edition

André CHENIER

Oeuvres en prose de André Chénier augmentées d'un grand nombre de morceaux inédits et ...

Charles Gosselin, Paris 1840, 11x17,5cm, relié.

Edition partly original and only complete.
Full binding marine calf, back smoothes decorated with double gilded cartridges embellished with a romantic gilded arabesque, framing a golden thread of golden feurons enriched in spandrels on ornate boards at their centers a romantic golden abaresque, [...]

150 €

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Edward YOUNG & LE TOURNEUR

Oeuvres diverses du Docteur Young

Chez E. van Harrevelt, Amsterdam 1772, 4 tomes en 4 Vol. in-12 (11x18cm), (2) LVI ; 295pp. (1) et (2) 310pp. (2) et (2)

New edition.
Binders of the time open blond calf. Back smooth decorated with gilded finials and nets, as well as parts of title and volume numbers of black morocco. Golden roulette vegetable boards coaching.
The edition is organized as follows:
T1. Young's Night.
T2. Young's [...]

350 €

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First edition, Signed book

Félix Tournachon dit NADAR

Les dicts & faicts du chier cyre Gambette le Hutin en sa court

chés l'auctheur, Paris s.d. [1882], 14x19cm, relié.

first edition of this Rabelaisian style pamphlet directed against Gambetta, one of 300 numbered copies on paper of the Netherlands.
Binding to open bradel ivory wove, smooth back, red mesh frame compositions painted boards and boards to centers: a bookplate and a monogram on the first front [...]

450 €

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First edition

Félix Tournachon dit NADAR

La Passion illustrée sinon illustre de N.-S. Gambetta

chés l'auctheur, Paris s.d. [1882], 14x19cm, relié.

first edition of this Rabelaisian style pamphlet directed against Gambetta, one of 300 numbered copies on Holland paper.
Binding to open bradel ivory wove, smooth back, red mesh coaching boards and boards painted in watercolor compositions centers: a bookplate and a monogram on the first front [...]

450 €

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Jean PASSERAT

Recueil des oeuvres poetiques. — Kalendae Januariae, & Varia quaedam Poëmatia

Chez Abel l'Angelier, Paris 1606, in-8 (11x16,5cm), (6) 464pp. (8) ; (16) 248pp. [mal chiff. 148] (6), 2 ouvrages reliés en un volume.

Posthumous editions of these works, prepared and published by John Rougevalet, nephew of the author. The Compendium is decorated with a lovely portrait of Passerat engraved on copper by Thomas de Leu. Among the various French plays in it, there are his famous hunting poems: The Deer of [...]

1 200 €

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First edition

Benjamin de LABORDE

Mémoires historiques sur Raoul de Coucy. On y a joint le Recueil de ses Chansons en vieux langage, ...

De l'Imprimerie de Ph.- D. Pierres, Paris 1781, in-8 (10,5x17,5cm), (8) 108pp. et (4) 106pp., 2 volumes reliés.

The first edition, finely printed by Pierres. The work is illustrated with three portraits, including one of Raoul de Coucy, one hors-texte figure showing the town of Coucy-le-Château, and twelve pages of music engraved with the greatest care after manuscripts belonging to the king and the Marquis [...]

2 500 €

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First edition

ANONYME

Lettres patantes du roy. Portans Permission d'Establir dans ceste ville de Paris & autres de ce ...

Sylvestre Moreau, Paris 1617, petit in-8 (10x16cm), 15pp., relié.

first edition of this very rare piece for the establishment of public arm chairs in France. Arms of France engraved on wood with the title.
Binding XIX half calf cherry with corners, signed E. Niédrée. Back with five nerves decorated with gilded nets. Cold net on the boards.
Copy of Henri [...]

450 €

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