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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Claude de MORENNE

Oraisons funebres et tombeaux. Avecques les Cantiques, Quatrains, & autres Poëmes, tant François ...

Pierre Bertault, Paris 1604, in-8 (11x17,5cm), 4 parties reliées en un volume.

The very rare first collected edition, first in parts, of the works of Claude de Morenne (1550-1606), preacher to King Henri IV and Bishop of Sées.
Contemporary cream-colored supple vellum, spine with fillets and little gilt fleurons, double gilt fillet frame to covers, all edges gilt.
One [...]

1 500 €

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Barbara Juliane von KRUDENER

Valérie

Charpentier, Paris 1840, 10,5x17,5cm, relié.

new edition.
Contemporary binding in full blue morocco, back with five false nerves ornate boxes, jewels, gold and dotted nets, five threads and golden jewels framing the boards, green morocco contreplats lined boxes of twelve golden nets and punches Cold, net gilded on the cuts, all edges [...]

450 €

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COLLECTIF

Recueil des plus belles pièces des poëtes françois, tant anciens que modernes, depuis Villon ...

par La Compagnie des libraires, Paris 1752, in-12 (8x13,5cm), ix (1) 322pp. (4) 314pp. et (2) 292pp. (2) 312pp. et (2)

Famous poetry anthology, known as the Compendium of Barbin because records within it are believed to have been composed by François Barbin, son of the bookseller who printed for the first time in 1692. This valuable collection was the first to accord importance to the poets of the Middle Ages, [...]

550 €

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Alexis PIRON

Oeuvres complettes, publiées par M. Rigoley de Juvigny

de l'Imprimerie de Lambert, Paris 1776, in-8 (12,5x19,5 cm), (4) xv ; 379pp. (4) et (4) 573pp. (1) et (4) 544pp. et (4)

The most complete collective edition of Alexis Piron's works, edited by Rigoley de Juvigny. Portrait of the author at the beginning of the first volume, engraved by Augustin de Saint-Aubin after Caffieri. As very often, the eighth volume (being the Œuvres badines) is not present. A [...]

1 800 €

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Evariste PARNY

Opuscules

Manoury, Londres, et se trouve à Caen 1787, in-16 (7,5x12,5cm), 2 volumes reliés.

Counterfeiting of the Cazin edition of 1781 pieces of these erotic, songs and literary madécasses mixtures. According permission placed at the end of the second volume, this fourth edition was printed in 1500 copies. It is decorated with two titles-engraved frontispiece, marked "Fifth Edition", [...]

500 €

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Jean DOUBLET

Élégies. Suivies des Épigrammes et Rimes diverses

Librairie des Bibliophiles, Paris 1871, 10,5x17cm, relié.

Reprint for the poet's Elegies bibliophile Cabinet Collection Dieppe Jean Doublet, born in the early sixteenth century and died around 1580. edition of 333 copies, this one of 15 numbered copies on Whatman.
Contemporary binding in full red morocco, signed Hello - Wampflug back with five nerves [...]

680 €

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Frédéric SOULIE & Ludovic HALEVY, [Louis Ernest [...]

Le Lion amoureux. Nouvelle édition. Avec Notice historique et littéraire par Ludovic Halévy

L. Conquet, Paris 1882, 12x18,5cm, relié sous étui.

New edition printed in 500 copies, this one of 50 numbered copies on Japan, deluxe edition containing the reprint of Japan illustrations.
The reprint of the figure that adorns the cover is on China.
Binding the time of full red morocco, signed Thibaron-Joly, back with five nerves Jansenist, [...]

700 €

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