First edition

Jean-François COLLIN D'HARLEVILLE

Théatre et poésie fugitives

Chez Duminil Lesueur, à Paris 1805, in-8 (12,5x20,5cm), (4) xxij, 348pp. et (4) 432pp. et (4) 418pp. (1) et (4) 199pp.

Collective Edition
Bound in full sheepskin rooted blond contemporary. Back smooth decorated with two irons and two boxes to the grotesque, castors. Part of title and volume number in red morocco. A wormhole leading the first three volumes. spine slightly thinned

450 €

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MARTIAL D'AUVERGNE

Les poesies

De l'imprimerie de Antoine Urbain Coustelier, à Paris 1724, in-12 (9,5x15,5cm), (4) 231pp. et (4) 204pp. (4), 2 volumes reliés.

New edition
Binding full glossy golden calf contemporary. spine finely decorated nerves. Part of title and volume number morocco beige. Headdress head of Volume I miss wearing caps and tail of two volumes rather clumsily restored. Coins strongly blunted and damaged.

450 €

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Jean-Louis GUEZ DE BALZAC

Les oeuvres diverses

Par P. Recolet, à Paris 1646, In-4 (18,5x25,7cm), (8) 543pp., relié.

Second edition, after the original from 1644; adorned with a portrait frontispiece; a headband and a nice drop cap on the first page of text.
Copy to arms quartered on 5 boxes with helmet of a baron and valances. The furnishings are relatively illegible, we can distinguish the cross of [...]

850 €

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Guillaume de Saluste DU BARTAS

La sepmaine, ou creation du monde

Chez Hierosme de Marnef, à Paris 1585, in-4 (14,5x21,5cm), (16) 731pp. (20), relié.

New edition, first with comments and notes Thevenin pants. Brand printer in title page. Large arms of the Duke of Lorraine privilege of the back, which is dédicadé work.
Binding in full eighteenth glossy blond calf. Back with nerves decorated with small irons, tail wheel. As part morocco [...]

2 400 €

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Jonathan SWIFT

Le conte du tonneau, contenant tout ce que les arts et les sciences ont de plus sublime et de plus ...

Chez Henri Scheurleer, à La Haye 1757, in-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (6) xvj (2) 312pp. et xij, 296pp. et xvj, 280pp., 3 volumes reliés.

New edition, illustrated with 8 figures, including the famous Battles books; the other figures are just as curious.
Binding half mottled brown sheepskin contemporary. Back smooth decorated with four finials, roulette tail and head. As Exhibit tan morocco, black wax piece volume number. Corners [...]

550 €

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First edition

Vincent VOITURE

Les oeuvres. Les nouvelles oeuvres

Chez Augustin Courbé, à Paris 1650 - 1658, Fort in-4 (16,5x23cm), (30) 709p. (1) 210p. (17) (1bc.) ; (8) 173pp. (5), relié.

Seconde édition des Oeuvres (et première chez Courbe qui venait de récupérer le privilège) de Voiture et édition originale des Nouvelles oeuvres. Deux vignettes de titre par Picart. Un beau portrait par Champaigne.
Reliure en plein veau écailles du XVIIIe. Dos à nerfs joliment orné de [...]

1 000 €

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Jean PASSERAT

Kalendae Januariae, & Varia quaedam Poëmatia [Ensemble] De caecitate oratio [Ensemble] ...

Mamert Patisson, Lutetiae (Paris) 1603, Pet. in-8 (10x15,2cm), (2f.) 77ff. (2f.) ; 12ff. ; 13ff. ; (2f.) 44ff., 4 parties en un volume relié.

Rare meeting four older editions of Jean Passerat.
Binding full brown calf galcé eighteenth. Backpacks ornate nerves. As an exhibit in brown morocco. Mors finely restored. Lace on cuts. Beautiful copy.

2 000 €

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Salomon GESSNER

Oeuvres

Chez Dufart [S.d.] 1797, in-8 (12x20,5cm), 2 volumes reliés.

New edition, illustrated with two engraved titles, a portrait 9 figures in Volume I and Volume II at 15 or 27 prints by Monnet, Marillier, Giraud, engraved by Letellier, Dupré. The same issue features in the Oxford catalogs contains only 18 figures.
Glossy full calf binding vintage green and [...]

400 €

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