Jean-Luc Honegger

Syntagma de Musis Rare editio princeps illustrated with a large title vignette (86 x 95 mm) featuring the Muses playing their instruments under the water of a fountain overlooking the Hippocrene spring surmounted by a verse from Hesiod's Theogony: “Ennea thugateres megalou Dios / £ Nine daughters engendered by the almighty Zeus.” This was the very first collective representation of the Muses bathing in the fountain of youth.
Nine magnificent in-text woodcuts (63 x 50 mm) also showing these same Muses elegantly dressed and hold

First edition, one of the rare press copies. No deluxe limited issue printed.

Full yellow box calf binding, smooth spine lettered in palladium, boards tooled in blind, upper board with inlays of grey box calf, yellow box calf pastedowns, beige suede endpapers, original wrappers and spine preserved, no gilt edges like every binding by Jean-Luc Honegger, half yellow box calf custom slipcase, smooth spine lettered in palladium, yellow lustrine cloth boards, beige suede lining, very fine set signed Jean-Luc Honegger (2023).

4400 copies of this first edition of The Stranger were printed on April 21, 1942: 400 press copies, 500 copies without a statement of editio

Pilote de Guerre [Flight to Arras]
Éditions de la maison française | New York 1942 | 18 x 22,5 cm | boxcalf binding with custom slipcase
First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on texte paper, the tirage de tête after 1 unique hors-commerce copy on handmade vellum paper and 25 lettered hors-commerce on Strathmore paper.
Full burgundy boxcalf binding, smooth spine lettered with palladium, boards with palladium tooled motifs, upper board with coloured inlaid boxcalf, burgundy boxcalf pastedowns, garnet red suede endleaves, original wrappers preserved, no gilt edges like every binding by Jean-Luc Honegger, half burgundy box calf custo