Léon Lemardeley

First edition of most parts.
Half blue morocco with corners, spine with five raised bands, date and place gilt in the middle of the spine, marbled paper boards, combed paper endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, bookplate pasted on a pastedown, binding signed Lemardeley.
Handsome copy perfectly executed.

Rare first edition of L'Ile des esclaves.
Nineteenth-century Bradel binding in half beige cloth, smooth spine uniformly soiled, faded long title label, gilt date at foot, cat's eye pebbled paper boards, all edges red. Binding signed Lemardeley.
Scattered foxing.

"Vous avez été leurs maîtres, et vous en avez mal agi ; ils sont devenus les vôtres, et ils vous pardonnent ; faites vos réflexions là-dessus." ["You have been their masters, and you have acted badly; they have become yours, and they forgive you; reflect upon this."] (Trivelin, final scene)

First edition printed on laid paper.
Handsome copy illustrated with a frontispiece and 4 out-of-text portraits etched.
Bradel binding in half safron percale, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, black shagreen title label, speckled paper boards, original wrappers preserved, corners slightly bumped, bookplate of the famous bibliophile Paul Lacombe pasted on a pastedown, contemporary binding signed in blind by Lemardeley.

The rare first edition, probably printed in Paris, anonymously, by Mirabeau according to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
Half morocco binding in faded red with long grain from the late 19th century signed L. Lemardeley, with a tool at head and tail, gilt title, rubbing, the binding bears the title: Stephan Bordese - Blanc et bleu, which indicates that the work has been rebound.
Handsome copy.
Avis charitable aux moines so that they enrich the state and population by ceasing their gluttony at the expense of the people. The author promises the different monastic orders a monument to their glory if they comply with his prayers. Anticlerical libel, violently attacking the monks.
Armorial bookplate: Rose.