Antoine François Félix Comte de ROSELLY DE LORGUES

Christophe Colomb

Victor Palmé, Paris 1879, 19,5x28,8cm, 580pp., relié.

First illustrated edition of 5 chromolithographies, a color card, all pages in a wide framing engraved with marine scenes, landscape, monument ... The effect of these frames is quite extraordinary when in addition there considers that it is renewed every page.
Editor Cardboard half red shagreen

600 €

View more

First edition

Alexandre ANDRYANE

Mémoires d'un prisonnier d'état

Gaume frères, Paris 1850, 11x18cm, 2 volumes reliés.

Third edition revised by the author, plus unprecedented correspondence Confalonieri and illustrated by 4 steel engravings.
Binders half carton embossed caramel, back slightly thinned on four bands set with gilded nets decorated with double gilded coffered decorated golden jewels of angles, as [...]

100 €

View more

First edition, Signed book

Emile DURANDEAU

Civils et militaires

Tresse, Paris 1878, 11,5x18,5cm, relié.

first edition.
Binding to bradel half red calico, smooth back thinned with a gold floral motif, double net gilded tail, as a piece of blue shagreen, marbled paper plates, wrappers preserved and bound in, contemporary binding.
Bel autograph signed Emile Durandeau: "My dear sir, [...]

150 €

View more

First edition

Alphonse de NEUVILLE, Georges BASTARD

La défense de Bazeilles

Paul Ollendorff, Paris 1884, 12,5x19,5cm, relié.

First edition, one of the few copies on Holland paper which he makes no mention.
Bound in full red morocco, spine fives nerves decorated with black lines, golden tail date on castors golden headdresses, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, framing a golden lace on contreplats, double gilt [...]

300 €

View more

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 €

View more

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 €

View more

First edition

Guy ARNOUX

Quelques drapeaux françois

Devambez, Paris s.d. (circa 1920), 32x47,5cm, en feuilles sous chemise à lacets.

First edition, one of 475 numbered copies on Ingres, one draw with 25 Japan.
This book consists of a collection of 10 colored plates stenciled by Guy Arnoux French flags representing different from Joan of Arc to the First World War.
A stain Length of the title page and on the first board, [...]

280 €

View more

First edition

Jean PERRIER, René BENJAMIN

Un pauvre village de France

L'édition de luxe, Paris 1918, 26x34cm, broché.

First edition, a 1000 numbered copies on Holland paper, only 65 leading copies after Japan.
Work   illustrated with 20 wooden black and color of Jean Perrier.
Slight marginal minor tears on the boards.

70 €

View more