First edition

Albert SEDILLE & COLLECTIF

Dunkerque et ses chantiers de constructions navales de l'origine à nos jours

Ateliers et chantiers de France, Paris 1950, 24,5x31cm, broché.

First edition, one of 1000 numbered copies on Rives paper, the tirage de tête.
Richly illustrated.
A very good copy.

60 €

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Edmond GUERARD

Dictionnaire encyclopédique d'anecdotes modernes, anciennes, françaises et étrangères

Firmin Didot frères, fils & Cie, Paris 1872, 12,5x20cm, 2 volumes reliés.

First Edition. Binders half red shagreen, spine with five nerves set with black netting adorned with jewels gold, slight traces of abrasion on the back, flat epidermis slightly marbled paper, corners bumped, a few snags on the cuts, bindings of the time. Some small foxing. --- Please note that the [...]

70 €

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Désiré RAOUL-ROCHETTE

Histoire de la révolution helvétique, de 1797 à 1803

Nepveu, Paris 1823, 13x21cm, relié.

First Edition. Bound in brown half-buckram, flat spine decorated with gilt fillets and title to gold boards handmade paper, sprinkled edges. Back uniformly irradiated, lack the upper left corner, other corners bumped. A folding map of Switzerland divided into 22 cantons conducted by the author. [...]

70 €

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Robert VILLARD

Nantes 16.23. Septembre 1943

Aux Portes du Large, Nantes 1946, 32x43,5cm, en feuilles sous deux chemises.

First edition printed in only 180 copies, ours, one of 38 copies with a suite of "pur-fil" paper Renage. The twelve lithographs by Robert Villard recount and celebrate the bombing of Nantes on 16 and 23 September 1943 The justification of the draw and each board - including those below, are signed [...]

200 €

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J.B. SALGUES

Préjugés des réputations

Mme veuve Lepetit, Paris 1830, 12,5x21cm, relié.

First Edition. Binding half shagreen eggplant, flat spine decorated with friezes and gilded motifs typographical headpieces slightly rubbed, flat marbled paper, corners bumped, marbled edges. About Madame de Genlis, Mohammed, Luther, L. Bonald, Saint Bernard, Talleyrand ... scattered foxing. --- [...]

80 €

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François René de CHATEAUBRIAND

Essai historique, politique et moral sur les révolutions anciennes et modernes considérées dans ...

Henry Colburn, Londres 1814, 13,5x22,5cm, relié.

Second edition of the first book of the author printed after the very rare first edition London 1797. Bound in half tan sheepskin, back with five set with golden friezes nerves decorated with black pinstripes and typographical reasons cold boards marbled paper guards and contreplats of handmade [...]

700 €

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TIRON

Histoire et costumes des ordres religieux, civils et militaires

A la librairie artistique, Bruxelles 1845, 2 tomes en 2 Vol. Grd. in 8 (17,5x26cm), (2) IV 299pp. (4) et 220 68p. (2), relié.

Stated the second edition (but we have been unable to locate a previous edition, though it's possible it was published in one volume in the same year), considerably enlarged. The illustrations include an appliqué frontispiece portrait on China paper and 116 color plates of costumes (hand-painted [...]

1 200 €

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T. LABOURIEU

Le bâtard de la Papesse. Crimes - Adultères - Incestes - Excès, abus et iniquités de la cour de ...

S. Lambert & Cie, Paris 1878, 19,5x29cm, relié.

Originale.binding Edition black half shagreen, back with five nerves decorated with golden jewels with small traces of friction, frame nets Cold boards black cardboard corners very lightly bumped, guards and contreplats of handmade paper. book illustrated with engravings small foxing [...]

60 €

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