First edition, Signed book

Antony THOURET

Blanche de Saint-Simon, ou France et Bourgogne. Chronique de 1468

Ladvocat, Paris 1835, 14,5x22,5cm, relié.

First edition of this historical novel written by Antony Thouret while incarcerated in the prisons of Saint-Waast.
Binding in half morocco green morocco, smooth back decorated with a central and gilded floral pattern, golden date tail, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade [...]

350 €

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Achille JUBINAL

Mystères inédits du quinzième siècle pubilés pour la première fois d'après le manuscrit ...

Techener, Paris 1837, 14x22,5cm, 2 volumes reliés.

First edition.
Bindings in half calf caramel back with four nerves set with gilded nets adorned with triple nets and golden florets, pieces of title and tomaison of black morocco, golden friezes in heads and tails, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, speckled slices, [...]

150 €

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Jean de JAURGAIN & Raymond RITTER

La maison de Gramont 1040-1967

Les amis du musée pyrénéen, Lourdes 1968, 16,5x25,5cm, 2 volumes brochés.

First edition, one of 95 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, head print.
Pleasant copy despite boards very slightly and marginally insolated heads.
Book adorned with 3 genealogical charts leaflets inset at the end of the first volume and 20 photographic plates distributed at the end of the [...]

350 €

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Félicien FAGUS

Le mystère royal de Philippe-Auguste

Société française d'éditions littéraires et techniques, Paris 1930, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition on current paper.
Illustrated book of drawings by Gus Bofa.
Back very slightly insolated and wrinkled without gravity, small spots on the margins of a guard.

100 €

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Cesar VECELLIO

Costumes anciens et modernes. Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mondo

Firmin Didot frères 1859, In-8 (15x22,8cm), 2 volumes reliés.

Fourth and best edition of this famous collection of costumes.Graesse, VII, 267: "This new edition reproduces exactly all the costumes figured in the first three, but this time drawn more correctly by M. Seguin and engraved on wood by M. Huyot. " It contains 513 woodcut costume boards in various [...]

500 €

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Louis PETIT DE JULLEVILLE

La chanson de Roland. Histoire, analyse, extraits par L. Petit de Julleville

Armand Colin & Cie, Paris 1894, 11,5x18cm, relié.

First edition of this presentation.
Bound in half red shagreen, back with five nerves set with gilded nets and adorned with golden typographic motifs, framing of triple golden threads on the red cardboard plates, first board struck in its center with a golden laurel wreath and a mention of [...]

60 €

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LE NAIN DE TILLEMONT

Histoire des empereurs, et des autres princes qui ont régné durant les six premiers siècles de ...

Chez François Pitteri, Venise 1732 - 1739, In-4 (20,5x28cm), xl, 712pp. et xxiv, 626pp. et xxviij, 587pp. et xxxij,

First edition Venetian, after the original published in Paris from 1690 to 1701 for the first five volumes, 1738 for the sixth posthumous volume published on the manuscript of the author.
Italian binding in full vintage velin. Jansenist smooth back. Title pieces in beige morocco. Dirt on the [...]

1 600 €

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Eugène de CIVRY

De l'armée française, sa mission et son histoire (496-1852)

Ledoyen, Paris 1852, 14,5x23cm, relié.

First Edition published anonymously.
Binding in half red percaline, smooth back very slightly faded adorned with a golden floret, double gilded nets in tail, title piece of black shagreen, boards of marbled paper, guards and contreplats of orange paper.
Ex-dono pen of a previous owner [...]

200 €

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