First edition, Signed book

Charles Edouard BROWN-SEQUARD

Lettre autographe signée sur la longévité de la vie : "Ne pas vieillir avant le temps et ...

12 juillet 1890, 11,2x17,9cm, une feuille.

Signed autograph letter about human aging

Autograph letter signed by the physiologist and neurologist Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard, dated 12 July 1890, one folded sheet. He outlines a scientific method of prolonging [...]

1 700 €

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Jean-Jacques Paul Félix RESSAYRE

Lettres d'un lieutenant-colonel de Dragons à la guerre de Crimée

Maison d'édition et imprimerie moderne, Agen 1910, 16,5x25,5cm, relié.

first edition printed in small numbers on laid by Canon A. Durengues.
Binding in half tan sheepskin with corners, back with five nerves decorated with golden and decorated double boxes, golden date in tail, framing of double golden threads on the marbled paper boards, guards and counterplates [...]

150 €

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NAPOLEON III

Ensemble de tracts et affiches de la Campagne d'Italie

Imprimerie Impériale, Paris 1856-1860, 32x46cm, relié.

Set of five leaflets and eleven posters from the Italian Campaign:
- Proclamation - The Emperor to the French people: 3 pages on a filled sheet, imperial printing press, May 1859
- Speech by His Majesty the Emperor at the opening of the Legislative Session of 1856, March 3, 1856: 4 pages on [...]

4 000 €

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Eugène TENOT & Antonin DUBOST

Les suspects en 1858. Etude historique sur l'application de la loi de sûreté générale. ...

Armand Le Chevalier, Paris 1869, 11,5x18,5cm, relié.

first edition.
Binding in half red heartache, back with five naves decorated with double cold boxes, back with traces of friction, plates of marbled paper, guards and counterplates of paper in the tank, Contemporary binding.
Some foxing on the margins of most sheets.
 

60 €

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Leitch RITCHIE

La Russie - Voyage pittoresque de Saint-Pétersbourg à Moscou

Louis Janet, Paris s.d. (circa 1840), 13x20,5cm, relié.

Illustrated edition of 25 inset engravings.
Binding in half brown morocco from Russia, smooth back slightly lightened decorated with a golden decorative motif representing the roof of a Russian church, apple green cardboard plates decorated with cold stamped geometric patterns, guards and [...]

300 €

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Théodore LAVALLEE

Histoire des français depuis le temps des Gaulois jusqu'en 1830

Charpentier, Paris 1863, 11,5x18,5cm, 4 volumes reliés.

Fifteenth edition. Bindings in half chocolate shagreen, back with four nerves set with golden dotted lines decorated with golden fillets as well as double cold boxes, frames of cold fillets on hazelnut cardboard boards, guards and counterplates of paper in the tank. Some small foxing mainly [...]

150 €

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Victor HUGO

La libération du territoire

Michel Lévy frères, Paris 1873, 15,5x24cm, broché sous chemise et étui.

First edition, mention of second edition.
Our copy is presented in a case and shirt with a green canvas back and marbled paper boards.
We enclose the cover of the catalog of the sale of the library of George and Maurice Sand in 1890 on which was pasted the descriptive sheet of our copy with [...]

12 000 €

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Victor HUGO

Napoléon le Petit

S.d., s.l. [Bruxelles] 1853, 8x12,5cm, relié.

First edition in deluxe copies ("grands papiers"), one of 16 numbered copies on fine Holland paper, only print after 6 China, the first edition published a year earlier does not include a print in deluxe copies.
Nice copy.
Binding in half red morocco, top edge gilt.
Very rare and [...]

3 000 €

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