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  4. Quel mirage d'amour
    Alexis de KERMOAL, Fernando ARRABAL
    Quel mirage d'amour
    Henri Bussière|Paris 1987|13 x 10.50 cm|en feuilles sous portefeuille ajouré et fermoir
    First edition illustrated with 2 original dry tips Alexis de Kervoal, one of 14 numbered copies on Royal Lana, only draw after 6 other Lana Royal.
    Binding of the editor in full cardboard covered with kraft paper and perforated inside to reveal, on the left an original drawing and on the right to place the text in leaves.
    Our copy, like the 14 copies on Lana Royal, is enriched with an original drawing signed by Alexis de Kermoal representative.
    Handwritten signatures of Fernando Arrabal and Alexis de Kermoal in pencil at the beginning of the volume.
    €500
  6. Opera D. Septimii Florentis Tertulliani Carthagensis
    TERTULLIEN
    Opera D. Septimii Florentis Tertulliani Carthagensis
    Apud Carolam Guillard|Lutetiae Parisiorum [Paris] • [Parisiis] [Paris] 1545|22 x 32.50 cm|relié
    Edition of the works of Tertullian produced by Jean de Gagny and Martin Mesnart, according to 2 notes on the verso of the title. Fine printer's device on title page. This edition contains 11 more treatises than previous editions of Tertullian's works, two of which, entitled "De Trinitate" and "De cibis judaicis", are actually by Novatian. Edition whose privilege was shared with Jean de Roigny. Adams T408. Notes and life of Tertullian by Beatus Rhenanus. This edition is based on that produced by Beatus Rhenanus in 1539 in Basel.
    Contemporary full brown calf binding. Smooth spine with raised bands. Head worn with cracks to joints. Damage to first raised band. Corners slightly bumped. Dampstains in central and top margins throughout the work, quite light, then fading, then returning. On the last 50 pages, dampstain on half the leaves, rather light and not troublesome, more pronounced on the last index leaves. Leaves 3 to 7 restored with a strip of paper mending a tear. Some manuscript notes in the margins.
    He who was considered the greatest theologian of his time came from a Berber family, and was moreover the first theologian from North Africa. He died around 220 in Carthage, but was never canonized by the church since he joined a heretical movement, the Montanists, at the end of his life. His work is remarkable; it is with him, truly, that Latin theology begins, and the thought of the Trinity, of which he employs the term for the first time. He thus affirms the unity of God in three persons, and that Christ is both God and man, composed of 2 substances. This theological thought, as we know, would have an immense future. His treatises address different subjects: On Patience, On the Flesh of Christ, On the Resurrection, On the Soul, Against the Jews, On the Trinity... Among them are found a certain number of polemical works.

    €1,400
  8. Traité de la communion sous les deux especes
    Jacques Bénigne BOSSUET
    Traité de la communion sous les deux especes
    Chez Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy|à Paris 1682|8.50 x 15.50 cm|relié
    First edition, quite rare. A title vignette and one text figure.
    Full straight-grained chocolate brown morocco binding ca 1860. Spine with raised bands decorated. Red morocco title and volume labels. Covers decorated with several framing fillets and rolls and a wide floral frieze. Interior frieze. Edges gilt. Paper of perfect freshness, possibly washed. Very handsome copy in unsigned master binding.
    The single species designates communion by bread or wine. It was in 1681 that Pierre Jurieu published his treatise on communion in a single species in the name of Protestantism. One year later, Bossuet wrote a rigorous treatise proving by certain causes that the church practiced the Eucharist under one or two species without anyone ever thinking that the withdrawal of one or the other harmed the integrity of the sacrament. The author shows that there is nothing indispensable in the sacraments except what pertains to their substance; that thus one is not obliged to do in administering them everything that the Savior did in instituting them. The Treatise on Communion, says Bayle, "appeared to me very delicate, very spiritual, and of a courtesy toward us that cannot be praised enough; tight, judicious, it is cleared of everything that does not bear on the question." It nonetheless results that Bossuet was subsequently attacked by several Protestant writings, and that there was in the 17th century a veritable quarrel around this practical question of the sacrament.


    €650
  9. Traduction nouvelle des Odes d'Anacreon, sur l'original grec. Par M. de la Fosse
    ANACRÉON
    Traduction nouvelle des Odes d'Anacreon, sur l'original grec. Par M. de la Fosse
    Chez Pierre Ribou|à Paris 1704|9.50 x 16.50 cm|relié
    First edition of De la Fosse's translation. Greek text with facing translation. A medallion portrait of Anacreon at the frontispiece. Catalogue at the end.
    Contemporary full polished brown calf binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label. Head torn with losses to joints. Upper joint split at tail. 4 corners bumped.
    Preface on the work and various translations of the odes. Each ode is followed by translator's notes. Following the 55 odes, Poems by M.D.L.F., then Discourse delivered in Florence, to determine which are the most beautiful eyes, blue or black.

    €180
  13. Recueil des statues, groupes, fontaines, termes, vases, et autres magnifiques ornemens du chateau & parc de Versailles. Le tout gravé d'après les originaux par Simon Thomassin ... , avec les explications en françois, latin, italien & hollandois
    Simon THOMASSIN
    Recueil des statues, groupes, fontaines, termes, vases, et autres magnifiques ornemens du chateau & parc de Versailles. Le tout gravé d'après les originaux par Simon Thomassin ... , avec les explications en françois, latin, italien & hollandois
    Aux dépens de la Compagnie|à La Haye [The Hague] 1723|16.50 x 20.50 cm|4 tomes reliés en 1 volume
    New edition in four languages following that cited on p. 59 by Mortier in 1659. This is the third edition, the first having been published in Paris in 1694, 8vo, in French only. The remarkable illustration includes an allegorical frontispiece by Jan van Vianen, a large folding plan of the city and château of Versailles, and 218 numbered plates, five of which are folding, all engraved by P. le Gros, Garnier, I. la Clerion, N. Coustous, Cornu, after drawings by Thomassin.
    The work is divided into four parts with 3 title pages in red and black for the whole (one in Dutch, one in French, and one dated 1695 by Pierre Mortier), and 4 title pages in red and black for each of the volumes, detailed as follows: vol. 1. Les statues antiques & modernes de Versailles, fig. 1-53 -- vol. 2. Les groupes de Versailles, fig. 54-85 -- vol. 3. Les fontaines et autres ornemens de Versailles, fig 86-172 -- vol. 4. Les thermes et vases de Versailles, fig. 173-218. The index is in 4 languages.
    Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Modern handwritten title-label in black ink. Head worn. Corners bumped, one heavily exposed. Rubbing. The large folding plan bears a restoration to the verso, invisible on the recto. 4 leaves browned in the index. An old manuscript leaf at the end with the names of the sculptors.
    The work in question is considered to form the finest achievement of Simon Thomassin (1653-1732), engraver to the king, who produced numerous works. The work was commissioned by Louis XIV himself in 1689.

    €1,500
  14. In libros paralipomenon, sive Chronicorum commentarius [Ensemble] Praelectiones Iannis Calvini [Ensemble] In Apocalypsim Iesu Christi revelatam quidem per angelum domini
    Jean CALVIN, Ludwig LAVATER
    In libros paralipomenon, sive Chronicorum commentarius [Ensemble] Praelectiones Iannis Calvini [Ensemble] In Apocalypsim Iesu Christi revelatam quidem per angelum domini
    [Commentary on the Books of Chronicles [together with] Lectures of John Calvin [together with] On the Revelation of Jesus Christ as Revealed by the Angel of the Lord]
    Excudebat Christophorus Froschoverus • Apud Bartholomaeum Vincentium • Per Ioannem Oporinum|Tiguri [Zurich] • Bâle [Basel] 1559-1573|21.50 x 33.50 cm|relié

    Rare Collection of Three Theological Commentaries: 

     

    -In libros Paralipomenon, sive Chronicorum Commentarius. Ludwig Lavater. Printed by Christophorus Froschoverus, Zurich, 1573. First edition, with the printer’s mark on the title-page. Preface by Ludwig Lavater dated February 1573. Numerous genealogical tables.

     

    - Praelectiones Ioannis Calvini in librum prophetiarum Danielis. Jean Calvin. Edited by Jean Budée and Charles de Jonvilliers. Apud Bartholomaeum Vincentium, 1571. Place not indicated, but almost certainly Geneva, based on typographical evidence and the preface dated 14 September 1571. Hebrew text in bold, with translation to the left and commentary in smaller type beneath.  First edition.


    - In Apocalypsim Iesu Christi revelatam quidem per angelum domini. Heinrich Bullinger. Bâle. Ioannem Oporinum. 1559. Printer's device on title-page. First edition, illustrated with two large historiated initials.


    Contemporary pigskin binding, spine with five plain raised bands, large Renaissance blind-stamped panel on the boards comprising a succession of decorative frames: the two central with floral motifs, the next with medallions depicting profile figures, then the virtues (Faith, Fortune, Charity…), and finally another floral frieze with medallions and profiles.

     

    Traces of clasps. Three tears to the spine with losses. Wormholes on the upper board. Restorations to the lower right corner of the upper board, to the corners and clasps of the lower board. Losses to the lower joint at head and tail of the lower board.

    €2,500
  15. Histoire du luxe privé et public depuis l'Antiquité jusqu'à nos jours
    Henri BAUDRILLART
    Histoire du luxe privé et public depuis l'Antiquité jusqu'à nos jours
    Librairie Hachette|Paris 1880|14 x 22 cm|4 volumes reliés
    Second edition statement.
    Contemporary half chocolate shagreen bindings. Spines with raised bands decorated with blind fillets. Spines faded. Rubbing. Light scattered foxing in margins.
    Luxury in its various political, economic aspects... Study of luxury in India, China, ancient Greece, Byzantium, etc, and in France from the Middle Ages to the end of the 19th century. An unequalled work on a rare subject.
    Unidentified 19th-century armorial bookplate.
    €450
  16. Testament politique du cardinal Alberoni
    MAUBERT DE GOUVEST
    Testament politique du cardinal Alberoni
    Chez Marc-Michel Bousquet|à Lausanne 1754|10 x 16.80 cm|2 parties en un volume relié

    First edition.
    Full marbled brown calf binding. Spine with raised bands decorated. Red morocco title label. Head cap worn away. Rubbing. One corner slightly bumped.
    Apocryphal testament of Cardinal Alberoni (1664-1752). Joseph-Marie Durey de Morsan gathered various documents relating to the cardinal in Madrid, he showed them to Maubert de Gouvest who bought the collection from him to recast it into a single narrative. It contains historical and political chapters on Spain under Charles VI, on the affairs of France and Spain, chapters dealing with diverse subjects such as agriculture, the navy, and the balance of power in Europe.

    €200
  18. Les Sonneurs de sonnets
    Alfred DELVAU, Frédéric MASSÉ
    Les Sonneurs de sonnets
    Librairie Bachelin-Deflorenne et Cie|Paris 1885|13 x 21 cm|relié
    Edition from the collection of the Bibliothèque littéraire du XXe siècle, decorated with a frontispiece engraved as an etching by Frédéric Massé.
    Bradel binding in blue half cloth, smooth spine faded decorated with a gilt floral motif, double gilt fillet at foot, brown shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards marginally soiled, lower corners slightly bumped.
    Some light foxing.
    €70
  23. Voyage dans les prairies a l'ouest des Etats-Unis
    Washington IRVING
    Voyage dans les prairies a l'ouest des Etats-Unis
    Librairie de Fournier Jeune|Paris 1833|12.50 x 21 cm|relié
    First edition, rare.
    Contemporary full wine-colored sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with richly ornamented compartments. Covers blind-stamped with a large floral plate. Spine sunned. Headcaps rubbed. 3 corners bumped. Fresh work overall despite some light browning.
    Journey in 1832 to what would become in 1836 the 25th state of the United States, Arkansas, which lies west of Tennessee, in the great prairies. Encampments, explorations, hunts, Indians. Important testimony from the beginning of Far West exploration, when most regions of the United States were still unknown territories, with Texas still belonging to Mexico.

    NB: This work is available at the bookstore upon request within 48 hours.
    €450
  24. [DANEMARK] Histoire de Dannemarc
    Paul-Henri MALLET
    [DANEMARK] Histoire de Dannemarc
    Chez Barde, Manget & Compagnie • Chez Buisson|A Genève [Geneva] • & à Paris 1787|10.50 x 17.50 cm|9 volumes reliés
    Third and best edition; it is indeed the most complete. Before composing this ensemble, several editions were published: in the first place an Introduction to the history of Dannemarc in 1755, which forms in our copy the first illustrated volume of a large folding map of Scandinavia. Two volumes in 4 will appear a few years later, then a third. The story was then continued until 1720, then until 1773 in this edition.
    Full flamed calfskin bindings slightly posterior. Smooth backs decorated with 4 irons and wheels. Title and volume pieces in green calf. Misses in the head of volumes 5 and 7. Friction. 2 blunt corners. Nice copy.
    The book is considered the best ancient history of Denmark, it is indeed extensively documented, and contains in addition a study of mythology and the 33 fables of what composes the Edda, as well as other epics. Before the historical narration, the first two volumes are an anthropological approach of Denmark, addressing the specificity of this country as much by its geographical location as by its customs and its mythology. The author lived for a long time in Denmark and was tutor to the reigning prince, at the same time as he was a professor at the Royal College of Copenhagen.

    NB: This book is available at the bookstore on request within 48 hours.
    €950
  25. Les bons contes font les bons amis
    CHAMPFLEURY, Edmond MORIN
    Les bons contes font les bons amis
    Truchy|Paris 1863|18.50 x 28 cm|relié
    First edition illustrated with in-text drawings by Edmond Morin.
    Full midnight blue morocco binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with triple gilt compartments, gilt roulettes on headcaps, triple gilt fillets frame with gilt floral corner motifs on covers, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt dentelle frame on pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, all edges gilt, double gilt fillets on leading edges, superb binding signed Marius Michel.
    Bookplate pasted on one endpaper, a shadow on the same endpaper and on the facing page.
    Very fine copy elegantly bound.
    €680
  26. Les noces corinthiennes
    Anatole FRANCE, Auguste LEROUX
    Les noces corinthiennes
    Edouard Pelletan|Paris 1902|16.50 x 24.50 cm|relié
    Edition illustrated with 20 original compositions by Auguste Leroux, one of 183 numbered copies on handmade laid paper.
    Half chocolate brown morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards, handmade laid paper endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt, bookplate pasted on pastedown.
    Handsome copy pleasantly bound.
    €250
  48. Doubles stances des amants
    Serge REZVANI
    Doubles stances des amants
    Actes Sud|Arles 1995|21.50 x 11.50 cm|broché
    First edition for which it was not drawn large papers.
    Signed autograph of Serge Rezvani to his friend the sculptor and painter Raymond Mason and his wife Janine: "To dear friends Raymond and Janine in memory of the unforgettable" idyll "This idyll of words speaking of a whole life apart. sign of deep and "old" unaltered friendship. "
    Illustrated book of 10 etchings by Serge Rezvani.
    Pleasant copy despite small clear spots on the second flat and the back of the head.
    €50
  51. Pensées et proverbes de Maxime Dicton. Banalités, bêtises, paradoxes, balivernes, lieux communs et autres propos sérieux de l'auteur
    Jean L'ANSELME
    Pensées et proverbes de Maxime Dicton. Banalités, bêtises, paradoxes, balivernes, lieux communs et autres propos sérieux de l'auteur
    Rougerie|Mortemart 1991|14.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
    First edition on current paper.
    Signed autograph of Jean L'Anselme to Charles Dobzynski: "In view of possible closure (at 72 years we think about it), we sell, we balance all kinds ... Such are these thoughts and proverbs of Maxime Dicton that I offer to the friend Charles (Dobzynski) wishing that he does good business ".
    €60
  52. Essai sur l'histoire des comices de Rome, des Etats-Generaux de la France, et du parlement d'Angleterre
    Paul-Philippe GUDIN DE LA BRENELLERIE
    Essai sur l'histoire des comices de Rome, des Etats-Generaux de la France, et du parlement d'Angleterre
    Chez Maradan|A PhiladelphieEt [Philadelphia] • se trouve à Paris 1789|12 x 20 cm|3 volumes reliés
    First edition, rare.
    Contemporary half marbled sheepskin binding with small parchment corners. Smooth spine decorated with rolled tooling. Red morocco title and volume labels with decoration. Some rubbing. Lower corner of volume 3 trimmed. Good copy.
    Comparative history of the Estates-General, published on the occasion of their convocation in 1789. The first 2 volumes contain a history of the Estates-General in France from the origins, preceded by a brief comparison with ancient Rome. The third volume is devoted to the English parliament. The work is notable for its numerous and interesting economic considerations, and forms a remarkable political reflection at the start of the French Revolution.

    €900
  56. Icare & I don't
    Alain BORER
    Icare & I don't
    Seuil|Paris 2007|14 x 20.50 cm|broché
    First edition for which it was not drawn large papers.
    Autograph dedication signed by Alain Borer to Eliane and Charles (Dobzynski) on two pages and composed as follows: on the fake title page, a printed stamp depicting a hot air balloon holding two banners "Today poem" and "Tomorrow too" above a cloud drawn in blue ink and surrounding the name of Charles on which radiates, drawn in yellow ink, a sun bearing the name of Eliane, this scene being observed, with the telescope, thanks to a printed stamp, by a character exclaiming "What a friend of Icaria!"
    Finally, on the title page, this autograph signed by Alain Borer overwriting printed hieroglyphics: "With you my dear Charles / I care deeply / (on the stairs of questions) with admiration and fraternity your friend .. . "
    Nice copy.
    €80
  63. Constantini Porphyrogennetae Imperatoris opera : in quibus Tactica nunc primum prodeunt
    (Jean Baptiste COLBERT's copy) CONSTANTIN VII
    Constantini Porphyrogennetae Imperatoris opera : in quibus Tactica nunc primum prodeunt
    Ex Officina Elzeviriana|Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] 1617|11.50 x 18 cm|3 parties reliées en un volume
    First edition of the publication of Johannes Van Meurs, printed in Greek and Latin. It contains in particular the De administrando imperio which despite a general title at the date of 1617, wears the colophon date of printing of 1611. This text, known thanks to manuscripts, had never been printed before.
    Contemporary binding in full vellum red speckled lapel, smooth back with a title pen, all slices flecked with red.
    Several red underlines and marginal handwritten annotations of the time.
    In line with the great works of princely education, Constantine dedicated this book to his son Roman II. The emperor deals mainly with the diplomatic relations of the Empire with his neighbors and explains to his heir how to manipulate the enemies so that they neutralize each other. Constantin also evokes in this work the famous Greek fire, enjoining Romain II to never reveal the secrets carefully guarded of its manufacture.
    Copy of Colbert presenting, at the front of the front page, the ex-libris of his library handwritten by his librarian Etienne Baluze.
    Like his patron Cardinal Mazarin, Colbert brings together one of the most important and beautiful libraries in France that he never stopped enriching until the end of his life. Bibliomane before the hour, he mandated numerous correspondents charged to unearth the works not only in province, but across all Europe.
    Two months after the death of Jean-Baptiste Colbert in 1683, his family commissioned an inventory of the books in his library, made up of more than 20,000 printed volumes and more than 8,000 ancient manuscripts. Our book appears in the catalog of the sale of the library of Colbert (1728) under the number 16211.
    Nice copy of this book that belonged to the prestigious Colbertine library.
    €1,500
  64. Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1736
    César-François CASSINI DE THURY, Pierre-Louis Moreau de MAUPERTUIS
    Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1736
    Chez Pierre Mortier|A Amsterdam 1740|10 x 17 cm|2 volumes reliés
    Illustrated edition with 10 plates for volume 1, 23 for volume 2, most folding, totaling 33 plates. Title pages in red and black. An allegorical frontispiece and a title vignette in volume 1.
    Contemporary full marbled brown calf binding. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Red morocco title-label, and volume label in black wax. Rubbing. 2 corners slightly bumped. The first leaf of the dedication appears to be lacking; the text of the dedication is complete, but without the epistle page. Handsome copy.
    The following remarkable articles will be noted in each of the mentioned sections: Solution for some problems of dynamics, by M. Clairaut. Method of finding the height of the pole, & the declination of stars that is not subject to refraction, by M. Maraldi. Precautions that must be taken to observe as exactly as possible, the heights of stars, by M. Cassini de Thury. On the manner of reconciling in the hypothesis of vortices the two rules of Kepler, by M. Cassini. Resolution of an astronomical question, useful to navigation, by M. Pitot. On the figure of the earth, by M. de Maupertuis. On the perpendicular to the meridian of the observatory at a distance of 60000 toises towards the north, by M. Cassini de Thury. Method for finding the declination of stars, by M. de Maupertuis. On the manner of determining the figure of the earth by measuring degrees of latitude and longitude, by M. Bouguer.
    €380
  65. Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1751
    BOUGUET, DE LA CAILLE
    Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1751
    Chez J. Schreuder • Pierre Mortier le jeune|A Amsterdam 1759|10 x 17 cm|3 volumes reliés
    Edition illustrated with 5 plates for volume 1, 12 for volume 2 and 7 for volume 3, most folding, totalling 24 plates. Title pages in red and black.
    Contemporary full marbled brown calf binding. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Red morocco title labels, and black wax volume labels. Some traces of rubbing. Headcap of volume 1 partly worn; a lack at head of volume 2; headcap of volume 3 partly torn.
    Notable articles in each of the mentioned sections include the following: Memoir on the form of bodies most suited to revolve on themselves, when they are pushed by one of their extremities, or by any other point, by M. Bouguet. Observation of the last opposition of Mars with the sun, by M. de Thury. Memoir on the theory of artillery, or on the effects of gunpowder, by M. le chevalier d'Arcy. Remarks on observations of the parallax of the moon, by M. Bouguer. History of epidemic diseases of 1751, by M. Malouin. Memoir on some little-known fossil bodies, by M. Guettard. Immersion of the star u of the Arc of Sagittarius, under the dark disk of the moon, by M. le Monnier. Memoir on an elastic resin, newly discovered in Cayenne, by M. de la Condamine. Abridged account of the voyage made by order of the king to the Cape of Good Hope, by M. l'abbé de la Caille.
    €400
  66. Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1749
    Abbé NOLLET, Chevalier d'ARCY
    Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1749
    Chez Pierre Mortier|A Amsterdam 1757|10 x 17 cm|2 volumes reliés
    Illustrated edition. 4 plates for volume 1, 20 (including about 10 tables of the state of the sky) for volume 2, mostly full-page. 24 plates in total. Title pages in red and black.
    Full brown marbled calf binding. Spine decorated, title labels in red morocco, and volume labels in black wax. Some rubbing. 2 bent corners. Nice copy.
    The following remarkable articles are included in each of the sections mentioned:
    • Observations du thermomètre faites pendant les grands froids de Sibérie, par M. Delisle.
    • Recherche de statique et de dynamique, par M. le Marquis de Courtivron.
    • Expériences de l'electricité appliquées à des paralytiques, par Mrs Morand et Nollet.
    • Mémoires sur l'électricité, contenant la description d'un électromètre par M. le chevalier d'Arcy.
    • Observations sur les pernicieux effets d'une espèce de champignon, par M. Le Monnier.
    • Expériences et observations faites en différents endroits de l'Italie, par M. Nollet.
    • Réflexions sur le principe de moindre action de M. Maupertuis, par M. le chevalier d'Arcy.
    • Mémoire sur la cause des mouvements du cerveau, par M. de la Mure.
    €350
  74. Souvenir du présent
    Eugène GUILLEVIC
    Souvenir du présent
    Seghers|Paris 1965|13 x 19 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
    First edition of this choice of poems adapted from Hungarian by Charles Dobzynski and Eugène Guillevic and for which it was not drawn great papers.
    Binding of the editor in full blue cardboard, complete copy of his illustrated jacket that has slight marginal tears and a stain at the bottom of the first board.
    autograph dedication of the author Georges Somlyo, in French, to his friends Eliane and Charles Dobzynski: "... always present in my memories ..." enriched with the handwritten signature of Eugène Guillevic.
    €150
  75. Contrefables
    György SOMLYÓ
    Contrefables
    Gallimard|Paris 1974|14 x 20.50 cm|broché
    First edition of the French translation prepared by Eugène Guillevic and for which it was not drawn from great papers.
    Autographed and signed autograph of Georges Somlyo, in French, to his friends Eliane and Charles Dobzynski: "For Charles and Eliane these poems of which they were some (sic) of the first readers, in fraternal friendship" enriched by the handwritten signature of Eugène Guillevic.
    Light bites without gravity on the boards.
    €150
  79. Koba
    Alain BORER
    Koba
    Seuil|Paris 2002|14 x 20.50 cm|broché
    First edition for which it was not drawn large papers.
    Autograph dedication signed by Alain Borer to Eliane and Charles (Dobzynski) on three pages and composed as follows: on the first guard that was perforated, a printed stamp depicting the god Horus exclaiming, in the manner of a character of comic strip: "For Charles, what a poet"; by raising the window created by Alain Borer, one can see, on the page of false title, a printed stamp representing the god Anubis which, in the manner of Horus, expresses in this term: "For Eliane, what charm ! "
    Finally, on the title page, this autograph signed by Alain Borer overcoming the pyramids of Giza printed: "For Charles because my friends are my gods - with brotherly admiration your friend happy to be Alain."
    Nice copy.
    €80
  90. Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1728
    Jean-Baptiste DU HAMEL, PETIT
    Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1728
    Chez Pierre Mortier|A Amsterdam 1732|10 x 17 cm|2 volumes reliés
    Illustrated edition with 5 plates for volume 1, 18 for volume 2, most folding, totaling 23 plates. Title pages in red and black.
    Contemporary full brown marbled calf binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title labels, and black wax volume labels. One lack at head of volume 2. Rubbing. 2 corners slightly bumped. Handsome copy.
    Notable articles to be retained in each of the mentioned sections include: Dissertation on the estimation & motive force of bodies, by M. de Mairan. On the movement of Saturn, by M. Cassini. Physical explanation of a disease that kills several plants in Gatinois & particularly saffron, by M. Du Hamel. On movement accelerated by springs and forces that reside in moving bodies, by M. l'Abbé Camus. Demonstrating that the uvea is flat in man, by M. Petit. General laws of movement in the spherical vortex, by M. l'Abbé de Molières. Different ways of knowing the size of the chambers of aqueous humor in human eyes. Research on the causes of multiplication of fruit species, by M. Du Hamel.
    €380
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