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  8. Théâtre I & II
    Georges COURTELINE
    Théâtre I & II
    François Bernouard|Paris 1925|14.50 x 21.50 cm|relié
    New edition published in the complete works of the author, one of 1240 numbered copies on laid Navarre, ours unjustified.
    Binding half morocco burgundy with corners, back with four nerves set with dotted gold adorned with quintuple gilded boxes, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, bookplate pasted on a contreplat, wrappers and back preserved and bound in, head golden, contemporary binding signed Kauffmann & Horclais.
    Signed autograph of Georges Courteline to Jenny Achilles Sacerdote.
    Some spots affecting mainly the first guard and some margins of some leaves.
    Copy nicely established.
    €150
  9. Les gaîtés de l'escadron
    Georges COURTELINE
    Les gaîtés de l'escadron
    François Bernouard|Paris 1926|14.50 x 21.50 cm|relié
    New edition published in the complete works of the author, one of 1240 numbered copies on laid Navarre, ours unjustified.
    Binding half morocco burgundy with corners, back with four nerves set with dotted gold adorned with quintuple gilded boxes, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, bookplate pasted on a contreplat, wrappers and back preserved and bound in, head golden, contemporary binding signed Kauffmann & Horclais.
    Signed autograph of Georges Courteline Jenny Sacerdote.
    Some spots affecting mainly the first guard and some margins of some leaves.
    Copy nicely established.
    €150
  13. Trois des quatre soleils
    Miguel Ángel ASTURIAS
    Trois des quatre soleils
    Albert Skira|Genève [Geneva] 1971|16.50 x 22 cm|reliure de l'éditeur sous étui
    First edition, one of 1000 numbered copies on laid paper.
    Publisher's full burgundy morocco-grained sheep binding, smooth spine, double gilt fillets framing the boards, burgundy paper endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, morocco-edged burgundy slipcase, burgundy paper boards.
    Rich iconography.
    Handsome copy despite very slight scratches of no consequence to the spine.
    €120
  29. Sacrosancti et oecumenici concilii Tridentini Paulo III. Iulio III. et Pio IV.
    Philippe CHIFFLET
    Sacrosancti et oecumenici concilii Tridentini Paulo III. Iulio III. et Pio IV.
    Ex offinina plantiniana Balthasaris Moretti|Antverpiae [Antwerp] • (Anvers) [Antwerp] 1740|7.50 x 13 cm|relié
    New edition. One engraved title-frontispiece.
    Contemporary worn full brown sheep binding. Headcaps worn. Joints cracked and split at head and foot. Corners cut. Some foxing and dampstains to margins.
    Canons and decrees of the Council of Trent in the edition and interpretation of Philippe Chifflet, theologian of Besançon.

    €200
  31. La chair
    Oscar MÉTÉNIER
    La chair
    Henry Kistemaeckers|Bruxelles [Brussels] s. d. [1885]|11 x 18 cm|relié
    First edition of which no mention is made of deluxe copies.
    Half brown sheep binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
    Signed autograph inscription from Oscar Méténier to Ernest Taylor: "... hommage affectueux du plus inexact, mais du plus dévoué des sécrétaires..." ["...affectionate tribute from the most inexact, but most devoted of secretaries..."]
    The last letters of each of these words: Taylor, plus and dévoué have been trimmed by the binder.
    €150
  32. Les habitués des prisons de Paris. Etude d'anthropologie & de psychologie criminelles
    Émile LAURENT, Alexandre LACASSAGNE
    Les habitués des prisons de Paris. Etude d'anthropologie & de psychologie criminelles
    A. Storck • G. Masson|Lyon • & Paris 1890|15.50 x 24.50 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Half midnight blue sheep binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons, marbled paper boards with scratches, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary bindings.
    Work illustrated with 70 figures in the text, 14 phototype portraits as well as 2 folding plans and 6 color graphic plates at the end of the volume.
    Preface by Alexandre Lacassagne.
    Some foxing affecting mainly the edges.
    Rare.
    €600
  33. Oeuvres
    Pierre-Louis Moreau de MAUPERTUIS
    Oeuvres
    Chez Jean-Marie Bruyset|à Lyon 1756|12.50 x 20 cm|4 volumes reliés

    The most complete collective edition ever published, expanded, reorganized and corrected by the author himself as he explains in the Notice on this new edition. This edition therefore contains works not yet published. Maupertuis specifies that it is a selection of his best works. Title pages in red and black. This edition would be reprinted in 1768 by the same publisher. A frontispiece portrait painted by Tournière and engraved by Dallé representing the author in his travel attire for Lapland. A map of the meridian arc in volume II. Numerous mathematical diagrams in volume IV.



    Contemporary full marbled brown sheep bindings. Raised band spines with ornament. Red morocco title labels and volume labels. Headcaps worn, very worn at head. Title label of volume I partly lacking. Joints of volume II partly narrowly cracked. 10 corners bumped. Bookplates scraped from pastedowns.



    Details of the works: Volume I: Essay on cosmology. Discourse on the different figures of the stars. Essay on moral philosophy. Philosophical reflections on the origin of languages. Volume II: Physical Venus. System of nature. Letters. Letter on the progress of sciences. Volume III: Elements of geography. Account of the voyage made to the polar circle. Account of a voyage to the depths of Lapland. Letter on the comet of 1742. Academic discourses. Dissertation on the different means men have used to express their ideas. Volume IV: Harmony of the different laws of nature. Nautical astronomy. Discourse on the parallax of the moon. Operations to determine the figure of the earth...



    An illustrious scientist of the French Enlightenment, and a divergent mind compared to the prevailing discourse of French science, Maupertuis's sagacity was exercised in several scientific fields: natural sciences (his hypotheses are very close to natural selection and transformism), biology and genetics of which he was a shrewd precursor, astronomy, with the adoption of Newtonian principles including universal attraction against Descartes's theory of vortices prevalent in France, mathematics, with the principle of least action of which he was one of the first discoverers, cosmology where his voyage to Lapland and the pole proved him right against Cassini (the earth being indeed flatter at the poles)...



    €1,800
  37. Les feuilles libres N°32 de la 5ème année
    COLLECTIF, Pierre DRIEU LA ROCHELLE
    Les feuilles libres N°32 de la 5ème année
    Les feuilles libres|Paris Mai-Juin 1923|19 x 22.50 cm|broché
    First edition.
    Literary contributions by André Salmon, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Tristan Tzara, Jacques Baron, Joseph Delteil, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Paul Morand, Lucien Fabre, W. Mayr, Marcel Raval, Marcel Sauvage...
    Issue illustrated with 12 unpublished drawings by Jules Pascin.
    Spine sunned, otherwise a handsome copy lacking the hors-texte by Giorgio de Chirico.
    €100
  43. Le vieillard et l'enfant
    [François AUGIÉRAS as] Abdallah CHAANBA
    Le vieillard et l'enfant
    S. n. • imprimé par Pierre Fanlac]|imprimé en Belgique [Périgueux] s. d. [circa 1950]|14 x 19 cm|broché
    The true first edition, hors commerce, of the complete version of 138-[6] pages, which preceded the 1954 edition by Editions de Minuit.
    Previously, only parts had been published (between 1949 and 1951), and only in a few copies.
    Additionally, a new “Belgian” edition, similar to this first edition, came out in 1958 comprising no more than 80 pages and dated “de 1958” on the cover.
    The author had André Gide's (the dedicatee of the first part of the work in 1949) review especially printed: "L'intense et bizarre joie que j'éprouve à la lecture (et relecture) de ces pages remarquables entre toutes. André Gide [There is an intense and bizarre joy I experience when reading (and re-reading) these remarkable pages among all others. André Gide]."
    €1,500
  46. Aux manes de Louis XV, et des grands hommes qui ont vêcu sous son règne. Essai sur les progrès des arts & de l'esprit humain, sous le règne de Louis XV
    Paul-Philippe GUDIN DE LA BRENELLERIE
    Aux manes de Louis XV, et des grands hommes qui ont vêcu sous son règne. Essai sur les progrès des arts & de l'esprit humain, sous le règne de Louis XV
    S. n.|à Lausanne 1777|10 x 17 cm|relié
    New edition, following the first published in 1776.
    Contemporary blonde sheep binding. Decorated smooth spine. Green morocco title-label. Triple gilt fillet frame on boards. Head worn down. One crack at foot. Joints cracked at head. 2 worm tracks on spine and 2 holes. 2 corners bumped. Generally rubbed. Faint dampstain to corners of the first 10 leaves.
    Abridgment of the events of Louis XV's reign, particularly in arts and sciences, but also voyages (with multiple references to American colonies), roads and urban planning...
    €180
  48. Mémoires turcs, ou histoire galante de deux turcs, pendant leur séjour en France
    Claude GODARD D'AUCOURT
    Mémoires turcs, ou histoire galante de deux turcs, pendant leur séjour en France
    Par La Société des Libraires|A Amsterdam 1767 (S.d.)|-|relié
    Undated new edition, following the first published in 1743. Rare. Edition not listed by Cioranescu, who gives those of 1758 and 1776.
    Contemporary marbled brown sheep binding. Decorated raised-band spine. Beige morocco title-label. Head worn. One corner bumped and rubbed. Old restoration paper adhered to the last text page of the first part. Good copy.
    In the height of the "turqueries" fashion, and following Marana and Montesquieu, Godard d'Aucourt offers his contribution to this curious literary and artistic genre through the story of a Turk landing in Paris with his beloved slave and confronted with Parisian gallant customs. The first part of the novel being narrated in the first person, and thus from the restrictive viewpoint of a Turkish prince, is not without humor and libertine situations, with the first hundred pages recounting the narrator's passionate love affairs in Turkey in the form of an oriental tale. The second part is an exchange of letters between the narrator and one of his slaves, in which he recounts the story of his loves.
    Stamp on title page: L. Sigardi fils.
    €500
  49. Histoire d'un pou françois ; ou l'espion d'une nouvelle espece, tant en France qu'en Angleterre. Contenant les portraits des personnages interessans dans ces deux royaumes, & donnant la clef des principaux evénemens de l'an 1779, & de ceux qui doivent arriver en 1780
    Rémy DELAUNEY
    Histoire d'un pou françois ; ou l'espion d'une nouvelle espece, tant en France qu'en Angleterre. Contenant les portraits des personnages interessans dans ces deux royaumes, & donnant la clef des principaux evénemens de l'an 1779, & de ceux qui doivent arriver en 1780
    De l' Imprimerie Royale|à Paris 1781|14 x 22 cm|relié

    First edition.
    Full vellum binding with flaps, reused circa 1920. Smooth spine. Title calligraphed in red and black. Manuscript writing on covers, probably late 18th century. Bound on uncut wrappers, as issued. Worming to title page.
    Autobiographical memoirs of a louse, which passing from head to head, embellishing its confessions with philosophical reflections, finds itself on the queen's head, then on that of Benjamin Franklin. It is essentially a political satire of affairs between France and the United States, featuring fictional dialogues, notably between the Minister of the Navy and Benjamin Franklin. It reveals a grand project consisting of seizing England to share it between France, Spain and the United States. This curiosity was written after Benjamin Franklin's delegation to France in 1778, mandated by the American Congress; it was on this occasion that Louis XVI signed the treaty recognizing the independence of the United States as a nation, and that England signed the independence of the thirteen colonies.
    20th-century engraved bookplate with the motto Nec ridendo vellicat.

    €350
  51. Le bachelier de Salamanque, ou les memoires de D. Cherubin de la Ronda, tirés d'un manuscrit espagnol
    Alain-René LESAGE
    Le bachelier de Salamanque, ou les memoires de D. Cherubin de la Ronda, tirés d'un manuscrit espagnol
    Chez Pierre Gosse|à La Haye [The Hague] 1741|9.50 x 17 cm|relié
    New edition, the original having appeared in 1736 then in 1738 for its sequel. Six figures, including a frontispiece, all unsigned. Title pages in red and black.
    Contemporary full glazed brown calf binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label. Worn binding. Split headcaps. Lacks to joints at head and foot. Corners cut and rubbed bare.
    Le bachelier de Salamanque is Lesage's last novel, and said to be his favorite, the fruit of his old age. Although still in the picaresque tradition, this last work no longer relies on multiple episodes like Gil Blas; if it shows less invention a priori, it is above all of a markedly darker and more melancholic tone than any of his novels.
    19th-century bookplate of Mlle Victoire Kessler. Reims.
    €180
  72. Nuit de fête
    Félicien CHAMPSAUR, Georges BOTTINI
    Nuit de fête
    Offenstadt frères|Paris s. d. [1902]|16.50 x 25.50 cm|broché
    first edition on the current paper.
    Precious autograph signed Felicien Champsaur Auguste François-Marie Gorguet who illustrated the book: "In the master painter Gorguet his accomplice and friend ..."
    Book decorated with 75 illustrations in black and watercolor stencil Georges Bottini, Auguste François-Marie Gorguet and Charles Lucas.
    Cover art by Georges Bottini.
    A lack leads the second flat, restored tear on the back.
    €300
  84. Oeuvres
    François Joachim Cardinal de BERNIS
    Oeuvres
    De l'imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné|à Paris 1797 (An V)|12 x 20 cm|relié
    New edition, illustrated with a medallion portrait on the title page and 5 unsigned aquatint engravings. The final leaf bears this note: "This edition, printed on laid paper from Annonay, was limited to only 250 copies." According to Cohen, the edition contains 7 figures.
    Full red morocco binding with long grain (Russia leather) signed P. Bozérian. Smooth spine decorated with series of double fillets. Edges gilt. Light rubbing.
    In addition to the Poésies (Epitres, Les quatre saisons, Poésies diverses, La religion vengée) the edition contains the Discours sur la poésie, Reflexions sur les passions, Réflexions sur la métromanie, Réflexions sur la curiosité, Réflexions sur le goût de la campagne. Deceased in 1794, "Le cardinal des plaisir" according to the title of Jean-Marie Rouart's eponymous novel, was first a poor poet before being introduced into the salons and notably that of Madame de Pompadour who launched his brilliant political career, since he was successively minister and secretary of state for foreign affairs. His gallant verses, which Voltaire mocked, opened the doors of the Académie française to him at 29 years old.
    €450
  86. Le livre des légendes. Deuxième année complète
    Jacques DES GACHONS, COLLECTIF
    Le livre des légendes. Deuxième année complète
    Le livre des légendes|Paris 1895|14.50 x 19 cm|10 fascicules brochés sous chemise cartonnée à lacet
    First edition.
    Literary contributions by Jean Lorrain, Henri de Régnier, Charles Perrault, René Boylesve, Gabriel de Lautrec, Tristan Klingsor, Jacques des Gachons, Maurice Magre, Georges Rodenbach, Henry Bordeaux, Yvanhoé Rambosson, Stuart Merril...
    Pictorial contributions by André des Gachons, Paul Berthon, Noé Legrand, Léon Lebègue, Paul Bocquet, Léonce de Joncières, P. M. Rut... as well as 13 color plates (including frontispieces) by Des Gaschons, Paul Berthon, P. M. Ruty, Elie Clavel, Henri Gentil, Paul Bocquet.
    Includes the general printed cover for the year 1895.
    Our complete 1895 volume is presented in the publisher's laced chemise, vellum-style cardboard spine, marbled paper boards.
    Issue No. 12 is in duplicate.
    Handsome set despite minor worming of no consequence, one lace from the publisher's binding is missing.
    €400
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