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  4. Memoires de ce qui s est passe dans La Chretiente, depuis le commencement de la guerre en 1672, jusqu a la Paix conclue en 1679
    William TEMPLE
    Memoires de ce qui s est passe dans La Chretiente, depuis le commencement de la guerre en 1672, jusqu a la Paix conclue en 1679
    Chez Adrian Moetjens|à La Haye [The Hague] 1692|9 x 15.50 cm|relié
    Second edition statement.
    Full marbled brown sheep binding. Raised band spine richly decorated. Red morocco title label. Edges gilt. Triple fillet frame on boards. Narrow split to upper joint at foot. Some rubbing. Some leaves with browning. Handsome copy in a quality binding.
    These memoirs, written by Chevalier Temple, who was ambassador of the King of England in Holland, begin as the author has just left his official functions; they concern the Dutch War from 1672 to 1678 and the Treaty of Nijmegen which ended it, a treaty which was favorable to France, then master of Europe's destiny. "Ambassador in Holland, author of the Triple Alliance of The Hague in 1668, Temple detests Louis XIV and France, while he fervently admires William of Orange." (Bourgeois & André, Sources VIII, 8247).

    NB: This work is available at the bookstore on request within 48 hours.
    €280
  6. Les bandes
    Pierre MAC ORLAN, André DIGNIMONT
    Les bandes
    Les Editions de la Belle Page|Paris 1947|14.50 x 23 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Arches paper, ours specially printed for André Dignimont illustrator of the book, deluxe edition after 5 Japan variously enriched.
    Illustrated book, frontispiece, original dry-point André Dignimont.
    Precious autograph signed by Pierre Mac Orlan: "A Dignimont, artist, friend to the old Dig, his friend Pierre Mac Orlan..
    Beautiful copy exceptionally enriched in 6 states of the frontispiece.
    €680
  12. Lettre de Thrasibule à Leucippe. Ouvrage posthume de M. F
    Nicolas FRÉRET
    Lettre de Thrasibule à Leucippe. Ouvrage posthume de M. F
    S. n.|à Londres [London] 1766 (S.d)|9.50 x 17 cm|relié
    First edition posthume.
    Contemporary full glazed blonde calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with acorn tools. Red morocco title-label. One lack at head. Worming at foot. Scuffing to boards, with a lack of 2 cm in diameter. Nevertheless a good copy.
    Work presented as translated from ancient Greek. It is a philosophical dialogue on the senses and illusion, pleasure and love, God... The whole following materialist theses. "The thorough work of R. Brummer and R. Besthorn has shown in a very convincing way [.] that Fréret is indeed the author of the Lettre de Thrasibule à Leucippe and that Holbach [.] cannot be considered its author." (Vercruysse p. 38).
    €300
  24. Traite de l'opinion, ou memoires pour servir a l'histoire de l'esprit humain
    Gilbert-Charles LE GENDRE MARQUIS DE SAINT-AUBIN
    Traite de l'opinion, ou memoires pour servir a l'histoire de l'esprit humain
    Chez Briasson|à Paris 1735|10 x 16.80 cm|6 volumes reliés
    Second edition, after the first published by the same publisher in 1733. One folding plate in volume II and 4 astronomical figures in volume III.
    Contemporary full speckled brown sheep bindings. Spines with raised bands decorated with 4 fleurons, roulette at tail. Red morocco title labels, gilt volume numbers. Headcaps of volumes II, IV and VI with losses. Tailcaps of volumes I and II partly worn. 5 corners slightly bumped. Paper throughout fresh. Spines rubbed. Rather good set.
    The Marquis de Saint-Aubin established in this work a history of ideas and theories in all domains of knowledge, the essence of his purpose being to place before readers' eyes the errors and prejudices that prevailed at a certain moment in history. Volume four deals with magic and occult sciences, which earns the work its listing in Caillet. The other volumes contain a study of history and belles lettres, mathematics, astronomy, medicine and physics, chemistry, astrology and divination, morals and politics. The treatise necessarily begins with a study of its subject, opinion. The whole forms a remarkable epistemological work that reveals the precariousness of human knowledge, highlighting the succession of human errors both in the most serious sciences and in morals, victims of cultural changes and ideological tendencies.
    18th-century engraved armorial bookplate of Francois Morel, with the motto Custodes nostri. Second bookplate P. de Riencourt.
    €700
  30. Le lettrisme devant Dada et les nécrophages de Dada !
    Maurice LEMAÎTRE
    Le lettrisme devant Dada et les nécrophages de Dada !
    Centre de créativité|Paris 1967|14.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
    Maurice LEMAÎTRE
    Le Lettrisme devant Dada
    et les nécrophages de Dada !
    Centre de créativité | Paris 1967| 14.5 x 22.5 cm | original wrappers
    First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Arches paper, this one not justified, the tirage de tête.
    Handsome autograph inscription signed by Maurice Lemaître to Eric Losfeld below the justification: “Spécialement réalisé pour Eric Losfeld, quinze ans d'amitié sans nuage (mais pas grande efficacité) [specially made for Eric Losfeld, fifteen years of uninterrupted friendship (but not great efficiency)]. Lemaître 67.”
    This copy retains the original drawing by Maurice Lemaître accompanying the 50 copies of the tirage de tête on Arches.
    A very good and rare copy.
    €750
  33. La grande passion des modérés, in Combat n°9 de la première année
    Maurice BLANCHOT, Robert BRASILLACH
    La grande passion des modérés, in Combat n°9 de la première année
    in Combat|Paris novembre 1936|21.50 x 28.50 cm|agrafé
    First and only edition of this pamphlet published in the review Combat directed by Thierry Maulnier.
    Other contributions: Robert Brasillach, La machine à botter les culs, Thierry Maulnier, Georges Blond...
    Very rare document witnessing the anti-democratic period of young Maurice Blanchot.
    Vertical fold inherent to the distribution of this review with tear without loss at foot of same.
    €120
  40. Histoire du prince Soly, surnommé Prenany, et de la princesse Feslée
    Henri PAJON
    Histoire du prince Soly, surnommé Prenany, et de la princesse Feslée
    Aux dépens de La Compagnie|à Amsterdam 1750|9 x 15.50 cm|2 parties en un volume relié
    First edition, rare. Title pages in red and black. The work was reprinted in the Collection des voyages imaginaires, songes, visions et romans cabalistiques, volume XXV.
    Contemporary full glazed and marbled calf binding. Smooth decorated spine. Havana morocco title-label. 2 corners bumped, one trimmed. Rubbing, particularly to edges. Scattered browning. A reasonably good copy.
    A tale set in an imaginary country in South America between two peoples, the moon-worshipping Amazons, and the sun-worshipping Solinians. The story begins with the abduction by the Amazons of the prince of the Solinians. It is a marvelous tale, in the tradition of oriental tales of the period, including fairies and magic and a love story. The author presents in his epistle his work as a masterpiece, a work "as beautiful and as useful as that one"; lightness and humor are indeed never far from the narrative.
    Ex libris Eroticis Piero Lorenrroni (nude woman reclining with putti).

    €500
  41. Via veritas et vita [Novum testamentum]
    ANONYME
    Via veritas et vita [Novum testamentum]
    Frederici Leonard|Parisiis [Paris] • (Paris) 1697|7 x 12.50 cm|relié
    Edition decorated with a title-frontispiece signed Pitau, which contains as title only Via verita et vita with in the pediment a verse extracted from the Gospel according to Saint John, the title in a book designated by Christ and held by cherubim. Address in the lower banner: Typis Frederici Leonard. Parisiis. 1697. A folding plate containing several maps including the Holy Land, Jerusalem...
    Armorial copy of Pierre Francis de Lastre, with three escutcheons, 2 azure and one gold.
    Full brown morocco binding of the 18th century. Jansenist raised-band spine. Boards stamped with arms in blind with armorial cornerpieces. All edges gilt. Upper joint partly cracked with very slight lacks.
    Very handsome copy in brown morocco with arms.
    The New Testament reproduces the official text of Sixtus V and Clement VIII.

    NB: This work is available at the bookshop on request within 48 hours.

    €500
  46. Les mémoires d'un veuf
    Paul VERLAINE
    Les mémoires d'un veuf
    Léon Vanier|Paris 1886|12.50 x 19 cm|relié
    First edition, one of 22 numbered copies on Hollande justified by Léon Vanier, the only large paper copies.
    Elegant half red morocco over marbled paper boards by Semet & Plumelle, spine in six compartments with black fillets, gilt date at foot, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers preserved, top edge gilt.
    Manuscript signature of Paul Verlaine on half title.
    This copy is enriched with a half page autograph letter of Paul Verlaine addressed to his publisher Léon Vanier : "Mon cher Vanier. J'ai remis dimanche 1 lettre et les épreuves, sous enveloppes pour vous à M. Jules Tellier, 18 avenue des Gobelins, qui a dû mettre ces 2 choses à la poste. Voyez ce qu'il y a à faire, je garde l'épreuve et la corrige dans tous les cas. A jeudi. P.V.
    A very good copy handsomely bound.
    €7,000
  52. L'Histoire ecclesiastique de Nicephore, fils de Calliste Xantouplois, autheur grec, traduicte nouvellement du latin en françois [...] de nouveau corrigée et mise en meilleur françois qu'auparavant par deux docteurs en en la faculté de théologie à Paris
    Nicephore Calliste XANTHOPOULOS
    L'Histoire ecclesiastique de Nicephore, fils de Calliste Xantouplois, autheur grec, traduicte nouvellement du latin en françois [...] de nouveau corrigée et mise en meilleur françois qu'auparavant par deux docteurs en en la faculté de théologie à Paris
    Chez Guillaume Linocier|à Paris 1587|11 x 17 cm|2 volumes reliés
    New edition of the French translation (the first having appeared in 1578 in folio and octavo formats) which, according to Barbier, is owed to two Benedictines: Denys Hangart and Jean Gillot. According to recent research, Hangart would be the sole translator and Jean Gillot would be the scholarly editor. Publisher's marks on title page. The Bibliothèque Nationale de France only holds the 1586 reprints by the same publisher and one 1578 copy, in folio, from Lyon.
    Contemporary bindings in full speckled brown sheep. Spines with raised bands decorated. Gilt title and volume labels. Set rubbed, gilding faded and surface damage obscuring the gilding on spines. Three corners with slight leather losses. Upper joint of volume I split for 6 cm. Cuts to upper margin of title pages, certainly to remove an owner's name, restored with strips of old paper. Trace of pale yellow dampstain in outer margin of leaves 557 to 578 of the second volume. The mention "tome premier" has been added in pen on the first volume. Yellow stains on title page and on the first two leaves in margin of the first volume. A reasonably good copy.
    Nicephore Calliste Xanthopoulos (1236-1335) was a Byzantine monk and historian attached to Hagia Sophia. It was in Greek that he wrote his Ecclesiastical History in eighteen books covering the origins of Christianity until 618. While for the first centuries of his history, one can still find certain sources, for the last two centuries, the documents from which the author drew have entirely disappeared. All editions were made from a single existing manuscript. The work forms a document of primary importance on certain cults, notably that of the Virgin. The tripartite ecclesiastical history was compiled by Cassiodorus (477-560) from Sozomen, Socrates Scholasticus and Theodoret. This history summarizes in a single work the labors of three Greek historians who had drawn from common sources.
    Ex bibliotheca C. Van Bavière. Acad. Bruxell.
    €1,200
  58. Dictionnaire des Artistes, ou Notice historique et raisonnée des Architectes, Peintres, Graveurs, Sculpteurs, Musiciens, Acteurs & Danseurs; Imprimeurs, Horlogers & Méchaniciens
    Louis-Abel de Bonafons, abbé de FONTENAY
    Dictionnaire des Artistes, ou Notice historique et raisonnée des Architectes, Peintres, Graveurs, Sculpteurs, Musiciens, Acteurs & Danseurs; Imprimeurs, Horlogers & Méchaniciens
    Chez Vincent|à Paris 1776|11 x 17 cm|2 volumes reliés
    First edition.
    Contemporary bindings in full marbled brown sheep. Spines with raised bands decorated. Title labels in red morocco, and volume labels in black sheep. Lacks at heads of the 2 volumes. Lack on the third raised band of volume I. One corner bumped. Spines, volume labels, joints and edges, corners rubbed. A reasonably good copy.
    Excellent dictionary cataloguing artists and artisans of all periods as well as their works, one of the first in the genre. The entries are detailed and clear, running to several pages for the greatest artists; one will also find clockmakers and musicians, singers and actors.
    €500
  61. Sous les rideaux, contes d'un soir
    Édouard THIERRY, Henry TRIANON
    Sous les rideaux, contes d'un soir
    A. Belin • Lachapelle|Paris 1834|13 x 21.50 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Half burgundy Russia morocco binding with corners, smooth spine decorated with a cartouche, arabesques and gilt fillets, gilt date at foot, very light traces of rubbing without significance to joints, gilt fillet frames on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, bookplate pasted on pastedown, elegant romantic pastiche binding signed by Pagnant.
    Work illustrated with an engraving as frontispiece representing Maximilien de Robespierre.
    Rare and handsome copy attractively bound in a signed binding by Pagnant.
    €300
  62. Saturnalium sermonum, libri duo, qui de gladiatoribus [Ensemble] Philippi Rubeni Electorum libri II. In quibus antiqui ritus, emendationes, centurae. Eiusdem ad Iustum Lipsium poematia
    Juste LIPSE, Philippe RUBENS
    Saturnalium sermonum, libri duo, qui de gladiatoribus [Ensemble] Philippi Rubeni Electorum libri II. In quibus antiqui ritus, emendationes, centurae. Eiusdem ad Iustum Lipsium poematia
    Ex officina Plantiniana, Apud Ioannem Moretum|Antverpiae [Antwerp] • (Anvers) [Antwerp] 1604 - 1607|18 x 25 cm|2 ouvrages en un volume relié
    New edition for the Saturnalium (first edition in 1582, the privilege however being from 1598 for certainly the first illustrated one) and first edition for the second work by Philippe Ruben, Electorum. Printer's marks on title page and on the last blank leaf. Jan Moret was Plantin's son-in-law, he took over the printing house after the latter's death.
    Illustration: Saturnalium is illustrated with 4 double-page plates, 4 single plates with 2 figures and 4 figures in text; the whole contains no signature, but would be by the hand of Van der Borcht the Elder, who regularly worked with Jan Moret. Electorum contains 3 double-page plates and 2 figures in text, all by Cornelius Galle (some plates being signed). One double-page engraving is lacking.
    Contemporary full vellum binding. Smooth Jansenist spine. Beige vellum title label. One lack at head and one at tail. Staining on the boards. First gathering detached. The title label indicates To. VII, this volume certainly formed part of a set of texts by Justus Lipsius or around this author. Handsome copy.
    The Saturnalia were great Roman festivals during the winter solstice (17 to 24 December, then 25); the celebrations of the God Saturn were accompanied by great unbridled popular festivities, but also by spectacles, notably of gladiators. Social barriers were abolished and slaves were served by their masters. Justus Lipsius gathers all the commentaries that have been written on the subject and studies them. A large part is devoted to the different spectacles given by the gladiators.
    Electorum is a florilegium, a selection of what is found best among the authors of Antiquity on ancient rites. Philippe Ruben was the disciple of Justus Lipsius, he pays him homage in these Poematia.

    €1,200
  63. Lettres, memoires et negociations de Monsieur le Comte d'Estrades
    Godefroy Comte ESTRADES D'
    Lettres, memoires et negociations de Monsieur le Comte d'Estrades
    Chez Jean Nourse|à Londres [London] 1743|9.50 x 16.50 cm|9 volumes reliés
    New edition, the best and most complete, established by Prosper Marchand (the first edition of 1709 contained only 5 volumes). Title pages in red and black printed on heavy paper. 9 title vignettes. 12 pages of catalogue at the end.
    Contemporary full speckled calf bindings. Spines with raised bands ornately decorated. Havana morocco title and volume labels. Headcap of volume II worn away. Lacking at head of volume V. Headcaps of volumes VIII and IX worn away, same at head of volume IX. Upper joint split at tail of volume VIII. Corners worn on volumes VIII and IX, same on volume VII. Some corners bumped.
    From his first military victories, the Comte d'Estrades was an important figure in history during the reigns of Louis XIII and Louis XIV, ambassador and diplomat in England, Holland, Germany, he was one of the plenipotentiaries in the preparation of the peace of Nijmegen. Marshal of France, governor of Dunkirk (after having negotiated for its repurchase), perpetual Mayor of Bordeaux and viceroy of New France, he accumulated honors and offices. The Comte had amassed a great number of documents on his multiple activities. We know today that some of these documents and certain letters were falsified by the Comte d'Estrades himself to glorify his memory.
    The correspondence and documents are classified by years, from 1637 to 1677. The whole constitutes an incredible mass of letters and memoirs on European affairs.
    Bookplate: Ex bibliotheca Jos. Henr. Chave, Parochi.

    €950
  65. Le cahier de Phane
    [Maurice BEDEL] Gabriel SENLIS
    Le cahier de Phane
    Grasset|Paris 1913|11.50 x 18.50 cm|relié
    First edition published under the pseudonym Gabriel Senlis, one copy of the printed press service on laid, he was fired from Holland paper in 5 leading copies.
    Binding half orange morocco with corners, back with four nerves decorated with a golden floral pattern, name of author and title of piece navy blue morocco, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of gray paper, wrappers and back preserved and bound in , gilded head.
    Signed autograph Gabriel Senlis Georges Normandy.
    Beautiful cover illustrated in color by J. Gosé.
    Some little foxing without gravity.
    €120
  69. Abregé de l'histoire de Provence contenant plusieurs memoires qui ont êté inconnûs aux auteurs qui ont écrit l'histoire de ce païs
    Pierre LOUVET DE BEAUVAIS
    Abregé de l'histoire de Provence contenant plusieurs memoires qui ont êté inconnûs aux auteurs qui ont écrit l'histoire de ce païs
    Chez Léonard Tetrode|à Aix [Aix-en-Provence] 1676|8.50 x 16.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
    First edition, very rare, illustrated with a frontispiece and 27 portraits. The first of the author's studies on Provence, he would later publish L'Histoire des troubles de Provence in 1679, then Additions et illustrations sur les deux tomes de L'Histoire des troubles de Provence in 1680. One virtually never finds all the volumes bound uniformly, even just to bring together L'Histoire des troubles and the Additions although published by the same publisher a year apart.
    Contemporary full red morocco bindings. Raised band spines with ornaments. Boards decorated in the Du Seuil style with central rectangle formed by triple fillets, cornerpieces and triple fillet border. Gilt edges. One loss to both volumes at head and four corners slightly bumped. The last 5 leaves of volume I are affected by water stains and dampness, same for pp. 523 to 556 of volume 2; the last 2 leaves of volume II having been backed with Japan paper (small losses to letters). As a precaution the damp stains have been stopped by proven chemical process. The last two endleaves have been renewed in both volumes with Japan paper.
    We note some differences between the copies we have been able to consult: the one held by St. Andrew University in Great Britain contains 26 portraits (against 27 for ours) and 2 frontispieces including a portrait of the author in volume II; the copy in the Munich library contains only the author's portrait as frontispiece (and not ours with the arms of the families of Provence) and only 22 portraits. Two undescribed copies at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and two copies in Great Britain including one at the British Library not described.
    History of Provence since Roman domination, description of the province, its great families, principal cities... The second volume is devoted to Provençal ecclesiastical history.
    €2,600
  70. Essai sur differentes especes d'Air qu'on designe sous le nom d'Air-Fixe
    Joseph-Aignan SIGAUD DE LA FOND
    Essai sur differentes especes d'Air qu'on designe sous le nom d'Air-Fixe
    Chez Gueffier|à Paris 1785|12.50 x 20 cm|relié

    Second edition, after the first published in 1779, expanded by Rouland, and illustrated with 8 folding plates at the end, compared to 5 for the first edition.



    Contemporary full marbled calf binding. Ornate spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label. Two corners bumped. Rubbing. One loss at head. Light foxing on the first leaves. Good copy.



    Awakened to experimental physics as a student of Abbé Nollet, Sigaud de la Fond assisted the chemist Macquer in his experiments on gases and notably hydrogen, verifying that its combustion produced water. He relates in this work his experiments on different types of air, and summarizes the work of foreign physicists. Rouland, professor of experimental physics at the University of Paris, completed the descriptions of experiments, and the apparatus for conducting these experiments. Most of the chemists and physicists of the period are cited in the work: Priestley, Fontana, Lavoisier...



    Bookplate J. Angeras. Non solum... 1902.

    €450
  73. Abrégé de l'histoire Romaine, orné de 49 gravures, qui en représentent les principaux sujets
    Claude François Xavier MILLOT
    Abrégé de l'histoire Romaine, orné de 49 gravures, qui en représentent les principaux sujets
    Lécrivain|Paris 1816|22.50 x 29.80 cm|relié
    New edition, after the first published in 1805, and illustrated with 49 beautiful figures by Gravelot, Piauget, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, Eisen, and engraved by Tardieu, Chenu, Saint-Aubin... including 3 folding plates: a large view of Nero's golden palace, a superb one of the naval battle of Ecnomus, and one of Pompey's triumph in Rome. All plates have tissue guards.
    Bound in contemporary half brown calf. Spine with raised bands decorated with 5 blind tools and gilt and blind fillets. Brown shagreen title-label. Boards of beautiful marbled paper in yellow, red and brown. Traces of rubbing to headcaps and joints. Fine copy, very fresh.
    This Roman history manual was printed and published by order of the king "For use by pupils of the military school". It takes up the entirety of Roman history in short chapters. It was in 1789 that an unfinished project was realized, "The spectacle of Roman history", which contained 40 engravings. Other engravings were commissioned to complete the ensemble in 1805 and create this Abridgment of Roman history. The illustration is particularly beautiful and varied.

    €750
  74. Description des expériences de la machine aérostatique
    Barthélemy FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND
    Description des expériences de la machine aérostatique
    Chez Cuchet|à Paris 1784|13 x 20 cm|relié

    Second edition statement, rare, published after the original of 1783, and illustrated with 9 plates in fine, of the aerostatic machine and the flying boat.



    Bound in full limp vellum binding, reused. Smooth spine with author's name in pen and date at foot. Stains and soiling. Trace of dampstain to lower margin of frontispiece. Leaves browned at beginning of work, and several others scattered throughout bearing browning.



    First and important work on aerostation. It brings together several memoirs relating the first balloon flights (On inflammable gas, Observations made by M. Jeaurat, On rubber, Accounts of the first flights at Annonay, at the Champ de Mars...) Faujas de Saint-Fond, naturalist and geologist, financially supported the research of the Montgolfier brothers, papermakers, based on Cavendish's experiments and Priestley's work on hot air. They flew two balloons at Annonay, the second with farm animals, by means of bags filled with hot air. A supplement containing other memoirs and observations, which is rarely bound with, was published in 1784.

    €750
  76. Oeuvres de Boileau avec un nouveau commentaire par M. Amar
    Nicolas BOILEAU DESPREAUX
    Oeuvres de Boileau avec un nouveau commentaire par M. Amar
    Chez Lefèvre|à Paris 1821|15.50 x 24.50 cm|4 volumes reliés
    New edition expanded with a commentary by Jean-Augustin Amar du Rivier, and illustrated with a portrait of the author as frontispiece engraved by Ligon after Rigaud and 6 figures hors-texte engraved by Pierre Adam, Chollet, Burdet, Larcher and Lorichon after Desenne.
    Half green Russia leather bindings with corners, spines with five raised bands decorated with fleurons and roulettes stamped in blind, with gilt compartments and roulettes, headcap of the second volume slightly cracked, joints lightly rubbed, marbled paper boards, second board of the third and fourth volumes very lightly rubbed, some corners slightly bumped, endpapers and pastedowns of red speckled marbled paper, armorial bookplate of the Martineau des Chesnez family pasted on the front pastedown of the first volume. Contemporary binding signed Simier.
    Handsome copy in a half Russia leather binding signed Simier.
    €450
  77. Les pseaumes de David, mis en vers françois
    ANONYME
    Les pseaumes de David, mis en vers françois
    Chez Zacharie Chatelain|à Amsterdam 1738|8.50 x 15 cm|relié
    New edition, illustrated with a frontispiece by Bernard Picart and 305 pages of musical score.
    Contemporary German full brown calf binding. Raised bands spine decorated. Boards decorated with a large central tool and frames composed of several tools. Edges gilt. Tail headcap partly torn away. Split to upper joint at head and foot along 3 compartments. Tear to leaf 51 with loss at bottom of page. Corners very bumped. Rather rare German binding.
    Music and text of psalms, as well as several canticles. Table of psalms and prayers.

    €350
  87. Proverbes et nouvelles
    Eugène SCRIBE
    Proverbes et nouvelles
    Librairie de Charles Gosselin|Paris 1850|-|relié
    New edition.
    Binding half navy blue shagreen, back with four nerves set with golden dots and decorated with double gilded boxes decorated with golden jewels of angles, navy blue cardboard boards with very slight scratches, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, two corners very lightly used, contemporary binding.
    Our copy is enriched by an autograph letter signed and dated by Eugène Scribe, mounted on tab, which also signed Perfect for Christmas, letterhead of the "Commision playwrights and composers", in which it refused a request grant.
    €80
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