New edition, one of 65 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe paper issue.
A fine copy.
Autograph letter signed and dated September 26, 1955, by Georges Simenon, addressed from Cannes to André David.
18 lines in black ink on one leaf bearing his American address in Lakeville, Connecticut.
Mailing fold as usual.
Georges Simenon apologizes for his delayed response: "mais j'étais en plein roman. Parbleu ! si je me souviens de vous !" and indicates his upcoming availability to his correspondent, even specifying his future address in Cannes. He authorizes André David's project to adapt his novel "Maigret et la Grande Perche" for the screen, while setting his terms: "vous pouvez travailler sur La Grande Perche mais, bien entendu, mon acceptation ne peut dépendre que du résultat (duquel, d'ailleurs, je ne doute pas). Tenez-moi au courant."
New edition of the French translation known as the Port-Royal version, prepared by the theologian Louis-Isaac Le Maistre de Sacy.
The first edition of this “Nouveau Testament de Mons” had appeared in 1667.
This is the final edition printed by Daniel Elzevier.
Contemporary full black morocco, spine with five raised bands gilt with decorative rolls and richly gilt compartments, minor rubbing to spine and boards, covers framed with triple gilt fillets and gilt corner fleurons, red morocco doublures entirely covered with an elaborate gilt interlacing design and small dotted tools, comb-marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, corners slightly bumped, gilt rolls to the turn-ins, contemporary binding.
Our copy was bound without the four table leaves of the first part.
A handsome ruled copy, in a contemporary doublé morocco binding decorated à la fanfare, certain tools suggesting an attribution to the so-called “des Caumartin” workshop (see Esmerian II, Tableau synoptique, Appendix A-VII).
New edition illustrated with 16 folding copper-engraved plates.
Only two copies recorded in the CCF (Collège de France, Caen). As such, the volume is not cited by Quérard nor by Cioranescu.
Contemporary temporary blue paper boards, smooth spine, unlettered. Minor rubbing to the spine-ends.
Some foxing.
As such, the volume is not cited by Quérard nor by Cioranescu. It nevertheless constitutes the exceedingly rare atlas to the second edition of the Histoire de Russie tirée des chroniques originales, published in the same year, 1800, in 8 volumes of text.
The first edition had appeared in 1782 in five duodecimo volumes and, compiled from the extensive materials gathered by the author during his stay in Saint Petersburg (1773–1780), represented a genuine historiographical breakthrough.
Bound in at the end: three issues of the Journal des débats politiques et littéraires (13 January, 27 January and 6 October 1826).
Provenance: J.-B.-M.-A. de Chauliac, with heraldic ink stamp (captioned in manuscript) on the half-title.
First edition, with no deluxe paper issue stated.
An attractive copy, complete with its publisher’s wraparound band; "Moi, dit Pierrot, je les mettrais pas entre toutes les mains..."
A few scuffs to the band.
Rare signed autograph inscription from Bertrand Blier to Germaine Beaumont.
Two years later, Bertrand Blier adapted his novel for the screen, starring Patrick Dewaere, Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Fossey in the leading roles.
