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First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe issue.

Contemporary half aubergine morocco over marbled-paper boards, with corners, spine very slightly faded, four raised bands, decorated with green morocco onlays, blind-stamped fleurons and arabesques, date gilt at foot, gilt fillet borders to the boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original wrappers and spine preserved, binding signed Zendel.

A handsome wide-margined copy in an attractive contemporary binding.

First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Edouard Manet by Bracquemond and an etching by Edouard Manet after "Olympia".

Black half morocco over corners, spine with five raised bands ruled in blind, date gilt at foot, marbled paper boards, patterned endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, binding signed by Stroobants.

A rare and handsome copy, attractively bound.

Rare first edition.

Not recorded by Sabin, who lists for the same year, published by Pagnerre, a work entitled France et Amérique, ou Des Institutions américaines.

Contemporary red half morocco, spine with four raised bands, compartments and blind fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, minor rubbing, speckled edges.

Some foxing, a pale dampstain to the upper right-hand corner of the leaves, and a small pasted label at the foot of one pastedown.

Very rare first edition of this theological pamphlet by Edmond de Chazal (1809-1879), a convert to Protestantism, opposing an attempted Catholic reintegration.

No copy recorded in the CCF.

Boards soiled with losses at the corners, some foxing.

First edition, uncommon, of this account of a journey through Italy following a thoroughly classical itinerary: Sens, Dijon, Lucerne, Reinthal, Pfeffers, the Grisons, Tyrol, San Bernardino, Locarno, Bellinzona, Lugano, Como, Milan, Pavia, Turin, Genoa, Lucca, Pisa, Naples, Salerno, Caserta, Rome, Florence, Milan, the Simplon Pass, etc.

Small losses and tears to the margins of the covers, some foxing.

The author was clearly determined to preserve his anonymity: not only has his identity never been established, but he also left unsigned the autograph presentation inscription in our copy to the Comtesse Duplessis de Pouzillac, written opposite the title page of the...

First edition, one of 18 numbered copies on imperial Japan paper, the deluxe issue.

A tear at the foot of the front wrapper near the spine, small marginal tears to the wrappers, with a minute loss to the rear wrapper.

An attractive and rare copy, untrimmed and retaining its full margins.

First Gallimard edition, one of 13 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies after a single hors commerce copy on Holland paper and 12 copies on coloured paper, likewise hors commerce.

A pleasant copy complete with the publisher's review slip.

Half black shagreen binding with bands, smooth spine, title and author's name gilt-lettered, boards, endpapers and pastedowns of cat's-eye paper, original wrappers and spine preserved.

Fine signed autograph inscription from Joë Bousquet: "Au camarade attentif dont le nom flotte sur des pensées, et flatte mes longs espoirs, avec mon amitié reconnaissante à Monsieu Hirsch. JoeBousquet Carcassonne le 5 juin...

First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on Holland paper, the deluxe issue.
Contemporary red half shagreen bindings by Bellevallée, spines slightly faded, raised on five bands tooled with black fillets, marbled paper boards, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edges gilt on the rough, original wrappers and spines preserved.

A rare and handsome copy, attractively bound.

Rare first edition (cf. Sabin, 18331. Not in Leclerc.)

Our copy is preserved in its original stitched state, under modern marbled-paper wrappers.

Some foxing.

Uncommon first edition.

Contemporary full almond-green cloth, spine faded and decorated with a gilt fleuron and double gilt fillet at foot, brick-red morocco lettering-piece, boards slightly faded at the edges, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved.

In this historical survey, Father Raphaël (1883-1961) traces the story of the cedar, emblem of Lebanon, from ancient Phoenicia to the French Mandate.

First edition (cf. Monglond I, 944. Not in Kress, Goldsmiths or Einaudi).

Interesting Revolutionary-era document printed in opposition to the restoration of the Compagnie des Indes, which had lost its monopoly in 1769, and in support of freedom of trade in Asia: "Nos besoins, ceux de nos Manufactures mêmes nous rendent indispensable le Commerce de l'Inde. Toutes nos Colonies, celles des Isles de France et de Bourbon sur-tout, sont intéressées à le soutenir : si nous l'abandonnions, ces dernières nous échapperoient peut-être à leur tour, et nos rivaux qui sacrifieroient tout pour elles, et pour nous voir renoncer à cette partie du Monde, nous rendroient d'autant plus leurs...

First edition of Antonin Artaud's French translation.

Repaired tears and small areas of loss at the head and foot of the spine, with minor marginal tears to the covers.

Signed presentation copy inscribed by Antonin Artaud to Alin Laubreaux.

Edition illustrated with two frontispieces, one of them a portrait of Fénelon, and twenty-four full-page plates, one for each of the twenty-four books of the Avantures de Telemaque. Copy printed on thick Dutch laid paper.

Bound in full red straight-grain morocco, covers framed with dotted borders, smooth spines decorated with seven dotted fillets, gilt titles and volume numbers, dotted rule on board edges, gilt inner roll-tooled borders, marbled paper pastedowns, all edges gilt. Some very slight rubbing and soiling to bindings, spines sunned, some foxing, offsetting from the plates onto the half-titles.

Bookplate of Thomas Pares (1716-1805), a lawyer in...

Rare first edition, illustrated with a contemporary photographic print mounted as a frontispiece.

Tears and small losses to the spine, boards slightly faded at the margins, contents in pleasing condition.

No copy recorded in the CCF and only three copies listed in WorldCat (British Library, National Library of Australia, University of California).

Extremely rare pamphlet devoted to the unveiling of the monument to Edward VII erected in the centre of the Champ de Mars in Port Louis.

First edition, printed in a small number of copies, of this offprint from the Annales de chimie et de physique, 3rd series, vol. VIII.

Our copy is preserved in its original stitched state under temporary blue paper wrappers.

A rare and attractive copy.

Only two copies recorded in the French Union Catalogue (CCFr), at the Sorbonne and the Institut de France.

Autograph presentation inscription from Benjamin Lewy to the physicist Edmond Becquerel (1820-1891) on the upper wrapper.

First edition, with no deluxe issue, and bearing the correct printer's imprint date.

An unusual copy, with no edition statement on the title page but with the spurious mention « deuxième édition » at the head of the rear wrapper.

Minor tears at the head and foot of the spine neatly repaired, small losses at the head and foot of the front wrapper restored, paper browned as usual.

First edition, one of 15 numbered copies on Kaji pearlescent Japan paper, the deluxe issue.

As stated in the limitation, our copy is complete with the separately printed facsimile on 18th-century laid paper of a manuscript page specially written by Jean de La Varende.

A few small spots of foxing to some leaves, boards lightly discoloured, otherwise a pleasant copy complete with its chemise and slipcase.

Signed presentation inscription from Jean de La Varende to the bibliophile Maurice Gorrée.

Typed letter, dated and signed in blue ink by Fernandel, addressed to his close friend Carlo Rim, the Provençal writer, caricaturist and filmmaker who was also his biographer, concerning their joint film, L'Armoire volante.

One page on Fernandel's letterhead.

Some light soiling and folds from mailing.

A document that sheds light, through the exchange between an actor and his director, on the inner workings of French film production in the late 1940s.

First edition, one of the review copies.

Text and photographs by Claude Arthaud and François Hébert-Stevens. A fine copy despite some foxing to the lower edge.

Publisher's full beige cloth binding, smooth spine, complete with its polychrome photographic dust jacket.

Signed presentation inscription from Claude Arthaud to (Christian) Melchior-Bonnet, additionally signed by François Hébert-Stevens.

First edition, with no deluxe copies printed.
Publisher's full sand-coloured cloth, smooth spine, complete with the illustrated dust jacket.
Illustrated with photographs by Glasberg.
A fine copy.

Rare first edition. 

According to the CCF, copies are held only in Paris and Nancy.

Our copy is preserved in its original state, in plain yellow wrappers.

The only edition, considerably expanded from a 28-page pamphlet published in 1860 under the title Essai sur le régime alimentaire des Anciens.

Born into a Lorraine dynasty of physicians, Antoine-Constant Saucerotte was born in Moscow in 1805 and died in Lunéville in 1884.

He received his medical degree in Paris in 1828 before settling in Lunéville, where he successively became chief physician of the civil and military hospital (1838) and professor of natural history at the lycée. A member of...

First edition, one of 200 copies printed on hollande, the only deluxe issue.

Bound Bradel-style in three-quarter dark green morocco, flat spine with date at foot, cat's-eye paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved; binding signed by Carayon.

A few minor foxmarks to the boards and some of the deckle edges.

A rare, untrimmed copy of Guy de Maupassant's masterpiece, handsomely bound by Carayon.

Signed autograph manuscript, 6 pages, of Georges Courteline's story Le Phénomène, later published by Flammarion in 1897 in Un client sérieux.

Numerous deletions; one passage does not appear in the printed versions of the text.

Green Bradel boards, author and title lettered in gilt lengthwise on spine. Manuscript on fragments of leaves of lined paper, pasted onto six pages. Some rubbing and soiling to boards, figures in blue pencil written over the text, traces of glue and light soiling to leaves.

Original manuscript of a story full of self-mockery, in which Georges Courteline recounts...

First illustrated edition, with original lithographs by Renée André-Piot, one of 600 numbered copies on Vidalon royal wove paper.

Some foxing.

Autograph presentation inscription signed by Joseph Kessel to Jacques Lengrand.

Accompanied by an original Roger-Viollet photograph, with the agency's stamp on the verso, showing Joseph Kessel seated at a table in the La Cloche d'Or restaurant in Paris in 1952, cigarette in hand, beside a young woman.

Creasing to the right-hand margin of the photograph.

Manuscript annotations by Roger-Viollet and two stamps on the verso of the photograph.

First edition, one of 35 numbered copies on Holland paper, comprising the deluxe issue.

Fine copy.