Arthur-Charles Devaux DE VAUX BARON

Ecuyers et écuyères. Histoire des cirques d'Europe (1680-1891). Avec une étude sur l'équitation ...

J. Rothschild, Paris 1893, 15x23cm, relié.

Fourth edition.
Bound in half black sheepskin back with five nerves decorated with gilt, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, blankets (with two angular gaps in light foot) maintained, modern binding.
Book adorned with 280 portraits and illustrations.
Foreword [...]

400 €

View more

First edition

Hugues LE ROUX & Jules GARNIER

Les jeux du cirque et la vie foraine

Plon-Nourrit & Cie, Paris 1889, 21x28,5cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

First edition on ordinary paper, there has been printed only 50 Japon large paper copies.
Publisher's binding over flexible paper boards, top edge gilt.
Original illustrations by Jules Garnier.
Endpapers uniformly shaded, otherwise nice copy.
Very fresh binding.

600 €

View more

First edition

Catalogue des articles du Rire Parisien, maison unique pour les prestidigitateurs professionnels et ...

Le rire parisien, Paris s.d., 13x18cm, broché.

First edition of this catalog listing all autograph dedication of the authors sold in this house. Joke, conjuring apparatus, make-up, hair pieces ... Illustrations. Two small gaps in the top and bottom of the back, bites, tears and light angular gaps on the boards, nice interior state. Rare. --- [...]

80 €

View more

First edition, Signed book

Anne FRATELLINI

Un cirque pour l'avenir

Le centurion, Paris 1977, 13,5x21cm, broché.

first edition of which he was not drawn large papers.
autograph dedication of the author signed autograph of Anne Fratellini.
Photographic, fine example coverage.

40 €

View more

First edition

Henri THETARD

Les dompteurs ou la ménagerie des origines à nos jours

Gallimard, Paris 1928, 16,5x25cm, broché.

First edition, one of 72 numbered copies on Hollande, tirage de tête after 10 Japon.
Illustrated with numerous etchings and unpublished photographs.
A very good and rare copy.

450 €

View more