Oliver GOLDSMITH

Histoire d'Angleterre

E. Houdaille, Paris 1839, Grd. in-8 (16,5x26cm), 470pp. et 469pp. et 478pp. et 560pp., relié.

Edition continued until 1815 by Ch. Coote, and to this day by Alexabdrine Aragon, with notes of Barante Norvins and Thiers.
Bound in full morocco navy signed Boutigny (with binder label). back smooth decorated with rock in long irons. Large gilded rococo plate boards with birds, dragon, animals [...]

700 €

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J. G. HOUSSAYE

Monographie du thé. Description pittoresque, torréfaction, composition chimique, propriétés ...

Chez L'auteur, Paris 1843 [S.d.], In-8 (16x24,5cm), 160pp., relié.

First edition, illustrated with 18 inset wood (roasting, seeding, watering, plant, harvest, drying ...) and several paintings.
editor cardboard blue calico. Smooth spine with gilt. golden plate on upper cover, depicting a tea pavilion, with characters and boat. Lack of tail. Slight lack in [...]

450 €

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Antoine François Félix Comte de ROSELLY DE LORGUES

Christophe Colomb

Victor Palmé, Paris 1879, 19,5x28,8cm, 580pp., relié.

First illustrated edition of 5 chromolithographies, a color card, all pages in a wide framing engraved with marine scenes, landscape, monument ... The effect of these frames is quite extraordinary when in addition there considers that it is renewed every page.
Editor Cardboard half red shagreen

600 €

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Henry HAVARD

Amsterdam et Venise

Plon et Cie, Paris 1877, In-4 (20x28,7cm), 636pp., relié.

Second edition statement; reprint of the original published in 1876. It is illustrated with 7 etchings (of china laminated on strong vellum) by Leopold Flammeng and 124 woodcuts in-text. Printing on fine white vellum.
Full binding vintage brown morocco signed H. Brenkens. spine ornate nerves, [...]

450 €

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ANONYME

Paris et ses modes. Nouvel almanach rédigé par le Caprice

Chez Louis Janet, AParis 1821, In-24 (7,5x12cm), relié.

Paris et ses modes. Nouvel almanach rédigé par le Caprice

Chez Louis Janet | à Paris 1821 | 7.5 x 12 cm | publisher's binding
Rare first edition, illustrated with a vignette and 5 plates, all coloured by hand.
Pale pink publisher's boards, in a slipcase. Spine and [...]

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William SHAKESPEARE & Amédée PICHOT

Galerie des personnages de Shakespeare

Baudry, librairie européenne, Paris 1849, grand in 8 (26x17cm), relié.

First edition illustrated with 80 out text. Each piece has an engraving on steel and wood. The names on the engravings are Geofffroy, Verdeil, Rouargue, Harvey, but most beautiful steels and fine, the often wild imagination, are not signed.
Blue Cardboard editor in full percaline with golden [...]

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Théophile Marion DUMERSAN & COLLET

Chants et chansons populaires de la France

Garnier frères, Paris 1848, 3 tomes en 3 Vol. Grd. in 8 (18x28,5cm), relié.

Second edition with a new Garnier increased milling after the first among Delloye in 1843, in 125 deliveries including a 4-leaf form, the score and four double-sided pages of steel engravings (extraordinary compositions surrounding the text of the song) besides three headpieces. Illustration [...]

900 €

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