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Terre des hommes

Antoine de SAINT-EXUPERY

Terre des hommes

10 000 €

Vipère au poing

Hervé BAZIN

Vipère au poing

7 000 €

De nos oiseaux

Tristan TZARA

De nos oiseaux

7 500 €

La condition humaine

André MALRAUX

La condition humaine

6 800 €

Manuscrit illustré de dessins originaux et composé de deux parties 'La Porcelaine de Chine' et 'Le Bronze chinois'

ANONYME

Manuscrit illustré de dessins originaux et [...]

2 500 €







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Histoire d'un géant, écrite par un nain

Histoire d'un géant, écrite par un nain

Chez Barba, à Paris [1802], 10,3x17,7cm, 307pp., relié.


Chez Barba | à Paris [1802] | 10,3 x 17,7 cm | 307 pp. | Half calf
Rare first edition published anonymously.
With a frontispiece “Je n'ai jamais vu un aussi petit homme” engraved by Benoist after Claude-Louis Desrais.
Half brown calf binding, smooth spine slightly sunned and ruled in gilt, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns in caillouté paper, contemporary binding.
A rare copy of this satyrical and erotic novel about the love adventures of a dwarf and a giant. Despite their rivalry, the dwarf remedies the giant's impotence by hiding in his breeches, and together they take revenge on a cruel marquise.
We have found only four copies in public collections (National Library of France, British Library, Library of Château d'Oron, Switzerland, and National Library of Hungary).
Not included in the Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes.

1 500 €

Réf : 85150

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