First edition

Henry Rider HAGGARD

Découverte des mines du roi Salomon

Hetzel, Paris 1889, In-8 (16,5x24,5cm), 260pp., relié.

First french edition published in the library of education and recreation of Hetzel. Translation and adaptation by G. Lemaire. Preface and afterword by Bentzon. EK catalog in fine.
Publisher binder in half red shagreen signed Lenègre tail. Back with false nerves decorated with gilded and cold [...]

650 €

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First edition

Charles DICKENS

Little Dorrit

Bradbury and Evans, London 1857, Fort in-8 (14x21,7cm), xiv, 625pp., relié.

First edition illustrated by HK Browne of a frontispiece, a title engraved with a vignette and 37 boards
Binding half glazed black glazed vintage. Back with false nerves decorated with nets. title label of burgundy veal. boards of percaline binds wine. A slight and small lack in mind. Traces of [...]

1 200 €

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Charles DICKENS

Sketches by Boz : illustrative of every-day life, and every-day people

John Macrone, London 1837, In-8 (12x19,3cm), 307pp. et 302pp., 2 volumes reliés.

Collected original first edition bringing together for the first time the first part and the second part which were previously published in the course of the year 1837. Impression on vellum tinted.
English binding of the late nineteenth in full blond calf. Back with nerves adorned with boxes. [...]

1 600 €

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First edition, Signed book

Herbert George WELLS

War and the future. Italy, France, Britain at war

Cassell and Company, LondonNew YorkTorontoMelbourne 1917, 13,5x20,5cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

War and the Future. Italy, France, Britain at War

Second issue, printed in March-April 1917, one month after the first edition published in February of the same [...]

4 500 €

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First edition

Charles DICKENS

The posthumous papers of the Pickwick club

Chapman and Hall, London 1837, Fort in-8 (13,5x21,3cm), xiv (2) 44Pl. 609pp., relié.

First edition
Binding full black contemporary sheepskin. Smooth back decorated with 3 cold irons, a gold iron and multiple wheels. Double framing net on els boards. A hitch in mind. Very rubbed together with stripes on the boards. 2 corners trimmed, the other 2 blunted. The errata sheet, the [...]

500 €

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First edition

Georgiana FULLERTON

Ellen Middleton

Librairie d'Amyot, Paris 1845, 13,5x21,5cm, 2 volumes reliés.

First edition of the French translation.
Bindings in half green calf, back with five nerves slightly thinned decorated with gilded and black nets, small traces of rubbing on the backs, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, binders of the [...]

80 €

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Clara REEVE

The Old English Baron : a gothic story

Printed for Charles Dilly, London 1780, In-8 (10,5x17,5cm), viii, 232pp., relié.

Second edition, rare. A frontispiece by Hamilton. The first edition dates from 1778.
English binding in full brown sheepskin flamed. Smooth back decorated with foliage. Title piece in red morocco. Frieze framing on the boards. 3 blunt corners.
After Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto [...]

900 €

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First edition

Angelo GATTI

Ilia et Albert

Les éditions Rieder, Paris 1934, 12,5x18,5cm, broché.

First edition of the French translation, one of 13 copies numbered on "pur-fil" paper, only leading copies.
Guards very slightly and partially shaded without any gravity.
Nice copy.

100 €

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