Jean PASSERAT

Kalendae Januariae, & Varia quaedam Poëmatia [Ensemble] De caecitate oratio [Ensemble] ...

Mamert Patisson, Lutetiae (Paris) 1603, Pet. in-8 (10x15,2cm), (2f.) 77ff. (2f.) ; 12ff. ; 13ff. ; (2f.) 44ff., 4 parties en un volume relié.

Rare meeting four older editions of Jean Passerat.
Binding full brown calf galcé eighteenth. Backpacks ornate nerves. As an exhibit in brown morocco. Mors finely restored. Lace on cuts. Beautiful copy.

2 000 €

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Salomon GESSNER

Oeuvres

Chez Dufart [S.d.] 1797, in-8 (12x20,5cm), 2 volumes reliés.

New edition, illustrated with two engraved titles, a portrait 9 figures in Volume I and Volume II at 15 or 27 prints by Monnet, Marillier, Giraud, engraved by Letellier, Dupré. The same issue features in the Oxford catalogs contains only 18 figures.
Glossy full calf binding vintage green and [...]

400 €

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Nicolas BOILEAU DESPREAUX

Oeuvres poétiques suivies d'oeuvres en prose, publiées avec notes et variantes par P. Chéron

Chez Jouaust, Librairie des Bibliophiles, Paris 1876, 11x18cm, 2 volumes reliés.

New edition, one of 500 numbered copies on Holland paper.
Binders half morocco pine green with corners, back with five nerves decorated with nets and coffered cold embellished with gold floral patterns, tail golden dates, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, heads [...]

100 €

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First edition

SAINT-JOHN PERSE

Oiseaux

Gallimard, Paris 1963, 19,5x26,5cm, broché.

First edition, one of 35 numbered copies on vélin de Hollande, the only large paper copies.
A very fine copy, as issued.

600 €

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Mathurin REGNIER

Satyres et autres oeuvres

Chez Jacob Tonson, à Londres 1733, grand in-4 (22x28,5cm), (1f. fr.) xx ; 4166pp. (2f. tab.), relié.

New edition, decorated with a frontispiece engraved by L. Cars after C. Natoire, headbands, tail-lamp and initials engraved by Nicolas Cochin and L. Cars from Natoire and Bouché.
The text is written in a beautiful red border.
Contemporary binding in full fair calf chipped. Back with five [...]

400 €

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First edition

Auguste BARBIER

Iambes

Urbain Canel et Ad. Guyot, Paris 1832, 12,5x19,5cm, relié.

first edition. Two non poems reprinted in the following edition.
Contemporary binding in full brown shagreen, back with five nerves decorated with gilded boxes and nets, triple net gilded framing the boards, gilded lace coaching paper contreplats to the tank, all edges gilt.

200 €

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Ponce Denis LE BRUN

Oeuvres choisies de Lebrun

Janet et Cotelle, Paris 1830, 13x20,5cm, relié.

Edition ornamented frontispiece, a portrait of the author by Devéria engraved by Dequevaullier.
Contemporary binding in full calf eggplant, smooth back ornate gilded rococo irons, triple net gilded and cold stamped lace framing the boards, small florets spandrels, large plate with a framed [...]

400 €

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First edition, Signed book

Léon LAURENT-PICHAT & Henri CHEVREAU

Libres paroles

Comptoir des imprimeurs-unis, Paris 1847, 15x24cm, relié.

Edition originale imprimée à petit nombre.
Reliure de l'époque en plein chagrin émeraude, dos à quatre nerfs orné de filets et caissons dorés et à froid, triple encadrement de filets dorés et à froid en encadrement des plats, triple filet doré en encadrement des contreplats de tissu [...]

200 €

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