The Pope comes to Paris and unleashes some very French passions.

Catholic fervour or anticlerical fever: in the land of Bossuet and Voltaire, religion is a family affair far more than an affair of state, and many a family supper threatens to be the Last, where, happily, the breaking of bread and the miracle of wine reconcile cassocked brothers with their sans-culotte cousins...

Just as the papal progress ends at Saint-Michel, archangel of all three religions of the Book, we offer you a heavenly Abrahamic selection. It would take the devil himself to keep you from finding your numinous bliss among them...

FOCUS. A masterful piece of Rocaille book-making

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An exceptional silver-mounted velvet binding on Monument à la gloire de Marie. Litanie de la Très Sainte Vierge.

A superb binding of the utmost luxury and refinement, with silver cyphers.

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Charles DICKENS
The Posthumous Papers
of the Pickwick Club
Chapman and Hal ◊ London 1837

First edition in book form of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, published in London by Chapman and Hall in 1837, following its appearance in monthly parts beginning in March 1836.

Dickens’s first novel illustratred with forty-three engraved plates.

Lewis CARROLL
Harry FURNISS
Sylvie and Bruno
Macmillan and Co ◊ London 1889

First edition with 46 illustrations by Harry Furniss.
Publisher's binding over flexible paper boards, discreet and light repairs on the
joints, all edges gilt.

Autograph inscription dated and signed by Lewis Carroll to Mrs Cole.

FINE TRAVEL NARRATIVE ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY JACK LONDON

Jack LONDON

The Cruise of the Snark

The Macmillan Company ◊ New York 1911

First edition of this travel narrative, illustrated with reproductions of photographs taken by Jack London during his voyage, one of which, in colour, serves as frontispiece.

A copy of the first printing.

Jules VERNE

Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers

Hetzel ◊ Paris [1905-1910]

New edition, illustrated with 111 drawings by de Neuville and Riou, engraved by Hildibrand. Four plates in chromolithography, the others in bla*ck; two of the four show only traces of colour.

Publisher's cartonnage ‘one elephant, title in the fan’, signed Engel at the foot of the plate, lighthouse spine, lower board of Jauzac's type ‘I’.

André SUARÈS à Ventura GARCÍA CALDERÓN

La Nation contre la race

Émile-Paul frères ◊ Paris 1916-1917

First edition, in two volumes, from the series Commentaires sur la guerre des Boches. Both volumes are numbered copies on Arches laid paper, from the deluxe issue.

Dated autograph inscription, signed ‘S.’, from André Suarès to Ventura García Calderón on the front free endpaper.

THE UNEXPURGATED FIRST EDITION OF THE NOVEL THAT LED TO THREE LAWSUITS AGAINST SIMENON

Georges SIMENON

Pedigree

Les Presses de la Cité ◊ Paris 1948

First edition, one of 200 numbered copies on vélin alfama du Marais paper, the only large-paper copies.

A fine copy, complete with its dust jacket.

A rare deluxe copy of this autobiographical novel. 

Marcel JOUHANDEAU to André MALRAUX

Requiem... et lux

Gallimard ◊ Paris 1940

First edition, one of the press copies.

Important signed autograph inscription from Marcel Jouhandeau to André Malraux: "Pour André Malraux avec mon souvenir affectueux. Marcel Jouhandeau."

Denis DIDEROT 

Jacques le Fataliste et son maître

Gueffier jeune • Knapen fils ◊ Paris An cinquième (1797)

First duodecimo edition, and the very first to include three engraved frontispieces. The text is preceded by a tribute to Diderot from Jacques-Henri Meister, a close friend of the author, who succeeded Grimm as editor of the Correspondance littéraire.

Contemporary bindings of full mottled sheep. A pleasing copy.

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