Cologne

First edition of the German translation by Eveline Passet, published a year after the original French edition.

Publisher's boards, copy complete with its illustrated dust jacket, which bears a tear repaired with adhesive tape.

Autograph inscription signed by Daniel Pennac to his close friend Franklin [Rist], enhanced with an original drawing in black felt-tip pen depicting a little man brandishing an axe and shouting "Rends-moi mon livre, Franklin" [Give my book back to me!" at another, who replies "Niemals !" [Never!] D. Pennac.

An amusing inscription in a volume from the celebrated Malaussène saga.

First edition of Breviarum studiosorum, Prague and Nuremberg, Johann Fridriech Rutiger, 1744 [with] New edition of De arte rhetorica. Cologne, Wilhelm Metternich, 1723 [with] Ars rhetorica. Cologne, Wilhelm Metternich, 1725. New edition.

Contemporary German binding in full blonde sheep. Smooth spine richly decorated and unlettered. Boards entirely covered with rococo ornaments forming a decorative composition. Edges gilt. Traces of ties. Lacking at one tie location. Tail slightly and partially worn. 3 corners bumped.

Rich rococo prize binding with very fine arms on the...

Edition not recorded by Leclerc, Rodriquez or Borba de Moraes (cf. Sabin 43770; Cordier, Bibl. Japonica 62-63, and Bibl. Sinica 782).

Some occasional light foxing; minor worming affecting the index leaves at the end of the volume.

Modern Bradel binding in half vellum, smooth spine with red morocco label, marbled paper-covered boards.

A work of major significance for the history of Jesuit missions in the Americas, India, China, and Japan.

Duodecimo edition, published in the same year as the first edition, setting out a key episode in the Chinese Rites Controversy, a dispute still ongoing at the time of publication, pitting the Jesuits against the Franciscans and Dominicans.

Contemporary mottled brown sheep, spine with five raised bands and gilt compartments, gilt board edges, red mottled edges. Two early ownership inscriptions, the first on the upper pastedown and the second on the title page, both in brown ink.

Sphere edition, from the Elzevier press. The meaning of the word Maximes is quite removed from the modern sense, it is more closely linked to what governs the interests of Princes, and by which precisely they are bound. The book forms a history of international relations, studying the interests that each nation has over another: France over Flanders, the Holy Empire over France, Denmark over... It is certain that these interests are of a historical, genealogical order... The work by Courtilz de Sandras is an imitation in form of the work by the Duke of Rohan which had appeared previously under the title: Intérêts et maximes des princes et des estats souverains; his book tends to...

First edition of this brochure of the Serge Poliakoff exhibition, of which 300 copies were printed. The exhibition was held at the Der Spiegel gallery in Cologne in 1964.
Work illustrated with two separate original engravings by Serge Poliakoff, including one double-page spread.
Texts by Hans Arp and Albert Schulze Vellinghausen.
Wrappers and spine slightly discolored at the margins, otherwise an attractive copy.
Provenance: from the library of the art publisher and collector Alex Grall, with his stamp printed as an ex-libris.

First edition, with a frontispiece signed L.F.D.B. Title page in red and black.
Full marbled brown sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with acorn tools framed by foliage. Red morocco title label. One lack at head. One tear with loss at tail. Corners slightly bumped. Lacking the 2 marbled endpapers at the beginning of the work.
A Turk is sent by his sovereign to the principal courts of Europe to bear witness. The narrator begins his journey through Russia, Moscow and Saint Petersburg, then passes through Poland, finally to Vienna... The letters deal with varied subjects, European affairs, the power of Austria, French affairs, opinions on eunuchs, Amsterdam and the East India...