Pierre BRUNET
L'introduction des théories de Newton en France avant 1738
Slatkine reprints|Genève [Geneva] 1970|15.50 x 23 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
New edition.
Publisher's dark green paper boards sapin.
A very good copy.
€40
Roger de QUIRIELLE
Bio-bibliographie des écrivains anciens du Bourbonnais
La roue à livres|Genève [Geneva] 1974|15 x 22.50 cm|broché
New edition.
Illustrated with figures hors texte.
A good and rare copy.
€80
Chansons choisies, avec les airs notés
S. n.|Genève [Geneva] • [Lyon] 1782|6.50 x 12.30 cm|relié
Lyon edition of this famous songbook.
Scores at the end of each volume. 48 pages of scores in volume 1, 48 in volume 2, 38 in volume 3, 40 in volume 4.
Publisher's bindings, full contemporary red morocco. Spine with motifs in gilt. Red morocco title labels. Gilt tooling on the covers. Spines slightly faded.
A very fine copy.
Most of Volume I includes erotic and anacreontic songs. Volume II: chansons pastorales et poissardes, volume III: sujets particuliers et vaudevilles, volume IV: chansons libres et joyeuses.
€950
Paul-Jean TOULET, Francis CARCO
L'éventail revue de littérature et d'art N°11
L'éventail|Genève [Geneva] 15 Novembre 1918|19 x 23.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Contributions by Paul-Jean Toulet "Quatrains et distiques" then "Contrerimes", Francis Carco "Les veillées du Lapin Agile", Louis Thomas...
Issue illustrated with drawings by Félix Appenzeller and William Muller and reproductions of works by Raoul Dufy, Maurice de Vlaminck, Ossip Zadkine, Henry de Waroquier.
Handsome copy.
€70
André MALRAUX
Goya
Skira|Genève [Geneva] 1947|22.50 x 28.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 200 numbered copies on pur fil, tirage de tête.
Illustrated with 195 heliogravures, a very good copy retaining its dustjacket.
€400
Pierre DU MOULIN
Du Juge Des Controverses: Traitte Auquel Est Defendue L'Authorite Et La Perfection de La Saincte Escriture. [Ensemble] Des traditions et de la perfection et suffisance de l'ecriture saincte qui est le quatrième traicté des Juges des controverses
Chez Pierre Aubert|Genève [Geneva] 1631-1632|9.50 x 16.50 cm|relié
First edition, quite rare.
Contemporary full vellum binding. Smooth spine. Title in faded black pen. Browning and stains on the vellum. Title page detached. Marginal dampstains on the last 10 leaves, and on the first ones in the middle of the work. Trimmed close at right margin.
A leading figure among Protestant orators, like Charles Drelincourt, this pastor of the Reformed Church of Paris was among the most skilled controversialists, mixing eloquence and violent diatribes. The author criticizes the Roman Catholic position and replaces Scripture as the sovereign judge of controversies, not the pope or the church. This is a book on the controversy of Holy Scripture, between the...
€500
Le petit chansonnier françois, ou choix des meilleurs chansons sur des airs connus
S. n.|à Genève [Geneva] 1778|10 x 17 cm|relié
First edition. One frontispiece.

Contemporary full blonde sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated, red morocco title-label. Headcap worn. One hole at foot. 2 corners slightly bumped. Rubbing.

€250
Gabriel Bonnot Abbé de MABLY
Observations sur l'histoire de la Grèce
par La Compagnie des libraires|à Genève [Geneva] 1766|9.50 x 17 cm|relié
First edition.
Contemporary glazed purple calf binding. Spine with raised bands decorated. Red morocco title label. Triple fillet frame on covers. Beginning of crack to lower joint at head. A slight lack to headcap. Handsome copy despite the noted defects.
These reflections on the customs and government of the Greeks is in fact an enlargement and deepening of a book published earlier (1749): Observations on the Greeks. Mably thus justifies this updated work in his preface: "Il m'arrive souvent aujourd'hui de louer ce que j'ai blâmé dans mes premières Observations, & de blâmer les mêmes choses que j'ai louées; c'est qu'il y a eu un temps où je regardois de certaines maximes sur la...
€300
Charles BONNET
La palingénésie philosophique ou Idées sur l'état passé et sur l'état futur des êtres vivants.
Chez Claude Philibert • et Barthelemi Chirol|à Genève [Geneva] 1769|11.50 x 20 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition, quite rare; a counterfeit edition appeared on the same date in Amsterdam.

Contemporary full glazed and marbled blonde calf binding. Decorated smooth spines. Red morocco title and volume labels. A small lack at head of volume I. Five corners slightly bumped. Rubbing. Good copy.

Without doubt Bonnet's most ambitious and remarkable study which earned him the designation of father of modern biology. This work of theoretical biology drawing its source from multi-disciplinary reflection and its postulate from Leibniz (the immortality of the soul) claims that the Earth periodically suffers universal catastrophes which destroy almost all life and that...
€900
[VOLTAIRE] [Pierre-Louis-Claude GIN]
Prix de la justice et de l'humanité. [Ensemble] Les vrais principes du gouvernement françois, démontrés par la Raison et par les Faits, par un François
S. n.|Genève [Geneva] 1777|12 x 20 cm|relié
Both rare first editions.
Contemporary full mottled calf binding. Smooth spine with 4 tools. Red morocco title and volume labels. Triple fillet frame on covers. Small lack at head. Lack to upper joint at head. Upper joint cracked at foot. Light lack at foot. Rubbing.
Gin's work is first a defense of monarchical power (as the natural form of government) against the theories of Montesquieu and those of Mably, but beyond this starting postulate, the whole is remarkable for its economic reflections, Gin making agriculture and industry the pillars of economic health. The author strives through history and examples borrowed from various nations like China to prove his theories...
€1,400
Charles Joseph, Prince de LIGNE
Lettres et pensées du maréchal prince de Ligne, publiées par Mad. La Baronne de Staël Holstein
Chez J. J. Paschoud|à Genève [Geneva] 1809|12 x 20.50 cm|relié
New edition with the date of the original. Statement of second edition. This edition, from the same publisher as the first, has the same collation.
Contemporary half brown sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with roulettes and dotted crosses. Brown calf title-label. A tear with loss to the upper joint, at the head.
Publication due to Madame de Stael. She herself made a particularly judicious selection and choice among the mass of military and literary documents of Marshal de Ligne. The correspondence, thus carefully selected, reveals the intimacy of a personality within European affairs. The work concludes with a collection of maxims and various thoughts.

NB...
€200
David MORIAUD
Poésies
Kundig|Genève [Geneva] s. d. [1899]|17.50 x 28.50 cm|relié
First edition, one of 10 numbered copies on Holland paper, from the deluxe edition.
Half burgundy Russian morocco binding with corners, smooth spine decorated with two double gilt compartments richly adorned with gilt decorative motifs, date at foot, gilt fillet frames on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers marginally faded and spine preserved, bookplate pasted on an endpaper, elegant pastiche binding signed Semet & Plumelle.
With a frontispiece portrait of the author.
A very fine and rare full-margined copy in perfect condition.
Provenance: from Albert Natural's collection of Swiss Romandy poets, which he assembled from the 1920s onwards.
€500
Jules COUGNARD
La porte verte et De Noël à Pâques
A. Jullien|Genève [Geneva] 1929|14.50 x 19 cm|relié
First edition, one of 5 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe copy.
Half mint green morocco with corners, spine with five raised bands set with gilt fillets and decorated with triple gilt compartments, date at foot, gilt fillet frames on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, bookplate pasted on endpaper, top edge gilt, elegant binding signed by Semet & Plumelle.
Rare and very handsome copy in perfect condition.
Provenance: from Albert Natural's collection of French Swiss poets which he assembled from the nineteen twenties.
€350
Philippe MONNIER
Rimes d'écolier
A. Cherbuliez • G. Fischbacher|Genève [Geneva] • & Paris 1891|9.50 x 16.50 cm|relié
First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Half rust-colored morocco with corners, spine with five raised bands set with gilt fillets and decorated with triple gilt compartments, date at foot, gilt fillet frames on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine with small lacks preserved, bookplate pasted on endpaper, top edge gilt, elegant binding signed by Semet & Plumelle.
Rare and very handsome copy in perfect condition.
Provenance: from Albert Natural's collection of French Swiss poets which he assembled from the nineteen twenties.
€250
Georges FAVON
Les pervenches
A. Vérésoff|Genève [Geneva] 1876|13 x 19.50 cm|relié
First edition of which there were no deluxe copies.
Half violet morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands set with gilt fillets and decorated with triple gilt compartments, date at foot, gilt fillet frames on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, bookplate pasted on endpaper, top edge gilt, elegant binding signed by Semet & Plumelle.
Our copy is enriched with the author's autograph poem entitled "Invité de Longfellow" ["Guest of Longfellow"] of two pages which appears in this collection bound at the beginning of the volume, and bound at the end, with two manuscript pages by the author and an original pen...
€450
Jules VUY
Nouveaux échos des bords de l'Arve
S. n.|Genève [Geneva] 1878|12.50 x 19 cm|relié
First edition not put into commerce, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Half mouse-colored morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands set with gilt fillets decorated with triple gilt compartments, date at foot, gilt fillet frames on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, bookplate pasted on endpaper, top edge gilt, elegant binding signed by Semet & Plumelle.
Autograph signature of the author.
Rare and very handsome copy perfectly established.
Provenance: from the collection of Swiss Romand poets by Albert Natural which he formed from the nineteen twenties.
€200
Henry SPIESS
Attendre
A. Jullien|Genève [Geneva] 1916|12 x 19 cm|relié
First edition, one of 10 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe copy.
Half chocolate morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands set with gilt fillets decorated with triple gilt compartments, gilt fillet frames on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, elegant binding signed Semet & Plumelle.
Rare and very handsome copy perfectly bound.
Provenance: from Albert Natural's collection of Swiss Romand poets which he assembled from the twenties onwards.
€350
Auguste BLONDEL
Fleurs de légende
C. Eggimann|Genève [Geneva] 1893|17.50 x 22 cm|relié
First edition, one of 300 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies along with 1 on vellum and 5 on Holland paper.
Half red morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands set with gilt fillets decorated with triple gilt compartments, gilt fillets framing the marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, elegant binding signed by Semet & Plumelle.
Inscribed by Auguste Blondel to Frédéric Meyer.
Rare and very fine copy perfectly established.
Provenance: from the collection of Swiss Romandy poets assembled by Albert Natural starting in the twenties.
€300
Albert RICHARD
Poésies
Vianey|Genève [Geneva] 1851|15.50 x 24 cm|relié
First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Half khaki Russia morocco binding with corners, smooth spine slightly faded decorated with gilt romantic ornamental motifs, date at foot, gilt fillet frames on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, bookplate pasted on endpaper, top edge gilt, elegant romantic pastiche binding signed by Semet & Plumelle.
Rare and very handsome copy in perfect condition.
Provenance: from Albert Natural's collection of Swiss Romandy poets which he formed from the twenties onwards.
€480
John PETIT-SENN
Poésies. - Prose
A. Jullien|Genève [Geneva] 1851|14.50 x 23 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Half burgundy Russia morocco binding with corners, smooth spine decorated with gilt romantic ornamental motifs, date at foot, gilt fillet frames on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, bookplate pasted on endpaper, top edge gilt, elegant romantic pastiche binding signed by Semet & Plumelle.
Rare and very handsome copy in perfect condition.
Provenance: from Albert Natural's collection of Swiss Romandy poets which he formed from the twenties onwards.
€680
John PETIT-SENN
La miliciade
Imp. Soullier|Genève [Geneva] 1867|13 x 19.50 cm|relié
Illustrated edition published with the author's authorization.
Bradel binding in half chocolate cloth, smooth spine, marbled paper boards, original wrappers preserved.
Illustrations.
Ink gift inscription at head of front cover, copy free from any foxing.
Provenance: from Albert Natural's collection of French-speaking Swiss poets which he formed from the 1920s onwards.
€120
Jean-Charles-François LE GROS
Analyse et examen de l'Antiquité dévoilée, du despotisme oriental, & du christianisme dévoilé, ouvrages posthumes de Boullanger, par un solitaire
chez la veuve Duchesne • Chez Barde Manget|à Genève [Geneva] • & à Paris 1788|14 x 21 cm|broché
First edition.
In original wrappers, under period pink paper. Modern cream paper spine. Handwritten title. Upper joint cracked for 10 cm.
L'antiquité dévoilée is a book by Baron d'Holbach based on manuscript notes by Boulanger, not counting the important reworking that d'Holbach made to the notes, developing their anti-religious spirit. The work had a strong impact at the end of the 18th century, it aimed to prove that among all peoples of the earth, the population had been kept under the yoke of superstition and terror inspired by the different religions of the world. The author methodically proposes the analysis and examination of the theses and ideas developed by d'Holbach. He...
€300
Friderici HOFFMANNI
Opera omnia Physico-Medica in sex tomos distributa, quibus continentur doctrinae solidis principis Physico-Mechanicis, & anatomicis, atque etiam observationibus clinico-practicis superstructurae. Supplementum primum. Supplementum secundum
apud fratres de Tournes|Geneva 1761|35.9 x 23 cm|6 tomes reliés en 3 volumes et 5 parties reliées en 3 volumes
New edition. The original was published in 1740, without the supplements. The Supplementum primum is dated 1754 and the secundum 1760. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait, title vignettes, one plate in the first part of the Supplementum secundum and a second plate in the third part. The Supplementum parts have separate title pages.

Contemporary full brown calf bindings. Decorated spines with raised bands. Red morocco title labels and volume labels. Title label of volume III partly lacking. Lower headcap of the Supplementum primum worn and upper headcap likewise. Frontispiece detached.

The work forms an...
€1,800
Benjamin CONSTANT DE REBECQUE, SCHILLER
Wallstein, tragédie en cinq actes et en vers, précédée de quelques réflexions sur le théatre allemand et suivie de notes historiques
J.J. Paschoud|Genève [Geneva] 1809|13.50 x 20.50 cm|relié
First edition of this adaptation of Schiller's drama and its important preface established by Benjamin Constant.
Half hazel sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets slightly faded at foot, speckled edges, tiny wormhole at foot of one hinge.
Dampstain to head of final leaves, otherwise a handsome copy.
€400
Francis CARCO
La danse des morts comme l'a décrite François Villon
Editions du milieu du monde|Genève [Geneva] 1944|14.50 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Precious autograph inscription from Francis Carco to his friend the Montmartre painter J.G. Daragnès, with the latter's bookplate pasted to the verso of the front cover.
Work illustrated with reproductions of medieval woodcuts.
A fragile tear at the head of the half-title page where the inscription appears.
€350
Arthur RIMBAUD
Lettre au Baron de Petdechèvre à son secrétaire au château de Saint-Magloire
Pierre Cailler|Genève [Geneva] 1949|13 x 19.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the tirage de tête.
With two unpublished drawings.
[This text is not attributed to Rimbaud by everybody]
€230
J.A. VISSAC
De la poésie latine en France au siècle de Louis XIV
Slatkine reprints|Genève [Geneva] 1971|13 x 21.50 cm|relié
Reprint conforming to the first edition.
Bradel binding in full navy blue cloth. Handsome copy.
€70
René KAECH
Veuves et veufs, monologues
Pierre Gentil|Genève [Geneva] 1966|15.50 x 22 cm|broché
First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on bouffant paper, the only deluxe copies with 10 on pur chiffon.
Charming autograph inscription from René Kaech to Georges Simenon.
Handsome copy complete with its dust jacket.
€100
ANONYME
Le jargon ou langage de l'argot réformé comme il est à présent en usage parmi les bons pauvres tiré & recueilli des plus fameux Argotiers de ce temps
Slatkine reprints|Genève [Geneva] 1968|13.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
Reprint conforming to the first edition.
Delicious collection 'composed by a tavern regular who disguises himself as a beggar in the Vergne of Tours'.
Handsome and rare copy.
€50
Armand GODOY
De vêpres à matines
Egloff|Genève [Geneva] 1944|14 x 19.50 cm|relié
First edition, one of 10 numbered copies on Rives paper, ours specially printed for the author.
Half mint shagreen binding with corners, spine in five compartments with a scratch at foot, date at tail, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed by Kustner.
€80
Jean-Bernard BOUVIER
Alexandre Cingria, Peintre, mosaïste et verrier
Edition du Mont-Blanc|Genève [Geneva] 1944|27 x 33 cm|Un Vol. broché, couverture rempliée
One of 950 copies on swiss thick paper, after 100 deluxe copies.
Study of the work and census, illustrated with fine photographic plates.
Dedication on frontispiece: "La république de Genève reconnaissante à son grand artiste Alexandre Cingria."
Lower cover detached and reinforced. Very good condition.

NB: This work is available at the bookstore upon request within 48 hours.
€200
Blaise CENDRARS
Vol à voiles
Payot & Cie|Lausanne • & Genève [Geneva] 1932|14 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 500 numbered copies on alfa, the only printing with 35 Hollande.
A very good copy.
€400
Jean DAILLÉ
De la creance des peres sur le fait des images
Chez Jean de Tournes|à Genève [Geneva] 1641|17.50 x 11.50 cm|relié
First edition. Relatively rare. The Latin edition would appear the following year.
Half glazed aubergine sheep binding, 19th century. Smooth spine with fillets slightly lightened and rubbed.
Interesting work by Jean Daillé on the status of the image within Christianity, its history among the church fathers during the first centuries, the pros and cons of the dissension that animated the church during a great part of its history.

NB: This work is available at the bookshop on request within 48 hours.
€700
Antoine DE LA SALLE
Méchanique Morale, ou Essai sur l'Art de Perfectionner et d'Employer ses Organes, Propres, Acquis et Conquis
S. n.|à Genève [Geneva] • [Auxerre] 1789|13 x 20 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition. Rare.

Contemporary full calf bindings. Smooth spines with gilt fillets. Red and black morocco title and volume labels. Gilt fillet borders on covers. All edges gilt. Some rubbing.

Antoine de La Salle (1754-1829), philosopher and scientist, was certainly one of the most curious thinkers of his time; his ideas, sometimes whimsical and muddled, made him the leader of the physico-moral school. Physiognomy naturally plays an important part in this theory. La Mechanique is both a classical treatise on physiognomy and a new way of considering the relationship between morals and the body from an educational perspective. Beyond this...
€900
Germain NOUVEAU
Le calepin du mendiant
P. Cailler|Genève [Geneva] 1949|13 x 19.50 cm|broché
First Edition, one of 120 numbered copies on Chapel, head print after 30 "pur-fil" paper.
Very nice copy.
€150
Rodolphe TÖPFFER
Le presbytère
Chez tous les libraires|Genève [Geneva] 1832|14.50 x 22 cm|broché
First edition.
With a frontispiece vignette.
Two small lacks to head and foot of spine, scattered foxing.
Rare.
€280
Charles-Victor de BONSTETTEN
Recherches sur la nature et les lois de l'imagination
J.J. Paschoud|Genève [Geneva] 1807|12.50 x 20.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition.
Half caramel calf with corners, smooth spine richly decorated with gilt and blind fillets, blind typographical motifs, marbled edges, near-contemporary binding.
Two faint dampstains without consequence affecting the first 15 pages of volume one and pages 13 to 63 of volume two, otherwise handsome interior condition.
An elegantly bound copy.
€500
Jean DUBUFFET, Michel THÉVOZ
L'art brut[Art Brut]
Skira|Geneva 1975|27.5 x 25 cm|Reliure de l'éditeur
First edition, profusely illustrated.

Publisher’s full black cloth binding, smooth spine, a fine copy complete with its illustrated dust jacket.
Our copy bears a dated and signed presentation inscription from Jean Dubuffet to Robert Dauchez, to whom he offered this work: "Jean Dubuffet adresse son amical salut à Robert Dauchez. Paris, nov 1975."

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the only truly anti-war journal of the First World War
the only truly anti-war journal of the First World War
Romain ROLLAND, Jean JAURÈS
[PACIFISME] Demain N°4 de la Première année - 15 avril 1916[PACIFISM] Demain No. 4 of the First Year - April, 15 1916]
J.H. Jeheber|Geneva 1916|14.3 x 23 cm|Broché
First edition of this issue of the pacifist journal founded by the socialist and anarchist activist Henri Guilbeaux.

Includes contributions by Romain Rolland, “La vérité dans le théâtre de Shakespeare”, Jean Jaurès, “Les causes de la guerre”, Gustave Dupin, “La guerre infernale”, Élie Reclus, “Lettre à Élisée Reclus”, and H. M. Swanwick, “Les femmes et la guerre” (conclusion)...

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"Thus for twelve to twenty months there was no journal in the world more interesting or more independent."
"Thus for twelve to twenty months there was no journal in the world more interesting or more independent."
Henri GUILBEAUX, Frans MASEREEL
[PACIFISME] Demain N°10 de la Première année - Octobre 1916[PACIFISM] Demain No. 10 of the First Year - October, 1916]
J.H. Jeheber|Geneva 1916|14.3 x 23 cm|Broché
First edition of this issue of the pacifist review founded by the socialist and anarchist activist Henri Guilbeaux.

Contributions by Henri Guilbeaux "Propos actuels (Pacifistes - Historiens et journalistes - Minorités)", Marcel Martinet "Tu vas te battre !", Selma Lagerlöf "Le brouillard"...

Issue illustrated with a woodcut by Frans Masereel entitled "Demain".
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Henri GUILBEAUX
[PACIFISME] Demain N°3 de la Première année - 15 Mars 1916[PACIFISM] Demain No. 10 of the First Year - March, 15 1916]
J.H. Jeheber|Geneva 1916|14.3 x 23 cm|Broché
First edition of this issue of the pacifist journal founded by the socialist and anarchist activist Henri Guilbeaux.

Contributions by Henri Guilbeaux "A quelques pharisiens" and "La diplomatie secrète", Jean Debrit "Une réforme de la presse ?", L. de Wiskovatoff "Lettre à M. d'Annunzio" and "Lettres aux journalistes", Gustave Thiesson "Le peintre Gustave Courbet en 1870-71"...
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Henri GUILBEAUX
[PACIFISME] Demain N°2 de la Première année - 15 Février 1916[PACIFISM] Demain No.2 of the First Year - February, 15 1916]
J.H. Jeheber|Geneva 1916|14.3 x 23 cm|Broché
First edition of this issue of the pacifist review founded by the socialist and anarchist activist Henri Guilbeaux.

Includes contributions by Henri Guilbeaux, “Mise au point nécessaire” and “Ernst Sieper”; Gonzague de Reynold, “La neutralité suisse et notre mission internationale”; A. M. Gossez, “Deuils?”; and Leo Tolstoy, “Lettres inédites sur la paix” (conclusion)...
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Rose COWPER
Quatre années de séjour dans l'Afrique méridionale. Esquisses[Four Years in Southern Africa]
A. Cherbuliez|Paris • Geneva 1831|13.2 x 21.3 cm|Relié
True first edition of the French translation by J.-J. Cabanis.
Gay 197 and Bourquelot VI, 232 mention an 1832 edition from the same publisher under a different title: "Esquisses africaines." Given the identical collation, it is most likely the same 1831 edition issued under a new title.
Ink annotations at the head of the front cover, a few minor spots of foxing, and a faint waterstain along the fore-edge margin of the half-title, gradually fading on the following leaves.
Bound in modern half petrol-blue calf, smooth spine gilt-ruled in double fillets, red morocco title label, marbled paper boards, original covers preserved and mounted; binding signed by...
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Romain ROLLAND
Indignée lettre autographe datée et signée se défendant de prêter allégeance à toute organisation étrangère, même pacifiste, contrairement à ce que prétendent ses ennemis politiques de l'arrière-front : "Je ne fais partie d'aucune association étrangère, à quelque titre que ce soit..."
S. n.|Genève [Geneva] 18 Janvier 1916|11 x 18 cm|une page et demie
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Romain ROLLAND
"... Je suis sensible à cet honneur ; mais je dois vous dire que j'eusse souhaité d'en avoir reçu la demande d'autorisation. Je ne vous l'eusse certainement pas refusée ; mais il est nécessaire que l'auteur soirt prévenu à l'avance.."Autograph letter dated and signed about the potential publication, without his knowledge, of his pacifist article Au dessus de la mêlée
S. n.|Genève [Geneva] 10 Décembre 1914|21.50 x 13.50 cm|une page recto verso
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Paul MORAND
L'Europe russe annoncée par Dostoïevsky
Pierre Cailler|Genève [Geneva] 1948|12.50 x 19 cm|broché
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Mateo ALEMAN
Histoire de l'admirable Don Guzman d'Alfarache
Chez Jacques Dentand|A Genève 1695|8 x 15.50 cm|4 volumes reliés
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Guillaume Thomas RAYNAL
Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes
Chez Jean-Léonard Pellet|A Genève 1780 - 1781|12.30 x 20.20 cm|10 volumes reliés
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Louis ARAGON
Je n'ai jamais appris à écrire ou les incipit
Albert Skira|Genève [Geneva] 1969|16.50 x 22 cm|reliure de l'éditeur sous étui
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François MAURIAC
Le sagouin
La Palatine|Paris • & Genève [Geneva] 1951|12.50 x 19.50 cm|broché
Edition, un des exemplaires numérotés sur vélin blanc, le nôtre un des 75 hors commerce.
Petites déchirures sans gravité en tête et en pied du dos, agréable exemplaire.
Bel envoi autographe signé de François Mauriac à Bernard Barbey : "... ce petit singe en échange de ses grands chevaux. De tout coeur."
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René FALLET
Chromatiques - Poésie 1952-1972
Mercure de France|Genève [Geneva] 1973|15 x 21.50 cm|broché
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Pierre de LA PORTE
Memoires de M. de La Porte, premier valet de chambre de Louis XIV
S. n.|à Genève [Geneva] 1755|8 x 14.50 cm|relié
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Roland BARTHES
L'empire des signes
Albert Skira|Genève [Geneva] 1970|16.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
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François MAURIAC
Le sagouin
La Palatine|Paris • & Genève [Geneva] 1951|12.50 x 20 cm|broché
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"It is really the first founding model of an ethnologist's monograph” (Claude Lévi-Strauss)
"It is really the first founding model of an ethnologist's monograph” (Claude Lévi-Strauss)
Jean de LERY
Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Brésil, dite AmériqueHistory of a voyage to the land of Brazil, otherwise called America
Pour Jean Vignon|à Genève [Geneva] 1611|11 x 17.50 cm|relié

”And what can be said on the way Voyage is constructed? - It could not be more modern. Like the monograph of a contemporary ethnographer [...] I already said it, I repeat it: it is really the first founding model of an ethnologist's monograph” (Claude Lévi-Strauss)

Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Brésil, dite Amérique [History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, otherwise called America]
Pour Jean Vignon, à Genève 1611, 8° (11x17,5cm), (80 p.) 489 pp. (15 p.), contemporary brown calf.

Illustrated with 8 full-page engravings with the folding plate titled “Pourtrait du combat entre les sauvages...
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Georges OLTRAMARE
Les souvenirs nous vengent
Editions "L'autre son de cloche"|Genève [Geneva] 1956|12 x 19.50 cm|broché
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Wifredo LAM
Suites N°3
Galerie Krugier|Genève [Geneva] 1963|24.50 x 32.50 cm|en feuilles
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Julien GREEN
L'autre sommeil
La Palatine|Genève [Geneva] • & Paris 1950|12.50 x 19.50 cm|broché
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Catherine BREEN
La droite française et la guerre d'Espagne
Editions Médecine et hygiène|Genève [Geneva] 1973|16 x 23 cm|broché
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René FALLET
Il était un petit navire
Editions S.A.R.L.|Genève [Geneva] 1963|14.50 x 21 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
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Joan MIRO, Paul ÉLUARD
A toute épreuve
Patrick Cramer|Genève [Geneva] 1984|25 x 33 cm|broché sous chemise et étui
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Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU
Collection des Œuvres Complètes
S. n.|à Genève [Geneva] 1782|12 x 19.80 cm|21 tomes en 24 volumes reliés
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Louis ARAGON, Joan MIRÓ
Je n'ai jamais appris à écrire ou les incipit
Albert Skira|Genève [Geneva] 1969|16 x 21 cm|broché
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Francis BACON, Michel LEIRIS
L'Art de l'Impossible
Skira|Genève [Geneva] 1976|16.50 x 21.50 cm|2 volumes brochés sous étui
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Paul MORAND
Ouvert la Nuit. - Fermé la Nuit
A l'enseigne du cheval ailé|Genève [Geneva] 1946|14.50 x 20.50 cm|broché
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Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU
Oeuvres posthumes de Jean-Jacques Rousseau ou recueil de pièces manuscrites ; pour servir de supplément aux éditions publiées pendant sa vie
S. n.|à Genève [Geneva] 1781- 1782|11.50 x 20 cm|9 volumes reliés
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Pierre ALECHINSKY
Au Fil de l'Encre
Galerie Sonia Zannettacci|Genève [Geneva] 2010|21 x 25 cm|broché
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Henri DE MAN
Cavalier seul. Quarante-cinq années de socialisme européen
Les Editions du Cheval Ailé|Genève [Geneva] 1948|14 x 20 cm|broché
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André MALRAUX
Psychologie de l'art : La Monnaie de l'Absolu
Skira|Genève [Geneva] 1950|23 x 29.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
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Ponce-Denis ECOUCHARD-LEBRUN, ANONYME
La Wasprie ou L'ami Wasp [avec] Rêve d'un aristarque moderne [avec] Les Jésuitiques
Aux dépens de M. Wasp • S. n. • Aux dépens du Général|Berne [Bern] • (Paris) • Genève [Geneva] • Lyon • Rome [Rome] 1761, 1762 et 1761|9.50 x 17 cm|2 parties et 2 textes reliés en un volume
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Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE
A l'agité du bocal
Aux dépens d'un amateur|Genève [Geneva] 1978|15 x 21.50 cm|broché
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Elsa TRIOLET
Le cheval blanc
Egloff|Genève [Geneva] 1947|14 x 21 cm|broché
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Adélaïde de SOUZA
Adèle de Senange, ou lettres de Lord Sydenham
Chez J. J. Paschoud • Maradan|A Genève [Geneva] • & à Paris 1798 (An VI)|9.50 x 16.80 cm|2 volumes reliés
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Albert CAMUS, René CHAR
La postérité du soleil
E. Engelberts|Genève [Geneva] 1965|35 x 46 cm|en feuilles sous coffret
La Postérité du soleil
E. Engelberts | Genève 1965 | 35 x 46 cm | loose leaves with custom box

First edition, one of the 123 numbered copies on Rives signed by René Char and Henriette Grindat.
Illustrated with thirty photographs by Henriette Grindat, laminated silver print.
This sumptuous book illustrated with photos is presented in leaves in the publisher's green book box, each of the 30 photographic plates is commented on by Albert Camus, introductory and final explanatory poem by René Char.
The result of the patient friendship between René Char and Albert Camus, the latter's repeated stays in a house in the Isle-sur-Sorgue region and the sensitivity...
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Guillaume APOLLINAIRE
Textes inédits
Librairie Droz • Librairie Giard|Genève [Geneva] • & Lille 1952|12.50 x 18.50 cm|broché
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ANONYME
Dispositions réglementaires concernant les détenus dans la prison pénitentiaire de Genève
Imprimerie de P.A.Bonnant|Genève [Geneva] 1833|13.50 x 20.50 cm|relié
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Edwin ENGELBERTS
Hommage à Georges Braque
Galerie Edwin Engelberts|Genève [Geneva] 1962|19 x 27.50 cm|en feuilles retenues par un lacet
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Tristan TZARA, André MASSON
Terre sur terre
Editions des Trois collines|Genève [Geneva] 1946|16 x 22 cm|broché
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Tristan TZARA, André MASSON
Terre sur terre
Editions des Trois collines|Genève [Geneva] 1946|16 x 22 cm|broché
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Jean de LA VARENDE
La valse triste de Sibélius
La Palatine|Paris • & Genève [Geneva] 1953|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition on ordinary paper.
A small tear on the spine continuing onto the back board.
Signed autograph inscription from Jean de La Varende to Jean Fleury.
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René ÉTIEMBLE
Essai sur l'érotisme et l'amour dans la Chine ancienne
Nagel|Paris • & Genève [Geneva] 1969|25.50 x 34 cm|reliure de l'éditeur sous étui souple et cartonné
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VERCORS
La marche à l'étoile
Trois collines|Genève [Geneva] • & Neuchâtel 1945|12 x 18.50 cm|broché
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Louis ARAGON
Je n'ai jamais appris à écrire ou les incipit
Albert Skira|Genève [Geneva] 1969|16.50 x 22 cm|reliure de l'éditeur sous étui
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Guillaume-Thomas RAYNAL
Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes
Chez Jean-Léonard Pellet|à Genève [Geneva] 1780|12.30 x 20.20 cm|10 volumes reliés
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Henri GUILLEMIN
Rousseau à l'Ermitage (1756-1757)
Editions du milieu du monde|Genève [Geneva] 1943|12 x 19 cm|broché
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André CHAMSON
Yves Brayer
Pierre Cailler|Genève [Geneva] 1957|16 x 18.50 cm|broché
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Francis POULENC
Emmanuel Chabrier
La Palatine|Genève [Geneva] 1961|12 x 19 cm|broché
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Clément MAROT, Théodore de BÈZE
Les pseaumes de David en vers françois approuvée par les pasteurs et professeurs de l'Eglise & de l'Academie de Geneve
Chez Pierre Jaquier|à Genève [Geneva] 1745|8 x 14.50 cm|relié
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Henri BOSCO
Un rameau de la nuit
Cercle du bibliphile|Genève [Geneva] 1967|12 x 20.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
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Eugène GUILLEVIC
Coordonnées
Editions des Trois collines|Paris • & Genève [Geneva] 1948|15.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of the numbered copies on vellum.
Back and slightly insolated boards at the top.
Illustrated book of drawings by Fernand Léger.
Beautiful autograph signed by Eugène Guillevic to his friend the poet Charles Dobzynski: "These coordinates which would be ours, to us, men now maintaining in struggle for the larger life, I am happy that they are in the hands of Charles Dobzynski. Guillevic. April 10, 1950. "
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