Le Havre

Le Havre, Montivilliers and various places, 1786-1797. Twenty-one separately printed pamphlets bound together in one quarto volume, 19.2 x 25 cm.

 

Rare sammelband assembled by Jean-Baptiste-Jacques L'Aignel himself from the printed fragments of the legal, economic and political work to which he devoted the final decades of his life. Prospectuses, prefaces, prolegomena, speeches and appendices had been issued separately, mostly in Le Havre or nearby Montivilliers, to accompany a much larger undertaking that was never to reach its intended final form. Gathered here by their author...

Very rare first run of this fascinating maritime periodical, whose publication, under the direction of the renowned Edouard Corbière (1793-1875), continued until 1838 (a total of 18 issues), before the title was absorbed into the Journal de la marine (see Polak, 6955, who only records and knew of the first volume).

The set is illustrated with 15 plates: 4 lithographed plates hors texte, including one folding plate, for the first volume; 2 hors texte plates, one of them lithographed, for the second; 3 lithographed plates for the third volume; a lithographed frontispiece in each of the following volumes: 4, 5, 6 and 7; and 3 lithographed plates, including a frontispiece, for...

First edition with no mention of deluxe paper copies.
Publisher's binding in full pine green boards, smooth spine decorated with gilt typographical motifs, date at foot, front cover richly illustrated with gilt reproduction of Evreux monuments, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Work illustrated with 15 heliogravure plates hors texte by P. Dujardin after photographs by Paul Robert and from the collection of historic monuments.
Very fresh binding.
Handsome interior condition without any foxing.

Handwritten signed postcard sent from Le Havre and addressed to Emile Mignard
Le Havre 11 October 1902, 14.1 x 9 cm, one postcard
Handwritten signed postcard from Victor Segalen, sent from Le Havre and addressed to Emile Mignard. A few lines written in black ink around the black and white photographic reproduction of the steamer “La Touraine”, handwritten address on the verso. Some minor stains.
Emile Mignard (1878-1966), also a doctor and Brest-born, was one of Segalen's closest friends of youth whom he met at the Jesuit Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours School in Brest. The writer interacted with this comrade in an abundant and closely followed correspondence in which he described...

First editions.
Half chocolate brown sheep binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt fillets and gilt cartouches showing traces of rubbing, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Rare.

First edition.
Inscription from Abbé Malais on the front cover.
Spine split, worming and small stains on covers, three small corner lacks to rear cover, one tear without loss to page 183, otherwise handsome interior condition.

First edition of this offprint, printed in a small number of copies.
A good copy.

First edition published in a small number of copies by the Société centrale d'agriculture du département de la Seine-Inférieure. Rare and handsome copy presented in its original wrappers with plain covers.

First edition published in a small number of copies.
Amateur binding in imitation leather pasted over the covers.
This small treatise traces the history of the names of several streets in Le Havre in order to study their relevance.
A small lack of no consequence at the head of the title page, otherwise a good copy.