London

First edition.
Spine restored with an almond-green adhesive piece showing lacks and tears, small lacks and angular tears to boards, some foxing and light dampstaining to head of final leaves.
Rare work illustrated with two maps and two other loose maps and one engraving which have been added.

The Insect
T. Nelson and Sons | London 1875 | 17 x 26 cm | morocco
First English edition decorated with 140 illustrations by Hector Giacomelli.
Bound in half red morocco, spine with gilt stippling and adorned with double gilt compartments richly decorated with gilt typographic motifs and with a central incision of sand mosaic morocco, gilt date at the foot, minor scratches on a joint, border of gilt fillets on the marbled paper boards, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, binding signed Champs et Stroobants.
We join the advertising prospectus for the edition illustrated by Hector Giacomelli of The Bird by Jules Michelet published by the same publisher.
Beautiful co

First edition of the English translation by Barbara Wright.
Back slightly warped.
Autograph dedication signed by Barbara Wright to Jean Queval, close friend of Raymond Queneau and, like him, figure and creator, of the Oulipo.
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New edition, one of 900 numbered copies on vellum , single print after 100 Kelmscott hand-made paper.
Nice copy despite two slight snags on the lower headdress and head of the first board that also has a small stain of discoloration in the foot.
Binding of the editor in full brown cardboard, smooth back, golden head.
Letter-preface by Paul Valéry.
Book decorated with many illustrations in and inset.

New edition.
Contemporary binding in full green morocco with crosshatch pattern, smooth spine decorated with three fleurons, roulettes and fillets, double fillet frame on covers, edges gilt, interior frieze. Spine sunned and faded, two wormholes along the upper joint of volume 2. Light rubbing to corners.
Originally published in 1660 under the pseudonym of Aloisia Sigea by Nicolas Chorier and presented as a translation of a Spanish manuscript by Johannes Meursius, this erotic book took pleasure in deceiving censorship through its title page reproduced in this edition under the heading Elegantiae latini sermonis.
This parodic text composed of several conversations on t

An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy; Being an Essay on the Science of Domestic Policy in Free Nations
A. Millar and T. Cadell | London 1767 | 4to (23.5 x 29 cm)
| (1) v-xv (12) 639 pp and (16) 646 pp (13) | contemporary full calf
First edition complete with its two folding plates at the end of each volume.
Contemporary English bindings in glazed blonde full calf, richly decorated spines with gilt geometric motifs, flowers, fillets and roll-tooling, as well as morocco red and green title pieces and volume numbering, gilt roll-tooling on the leading edges, marbled pastedowns. Binding skillfully repaired.
Very beautiful copy of one of the precur

Second illustrated edition of a frontispiece and a plate on China.
Binding half shagreen green back with four nerves nerves set with gilded nets and adorned with double gilded boxes, golden monograms tail tail, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, binders of the time.
Some small foxinges.
Our copy is enriched, on a slip, of an instructive autograph signed by Alexandre Dumas to Mr. Beauchesne as a present of this book: "My dear Beauchesne, I send you the work of General Dermoncourt: read it carefully and you will see that he has only blown the lady of the dagger, only to make one forget his republican temperament, to you anyway. "

Rare gathering of these 3 works by Voltaire. For La princesse de babilone, this is one of the reprints bearing the date of the original. The text conforms to that of the original with some variants (one reads Candide instead of Quatre facardins p. 85; the lettre de l'archevêque de Cantorbéry à l'archevêque de Paris appears at the end). Bengesco believes this edition came from the Dresden presses, while Beuchot thinks it was printed by Carmer in Geneva.
Saul, tragedy by Voltaire is a new edition not listed by Bengesco. 1765.
New edition of Dîner du Comte de Boulainvilliers with the false date of 1728

(TENNIS) René LACOSTE
Lacoste on Tennis
Ed. J. Burrow & Co limited | London 1928 | 12.5 x 19 cm | publisher's binding
Genuine first edition published on 21st June, two months before the American edition.
Foxing mainly affecting the edges as well as the first and last pages, jacket missing.
Publisher's full almond green cloth binding, gilt title stamped on the first
board framed with a blind-tooled fillet.
Illustrations.
Rare and precious autograph inscription signed by René Lacoste to C.A. Proctor.

Genuine first edition published on 21 June, two months before the American edition, one of a few luxury copies, not advertised and reserved for the author.

Publisher's full dark green shagreen binding, spine decorated with a gilt fleuron, gilt title stamped on the first board, gilt fillet border, marbled endpapers.

Rare and precious presentation copy handwritten signed inscription from René Lacoste to the “Bounding Basque”: “à Jean Borotra avec toutes les amitiés de l'alligator, René Lacoste” “To Jean Borotra with very best wishes from the a

John Murray, London 1824, In-12 (10.5 x 17 cm), lxxv, 272ppet (4) 403ppet (4) 387pp., 3 bound volumes

First edition, rare, published anonymously.

Bound in half blond calf with slightly posterior corners signed Hatchards (Picadilly). Spine in compartments with decorated panels. Brown shagreen title labels and volume labels. Top edges gilt. Piece missing from the title label of volume I, with the blindtooled title present. Piece missing from the title label of volume II. 5 flattened corners. Rubbing.
The most famous English Orientalist novel. This picaresque work, in which one follows the tribulations of a young Persian in his conquest of fortune, ha

Herbert George WELLS
The War of the Worlds
Harper and brothers | New York and London 1898 | 12.5 x 18.7 cm | publisher's binding
First American edition and first illustrated edition, it was published at the same time as the English original. A frontispiece and 15 plate illustrations by Warwick Gobble.
Publisher’s full grey-green cloth. Gilt title and author. Large decoration on the upper board with the title and author in a frame. All of the glazed calico rubbed. One plate coming off. Foxing on the endpapers.
Modern slipcase based on a contemporary model. Spine decorated with a fleuron, date at the bottom. Beige morocco title piece. The slipcase is covered

Signed autograph postcard of Lucien Guitry to Nadia Koudrine (known as Charlane), written in blue ink on the photo on the back. Photo of Nelson's Column of London on Trafalgar Square.
Signature at the bottom of the letter, Nadia Koudrine's Paris address on the back.

Lucien Guitry sends this letter to the actress from London. He writes to her that she may be there next year too, to give her a reply.

First edition.
Publisher's binding, covers slightly and marginally darkened, top edge gilt, corners very slightly bumped.
Rare autograph inscription signed by Samuel Butler to Mister J.A. Fuller Maitland, music critic and historian.
Ex-libris of recipient pasted on a pastedown.
Small foxing mostly on the edges.

Edition features original illustrations in purple and black of Frederick Carter and printed 550 numbered copies on vellum.
Publishers'binding half carton cream wove way back smooth, shimmering violet silk boards, first board hit a gilded illustration of Frederick Carter, gilded head.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed and dated Frederick Carter in pencil below the justification of the draw, the name of the dedicatee having been properly cleared.
Nice copy.

Lays of the Scottish cavaliers and other poems
With illustrations by Joseph Noel and Waller H. Paton.
Superb contemporary long-grained red morocco by Ramage, spine in six compartments with undulating gilt fillets, tridents and gilt friezes, gilt roulettes to head- and tail-pieces, blue morocco listel frame to covers with floral friezes and gilt decorative motifs, gilt tridents to corners as well as gilt dots, the gilt arms of Scotland crowned to centre of upper cover, undulating gilt fillets to edges of covers, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt dentelle frame to pastedowns, all edges gilt, two corners lightly bumped.
A fine copy in a perfectly suited English full morocco bin

First edition in French by Francis Wilder.
Two small tears to head and foot of spine.

New edition of wich no leading copies exists.
Signed autograph of Eugene Ionesco to Maurice Rheims.
Introduction in English, French text.
Nice copy.

first edition.
Publishers'binding half carton apple green, smooth back full copy of his illustrated jacket with three small spots without gravity.
Signed autograph of Kenneth White Professor Georges Blin: "Hopping ... he will find in it something de son own climate ..."
Nice copy.

first edition.
Publishers'binding half gray cardboard, smooth back black cloth, complete copy of his illustrated jacket three small tears without gravity.
Signed autograph of Kenneth White Professor Georges Blin: "... the poems of a man going north from south ..."
Nice copy.

first edition printed 50 copies justifés and numbered by Niki de Saint Phalle.
Flat cardboard, connected by two strings, with title in black on the front cover.
Illustrated book of 27 illustrated plates of drawings of Niki de Saint-Phalle.
bibliophile print buffer at the top of the first yellow warning.

A charming edition with a portrait of the playwright engraved by Gaucher after Santerre, and 12 figures by Gravelot intaglio engraved by Le Mire, Flipart, Rousseau, Lempereur, Duclos, Vasseur, Prévost, Simonet and Née.
Contemporary marbled calf, spines richly gilt (their decoration being attributed to Gravelot) with gilt anthropomorphic suns at head, lyres and honeybees to foot, as well as gilt trophies to centre; title in gilt surrounded by gilt laurels, triple gilt fillet frame to covers. Gilt fillet and striae to headpieces and edges of covers, all edges gilt.
A little light spotting, spine and hinges repaired, some parts of the spine re-gilded.

First edition.
Contemporary light brown armorial calf. Spine richly gilt with grotesque motifs and hydra figures at foot. Covers with triple gilt fillets and arms to centre. Gilt roulette frame to pastedowns. Marbled edges.
The major work by the abbé de Condillac and one of the key works of French sensualism.
From the library of Emmanuel-Pierre Rodocanachi with his engraved ex libris.