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  1. Aventures du Capitaine Hatteras au Pôle Nord
    Jules VERNE
    Aventures du Capitaine Hatteras au Pôle Nord
    Hetzel|Paris 1892|18 x 28 cm|relié
    New edition, illustrated with 150 drawings by Riou. GK catalogue in fine. Later reissues of this binding will have 6 color engravings, which will be simple colored enlargements of engravings already present in black and white.
    Publisher's binding known as "Au portrait collé" with signed Souze plate and bound by Lenègre. Spine with lighthouse. Second board of Lenègre "e" type. Fine upper plate. Light traces of discoloration beneath the author's name cartouche. One leaf very slightly protruding. One gathering detaching from the interior. Corners rubbed and slightly turned. Spine somewhat faded, but gilts and colors quite sharp. Headcaps rubbed and turned. Second board showing some soiling, but fairly good. Occasional light foxing on fresh paper, nevertheless a handsome copy.
    Adventure novel relating an expedition to the North Pole.

    €900
  15. Négociations de Monsieur le Comte d'Avaux en Hollande depuis 1679, jusqu'en 1684
    Comte d' AVAUX
    Négociations de Monsieur le Comte d'Avaux en Hollande depuis 1679, jusqu'en 1684
    Chez Durand • Pissot|à Paris 1754|9.50 x 16.50 cm|6 tomes reliés en 3 volumes
    New edition, after the first published in 1752. Title pages in red and black. Posthumous edition prepared by Abbé Maillet.
    Armorial copy with the coat of arms of Louis Guillaume Chuberé, gules three roses argent, honorary counselor to Parliament whose library would be the subject of a publication.
    Contemporary full speckled sheep bindings. Decorated smooth spines. Havana morocco title labels and green morocco volume labels. Triple fillet frames on boards. Small crack at head of upper joint of volumes I and III. Rubbing. Fine copy.
    The Count d'Avaux was French ambassador to Holland, the work recounts in detail, in a diplomatic and rather neutral manner, the relations between France and Holland since the Peace of Nijmegen. The narrative is written in first person, thus giving the impression of authentic memoirs.
    €450
  17. Mémoires sur la diathèse osseuse en général, et la théorie de l'ankylose vraie des auteurs en particulier. - De la régénération des parties molles du corps humain
    Henri-Marcel KUHNHOLTZ
    Mémoires sur la diathèse osseuse en général, et la théorie de l'ankylose vraie des auteurs en particulier. - De la régénération des parties molles du corps humain
    Imprimerie de X. Jullien • Louis Castel & J.B. Baillière|Montpellier • & Paris 1834-1841|14.50 x 23 cm|2 volumes reliés en 1
    First edition for each volume, the second being printed on green paper.
    Half aubergine shagreen binding with corners, spine slightly faded with four raised bands set with gilt fillets, double gilt fillet frame on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
    The first volume is complete with its 3 lithographed plates at the end.
    Some foxing in margins of certain leaves of the first volume.
    Rare and handsome set.
    €250
  20. Les oeuvres
    Vincent VOITURE
    Les oeuvres
    Chez Augustin Courbé|à Paris 1650|17 x 24 cm|relié
    First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece by Mellan and a portrait by Champaigne engraved by Nanteuil and produced after the author's death by Martin de Pinchesne, his nephew.
    Full grained sheep binding, late 18th century. Spine with raised bands decorated in grotesque style with 2 different motifs. Pink calf title label. Joints cracked at head. Wormholes at foot. 2 corners slightly bumped. Rubbing. Some leaves uniformly browned, others yellowed. Headcap clumsily restored. Yellow dampstain to lower right corner of first 30 pages.
    Voiture (1597-1648) was throughout his life a gallant and courtier, brilliant in salons and playing games. His epistolary talent earned him the distinction of making prose fashionable in France for a long time, and his poetry excels in the mannerist and precious tone, even though he knows how to be trivial when necessary. He is an essential figure of the literary scene of the early 17th century, a true Molière character.
    Voiture is above all a style, not only in his letters (Lettres amoureuses) and his poetry but also in his prose, see for example the delightful Métamorphoses. His works were in the image of the man, gallant, teaching beautiful language and fine manners to the habitués of the Hôtel de Rambouillet. His fame was very great during his century and he remains an emblem of the 17th century.


    €700
  23. Du rôle de la garde nationale et de l'armée de Paris dans les préparatifs de l'insurrection du 18 Mars. Rapport spécial fait à la commission d'enquête, suivi de pièces justificatives, lettres et relation de la bataille de Buzenval
    Marquis de ROCHETHULON
    Du rôle de la garde nationale et de l'armée de Paris dans les préparatifs de l'insurrection du 18 Mars. Rapport spécial fait à la commission d'enquête, suivi de pièces justificatives, lettres et relation de la bataille de Buzenval
    Librairie Techener|Paris 1872|13.50 x 22 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Half burgundy shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands, gilt initials at foot, marbled paper boards with some surface wear, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, bookplate pasted on one pastedown, contemporary binding.

    €120
  24. Lettres d'une Péruvienne
    Françoise de GRAFFIGNY
    Lettres d'une Péruvienne
    De l'imprimerie de Migneret|à Paris 1797|15.50 x 24.50 cm|relié
    Bilingual edition illustrated with a frontispiece portrait by Gaucher and 6 handsome captioned figures by Le Barbier, engraved by Patas, Halbou, Lingée. Printed on laid paper. Translation by Deodati, with French facing the Italian.
    Contemporary full sprinkled and glazed sheep binding. Smooth spine richly decorated with 2 diamond-patterned grotesque compartments and 2 large fleurons. Red morocco title label. Framed border on covers. Upper joint split over the first 2 compartments. One crack at head, same at tail. One corner bumped. Joints and corners rubbed. Foxing. 2 scratches on lower cover.
    Handsome esteemed edition. The first edition of this work, which was abundantly reprinted, dates from 1747. Mme de Graffigny stands, behind Zilia's letters (a young Peruvian exiled in France), against the hypocrisy of morals and the inequality of women. The Lettres d'une péruvienne is certainly one of the first feminist novels. The style follows the sentimental vein that would flourish at the end of the 18th century.

    €500
  25. Justinus de historiis Phillipicis, et totius mundi originibus
    Pierre-Joseph CANTEL, JUSTIN
    Justinus de historiis Phillipicis, et totius mundi originibus
    Apud Fredericum Leonard|Parisiis [Paris] • (Paris) 1677|18 x 25.50 cm|relié
    First edition, illustrated with a handsome frontispiece by Chauveau bearing the arms of the Dauphin. The edition is part of those called "ad usum delphini", for the use of the Dauphin. Edition prepared by Cantel.
    20th-century half vellum binding with corners. Jansenist spine with raised bands. Title and date in pen. One dampstain in lower margin of pp. 241 to 256.
    Only one work remains to us from the 3rd-century Roman historian Justin, an abridgement of the Philippic histories of Trogus Pompeius; however an original work that is not just a repetition of Trogus Pompeius's work. Cantel's notes and commentaries are divided into 2 columns beneath the text. Different types are found, geographical, historical, or linguistic; Cantel cites other ancient authors whenever he believes Justin is mistaken. Although Cantel's edition did not lastingly mark the history of the text, his commentaries were taken up, notably in London and Philadelphia, for chronological references.

    NB: This work is available at the bookshop on request within 48 hours.
    €350
  26. Le nouvel Abaillard ou lettres d'un singe, au docteur Abadolfs ; traduites de l'Allemand
    Charles Claude Florent THOREL de CAMPIGNEULLES
    Le nouvel Abaillard ou lettres d'un singe, au docteur Abadolfs ; traduites de l'Allemand
    Chez Les libraires|Aux Indes [Fictional Place] • & se trouve à Paris 1763|9 x 15.30 cm|2 parties en un volume relié
    First edition, rare.
    Contemporary brown marbled sheep binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with 5 fleurons. Tan morocco title-label. 2 scratches to upper board. One corner slightly bumped. Handsome copy.
    Curious work in which an ape has been raised by a philosopher and finds himself the author of these letters. Poor, the philosopher Abadolf must give his daughter to his uncle residing in France, a crude merchant whose only knowledge is arithmetic. He sends with her his ape who will thus write him letters about his daughter's existence and education. His letters will be a pretext to philosophize and criticize the French spirit. The book is also a plea against natural law and against Rousseau's La nouvelle Héloïse.

    €450
  28. La perpetuité de la foy de l'eglise catholique touchant l'eucharistie deffendue contre le livre du sieur Claude
    Antoine ARNAULD, Pierre NICOLE
    La perpetuité de la foy de l'eglise catholique touchant l'eucharistie deffendue contre le livre du sieur Claude
    Chez Charles Savreux|à Paris 1669|18.50 x 25.50 cm|relié
    First edition. Printer's device on title page, a vignette with the arms of Clement VI.
    Contemporary full speckled brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands richly decorated. Speckled brown sheep title label. One split at head. One white stain at tail. Rubbing. Good copy.
    The work is a response to the book by the Protestant minister Claude, which was itself an attack on a book by Aubertin. The work of Arnaud and Nicole goes beyond the simple framework of polemic and contestation of the arguments in Claude's book; it aims to be an exhaustive treatise on the Eucharist and the mysteries of the holy mass by accumulating historical evidence, notably that borrowed from the Eastern church. Arnauld and Nicole, theologians of Port-Royal, made themselves champions of the religious quarrel against the Protestants. The Eucharist was an untouchable point of Catholic dogma; to deny it as the Protestants did was to call into question the principle of transubstantiation with the body of Christ and the possibility of grace, and to dismantle the rituals of the mass and its necessity. This is why the polemical literature on the Eucharist and grace is so important; the two churches would never cease to fuel it.
    €500
  36. Lettres de Milady Wortlay Montagute écrites pendant ses voyages en diverses parties du monde
    Lady Mary Wortley MONTAGUTE
    Lettres de Milady Wortlay Montagute écrites pendant ses voyages en diverses parties du monde
    Chez Duchesne|à Paris 1764|10 x 17 cm|2 parties en un volume relié

    French first edition, following the English first edition of 1763.
    Copy with the arms of Anne-louis-Alexandre de Montmorency, (D'or à la croix de gueules cantonnée de seize alérions d'azur ordonnés 4 et 4) lieutenant-general of the king's armies, captain of the king's guards.
    Contemporary full speckled calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with 5 alérions of the Montmorency family. Arms stamped on covers. Red morocco title label. Rubbing. Spine browned. 2 corners slightly bumped. Browning to margins of half-title and title page, small worming in margins. Handsome copy.
    Lady Montagu was the wife of the English ambassador to Constantinople. The principal interest of these letters lies in bearing direct witness to the customs of contemporary Turkey. The accounts contained in the correspondence are fascinating; they are undoubtedly the only feminine testimony about Turkey of that time and about the countries she crossed to reach it, notably Greece and Hungary. She addresses Turkish customs but also life in harems, which she was the first European woman to enter and visit, as well as Moorish baths. Her corset was then so tightly laced that the oriental bathers were convinced it was a sort of torture instrument in which her husband had locked her. Lady Montagu not only envied the nudity of these women, a symbol of emancipation and luxury, but was also seduced by the apparent freedom of certain aspects of their lives. She also seems to have been seduced by love and amorous poetry, and she quotes verses from the sultan to his beloved. The success of these letters was such that the author was nicknamed "the Sévigné of England." Voltaire wrote a relatively favorable review of this work in the literary gazette of 1764, praising the author's erudition and culture: "There reigns above all in Lady Montagu's work a spirit of philosophy and liberty that characterizes her nation."

    €750
  39. Nouvelles françaises
    Louis D'USSIEUX
    Nouvelles françaises
    Chez Brunet|à Paris 1775 - 1779|13.50 x 21.70 cm|2 volumes reliés
    First edition, illustrated with 10 fine figures, 10 headpieces, and 10 tailpieces by Martini and Desrais, engraved by Gaucher. Each of the 10 novellas has a half-title and title page, dated from 1775 to 1779. The illustration is particularly well executed.
    Contemporary full speckled and porphyry sheep bindings. Smooth spines decorated. Upper headcap of volume I worn. Lacks at foot of volume I. Lacks at head of volume II. Corners rubbed, some bumped. Fresh overall, with some rare and pale foxing. Good copy.
    Journalist, writer and Freemason historian, D'Ussieux composed these historical novellas after those of the Décaméron français, a similar work. They can be compared to those of Baculard D'Arnaud. These novellas corresponded to the public's taste for history and drama. Table of works: Louis de Bourbon, prince de Condé; Françoise de Foix, Comtesse de Chateaubriand; Faldoni et Thérèse; Angélique de Limeuil; Les deux Sophies; Saint Agnès et Corneville; Charlotte de Savoir, reine de France; Marie de Bourgogne; Françoise de Beauville; Alexis.
    A dry stamp with monogram repeated on several pages. Complex monogram, inside a large C, the intertwined letters STE.

    €400
  48. Œuvres complètes
    Jean-François REGNARD
    Œuvres complètes
    De l' imprimerie de Monsieur • chez la veuve Duchesne et fils|à Paris 1790|13 x 20.50 cm|6 tomes en 6 volumes reliés
    The finest and most complete of the editions of Regnard, when it contains the fifth and sixth volumes, printed in small numbers (as Cohen indicates), and which are rarely found together with the first four. It is illustrated with a portrait of the author by Rigaud engraved by Tardieu and 11 fine figures by Moreau and Marillier, engraved by Delignon, Duponchel, etc. The remarks and prefaces are by Garnier.
    Contemporary full blonde porphyry and glazed calf bindings. Smooth decorated spines, roll tooling at head and foot. Green morocco title and volume labels. Triple fillet frame on boards. Slight lack to one title label. Rubbing to headcaps and edges. One wormhole at foot of volume II. Spines lightened. Joint at foot of volume VI cracked. Very handsome copy, despite minor defects. Interior generally fresh, with rare spotting.
    Volume 1 is dedicated to travel narratives, volumes 2 to 4 to theatre, and volumes 5 and 6 to Italian theatre. This careful edition, with fine printing and quality engravings, ranks among the great successes of editions produced by Monsieur's printing house (Racine, Corneille).
    IHS Domus Parisian bookplate. ADS Germany. Gift inscription: "Coll. complet. Lez 23 gbre 1792. DB. J. J. De Bure fils aîné."

    €1,400
  49. La pharsale traduite en vers français par Brébeuf
    LUCAIN
    La pharsale traduite en vers français par Brébeuf
    De l'imprimerie de Crapelet|à Paris 1795 An IV|12 x 20 cm|2 volumes reliés
    Illustrated first issue (figures before letters). Text established with notes and commentary by Billecocq. Lucian's original text precedes that of Brébeuf for each canto. 10 figures by Perrin in the neo-classical taste engraved by De Ghendt, Romanet... (tissue guards with legends follow the engravings).
    Contemporary full speckled calf binding. Smooth spines decorated with 2 suns and 2 fleurons. Red morocco title label and green morocco volume label. Corners slightly bumped. Rubbing to joints. A dampstain in the upper margin of figure 10. A handsome copy.
    It was through this work that Brébeuf established his reputation as a poet. This is not a translation, but a free recreation based on the original as explained by the commentator, in flowing verse; although the author did not stray from Lucian's plan, the first eight books deal with the wars between Caesar and Pompey and the last two with expeditions in North Africa. Brébeuf sought to equal his illustrious ancient model and fully succeeded in this challenge, which earned him Boileau's criticism.

    €350
  50. Histoire du cirque
    SERGE
    Histoire du cirque
    Librairie Gründ|Paris 1947|16 x 24 cm|broché
    first edition printed in 990 copies on paper Lana, ours unjustified.
    Signed autograph Serge Pierre Loiselet and his wife Suzanne in pink ink and enriched with a heart, a small marine anchor, a little heart and a little star.
    Illustrated book, on the cover, an original lithograph in colors, a Dignimont frontispiece and 9 out text lithographs in black and gray by Touchagues, Butcher, Oberle and Serge.
    Back slightly insolated, otherwise nice copy.
    €100
  81. Qui est cet homme? ou le singulier universel
    Pierre EMMANUEL
    Qui est cet homme? ou le singulier universel
    Egloff|Paris 1947|15 x 21.50 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 50 numbered on "pur-fil" paper, ours specially printed for Aimee Lemercier, only large paper.
    Bel autograph signed by Pierre Emmanuel, as quatrain, Aimee Lemercier "At Aimee, / here is this man you know / and you do not know, / the man from another village / who will come up to you / to little that way (sic) you do sign him / Aimee / Christmas ".
    spine and boards and marginally slightly yellowed, first shaded garde, exemplary in all its full margins errata sheet.
    copy wide-margined and complete its marginally faded jacket on the boards.
    €300
  86. Mon oncle Barbassou
    Mario UCHARD, Paul AVRIL
    Mon oncle Barbassou
    J. Lemonnyer|Paris 1884|17 x 25.50 cm|relié
    First printing of the 40 original compositions by Paul Avril etched, one of 50 numbered copies on China paper.
    Half sand morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands set with gilt stippling decorated with quadruple gilt compartments embellished at angles and centers with mosaic pieces of green and brown morocco, gilt date at foot, frame of gilt fillets on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved (covers marginally spotted), top edge gilt on deckled edges, elegant contemporary binding signed by Champs.
    Our copy is complete with the duplicate state on Japan paper of each of the etchings.
    Handsome copy elegantly bound.

    Work illustrated with drawings and watercolors by Felician Myrbach and Luigi Rossi engraved by Guillaume brothers.
    Handsome copy elegantly bound.
    €350
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