Paris (France)

First edition printed in small numbers of this offprint from the Annales de chimie et de physique.

Illustrated with 5 folding plates at rear. As issued in its rare original beige paper covers with some tears to the corners and spine.

An extremely rare copy of Ampère's first dissertation on electrodynamics, presenting his first reflections on the equivalence between magnets and cur­rents.

Illustrated edition featuring 9 original full-page etchings by Eugène Decisy, along with numerous in-text color wood engravings by Serge de Solomko. One of 800 numbered copies printed on Arches wove paper.
A handsome copy.

First edition of this work considered to be Grandville's masterpiece, with illustrations in first print.

Illustrated frontispiece, 36 colored illustrations and 146 in-text woodcuts in black.

Contemporary binding in blue half glazed calf, sunned spine with gilt arabesques, small holes at foot of spine, marbled paper boards, mould made endpapers and flyleaves, speckled edges. 
This exuberant and prodigious production of Grandville and Delord (whose name is printed at the bottom of page 292), judged by its contemporaries as already being mad, was rediscovered by the Surrealists.

"Published in 1844 by éditions Fournier, Un autre monde is Grandville's masterpiece. The book is subtitled Transformations, visions, incarnations, ascensions, locomotions, explorations, travels, excursions, stations, cosmogonies, phantasmagorias, dreams, frolics, facetiae, whims, metamorphosis, zoomorphs, lithomorphosis, metempsychosis, apotheosis and other things. With its transformations, its inventions and its phantasmagoria, the work claims to reflect a changing era. Un autre monde recounts and illustrates the extraordinary travels of three neo-gods, Puff, Krackq and Hahblle. [...] It is indeed a philosophical journey that Grandville takes us on [...] The reader, led to a strange planet imagined by the artist, is invited, like Gulliver in the Country of Laputa, on a parodic journey of his philosophical, scientific, economic and religious ideas, of his passions, inventions and worries: romanticism, mechanisation, socialism, money, serial, publicity, anglomania, philanthropy, phrenology, etc." (Annie Renonciat, La Vie et l'œuvre de Grandville, Paris, ACR-Vilo, 1985).


Grandville's most sought-after work.

Charming example of shellwork binding on a devotional book from 1858.

Publisher's binding, with exceptionnally added contemporary shellwork panel including more than 200 miniature shell to each board, blue cloth spine elaborately decorated with gilt pink and blue gauffered motifs, all edges gilt, inner gilt dentelle; a few shells lost, a little rubbed at corners and spine-ends.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on Lafuma laid paper, the sole deluxe issue.

A fine copy.

First edition, one of 647 numbered copies on deluxe paper, the only deluxe issue after 109 reimposed copies.

Correspondence collected and annotated by Jean-Marie Carré.

A fine copy.

Photographic postcard issued by the television weekly Télé 7 Jours, depicting Guy Lux smoking a cigarette.

A well-preserved example.

Signed by Guy Lux in blue felt-tip pen.

Original black and white photograph depicting Valéry Giscard d'Estaing posing frontally.

A fine copy. Original envelope with the letterhead of the French Presidency included.

Inscribed and signed tribute by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in blue ink.

Provenance: from the collection of the noted autograph collector Claude Armand.

First edition, illustrated with in-text drawings by Lorentz.

Some occasional foxing.

Bradel binding in green Empire morocco, spine very slightly faded, gilt date at foot, gilt decorative rolls at head and foot, marbled paper-covered boards, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, bookplate mounted on one endpaper, trace of a removed bookplate at the head of a pastedown. Original wrappers preserved. Binding signed by Durvand.