First edition illustrated with 2 frontispiece portraits and 100 hors-texte plates by Gustave Doré engraved by Bellanger, Pannemaker, Pisan...
Publisher's binding in full vermillion percaline cloth signed Magnier. Smooth spine decorated with 6 richly ornamented compartments. Large plate on the upper cover with a cross with pointed ends at center, 4 swords, 4 blazoned shields and 4 crescents in the corners. The second cover repeats the central part of the decoration of the first cover. Spine slightly sunned. Minor cuts at head and tail. Some foxing on otherwise white paper. Corners slightly turned.
Fine copy of this capital text, the fruit of 30 years of research, which profoundly renewed the vision of the Middle Ages and Middle East. Published in 1821, this new historical manner transformed narration with a concern for greater objectivity. Doré's penultimate work, "The artist's capacity to transform facts into myths, to transcend reality, finds in this work terrain as fertile as in Perrault's Tales or the Divine Comedy", Margot Renard, «The siege and assault in Joseph-François Michaud's History of the Crusades illustrated by Gustave Doré (1877)» In Michaud's text, Doré chooses emblematic episodes that nourish the text with his own dark and baroque, visionary and Christlike vision.
First edition, one of 75 numbered copies on surfine colored paper.
Work illustrated with 3 aquatints by Mimi Parent.
One scratch with three light stains on the first cover.
Handsome copy.
Precious and surrealist autograph inscription signed by José Pierre to Marie Cermínová Toyen: "A Toyen, les violons monégasques fabriqués secrètement dans les presbytères en partant de l'anémone de mer, José." (To Toyen, the Monégasque violins secretly manufactured in presbyteries starting from the sea anemone, José.)
Signatures of José Pierre and Mimi Parent below the justification page.
Edition illustrated by Julien Le Blant with 7 hors-texte etchings and a portrait of the author as frontispiece. Small print run on vellum. Fine engravings engraved by Champollion. Ornaments (initials, headpieces...) by Giacomelli.
Copy with the monogram G. A., unidentified. Interlaced English initials.
Contemporary full tender green morocco binding signed at bottom of front pastedown Bonleu. Smooth spine decorated with a fleuron at head and a special tool, the whole within elegant frames. Triple fillet frame on boards. Monogram at center of upper board. Wide inner decorative border. Top edge gilt. Light traces of rubbing. Spine having turned uniformly to light brown. Copy very fresh, except for 2 pages with scattered micro spotting.
Handsome copy.
First edition, one of 200 numbered copies on Hollande paper, the only large paper copies.
Bradel binding in half blue morocco with corners, spine with five raised bands highlighted with gilt dots and decorated with triple gilt compartments, gilt date at tail, gilt fillets on marbled paper boards, guards and pastedowns of combed paper, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, others uncut, binding signed Canape.
Rare copy of Guy de Maupassant's masterpiece beautifully bound in an elegant signed binding.
First edition of the French translation, one of only 34 numbered copies printed on pure vellum paper, the sole deluxe paper issue.
A fine and rare copy.
Complete copy comprising two translations by Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt, whose works are commonly known as "belles infidèles" (beautiful but unfaithful translations). Between 1662 and 1795, no other translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War was published. The privilege granted to the bookseller Clousier in 1712 was shared among several booksellers, including Michel-Étienne David, Nicolas Gosselin, and Jean-Geoffroy Nyon.
Contemporary full brown calf, gilt spines with five raised bands and four compartments decorated with plain and dotted fillets enclosing fleuron tools, tan morocco lettering-pieces, numbering-pieces within gilt borders, gilt rolls to board edges, red speckled edges, marbled pastedowns and endpapers.
Light scratches and rubbing to boards, corners worn. Old bookplate mark on the first pastedown of the second volume.
Marginal worm trail in the first volume, not affecting text, overall some slight foxing.
New compilation of the celebrated songs by the troubadour from Sète, including "La mauvaise réputation", "Le parapluie", "Le petit cheval", "Le fossoyeur", "Le gorille", "Corne d'auroch", "La chasse aux papillons" and "Hécatombe".
Inevitable creasing and light rubbing along the margins of the record sleeve.
A small ballpoint pen doodle in blue ink on the lower cover.
Autograph signature of Georges Brassens in the lower right margin of the upper cover.
First edition, with no copies printed on deluxe paper.
A very good copy.
Inscribed by Maurice Druon to a friend named Henri: "... pour les souvenirs d'une année de travail qui devint une année d'amitié."
First edition, illustrated with full-page 65 plates.
Occasional light foxing.
Blue morocco half-binding, spine with five raised bands ruled and decorated in gilt with gilt floral tools, marbled boards, marbled endpapers, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt; bookplate on front pastedown.
A handsome copy in an attractive binding.
First edition.
Our copy is preserved in its original plain pink paper waiting wrappers.
Ink annotations to the front cover, a few short tears; internally a clean and agreeable copy.
As it was never ratified, this concordat never came into effect, and France therefore remained under the regime of the Concordat of 1801 until the Law on the Separation of Church and State in 1905.
Autograph letter signed by François Vidocq, dated in his hand November 12, 1837, on a double leaf, with the autograph address of the correspondent on the fourth page "Monsieur Pujol ancien directeur des Postes de Vendôme à Gournay, Enbray [Gournay-en-Bray] (Seine-Inférieure)". Numerous usual folds.
Fine printed letterhead detailing the services offered by his private detective agency: "20 FRANCS PAR ANNEE, Et l'on est à l'abri de la ruse des plus adroits fripons !" [for 20 francs a year, one is protected from the most cunning of scoundrels!] It bears the address of his agency, recently relocated to "Rue Neuve St Eustache, N°39" (manuscript notation). Vidocq had retained his former offices at "Rue du Pont-Louis-Philippe, N°20" (printed letterhead).
First edition, one of 50 numbered copies printed on Edogawa Japan paper, the deluxe issue.
A handsome copy, complete—as with all copies on Japan paper—with the author’s portrait frontispiece by Armand Rassenfosse.
First public edition of this text by Jean Cassou, written under the pseudonym Jean Noir, one of 50 numbered copies on Madagascar paper, from the deluxe issue.
A fine copy.
First collected edition, one of 13 numbered copies on pur fil paper, our copy being one of 3 hors commerce, the only copies on deluxe paper.
A fine copy.
Edition illustrated with 12 original colour watercolours by Gerda Wegener, printed hors texte, one of 400 numbered copies on Arches laid paper.
Spine and boards faintly sunned at the margins, otherwise a pleasing copy.
First edition, one of 330 numbered copies on Arches wove paper.
Minor tears to the head and tail of the spine; a pleasing copy.
With wood-engraved illustrations by François de Marliave, printed in several colours by E. Gasperini.
