Paris (France)

Edition postérieure de trois mois à l'originale.
spine légèrement gauchi comportant une petite tache en tête, une claire mouillure sur le premier plat, agréable état intérieur.
Envoi autographe daté et signé de Michel Tournier au docteur Jean-Louis Millet.

Photograph of Victor Hugo in Hauteville-HouseLarge original photograph on albumin paper, cabinet portrait size, mounted on thick card.
Photographer's advert to verso.
Rare photograph of Victor Hugo in his house, Hauteville, in the famous red Renaissance drawing room, the writer's favourite, entirely designed by him. The photograph shows the writer seated, his right hand in his vest. In early summer 1878, Hugo had an attack of apoplexy in Paris and went back to Hauteville to convalesce. The photographer, André, took several shots of him at Hauteville. The interesting thing about these pictures is that they are not studio portraits. The glass plates were later recovered by Alexandre Maurice, who printed from them in 1891.
A copy of this photograph is in the museum at Hauteville House. We haven't found any other copy in a public collection.

[PHOTOGRAPH] Photographic portrait of Victor Hugo at Hauteville House
A Maurice, Paris 1878, 10.6 x 16.4 cm, photograph
Large original photograph on albumin paper, cabinet portrait size, laid down on thick card.
Photographer's advert to verso.
Rare photograph of Victor Hugo in his house, Hauteville, in the bosom of his library. The photograph shows the writer seated, hands crossed, looking at the photographer. The curtain can be seen at Hauteville House following restoration. In early summer 1878, Hugo had an attack of apoplexy in Paris and went back to Hauteville to convalesce. The photographer, André, took several shots of him at Hauteville. The interesting thing about these pictures is that they are not studio portraits. The glass plates were lated recovered by Alexandre Maurice, who printed from them in 1891. A copy of this photograph is in the museum at Hauteville House.

Michel Lévy Frères | Paris 1869-1870 | 11 x 18 cm | 7 volumes in contemporary half shagreen

Very important edition, according to Clouzot: “More and more sought-after, quite rightly, this edition includes in first edition: part of the Fleurs du Mal, the Petits Poèmes en prose, Curisosités esthétiques (except for the two Salons), L'Art romantique (except for Gautier and Wagner).”
Les Fleurs du Mal is a third edition, dated 1869.

Volume 1: Les Fleurs du Mal, volume 2: Curiosités esthétiques, volume 3: L'Art romantique, volume 4: Petits Poèmes en prose, volume 5: Histoires extraordinaires, volume 6: Nouvelles Histoires extraordinaires et volume 7: Aventures d'Arthur Gordon Pym.
Contemporary bindings in half brown shagreen.

A rare and precious set in a uniform contemporary binding.

Charpentier et Dumont, Paris 1835-1837, 13 x 21.5 cm, 5 bound volumes
The first edition of the last three volumes. "The first two volumes were reprinted by Charpentier in 1835 without their frontispieces" (Clouzot).
Contemporary half light brown calf over marbled paper boards, spine with large typographic fleurons both gilt and in blind, gilt dentelles to head and foot, gilt initials and title and volume labels of black sheep, marbled endpapers and guards, all edges marbled.
Title and volume labels sunned, a few small scuffs to head and foot of spines. Scattered foxing.
Provenance: Library of the Château de Bois-Boudran with its ex-libris laid down to front pastedown of each volume. Initials "CG" for Charles Greffulhe in gold to spine.
A rare copy in a contemporary uniform binding.

First edition, one of the 50 numbered copies on Japon and re-imposed in quarto Tellière format, the only deluxe copies ("grands papiers").
Spine slightly sunned without significant damage, two small fold to bottom of first cover.
Rare and nice copy wide-margined.

Traité de radioactivité
[Treatise on Radioactivity] First edition illustrated with 7 inset plates and a portrait of Pierre Curie in heliogravure as a frontispiece.
Full marbled paper Bradel binding, title pieces in black shagreen, modern bindings signed Goy & Vilaine.
Three library stamps on the title page of each volume and a stamp at the foot of the photograph frontispiece then repeated on each of the seven plates and at the foot of each last page.

Rare and sought-after.

“Arthur Rimbaud”
Les Hommes d'aujourd'hui n° 318 First edition of this publication in two sheets and the first edition of this text by Paul Verlaine.
On the front, a colour xylograph showing Rimbaud caricatured as a baby playing with the vowels from his eponymous poem.
Very rare.

Manifeste du surréalisme. Poisson soluble
[Manifesto of Surrealism. Soluble Fish]The first edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
The spine very slightly sunned as usual, complete with advertising slip.
Signed autograph inscription from André Breton to Roger Dévignes.