Paris (France)

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Minor stains of no consequence to edges and spine, otherwise a handsome copy.
Work illustrated with a photographic gathering at the end of the volume
Autograph inscription signed by Jean Lacouture to Revue Esprit on the half-title page.

Rare first edition.
Full glazed fawn calf binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt and blind-stamped typographical motifs, title and author labels lacking, gilt friezes at head and foot, one joint cracked at head, gilt roulettes (faded) on headcaps, frame of gilt frieze on boards struck at their centers with a blind-stamped mandorla, some angular rubbing to boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, corners slightly bumped, gilt edges at head and foot of leading edges, marbled edges, contemporary romantic binding.
Foxing.
Work decorated with one engraving as well as 4 folding plates hors-texte (the first of these with a tear in its left margin), two leaves of manuscript notes relating to the work have been bound at the end of the volume.

First edition illustrated with 15 etched portraits engraved by Jeanron; the portrait of Camille Desmoulins is before letters.
At the beginning of the volume, the index listing the engraved portraits has been marked with blue ink in the left margin of each name.
Some foxing, three lacks at head and foot of spine, small tears and marginal lacks to the dusty angular boards, two portraits (out of 15) are missing from our copy: that of Robespierre jeune and that of Georges Couthon.

First edition of the French translation established by Edmond Barbier.
Biographical introduction and supplementary notes by Charles Martins.
Publisher's full green percale binding, smooth spine, head caps lightly rubbed, blind fillet frame on covers, grey paper endpapers and pastedowns.
Some minor foxing of no consequence.
Work illustrated with 30 figures in the text.
Very rare and handsome copy.

Edition with some parts in first edition.
Handsome copy.
Manuscript signature of Théodore Monod on the title page.

First edition, one of 310 numbered copies on rivoli vellum, the only deluxe copies.
Edition established by Régis Tettamanzi.
Copy in mint condition.

First edition.
A handsome and rare pamphlet.

Pocket book format edition of the French translation.
Light foxing to edges.
Manuscript signature of Tahar Ben Jelloun in Arabic characters.

New edition of the French translation, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Covers marginally soiled, handsome interior condition.
Autograph inscription dated 1997 and signed by Carlos Fuentes to a man named Jean-Claude.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Handsome copy of this novel recounting the vicissitudes and struggle of a man trying to authenticate a Van Gogh painting discovered at a second-hand dealer's.
Inscribed by Georges Arnaud to Cécile Jachobien: "... ou tout est bien qui finit MAL... Cordialement Arnaud." ["... or all's well that ends BADLY... Cordially Arnaud."]

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Preface by Jean-Claude Killy.
Inscribed by Guy Drut to a man named Jean.

First collected edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Coffee stains on the spine, covers, an endpaper and the edges.
Curious and fine signed autograph inscription from Bernard Frank to one of his close female friends named Micheline: "A Micheline, vingt ans avant on s'aimait déjà chût ! pas un mot à Monique son éternel amant Bernard le 25/6/2.002" ["To Micheline, twenty years ago we already loved each other shush! not a word to Monique her eternal lover Bernard 25/6/2.002"]

First French edition translated by P. Lorrain with the authorization and approval of the author contained in Charles Dickens's bilingual preface, dated January 17, 1857.
Contemporary half red shagreen binding. Spine with false flat raised bands decorated with gilt and blind fillets. Gilt titles and volume numbers. Boards rubbed. 4 signatures slightly proud in volume 1. Signature 251 with 2 loose pages in the second volume. Corners bumped. Some foxing.
It was in 1856 that Louis Hachette acquired the rights to Charles Dickens's works, with P. Lorrain as collection director and translator, he would greatly develop the offering of foreign literature in France, and notably English literature with Lorrain's help. Many of Dickens's works had indeed not yet been translated into French while they had achieved success in Germany for example. Thus, Nicholas Nickleby had not yet received a complete translation although the work dates from 1839.

First French edition translated by Leroy, illustrated with a folding map.
Contemporary half green glazed calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with roulettes and 4 blind-tooled ornaments. Green bronze title and volume labels. Traces of rubbing. Narrow split to lower joint at head of volume I with a small lack at head. Some pale scattered foxing. Part of the map's margin absent without consequence. Good copy.
Appointed commander of the Conway, Captain Hall was charged by the British Crown with an exploratory voyage along the coasts of South America. He travelled to Chile via Cape Horn, to Peru, Panama, and finally to Mexico following the coastline. The captain possessed a very lively and engaging narrative sense which he put to the test in other voyages he undertook on his own account, notably in North America.

Illustrated edition with 31 plates, including 6 portraits, 18 views, 2 maps and 6 music plates, initials, tailpieces, headpieces and numerous in-text vignettes. Handsome edition beautifully decorated with romantic motifs. Each title page with an in-text vignette.
Contemporary half blue glazed calf bindings with corners, smooth spines decorated with gilt romantic tools, gilt volume numbers and gilt friezes at foot, some headcaps slightly worn, marbled paper boards, one upper joint of volume 2 with a tear, two tears to lower corners of volume 10, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, labels pasted to versos of first boards and bibliophile stamps on half-title pages, contemporary romantic bindings. Scattered browning as usual, some pages with micro spotting. Traces of rubbing. Spines slightly faded. Some corners bumped.
Set established in elegant romantic bindings.
Contents: I. Les Destinées de la poésie. Premières méditations poétique. La Mort de Socrate; II. Nouvelles méditations poétiques. Le Dernier chant du Pèlerinage d'Harold. Épîtres; III-IV. Harmonies poétiques et religieuses. Pièces diverses; V-VIII. Voyages en Orient; IX-X. Jocelyn. The last 3 volumes which contain La chute d'un ange and Les recueillements poétiques published later are absent from our set as is often the case.

First edition illustrated with 72 folding plates of which 68 have been finely hand-colored. One folding table. At the end of the first three volumes, 4 plates of prices for recreations found at Guyot's.
Contemporary full glazed lavallière calf binding. Smooth spine handsomely decorated. Red morocco title labels, green morocco volume labels. Triple-ruled frame. Upper joint of volume I rubbed, with a hole, split at foot. Lower joint of second volume narrowly split at foot. Headcap of volume IV worn, tailcap partially worn. The corner of one board exposed. Signs of rubbing. 3 holes to half-title of volume II, in volume I p241 at the end, trace of pale dampstaining to corner, otherwise fresh throughout on white paper. Despite some defects, a handsome copy in a quality binding.
A collection composed of scientific amusements designated under the term recreations. (Caillet, 4900, "Collection infinitely more complete than all those published since, including Robert Houdin's"). These recreations would later be called magic tricks, Guyot here provides the mathematical, physical, chemical and optical methods; for make no mistake, these recreations are today a manual of magic. The first volume deals with mathematics, magnets, mechanics and numbers. The second volume covers geometry, light, optics and electricity. The third volume contains "recreations" around magnets, sleight of hand and catoptrics. And the last, fourth volume consists of chapters on mechanics, on occult writing, magnets, water, fire and air... (with "tricks" involving the camera obscura).

Autograph letter signed by composer Giuseppe Verdi, written from his sumptuous apartment on the Champs Elysées. 12 lines in ink on a folded leaf. Some foxing at the top of the first leaf. Pencil note by the addressee at the bottom of the first page, piece of paper pasted over a note by the addressee in ink on the verso of the blank folio. Small piece of paper missing at foot of blank page, some traces of folding.
Handsome autograph letter signed by the famed composer of La Traviata, Rigoletto and Aida.

First edition.
Rare and handsome copy despite slight marginal worming to the boards.

First edition of this illustrated issue with 5 reproductions of works by Georges Braque.
Spine slightly warped with a small tear at foot.
Contributions by Jean Paulhan: "Braque, le patron", André Frénaud: "Noël 39", Robert Ganzo: "Poèmes", Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes "Le grand désert", Gabriel Audisio: "Paris, la poésie"...

Pocket book edition of the French translation.
Manuscript signature by Juan Goytisolo on the title page.

New edition of the French translation, of which there were no deluxe copies.
A handsome copy.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Vassilis Vassilikos to a man named Jean-Claude.

Reprint of the very rare first edition of the French translation printed by Voix ouvrière in 1939.
Cloth spine, unlettered.
A rare and handsome copy.

First edition presented in its original wrappers and under plain orange interim cover.
Title written in pen on a pasted label at head of spine.
One joint split at foot, small marginal lacks to covers.
Memoirs of the very famous tragedienne Hyppolyte de la Tude Clairon (1723-1803), who was venerated by the greatest (Diderot, Voltaire, Louis XV...). The actress was not content merely with her success but contributed to profoundly regenerating French theater. Marmontel was her lover and encouraged her to abandon the declamatory style. The portrait of Mlle Dumesnil, who was long her rival, contains great acrimony. The work is not composed like classical memoirs but rather as a succession of articles and chapters addressing different themes more or less personal, one will find letters, critiques of plays...

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Publisher's full blue paper boards, smooth spine.
Handsome copy complete with dust jacket which has two corner tears.
Signed autograph inscription from André Frossard to Jean Deneux.

Original albumen photograph, carte-de-visite format, mounted on card, with photographer's stamp on verso and lower margin.
Full-length standing portrait of Gustave Doré, dressed in white, around age 35, wearing moustache and goatee. Very rare photograph of the painter in his youth, who was roughly the same age as Carjat.
The painter, with an absent and detached air, almost melancholy, in a very dandy pose, holds a cigar in his right hand with his left hand slipped into his trouser pocket.
Fine print. A copy held by the Musée Carnavalet in Paris, but in a much darker tonality.

First edition, one of the few numbered and nominative copies under sea-green wrappers reserved for advance sheets, ours for Léon Bérard.
Covers lightly soiled and spotted.
Signature of Jacques Lemarchand at foot of front cover.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Fine copy.
Preface and poems by Charles Trenet, iconography.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Georges Didi-Huberman to screenwriter and filmmaker Jean-Christophe Brianchon.

First edition, one of 500 numbered copies on snow-white offset paper.
Spine sunned, one stain to upper right margin of back cover, handsome interior condition.
Work illustrated with 3 drawings by Jacques Hérold.
Autograph inscription signed by Ghérasim Luca to gallerist Nane Stern enriched with a drawing representing the constellation of the Great Bear, thus linking their two names.

First edition of the French translation, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy complete with its illustrated dust jacket.
Rare autograph inscription dated and signed, in French, by Orhan Pamuk to a woman named Florence.

First edition.
Unlettered grey cloth spine, the title of the work has been added, certainly by the dedicatee, in blue ballpoint pen, some angular creases on the boards.
Moving autograph inscription dated and signed by Louis Ferrand: "A mon ami Marcovitch Louis, mon frère de chaîne à Buchenwald. Fraternel souvenir des années sombres. 11 septembre 1966. Louis Ferrand matricule 81.106." [To my friend Marcovitch Louis, my chain brother at Buchenwald. Fraternal memory of the dark years. September 11, 1966. Louis Ferrand registration number 81.106.]
Communist militant and resistance fighter, Louis Ferrand was arrested on November 1, 1943 and severely tortured to the point of being momentarily paralyzed. He was finally deported to Buchenwald camp on August 22, 1944 where he actively participated in the clandestine resistance, notably by diverting food to feed the children and the weakest of his companions in dreadful misfortune. He also took part in the battles for the liberation of Buchenwald camp on April 11, 1945.
Upon his return to France, Louis Ferrand, as one of the principal leaders of the National Federation of Former Deportees and Interned Resistance Fighters and Patriots, was the tireless defender of the rights of his fellow deportees in their struggle to recover their health and live with dignity.
Precious and poignant copy.

Rare first edition.
Minimal foxing to rear board, light sunning to head of front board, otherwise a handsome copy.

First edition.
Minor marginal tears to boards, not affecting text.
Illustrated front cover.

New pocket book format edition of the French translation.
One endpaper appears to be missing.
Rare handwritten signature by Kenzaburo Oe on the title page.

New edition of the French translation of Janusz Glowacki's masterpiece.
An email address inscribed in the margin of the last endpaper, handsome copy.
Rare handwritten signature dated by Janusz Glowacki made in Warsaw.

First edition.
Light marginal stains to covers with some minor creasing.
Preface by Maurice Farman.
Rare pamphlet.

First edition, one of 150 numbered copies on vélin alfama paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the wrinkled spine, small marginal scratches on the boards.
Inscribed by Roger Gaillard to one of his friends named Yvonne.

First edition of this issue of the magazine edited by Jean-Louis Bory, with Pierre Bourgeade as editor-in-chief.
This entire issue is devoted to the work of Hervé Fischer.
Illustrated throughout.
A well-preserved copy, complete with the insert "hygiène de l'art : peinture à déchirer (campagne prophylactique)".

First edition.
The oath of Cabanis, the marriage of Cabanis, Cabanis as politician.
Work illustrated with two portraits and one view.
Fine copy.

Rare first edition.
Spine cracked and restored, lacking at upper right corner of front cover, small angular lacks to covers, handsome interior condition.
Rare but in this condition

New edition of the French translation, this one in paperback format.
Small creases at head of front cover.
Signed autograph inscription from Adolfo Bioy Casares to a man named Jean-Claude.
At foot of title page, Adolfo Bioy Casares' felt-tip pen made an involuntary mark.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Signed autograph inscription from Roger Grenier to a man named Pierre: "... ce portrait d'un inconnu..." ["... this portrait of an unknown person..."]

First edition of the French translation, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Light worming to edges, boards soiled, complete with its illustrated dust jacket.
Manuscript signature dated and made in Paris by José Saramago.

First edition of Gébé's first work, consisting of a collection of his drawings.
Handsome copy complete with its illustrated dust jacket showing small corner tears.
Autograph inscription signed by Gébé to Pierre Courtois, journalist at L'Equipe: "A monsieur Courtois en l'invitant amicalement à un petit footing dans cette rue de la magie. Gébé." ["To Mr Courtois, cordially inviting him for a little jog in this street of magic. Gébé."]

First edition in French for which no deluxe copies were printed.
Foxing to edges, gift inscription from a previous owner in upper right corner of an endpaper.

First edition in French for which no deluxe copies were printed.
Boards very slightly and marginally soiled.
Rare autograph inscription dated and signed by Seamus Heaney, written from Paris, to a man named Jean-Claude.
Seamus Heaney, born in Ulster in County Derry and who died in Dublin, is one of the most important English-speaking poets of the 20th century and became, in 1995, the fourth Irish author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature after William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett.

Reprint of the very rare first edition of the French translation printed by Voix ouvrière in 1939.
Unlettered cloth spine.
Rare and handsome copy.

First edition illustrated with photographs.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Etienne Smulevici, nicknamed "L'inoxydable monsieur Dakar", to a friend named Carole: "A Carole, quelques grains de sable, une tonne de souvenirs, de passion, d'émotion" ["To Carole, a few grains of sand, a ton of memories, passion, emotion"].
Indeed, rally driver Etienne Smulevici holds the record for the number of participations, 40, in the Paris-Dakar which he finished 27 times, which constitutes another record.

The rare first edition.
Boards partially soiled and sunned, handsome interior condition.

First edition of Emile Blémont's adaptation of this 13th-century comic opera by the trouvère Adam de La Halle.
Handsome copy complete with publisher's slip.
Musical adaptation by Julien Tiersot.
Precious autograph inscription signed by Emile Blémont to the hydropath Joseph Uzanne.

First edition of this work denouncing the "Ustasha", Croatian fascists, as responsible for the assassination in Marseille of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia.
A few years later, upon the annexation of Yugoslavia by the troops of the Third Reich and fascist Italy, the "Ustasha" and their founder Ante Pavelić would be installed by Hitler to govern.
Rare work illustrated with photographs.

First edition with a central photographic section.
Spine slightly creased with two small tears at head and foot of spine.

First edition, one of the numbered copies on alfa paper.
Spine sunned with two small tears and lacks at head and foot, minor marginal foxing on boards.
Signed autograph inscription from Charles Maurras to Noël B. de la Mort, literary pseudonym of Noël Bayon.
Bookplate of Noël B. de la Mort pasted facing the first endpaper.

First edition on ordinary paper, false statement of second thousand.
Bradel binding in half indigo cloth, smooth spine lightly browned decorated with a central gilt fleuron, double gilt fillet and date at foot, red shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.

First edition printed on laid paper for the first two volumes.
Publisher's Bradel binding in full sea-green boards, smooth spine with small tears at foot, spine and boards of the second volume uniformly faded and lightened, corners slightly bumped.
Work illustrated with figures in the text.
Handsome complete set in 3 volumes.

Rare first edition.
Three tiny lacks at head and foot of spine, occasional light foxing.
Autograph inscription by the author on the front cover.

Second edition published four months after the very rare first edition, one of 50 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
Half blue box binding, smooth spine, date, title and author's name in palladium, boards with abstract patterned paper, orange paper endpapers and pastedowns, front cover preserved, top edge gilt on deckled edges, binding signed by Boichot workshops.
Very handsome copy elegantly bound.

First edition illustrated with a portrait of Achille Fould as frontispiece and an autograph facsimile at the end.
Some foxing affecting mainly the endpapers.

New edition of the French translation.
Preface by André Maurois.
Two fold marks at upper corner of front cover and lower corner of back cover, small stains on bottom edge.
Rare bilingual autograph inscription signed by Norman Mailer: "To Jean-Claude merci pour les bons mots. Cheers Norman Mailer".

First edition in French of this speech delivered by Kerensky on July 8 and 10, 1918.
Rare and handsome pamphlet.

First edition of this lecture given by Henry Rollin at the National Committee for Social and Political Studies on February 22, 1926.
Rare and handsome pamphlet despite some worming to the covers.

First edition of this lecture given by Henry Rollin at the National Committee for Social and Political Studies on December 22, 1924.
Rare and handsome pamphlet despite some worming and small marginal tears to the covers.

First edition illustrated with 10 photographic plates.
Spine and boards marginally discolored and sunned.

First edition printed in 50 copies on laid paper of this offprint from the journal l'Amateur de livres.
Brochure presented under green plain wrappers, some interior foxing, gift inscription in pen at head of verso of second cover.
This edition, established by Anatole de Montaiglon, was published from the manuscript of the Bibliothèque Nationale.
Autograph inscription signed by Anatole de Montaiglon to monsieur Leblant in upper right corner of the title page.

First edition of this lecture delivered by Albert Thomas to the National Committee for Social and Political Studies on July 9, 1917.
Front cover marginally soiled, handsome interior condition.
Rare pamphlet.

The rare first edition.
Half black shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands showing rubbing at head and foot, marbled paper boards, front board scratched at lower right margin, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, leading edges rubbed.
Copy slightly warped, some foxing.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Henri Durville to piano composer Antonin d'Argenton at the head of the half-title page.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies, with the correct imprint dated August 2005.
Minor creases and light scuffs to board margins.

First bilingual edition, the text in Romanian with, facing, the English translation.
Publisher's binding in full flexible tan boards, smooth spine.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Cezar Ivanescu to Charles Dobzynski.

First edition established by André Malraux, one of 50 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe printing.
Preface by Gabriel-Albert Aurier.
Work illustrated with a frontispiece, 6 headpieces as well as 3 tailpieces engraved on wood by Jean-Gabriel Daragnès.
Fine full-margined copy complete, as stipulated in the print run justification, with the suite of woodcuts on China paper.

First edition, one of the numbered copies on alfa paper.
A tiny tear at the foot of the spine, some light foxing to the margins of certain leaves.
Dated autograph inscription signed by Georges Bernanos to Monsieur Bouvier.

First edition of this issue of Beaux-Arts magazine published on the occasion of Pierre Soulages' exhibition at the Musée d'Art moderne de la ville de Paris.
Fine copy.
Iconography.
Autograph inscription signed by Pierre Soulages to a man named Jean-Claude.

First edition, one of 297 numbered copies on handmade paper.
A handsome copy.

Rare first edition of L'Ile des esclaves.
Nineteenth-century Bradel binding in half beige cloth, smooth spine uniformly soiled, faded long title label, gilt date at foot, cat's eye pebbled paper boards, all edges red. Binding signed Lemardeley.
Scattered foxing.

"Vous avez été leurs maîtres, et vous en avez mal agi ; ils sont devenus les vôtres, et ils vous pardonnent ; faites vos réflexions là-dessus." ["You have been their masters, and you have acted badly; they have become yours, and they forgive you; reflect upon this."] (Trivelin, final scene)

Iosue & Iudices [BIBLE IN HEBREW] [ESTIENNE]
Robert Estienne, Paris 1544, 16mo (7x11,5cm), a volume bound in brown morocco.
First 16mo edition in Hebrew by Robert Estienne. This pocket edition was printed in 17 volumes between 1544 and 1546, after the success of the four-volume quarto edition printed from 1539 to 1544. Each individual volume (unnumbered on the title-page) could be acquired separately and considered complete in itself. Elaborate printer's woodcut device on each title page with book titles set within woodcut cartouche head-pieces. Only the title page is in Latin-Hebrew.

"This little edition, said to be very accurate, is a true typographical jewel, and perhaps the most beautiful one ever printed in the Hebrew language.” “Cette petite édition que l'on dit fort exacte, est vraiment un bijou typographique, et peut-être ce qui a jamais été imprimé de plus beau en langue hébraïque" (A. A. Renouard, Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne)
Brown morocco later binding (1590-1615), smooth spine with gilt fillets, double gilt borders on covers, all edges gilt. Marginal wormhole on the lower part of the leaves, not affecting the text. Upper part of joint slightly cracked, some rubbing.
This edition is based on the Hebrew Soncino princeps published in 1488, and was established by Humanist François Vatable, early scholar of Hebrew studies during the Renaissance and royal lecturer of Hebrew under Francis I. The text in Hebrew follows the Masoretic tradition and presents diacritics that facilitate its vocalization.
Talented scholar François Vatable (1495-1547) was a member of the ‘Cénacle de Meaux' founded by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples and published with him in 1530 the first complete French translation of the Bible known as the Bible of Antwerp. After founding the Collège de France in 1530, King Francis I appointed him chair of Hebrew studies. As a Royal lecturer he actively participated ten years later in a Hebrew edition the Bible with Robert Estienne (1503-1559) – printer to the King in Latin and Hebrew.
This edition is undoubtedly a real typographical feat for a small format text in Hebrew lettering. It was certainly intended for scholarly use by Sorbonne and Collège Royal students, given its pocket size sold in separate individual volumes. The presence of numerous contemporary marginal notes further indicates its educational purpose, as is the numbering of lines of several pages in some of our volumes.
A very beautiful and scarce collaborative work by two of the greatest figures of Parisian humanist scholarship – a fine example of the renewed interest in classical texts and their study in the original language.
Provenance: library of Charles John Dimsdale (1801-1872), fifth baron of the Russian Empire, with his bookplate on each pastedown endpaper.

Liber Paralipomenon [BIBLE IN HEBREW] [ESTIENNE]
Robert Estienne, Paris 1545, 16mo (7x11,5cm), a volume bound in brown morocco.
First 16mo edition in Hebrew by Robert Estienne. This pocket edition was printed in 17 volumes between 1544 and 1546, after the success of the four-volume quarto edition printed from 1539 to 1544. Each individual volume (unnumbered on the title-page) could be acquired separately and considered complete in itself. Elaborate printer's woodcut device on each title page with book titles set within woodcut cartouche head-pieces. Only the title page is in Latin-Hebrew.

"This little edition, said to be very accurate, is a true typographical jewel, and perhaps the most beautiful one ever printed in the Hebrew language.” “Cette petite édition que l'on dit fort exacte, est vraiment un bijou typographique, et peut-être ce qui a jamais été imprimé de plus beau en langue hébraïque" (A. A. Renouard, Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne)
Brown morocco later binding (1590-1615), smooth spine with gilt fillets, double gilt borders on covers, all edges gilt. Joints, corners and spine-ends expertly restored.
This edition is based on the Hebrew Soncino princeps published in 1488, and was established by Humanist François Vatable, early scholar of Hebrew studies during the Renaissance and royal lecturer of Hebrew under Francis I. The text in Hebrew follows the Masoretic tradition and presents diacritics that facilitate its vocalization.
Talented scholar François Vatable (1495-1547) was a member of the ‘Cénacle de Meaux' founded by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples and published with him in 1530 the first complete French translation of the Bible known as the Bible of Antwerp. After founding the Collège de France in 1530, King Francis I appointed him chair of Hebrew studies. As a Royal lecturer he actively participated ten years later in a Hebrew edition the Bible with Robert Estienne (1503-1559) – printer to the King in Latin and Hebrew.
This edition is undoubtedly a real typographical feat for a small format text in Hebrew lettering. It was certainly intended for scholarly use by Sorbonne and Collège Royal students, given its pocket size sold in separate individual volumes. The presence of numerous contemporary marginal notes further indicates its educational purpose, as is the numbering of lines of several pages in some of our volumes.
A very beautiful and scarce collaborative work by two of the greatest figures of Parisian humanist scholarship – a fine example of the renewed interest in classical texts and their study in the original language.
Provenance: library of Charles John Dimsdale (1801-1872), fifth baron of the Russian Empire, with his bookplate on each pastedown endpaper.

Proverbia Salomonis & Iob [BIBLE IN HEBREW] [ESTIENNE]
Robert Estienne, Paris 1544, 16mo (7x11,5cm), a volume bound in brown morocco.
First 16mo edition in Hebrew by Robert Estienne. This pocket edition was printed in 17 volumes between 1544 and 1546, after the success of the four-volume quarto edition printed from 1539 to 1544. Each individual volume (unnumbered on the title-page) could be acquired separately and considered complete in itself. Elaborate printer's woodcut device on each title page with book titles set within woodcut cartouche head-pieces. Only the title page is in Latin-Hebrew.

"This little edition, said to be very accurate, is a true typographical jewel, and perhaps the most beautiful one ever printed in the Hebrew language.” “Cette petite édition que l'on dit fort exacte, est vraiment un bijou typographique, et peut-être ce qui a jamais été imprimé de plus beau en langue hébraïque" (A. A. Renouard, Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne)
Brown morocco later binding (1590-1615), smooth spine with gilt fillets, double gilt borders on covers, all edges gilt. Binding slightly rubbed.
This edition is based on the Hebrew Soncino princeps published in 1488, and was established by Humanist François Vatable, early scholar of Hebrew studies during the Renaissance and royal lecturer of Hebrew under Francis I. The text in Hebrew follows the Masoretic tradition and presents diacritics that facilitate its vocalization.
Talented scholar François Vatable (1495-1547) was a member of the ‘Cénacle de Meaux' founded by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples and published with him in 1530 the first complete French translation of the Bible known as the Bible of Antwerp. After founding the Collège de France in 1530, King Francis I appointed him chair of Hebrew studies. As a Royal lecturer he actively participated ten years later in a Hebrew edition the Bible with Robert Estienne (1503-1559) – printer to the King in Latin and Hebrew.
This edition is undoubtedly a real typographical feat for a small format text in Hebrew lettering. It was certainly intended for scholarly use by Sorbonne and Collège Royal students, given its pocket size sold in separate individual volumes. The presence of numerous contemporary marginal notes further indicates its educational purpose, as is the numbering of lines of several pages in some of our volumes.
A very beautiful and scarce collaborative work by two of the greatest figures of Parisian humanist scholarship – a fine example of the renewed interest in classical texts and their study in the original language.
Provenance: library of Charles John Dimsdale (1801-1872), fifth baron of the Russian Empire, with his bookplate on each pastedown endpaper.

First edition, one of 50 copies on China paper printed specially for the bookseller Carteret, ours bearing No. 1, the only deluxe copies.
Work consisting of 87 plates of drawings by the author which he captioned in order to ridicule bourgeois marriage.
Bradel binding in half green morocco with corners, smooth spine slightly discolored, gilt date at foot, marbled paper sides, covers and spine preserved, endpapers and pastedowns of combed paper, top edge gilt on deckled edges, contemporary binding signed Durvand.
Handsome full-margined copy agreeably bound in contemporary binding signed Durvand.

First edition, one of 350 numbered copies on laid paper, the only printing after 25 on Holland paper.
Spine slightly browned with a tear at head and a small lack at foot, a crease in the right margin of the first cover and following leaves.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by André Suarès to his doctor H. Compain: "... en souvenir de ses bons soins..." ["...in remembrance of his good care..."]

Prophetia Ieremiae [BIBLE IN HEBREW] [ESTIENNE]
Robert Estienne, Paris 1545, 16mo (7x11,5cm), a volume bound in brown morocco.
First 16mo edition in Hebrew by Robert Estienne. This pocket edition was printed in 17 volumes between 1544 and 1546, after the success of the four-volume quarto edition printed from 1539 to 1544. Each individual volume (unnumbered on the title-page) could be acquired separately and considered complete in itself. Elaborate printer's woodcut device on each title page with book titles set within woodcut cartouche head-pieces. Only the title page is in Latin-Hebrew.

"This little edition, said to be very accurate, is a true typographical jewel, and perhaps the most beautiful one ever printed in the Hebrew language.” “Cette petite édition que l'on dit fort exacte, est vraiment un bijou typographique, et peut-être ce qui a jamais été imprimé de plus beau en langue hébraïque" (A. A. Renouard, Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne)
Brown morocco later binding (1590-1615), smooth spine with gilt fillets, double gilt borders on covers, all edges gilt. Binding slightly rubbed.
This edition is based on the Hebrew Soncino princeps published in 1488, and was established by Humanist François Vatable, early scholar of Hebrew studies during the Renaissance and royal lecturer of Hebrew under Francis I. The text in Hebrew follows the Masoretic tradition and presents diacritics that facilitate its vocalization.
Talented scholar François Vatable (1495-1547) was a member of the ‘Cénacle de Meaux' founded by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples and published with him in 1530 the first complete French translation of the Bible known as the Bible of Antwerp. After founding the Collège de France in 1530, King Francis I appointed him chair of Hebrew studies. As a Royal lecturer he actively participated ten years later in a Hebrew edition the Bible with Robert Estienne (1503-1559) – printer to the King in Latin and Hebrew.
This edition is undoubtedly a real typographical feat for a small format text in Hebrew lettering. It was certainly intended for scholarly use by Sorbonne and Collège Royal students, given its pocket size sold in separate individual volumes. The presence of numerous contemporary marginal notes further indicates its educational purpose, as is the numbering of lines of several pages in some of our volumes.
A very beautiful and scarce collaborative work by two of the greatest figures of Parisian humanist scholarship – a fine example of the renewed interest in classical texts and their study in the original language.
Provenance: library of Charles John Dimsdale (1801-1872), fifth baron of the Russian Empire, with his bookplate on each pastedown endpaper.

Prophetia Ezechielis [BIBLE IN HEBREW] [ESTIENNE]
Robert Estienne, Paris 1543, 16°(7x11,5cm), a volume bound in brown morocco.
First 16mo edition in Hebrew by Robert Estienne. This pocket edition was printed in 17 volumes between 1544 and 1546, after the success of the four-volume quarto edition printed from 1539 to 1544. Each individual volume (unnumbered on the title-page) could be acquired separately and considered complete in itself. Elaborate printer's woodcut device on each title page with book titles set within woodcut cartouche head-pieces. Only the title page is in Latin-Hebrew.
Numerous contemporary Latin annotations, certainly by a scholar.
"This little edition, said to be very accurate, is a true typographical jewel, and perhaps the most beautiful one ever printed in the Hebrew language.” “Cette petite édition que l'on dit fort exacte, est vraiment un bijou typographique, et peut-être ce qui a jamais été imprimé de plus beau en langue hébraïque" (A. A. Renouard, Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne)
Brown morocco later binding (1590-1615), smooth spine with gilt fillets, double gilt borders on covers, all edges gilt. Binding slightly rubbed.
This edition is based on the Hebrew Soncino princeps published in 1488, and was established by Humanist François Vatable, early scholar of Hebrew studies during the Renaissance and royal lecturer of Hebrew under Francis I. The text in Hebrew follows the Masoretic tradition and presents diacritics that facilitate its vocalization.
Talented scholar François Vatable (1495-1547) was a member of the ‘Cénacle de Meaux' founded by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples and published with him in 1530 the first complete French translation of the Bible known as the Bible of Antwerp. After founding the Collège de France in 1530, King Francis I appointed him chair of Hebrew studies. As a Royal lecturer he actively participated ten years later in a Hebrew edition the Bible with Robert Estienne (1503-1559) – printer to the King in Latin and Hebrew.
This edition is undoubtedly a real typographical feat for a small format text in Hebrew lettering. It was certainly intended for scholarly use by Sorbonne and Collège Royal students, given its pocket size sold in separate individual volumes. The presence of numerous contemporary marginal notes further indicates its educational purpose, as is the numbering of lines of several pages in some of our volumes.
A very beautiful and scarce collaborative work by two of the greatest figures of Parisian humanist scholarship – a fine example of the renewed interest in classical texts and their study in the original language.
Provenance: library of Charles John Dimsdale (1801-1872), fifth baron of the Russian Empire, with his bookplate on each pastedown endpaper.

Duodecim Prophetae [BIBLE IN HEBREW] [ESTIENNE]
Robert Estienne, Paris 1544, 16°(7x11,5cm), a volume bound in brown morocco.
First 16mo edition in Hebrew by Robert Estienne. This pocket edition was printed in 17 volumes between 1544 and 1546, after the success of the four-volume quarto edition printed from 1539 to 1544. Each individual volume (unnumbered on the title-page) could be acquired separately and considered complete in itself. Elaborate printer's woodcut device on each title page with book titles set within woodcut cartouche head-pieces. Only the title page is in Latin-Hebrew.
Numerous contemporary Latin annotations, certainly by a scholar.
"This little edition, said to be very accurate, is a true typographical jewel, and perhaps the most beautiful one ever printed in the Hebrew language.” “Cette petite édition que l'on dit fort exacte, est vraiment un bijou typographique, et peut-être ce qui a jamais été imprimé de plus beau en langue hébraïque" (A. A. Renouard, Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne)
Brown morocco later binding (1590-1615), smooth spine with gilt fillets, double gilt borders on covers, all edges gilt. Binding slightly rubbed.
This edition is based on the Hebrew Soncino princeps published in 1488, and was established by Humanist François Vatable, early scholar of Hebrew studies during the Renaissance and royal lecturer of Hebrew under Francis I. The text in Hebrew follows the Masoretic tradition and presents diacritics that facilitate its vocalization.
Talented scholar François Vatable (1495-1547) was a member of the ‘Cénacle de Meaux' founded by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples and published with him in 1530 the first complete French translation of the Bible known as the Bible of Antwerp. After founding the Collège de France in 1530, King Francis I appointed him chair of Hebrew studies. As a Royal lecturer he actively participated ten years later in a Hebrew edition the Bible with Robert Estienne (1503-1559) – printer to the King in Latin and Hebrew.
This edition is undoubtedly a real typographical feat for a small format text in Hebrew lettering. It was certainly intended for scholarly use by Sorbonne and Collège Royal students, given its pocket size sold in separate individual volumes. The presence of numerous contemporary marginal notes further indicates its educational purpose, as is the numbering of lines of several pages in some of our volumes.
A very beautiful and scarce collaborative work by two of the greatest figures of Parisian humanist scholarship – a fine example of the renewed interest in classical texts and their study in the original language.
Provenance: library of Charles John Dimsdale (1801-1872), fifth baron of the Russian Empire, with his bookplate on each pastedown endpaper.

First edition printed in only 125 numbered copies on strong laid paper.
Work illustrated by Charles Jouas with 12 compositions engraved with etching and burin by Boisson, including one frontispiece and eleven in-text. These engravings were printed on China paper in Wittman's workshops and mounted on laid paper.
Full lavallière morocco binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with triple gilt compartments, place and date at foot, quintuple gilt compartment framing the boards, important gilt stamped decoration framing the pastedowns, combed paper endpapers, double gilt fillet on the edges, guilloche headcaps, original covers preserved, all edges gilt, binding signed Chambolle-Duru.
Superb copy perfectly executed by Chambolle-Duru.

First edition, one of 16 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe issue.
A transverse fold to the head of the rear board, otherwise a handsome copy.

First edition printed on ordinary paper.
Some minor foxing to the margins of the boards.
Fine dated and signed autograph inscription by Robert de Montesquiou: "A notre jeune ami, Henry Bardac, dont j'apprends avec effroi qu'il a 32 ans. Cela fait réflechir sur l'âge des vieux amis. RMontesquiou Février 1921." ["To our young friend, Henry Bardac, whose age of 32 I learn with dismay. This makes one reflect on the age of old friends. RMontesquiou February 1921."]

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Some small worming to spine.
Autograph inscription signed by Henri de Montherlant to Edouard Caen.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Some light foxing affecting the endpapers and edges.
Autograph inscription signed by Robert de Montesquiou on an endpaper to the politician Jean de Castellane, brother of the famous dandy Boni: "Au comte & à la comtesse Jean de Castellane. Mon petit dernier.. Quel amour d'enfant ! Robert de Montesquiou." ["To Count & Countess Jean de Castellane. My little last one.. What a lovable child! Robert de Montesquiou."]

First edition on ordinary paper.
Some light foxing to margins, covers slightly and partially faded.
Beautiful autograph inscription dated and signed by Robert de Montesquiou to the Countess de Castellane, sister-in-law of the famous dandy Boni: "A la comtesse J. de Castellane. Vous dont les thés ont le bonheur de ne pas être "poétiques", ne les changez pas!.. RMontesquiou 1912." ["To Countess J. de Castellane. You whose teas have the good fortune of not being 'poetic', don't change them!.. RMontesquiou 1912."]