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  2. Paris-Photographe, revue mensuelle illustrée de la photographie et de ses applications aux arts, aux sciences et à l'industrie. Troisième année complète soit 12 numéros
    Paul NADAR, Louis & Auguste LUMIERE
    Paris-Photographe, revue mensuelle illustrée de la photographie et de ses applications aux arts, aux sciences et à l'industrie. Troisième année complète soit 12 numéros
    Office général de Photographie|Paris Janvier-Décembre 1893|18.50 x 27 cm|12 fascicules brochés
    First edition.
    Complete third year in 12 issues of this extremely rare scholarly review founded and directed by Paul Nadar. Each copy includes at least two plates outside the text, including a plate of Nadar's photographic prints and a photograph often reproduced in heliogravure. Contributions by P. Nadar, A. and L. Lumière, A. Marey, G. Geffroy, J. Grand-Carteret, J. Demarçay, Davison, S. Ferrand, H. Fourtier, C. Gravier, A. Guerronnan, Ponton d'Amécourt, H. Reeb, L. Vidal, J. Waterhouse... Among the numerous subjects treated, one will find chronophotography, color reproduction, skies in photography, The pilgrimage to Mecca (very beautiful heliogravure plate outside the text of the grand çalat ceremony)... "We believe we are advancing progress by interesting the public even more in this entirely French discovery of Photography..." ["Nous pensons faire oeuvre de progrès en intéressant encore davantage le public à cette découverte toute française de la Photographie..."]. Thus Paul Nadar concluded his introduction as presentation of this precious review, containing a print by the celebrated photographer in each issue. At the origin of the creation of Paris-photographe, P. Nadar explains the absence of a luxury photography review in France, contrary to the magnificent foreign publications.
    Some rare and minimal marginal dampstains and small tears of no consequence, otherwise very handsome uncut copies forming a set of remarkable rarity.
    €1,700
  8. Le plaisir et la peur
    Henry de MONTHERLANT, Madeleine MELSONN
    Le plaisir et la peur
    Henri Lefèbvre|Paris 1952|25 x 32 cm|en feuilles sous chemise et étui
    First edition, one of 110 numbered copies on vellum from the Marais, only print after 20 vellum from Montval and 10 vellum from Auvergne.
    Illustrated book of chisels with bullfighting subjects by Madeleine Melsonn including 9 full-page and 4 in headers and dead ends.
    Partially insolated boards, otherwise pleasant and rare copy.
    Autograph dedication signed by Henri de Montherlant to Doctor Bocquentin: "... this pleasure and this fear that often ends up in billiards ..." enriched by an autogrape signature signed by Madeleine Melsonn.
    €750
  12. Carminum libri tres
    Jean-Louis GUEZ DE BALZAC
    Carminum libri tres
    Augustin Courbé|Paris 1650|17.50 x 24 cm|relié

    First edition. A handsome allegorical frontispiece by François Chauveau engraved by Regnesson, a title vignette by Picart and various very beautiful engraved ornaments: headpieces, tailpieces, initials...



    Contemporary full speckled brown sheep binding. Richly decorated spine with raised bands. Brown morocco title label. Head of spine split. Foot with lack. Joint cracked at foot. Corners very bumped.
    Works of Latin poetry by Guez de Balzac, the edition prepared by Gilles Ménage. In appendix a selection of letters.

    €450
  22. L'art d'inventer les personnages (les XII types principes. - Leurs 36 subdivisions et 154 980 variétés encore inédites)
    Georges POLTI
    L'art d'inventer les personnages (les XII types principes. - Leurs 36 subdivisions et 154 980 variétés encore inédites)
    Eugène Figuière & Cie|Paris 1912|12.50 x 19.50 cm|relié
    First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Holland paper, only large papers after 2 Japan.
    Bradel binding in half green percaline, smooth back decorated with a golden floral motif, golden date and double thread at the tail, piece of brown shagreen title with rubbing, marbled paper boards, preserved covers, golden head, binding of the era signed Mertens.
    Autograph signed by Georges Polti to Jean Ott on the shadow title page which is shaded.
    €250
  31. Esprit. Littérature de dérision ou littérature de résurrection. N°19 de la 17ème année
    COLLECTIF
    Esprit. Littérature de dérision ou littérature de résurrection. N°19 de la 17ème année
    Esprit|Paris Septembre 1949|14.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
    First edition of this issue of the important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alma du Marais, the only deluxe copies.
    This issue comprises a main section:
    - Littérature de dérision ou littérature de résurrection with texts by Bertrand d'Astorg "Repères pour une littérature de dérision", Jean Cayrol "D'un romanesque concentrationnaire", C.E. Magny "Un romancier de la passivité : François Mauriac", Other articles by Henri Bartoli "Le prolétariat, mythe ou réalité ?", Adrian Miatlev "Tryptique pour Antonin Artaud".
    Stains on the second cover, some light foxing.


    €60
  32. Esprit. La Tchécoslovaquie plaie ouverte. N°6 de la nouvelle série
    COLLECTIF
    Esprit. La Tchécoslovaquie plaie ouverte. N°6 de la nouvelle série
    Esprit|Paris Juin 1970|14.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
    First edition of this issue of the important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alfa mousse, the only deluxe copies.
    This issue is partly devoted to Czechoslovakia with texts by Robert Kalidova "L'année 1968", Antonin Liehm "Entretien avec A. Bednar".
    Other articles by Robert Boyer "Propos d'un justiciable", Casamayor "La loi poison", Maurice Declercq "L'obligation du célibat"...
    Some light foxing.


    €60
  33. Esprit. L'impérialisme. N°4 de la nouvelle série
    COLLECTIF
    Esprit. L'impérialisme. N°4 de la nouvelle série
    Esprit|Paris Avril 1969|14.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
    First edition of this issue of this important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on Alma du Marais paper, the only deluxe copies.
    This issue contains a main section:
    - Imperialism with texts by Jean Boissonnat "L'économie dominante", Jean-Marie Domenach "L'empire américain", Celso Furtado "Les conglomérats et l'Amérique latine", Stanley Hoffmann "Critiques américaines"...
    Other articles: André Frénaud "Poèmes", J. Chalupecky "La nécessité de la liberté"...
    Stains on the second cover and some light foxing.


    €60
  36. Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut
    ABBÉ PREVOST
    Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut
    Javal et Bourdeaux|Paris 1927|24.50 x 29 cm|relié
    First edition illustrated with 15 watercolors by René Lelong, engraved on copper with wash and stipple, in the manner of the 18th century, by Delzers, and printed in colors with registration. One of 100 copies printed on bluish Arches paper. The justification mentions an additional color suite which does not appear in this copy.
    Copy with the crowned cipher at the foot belonging to Her Royal Highness Henriette of Belgium (1870-1948), Duchess of Vendôme.
    Full navy blue morocco binding with bands, lined and signed by Gonin, with mosaic of 2 red fillets. Smooth spine decorated with the author, title and a crowned cipher at the foot, as well as 2 red ribbons. Pastedown composed of 2 moroccos, a navy blue frame with fillets, the second, a large central cobalt square. First endpaper of silk embroidered with gold thread, followed by beautiful blue and gold endpaper. Uncut copy, full-margined, with its blue covers imitating morocco preserved. Rare very pale foxing on the white endpapers and a few scattered throughout.
    Superb copy bound by Gonin for Henriette of Belgium. Gonin was the princess's publisher. A talented watercolorist, she illustrated several works including one on Alpine flowers published by Gonin.
    €2,000
  41. "Toi, tu peux m'écrire en Français. J'ai du mal à l'écrire mais je le comprends très bien".
    Lawrence DURRELL
    "Toi, tu peux m'écrire en Français. J'ai du mal à l'écrire mais je le comprends très bien".Signed autograph letter addressed to Jani Brun
    Paris 18 juillet 1969|21.60 x 28 cm|1 page sur un feuillet, enveloppe jointe
    Autograph letter signed by Lawrence Durrell addressed to his lover Jani Brun dating from the beginning of their relationship. One page in blue ballpoint pen. Envelope included.
    The writer addresses here one of the first letters of his correspondence with his young friend from Montpellier, which extended over more than two decades. Still unaccustomed to the French language, he asked for help translating his letter: "J'espère bien mieux te connaître [...] Gérard a traduit ceci de l'anglais pour moi. Comprendrais-tu si la prochaine fois j'écrivais en anglais [...] ?" ["I hope to get to know you much better [...] Gérard translated this from English for me. Would you understand if next time I wrote in English [...] ?"]

    After many years spent in Greece, Egypt and Rhodes, the traveling writer Lawrence Durrell was forced to flee Cyprus following popular uprisings that led the island to its independence from the British crown. Rich only with a shirt and a typewriter but crowned with the success of his novel Bitter Lemons of Cyprus (Les citrons acides), he arrived in France in 1956 and settled in the Languedoc village of Sommières. In the "Tartès house," his large residence surrounded by trees, he wrote the second part of his work, his monumental Avignon Quintet, devoted himself to painting and received his illustrious friends, including the couple Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin, violinist Yehudi Menuhin, London publisher Alan G. Thomas, and his two daughters Penelope and Sappho.
    Among the olive trees and under the Mediterranean sun, he met in the mid-1960s the young and vivacious "Jany" (Janine Brun), a woman from Montpellier in her thirties with devastating beauty, who worked in the Antiquities department of the Sorbonne in Paris. She was nicknamed "Buttons" in memory of their first meeting, where the young woman wore a dress covered with buttons. Henry Miller also fell under the charm of "Buttons," praising her beauty and eternal youth in exceptional unpublished letters. The three companions spent memorable Parisian evenings of which we retain precious autograph traces through their epistolary exchanges. Recommended by Durrell, she made numerous trips notably to England from where she received vast correspondence from the writer as well as original works of art signed with his artist pseudonym, Oscar Epfs.
    €200
  47. Les fleurs à Paris
    Hugues LE ROUX
    Les fleurs à Paris
    A. Quantin|Paris 1890|13.50 x 18 cm|relié
    First edition, one of 500 numbered copies on tinted vellum, single edition with 25 Japan.
    Bradel binding in full glazed Havana calfskin, smooth back decorated with a central monogram (A in the Q) and a golden floral pattern, tiny traces of friction without gravity, a black spot at the foot of a bit, date in the tail, golden casters on the caps, repetition of the same golden monogram at the head of the first board, small spots without gravity on the boards, golden nets on the cuts, double framing of golden lace on the guards and the paper counterplates in the tank , fragile double wrappers preserved and bound in, golden edges, ex-libris pasted on the back of the first cover, elegant Contemporary binding.
    Autograph signed by Hugues Le Roux to his publisher A. Quantin on the false title page.
    Illustrated book of 5 engravings by Paul Avril including 1 in frontispiece.
    Shaded false title page, otherwise good interior condition.
    Pleasant copy established in an elegant Contemporary binding.
    Provenance: library of A. Quantin with his engraved ex-libris.
    €100
  49. La Russie - Voyage pittoresque de Saint-Pétersbourg à Moscou
    Leitch RITCHIE
    La Russie - Voyage pittoresque de Saint-Pétersbourg à Moscou
    Louis Janet|Paris s. d. [circa 1840]|13 x 20.50 cm|relié
    Edition illustrated with 25 hors-texte engravings.
    Half brown Russia morocco binding, smooth spine slightly faded decorated with a gilt decorative motif representing the roof of a Russian church, apple-green paper boards decorated with geometric motifs stamped in blind, orange watered silk endpapers and pastedowns, edges gilt.
    Some foxing affecting the engravings, black ink offset at head of one endpaper on verso of first board.
    Provenance: from the library of Bourg d'Iré, property of Count de Falloux with reproductions of his bookplate pasted on the spine of the binding and his bookplate pasted on a pastedown.
    €300
  54. Patriotisme et paternité
    Fernand BOVERAT
    Patriotisme et paternité
    Grasset|Paris 1913|12 x 19 cm|relié
    First edition, press service mark at the head of the second cover plate.
    Binding in half red morocco, smooth back, golden initials in tail, slightly rubbed joints without gravity, boards of marbled paper, guards and counterplates of paper in the tank, ex-libris glued on a counterplate, preserved covers, Contemporary binding .
    Autograph signed by Fernand Boverat to Joseph Reinach.
    Provenance: Joseph Reinach's library with his engraved ex-libris glued at the head of a counterplate.
    €150
  60. Les delices de l'esprit : dialogues dediez aux beaux esprits du monde
    Jean DESMARETS DE SAINT-SORLIN
    Les delices de l'esprit : dialogues dediez aux beaux esprits du monde
    Chez Florentin Lambert|à Paris 1661|24 x 36 cm|relié
    First edition of 1658, with a relay title at Lambert's address and dated 1661. Apart from the title page, the only notable difference is the removal of the epistle to Cardinal Mazarin who died on 9 March 1661. The illustration was created by François Chauveau: 4 ornamented frontispiece titles, 15 plates whose subjects are placed at the center of flowered letters and figures, and 5 plates decorated only with large figures. The text is enhanced with 135 head- and tailpieces and initial letters engraved on wood in the style of the frontispieces and plate figures. A slip indicating the transfer of privilege dated 12 September 1659 has been pasted at the bottom of the privilege extract. On the last leaf, an errata has been mounted by the publisher.
    Modern binding in full glazed brown Russia leather (straight-grained moroccoized calf). Jansenist spine with raised bands. Red glazed calf title label. Fillet at head and headcap and framing the covers. Perfect condition of this binding executed in very fine leather.
    The work is considered the first expression of baroque ornamentation, and is certainly its greatest achievement. A spiritual work, both philosophical and theological, the book exposes through dialogues, over thirty days and four parts, the conversion of the worldly and sensual Philédon to the contemplative and pious life by his now converted friend Eusèbe. The dialogues each have a subject or theme: On the immortality of the soul, On the delights of philosophy, The city of true pleasure. Allegorical commentaries on biblical texts follow the dialogues: Genesis, The Apocalypse...
    €3,000
  62. Eurythmies
    Jean ROYERE
    Eurythmies
    Albert Messein|Paris 1904|15 x 21 cm|relié
    first edition on current paper.
    Binding in half brown heartache, back with five nerves slightly cleared up and with small traces of friction, golden date in tail, boards, guards and counterplates of marbled paper, covers and back preserved, golden head, binding signed Canape & Corriez.
    Beautiful autograph dedication signed by Jean Royère: "To the poet Armand Godoy / I offer these first beginnings / which were mine / as a testimony of aesthetic communion."
    €100
  66. Oeuvres
    Jean-Charle Julien LUCE DE LANCIVAL
    Oeuvres
    Brissot-Thivars & Cie|Paris 1826|13 x 21 cm|2 volumes reliés
    First edition.
    Full caramel sheep binding, smooth spines decorated with gilt cartouche and ornamental motifs in gilt and blind, black shagreen title-labels, gilt roulettes on headcaps with minor harmless defects, boards with black sheep frame showing traces of rubbing and two small lacks and decorated with central typographical motifs in blind, gilt fillets on leading edges, marbled edges, contemporary Romantic binding.
    Work illustrated with an engraved portrait of the author as frontispiece.
    Notice by Collin de Plancy and speeches delivered at the grave of L. de Lancival by Deguerle, Lacretelle & Roger.
    Scattered foxing.
    €100
  67. La Femme jugée par les grands écrivains des deux sexes ou la femme devant Dieu, devant la nature, devant la Loi et devant la société. Riche et précieuse mosaïque de toutes les opinions émises sur la femme, depuis les siècles les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours. Nouvelle édition entièrement refondue et considérablement augmentée. Seul ouvrage qui réunisse un ensemble aussi complet et aussi varié sur la femme, par L. J. Larcher, avec une introduction de M. Bescherelle ainé. LARCHER, L. J
    Loredan LARCHER
    La Femme jugée par les grands écrivains des deux sexes ou la femme devant Dieu, devant la nature, devant la Loi et devant la société. Riche et précieuse mosaïque de toutes les opinions émises sur la femme, depuis les siècles les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours. Nouvelle édition entièrement refondue et considérablement augmentée. Seul ouvrage qui réunisse un ensemble aussi complet et aussi varié sur la femme, par L. J. Larcher, avec une introduction de M. Bescherelle ainé. LARCHER, L. J
    Garnier|Paris S.d. [1854]|19 x 28.50 cm|Relié
    New edition, entirely revised and considerably expanded. Illustrated with 21 steel engravings (Vicaire lists only 18) by Staal, engraved by Delanoy...
    Half wine-red shagreen. Spine with raised bands decorated with roulettes and a large central mirrored ornament. Top edge gilt. Spine uniformly lightened. Minor scuffing to tail. Very good copy, particularly fresh. Printed on fine laid paper.
    The excerpts are structured around qualities acknowledged as specifically feminine (prudery, modesty, jealousy, beauty, coquetry...).
    €350
  71. Oeuvres posthumes de M. le Chevalier de Meré
    Antoine Gombaud MÉRÉ
    Oeuvres posthumes de M. le Chevalier de Meré
    Chez Jean et Michel Guignard|à Paris 1700|9.50 x 17 cm|relié

    First edition.
    Contemporary speckled brown calf binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label. 2 corners slightly bumped. Handsome copy.
    3 treatises present in this collection all concern a reflection on the honest man. The fourth is entitled Le commerce du monde. If Faret had already treated the qualities of the honest man, it is the chevalier de Méré, through his three treatises published after his death, who would be its true theorist, founding his principles on a philosophy of life in society, combining the qualities of the heart with taste, culture and wit.
    It was regarding honesty that Méré and Pascal formed a long friendship. Pascal would subsequently remain faithful to a certain practice of honesty, and above all reflect on the subtleties and delicacy of spirit that it supposed. Méré would be the inspiration for several "pensées".

    €700
  82. Oeuvre romanesque
    Jean GIRAUDOUX
    Oeuvre romanesque
    Grasset|Paris 1955|10.50 x 17.50 cm|2 volumes en reliures de l'éditeur sous étui
    New edition, one of the numbered copies.
    Publisher's full cream boards, blue top edge, smooth spines decorated with gilt repeated decorative motifs on the covers, complete with slipcase.
    Works illustrated with color illustrations by Mariano Andreu, Roger Chapelain-Midy, Pierre-Eugène Clairin, Jacques Despierre, Jean-Denis Masclès, Lila de Nobili, Roland Oudot, Jacques Thévenet and Marcel Vertès.
    €80
  87. La princesse de Bagdad
    Alexandre DUMAS FILS
    La princesse de Bagdad
    Calmann Lévy|Paris 1881|16 x 25 cm|relié
    First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies with 10 on China paper.
    Bradel binding in half blue-green cloth, smooth spine decorated with a gilt fleuron, date at foot, chocolate shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, upper corners slightly bumped, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding signed by Durvand Thivet.
    Handsome copy almost entirely free from foxing.
    €150
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