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  2. Morale élémentaire
    Raymond QUENEAU (inscribed to Jean QUEVAL)

    Morale élémentaire[Elementary Morals]

    Gallimard|Paris 1975|14 x 20.50 cm|broché

    First edition, one of the publisher’s press copies.

    Some light spotting to the boards and spine.

    Exceptional signed autograph inscription from Raymond Queneau to his very close friend and biographer Jean Queval, himself a leading figure and co-founder of Oulipo.

    This dedication is followed by a second one — in English and heavily corrected — by Jean Queval: "To the [?], in friendship. NB. I smoke no more. This is a rather nice book, one on which I worked. There's also Beowulf. There is a university in Limoges. Untest uncheck ! Nan is none too well."

    €300
  5. L'ainée
    Jules LEMAÎTRE

    L'ainée

    Calmann-Lévy|Paris 1898|12.50 x 19 cm|relié
    First edition for which there is no mention of leading copies.
    Binding half brown Moroccan brown, back thinned with four nerves set with double gilded nets and triple golden boxes, back with some traces of rubbing, golden date tail, gilt fillet on marble paper plates, guards and contreplats of paper in the bowl, gilded head, preserved covers, ex-libris glued on a contreplat, Contemporary binding.
    Our copy is enriched by an autograph ticket signed by Jules Lemaître, stamped on a guard who left a shadow on the page opposite.
    €60
  6. Les souvenirs de Catherine de Bourbon soeur du roi et du comte de Soissons
    Alice HURTREL, Adolphe LALAUZE

    Les souvenirs de Catherine de Bourbon soeur du roi et du comte de Soissons

    Georges Hurtrel|Paris 1882|11 x 16 cm|relié
    Illustrated edition with 8 two-tone plates and 2 etchings by Adolphe Lalauze.
    Half brown-grey morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands showing minor rubbing, gilt initials at foot, gilt fillet frame on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, light scuffs to corners, gilt edges decorated with incised arabesque design, cherubs and the former owner's cipher.
    Some minor foxing.


    €120
  7. Souvenirs du siège de Paris. Les défenseurs de la capitale. - Les soldats de la République. L'armée française en campagne
    DRANER

    Souvenirs du siège de Paris. Les défenseurs de la capitale. - Les soldats de la République. L'armée française en campagne

    Au bureau de l'Eclipse|Paris s. d. [circa 1870]|23.50 x 32 cm|2 volumes reliés en 1
    For each of the two volumes, first edition illustrated with 32 lithographed plates in color (including the cover) by Draner.
    Half red shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands set with gilt dots and decorated with double fillets and gilt fleurons, cold-tooled fillet frame on red paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, two corners very slightly bumped, illustrated covers preserved.
    Some light foxing, two small corner losses to the first cover of the second volume, some leaves dog-eared at head.


    €400
  9. Le pélerin, (the pilgrin), poème élégiaque en six chants. - Notre-Dame de Fourvières, inspiration lyrique dédiée à la piété lyonnaise
    Joseph BARD

    Le pélerin, (the pilgrin), poème élégiaque en six chants. - Notre-Dame de Fourvières, inspiration lyrique dédiée à la piété lyonnaise

    L.T. Hivert • L. Babeuf • Louis Perrin|Paris • & Lyon 1832|15.50 x 21 cm|2 volumes reliés en 1
    First edition published anonymously for the first volume, third edition statement for the second volume.
    Half old rose sheep binding, smooth spine lightly faded decorated with gilt garlands, minor rubbing to spine, scuffing to marbled paper boards, contemporary binding.
    The second subscription list of the "Pélerin" is absent from our copy.
    Occasional light foxing.
    €300
  10. Keepsake chrétien 1840. Les pèlerinages de Suisse. Einsiedlen, Sachslen, Maria-Stein
    Louis VEUILLOT

    Keepsake chrétien 1840. Les pèlerinages de Suisse. Einsiedlen, Sachslen, Maria-Stein

    A. Canuet • I. Rousset|Paris 1938|13.50 x 20 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
    First edition illustrated with 13 lithographs including one in color on the half-title page.
    Some light dampstaining to margins of leaves in the second half of the work.
    Publisher's full black shagreen binding, smooth spine richly decorated with gilt romantic arabesques, headcaps lightly rubbed without significance, covers stamped at their centers with large gilt decoration, yellow paper endpapers and pastedowns, scratches to corners, edges gilt.


    €100
  12. Les cahiers de la pléiade. Automne 1949
    COLLECTIF

    Les cahiers de la pléiade. Automne 1949

    Gallimard|Paris 1949|19 x 24 cm|broché
    First edition, one of the numbered copies on alfama paper.
    Three tears at head of one endpaper, handsome interior condition.
    Contributions by Léon-Paul Fargue "Tragique", Jean Grenier "Le mal et la liberté", André Breton "La nuit du Rose-Hôtel, et la collection "Révélation", Maurice Fourré "La nuit du Rose-Hôtel", Georges Limbour "Elocoquente", Jorge Luis Borges "Histoire du guerrier de la captive (traduction de Roger Caillois), André Dhôtel "Cieux éclatants du soir", Roger Caillois "Montesquieu ou la révolution sociologique"...


    €40
  15. Les quatorze stations du chemin de la croix
    Germaine Marguerite de COSTER

    Les quatorze stations du chemin de la croix

    Chez L'Artiste|s. l. • (Paris) 1933|9.50 x 11.50 cm|relié sous étui
    First edition of this book entirely produced, illustrated and formatted by Germaine de Coster and printed 100 copies numbered on Japan and justified by the latter .
    Nice copy.
    Illustrated book for each of the 14 stations of an original composition engraved on wire wood with the Japanese method.
    Binding in the bradel half vellum cardboard, paper plates with gold and silver decorative motifs, guards and contreplats of the same paper, gilded head, preserved covers, flexible cardboard case, platd of silver and gold marbled paper.
    €500
  16. Répertoire
    Michel BUTOR

    Répertoire

    Les Editions de Minuit|Paris 1960|14 x 23 cm|broché
    First edition of this book entirely produced, illustrated and formatted by Germaine de Coster and printed 100 copies numbered on Japan and justified by the latter .
    Nice copy.
    Illustrated book for each of the 14 stations of an original composition engraved on wire wood with the Japanese method.
    Binding in the bradel half vellum cardboard, paper plates with gold and silver decorative motifs, guards and contreplats of the same paper, gilded head, preserved covers, flexible cardboard case, platd of silver and gold marbled paper.
    €80
  17. Catalogue d'exposition de l'oeuvre du peintre-graveur Paul Colin chez Edouard Sagot du 26 Mai au 9 Juin 1902
    Paul-Émile COLIN

    Catalogue d'exposition de l'oeuvre du peintre-graveur Paul Colin chez Edouard Sagot du 26 Mai au 9 Juin 1902

    Edouard Sagot|Paris 1902|13.50 x 22 cm|broché
    Rare catalog of the exhibition devoted to the work of Paul Colin, held at the publisher of prints Edouard Sagot, from May 26 to June 6, 1902.
    Some inevitable foxinges on Chinese paper cover plates, pleasant interior state.
    The catalog is illustrated with 5 original Paul Colin woods, including 2 on the cover plates.
    A handwritten correction about an exposed work (the 31st which had been forgotten in the exhibition's census)
    Preface by Gustave Geffroy.
    Note that this catalog is printed on vellum and watermarked "Victor Hugo".
    €680
  19. Bristol postal autographe signé concernant le projet d'organisation d'un colloque sur Raymond Roussel
    Jean RICARDOU

    Bristol postal autographe signé concernant le projet d'organisation d'un colloque sur Raymond Roussel

    Paris 5 Octobre 1975|8 x 12.50 cm|une feuille avec enveloppe
    Bristol autograph signed by Jean Ricardou Georges Raillard, literary critic and professor at the University of Vincennes-Saint Denis, about a symposium on Raymond Roussel organized at the initiative of Gilbert Lascault and Georges Raillard and which Jean Ricardou was invited to participate.
    20 lines in felt, envelope attached.
    "P, 5/10/75.
    Okay, in principle, dear Raillard, to participate in an Arc on Roussel. And thank you Lascault and you for thinking that I could take place. For me, it will be a matter of time; Still, the deadlines are very reasonable. At first glance, what I do not see is a RR / NR ratio at different levels, but maybe in the meantime I want to do something else ... Yours, well. "
    €60
  21. Histoires de petite ville. Contes et nouvelles
    Charles DEULIN

    Histoires de petite ville. Contes et nouvelles

    E. Dentu|Paris 1875|12 x 19.50 cm|relié
    First edition despite a mention of second edition, one of the few copies on laid that is made no mention.
    Binding in full green shagreen, faded back with five nerves set with gilded nets and adorned with triple gilded boxes adorned in their centers with a gilt typographic pattern, golden wheels on the caps, framing of triple golden nets on the boards struck in their centers a large gold typographic ornament, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, framing of a golden lace on the contreplats, gilt fillets on the cups, gilded head, preserved cover, Contemporary binding signed Frantz.
    Copy nicely established.
    Autograph signed by Charles Deulin: "To Dr. G. Piogey my friend and my savior ..."
    €250
  23. Hugh Weiss
    Hugh WEISS

    Hugh Weiss

    Galerie de Seine|Paris 1981|15.50 x 21 cm|broché
    First edition of this catalog of the exhibition entitled "New Architectures" held at the Seine Gallery from February 19 to March 21, 1981.
    The second board of the catalog is slightly discolored in the foot.
    Pleasant illustrated example of reproductions of Hugh Weiss's works.
    We add the invitation card to the opening of the exhibition, Thursday, February 19, on which Hugh Weiss broke a signed autograph tribute enriched with a drawing representing the face of a character characteristic of his style.
    €100
  30. Philosophie de l'univers
    Pierre-Samuel DUPONT DE NEMOURS

    Philosophie de l'univers

    Goujon fils|Paris Fructidor An VII (1799)|13.50 x 21.50 cm|relié
    Third edition, definitive and partly original as augmented by several notes and a table of contents.
    Binding in marbled sheepskin, smooth back adorned with triple gilded nets, monograms and date (Year I) gilded tail tail, title label of black shagreen, marble paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, red head.
    Illustrated book, frontispiece, a portrait of Pierre-Samuel Dupont de Nemours.
    The work begins with the poem-dialogue entitled "Oromasis" with its own title page (Oromasis, poem dialogue / The Year One) placed next to the portrait of Dupont de Nemours and is followed by "Principles and research on the Philosophy of the Universe ", text dedicated to his friend Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and his wife.
    Our copy is enriched by a long biographical note of five pages about the author by the famous bibliophile Alcide de Beauchesne who has linked to his monogram the book.
    €680
  35. Michel Butor et ses peintres
    (Michel BUTOR)

    Michel Butor et ses peintres

    Musée des Beaux-Arts du Havre|Paris 1973|18 x 24 cm|agrafé
    First edition of this exhibition catalog held at the Museum of Fine Arts of Le Havre, the Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels and Massena Museum in Nice.
    Pleasant copy adorned with reproductions of works by Pierre Alechinsky, Christian Dotremont, Camille Bryen, Bernard Dufour, Jacques Herold, Andre Masson, Sebastian Matta, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Victor Vasarely ...
    Autograph dedication signed and dated by Michel Butor to his friends Georges and Alice Raillard.
    €80
  38. Mr. Cryptogame
    Rodolphe TÖPFFER

    Mr. CryptogameMr Bachelor Butterfly

    Imprimerie Levé|Paris s. d. [circa 1870]|28 x 19.50 cm|relié
    Rodolphe TÖPFFER & CHAM
    Mr. Cryptogame [Mr Bachelor Butterfly]
    Imprimerie Levé [Garnier] | Paris n. d. [c. 1870]| 28 x 19.5 cm | publisher's binding
    New Garnier edition. 64 pages of illustrations. The unique collaboration between the two inventors of comic books.
    Publisher's illustrated cloth in full red glazed calico, spine decorated at the top and bottom with gilt fillets and motifs with a gilt title, boards framed with black fillets and arabesques, the first with a large golden illustration in the centre, original blue endpapers, all edges gilt.
    The upper spine end very slightly lifting, top joint of the upper board a little open, minor. Very fresh copy without any foxing whatsoever.
    €350
  44. Famille sans nom
    Jules VERNE

    Famille sans nom

    Hetzel|Paris 1907|18 x 28 cm|cartonnage de l'éditeur
    Illustrated edition with 82 drawings by G. Tiret-Bognet and one map.
    Publisher's Hetzel binding "à l'éventail et à l'éléphant" in full red cloth, front cover in polychrome signed by Engel, back cover type "i" as indicated by Jauzac, spine with lighthouse, original blue endpapers, all edges gilt.
    Headcap with very minor rubbing, otherwise a handsome copy.
    Romanian gift inscription in ink on the title page.
    Famille sans nom recounts the life of a Lower Canada family during the Patriots' Rebellion (1837-1838).

    €700
  45. Berlingot et Décousu - Aventures de deux Saltimbanques
    Georges DELAW

    Berlingot et Décousu - Aventures de deux Saltimbanques

    Adrien Sporck|Paris 1929|26.50 x 19.50 cm|relié
    Georges DELAW
    Berlingot et Décousu – Aventures de deux Saltimbanques
    Adrien Sporck | Paris 1929 | 26.5 x 19.5 cm| publisher's binding
    First edition illustrated with in-text color drawings by Georges Delaw.
    Illustrated publisher's cloth.
    Georges Delaw, the grandson and son of café owners from Sedan, France, moved into Montmartre in 1893 where he became one of the regulars of the Chat Noir, creating shadow theatre plays that were very fashionable at the time. In addition to his collaborations with humorous magazines such as Le Rire, La Vie Drôle and Fantasio, he remains very attached to the illustration of books for young people.
    €800
  46. Les vieilles villes des Flandres. Belgique et Flandre française
    Albert ROBIDA

    Les vieilles villes des Flandres. Belgique et Flandre française

    Librairie Dorbon Aîné|Paris s. d. [1908]|17.50 x 27.50 cm|en feuillets sous chemise
    First edition printed in 126 copies, ours one of 100 on Holland Van Gelder paper illustrated with 155 original compositions including 25 plates. Our copy is complete with its original etching, its Japan paper suite of the 25 plates, the original cover as well as the etching with remarque.
    Our copy is presented in its publisher's decorated chemise in full grey cloth. Ties missing.
    €400
  50. Introduction à la philosophie védanta. Trois conférences faites à l'Institut Royal en Mars 1894
    Friedrich Maximilian MULLER

    Introduction à la philosophie védanta. Trois conférences faites à l'Institut Royal en Mars 1894

    Ernest Leroux|Paris 1899|12 x 19.50 cm|relié
    First edition of the French translation by Léon Sorg.
    Bradel binding in half almond green cloth, smooth spine decorated with gilt floral motif, double gilt fillet at foot, red shagreen title-label, one small black stain at foot of spine, marbled paper boards, front board with small stain at foot, contemporary binding.
    A rare and handsome copy.
    €150
  51. Le D. Man
    Gabriel POMERAND

    Le D. Man

    Christian Bourgois|Paris 1966|13 x 21.50 cm|broché
    First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
    A dizzying dive into the world of L.S.D. by "the archangel Gabriel," a legendary figure from Saint-Germain-des-Prés and one of the founders of Lettrism. In 1950, Boris Vian described him thus: "Twenty-four years old, five foot six, disheveled hair, black eyes, weight 110 pounds; he was successively a parasite, prisoner, student, resistance fighter, writer, gigolo, then husband. (...) Pomerand was one of the surprising elements of the Tabou, during those beautiful evenings. He had a very personal way of bellowing his Lettrist works in the face of the world."
    A rare and handsome copy.
    €120
  59. Notre-Dame de Val-Joyeux
    Étienne MOREAU-NÉLATON

    Notre-Dame de Val-Joyeux

    Henri Floury|Paris 1900|17.50 x 19.50 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 135 copies on Arches paper numbered and justified by Etienne Moreau-Nélaton , only draw after 5 Japan old.
    Some small freckles without gravity affecting essentially the guards, complete copy of its fragile on protective cover on paper of China.
    Book decorated with illustrations and frames Art Nouveau.
    Signed autograph of Etienne Moreau-Nélaton glass painter Henri Carot: "To the good artist Henri Carot, in strong sympathy ..."
    €250
  61. Entwurf einer Landschaft
    Carl EINSTEIN, Gaston-Louis ROUX

    Entwurf einer LandschaftSketch of a Landscape

    Edition de la Galerie Simon|Paris 1930|19 x 25 cm|relié
    Entwurf einer Landschaft [Sketch of a Landscape]
    Édition de la Galerie Simon Paris 1930 | 19 x 25 cm | full calf
    First edition, one of 90 numbered copies on Holland paper signed by Carl Einstein and Gaston-Louis Roux on the justification page, the only issue with 10 copies on Japan paper and 10 on Chapelle paper.

    With five full page black lithographs by Gaston-Louis Roux, one of which on the frontispiece.

    Binding in full brown-pink box, spine with blue, pink and green title in œser, significant inlaid decoration on the boards, four bands of five strips of pink, purple, green and blue calf, arranged around a central piece of rectangular multi-colored marbled box, endpapers in flesh-side pink suede, wrappers and spine preserved, all edges gilt, dust jacket in half brown-pink box, spine with blue, pink and green title in œser, slip case lined with brown-pink box, binding signed by Georges Leroux and dated 1994.
    Carl Einstein is an anarchist writer, art historian, friend of George Grosz, Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, collaborator of Jean Renoir, lived through the wars and revolutions that shook Europe during the first part of the twentieth century. He volunteer during the Spanish civil revolution in 1936 and went to Barcelona to fight in the ranks of the Confédération nationale du tra
    vail (National Labor Confederation), before joining the Groupe international de la Colonne Durruti (Durruti Column International Group). Of Jewish faith, he committed suicide in 1940 to avoid failing into the hands of the Nazis.

    Magnificent copy perfectly set in a full inlaid box binding signed by Georges Leroux, one of the greatest binders of the second part of the 20th century.
    €5,000
  62. Séquences
    Blaise CENDRARS

    SéquencesSequences

    Editions des hommes nouveaux|Paris 13 juin1913|17 x 22.50 cm|broché

    First edition of Cendrars's second book, printed in 150 copies on handmade Hollande paper and offered to subscribers.

    According to Sonia Delaunay, Séquences, Pâques à New York and theTranssibérien were published at the author's expense, thanks to a small inheritance. The address given - Éditions Hommes nouveaux - 4, rue de Savoie, was in fact the small attic room that Blaise Cendrars occupied at that time.

    A precious copy of Blaise Cendrars's early poems, exceptionally rare and in remarkable condition.

    €8,500
  63. Mémoires tirés des papiers d'un homme d'Etat, sur les causes secrètes qui ont déterminé la politique des cabinets dans les guerres de la Révolution
    Armand-François ALLONVILLE, Alphonse de BEAUCHAMP

    Mémoires tirés des papiers d'un homme d'Etat, sur les causes secrètes qui ont déterminé la politique des cabinets dans les guerres de la Révolution

    L.-G. Michaud|Paris 1831 - 1838|12.80 x 21 cm|13 volumes reliés
    First edition, with 2 maps, one in color, the second plain at the end of volume I, both showing the position of the coalition armies.
    Contemporary full wine-colored sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with rocaille tools. Gilt titles and volume labels. Boards stamped in blind with central medallion in a lozenge with Restoration ornaments. Spines now uniformly faded to blond, the gilding on volumes more or less worn. Some corners slightly bumped. Scattered foxing. Cuts on some head caps. Despite flaws, handsome set in full contemporary binding.
    19th-century armorial bookplate, Count Bernard d'Imécourt. Second bookplate: L. Dussieux.
    Political history of Europe from 1786 to 1815. The author studies the politics of the cabinets of all the great powers in their conduct of war against the French Revolution. The author shows how the Revolution in France overturned the old political and moral world of Europe. The second part of the work, which we owe to d'Allonville, deals in turn with Europe during the First Empire and the change that took place in European politics. Both authors seek to capture the secrets of history's march, meticulously retracing how the upheavals of the Revolution and Empire came about. An officer since 1778 in an infantry regiment of the king's army, François-Armand d'Allonville exercised military functions as far as Russia during the Empire; it was when he returned to France in 1828 that he assisted Alphonse de Beauchamp in various historical works.
    €700
  66. Manuel de chymie
    Antoine BAUMÉ

    Manuel de chymie

    Chez Didot le jeune|à Paris 1766|10 x 16.50 cm|relié
    Second edition statement.
    Contemporary worn full brown marbled sheep binding. Decorated raised-band spine. Red morocco title label. Head cap worn down. Foot cap partly lacking. Upper joint cracked at head and foot. Corners bumped, one broken and trimmed. Surface wear to boards. Overall rubbed. Paper crease at upper right corner extending to page 15.
    Summary of all chemical experiments governed by the phlogistic theory postulate which implies that there exists a fluid in the air at the origin of combustion. This theory was refuted by the discovery of oxygen's role in the combustion process by Lavoisier at the end of the 18th century.

    €250
  67. Elément de chymie, suivant les principes de Becker & de Stahl
    Jean-François DEMACHY

    Elément de chymie, suivant les principes de Becker & de Stahl

    Chez Siméon-Prosper Hardy|à Paris 1757|10 x 17 cm|6 volumes reliés
    First edition. One folding plate at the end of volume I on chemical symbols.
    Contemporary full marbled blonde sheep binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Beige sheep title and volume labels. Set rubbed throughout. Headcaps worn. Scratches to boards. Corners slightly bumped. Upper joint of volume I cracked, lower joint of volume I cracked at foot. Lower joint of volume IV split at head over the first 3 compartments; upper joint cracked at head.
    Treatise and manual of chemistry according to the German theories of Becker and Stahl. Becker originated the phlogiston theory, which held that a principle of combustion was present and active in air, a theory that would be disproved by Lavoisier's experiments on combustion. This phlogiston theory was perfected by Stahl. Demachy devoted his life to spreading German chemistry and successfully translated various treatises. Demonstrator of natural history at the College of Chemistry founded by Louis XVI, Demachy held this position from 1777 to 1801 and, faithful to German theories, refused the evolution of chemistry introduced by Lavoisier and others. Demachy's work is very comprehensive on the history of chemistry and contemporary knowledge.

    €600
  68. La chute d'un ange
    Alphonse de LAMARTINE

    La chute d'un ange

    Charles Gosselin • et W. Coquebert|Paris 1838|13.50 x 21.20 cm|relié
    First edition, without false statement of edition, which is quite rare for this work. The half-titles bear the heading: Complete Works, as the 2 volumes were indeed part of the staggered publication over several years of Lamartine's works, each volume being available for separate purchase, a common practice at the time.
    Contemporary full tobacco calf binding. Smooth spine with 4 romantic tools in mirror arrangement. Brown calf title and volume labels. Blind-ruled frame and gilt fillet. Light scattered foxing. Upper joints rubbed. Traces of rubbing. Handsome copy in full contemporary binding.
    Epic poetry recounting how an angel, in love with a mortal woman, takes human form at the moment she is about to be carried off into slavery by giants. Verlaine found in this book "unprecedented things of beauty." "The new episode that M. de Lamartine publishes today is full of both grandeur and grace, and reveals in the author an energy, a virility that we were far from expecting. Neither the Meditations, nor the Harmonies, nor Jocelyn promised what we find in the Fall of an Angel." Gustave Planche. Revue des deux mondes. 1838.

    €800
  69. Selectiora numismata in aere maximi moduli e museo
    Jean VAILLANT

    Selectiora numismata in aere maximi moduli e museo

    Apud Antonium Dezallier|Parisiis [Paris] 1694|-|relié
    First edition illustrated with a beautiful allegorical frontispiece in a portico engraved and drawn by Erlanger, and 59 plates also engraved by Erlanger. Each plate contains 6 medals, some spaces are empty. Publisher's device on title page with ornate cipher.
    Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Richly decorated spine with raised bands. Brown sheep title-label. Headcap split. Upper joint cracked over the first 4 compartments. Overall rubbed. 3 corners bumped.
    François de Camps, Bishop of Pamiers, owned a collection of Roman medals, which Jean Vaillant, numismatist, published. The medals are classified by historical figures, with brief descriptions given in Latin. This work provides a perfect historical example of a private collector's medal cabinet.

    €600
  71. Description des pyramides de Guizé, de la ville du Caire et de ses environs
    Jacques François GROBERT

    Description des pyramides de Guizé, de la ville du Caire et de ses environs

    Rémont • Chez Logerot-Petiet|à Paris 1801|In-4|relié
    First edition illustrated with 5 plates (a figure of a Mameluke on horseback, a view of Mourat-Bey's palace, a plan, an elevation and a cross-section of the pyramids of Giza) after the author's drawings and a large folding map of Cairo.
    Modern half marbled tawny calf binding with small corners. The spine is a skillful and deceptive pastiche of the original binding. The boards are period, unchanged. Smooth spine decorated with roulettes. Gilt title. Boards and corners rubbed. The map is detached. The 2 single plates are shorter on the outer margin. A handsome copy.
    Just after Bonaparte's Egyptian Campaign, Grobert was placed as commander at Giza. He provides us with one of the first Western descriptions of the pyramids with very fine details and measurements, as well as their histories. The work also contains a description of the city of Cairo. The volumes of the Description de l'Égypte would not appear until 1810 (dated 1809).

    €1,500
  72. Unpublished texts, letters and articles - everything you've always wanted to know...
    Cahiers Céline : collection complète
    Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE

    Cahiers Céline : collection complète

    Gallimard|Paris 1976-1988|14 x 20.50 cm|8 volumes brochés

    First editions, with no deluxe copies printed (except for No. 7) for each volume.
    Our complete set comprises:
    Cahiers Céline 1: Céline et l'actualité littéraire 1932-1957.
    Cahiers Céline 2: Céline et l'actualité littéraire 1957-1961
    Cahiers Céline 3: Semmelweis et autres écrits médicaux
    Cahiers Céline 4: Lettres et premiers écrits d'Afrique 1916-1917
    Cahiers Céline 5: Lettres à des amies
    Cahiers Céline 6: Lettres à Albert Paraz 1947-1957
    Cahiers Céline 7: Céline et l'actualité 1933-1961
    Cahiers Céline 8: Progrès suivi de Oeuvres pour la scène et l'écran.
    Iconography.
    First endpaper of the first volume shadowed due to a press clipping.
    Rare complete set.

    €600
  77. Diccionario geographico, historico e descriptivo, do Imperio do Brazil
    J. C. R MILLIET DE SAINT-ADOLPHE

    Diccionario geographico, historico e descriptivo, do Imperio do Brazil

    J. P. Aillaud|Pariz [Paris] 1845|12.50 x 20 cm|relié
    Rare first edition, translated into Portuguese from the unpublished French manuscript by Gaetano Lopez de Moura. The map of Brazil and the 5 city plans announced were never printed, as evidenced by copies in the British Library, Oxford, and the University of Araquara in Brazil, the first two fully digitized by Google, the third by the biblioteca digital; likewise, copies that have appeared at auction in recent years lack illustrations.
    Contemporary half dark green shagreen binding. Spine with false raised bands decorated with 3 compartmentalized fleurons. Gilt title and volume number. Initials at foot: E.P.B. Minor rubbing traces. Handsome copy.
    One of the first works to give a complete description and history of Brazil with all its provinces and cities. Precious.
    €1,200
  79. Elemens de chymie theorique
    Pierre-Joseph MACQUER

    Elemens de chymie theorique

    Chez Jean-Thomas Herissant|à Paris 1749|10 x 17 cm|relié
    First illustrated edition with 4 folding plates at the end (instruments and tables of different elements).
    Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Red morocco title-label. One lack at head. Spine very rubbed overall. 2 corners slightly bumped. Gilt dulled on spine.
    Engraved esoteric bookplate of AuG. Gilbert.
    The first work published by the chemist and pharmacist Pierre Joseph Macquer, before composing his dictionary of chemistry in 1766 which made him famous. Working alongside Sigaud de la Fond then Lavoisier, he was one of the protagonists of modern chemistry and the abandonment of the Aristotelian system of 4 elements (air, water, earth and fire). In his work, he attempts like other chemists of his era to unveil substances similar to all elements. Following this first volume, Macquer would compose the Elements of Practical Chemistry.

    €350
  80. Minéralogie, ou nouvelle exposition du regne minéral
    Jacques Christophe VALMONT DE BOMARE

    Minéralogie, ou nouvelle exposition du regne minéral

    Chez Vincent|à Paris 1774|13 x 20 cm|2 volumes reliés

    Second edition statement, after the first published in 1762, with 14 folding tables (most copies announcing only 13). 4 pages of catalogue in fine. Author's preface for this new corrected and expanded edition.
    Contemporary full marbled brown sheep binding. Raised band spine with ornaments. Red morocco title label, black morocco volume label. Headcap of volume I torn off, damage to that of volume II. A lack at the tail of volume II. Corners very blunted and stripped. Set very rubbed.
    Red stamp on title page: Bibliothèque de M. Héricart de Thury, Conseiller d'état.
    Treatise on mineralogy based on Wallerius's system and Linné's classification, with the mechanical properties and uses of each mineral, a geography of minerals, a vocabulary and a lexicon. One of the first systematic mineralogy handbooks.

    €800
  81. Description et usage d'un cabinet de physique experimentale
    Joseph-Aignan SIGAUD DE LA FOND

    Description et usage d'un cabinet de physique experimentale

    Chez Gueffier|à Paris 1775|12.50 x 20.30 cm|2 volumes reliés
    First edition, illustrated with 51 folding plates (23 for volume I and 28 for the second, at end of volumes) on heavy paper.
    Contemporary full marbled blonde calf binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title and volume labels. Head of volume I split. One lack in head compartment of volume I. One lack in tail compartment of volume II. Set rubbed and scuffed. Tail of volume I worn. One strip of leather on lower cover of volume I torn away. 3 corners bumped on volume I. 2 plates badly folded in volume I and protruding.
    An extraordinary pedagogue and demonstrator, Sigaud de la Fond early attended the courses of Abbé Nollet (no less famous for his experiments in physics and electricity) whom he would succeed, and quickly assembled a cabinet of experimental physics. His experiments were numerous and engaged in many fields: electricity, but also phosphorus, toothpaste recipes, medicine... Over time, he would devote himself more fully to his physics cabinet and his experiments, while maintaining a teaching activity admired throughout Europe.
    Stamp on title page: M. A. Gelin.

    €800
  82. Iustini ex Trogi Pompeii historiis externis libri XXXXIIII
    TROGUE POMPÉE

    Iustini ex Trogi Pompeii historiis externis libri XXXXIIII

    Apud Hieronymum de Marnef|Parisiorum [Paris] 1585|8 x 13 cm|relié
    New edition. 12 portrait figures of emperors in medallions in The Lives and Deaths of Roman Emperors by Veneto. Publisher's device on title page and verso of last leaf. Printed in italics.
    17th-century German full brown morocco binding. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Black morocco title label. Covers stamped in blind with large central tool, frame of garland with corner tools. Rubbing. Brown stains on title page. Handsome copy.
    The work of Trogus Pompeius is known to us only through the famous epitome made by Justin of his Philippic Histories, which deals with all the countries conquered by Alexander the Great. The Histories of Trogus Pompeius are completed by the De vita et moribus imperatorum romanorum by Giovanni Baptista Egnatio Veneto.

    €800
  83. Album de monogrammes historiques, chiffres, marques, lettres
    Justin H. LALLIER

    Album de monogrammes historiques, chiffres, marques, lettres

    Chez tous les libraires et papetiers|Paris 1872|27.50 x 18 cm|relié
    Illustrated edition with color reproductions of 294 monograms mounted with their identification opposite.
    The collection of monograms is organized around 8 themes: religious monograms; painters, sculptors and engravers; ceramics; publishers, printers and booksellers; emperors, kings and sovereigns; princes, great lords; cities; miscellaneous.
    Following these, 38 blank leaves have been placed with frames intended to receive other categories of monograms, where one actually finds a monogram and an armorial label pasted on the first two blank pages.
    Full purple paper boards binding, smooth unlettered and faded spine, title stamped in gold on the lightened first cover, orange paper endpapers and pastedowns, corners slightly bumped, all edges gilt, contemporary binding.
    Handsome interior condition.

    €300
  88. Moyse sauvé, Idile heroïque
    Marc-Antoine Girard SAINT-AMANT

    Moyse sauvé, Idile heroïque

    Chez Antoine de Sommaville|à Paris 1660|8.50 x 14 cm|relié
    New edition, after the first published in 1653. An allegorical frontispiece, unsigned, quite finely engraved.
    Bound in full contemporary soft vellum. Smooth spine, with illegible and faded penned title. Small brown stain on upper board. Frontispiece faded in margin. A good, fresh copy.
    The author's most famous work, whose classical prosody is still acclaimed today. Although not a member of any school, and especially not that of Malherbe and his disciples, Saint-Amant's style and manner are classical, recounting the story of Moses in the epic genre and in continuous verse. This highly readable, hyperbolic poetry has clear echoes of Victor Hugo. Preface by the author.
    €250
  89. Histoire des poteries, faïences, et porcelaines
    Joseph MARRYAT

    Histoire des poteries, faïences, et porcelaines

    Veuve Jules Renouard|Paris 1866|15.50 x 24 cm|2 volumes reliés
    Illustrated edition with 618 in-text figures and plates hors-texte at the end of the second volume.
    Preface by M. Riocreux.
    Half green sheep bindings, smooth spines faded and decorated with gilt fillets and stippling, epidermures on marbled paper boards, boards stamped at their centers with gilt arms, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, small tears on the leading edges.
    Some light foxing.
    €80
  90. Mes prisons suivies du discours sur les devoirs des hommes
    Silvio PELLICO

    Mes prisons suivies du discours sur les devoirs des hommes

    Delahaye|Paris 1843|18.50 x 26.50 cm|relié
    First illustrated edition with a frontispiece on China paper and 24 hors-texte plates as well as numerous vignettes by Tony Johanot. Fine Romantic illustrated work.
    Publisher's binding in full red shagreen with special tools. Spine richly decorated with a large ornamental panel along its length, the publisher's name at foot. Upper cover with a special panel depicting the author in chains, large rocaille ornamental border tools, blind fillets. Lower cover decorated with a large central tool and rocaille border tools. Interior frieze. Gilt edges. White moiré silk endpapers. Spine gilt slightly faded, otherwise light scattered foxing, mainly on the endleaves and at the beginning, then in the margins. Small brown stains on the lower cover.
    Very handsome copy in its rich publisher's binding.
    My Prisons is the memoir of a man incarcerated by arbitrary power. Following the Neapolitan and Piedmontese revolution against the Austrian occupiers, all prominent figures including Silvio Pellico were imprisoned for ten years at Spielberg in Moravia. Once published, the text achieved great success due to its pious character, Pellico having found hope only through the Catholic religion. The work also contains poetry.

    €500
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