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Edition illustrated with 20 original Art Deco etchings by Jacques Mauny, one of 200 numbered copies on Hollande paper, the only deluxe issue apart from 25 copies on Japon.

Full caramel morocco binding, spine with four raised bands outlined in black fillets, date gilt at foot, gilt rolls on the headcaps, turquoise morocco doublures framed by triple gilt fillets, brown moiré silk endleaves followed by moiré-effect paper endleaves, original wrappers and spine preserved, all edges gilt, gilt fillets on board edges. Matching slipcase with caramel morocco edges, blue-grey felt lining and sides covered in moiré-effect paper. Magnificent binding signed by Semet & Plumelle.

An...

First edition, one of 1,050 numbered copies printed on vélin labeur paper.
Publisher's binding after an original design by Mario Prassinos.
A fine copy.

First edition on ordinary paper, with a press copy punch mark at the foot of the rear wrapper.

Green half morocco with corners, spine faded, smooth spine decorated with gilt arabesques incorporating red morocco onlays, gilt fillet borders to the marbled paper boards, slightly faded at the edges, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, two bookplates affixed to one pastedown. Binding signed by Le Douarin.

Signed autograph inscription from Colette to her friend Andrée Laferté.

Our copy is further enriched with an autograph postcard from Colette to her friend André Laferté, mounted on a stub at the...

First edition on ordinary paper.

Bound in burgundy half morocco, spine with five raised bands outlined in black, boards covered in moiré-effect paper, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, speckled edges.

Signed autograph inscription from André Malraux to Madame Simone Sivry.

First edition on ordinary paper, without edition statement, bearing the correct colophon dated 30 November 1918.

The 128 deluxe paper copies would only be issued six months later, during the summer of 1919.

Light spotting to the margins of the endleaves, small l and a faint dampstain to the title page and following leaves, a bluish stain to the margins of pp. 339-340 inherent to the quality of the paper.

Bound in contemporary half forest-green morocco over corners, spine with five raised bands ruled in black, gilt date at foot, cat’s-eye patterned paper boards, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed...

Edition limited to 150 numbered copies on wove paper, illustrated with 32 magnificent original colour compositions by Paul Jouve: one on the wrappers, 13 full-page illustrations, 12 headpieces and 6 tailpieces.

The work is further embellished with 25 decorative initials designed by François-Louis Schmied.

Our copy is housed in the publisher's original paper-covered board slipcase, lined with rice paper, and matching vellum-style board portfolio with ties.

Minor splits to the head and foot of the slipcase.

A rare and beautifully preserved copy.

First edition, one of 1,000 numbered copies, the only deluxe issue apart from 13 copies on Hollande paper.
Publisher's pictorial boards after an original design by Mario Prassinos.
Spine slightly compressed at head and foot, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition, one of 515 copies printed, of this catalogue published on the occasion of a Surrealist exhibition held at the Galerie Nina Dausset from 7 to 30 October 1948.

Preface by André Breton.

Booklet with an illustrated frontispiece.

Rare and attractive copy.

Definitive edition, one of 1,040 numbered copies on alfa paper.
Publisher's binding after the original design by Paul Bonet.
Spine slightly faded, as is commonly the case.

First edition, printed in 500 numbered copies. « Le papier nécessaire à la fabrication de cet ouvrage fut offert par Gallimard, mais on ne put tirer que 258 exemplaires et non 500 comme l'annonce l'achevé d'imprimer » (according to a note by Paul Eluard).
Illustrated with 11 photographs of Nusch Eluard, who had died tragically only a few months earlier, by Man Ray and Dora Maar.

Le Temps déborde is a collection of 11 poems published in 1947, only a few months after the sudden and unexpected death of Nusch, Paul Eluard's companion. This ode to their seventeen years together is illustrated with striking portraits of Nusch, captured in all her radiant beauty. This...

First edition, one of 1,050 numbered copies on alfa paper.
Two very faint areas of sunning at the head and foot of the spine, otherwise a very good copy.
Publisher's illustrated boards after the original design by Mario Prassinos. 

First edition.

Contemporary red half morocco, spine with five raised bands ruled in gilt and decorated with gilt ornaments, the initials "L.B." gilt at foot, olive-green morocco lettering-piece, marbled-paper boards, marbled endpapers, corners rubbed.

Scattered foxing, some rubbing to spine and boards.

Printed library stamp of Léon Bienvenu on the title-page.

Precious presentation copy inscribed and signed by Emile Zola to the journalist and man of letters Léon Bienvenu, known as Touchatout.

First edition, one of 39 numbered copies on Lafuma Navarre pure rag laid paper, specially printed in quarto tellière format, the deluxe issue after a single copy on Chinese paper.
Contemporary burgundy morocco-backed corners, spine with four raised bands bordered by black fillets, boards covered in geometrically patterned decorative paper, marbled endpapers, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt.

A rare and handsome copy, attractively bound, of this novel awarded the 1933 Prix Goncourt.

First collected edition, with no deluxe copies issued, this being one of the press copies.

A very good copy.

Fine signed presentation inscription from Jean Cocteau to the writer, art critic and television personality Max-Pol Fouchet: "à Max Pol cette moëlle de mes os. Jean 1956."

First edition, one of the copies on ordinary paper.

Losses and tears to spine, small losses to corners of the boards, which are slightly sunned at edges.

Printed stamp "Fondation Dufraine - Institut de France" at head of upper wrapper.

Fine signed presentation inscription from René Maran to his friend Charles Kunstler: "A mon bon vieil ami Charles Kunstler pour lui rappeler que, la plupart du temps, notre vie est tissée de petites joies et de grandes peines de coeur. Tout affectueusement. René Maran."

New edition, one of 2,200 numbered copies on vélin labeur paper, the only deluxe issue apart from 16 copies on pur fil paper.
Publisher's boards after an original design by Mario Prassinos.
Slight, inconsequential fading at the head and foot of the spine, endpapers uniformly browned, otherwise a very good copy.
 

First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on wove paper, the only deluxe issue.

A fine and rare copy.

First edition of the French translation.

Illustrated with 147 reproductions of works by Marc Chagall, and complete with the four original lithographs, two of which are double-page.

Publisher's full grey cloth binding. A fine copy, complete with its illustrated dust jacket.

First edition on ordinary paper.

Small loss to the lower right corner of the title page.

Contemporary Bradel-style binding in indigo-blue half cloth, smooth spine with brown sheep label, marbled paper boards.

Provenance: from the library of Marcel Allain, co-creator of Fantômas with Pierre Souvestre, with his manuscript bookplate on a paper label pasted to the inside front board.

First edition, one of 212 numbered copies on pur fil paper, constituting the deluxe issue.
Occasional light foxing, chiefly affecting the edges.

Accompanied by a newspaper clipping and a photographic postcard reproducing a portrait of Georges Bernanos by Laure Albin-Guillot.

Half red morocco over marbled paper boards, with morocco corners, spine with four raised bands outlined in black, minor abrasions to the bands professionally restored, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt with the original deckle edges preserved, original wrappers and spine bound in.

A handsome copy in an attractive binding.

First edition, one of the numbered copies.

Publisher's binding after the original binding design by Paul Bonet.

Richly illustrated.

A fine copy.

First edition, with no deluxe copies issued.

A small loss to the upper right-hand corner of the title and half-title pages.

Signed presentation copy from Roland Barthes to the writer, art critic and television personality Max-Pol Fouchet.

First edition, with no deluxe issue.

A very good copy.

Illustrated with drawings by Bernard Buffet.

First edition, one of 100 copies specially printed on a quarto format (in-4 couronne), ours one of 64 numbered copies on annam de rives paper.

Two faint dampstains to the spine, internally in attractive condition.

Illustrated with 5 drawings by Giorgio de Chirico.

As stated in the limitation, our copy does indeed contain the two original etchings by Giorgio de Chirico, each signed and numbered by him in pencil.

Long unpublished autograph letter signed by Marcel Vertès to Carlo Rim, six pages. Written in a large, flowing hand in black ink on three leaves, stapled together with an envelope and a newspaper clipping. Some light foxing and folds.

A long polemical letter in which Marcel Vertès, a year before his death, defends his attack on abstract art and reproaches his old friend Carlo Rim for failing to support him.

First collected edition, with no deluxe issue; one of the press copies.
Two small tears at head of spine.

Rare and fine signed autograph inscription from Robert Desnos: " à toutes les sirènes de "Fontaine" (quand boirai-je de ton eau ?)..."
 

First edition, one of 415 numbered copies on pur fil paper.
Endpapers lightly browned in places.
An attractive copy.

First edition of Michel Seuphor's poems with drawings by Ania Staritsky.

Illustrated wrappers slightly yellowed and soiled, a light corner crease to the upper cover.

First edition, one of 1,050 numbered copies on alfa paper.
Publisher's binding after the original design by Mario Prassinos.
Spine very slightly sunned, as usual, with a small nick to the upper headcap.

First edition, one of 1,050 numbered copies on vélin labeur paper.
Publisher's boards after the original design by Mario Prassinos.
Spine very slightly faded, as usual; a pleasing copy.

First edition, illustrated with 4 plates (including the portrait of Gustave Eiffel as frontispiece), 103 text figures and, at the end, 7 plates, including a folding color map showing the points visible from the top of the Eiffel Tower.

Publisher's cloth binding, flat spine slightly faded and decorated with compartments adorned with blind-stamped ornamental motifs, blind-ruled frame to covers, slight and inevitable rubbing to joints, blue paper endpapers and pastedowns marginally faded as often, speckled edges.

Exceptional presentation copy, inscribed by Gustave Eiffel to Gabriel Hanotaux on the half-title of his great work on the history of the tower from its origins...

First edition on ordinary paper.

Light foxing to the top edge.

A pleasing copy complete with its publisher's belly band.

Signed presentation copy from Georges Perec to the writer, art critic and television personality Max-Pol Fouchet.

Illustrated edition with drawings by Pierre Alechinsky.

A few minor spots to the boards.

A fine copy, complete with its publisher's wraparound band.

Signed and dated presentation inscription in pencil by Pierre Alechinsky to his friend Georges Raillard, a friend of and specialist in the work of the painters Joan Miró and Antoni Tàpies, who also served as director of the Institut Français in Barcelona.

First edition, one of 950 numbered copies on vélin labeur paper.
Publisher's binding after the original design by Paul Bonet.
A fine copy complete with its original acetate dust jacket.

Definitive edition illustrated with 7 plates and a map.

Spine and boards marginally sunned, with a small loss to the upper right corner of the front board.

Stamped "Fondation Dufraine - Institut de France" on the verso of the front board.

Fine signed presentation inscription from René Maran to his friend Charles Kunstler: "A mon bon vieux Charles Kunstler ce petit témoignage d'amitié pour ses étrennes de 1952. Bien amicalement René Maran."

Thirteenth volume of the Création series edited by Marie-Jeanne Durry, containing poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, Pierre Andreu, Pierre Autin-Grenier, Marc Baronheid, Pierre Borghero, Jacques de Bourbon Busset, Andrée Caraire and others. Illustrated with reproductions of the manuscripts of the poems and with compositions by Ania Staritsky, Survage, Bernard Moninot, Lydie Chantrell, Michel Seuphor, Victor Segalen, Madeleine Follain-Dinès, Max Jacob and others.

Illustrated cover by Ania Staritsky, slightly yellowed.

First edition, one of 260 numbered copies on alfa paper.

Fine copy.

Illustrated edition with in-text and full-page woodcuts.
Publisher's bindings in red half shagreen, spines with four small raised bands decorated with gilt double compartments set with gilt ornaments, publisher's name gilt at foot of spines, blind-ruled frame on red paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, sprinkled edges, contemporary bindings.
Some damage to the bindings, rubbing and scuffing to some volumes, light foxing.

First edition.
Publisher's full pink boards, smooth spine, covers illustrated with drawings by Jean Effel. 
A pleasant copy, accompanied by an invitation card to an exhibition of drawings by Jean Effel in Saint-Denis.
Illustrated with drawings by Jean Effel.
Signed and dated presentation inscription from Jean Effel to his friend Jacques Courreye: "... mon très cher copain, un ami qui ne l'oubliera pas..." embellished with a drawing of a small bird holding a flower in its beak.
 

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe issue.

Contemporary half aubergine morocco over marbled-paper boards, with corners, spine very slightly faded, four raised bands, decorated with green morocco onlays, blind-stamped fleurons and arabesques, date gilt at foot, gilt fillet borders to the boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original wrappers and spine preserved, binding signed Zendel.

A handsome wide-margined copy in an attractive contemporary binding.

First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Edouard Manet by Bracquemond and an etching by Edouard Manet after "Olympia".

Black half morocco over corners, spine with five raised bands ruled in blind, date gilt at foot, marbled paper boards, stone-patterned endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, binding signed by Stroobants.

A rare and handsome copy, attractively bound.

Rare first edition.

Not recorded by Sabin, who lists for the same year, published by Pagnerre, a work entitled France et Amérique, ou Des Institutions américaines.

Contemporary red half morocco, spine with four raised bands, compartments and blind fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, minor rubbing, speckled edges.

Some foxing, a pale dampstain to the upper right-hand corner of the leaves, and a small pasted label at the foot of one pastedown.

First edition, one of 18 numbered copies on imperial Japan paper, the deluxe issue.

A tear at the foot of the front wrapper near the spine, small marginal tears to the wrappers, with a minute loss to the rear wrapper.

An attractive and rare copy, untrimmed and retaining its full margins.

First Gallimard edition, one of 13 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies after a single hors commerce copy on Holland paper and 12 copies on coloured paper, likewise hors commerce.

A pleasant copy complete with the publisher's review slip.

Half black shagreen binding with bands, smooth spine, title and author's name gilt-lettered, boards, endpapers and pastedowns of cat's-eye paper, original wrappers and spine preserved.

Fine signed autograph inscription from Joë Bousquet: "Au camarade attentif dont le nom flotte sur des pensées, et flatte mes longs espoirs, avec mon amitié reconnaissante à Monsieu Hirsch. JoeBousquet Carcassonne le 5 juin...

First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on Holland paper, the deluxe issue.
Contemporary red half shagreen bindings by Bellevallée, spines slightly faded, raised on five bands tooled with black fillets, marbled paper boards, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edges gilt on the rough, original wrappers and spines preserved.

A rare and handsome copy, attractively bound.

Rare first edition (cf. Sabin, 18331. Not in Leclerc.)

Our copy is preserved in its original stitched state, under modern marbled-paper wrappers.

Some foxing.

First edition (cf. Monglond I, 944. Not in Kress, Goldsmiths or Einaudi).

Interesting Revolutionary-era document printed in opposition to the restoration of the Compagnie des Indes, which had lost its monopoly in 1769, and in support of freedom of trade in Asia: "Nos besoins, ceux de nos Manufactures mêmes nous rendent indispensable le Commerce de l'Inde. Toutes nos Colonies, celles des Isles de France et de Bourbon sur-tout, sont intéressées à le soutenir : si nous l'abandonnions, ces dernières nous échapperoient peut-être à leur tour, et nos rivaux qui sacrifieroient tout pour elles, et pour nous voir renoncer à cette partie du Monde, nous rendroient d'autant plus leurs...

First edition of Antonin Artaud's French translation.

Repaired tears and small areas of loss at the head and foot of the spine, with minor marginal tears to the covers.

Signed presentation copy inscribed by Antonin Artaud to Alin Laubreaux.

First edition, printed in a small number of copies, of this offprint from the Annales de chimie et de physique, 3rd series, vol. VIII.

Our copy is preserved in its original stitched state under temporary blue paper wrappers.

A rare and attractive copy.

Only two copies recorded in the French Union Catalogue (CCFr), at the Sorbonne and the Institut de France.

Autograph presentation inscription from Benjamin Lewy to the physicist Edmond Becquerel (1820-1891) on the upper wrapper.

First edition, with no deluxe issue, and bearing the correct printer's imprint date.

An unusual copy, with no edition statement on the title page but with the spurious mention « deuxième édition » at the head of the rear wrapper.

Minor tears at the head and foot of the spine neatly repaired, small losses at the head and foot of the front wrapper restored, paper browned as usual.

First edition, one of 15 numbered copies on Kaji pearlescent Japan paper, the deluxe issue.

As stated in the limitation, our copy is complete with the separately printed facsimile on 18th-century laid paper of a manuscript page specially written by Jean de La Varende.

A few small spots of foxing to some leaves, boards lightly discoloured, otherwise a pleasant copy complete with its chemise and slipcase.

Signed presentation inscription from Jean de La Varende to the bibliophile Maurice Gorrée.

First edition, with no deluxe copies printed.
Publisher's full sand-coloured cloth, smooth spine, complete with the illustrated dust jacket.
Illustrated with photographs by Glasberg.
A fine copy.

Rare first edition. 

According to the CCF, copies are held only in Paris and Nancy.

Our copy is preserved in its original state, in plain yellow wrappers.

The only edition, considerably expanded from a 28-page pamphlet published in 1860 under the title Essai sur le régime alimentaire des Anciens.

Born into a Lorraine dynasty of physicians, Antoine-Constant Saucerotte was born in Moscow in 1805 and died in Lunéville in 1884.

He received his medical degree in Paris in 1828 before settling in Lunéville, where he successively became chief physician of the civil and military hospital (1838) and professor of natural history at the lycée. A member of...

First edition, one of 200 copies printed on hollande, the only deluxe issue.

Bound Bradel-style in three-quarter dark green morocco, flat spine with date at foot, cat's-eye paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved; binding signed by Carayon.

A few minor foxmarks to the boards and some of the deckle edges.

A rare, untrimmed copy of Guy de Maupassant's masterpiece, handsomely bound by Carayon.

First illustrated edition, with original lithographs by Renée André-Piot, one of 600 numbered copies on Vidalon royal wove paper.

Some foxing.

Autograph presentation inscription signed by Joseph Kessel to Jacques Lengrand.

Accompanied by an original Roger-Viollet photograph, with the agency's stamp on the verso, showing Joseph Kessel seated at a table in the La Cloche d'Or restaurant in Paris in 1952, cigarette in hand, beside a young woman.

Creasing to the right-hand margin of the photograph.

Manuscript annotations by Roger-Viollet and two stamps on the verso of the photograph.

First edition, one of 35 numbered copies on Holland paper, comprising the deluxe issue.

Fine copy.

New edition from Furne illustrated with 47 figures (Johannot, Raffet, Scheffer) including 27 portraits, and a large folding map of the theater of war at the end of the last volume. Although the edition saw multiple reprints after 1850, all editions from the 1830s, close to the first and to the first illustrated edition, are much rarer. This edition differs from the first illustrated by a greater number of portraits that replaced the suite created by Ary Scheffer, of which a selection is present. At the end, the speech by M. Thiers upon his reception at the Académie française.
Contemporary half-cherry red glazed calf binding. Smooth spine with two Restoration tools, a central mirrored...

First edition of the French translation.

Contemporary half green chalgrin, spine very slightly faded, with five raised bands ruled in gilt, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, corners very slightly bumped, a minor nick to one edge, speckled edges.

Preface by Emile Bergerat.

First edition, one of 85 numbered copies on Arches wove paper, the deluxe issue.

Two minute losses to the upper right corners of the endpapers.

Red half shagreen over marbled paper boards with corners, spine with two slender raised bands decorated with gilt cross-hatching and black fillets, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt.

First edition, one of 15 numbered copies on Montval paper, the deluxe issue after 6 copies on nacré Japan paper.

A few minor foxing spots, chiefly affecting the edges.

Complete with the duplicate wrappers and spines.

First edition, one of 200 numbered hors commerce copies on alfa paper, reserved for review copies.

Fine copy, complete with the publisher's review slip.

Signed presentation copy from Marcel Pagnol to Jacques Jaujard.

First edition, one of 15 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies after 5 on Japan paper.

Contemporary red half morocco over corners, spine slightly faded, with five raised bands ruled in blind, date gilt at foot, marbled-paper boards, combed-paper endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, binding signed in blind by Vermorel.

Endpapers uniformly toned.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on Marais paper, the only deluxe issue.

Fine copy.

First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies.

Contemporary red half morocco with corners, spine with five raised bands ruled in black, a small area of rubbing to the spine, date gilt at foot, gilt fillet borders to the marbled-paper boards, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, original wrappers preserved with minor marginal restorations.

A fine copy with full margins, attractively bound.

New edition, with no deluxe copies printed.

A stain at the head of the rear wrapper, which also has a crease at the foot.

Signed autograph inscription from Edouard Glissant to theatre director and radio producer Lucien Attoun.

First edition, with no deluxe copies issued.

Spine sunned, a small stain at the head of the front wrapper.

Warmly inscribed and signed by Kateb Yacine to theatre director and radio producer Lucien Attoun: "A Lucien Attoun son frère maghrébin. Kateb Yacine."

First collected edition, one of 260 numbered copies on tinted wove paper, the only deluxe issue after 45 copies on white Holland paper.
Some light spotting in the margins of a few leaves and on the endpapers. 

Stated third edition. It should be noted that there is no second edition as such: the first edition was issued in two printings, and this so-called third edition is in fact the second, and moreover identical in every respect to the first. In addition to the two title medallions, the edition should comprise 14 plates; our copy contains only 11, lacking the frontispiece to the first part and two further plates (the 7th, entitled “La Naïveté”, and the 13th, “L'Audience”).

20th-century binding in imitation of an 18th-century binding, full tan sheep. Spine with raised bands, decorated with acorn tools and rolls. Green morocco title label, red morocco volume label. Some rubbing. A...

First edition, one of 200 numbered copies on vélin alfama du Marais paper, the only large-paper copies.
A fine copy, complete with its dust jacket.

Pedigree was first serialized in the Brussels weekly Le Face à Main.

Taken to court by several people who recognized themselves in the novel, Simenon revised it for a new edition in 1948, leaving blank the passages challenged in the lawsuits. The Pléiade edition restored the full text in 2009.

A rare deluxe copy of this autobiographical novel. 

Sixth edition, with a photograph of three women reading, mounted as frontispiece.

Bradel binding in brown half cloth with corners, signed Carayon, sides in French curl paper, black morocco title label to spine, fleuron, gilt rules, wrapper preserved. Very slight rubbing to the binding, soiled wrapper, light waterstaining to the first leaves, some foxing.

New edition, with no deluxe copies printed.

A very good copy.
Henry de Monfreid's handwritten signature on the half-title.

New edition.

A handsome copy, covers very lightly browned, discreet restorations to the joints.

Rare presentation copy, signed and inscribed by Albert Camus: "to Madame Jean Labattut whom I thank three times, in respectful homage, Albert Camus."

Inscribed copies of Camus' masterpiece are exceedingly scarce.

The recipient could be Streline Mercedes Terradell, who served as a nurse in France during WW1. In 1929 she married Jean Labatut (also spelled Labattut), architect and teacher, who a primary force behind the development of Princeton University's School of Architecture, 1928-1967 and designed architectural projects around the...

First public edition of this text by Jean Guéhenno, written under the pseudonym Cévennes, one of 60 numbered copies on Madagascar paper, from the deluxe issue.

A fine copy.

First edition of this pioneering work in the history of psychiatry (cf. Garrison & Morton 4920; Semelaigne I, pp. 68-73; Waller records only the 1770 German translation; Wellcome III 547; Blake 277).

Contemporary half calf with vellum-tipped corners, smooth spines gilt with decorative rolls, some rubbing and small wormholes to the spines, marbled paper boards, sprinkled edges; bindings from the early nineteenth century.

Ink stains on pp. 72–76 of the first volume, a black ink spot at the head of the lower cover of the second volume, a few minor and unobtrusive foxmarks.

For Lorry, not all melancholic patients are driven by a single fixed idea, and melancholy is a...

New quarto edition, revised and corrected by the author, with numerous decorated headpieces, initials and tailpieces.

Full brown calf, spine in six compartments with five raised bands richly gilt-tooled, red morocco lettering-piece, triple blind fillet border to boards, double gilt fillet to board edges, red edges, marbled pastedowns and endpapers.

Light scratches and scuffing to boards, corners slightly bumped, otherwise a very...

First edition describing the 388 items offered in the sale.

A few pencilled hammer prices in the margins, a loss to the upper right corner of the front wrapper and title-page, and small corner losses to the wrappers.

The introduction is by Fröhner, though the expert in charge of the sale was Hoffmann.

Of Baden origin, the numismatist Ludwig Wilhelm Fröhner (1834–1925) settled in Paris in 1859; he became a close friend of Napoleon III and assisted him in the preparation of his Histoire de Jules César (1865–1866), which helped him obtain both French naturalisation (1866) and an important post at the Louvre.

He later devoted himself to the cataloguing of...

Rare first edition (cf. Tailliart 1697, Playfair 554, Polak 5050).

Spine clumsily restored with small losses, slight marginal tears to the covers, a few scattered foxmarks.

The crew of the "Béarnaise," consisting of about thirty men, seized the citadel of Bone without firing a single shot.

First edition, taken from the Mémoires de la Société royale et centrale d'agriculture, for the year 1824.

Illustrated with a folding plate inserted out of text.

Our copy is preserved in its original state, sewn and issued in a plain blue provisional wrapper.

Scattered light foxing.

A grandson of the founder and first director of the Académie royale de marine, Pierre-Marie-Sébastien Bigot de Morogues (1776-1840) devoted himself principally to agricultural matters.

First edition, illustrated at the end of the volume with three folding maps (cf. Tailliart 3080; Playfair 4334).

The original colour map, frequently lacking, has here been supplied in photomechanical reproduction, while the two others are later insertions.

Full brick-coloured sheep binding, unlettered spine with five raised bands showing traces of rubbing, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved; modern binding.

Minor foxing, pencil annotations on the initial endpapers and in the margins of several passages, with a handwritten note in blue ink "états de service" at the head of the front endpaper, followed by a brief pencilled biography...

Seventh edition, expanded with new annotations and an appendix containing descriptive and historical details on all the monuments recently erected in the capital by J.-L. Belin, avocat.

Bound in contemporary half midnight-blue Russian morocco, flat spines gilt with romantic arabesques, gilt fillet framing the marbled-paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns; one lower corner lightly rubbed, contemporary bindings.

Scattered foxing.

Illustrated with 58 plates (including 11 archaeological plates), together with 5 folding colour plans hors texte.

A handsomely preserved copy in a period romantic binding.

First edition of the French translation prepared by F. Soulès of "An account on the present state of Nova Scotia", originally published in 1786.

Our copy is offered unbound.

Pages 31 to 39 are devoted to fishing practices.

First French edition, translated from the third English edition (Sabin, 30036.).

Each volume features a steel-engraved frontispiece.

Covers soiled, front boards detached, minor losses and tears to board margins, some foxing, cracked spines with losses; our copy in wrappers is housed in a modern brown full-cloth slipcase.

The second volume also includes a section on "Passage to Montreal and Quebec" (pp. 317-342) and "The Character of the Canadians" (pp. 331-332, 339-342).

Manuscript ex-libris signed Delecey de Mécourt on the front covers.

Rare first edition (see Cordier, Japonica 583; Nipponalia I, 2073. Neither of these bibliographies mentions the map. Polak 8448).

Contemporary half cherry-red calf, spine slightly faded, with four raised bands gilt with dotted tools and fillets; light rubbing to the spine, red paper-covered boards, corners slightly bumped, speckled edges.

Occasional light foxing; a pale dampstain affecting the opening leaves and the folding double-page map showing the plan of the Strait of Shimonoseki.

This work relates the Anglo-French naval campaign of 1862–1863, by Alfred Roussin (1839–1919), a naval officer who commanded the frigate...

First edition, published anonymously by Delaporte,  secretary and prompter of the Comédie-Française.

Contemporary black cloth Bradel binding, smooth spine, red shagreen lettering-piece with some loss, marbled paper boards, upper corners slightly worn, 19th-century binding.

Copies recorded only at the BnF and in Rouen (CCFr).

Printed initials at the foot of the title page.

Rare summary, by the Comédie-Française secretary and prompter, of the grievances held by the Company against the actor Talma, focusing particularly on performances of Marie-Joseph Chénier’s play Charles IX.

The play, which achieved immense public success, drew criticism from...