Paris

Tenth edition.
Half red shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands set with black fillets decorated with gilt fleurons, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Handsome copy.

First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Autograph inscription from Albert Camus to Raymond Peju.
Spine lightly, but insignificantly, sunned.

First edition, one of 109 numbered copies on Lafuma-Navarre paper and reimposed in Tellière quarto format, deluxe copy.
A small stain at the foot of the front board which also bears minor pinholes at the head, a handsome copy.

first edition.
Bound in half red shagreen, back with five nerves set with black nets decorated with double gilded coffered, gold tail date caps slightly rubbed minor, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, marbled edges, corners blunted.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed Armand Silvestre to Monsieur de Margorie.
Our copy has been enriched with a portrait of the author pasted next to the title page.
Preface by George Sand.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Half red shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands set with gilt dots and decorated with double gilt compartments adorned with gilt floral motifs, double fillets on marbled paper boards, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt, one corner bumped, contemporary binding.
Rare.

First edition.
Half mint green shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands set with black fillets showing some scratches, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges, one corner slightly bumped.
Provenance: from the library of the Count of Lanet with his engraved bookplate pasted on a pastedown.
Rare.

First edition.
Half dark green shagreen binding, spine with five fine raised bands set with gilt dots decorated with fillets and gilt floral motifs, gilt coat of arms at foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges, tears to leading edges, two corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding.

Edition from the year of the first.
Half dark green shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands set with gilt dots decorated with double compartments with centers decorated with gilt typographical motifs, dark green paper boards with light scratches of no consequence, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges, contemporary binding.
Preface by Jules Janin.

Elzevier edition.
Half dark green sheep binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with double compartments centered with gilt typographical motifs, small lack to upper headcap, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, corners slightly bumped.
Handsome interior condition without foxing.

Edition with some parts in first edition and the only complete edition.
Half bronze calf binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt romantic arabesques, joints showing traces of wear, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, contemporary romantic binding.
Some foxing.

First edition.
Half chocolate brown morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, traces of a bookplate that has been torn off a pastedown, top edge gilt, original wrappers preserved, elegant unsigned binding.
Some foxing.
Handsome copy handsomely bound.

Second edition.
Half blue shagreen binding, lightened spine with five raised bands set with gilt dots decorated with gilt double compartments ornamented with gilt typographical motifs, minor scratches of no consequence to spine and joints, double fillets on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
About notably Henri Heine and Alfred de Musset, whose mistress Madame Jaubert was.

First edition.
Half navy blue morocco binding, spine with four raised bands set with black fillets decorated with triple gilt compartments, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.
Some foxing affecting mainly the edges.
Rare.

First edition.
Half caramel shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with double compartments at the centers of which the gilt paraph of the great bibliophile Roger de Cormenin is repeated five times, gilt date at foot, turquoise morocco title-label, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges, elegant near-contemporary unsigned binding.
Work illustrated with a drawing by Georges Rochegrosse printed on China paper.
Provenance: from the library of Roger de Cormenin, son of Louis de Cormenin who was the confidant and secretary of Théophile Gautier and also the intimate friend of Gustave Flaubert.
Handsome copy beautifully bound.

New edition, the original dating from 1601, at Bordeaux.
Later late 19th century bindings in full blonde calf. Spine with five raised bands decorated with grotesque-style compartments, as well as red and green morocco title and volume labels. Triple gilt fillet on boards. Gilt fillet on leading edges and headcaps. Gilt decorative board-edges framing the pastedowns. All edges gilt. Some rubbing, otherwise handsome copy.
Fine printing from the Didot press of this classic of philosophy, which reproduces the complete text of the original.

First edition of the first three volumes out of four.
Work illustrated with 2 portraits and 1 facsimile as frontispieces.
Stains on the spines and boards, some light foxing affecting primarily the spines, boards and endpapers.

New edition.
Half red shagreen binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt romantic arabesques, red paper boards decorated with cold-stamped decorative motifs, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges, contemporary binding.
Some foxing.

New edition printed in 100 numbered copies on vellum.
Full brown morocco binding, spine with five raised bands set with black fillets, one joint slightly cracked at head, gilt roulettes on headcaps, frame of interlaced triple gilt fillets with decorative corners and gilt floral motifs at angles on full red morocco doublures, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, double gilt fillets on leading edges, superb near-contemporary binding by P.R. Raparlier.
Work illustrated with 6 plates including 1 frontispiece by Lefebvre.
Some foxing mainly at the beginning of the volume.
Copy perfectly executed in a signed doublure binding by P.R. Raparlier.

First edition of this speech delivered at the opening session of the Beccaria conference on November 14, 1887.
Autograph inscription signed by Georges de Segogne to his colleague Sanlaville.
Handsome copy despite small marginal stains on the boards.

First edition, one of 5 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies.
Half vellum-style boards with corners, smooth spine decorated with compartments ornamented with gilt floral motifs, gilt date at foot, red shagreen title-label, gilt fillets framing the marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, red top edge.
Endpapers darkened, some deckled edges also darkened, scattered foxing.

Entirely new and considerably expanded edition.
Half mint-green calf binding, spine darkened with four raised bands set with gilt and black fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges.
Handsome copy.

first edition.
Binding half morocco mint green, back smoothes decorated with typographical motifs and a golden cartridge, chocolate brown morocco title document, time golden tail piece in a mosaic morocco chocolate brown, net gilded on the boards of marbled paper, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, gilded head, elegant binding signed the Petitot apoque.
Our copy is enriched with an original watercolor of a castle resembling the one in which the action takes place and the Jesters below which Miguel Zamacoïs added these words: "This document of the sixteenth century may well represent Castle Moat -Maupré where the action takes place these buffoons, if one refers to...

Edition decorated with 13 original illustrations by Maurice Leloir engraved with burin and etching by Léon Boisson, one of 125 numbered copies on vélin du Marais, the only deluxe copies after 75 Japan.
Foxing on spine and in margins of boards, handsome interior condition.

first edition of this Rabelaisian style pamphlet directed against Gambetta, one of 300 numbered copies on paper of the Netherlands.
Binding to open bradel ivory wove, smooth back, red mesh frame compositions painted boards and boards to centers: a bookplate and a monogram on the first front cover and Léon Gambetta dabbling in a bathtub on the second, fragile parchment wrappers preserved and bound in, contemporary binding signed Dodé.
Nadar handwritten signature under the justification of the draw.
Book adorned the author of illustrations.
Provenance: Library of Frederick Lachèvre, bibliographer, specialist in French poetry, with its large bookplate...

First edition.
Illustrated pamphlet with a reproduction of a portrait of Henri de Marle.
Spine and boards lightly and marginally sunned without significance, handsome interior condition.

First edition published in a small number of copies of this offprint from L'Ecole des Chartes.
Joint cracked at foot, boards and spine lightly and marginally sunned, small corner lacks to boards, handsome interior condition.

Posthumous editions of these works, prepared and published by Jean de Rougevalet, the author's nephew. The Recueil is decorated with a lovely portrait of Passerat, engraved on copper by Thomas de Leu. Among the various French pieces it contains, one finds his famous cynegetic poetry: Le Cerf d'amour, Le Chien courant and Adonis ou la chasse du sanglier. Viollet-le-Duc's copy, with his bookplate.
Later binding (mid-18th century) in full marbled blonde calf, spine with five raised bands decorated with compartments and gilt fleurons, as well as a red morocco title label, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, all edges red.
In the Recueil: repair at...

first edition of this Rabelaisian style pamphlet directed against Gambetta, one of 300 numbered copies on Holland paper.
Binding to open bradel ivory wove, smooth back, red mesh coaching boards and boards painted in watercolor compositions centers: a bookplate and a monogram on the first front cover and Léon Gambetta embodying Christ crucified, fragile parchment wrappers preserved and bound in, contemporary binding signed Dodé.
Nadar handwritten signature under the justification of the draw.
In addition, this copy is enriched with a handwritten correction Nadar pencil in The Passion, p. 45, to orveitan [sic].
Book adorned the author of illustrations.

New edition decorated with a portrait of the author etched by Eugène Abot and a facsimile portrait of Mademoiselle de Maupin, after Théophile Gautier.
Contemporary half blue morocco binding with corners signed Loisellier, spine with five raised bands richly decorated with fleurons, compartments and gilt fillets, gilt fillets on marbled paper boards, top edge gilt, original wrappers preserved.
Spine sunned and some rubbing, otherwise a handsome copy.

With a charming illustration by Monsiau, engraved by Colibert and Cazenave, four figures printed in colors. A large paper copy with figures in proof.
Blue paper covers, Bradel binding. Title-piece to spine.
Tiny transparent spots, a small repaired tear to one plate not touching image.
Stamp of Letolle, a Parisian bronze foundry, to title.

New edition.
Contemporary full blue morocco binding, spine with five false raised bands richly decorated with compartments, fleurons, fillets and gilt stippling, quintuple fillets and gilt fleurons framing the covers, morocco doublures in green framed with twelve gilt fillets and blind tooling, gilt fillet on the edges, all edges gilt. Binding signed by Charles Ottmann, bookbinder of Strasbourg origin who married the daughter of bookbinder Duplanil fils and practiced in Paris from approximately 1835 to 1857.
Three corners slightly bumped, otherwise handsome copy. Light foxing on the title and a few leaves.
This epistolary novel is the most famous work of Madame de...

The very rare first collected edition, first in parts, of the works of Claude de Morenne (1550-1606), preacher to King Henri IV and Bishop of Sées.
Contemporary cream-colored supple vellum, spine with fillets and little gilt fleurons, double gilt fillet frame to covers, all edges gilt.
One tiny wormhole to top edge.
This collection is dedicated to Secretary of State Villeroy and contains, as well as various Funeral Orations and Eulogies (124 ff.), the Cantiques spirituels (77 pp.), the Quatrains (20 pp.) and les Poemes divers (104 pp.). Engraved ex libris with the initials PR and a device of Notre Dame protecting France with the genealogy of the French kings.
A very good...

First edition.
Contemporary binding in half midnight blue shagreen, spine with four false raised bands decorated with blind fillets and gilt fleurons, slight traces of rubbing on the joints, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns of marbled paper.
Light foxing on the edges.

First edition of this very rare piece concerning the establishment of public sedan chairs in France. Arms of France engraved on wood to the title.
Nineteenth-century binding in half cherry red calf with corners, signed E. Niédrée. Spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt fillets. Blind fillet on the boards.
From the library of Henri Gallice, with his bookplate, an eminent bibliophile who assembled at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century a formidable collection on hunting, subsequently acquired en bloc by Marcel Jeanson.
Small red ink stamp of F. Plane.

New edition of the French translation, after that of 1732. It is decorated with a portrait of the pontiff as frontispiece, engraved by Mathey, 4 portraits hors texte, including one of Machiavelli,
and a fleuron repeated on the titles.
Contemporary bindings in full straight-grained red morocco. Smooth spines decorated with gilt roulettes and fleurons (fountains). Gilt roulette framing the boards. Gilt roulette highlighting the leading edges. Gilt dentelle framing the pastedowns. All edges gilt.
Spines slightly dulled, otherwise handsome copy.

Collection of poetic pieces, known as the French Academy Collection, which notably contains two important texts by Charles Perrault: the reprint of La Marquise de Salusses (pp. 121-172), a tale initially published in the same collection in 1691, and the second edition of La Chasse (pp. 549-578).
Contemporary binding in full speckled sheep. Spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt compartments and fleurons as well as a red morocco title label. Gilt roulette on the leading edges. All edges speckled red.
One wormhole on the spine and one corner restored.

First editions of some parts.
Contemporary half purple calf bindings, uniformly sunned spines decorated with gilt fillets, roulettes and fleurons and blind romantic fleurons, all edges marbled. Some rubbing to headcaps.

Edition from the collection of the Bibliothèque littéraire du XXe siècle, decorated with a frontispiece etching by Frédéric Massé.
Half bordeaux shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands set with black fillets decorated with the gilt monogram of the great bibliophile Roger de Cormenin repeated five times, gilt date at foot, faded turquoise morocco title label, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt retaining deckled edges.
Provenance: from the library of Roger de Cormenin, son of Louis de Cormenin who was the confidant and secretary of Théophile Gautier and also the intimate friend of Gustave Flaubert.
A handsome copy.

First edition, one of 125 numbered copies on Holland paper, initialed by the publisher.
Contemporary half green shagreen binding with corners signed Champs-Stroobants Sr, Jansenist spine with five raised bands retinted and showing small scratches, top edge gilt retaining deckled edges, full-margined copy, covers and spine preserved.

New editions. One frontispiece engraved by De Longueil after Watelet and 4 title fleurons engraved by Watelet for the Choix de poésies (cf. Cohen, col. 500). One frontispiece engraved by Watelet after Pierre, 5 head-vignettes engraved by Marguerite Le Comte (4) and Watelet (1) and one tailpiece for Daphnis (cf. Cohen, col. 436). One frontispiece, 10 head-vignettes and 2 tailpieces engraved by Watelet for the Idylles (cf. Cohen, col. 431).
Contemporary full grained calf bindings. Smooth spines decorated with blind fillets, unidentified gilt numbers at foot. Blind fillet frame to boards. All edges speckled red.
Small hole in the blank of the title of volume...

Reprint for the Cabinet du bibliophile Collection of the Elegies of the Dieppe poet Jean Doublet, born at the beginning of the 16th century and died around 1580. Edition of 333 copies, this one of 15 numbered copies on Whatman paper.
Contemporary binding in full red morocco, signed Allô - Wampflug, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons in compartments, gilt fleurons stamped at center of boards, double gilt fillet emphasizing edges and headcaps, wide gilt dentelle framing pastedowns, all edges gilt. Handsome copy in a fine binding by Allô, gilt by Wampflug, gilder at Lortic from 1856 to 1876.
From the library of Baron de Marescot (1879, no. 151), with his...

The most complete collective edition of Alexis Piron's works, edited by Rigoley de Juvigny. Portrait of the author at the beginning of the first volume, engraved by Augustin de Saint-Aubin after Caffieri. As very often, the eighth volume (being the Œuvres badines) is not present. A well-margined copy.
Contemporary green morocco. Spine richly gilt with dentelles and gilt fleurons, red morocco title and label volumes. Triple gilt fillet frame to covers. Gilt roulette frame to pastedowns. All edges gilt.
Spines lightly and uniformly sunned, a few scratches. Occasional light spotting, but otherwise a very good copy.

Famous anthology of poetry, known as the Recueil de Barbin because the notices it contains are thought to have been composed by François Barbin, son of the bookseller who first printed it in 1692. This precious collection was the first to grant an important place to Medieval poets, which was a great novelty at the time.
Near-contemporary bindings (circa 1810) in full tawny calf. Smooth spines richly decorated with compartments and gilt fillets, as well as emerald morocco title and volume labels. Covers framed with multiple gilt dentelles and roulettes. Gilt fillet highlighting the edges and headcaps. Gilt roulette framing the pastedowns. All edges gilt.
One corner bumped...

First edition, published by Pierre-Simon Ballanche, of the intimate correspondence of Louise-Adélaïde de Bourbon, known as Mademoiselle de Condé, addressed to her friend the Marquis Nicolas-Louis Magon La Gervaisais. It contains 2 letters of 4 pages each, in facsimile.
Contemporary binding in full glazed blue calf, smooth spine decorated with geometric compartments and gilt dentelles, gilt frames and fleurons in the corners on the boards, gilt striations on the corners, gilt floral roulette framing the pastedowns, all edges gilt.
Manuscript notation in pen on the half-title.

first edition in large part.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed andre Pieyre Mandiargues journalist Jean-Claude Lamy who collaborated notably France-Soir.

first edition on the current paper.
autograph dedication of the author autograph dated and signed by the journalist Daniel Boulanger Jean-Claude Lamy who collaborated notably France-Soir referring to Georges Brassens: "Jean-Claude, you just have to Brive that we can bring in our market. I have no vanity wonders ... "
spine and insolated with small clear waterstains.

First edition.
Autograph inscription from Germaine Blondin to the journalist and film historian Pierre Leprohon.
Spine slightly sunned.

First edition of the French translation for which no deluxe copies are mentioned.
Half full anthracite grey morocco binding, lightened spine with five raised bands set with black fillets, date and place gilt at foot, gilt roulettes on headcaps, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, framed with a wide gilt dentelle on pastedowns, double gilt fillets on leading edges, all edges gilt, covers preserved, superb contemporary binding signed by Paul Vié.
Some foxing.
Copy magnificently bound in a full signed contemporary binding.

First edition.
Bradel binding in half sienna cloth, smooth spine, dark chocolate brown shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, covers and spine preserved, contemporary binding.
Work illustrated with 300 black facsimiles as well as 12 color plates.
Cover illustrated with a drawing by Adolphe Willette.
Handsome copy.

First edition of this tragedy in 5 acts.
Contemporary binding in morocco, all edges gilt.
Quelques very tiny foxing.
De la bibliothèque Bernard Jean, with his ex-libris.

First edition.
Half red shagreen bindings, spines with five raised bands set with black fillets and decorated with gilt fleurons, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns of marbled paper, one corner slightly bumped, minor traces of rubbing on bottom edges, contemporary bindings.
Some occasional light foxing.
Provenance: from the library of Jules Félix Louis Gastinger with his bookplates pasted on the pastedowns.
Handsome copy attractively established in uniform contemporary binding.

first edition.
"Bradel" binding half wedge cardboard vellum way back smooth decorated with a gold jewel, date and dual gold mesh tails caramel as shagreen parts with a stain and scratches, nets gilded frames on boards marbled paper guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers, gilded heads, the time bindings signed by Asper, bookbinder in Geneva.
Part One: old books, first editions and illustrated books of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, wonderful books to figures of the eighteenth century, richly bound copies.
Second part: Book the Romantic contemporary, great writers and various authors, illustrated books of the nineteenth printed on papeir...

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Holland paper and justifés by the author, only big papers.
Binding to bradel half percaline pine green, smooth back, date and dual tail golden net, as Red shagreen piece with small scratches, rips two head back, marbled paper boards, preserved covers, binding of time signed by Pierson.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed Loredano Larchey Jules Richard.
Bookplate engraved by Henry René Millaud Chapront pasted on a contreplat.
Nice copy almost free of freckles.

First edition.
Bradel bindings in red half-cloth, smooth spines decorated with a gilt fleuron, gilt date and double fillet at foot, brown shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards.
Concerning notably Stendhal, A. de Lamartine, F.R. de Chateaubriand, E. Scribe, A. Tastu...
Some foxing.

First edition.
Half brown shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands set with black fillets decorated with double black compartments enhanced with gilt fleurons at their centers, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
About Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, Alexis de Tocqueville, Alphonse de Lamartine, Voltaire, Alexandre Dumas fils...

First edition.
Half orange shagreen binding, smooth spine decorated with a gilt cartouche enhanced with gilt typographical motifs, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, original wrappers preserved (an angular lack at the foot of the rear board), top edge gilt, contemporary binding.
Handsome copy beautifully executed.

Edition illustrated with a frontispiece and a portrait of the author.
Later binding (early 19th century) in full light calf. Smooth spines decorated with gilt fillets, decorative borders and fleurons. Gilt fillet framing the boards. All edges marbled.
One corner slightly bumped and some rubbing, otherwise a fine copy.
The work contains the author's letters and various poems. Voiture (1597-1648) was throughout his life a gallant and courtier, brilliant in salons and fond of games. His epistolary talent made prose fashionable in France for a long time, and his poetry excels in the mannered and precious tone, even though he knew how to be trivial when necessary. He is an...

First edition illustrated with a frontispiece, 37 lithographed plates and numerous vignettes by C. Nanteuil, Gavarni, Français, J.P. Schmit, De Beaumont, Bertand...
Half havana brown morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt compartments, gilt date and monogram at foot, red morocco title label, gilt fillet frame on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, one corner slightly bumped, top edge gilt, elegant binding signed by Petit.
Foxing.

First edition, with mention of sixth edition.
Bradel binding in half khaki cloth with corners, smooth spine decorated with gilt coat of arms, double gilt fillet at foot, chocolate brown shagreen title label, marbled paper boards, original wrappers preserved, bookplate pasted on pastedown, binding signed by Henry Joseph successor to Pierson.
Provenance: from the library of the Bourbon de Rouvre family with their engraved and pasted bookplate.
Handsome copy.

Edition with some parts in first edition.
Half raspberry red calf binding, spine with five raised bands set with gilt dots decorated with gilt double compartments and gilt romantic arabesques, two small tears to the spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.
Bookplate pasted to one pastedown.
Our copy belonged to Paul Lacroix, known as le bibliophile Jacob, who offered it to his sister with this signed autograph inscription: "A ma chère soeur Julie".
Handsome copy.

Revised, corrected, and expanded edition, printed on laid paper and illustrated with 10 vignettes as well as 5 out-of-text figures.
Half red morocco binding with corners, lightened spine with five thin raised bands set with black fillets decorated with double black compartments embellished with gilt arabesques, double gilt fillet frame on marbled paper boards, two angular scratches at foot of front board, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, binding signed by Hering, binder in Strasbourg.
Some foxing mainly at beginning and end of volume.

First edition.
Bradel binding in full pasteboard covered with decorative plant-motif paper, smooth sunned spine decorated with a gilt floral motif, chocolate brown shagreen title label, date and double gilt fillet at foot of spine, contemporary binding signed in blind by Pierson.
Handsome interior condition.

New edition.
Bound in brown half shagreen, spine raised on four bands set with gilded nets, small black spots on the back without gravity which also has very slight scratches are not serious, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, binding of time.
autograph dedication of the author autograph dated and signed by Ferdinand Fabre Mr. Allard.

New edition and first printing of the beautiful romantic illustrations.
Half red shagreen bindings, spines with four raised bands set with gilt borders decorated with double gilt and black compartments enhanced with gilt typographical motifs, double gilt fillets on red paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns of marbled paper, contemporary binding.
Work illustrated with 52 beautiful steel engravings by Charlet, Lemud, Johannot, Daubigny, Pauquet, Jacques, Penguilly, Rudder, Raffet, Sandoz.
Pleasant copy.

New edition with some parts of the text in first edition of the French translation.
Worming to covers and endpapers, a tiny marginal hole to front cover, copy tending to come loose.

First edition.
Contemporary binding in full marbled blonde sheep. Spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt compartments and fleurons, as well as a red morocco title label. Gilt roulette on the edges and headcaps. All edges red.
Lower tail joint cracked for a few centimeters and some rubbing. Foxing mainly on the first and last leaves.
Lattaignant (1697-1779) was considered the great songwriter of his time (J'ai du bon tabac...); besides numerous songs, he is the author of light and gallant poetry of which Le mot et la chose is the most famous piece. In this respect the dedications of the songs or poems are very eloquent and summarize quite well the gallant and...

Second edition.
Half navy blue morocco-grained shagreen binding, lightened spine with five raised bands set with black fillets decorated with the gilt paraph of the great bibliophile Roger de Cormenin repeated five times, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt.
Provenance: from the library of Roger de Cormenin, son of Louis de Cormenin who was the confidant and secretary of Théophile Gautier and also the intimate friend of Gustave Flaubert.
Handsome copy almost entirely free of foxing.

First edition, one of the rare copies on China paper of which no mention is made.
Half navy blue morocco with corners binding, spine very lightly faded with five raised bands, gilt fillet frame on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt.
Work illustrated with 14 wood engravings drawn by Paul Philippoteaux.
Handsome copy almost entirely free from foxing.

First collected edition; two additional volumes would be added in a new collected edition in 1749.
Contemporary full blonde calf binding. Spine with five raised bands richly decorated with gilt compartments and fleurons, with a camel morocco title label. Blind fillet and corner fleurons framing the boards. Gilt roll on edges and headcaps. All edges red. Title page lightly browned at outer margin, same for the last leaf. A small corner lack on page 103 of the first part.
Antoine Hamilton is primarily the author of the Mémoires du comte de Grammont, which Etiemble (author of the anthology of 18th-century authors in the Pléiade collection and rediscoverer of 18th-century authors like...

First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on Holland paper and initialed by the only major publisher papers after 10 Japan.
Binding to bradel half morocco black Russia, smooth back slightly thinned minor, golden tail date marbled paper plates, covers and backs preserved, contemporary binding signed Franz.

First edition.
Half caramel sheep bindings, smooth spines slightly lightened decorated with gilt friezes, very light scratches without consequence to head and foot of joints, marbled paper boards, three small tears to edges, contemporary bindings.
Rare foxing, handsome copy.

First edition, published anonymously, with frontispiece.
Contemporary half camel sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets and fleurons, with blonde morocco title label. Speckled paper boards. All edges speckled blue. Some rubbing and one corner slightly bumped. Fresh interior.
Story of a young girl born in Saint Domingue and her thwarted loves during the Revolution told by herself. This novel by Fiévée, journalist and later secret agent under the Empire, was very successful under the Directory.

Pléiade library edition printed on Bible paper.
Publisher's full brown grained sheepskin binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, handsome copy complete with its cellophane wrapper and dust jacket.

First edition, one of 28 numbered copies on Japon, tirage de tête.
Autograph inscription from François Mauriac to Louis Brun, director of Editions Grasset : "... mon pemier essai au théâtre..."
Louis Brun's ex-librisprinted in front of the half title.
A very good copy with good margins.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on pur fil paper.
Work illustrated with 32 original astrophotographs hors texte printed on coated paper, obtained with the telescope of the Forcalquier observatory and at the private observatory of Marcel de Kerolyr.
Some traces of rubbing and angular tears to spine and boards (with two discreet restorations using adhesive on verso and foot of first cover), three small angular lacks to foot of second board, which is inevitable given the fragility of this work.

Illustrated edition with frontispiece drawing by Georges Antoine Rochegrosse printed on China paper.
Bradel binding in full red paper with floral motif and moiré effect, smooth spine, navy blue shagreen title-label with some scratches, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Handsome copy attractively bound.

First edition of the French translation by Jules Janin.
Binders full glossy red calf, back with four nerves set with ornate golden dotted double gilded nets and gilded boxes decorated with golden typographical reasons, two split bits and restored heads and feet, wheels on golden headdresses, supervision of a wide gold lace and a lace cold stamped on the boards, gilded with gold initials hit the centers of plates, nets gilded on the cuts, framing a golden lace on contreplats, guards and contreplats paper to the bowl, gilt edges, upper corners very lightly bumped, beautiful bindings then signed Lebrun.
Signed autograph of her dear Jules Janin Massol, "... I ask you to keep...

First edition, with 364 engravings, of which some after original photographs by Bonfils, as well as 9 maps.
Publisher's polychromatic shagreen, the spine with Orientalizing decorative gilt elements, the covers with a large plaque of polychrome decorative elements by A. Souze, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt edges.
A little light insignificant foxing, one small tear to head of front endpaper facing half title.
A very good copy.

First edition, a 1000 numbered copies on Holland paper, only 65 leading copies after Japan.
Work illustrated with 20 wooden black and color of Jean Perrier.
Slight marginal minor tears on the boards.

First edition, one of 475 numbered copies on Ingres paper, the only printing along with 25 on Japan paper.
This work consists of a collection of 10 plates colored by pochoir by Guy Arnoux representing the different French flags from Joan of Arc to the First World War.
A stain at foot of title page and on first plate, flaps creased, boards stained, handsome interior condition.
Rare copy complete with its tricolor ties holding the chemise.

New edition.
Two small lacks to foot of spine and a spot to foot of upper cover, internally good.

Edition illustrated works by Germain Delatousche reproductions, including 15 boards inset in-fine.
Signed autograph of John Daniel Maublanc Albert Sardin.
Tears on the inner flaps of cover boards, otherwise nice copy.

Alfred GRéVIN
Costumes de fantaisie pour un bal travesti
Aux bureaux des modes parisiennes, de la toilette de Paris,
du journal amusant, du petit journal pour rire| Paris [1870] | 23 x 32.5 cm | original wrappers
First edition illustrated with 24 superb, original, color chromolithographs by Alfred Grévin.
The chromolithography explanatory page is loose, a small, light spot on the first cover, wrappers with minor marginal tears, pleasant condition inside.

Edition printed on Alfa paper and for which there is no mention of leading copies.
Signed autograph of John Rousselot Jean Sauteron "... the proud of the earth ... that's us!"
Pleasant copy.

First edition, one of 70 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only large paper copies.
A good copy.

Edition printed on the presses of Jean-Gabriel Daragnès in 150 numbered copies on Lana laid paper.
Work illustrated with a portrait of Cardinal Richelieu as frontispiece, a title vignette, headpieces and tailpieces by Jean-Gabriel Daragnès.
First cover partially and slightly shaded without consequence, a paper lack at foot of slipcase.
Rare and handsome copy.

Complete and definitive edition, one of 20 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe copy.
Half navy blue shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands set with gilt dots decorated with gilt double compartments adorned with gilt typographical motifs, one joint slightly cracked at head, gilt fillets on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, second cover with small rubbing traces at head.
Work decorated with original illustrations by Uzès.

first edition.
Binding blue half morocco with corners, back with five nerves decorated with gold set with double gilded coffered decorated in their centers dotted parts sand and red morocco mosaic depicting a flower pistil and enriched with gold typographical grounds in their petals, framing gilded nets on marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, gilded head, elegant contemporary binding signed Vermorel.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed and dated Henry Kistemaeckers to actress Madeleine Bouvier, wife of Henri Daniel-Rops Petiot alias: "To my lovely interpètre tomorrow (and after ...) Madeleine Danielrops (sic) until something...

First edition, one of 900 numbered copies on pur fil paper Lafuma.
Endpapers very slightly and partly faded, not serious.