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Spine and covers slightly spotted and sunned in the margins.

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Produced between February 1802 and 1830 on the orders of Naopleon Bonaparte and published between 1809 and 1828, 1,000 copies were printed and distributed to institutions, on vergé paper with an 'Égypte ancienne et moderne' watermark, visible when held up to the light.
Produced between February 1802 and 1830 on the orders of Naopleon Bonaparte and published between 1809 and 1828, 1,000 copies were printed and distributed to institutions, on vergé paper with an 'Égypte ancienne et moderne' watermark, visible when held up to the light.
First edition, rare and valuable.
Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands, gilt tooling. Binding with some surface wear. Losses to the joints at headcap and to the upper joint at tail. One corner rubbed.
Third enlarged edition. The first edition of 1707 and the second of 1709 from the same publisher had only one volume.
Contemporary full glazed brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with rich compartments. Red morocco title label. Headcap of volume I worn. Small lack to upper headcap of volume II. Good copy.
The author held a choice place in the literary life of his time, and his Odes had considerable success. His most famous opera libretto was L'Europe Galante, but he brought numerous innovations to the stage; a regular at the salon of the Marquise de Lambert, he was at the origin of the second Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns, taking the side of...
New edition for Polydore Vergil's book of inventions and first edition for Cicero's sentences. Fine italic impressions. Printer's devices on the title page. The Cicero edition is absent from English catalogues.
De rerum inventoribus was placed on the Index and republished in 1575 in an expurgated form, and the edition we present is therefore not expurgated. The first French translation appears to have been published in 1527 according to a copy at the University of Glasgow, although contradictory information gives 1528 as the date of the first French edition in Latin by Robert Estienne. Brunet gives 1499 for the date of the first edition.
Half...
First edition, one of 100 numbered advance (service de presse) copies on alfa du Marais paper.
Half brown morocco Bradel binding over marbled paper boards by P. Goy & C. Vilaine, gilt date to foot of spine, yellow paper endpapers and pastedowns , advertising band preserved and mounted on guards.
Light dampstain to foot of covers, a trace of folding to upper cover, foxing to covers and the first few leaves.
A nicely bound copy.
A rare and poetic autograph inscription from Aimé Césaire to the Pataphysician Maurice Saillet.
First edition of this offprint from the Psi review, one of 100 numbered copies, the only deluxe copies along with 20 others featuring a dust jacket enhanced with a watercolor by the artist.
Our copy is complete with its Psi review poster.
Handsome copy.
The rare first edition of this collection of Fourierist poems.
Our copy is presented in temporary green soft cardboard covers, smooth sandy spine with manuscript notations of the author's name and title of the work, original covers preserved, but first flyleaf with marginal lacks.
First edition.
Literary contributions by A. France, M. Barrès, J. Moréas, A. Bruant, O. Méténier, L. Bloy, L. Trézénik, J. Péladan, P. Vérola, Willy, S. Merrill, L. Cladel, P.N. Roinard, E. Pottier, J. Guesde, L. Michel, J.B. Clément, P. Verlaine, A. Fontainas, E. Demolder, G. Eekhoud, J. Roumanille, F. Mistral, P. Arène, T. Corbière, G. Darien, F. Fénéon, J.-K. Huysmans, R. Darzens, C. Baudelaire with previously unpublished pages, A. Le Braz, G. Ropartz ...
Artistic contributions by P. Gauguin, H. de Toulouse-Lautrec with unpublished drawings, Steinlen, F.A. Cazals, Duclos, F. Fau, M. Denis, P. Signac, G. Seurat, E. Bernard, P. Bonnard, V. van Gogh, P. Sérusier, P...