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First edition.
Half sheep, contemporary binding.
Retaining its 4 folding plates in-fine.
A little light spotting, tiny lacks, not serious, to head of first free endpaper.
Rare.

Pre-first edition, which would appear the same year from Michel Lévy Frères.
In original wrappers, as issued.
Cover of the first volume soiled.

First edition for the first text, second edition for the second.
Half sheep binding in fir green, smooth spine decorated with gilt friezes and fillets and blind fillets, contemporary binding signed by the Compagnons relieurs de Moulins.
Two press clippings bound at the beginning and end of the second volume, some minor foxing without gravity.

New edition of the French translation.
Half chocolate sheep binding, spine in four compartments with slight rubbing decorated with gilt fleurons, corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding. Bookplate pasted to verso of front board, copy almost entirely free from foxing.

First edition.
Publisher's binding in full fir-green boards, smooth spine decorated with gilt compartments and double gilt fillets, gilt roulettes at head and foot of spine, frame of gilt fillets and blind romantic typographical motifs, gilt crown and laurel bouquet at center of front cover with mention of 'Lycée impérial de Rodez' stamped in gilt letters, gilt roulettes at head and foot of fore-edge.
Work illustrated with three engravings.
Some minor foxing.

Second edition following the first edition of 1758.
Half red morocco binding with straight grain, mid-19th century. Smooth spine decorated with fleurons with title along spine and gilt fillet border. Light rubbing to headcaps. Handsome copy.
This treatise first appeared in 1758 between the death of Benedict XIV and the election of his successor Carlo Rezzonico under the name Clement XIII, this second edition appeared after the death of Clement XIII in 1769. The final leaf reproduces the election bulletin.
Engraved bookplate: Bibliothèque de Monsieur le Comte Godefroy de Montgrand.

Some of these plays are first editions. Only the last play is by Lemercier. The work brings together the author's best plays, notably Le Philinte de Molière, a Revolutionary play which had considerable success.
Contemporary full sheep binding. Smooth spine with fleurons and roulettes. Red morocco title label. Roulette frame on boards. 2 corners slightly bumped. A lack of leather at the top of the upper joint. Rubbing to joints, edges.
Fabre d'Églantine (1750-1794) was a strange character, first an itinerant actor then writer of comedies, he became Danton's secretary then deputy to the Convention, to end up guillotined in 1794 (for forgery and use of forgeries), alongside Danton...

First edition? A similar edition was published on the same date by the same publisher, but in a slightly larger format, with different collation, different title ornament and without the red and black title page. This edition may be a piracy. A frontispiece depicting Harlequin. Uncommon.
Half vellum binding, later. Smooth spine with title in red ink.
Arlequiniana, which remains a literary curiosity, belongs to a predominant genre of French literature, emerging at the end of the 17th century and flourishing in the first half of the 18th century; these collections of witticisms or amusing stories or Ana whose birth can be traced to the Menagiana in 1693. This genre has the...

Rare first edition.
Half sheep binding in hazelnut, smooth spine browned with small traces of rubbing decorated with gilt fillets, small lacks to headcaps, one joint fragile, spine of first volume partially detached, contemporary binding.
Some foxing.
The author was one of H. de Balzac's secretaries and was a regular at the Arsenal salon.

First edition.
A slight lack at foot of spine, a tear with loss to front cover, small corner losses to covers, some occasional light foxing.
Rare copy preserved in its original wrappers.

New illustrated edition of these Romances. One frontispiece and 13 unsigned figures, and 44 pages of engraved music. Printed on heavy laid paper.
Contemporary full tree-calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with arabesques and fleurons. Triple fillet border on covers. All edges gilt. Handsome copy. Light rubbing to corners and joints.
Berquin's poetry enjoyed immense success, and was consequently qualified as popular, while it perfectly reflects European literature of the late 18th century, and one sometimes feels the first Romanticism coming from Germany and England. Some poems are dark and theatrical, full of Gothic reminiscences: « Sous la tour du château s'ouvre une enceinte...

First edition of this translation by Bougainville. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait by Rigaud engraved by Daulle, and 10 head-pieces and 5 tail-pieces by Eisen, engraved by Tardieu and Delafosse.

Contemporary full blonde calf binding. Smooth spine richly decorated. Red morocco title-label. Headcaps worn, corners slightly bumped. Rubbing to joints and edges.
Bougainville's prose translation tends to better highlight the philosophical qualities of this work, originally in Latin verse, published in 1745. It is not only a critique of the philosophy of Lucretius and Epicurus, but also a critique of the religious ideas of Pierre Bayle and his disciples. The work played a...

First French edition. The original edition appeared in Geneva in 1791. Illustrated with 3 plates, a frontispiece and two folding: a hemispheric map and an astrological one.
Contemporary full marbled sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated. Red morocco title label. Upper headcap worn. Rubbing to joints and edges.
Famous work by the philosopher Volney in which personal memories, philosophy and reflections alternate. While the general subject is a questioning of the disappearance and ruin of empires (Volney begins his book with a meditation on the collapse of Palmyra), the work addresses multiple related themes: origins of religious cults, symbolism, worship of stars. The book excels...

First edition, one of 180 numbered copies on Arches laid paper, the only issue with 15 Japan paper copies.
Work illustrated with an etching by A. Dunoyer de Segonzac.
Some very rare and minor worming, handsome copy.

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Very rare second editions of these two novels by Jean D'Intras de Bazas, published respectively in 1604 and 1603. Only the Bibliothèque Nationale de France holds copies of the first editions and second editions. Absent from French catalogues and from the British Library. A vignette on the title page of "Le martyre de la fidélité" unsigned by Léonard Gautier representing two lovers tied to the pillory on a lit pyre, with numerous figures around them. Nodier's Bulletin du bibliophile and Droz's chronological repertoire of literary text editions recognize only this edition for these texts.
Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Raised band spine decorated. Upper joint split at foot for 6cm...

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BRYAN Edouard
Histoire civile et commerciale des colonies anglaises dans les Indes occidentales depuis leur découverte par Christophe Colomb jusqu'à nos jour, suivie d'un tableau historique et politique
Dentu, Paris 1801, 13,5 x 21,5 cm, original wrappers
First edition in French.
With the folding map at front present.
Small insignificant wear with tiny lacks to head and foot of one joint, a little light insignificant foxing.
A rare copy in its original wrappers.

First edition.
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Third edition printed on ordinary paper, despite the false statement of second edition on the first cover and title page, with only 6 Holland deluxe copies printed.
A lack to head of spine which also has a slight tear, small stains on the first cover.
Autograph inscription signed by Guy-Charles Cros to his friend Devès who has, as a bookplate, affixed his signature at the top of the title page.

First edition.
Plain paper cover. Rare.

First edition.
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First edition.
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