Paris

First edition printed on laid paper.
A photographic portrait of Pierre Brossolette as frontispiece.
Autograph inscription signed by René Ozouf to monsieur and madame Biel.

First edition.

Binding with central arms of Maria Feodorovna, Empress of Russia, née Duchess Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg-Montbéliard (1759-1828), wife of Paul I, and mother of Alexander I and Nicholas I. Double-headed eagle with Russian and Württemberg state symbols, set within the ribbon of the Order of Saint Catherine.

Contemporary Russian binding in full red morocco, central arms of the Empress. Small black mark on the bottom of the first board, slightly bumped corner. Crisp paper with a few spotting and browning to the endpapers' margins.

Provenance: Pavlovsk Palace library with its storage label on the first pastedown

Scripta et Picta, Paris 1937, 24,7x32,6cm, full morocco under chemise and slipcase.
Edition illustrated by Raoul Dufy, one of 130 numbered copies on papier blanc de Rives.
Precious full morocco binding aux têtes de lion [lion heads] signed Paul Bonet and dated 1949.
Full purple inlaid morocco binding by Paul Bonet dated 1949, spine color very skillfully restored, discreet restoration on the upper part of a joint and spine-end, inlaid covers featuring lions with fine inlays of green, ochre, and red calf within numerous gilt fillets, light green velvet endpapers, original wrappers and spine preserved, gilt over untrimmed edges,

Le Paysan perverti. - La Paysane pervertie [La Paysanne pervertie]. - Les Figures du Paysan perverti
[The Perverted Peasant and Peasant Woman]

Chez Esprit & Chez la Veuve Duchesne, La Haie [Paris] 1776 [i.e. 1782] and 1784, 12° (9,5x16,5cm), 9 volumes bound.
Famous first illustrated edition of Le Paysan perverti. First edition of its sequel, La Paysane pervertie and of the explanatory volume of the figures. According to Cohen "the costs of the illustration were borne by a rich man, a friend of Restif, probably Grimod de la Reynière."
Red morocco binding signed Belz Niedrée, circa 1860-1880, spine elaborately decorated in gilt, gilt fillet

First edition illustrated with drawings by Raymond Peynet.
Publisher's full white cardboard binding, smooth spine, boards slightly and marginally yellowed.
Autograph inscription signed by Raymond Peynet to a couple of his friends enriched with a drawing representing the famous lovers: "A Paulette et René, voeux de bonheur. Peynet." ["To Paulette and René, best wishes for happiness. Peynet."]

First edition, one of the advance copies.
Spine sunned.
Signed autograph inscription from Bertrand Poirot-Delpech to Max Gallo.

First illustrated edition, first state of the 100 steel-engraved vignettes by Gavarni, Baron, Lange, French, Markl... Missing the 2 portraits of Foedora and Pauline printed on papier de chine (these portraits were printed separately from the edition and could only be acquired in addition to the volume, as they were made to form another edition: Les femmes de Balzac; thus they are only very rarely bound, and are already present as vignettes).
Blue long-grain morocco from the end of the 19th century signed Smeers at the top of the first endpaper, elaborately gilt spine. Boards in 'Du Seuil style'. Large interior dentelle. Gilt edges. Scattered foxing mainly in the margins, on a very whit