Paris

New edition.
Spine sunned with two dampstains.
Autograph inscription signed by René Fauchois to the Provençal writer, caricaturist and filmmaker Carlo Rim, who was notably a friend of Fernandel, Raimu and Marcel Pagnol as well as Max Jacob.

Les Talents ou les Couronnes de la jeunesse
First edition of these eight booklets respectively entitled: Le Dessin, Le Chant, La Danse, La Broderie, L'Écriture, Les Exercices gymnastiques, La Lecture and L'Économie domestique. Each one has a cover enhanced with watercolour and is illustrated with a frontispiece on metal, finely enhanced in colour, illustrating the subject covered.
The collection is preserved in a very pretty double compartment book box; on the lid, edged with gilt gauffered paper, a...

Second edition, published two months after the first edition.
Rear cover slightly soiled.
Autograph inscription signed by Erik Orsenna to Laurent Courquin: "... où l'on apprend tout mais tout sur les femmes" ["... where one learns everything, but everything about women"] enriched with a drawing depicting the author's smiling face.

The first edition in paperback format, for which no deluxe copies were printed.
Fore edges slightly soiled at head and foot.
Precious autograph inscription signed by Raymond Barre to the influential politician Marie-France Garaud, whom Raymond Barre misspelled as Garraud.

Pronostic sur Maximilien Robespierre par un animal amphibie. Portraict exact de cet animal [preceded by] Réponse à la justification de Maximilien Robespierre adressée à Jérôme Pétion par Olympe de Gouges [Prognostic of Maximilien Robespierre, by an Amphibious Animal. A Precise Portrait of this Animal [preceded by] Response to Maximilien Robespierre's Justification]
First edition of an extraordinarily rare pamphlet addressed by Olympe de Gouges to Robespierre, predicting all the downward spirals of the Revolution one year before the Reign of Terror. She will...

First edition translated by Louis Viardot and illustrated by Tony Johannot in first printing. Two frontispieces printed on China paper, two engraved title pages, and 800 large text vignettes.
Half chocolate morocco binding ca 1880. Raised band spine decorated with richly ornamented compartments with central roundel. Chocolate morocco title and volume labels. Double fillet border on boards. Top edge gilt. Light traces of rubbing to edges. Copy of exceptional freshness, perfectly white and free from foxing, for an edition that is always foxed. Uncut set, with full margins.
Famous Romantic illustrated book; one of Johannot's finest productions, along with Voyage où il vous...

First edition illustrated with 44 figures, 2 maps and one music plate. "Work decorated with forty-four plates, most executed after original unpublished drawings, made on location".
Contemporary full speckled brown sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with fillets. Red morocco title label, other title label in brown morocco. 2 tears on volume 2 in the first compartment. Split to lower joint at head. Both volumes are noticeably warped. Vol. 2 p. 35, cuts to upper margin caused by wormholes; p. 40 to 64? wormhole track in left margin, as well as on one plate. One tear in volume 1, p. 17. P. 85 to 101 in volume 1, wormhole track in center. Occasionally small cuts to upper margin on certain...