Paris

First edition, one of 75 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies.
Covers lightly sunned without consequence.
A full-margined copy.
Work illustrated with 11 engravings.

Claude Monet - Auguste Rodin
Galerie G. Petit, Paris 1889, 16 x 24,5 cm, in original wrappers
First edition of this exhibition brochure dedicated to Claude Monet and Auguste Rodin at the Galerie Georges Petit.
Presentations by Octave Mirbeau and Gustave Geffroy.
A small tear at the head of the spine.
A pleasant and rare copy.

Three publicity leaflets for Les Cahiers du Cap, an anti-Semitic and anti-modern magazine: “Matisse, is Bernheim! Picasso is Rosenberg!” – “Living art is a new Panama scandal” – “Trafficking of modern painting is nothing but a snatch-and-grab robbery”
First edition of each of these scarce publicity leaflets presenting the magazine created and led by Marcel Hiver in 1924 Les Cahiers du Cap:
– Picasso, c'est Rosenberg !” “Matisse, is Bernheim! Picasso, is Rosenberg!”
– “What Mr. André Salmon, the prince of the mumblers of contemporary criticism, baptized with astonis

First edition, one of 50 numbered and named copies on pure Johannot paper, the only deluxe copies.
Light worming on spine.

First edition.
Contemporary half red shagreen binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with 4 fleurons in blind-tooled compartments. Author, title and date in gilt. Top edge gilt. Fresh paper (a few rare pale foxing marks).
Handsome copy.
In December 1854, Joseph-Arthur de Gobineau (1816-1882), then first secretary at the Frankfurt legation, was appointed secretary to an extraordinary mission to Persia, led by minister Prosper Bourée and ordered by Emperor Napoleon III. On the way to Persia, Gobineau traveled through Malta, Egypt and the countries of the Arabian peninsula. The second part of Trois ans en Asie is certainly the richest part of this work, a mine of information

First edition, one of 25 copies numbered and justified by the publisher on japon paper, the only printing along with 25 on china paper.
Our copy was mistakenly identified by the publisher as belonging to the china issue.
Bradel binding in half burgundy cloth, smooth spine, black shagreen title label, pebble-grained paper boards, illustrated colour covers by Adolphe Willette preserved, slightly later binding signed Champs.
Poems by Henri Bernard, Maurice Boukay, Georges d'Esparbès, Louis Marsolleau, Roger-Milès, Maurice Vaucaire, Gabriel Vicaire, and others.
Illustrated with 17 original lithographs by Adolphe Willette, here in double state as in the deluxe

First edition printed in very small numbers on “extra-strong” watermarked paper, about twenty copies or so according to the great contemporary art collector Bob Calle who published Christian Boltanski's catalogue raisonné.

Very rare work by Christian Boltanski illustrated with 5 photographs of an anonymous family.

First edition, one of 60 numbered copies on pure Arches wire, the only to be enriched with three lithographs by Pierre Soulages, signatures of the author and the illustrator on the details of issue page, the “tirage de tête”.
The original lithographs in black and white, one on the first board of the cover, one as a frontispiece and one other on a double page, were printed by Mourlot.
Rare first book illustrated by Pierre Soulages.

An outstanding illustrated edition of the most famous Arabic tales in the world : One Thousand and One Nights [ʾAlf Laylah wa-Laylah]

L'édition d'art H. Piazza, Paris 1926-1932, 23,5x31cm, 12 volumes in original wrappers housed in slipcases.
Ilustrated edition with 144 watercolors by Léon Carré, stencil-colored and gilt by Saudé as well as 85 color plates by Mohammed Racim, one of the few advance and named copies, numbered in roman numerals on wove paper. This copy issued for the famous binder René Aussourd. Only deluxe issue after 300

First edition of 253 copies and which was not printed on large paper.
Binding in full black morocco, spine in five compartments with gilt fillets and decorated with double gilt panels, gilt date at the foot, gilt roll tooling on the spine ends, frame of triple gilt fillets on the boards, iridescent mauve silk endpapers, frame of six gilt fillets and a strip of violet morocco on the pastedown endpapers, covers preserved, all edges gilt, double gilt fillets on the leading edges, slipcase lined with black morocco, comb-patterned paper boards with light scratches, sky blue felt interior, magnificent binding signed Maylander.
This work is complete with three inset portraits of Tristan C

Rare original photograph portrait of Charles Baudelaire: “Everyone knows this portrait, with its ecclesiastical aspect and its bitter smile”
Extremely rare original photograph on albumen paper showing Charles Baudelaire, contemporary print in carte de visite format, mounted on a board from the Carjat studio, 56 rue Laffitte: “The chap looks quite young. His hair is cut short and is wavy on the temples without covering the ear. The poet is wearing a blouse or a loose overcoat with a black velvet collar and a tie with a big knot. Everyone knows this portr