Paris

First edition, one of a few numbered copies on pure thread paper of which no mention is made.
Half-shagreen binding with marbled corners, lightened spine with four raised bands, moiré-effect paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, modest contemporary binding.
A full-margined copy.
We include a printed calling card of the Grand Rabbi of Paris Julien Weill.
Autograph inscription signed by the Grand Rabbi of Paris Julien Weill to his cousin named Gérard.

Original black and white lithograph, third state, created for La Caricature and printed on heavy paper. Signed on plate.
Delteil, 346
Some pale foxing.

Original black and white lithograph, for Le Charivari printed on heavy paper. Signed in the plate.
Delteil, 607
Some foxing and a brown stain on the lower right corner (10cm in length).

Original period albumen photograph depicting Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly in an eccentric outfit consisting of a limousine and a Norman carter's cape.

The writer has added his signature in red ink at the bottom of the print.
The portrait is housed in a charming frame, unfortunately showing some tears and cracks, under a mat covered with pink tapestry.

We could only find two examples of this photograph: one, uninscribed, at the Musée Gustave Moreau and another, bearing an inscription, catalogued during the sale of J. C. D's library, a Norman collector, in 2005.
A rare and remarkable portrait of the writer who, in 1845 in his essay Du...

Edition illustrated with 111 drawings by Neuville and Riou engraved by Hildibrand. Catalogue GU in-fine.
Hetzel publisher's board signed A. Lenègre with “a pasted portrait”, spine with a lighthouse lightly faded, Lenègre type “e” second board according to Jauzac, all edges gilt.
Bottom spine-end and corners very skillfully restored. Some very minor foxing at the beginning and end of the volume, as usual.
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea) is an adventure novel conceived following an epistolary suggestion from George Sand, friend of Hetzel, who greatly appreciated Cinq semaines en ballon (Five Weeks in a Balloon) and...

First edition comprising the first 10 volumes published in 1719 and the five volumes of supplements subsequently published in 1724, all complete with plates (see Cohen 731-732).

The illustration, as remarkable as it is abundant, comprises a magnificent frontispiece signed by Sébastien Le Clerc representing the authors of Antiquity in front of the forecourt of a grandiose monument, skillfully put into perspective; a portrait of the dedicatee, Count...

Anthologie des poètes français du XIX^è siècle
First collective edition for each of the volumes. The very first and early anthology of all the most important 19th century's French poets, including the contemporary ones like Rimbaud or Mallarmé.

Publisher's bindings in full grey cloth, spines decorated with a polychrome floral motif, floral freizes at the top and bottom of the spines, bevelled boards illustrated with a polychrome decoration consisting of an allegory of poetry and a floral decoration, brown or blue paper endpapers, all...

Original black and white lithograph, second state, created for Le Charivari and printed on heavy paper. Signed on the plate.
Delteil, 916
Some foxing.

Original black and white lithograph, second state, created for Le Charivari and printed on heavy paper. Signed on plate.
Delteil, 1859
Some light foxing.

First edition of this posthumous work illustrated with 15 unpaged steel-engraved plates by Charles Geoffroy and enhanced in colour, including two frontispieces and a portrait of Grandville.
A beautiful binding, with full boards illustrated by the publisher, spine a little faded and signed Haaraus on the panel stamp, original yellow paper endpapers a little soiled in the margins. Corners slightly rubbed. First and last sheets of the text a little browned, minor and typical for this period.
Superb publication, arguably one of Granville's most poetic, in which - as for his Fleurs animées - the artist represents celestial bodies with young women.

Rare original color lithograph, executed by Victor Prouvé for L'Estampe Moderne, series number 20 published in December 1898.
One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on Japan paper with wide margins, artist's signature and date in the plate, publisher's dry stamp representing a child's profile in the lower margin, numbered stamp of the deluxe printing on the verso; engraving preceded by a tissue guard captioned with the artist's name, the title, and an extract from a work.
Lithograph inspired by three stanzas extracted from a poem by J. Mouret, reproduced on the tissue guard of the print.
Magnificent French monthly publication issued between May 1897 and April 1899...