Paris

Variorum edition reprinting all the remarks, notes and variants from previous editions (Le Duchat, La Monnoye, Gueullette, Voltaire, Marsy, etc.), illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and ten hors-texte plates by Devéria, as well as 120 grotesque woodcut figures hors-texte engraved by Thompson at the end of volume 9.
Contemporary half chocolate glazed calf with small corners, signed at foot by Pivoteau relieur. Smooth spine decorated with 2 mirrored tools at head and foot, curved and straight fillets. Minor damage at foot of volume 3. 2 lower corners slightly bumped. Rubbing. Scattered pale foxing.
Handsome copy attractively bound in an elegant signed binding.

First edition, one of 105 numbered copies on pur fil paper, deluxe issue after 13 on Holland paper.
Handsome copy despite some foxing to the top edge.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Minor lacks to foot of sunned spine and to board margins.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Henri Barbusse to Jules Cornely.

First collected edition, one of 53 numbered copies on Hollande paper, the only deluxe copies after 13 copies on Hollande.
Handsome copy.

First edition. One map and 25 views by Rouargue engraved by Chamouin. One can distinguish the Tuileries Palace and the town hall which were destroyed during the Commune. A view of the new Louvre is interesting as well as that of the central markets, the new palace of justice, the recent Gare de l'Est, the new church of Saint Vincent de Paul. All these animated views are set in the contemporary Paris of the Second Empire.
Publisher's binding in half red shagreen with red percaline boards. Smooth spine decorated with 4 compartments with tools and fillets. On the upper board, decorated with several blind frames, Paris in gilt letters. Rubbing to joints, headcaps and corners. A micro crack

First edition of 550 copies printed on candle paper from the Arches paper mills with the watermark of the Nouvelle Revue française (sole printing). Frontispiece: A portrait of the author on Japan paper in soft-ground etching by Paul-Albert Laurens. Copy No. 379. Original wrappers preserved, lacking spines. 2 leaves of catalogues at rear.
Later half morocco with corners in burgundy signed G. Dubois-D'Enghien at top of endpaper. Spine with 5 raised bands in Jansenist style with author, title, volume number and date gilt. Top edges gilt. Gilt fillets on boards.
Very handsome copy, with superbly fresh paper in near-mint condition.
Bookplate: G. Foulon, with the motto Semina fert

First edition, one of 43 numbered copies on pure thread paper, the only deluxe copies.
Spine very lightly yellowed without consequence.

First edition, one of 60 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies.
Spine very lightly yellowed without consequence, small crease marks to board margins.

First edition, one of 84 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies after 1 Chamois copy reserved for the author.
Spine lightly sunned without consequence, otherwise handsome copy.

First edition, one of 55 numbered copies on pure laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine slightly yellowed without consequence.

First edition, one of 57 numbered copies on handmade paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite small and light black stains on the boards.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Small tears and slight lacks to spine, a lack to lower right corner of back board, some foxing.
Autograph inscription signed by Pierre Loti to the diplomat, politician and historian Gabriel Hanotaux: "A monsieur Hanotaux, hommage de sympathique reconnaissance, Pierre Loti."

First edition, one of the service de presse (advance) copies.
Covers slightly soiled.
Dated autograph inscription signed by Pierre-Jean Jouve to Madame Sokolniwska.

First edition published under pseudonym in 250 numbered copies on Holland paper.
With a frontispiece portrait of the author.
Book dedicated to the Gauls alone, to those who still love the ribaldry and the salty and spicy words of our forefathers.
Rare and handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Jho Pâle to Monsieur Patay below his portrait, we include a visiting card of the author when he was a publicist.

First edition, one of 60 numbered copies on pure wove paper, the only deluxe copies printed.
A fine and rare copy.
Preface by André Rolland de Renéville.

First edition, one of 43 numbered copies on pure thread paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine very slightly yellowed without significance.

First edition, one of 68 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine very slightly yellowed without significance.

First edition, one of 65 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on laid Holland paper, ours unnumbered, the only deluxe copies.
Boards and spine slightly and marginally shaded, two press clippings included having left a shadow on the endpapers and half-title, small foxing on some deckled edges.
Rare full-margined copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Alphonse Séché to Gustave Colson who served, during the 1914-1918 war, as battalion commander and lieutenant-colonel in army staff and who became chief of staff of the rear direction.

First edition, one of 58 numbered copies on pure thread paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine and boards being slightly and marginally shaded.

First edition, one of 43 numbered copies on pure thread paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine and boards being slightly and marginally shaded, a small stain on the front board.

First edition, one of 45 numbered copies on laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 65 numbered copies on wove paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 43 numbered copies on pure thread paper, the only deluxe copies.
Fine copy despite the spine very slightly browned without any severity.

First edition, one of 55 numbered copies on pure thread paper, the only deluxe copies.
Fine copy despite the spine and boards slightly and marginally shaded.

First edition, one of 60 numbered copies on laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine very slightly yellowed without consequence.

First edition, one of 43 numbered copies on laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine very slightly yellowed without consequence.

First edition of the French translation established by Louis-Nicolas Ménard, no mention is made of deluxe copies.
Interior foxing and to the covers, a small tear in the left margin of the second cover.

First French edition, published around June 15, 1816, only a few days after the London edition.
Our copy bears all the features of the second state of the Parisian edition: with the London address preceding that of Paris on the title page, then, on the verso, the absence of the warning to counterfeiters and, at the end of the volume, page 228, the absence of the printer's name.
Small marginal lacks to the temporary covers, upper joints slightly cracked at head, a small tear on the title page, a former owner having added the word "par" on the title page above the author's name, he also copied a critique of the work by Honoré de Balzac at the foot of the last page of text.
Our c

First edition, one of 65 numbered copies on pure thread paper, the only deluxe copies.
Some worming to spine, otherwise handsome copy.

First edition, one of 61 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
After spending his youth in Oran, Claude de Fréminville met Camus in preparatory class at Algers during the 1932-1933 school year, before pursuing his university studies in Paris. It was in France that he joined the Communist Party, and encouraged Camus to do the same, which he did the following year. He planned to create with André Belamich and Albert Camus a political-literary magazine, la nouvelle journée, sponsored by Giono, which would be a bridge between Europeans and Muslims. In 1938, he was part of the editorial team of Rivages, which Charlot published and printed. In 1939, during a

First edition, one of 55 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy of this work whose hero is an aspirant observer, aviator in a French squadron based in Italy, during the First World War.

First edition, one of 90 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the slightly yellowed spine without gravity.

First edition, one of 43 numbered copies on pur fil vellum, the only deluxe copies.
A handsome copy despite the spine being slightly yellowed without consequence.

First edition, one of 65 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies.
A handsome copy.

First edition, one of 48 numbered copies on pure linen paper, the only deluxe copies.
Fine copy despite the spine being slightly yellowed.

First edition, one of 48 numbered copies on pure linen paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 58 numbered copies on laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine being slightly yellowed without consequence.

First edition, one of 58 numbered copies on laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine being very slightly yellowed without consequence.

First edition, one of 105 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite very slight and insignificant yellowing to spine.

First edition, one of 80 numbered copies on pur fil, deluxe copies after 25 Auvergne.
Handsome copy despite very slight and insignificant yellowing to spine.

First edition, one of 60 numbered copies on pure thread paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite small black spots on the back cover.

First edition of this text dedicated to Jean-Paul Sartre, one of 43 numbered copies on laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine very slightly yellowed without consequence.

First edition, one of 65 numbered copies on laid paper, the only deluxe copies after 8 on Holland paper.
Handsome copy despite the spine very slightly yellowed without consequence.

First edition, one of 55 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine being very slightly yellowed without consequence.

First edition, one of 55 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine being very slightly yellowed without consequence.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on pure linen paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 53 numbered copies on pure linen paper, the only deluxe copies.
Fine copy despite the spine very lightly yellowed without consequence.

First edition, one of 53 numbered copies on wove paper, the only deluxe copies.
Four small brown spots to left margin of second cover, otherwise handsome copy of this work dedicated to Albert Camus.

First edition, one of 43 numbered copies on wove paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine very lightly yellowed without consequence.

First edition, one of 43 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
A handsome copy despite the spine very slightly yellowed without consequence.

First edition of the author's first work, one of 55 numbered copies on pure linen paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine very slightly yellowed without consequence.

First edition, one of 60 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 43 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine being very lightly yellowed without significance.
Presentation by Jean Cocteau.

First edition of the author's first work published under the auspices of Albert Camus, one of 56 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine being very lightly yellowed without significance.
French writer born in Mostaganem and engaged in the Algerian independence struggle, Jean-Pierre Millecam was, due to threats to his security in Tlemcen, exfiltrated by the F.L.N. to Morocco in 1956.

First edition, one of 60 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine very slightly yellowed without gravity.

First edition, one of 1,345 numbered copies on pur fil, ours one of the 135 octavo copies, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 106 numbered copies on pure thread paper, the only deluxe copies after 25 on Holland paper.
Handsome copy despite very light and harmless yellowing to spine.

First edition, one of 43 numbered copies on pure thread paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite very light and harmless yellowing to spine.

First edition, one of 350 numbered copies on laid paper, ours unnumbered, the only printing along with 10 on China paper.
Two small corner lacks at head and foot of front cover, handsome interior condition.

First edition, one of 230 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies with 2 on Japan paper.
Two fold marks to lower right margin of front cover.
Handsome copy.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Spine sunned, handsome interior condition.
Rare autograph inscription signed by Edouard Schuré to the writer and poet Auguste Dorchain.

First edition printed in 175 numbered deluxe copies.
Three stains on the front cover.
Autograph inscription signed by Paul Valéry: "Pour les oeuvres de l'Ecole Edgar Quinet. Paul Valéry." (For the works of the Edgar Quinet School. Paul Valéry.)

First edition, one of 56 numbered copies on handmade paper, the only deluxe copies.
The work illustrated with 4 hors-texte illustrations by Camille Bryen.
A handsome copy.

First edition, one of 68 numbered copies on pure thread paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine very slightly yellowed without consequence.

First edition, one of 55 numbered copies on pure thread paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine very slightly yellowed without consequence.

First edition, one of 85 numbered copies on pure linen paper, the only deluxe copies after 15 on Holland paper.
Preface by Julien Lanoë.
Handsome copy.

First collected edition and partly in first edition, one of 260 numbered copies on pure linen paper, deluxe copies after 28 on Holland paper.
Handsome copy despite the spine very slightly yellowed without consequence.

First edition, one of 55 numbered copies on handmade paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine very slightly yellowed without consequence.

First edition, one of 60 numbered copies on handmade paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine very slightly yellowed without consequence.

First edition, one of 65 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine being very slightly yellowed without consequence.

First edition, one of 43 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine being very slightly yellowed without consequence.

First edition, one of 60 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.

First edition.
Handsome copy despite the covers being lightly and marginally sunned without consequence.

First edition illustrated with photographs by the author.
Handsome copy.
Manuscript signature of Freddy Boller on the title page.

First edition, one of 45 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite two adhesive paper discharges with minimal paper lacks on the first endpaper.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Half red morocco binding, spine with five raised bands set with gilt fillets and decorated with quadruple gilt compartments, gilt date at foot, gilt fillet frame on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, bookplate pasted at foot of pastedown, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, handsome period binding signed Franz.
Signed autograph inscription from René Benjamin to the painter Maxime Dethomas.
Our copy is also enriched with a second signed autograph inscription from René Benjamin which comes from another work and has been mounted on a stub: "To Pauley, marvelous artist of a trembling life, from... Gaspard who lov

Edition printed in 140 numbered copies on vellum illustrated with 46 original drypoints by André Jacquemin, our copy specially for the naturalist, entomologist and geologist Nérée Boubée.
Spine of chemise slightly sunned with small stains at foot.
Copy expanded with the illustrated menu from the publishing society's dinner at Drouant signed by André Jacquemin.
Our copy is exceptionally expanded with two original pencil drawings dated and signed by André Jacquemin; the first titled "L'épervier blessé" which André Jacquemin inscribed to Nérée Boubée, the second titled "Frégate".
It also includes, like 20 other copies of the edition, 1 dupli

First edition consisting of an offprint from issues 261 and 262 of the journal Critique.
Handsome and rare copy despite covers slightly and marginally sunned.

First edition, one of 63 numbered copies on pure thread paper, the only deluxe copies.
A handsome copy despite the spine being very lightly sunned without significance.

First edition, one of 43 numbered copies on pure linen paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 53 numbered copies on pure linen paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine very lightly sunned without consequence.

First edition, one of 60 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe paper issue.
Subtle and skillful minor restorations to the spine.
A rare and handsome copy.

First edition illustrated with 421 illustrations (vignettes, half-page, hors-texte, double-page...) with an unparalleled profusion of images. Printed in double columns. Among the illustrators who contributed to this rather rare edition are not only Gustave Doré, but Castelli, Foulquier, Gustave Roux, F. Pierdon... The edition uses all the techniques of Romantic printing to insert the images, framing the text, as vignettes, in double-page format in the manner of L'Illustration, and makes reading the experience of total immersion in the world of the Arabian Nights, oriental and magical.
Contemporary green half morocco with corners signed Petit (successor to Simier). Spine with raised band

First edition printed on ordinary paper.
Handsome copy despite a tiny stain on the first cover.
Signed and inscribed copy from Jean d'Ormesson to writer Suzanne Prou.

Original photograph. Vintage silver print in black and white. Artist's proof signed on verso. Stains on verso.
Portrait of writer Léon Malet.
In 1983 began a regular collaboration between Bruno de Monès and Le Magazine littéraire which would endure until the mid-1990s.

Original photograph. Vintage gelatin silver print in black and white. Artist's proof signed on verso.
Portrait of writer Fernand Braudel, captioned in felt-tip pen at bottom left.
In 1983 began a regular collaboration between Bruno de Monès and Le Magazine littéraire which would endure until the mid-1990s.

Original photograph. Vintage black and white gelatin silver print. Artist's proof signed on verso.
Portrait of philosopher Michel Foucault.
In 1983, Bruno de Monès began a regular collaboration with Le Magazine littéraire which would continue until the mid-1990s.

Original photograph. Vintage black and white gelatin silver print. Artist's proof signed on verso.
Portrait of philosopher Michel Foucault at his desk.
In 1983, Bruno de Monès began a regular collaboration with Le Magazine littéraire which would continue until the mid-1990s.