Second edition. Vade-mecum guide for the medium and the evoker. The training of the psychograph medium or writer, the identity of spirits, the language to use with the invisible... Light marginal lack to first cover, small central lack to second cover, handsome interior condition. Rare.
E. Dentu|Paris 1860|16 x 23.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition. Old fawn sheep, spine blindstamped in five compartments with gilt fillets and dots, blindruled frame to covers, worn through use. With 10 steel engravings and a map. Nicely inscribed by J. Rémy.
Froullé|Colle(Toscane) • & Paris 1788|13 x 20 cm|4 volumes reliés
MAZZEI Filippo & TURGOT Anne Robert Jacques & CONDORCET Nicolas Recherches Historiques et Politiques sur les états-Unis de l'Amérique Septentrionale où l'on traite des établissements des treize colonies & de leurs dissensions avec la Grande Bretagne, de leurs gouvernements avant et après la révolution, &c. Par un Citoyen de Virginie. Avec quatre Lettres d'un Bourgeois de New-Heaven (sic) sur l'unité de la législation. Froullé, Colle (Toscane) & Paris 1788, in-8 (13 x 20 cm), (4) xvi 384 pp., (4) 259 pp (1), (4) 292 pp., (4) 366 pp., 4 volumes, later sheep First edition. Fawn Empire-style marbled sheep. Spine richly gilt with Greek key...
Librairie de la société des auteurs dramatiques|Paris 1867|11 x 18.50 cm|relié
First edition. Half-shagreen binding with corners in green, spine with five raised bands decorated with blind-tooled compartments and stylized azure leaves, some traces of rubbing, marbled paper doublures and endpapers, contemporary binding. Bibliophilic review publishing unpublished works.
First edition in French, one of 1000 numbered copies on pur fil, the only printing with 10 Auvergne. With a frontispiece originale portrait of Blaise Cendrars by Rièra, illustrated cover by O. Tamburi. A very good and rare copy.
First edition, rare. Full speckled brown calf binding, spine with raised bands decorated with 5 fleurons. Skillful contemporary pastiche of a period binding. Title page yellowed, light yellow dampstain on 30 pages in the middle of the work. One leaf missing, the last page of the preface. Handsome copy. After having expounded the theory of excretory crisis among the ancients, and especially in Hippocrates, its founder, the author studies with the greatest circumspection the validity and pertinence of this medical thesis: do crises, linked to a form of excretion, that is a critical evacuation, cure the patient? Numerous case observations are added at the end of the work.
First edition, one of 1500 numbered copies on Lafuma, the only printing with 50 on Japan paper and 100 on Hollande paper. With a frontispiece by J.G. Daragnès. A very good copy.
Perrotin|Paris 1845|14.50 x 22 cm|2 volumes reliés
Second edition. Contemporary half brown sheep, spine with gilt floral devices and borders, covers covered with red sheep with the same devices of the spine. Some foxing mostly to endpapers, otherwise very good copies.