Paris

First edition of this doctoral thesis.
Signed autograph inscription from Jean Hazera.
Work illustrated with figures in and outside the text.
Spine and boards marginally sunned, handsome interior condition.

First edition of this thesis defended in 1981 at the UER of Iberian and Latin American studies at the Sorbonne.
Soft binding, black cloth spine, turquoise soft cardboard covers.
Rare and handsome copy.

First edition of this thesis defended in 1982 to obtain a third-cycle doctorate degree.
Soft binding, black cloth spine, white soft cardboard covers.
Rare and handsome copy despite a tape mark on the first endpaper.

First edition of this thesis defended in 1987 at the Institute of Iberian and Latin American Studies at the Sorbonne.
Flexible binding, black cloth spine, orange flexible cardboard covers.
Two angular fold marks on the back cover, otherwise rare and handsome copy.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Signed autograph inscription by the author. Preface by Pierre Chaunu.
Light and clear bluish stains of no consequence on the back cover, handsome copy.

First edition.
The text of the second volume, translated by Abbé Pierre Jobit, is preceded by a historical introduction and a biography of Sanz del Rio by P. Jobit.
Spine and covers marginally sunned, handsome interior condition. Rare.

First edition.
Publisher's Bradel binding in half dark green percale, smooth spine, black morocco title label, small gilt ornament and double gilt fillet at foot.
Twelve issues from January to December 1903. Original wrappers preserved.
Each issue is illustrated with a woodcut.
Literary contributions by Henri Ghéon, André Gide ("Bethsabé, poème dramatique"), Charles Guérin, Walt Whitman, Francis Jammes, Nietzsche ("Le Nihilisme européen"), etc.
Founded in 1890 by Henri Mazel, L'Ermitage was a monthly journal belonging to the first wave of small symbolist reviews. In the 1895s, the journal entered a decline, and its new director, Edouard Ducoté, called upon André...

First edition.
Brochure in its original wrappers.
Small tears with minor lacks to covers, handsome copy.

First editions.
Works illustrated with drawings and photographs by the author.
Handsome set.

New edition.
Work illustrated with a frontispiece and a drawing on the front cover.
Spine faded, small corner lacks to boards, some foxing.

First edition.
Rare and handsome copy in its original wrappers.
Small tears with tiny insignificant lacks to spine, title label pasted at head.

Pre-first edition of the poems "Le Chat noir", "Langueur", "La Princesse Bérénice", "Pantoum négligé", "Paysage", "Conseil falot", "L'Aube à l'envers", "Un pouacre" and "Madrigal" in the issues of March 26, July 14 and August 18.
These poems appeared one year before their publication in the collection Jadis et naguère.
Le Chat noir is a weekly review created by Rodolphe Salis and Emile Goudeau, published from 1882 to 1897, with the aim of promoting the famous cabaret of the same name, of which it intended to be the record. It published the texts declaimed during the performances. It is, moreover, an important literary and artistic testimony of the end of the 19th century, around...

New edition
Contemporary marbled blonde sheep binding. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Red morocco title label. Headcaps worn. One corner heavily bumped with exposed board edge.
Jovian is the successor to Roman Emperor Julian, whose biography the author had given shortly before; it was a great success in Europe and made La Bleterie one of the prominent figures of History in the 18th century. After the brief biography of the emperor, one will find translations of Julian's writings, The Caesars, a satire dedicated to Sallust; the Misopogon (the enemy of the beard), where Julian draws a portrait of himself, as he indeed wore a very long beard which attracted mockery, and several...

First edition.
Half aubergine shagreen bindings with corners, spines uniformly sunned with five raised bands decorated with gilt fillets, speckled top edges.
Important compilation of numerous issues around literature. The two volumes concern above all the "Romanesque Sites", that is to say writers' residences as well as the places that inspired them for their plots and poems. The panel of authors treated is quite vast: Ronsard, Rabelais, Montaigne, Pascal, La Fontaine, Racine, Voltaire, Rousseau, Baudelaire, Zola, the Goncourts, Loti, Proust...
A very interesting article at the beginning of the second volume entitled "Brief Impressions of an Old Bibliophile" by Louis Barthou...

First edition.
Half black shagreen binding with corners, spine with five raised bands, traces of rubbing to spine and joints, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt.
Work illustrated with 120 engravings in the text, 12 plates and 1 chromolithograph hors-texte.
Occasional foxing, handsome interior condition.

First edition.
Signed autograph inscription by Désiré Nisard.
Spine slightly faded, boards marginally soiled with small corner losses, handsome interior condition.

First edition on ordinary paper.
A good copy.

First edition.
Copy retaining its 42 planches in heliogravure.
A rare and good copy.

First edition.
A rare and good copy retaining its 40 plates.

Second edition.
Half black sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with triple gilt fillets showing traces of rubbing, a partially torn library classification label, rubbed headcaps, scuffs on the marbled paper boards, corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
Endpapers browned, foxing.

First edition, one of 32 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy complete with its illustrated dust jacket.

First edition.
Half green cloth binding, smooth spine, marbled paper boards, copy slightly warped.
Some light foxing, boards slightly and marginally discolored.
Rare.

First edition in French, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Introduction by M. de Gandillac.
Fine copy, with gift inscription in ballpoint pen at head of front endpaper.

First edition, one of 900 numbered copies on alfa paper.
Two small lacks at head and foot of spine, otherwise handsome copy.

Reissue.
Half brown sheep binding, spine with four raised bands set with gilt fillets, scuffs on the marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.

First edition.
Half black shagreen binding with small corners, smooth spine decorated with gilt arabesques, gilt friezes at head and foot, traces of rubbing on the joints, small scuffs on the marbled paper boards, corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
Some foxing without undue severity.
Rare.

New edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe copy after 5 on China paper.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on Madagascar paper, deluxe copy.
Spine sunned and cracked, foxing, tears and marginal stains to boards, erased gift inscription at head of first endpaper, handsome interior condition.

First edition.
Half aubergine shagreen binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt friezes and typographical motifs, headcaps very lightly rubbed, marbled paper boards, corners bumped, marbled edges.
Concerning Madame de Genlis, Mahomet, Luther, L. de Bonald, Saint Bernard, Talleyrand...
Scattered foxing.

Definitive edition on ordinary paper.
Fine autograph inscription signed by the author to André Coeuroy.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 120 numbered copies on vergé de Hollande paper.
Handsome copy illustrated with a frontispiece.

First edition, one of 825 numbered copies on antique laid paper.
Illustrated with a frontispiece by J.G. Daragnès.
Some minor foxing of no great consequence.

First edition, one of the numbered copies on Arches laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
A handsome copy with full margins.

The first separate edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Illustrated work with a frontispiece portrait of the author by Louis Anquetin.
Light foxing of no consequence to the endpapers.

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Signed autograph inscription from Jean Galtier-Boissière to (André) Rolland de Renéville.
Two small tears on the slightly sunned spine.
Provenance: from the library of André Rolland de Renéville.

First edition, one of 209 numbered copies on laid paper, the only printing with 1 on Japan and 10 on Madagascar.
Signed autograph inscription from Yves Gandon to André Rolland de Renéville.
Work illustrated with a frontispiece by Roland Goujon.
Preface by Léon-Paul Fargue.
Fine copy.
Provenance: from the library of André Rolland de Renéville.

First edition of the French translation by Yves Gandon, one of the numbered copies on white Crèvecoeur laid paper, the only printing with 64 on Rives.
Signed autograph inscription from Yves Gandon to (André) Rolland de Renéville.
Two small stains of no consequence on the back cover, handsome copy complete with its publisher's slip.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on pure thread Johannot paper, deluxe issue.
Illustrated work with a frontispiece portrait of the author engraved on wood by G. Poilliot after a drawing by A. Billis.
Spine lightly faded as generally occurs, handsome copy.

First edition, one of 1035 numbered copies on Arches laid paper, the only issue with 25 Japan.
Illustrated work with a frontispiece portrait of the author lithographed by L.A. Moreau.
Spine lightly faded as usual.

First edition, one of 196 numbered copies on Arches paper, the only issue with 4 copies on Japan paper.
Signed and inscribed by André Billy.
Spine and boards lightly and marginally faded as usual.

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Maurice Fourré to Luc Estang.
Light worming to spine, handsome interior condition, complete with publisher's slip.

First edition.
Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Decorated raised band spine. Beige title label. Damage with losses to the three headcaps. The second volume is in a noticeably different binding, with a red morocco title label and a beige volume label. Paper sometimes browned and spotted.
Although it is charged with numerous inaccuracies (but certain points of Suger's biography are still debated), like all studies conducted by Gervaise, this history of Abbot Suger teems with interesting details and anecdotes. Moreover the preliminary pieces contain 4 dissertations on the foundation of the abbey of Saint Denis, the death of Abbot Suger, on Suger's works, and on the heresy of...

First edition.
Contributions by T. Varlet "Notes de haschisch", P.J. Jouve, G. Duhamel, F. Fagus...
Tiny lack at foot of spine, minute marginal tears to boards, handsome interior condition.

First edition.
Contributions by P.J. Jouve, R. Arcos, C. Vildrac, G. Duhamel...
Handsome copy.

First edition.
Contributions by P. Fort, G. Duhamel, P.J. Jouve, A. Gleizes.
A lack to foot and tear to head of spine, trace of glued label on front cover, handsome interior condition.

First edition.
Work illustrated with photographs and folding plans outside the text.
First cover clumsily restored with adhesive pieces, small lacks and angular tears on the covers also with foxing, handsome interior condition.

First edition.
Work illustrated with photographs and color plates.
Spine split and crudely repaired with an adhesive strip, a loss at foot of second board, handsome interior condition.

First edition.
Work illustrated with photographic plates.
Spine split and crudely repaired with adhesive strips, a loss at head of spine, foxing to boards, handsome interior condition.

First edition.
Contributions by E. Montfort, J.A. Nau, L. Codet, M. Coulon, F. Fleuret...
Handsome copy.

First edition.
Contributions by F. Divoire, J.L. Vaudoyer, C. Pitollet, J. Borély...
A handsome copy.

First edition.
Bradel binding in full cardboard covered with marbled paper, smooth spine with tears and paper losses, faded olive shagreen title-label, bookplate pasted to verso of front cover.
Signed autograph inscription from Jean Senamaud.
Illustrated work with a frontispiece portrait of Confucius.
Endpapers lightly shadowed without significance, otherwise handsome interior condition.

First edition.
Half-sheep binding in fir green, smooth spine faded and decorated with gilt and black fillets, gilt friezes at head and foot, headcaps lightly rubbed without damage, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, light scratches without damage to edges, contemporary binding.
Handsome and rare copy.

First edition.
Half-sheep binding in fir green, smooth spine faded and decorated with gilt and black fillets, gilt friezes at head and foot, headcaps lightly rubbed without damage, scratches with skin losses to joints, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, light scratches without damage to edges, contemporary binding.
Iconography.
Rare copy.

First edition.
Half fir green sheep binding, smooth spine with gilt and black fillets and gilt friezes at head and foot, headcaps lightly rubbed without damage, scratches with loss of leather on joints, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, light scratches to edges without damage, contemporary binding.
Iconography.
Rare copy.

First edition.
Contributions by G. Duhamel, A. Essebac, G. Polti, L. Bazalgette on "Verhaeren et l'Allemagne", M. Rieu on Renée Vivien...
Lacking back board, otherwise handsome copy.

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Signed autograph inscription by Paul Chack, ex dono from the dedicatee at head of an endpaper.
Two small tears at head and foot of spine, paper yellowed.
Work illustrated with 4 maps drawn by the author.

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Signed autograph inscription by the author.
Photographic cover.
Spine creased with two small lacks at head and foot, crease marks to boards, small tear at head of first endpaper.

First edition for each of the issues
.Full old rose percale binding, smooth spine lightly faded, old rose shagreen title-label, original covers preserved, contemporary binding.
Issues 6, 7 and 10 contain signed autograph inscriptions from the author to a very close friend; issue 8, an autograph letter from the author to the same person, envelope included.
Pleasant set.

First edition for each of the issues.
Full cardboard binding covered with moiré-effect paper, smooth spine showing traces of rubbing with paper losses, upper headcaps worn, original wrappers preserved for each of the volumes, contemporary binding.

First edition, one of 600 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies with 30 on Holland paper.
Handsome copy.

First edition.
Spine faded, small lacks and corner tears to boards, some light foxing.
Rare.

First edition.
Half black shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons showing minor rubbing, blind fillet frame on black paper boards, corners very slightly bumped, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
The work is illustrated with in-text engravings.
Some minor foxing.

New edition of the French translation.
Half brown sheep binding, smooth unlettered spine, fir-colored paper boards with minor surface wear, small tears to leading edges.
The work is complete with its folding table at the end.
Our copy is enhanced with autograph manuscript notes on leaves placed opposite the relevant pages as well as manuscript marks in the text probably written by a previous bibliophile.
A rare and handsome copy in a modest binding.

First edition of this periodical printed in a small number of copies on laid paper.
Contributions by L. Moland, Dumonceau, Mondorge...
Small tears and minor corner lacks without consequence to the spine and boards, handsome interior condition.
"Mettre en rapport, les amateurs, les collectionneurs, les bibliographes, répandre les sources d'information, (...) et former de véritables Archives Molièresques tel est notre but ." ["To connect amateurs, collectors, bibliographers, to spread sources of information, (...) and to form true Molière Archives, such is our goal."]
G. Monval, director of the periodical, archivist of the Académie française.

First edition of this periodical printed in a small number of copies on laid paper.
Contributions by E. Cottinet, J. de Filippi, du Monceau, Mondorge...
Minor marginal lacks without consequence to the boards, a light dampstain to the head of the first cover, handsome interior condition.
"Mettre en rapport, les amateurs, les collectionneurs, les bibliographes, répandre les sources d'information, (...) et former de véritables Archives Molièresques tel est notre but ." ["To connect amateurs, collectors, bibliographers, to spread sources of information, (...) and to form true Molière Archives, such is our goal."]
G. Monval, director of the periodical, archivist of the...

First edition of this journal published in a small number of copies on laid paper.
Contributions by C. Humbert, H. Fritsche, H. Tivier...
Light corner lacks to spine and covers, a light dampstain at foot of front cover, handsome interior condition.
"Mettre en rapport, les amateurs, les collectionneurs, les bibliographes, répandre les sources d'information, (...) et former de véritables Archives Molièresques tel est notre but." ["To bring together amateurs, collectors, bibliographers, to spread sources of information, (...) and to form true Molièresque Archives - such is our goal."]
G. Monval, director of the journal, archivist of the Académie française.

First edition of this journal published in a small number of copies on laid paper.
Contributions by C.L. Livet, A. Baluffe, L. de Veyran...
Spine and covers lightly and marginally sunned with small tears, handsome interior condition.
"Mettre en rapport, les amateurs, les collectionneurs, les bibliographes, répandre les sources d'information, (...) et former de véritables Archives Molièresques tel est notre but." ["To bring together amateurs, collectors, bibliographers, to spread sources of information, (...) and to form true Molièresque Archives - such is our goal."]
G. Monval, director of the journal, archivist of the Académie française.

First edition of this periodical printed in a small run on laid paper.
Contributions by P. d'Estrée, A. Baluffe, Mondorge...
Light tears and small marginal lacks to spine and boards, light dampstain to head of boards, handsome interior condition.
"Mettre en rapport, les amateurs, les collectionneurs, les bibliographes, répandre les sources d'information, (...) et former de véritables Archives Molièresques tel est notre but ." ["To bring together amateurs, collectors, bibliographers, to spread sources of information, (...) and to form true Molièresque Archives, such is our goal."]
G. Monval, director of the periodical, archivist of the Académie française.

First edition of this periodical printed in a small run on laid paper.
Contributions by P. Mesnard, A. Baluffe, L. Moland...Small tears and slight marginal lacks to spine and boards, handsome interior condition.
"Mettre en rapport, les amateurs, les collectionneurs, les bibliographes, répandre les sources d'information, (...) et former de véritables Archives Molièresques tel est notre but ." ["To bring together amateurs, collectors, bibliographers, to spread sources of information, (...) and to form true Molièresque Archives, such is our goal."]
G. Monval, director of the periodical, archivist of the Académie française.

First edition of this journal printed in a small number of copies on laid paper.
Contributions by E. Garraud, Mondorge, A. Baluffe, R. de Semallé...
Small lacks and marginal tears to spine and boards, two dampstains to boards, handsome interior condition.
"To bring together amateurs, collectors, bibliographers, to spread sources of information, (...) and to form true Molièresque Archives, such is our goal."
G. Monval, director of the journal, archivist of the Académie française.

First edition of this journal printed in a small number of copies on laid paper.
Contributions by A. Houssaye, A. Rousselet, E. Thoinan...
Handsome copy.
"To bring together amateurs, collectors, bibliographers, to spread sources of information, (...) and to form true Molièresque Archives, such is our goal." G. Monval, director of the journal, archivist of the Académie française. Issue illustrated with a chromolithograph representing the arms of the Poquelin de Beauvais.

First edition on ordinary paper, false statement of second edition.
Amusing autograph inscription signed by Tristan Bernard.

First edition, one of the copies on alfa.
A very good copy.

First edition, one of 250 numbered copies on alfa paper reserved for the press.
Fine autograph inscription calligraphed and signed by the author to politician Maurice Reclus "... qui pense en politique."
Handsome copy.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Signed autograph inscription from Paul Fort to André Coeuroy.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 223 numbered copies on Holland paper.
Spine slightly warped, otherwise handsome full-margined copy.

First edition.
Half marbled bronze sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with quintuple gilt fillets showing traces of rubbing, red morocco title label, marbled paper boards with some surface wear, three tears to edges, contemporary binding.
Work illustrated with reproductions of posters from the Paris Commune.
Pleasant interior condition.
Rare.

First edition printed on laid paper.
Publisher's half cherry red cloth Bradel binding, smooth spine, illustrated front cover, three restored tears at head and foot of boards.
Work illustrated with 40 color plates hors-texte.
Handsome copy.

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Henri de Montherlant.
Spine sunned, complete with its errata leaf.

First edition, one of 170 numbered copies on ivory vellum, the only deluxe copies after 30 vélin royal.
Signed autograph inscription by André Frank.
Work illustrated with 2 original drawings by Jacques Courtade including one frontispiece.
Rare and handsome copy.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Autograph inscription by A. Rossi who wrote the foreword to this work.
A tiny snag and a small insignificant tear to spine, handsome copy complete with its errata leaf.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Signed autograph inscription by A. Rossi.
Paper yellowed as usual, spine and covers marginally and slightly sunned, two small angular tears at foot of front cover.

First edition on ordinary paper, false statement of edition.
Signed autograph inscription by the author.
Handsome copy.

First edition of this keepsake, illustrated with a title vignette and 24 steel engravings.
Romantic Boutigny-style binding in full wine-red shagreen morocco. Spine decorated with a large rocaille ornamental border. Boards stamped with a broad rocaille motif. All edges gilt. Spine sunned. Endpapers renewed. Fresh throughout, with some foxing in margins on good white paper. Handsome copy.
Texts by Chateaubriand, Janin, Amable Tastu, Walter Scott... Despite the title, the work has nothing whatsoever to do with Paris as a theme; it brings together, like any keepsake, diverse texts on travel, portraits...

NB: This book is available at the bookstore on request within...

First edition.
Richly illustrated.
Spine cracked, internally good.

First edition published in a small number of copies.
Foxing to covers.
Printed stamp serving as bookplate at head of front cover.
Rare pamphlet presented in original wrappers, as issued.

First edition.
Publisher's full orange cloth binding, smooth spine.
Work illustrated with 38 figures in the text.

First edition.
Publisher's full orange cloth binding, smooth spine.
Work illustrated with 22 figures in the text.

First edition.
Small marginal tears with tiny lacks to head of spine and to covers, handsome interior condition.

First edition.
Small tears with minor lacks to head and foot of unlettered spine, handsome interior condition.
Rare pamphlet.