Paris

French first edition, translated by Baron d'Holbach.

Contemporary full brown glazed and marbled calf binding. Smooth spine decorated. Garnet morocco title label. Headcaps, joints, edges and corners restored. Browning to margins of title page.
Bookplate, Library of Henri Tardivi.
Major work by the German chemist Stahl, who developed the famous phlogistic theory, which dominated chemistry until the end of the 18th century. Stahl himself had borrowed the notion from his master Becker. Although this theory was invalidated by Lavoisier, it was very important because for the first time in history, a principle unified all of chemistry. In his theory of salts, the...

Henri Floury, Paris 1904, 20x26cm, bound.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Japon, the only deluxe issue, complete with the double set of full-page engravings.
Illustrated with 19 full-page engravings after Whistler par H. de J. W., Prunaire, Henry Wolf, H. Guérard, T. Beltrand, Thomas R. Way, Clot and numerous drawings within the text.
Half red morocco with binding, smooth spine, gilt date at foot, red marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, very discreet scratch to the second board, original soft covers preserved, gilt top edge, contemporary binding signed Pouillet.
A fine, perfectly bound copy.
Copy signed and inscribed by Théodore Duret to...

Rare original lithograph in crayon manner, executed by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes for L’Estampe Moderne, dated 1 August 1869, from series no. 12 issued in April 1898.

One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on japon paper with wide margins, on vellum laid down on japon paper, signed and dated in the plate, with the publisher’s blindstamp of a child’s profile in the lower margin, and numbered stamp of the deluxe issue on verso. A faint dark stain to one corner, with slight offsetting of the preceding plate. Preceded by a tissue guard bearing the artist’s name, title, an excerpt of text, and a short presentation of the...

"Immortalité" - Original lithograph on Japan paper – L'Estampe Moderne
L'Estampe Moderne | Imprimerie Champenois for C. H. Masson & H. Piazza | Paris [May 1897] | subject: 24,5 x 34,5cm| plate: 40.8 x 55 cm | one leaf and a captioned silk tissue

Rare Henri Fantin-Latour color lithograph heightened with gold published by L'Estampe Moderne, series number 13, May 1897.
One of 50 ‘grand luxe' proofs printed on papier japon with wide margins, signed by the artist in the plate, publisher's stamp to the lower margin, de luxe printing numbered stamp to verso, small trace of stamp from the previous plate...