Paris

First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on Japan, deluxe copies ("tirage de tête").
Beautiful copy wide-margined.
Illustrations by Charles Shoup.

Illustrated edition with first printing of 28 etched compositions by O. Cortazzo engraved by Abot and Clapes. Limited to 1000 copies, one of 825 on tinted laid paper, hand-numbered 209 and justified by the publisher.
Half chocolate morocco with corners ca 1920, signed at top of endpaper Yseux, successor to Simier. Spine with raised bands decorated with ornate compartments and a central mirrored tool. Covers and spine preserved. Top edge gilt. Uncut copy. Paper perfectly white, free from foxing. Spine slightly faded.

Handsome copy, with very beautiful engravings perfectly integrated into the text.

A collection of four extremely rare first editions:
- Thuileur des trente-trois degrés de l'écossisme (1813), “a rare and sought-after work and one of the best thuileurs in existence...” (Caillet, I, 2910). With a frontispiece and 14 plates (one folding) as well as a large folding table at end;
- Récapitulation de toute la maçonnerie ou Description et explication de l'hiéroglyphe universel du maître des maîtres (1812) with two plate;
- l'Explication de la croix philosophique (1806) with a folding plate showing the eponymous cross;
- l'Explication de la pierre cubique (1806) with a folding plate describing the stone.
This copy is further enriched with a small insert

First edition. A handsome allegorical frontispiece by François Chauveau engraved by Regnesson, a title vignette by Picart and various very beautiful engraved ornaments: headpieces, tailpieces, initials...

Contemporary full speckled brown sheep binding. Richly decorated spine with raised bands. Brown morocco title label. Head of spine split. Foot with lack. Joint cracked at foot. Corners very bumped.
Works of Latin poetry by Guez de Balzac, the edition prepared by Gilles Ménage. In appendix a selection of letters.