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First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Japan, deluxe copies ("tirage de tête").
Two small tears in the head and foot of the spine, nice copy wide-margined.
First edition, rare, and illustrated with numerous woodcuts in the text including 11 vignettes, one large figure (p.179), 4 coats of arms and 14 miniature portraits.
Copy with 19th-century armorial binding of Baron Pavée de Vendeuvre, with his motto: Ardeo persevero spero.
Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands decorated. Brown sheep title label. Head restored with tooling renewed, several restorations to joints. Upper joint cracked at head. Numerous pagination errors.
The purpose of this study is to elevate funeral ceremonies to the level of fine arts practice in France. As a first example, Ménestrier describes the funeral rites of Queen Marie-Thérèse of Austria at Saint-Denis, then funeral ceremonies among various peoples. The author provides information on what should be done regarding epitaphs, decorations, what music may be played... and gives extensive details on the possibilities of funeral staging. He also treats emblems, coats of arms...
First illustrated edition. Collection Edouard Guillaume Lotus bleu. The cover is dated 1896, the title page 1897. A frontispiece in double state, black and sanguine, 6 plates and head-pieces, tailpieces... The whole delicately erotic by Mittis. Printed on white glazed laid paper. Ordinary issue after 50 numbered copies on Japan paper and 50 numbered copies on China paper. Original wrappers preserved.
Contemporary full black shagreen binding. Smooth spine decorated with 2 small mirrored tools at head and a stylized tulip on spine. Gilt fillet frame on covers. Interior border. Top edge gilt. Wide margins. Some occasional pale scattered foxing.
Very handsome copy.
Prehistoric novel featuring one of the best-known characters from Rosny Aîné's prehistoric universe, Vamireh. In his wanderings, he encounters Elem, a young girl from another tribe, whom he captures. He must fight this clan to keep his conquest. We find the author's incredibly dense and lyrical style, typical of this fin de siècle period. With different groups of hominids, Rosny Aîné is the only and first author to give a plausible and realistic version of prehistory.
New edition. Imprint for this new edition completed on December 1st, 1655.
Very worn contemporary full brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with grotesques (leafy designs, dots and fleur-de-lys). Brown sheep title label. Headcaps torn with large lacks to first and last compartments. Joints cracked at head and foot with leather lacks. Corners cut and worn bare. Overall very rubbed. First text leaf with browning, some following leaves affected. Foxing to index. Lacks lower right corner of page 1043.
19th-century armorial bookplate of Bellaigne de Bughas.
First edition, illustrated with a large title vignette with the coat of arms of Louis XIII, as well as numerous fine woodcut head-and tailpieces as well as initials. Preceded by an epistle to Marie de' Medici. Printed entirely in italic in 2 columns per page, each canto has divisional half-title page. At the end of the privilege one reads: "Achevé d'imprimer pour la première fois en italien le 24 avril 1623."
Modern full vellum binding, spine with five raised bands, manuscript title label, boards with some brown stains; leaves 501 and 503 have been mistakenly placed after leaf 495. Numerous pagination errors at the end of the volume, some leaves browned. Note that leaf A1 is a blank.
In 1615, Marie de' Medici and Concini summoned Marino to France, where Louis XIII retained the poet with a pension of 2,000 écus. He composed his most celebrated work, L'Adone, in Paris over a period spanning more than twenty years. This Baroque poem is made up of 40,000 verses and 5,183 octaves. The Cavalier Marino recounts the story of Venus and Adonis in a unique mixture of registers - epic, mythological, satirical and romantic - tinged with unbridled imagination. He blends Christian and Greco-Roman mythology, eroticism and mysticism, creating a text both innovative and close to the style of Ariosto and Tasso. The publication immediately met with immense success in France, but also in Italy where it influenced the creation of the "Marinist style" and revived scholarly disputes. The poem was later placed on the Papal Index.
Chapelain's letter, written in French and found in the preliminary leaves, praises L'Adone, "bon poëme, conduit et tissu dans sa nouveauté selon les regles generales de l'épopée et le meilleur en son genre qui puisse jamais sortir en public" [a good poem, conducted and woven in its novelty according to the general rules of the epic and the best of its kind that could ever appear in public].
Provenance: manuscript ex-libris "[G.D. ?] Gaillard" on the title page, similar to one recorded on a copy of Compendium logicae, 1666 (Université Toulouse 1, Resp Mn 13004).
First edition, one of 70 numbered copies on Lafuma de Voiron and reimposed in quarto Tellière format, only deluxe copies ("tirage de tête").
Spine and cover slightly and marginally sunned.
Nice copy.
