Baudouin frères

Second edition.
Half-caramel glazed calf bindings with corners, smooth spines decorated with blind-stamped fleurons as well as gilt fillets, gilt friezes at head and foot, small traces of rubbing on the spines, marbled paper boards, speckled edges, printed bookplates on the pastedowns, elegant English bindings.
Work illustrated with a portrait of Pierre Corneille as frontispiece to the first volume.
Some foxing.
Handsome set in charming English half-glazed calf binding.

First edition published posthumously by the author's widow, Countess Foy.
Half-shagreen bindings in green, spine with four raised bands set with gilt dots and decorated with double gilt compartments, small lack to headcap of first volume, marbled paper boards with some surface abrasions, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, corners slightly bumped, speckled edges.
The atlas, as is often the case, is lacking from our copy.
Scattered foxing, printed library stamps on title pages.
Work complete with its 8 folding facsimiles but lacking the author's portrait.
Autograph inscription signed by Countess Foy to the politician, diplomat and historian Count de Ségur.

First editions of these three works by Madame Campan uniformly bound. One portrait frontispiece to the memoirs and a second to the Journal. This journal, called anecdotal, is composed of recollections from numerous conversations with Henriette Campan (Napoleon frequently appears) and unpublished correspondence with her son. In her book on the education of young girls, the treatise is followed by several exemplary theatrical pieces, modeled on those of Madame de Genlis.
Half red Russia leather binding with long grain. Smooth spine decorated with 3 fleurons, thick fillets and a roulette at tail. Red paper boards with long grain. Traces of rubbing. Skinning along the lower joint of volume 1. 10 corners slightly bumped. Scattered foxing. Handsome set.
Appointed lady-in-waiting to Queen Marie-Antoinette, after having been reader to the daughters of Louis XV, Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Campan passed into posterity for her Memoirs, which remain historical testimony on the court in the time of Louis XVI. Close to the queen, her confidante, she allows us to penetrate in a singular manner into her intimacy, notably regarding the famous affair of the queen's necklace. She remained at Versailles for more than two decades. Narrowly escaping the Terror during the French Revolution, she founded in 1794 an institution for young girls that would become famous in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, where the daughters of high nobility would pass through. In 1807, Napoleon placed her by imperial decree at the head of the educational establishment of the Legion of Honor at Ecouen, where she devoted herself to training future teachers, with the wish to make Ecouen a university for women.
Rare set of Madame Campan's works in uniform binding.

New edition illustrated with a frontispiece engraved by Ambroise Tardieu.
Half red calf binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt tools and fleurons and blind fillets, gilt fillets highlighting the raised bands, gilt dentelle and fillets at head and foot, marbled paper boards, pastedowns and endpapers, all edges marbled.
Spine lightly faded, headcaps lightly rubbed, occasional foxing.

First edition.
Bradel bindings in half sienna cloth, smooth spines decorated with gilt fleurons at foot, marbled paper boards.
Some minor foxing, gift inscriptions from a previous owner on the half-title pages of the volumes.
Work illustrated with a map (which has a small lack at border without affecting its integrity) at the end of the second volume.

New edition, preceded by an Eloge de Massillon by d'Alembert.
Contemporary half cherry red calf binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with large blind arabesque, multiple gilt dentelles and black morocco author and title labels, marbled paper boards, all edges marbled.
Scattered foxing.
Upper joint rubbed, otherwise handsome copy.

New edition.
Contemporary half cherry red calf binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt and blind fillets, uniformly faded, signed binding by Thouvenin.
Foxing.
Provenance: from the library of Marquis Guillaume de Lespine with his bookplate.

First edition.
Original notice by Henri de Latouche.
Bradel binding in full mustard boards, smooth spine with small tears and slight lacks, red Russia morocco title-label, small stains on boards, lower corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
Some foxing affecting mainly the first and last pages.

First separate edition.
Full tawny sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with two double gilt compartments and gilt typographical motifs, headcaps slightly rubbed, cherry red morocco title-label, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, yellow edges, contemporary binding.
A biographical note concerning the author pasted facing the half-title page, occasional light foxing.
Handsome copy.

First editions for both volumes.
Half chocolate embossed sheep binding, lightened spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt fillets and friezes, minor rubbing traces on headcaps, navy embossed paper boards, engraved bookplate pasted to verso of front board, cold stamp of the same bibliophile on an endpaper.
The second work, bound following the first, is illustrated with an engraved frontispiece depicting the Duke of Choiseul.
Some foxing.

First separate edition.
Bound in full red paper simulating morocco, smooth spine in red Russia morocco decorated with gilt fillets, gilt roulettes at head and foot, slight rubbing at head and foot of spine, one upper corner lightly bumped, yellow edges, contemporary binding.
A pale marginal dampstain affecting most leaves, copy almost entirely free from foxing.

Published the same year as the first edition.
Spine and covers lacking, occasional foxing.

First edition.
Half sheep binding in brown, smooth spine decorated with gilt and cold fillets showing minor scuffing, marbled paper boards.
Engraved bookplate pasted to verso of front board, blind stamp as bookplate of the same bibliophile.
Foxing, pale angular dampstain on some pages.

First edition.
With frontispiece engraved portrait of the tragedian.
Spine skilfully reinforced, gift inscriptions, some light worming.
Rare.