Berger-Levrault

First edition of an important text advocating, with detailed arguments, for the free cultivation, production, and export of tobacco, following the loss of land value "by half [...] as a result of two invasions."

Our copy has been disbound.

Bound at the end of the volume are several related pamphlets forming a rare and appealing collection on the subject of the tobacco trade in Alsace:

 - Pétition sur la modification du Régime actuel du Monopole des tabacs, présentée à la Chambre des Députés par les délégués de la Chambre de commerce de Strasbourg. Paris, Le Normant, janvier 1818. 9 pages.

- Monopole des Tabacs. Pétition Sur l'inexécution de la Loi du...

First edition of the French translation, revised under the author's supervision, by Joseph Lavallée, of this highly regarded travel account.

The atlas includes 16 plates depicting views and natural history subjects, 12 pages of engraved music, and 1 folding map (cf. Monglond VI 729–730).

Contemporary bindings in half blond calf over green vellum-tipped boards, smooth spines decorated with gilt tooling, yellow edges, for the three text volumes.

Contemporary binding for the atlas in half green sheep with vellum tips, smooth spine decorated with triple gilt fillets, soft green paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.

Wormholes on title pages, scuffed...

First edition of De la Grèce moderne et de ses rapports avec l’Antiquité, published in Paris and Strasbourg by F.-G. Levrault in 1830. Two parts in one octavo volume. Cf. Blackmer 1372; Droulia 1817; Contominas 595; not in Atabey, the latter two references still requiring direct verification in the printed bibliographies. Blackmer and Droulia are confirmed by the bibliographical records consulted.

Contemporary half blond calf, smooth spine with five false bands framed by gilt garlands, compartments and fillets tooled in blind, gilt rolls at head and foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and...

First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on pure laid paper, the only large paper copies.

Autograph presentation inscription dated and signed by Charles de Gaulle: "Pour J. Emery, bien cordialement ! C. de Gaulle. 25.2.61."

A fine and rare large paper copy with autograph presentation inscription signed by Charles de Gaulle.

Substantial collection of theses submitted to the Special School of Medicine of Strasbourg between 1803 and 1808, composed in Latin or French and arranged in reverse chronological order.

Contemporary binding in speckled fawn half sheep, smooth spine decorated with triple gilt fillets, black sheep lettering-piece partly rubbed, vellum tips, yellow edges, corners worn; period binding.

I. ORDINAIRE (Désiré): Dissertation sur l'influence de l'habitude sur les facultés physiques et morales de l'homme (2 ll. unnumbered, 33 pp.). The Fourierist Désiré Ordinaire (1773-1847) was professor of natural history, then academy inspector and rector of the Academies of Besançon...

Rare edition on Bible paper specially printed for the Free French Forces, one of the numbered copies.

Publisher’s original full blue flexible percaline binding, smooth spine, double red fillets at head and tail, red Cross of Lorraine stamped at the upper right corner of the upper cover, light blue paper endpapers and pastedowns, blue top edge.

Rare and attractive copy.

New edition published under the direction of Victor Cousin and illustrated with 45 folding plates at the end of the volumes.

Full polished calf bindings in light brown, spines evenly darkened with four raised bands ruled in gilt and decorated with double gilt panels, gilt rolls at head and tail, gilt friezes at the foot of the spines, a few heads of spines slightly trimmed, joints rubbed, black calf lettering and volume labels, gilt fillet and garland borders on the covers, upper boards gilt-stamped at centre with crowned laurel wreaths and the gilt inscription “académie de Paris - Prix du concours général”, moiré silk endpapers and pastedowns in white, all edges gilt, gilt fillets...

First edition on ordinary paper.
Elegant half dark blue morocco over marbled paper boards by P. Goy & C. Vilaine, spine in six compartments, gilt date at foot of spine, blue paper endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt.
Autograph inscription with signature and date from Charles de Gaulle to Jacques Renaud "... mon camarade...[my comrade]"
The recipient’s ex dono to head of lower cover, discreet repairs to foot of upper cover, small insignificant tears to foot of final leaves, not touching text.