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First edition, illustrated with drawings by the author.
Publisher’s binding in full white boards, smooth spine, illustrated front cover, copy complete with its original insertion slip.
Amusing autograph inscription signed by Claire Brétécher to a friend named Richard: "A Richard baisers maniaco-dépressifs. Claire."
First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Rives mould-made wove paper, the only printing after 20 hors commerce copies on Sirène offset paper.
Illustrated with colour linocuts and woodcuts after collages by Ania Staritsky.
Minor offsetting from glassine onto the inner flaps, tears to the spine.
Pencil signatures of Jacques Lemaire and Ania Staritsky at the colophon.
First edition, very scarce, of this important work.
Contemporary-style half speckled fawn calf binding, smooth spine decorated with triple gilt fillets, green shagreen title label, small vellum corners, marbled paper boards, bookplate pasted onto a pastedown, red edges, modern binding.
A restored loss to the left margin of the title page.
Hydrogéologie contains Lamarck’s geological observations gathered during his travels in Germany, Hungary, and France.
Its principal merit lies in demonstrating the considerable importance of plants and animals as agents of geological transformation.
It is in this work that the word biology appears for the first time, on...
First edition.
Not recorded by Vicaire or Bitting.
Contemporary-style half red shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands, very slightly sunned, marbled paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers, original wrappers and spine preserved, modern binding signed by Laurenchet.
Restored marginal tear to page 43 with a slight loss affecting a few letters of the text.
Signed autograph presentation inscription by Emile Mouchon on the half-title: "A la Société impériale d'agriculture de Lyon, hommage empressé".
Rare first edition illustrated with a frontispiece, an engraved title, two intaglio-engraved plates, and 25 woodcut figures in the text (cf. Rosenthal, Bibliotheca Magica et Pneumatica, 8648, which records only a 1788 edition).
Contemporary full marbled calf, spine with five raised bands richly gilt and panelled, gilt rolls to the spine ends partially rubbed, dark green calf lettering-piece, a few rubs to the spine and joints, gilt fillets to the edges partially faded, corners bumped, red edges.
1825 edition, here lacking its title page, in which the celebrated lyricist claimed for the first time, explicitly and in writing, to be the sole composer of La Marseillaise, that is, the author of both the music and the words. He would make this claim on only one other occasion, in a letter of 5 January 1829 to M. Beuchot. In its early years, France's national anthem was the subject of a genuine controversy over its authorship, particularly regarding the musical composition, that would persist long after 1825, notwithstanding the declarations contained in this edition. Hector...
