Isidore Liseux

New edition printed in 400 numbered copies on laid paper, the very rare first edition of 1612 was condemned and seized by a Parliamentary decree in April of the same year.
Half brown morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands set with gilt dotting and double gilt compartments richly decorated with gilt ornamental motifs, gilt date at foot, traces of rubbing on headcaps and some bands, frame of double gilt fillets on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, corners slightly bumped, top edge gilt.
Rare work illustrated with 4 in-text figures.

First edition printed in 300 copies on laid paper of this text which inspired William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet".
Full two-tone blue and brown marbled sheep binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with black fillets, hazelnut shagreen title-label, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, top edges gilt, contemporary binding.
Bookseller's descriptive label pasted at head of front endpaper of first volume.
Rare and handsome copy.

First edition, one of 700 numbered copies on Holland paper.
Half dark green morocco with corners, spine with five raised bands set with gilt dots decorated with gilt fleurons, one band lightly rubbed, gilt date at foot, frame of gilt fillets on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, one corner slightly bumped, fragile parchment wrappers preserved, contemporary binding signed by Lanscelin.
Work illustrated with a frontispiece by Hector Giacomelli etched by Lalauze.
Fine copy established in a charming contemporary binding signed by Lanscelin.

First edition of the translation, notes and introduction established by Claudius Popelin, one of 400 numbered copies on Holland paper, one draw after 2 and 8 parchment Japan.
Binders full cartonnage vellum way back smooth, book title and author's name lettered in the medieval manner on the back decorated with a red typographical flagship black garlands heads and feet flat, name author and book title lettered in the medieval manner and decorated with red initials on the boards, bookplate pasted on a contreplat the first volume, fragile parchment wrappers and back preserved and bound in, red heads, pastiches signed bindings of Thiebaut.
Signed autograph Claudius Popelin to Menabrea Count, Marquis of Valdora and ambassador of His Majesty the King of Italy in France on the first volume.
Book illustrated with woodcuts engraved by A. Prunaire again.
Nice and rare copy.

First edition printed on Holland paper.
This volume contains: The Memoirs of Nicolas Chorier, continuation and conclusion. Index to the Memoirs of Nicolas Chorier.
Boccaccio's Decameron: reproduction of woodcuts from 16th-century Italian editions. The Marquis de Morante; his library and catalogue, by R.C. Christie.
A light marginal dampstain affecting the head of the second part of the work, otherwise a handsome full-margined copy.