l'auteur

PITOU Louis-Ange
Voyage à Cayenne, dans les deux Amériques et chez les anthropophages
Chez l'auteur, Paris 1805 An XIII, in-8 (12,5 x 20,5 cm), xlvij-312 p & 404 pp., 2 volumes, contemporary sheep
First edition with two folding frontispieces (transportees on a frigate and Black people burying transportees).
Contemporary half brown sheep. Spine with a number of series of triple fillets. A little rubbing. Corners bumped.
A royalist and anti-Revolutionary, the chronicler and singer Ange Pitou, having been arrested several times, was finally sentenced to transportation to the penal colony of Cayenne. He was later pardoned by the Emperor. Having given a brief outline of his life, the author recounts his arrest, imprisonment and transportation to Cayenne. He then gives an account of life in the penal colony. The work includes a number of anecdotes about Black people, American Indians, cannibalism and the French Revolution. His account of his detention is interesting in a number of respects, though the author was accused of exaggerating the cruelty of life in Guyana.
With a list of the transportees who embarked with the author at the end of volume two, including those who died and those who escaped.

First edition of compte d'auteur.
Handsome autograph inscription from Georges simon to Maria Casarès.
A good copy.

Second edition, the first having appeared in 1767. Two frontispieces, one by Cochin, the second by Pierre Delin, and two headpieces engraved by Choffart. Some copies, at the request of the purchaser who could commission them, contained 50 engravings. These copies appear very rare.
Half brown marbled sheep binding, mid-19th century. Spine with raised bands decorated with roulettes on the bands and roulettes at the headcaps. Red shagreen title label and black shagreen volume label. Head caps fragile, with small lacks. Rubbing. The copy has been interleaved with numerous leaves, most of which remained blank, but some contain annotations.

First edition.
Full paper binding, smooth spine, hazel shagreen title-label, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, top edge red.
Work illustrated with drawings hors-texte and complete with its folding plate at rear.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Signed and inscribed by the author to a friend.
Work illustrated with original photographs by the author.
Spine and covers lightly and marginally sunned without consequence, handsome copy.

First edition.
First cover marginally soiled, foxing on the covers and inside the pamphlet.
Rare.

First edition.
Bradel binding in full cardboard covered with marbled paper, smooth spine with tears and paper losses, faded olive shagreen title-label, bookplate pasted to verso of front cover.
Signed autograph inscription from Jean Senamaud.
Illustrated work with a frontispiece portrait of Confucius.
Endpapers lightly shadowed without significance, otherwise handsome interior condition.

First edition.
Slight worming to endpapers, otherwise a handsome copy.

First edition mimeographed and printed in a small number of copies.
Autograph inscription signed by L. Cuny.
Handsome and rare copy in grey unlettered wrappers with smooth spine.
Small lack to foot of spine.

First edition.
Autograph inscription by the author.
Covers slightly and marginally faded, rare and handsome pamphlet.

First edition.
Spine cracked, internally good.

First edition of this offprint from the journal "Abeille" from volume XX (1882) to volume XXVI (1889).
Full bottle-green cardboard binding, smooth spine with paper title label pasted at head, small discoloration stains on boards.
Gift inscription in ink at head of endpaper.
Rare.

Second edition.
Work decorated with 23 plates illustrated with approximately 1800 figures.
Handsome copy.

First edition printed in a small number of copies.
A rare and good copy, softcover.

First edition.
Work illustrated with 79 plates for the first volume and 125 plates for the second.
A slight tear of no consequence at the foot of the spine of the first volume, handsome copy.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Half black shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons, olive shagreen title-label enhanced with gilt fillets and dots, author's name in burgundy shagreen, navy embossed paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved.
Signed autograph inscription by Alfred Le Petit, the dedicatee's name has been cut out.
Bookseller's label pasted below the autograph inscription.
Text and illustrations by the author.
Rare publication fiercely anticlerical and "anti-hagiographical".
Handsome copy.

First edition printed in a small number of copies on laid paper.
Signed and inscribed by Alphonse Robert.
Rare and handsome copy.

First edition.
Illustrated hors texte.

First edition of which no deluxe copies are mentioned.
Signed autograph inscription from Paul Rey to the symbolist poet André-Ferdinand Hérold.
Handsome and rare copy.

First edition printed on ordinary paper.
Fine autograph inscription signed by the author.
Illustrations in and hors-texte.
Handsome copy.

First edition published in a small number of copies under the pseudonym Le iaude do Béron, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Work illustrated with images by Paul Devaux under the pseudonym Jean Chapouteux tailleu d'images à Vesse.
Unlettered spine on which the title of the work has been written in ballpoint pen, handsome and rare copy.

First edition printed in a small number of copies with no deluxe copies produced.
Work illustrated with line drawings by the author.
Text preceded by "Notes on the dialect of the Cérilly region" followed by a French-Bourbonnais lexicon.
Preface by Pierrette Dubuisson.
Rare and handsome copy.

First edition.
Publisher's full burgundy cloth binding, smooth spine.
Iconography.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on deluxe paper, ours unnumbered, the only deluxe copies.
Half sea-green box calf binding with bands, smooth spine, marbled paper boards with gilt fillet frames, chocolate paper endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, sea-green cardboard slipcase edged with olive morocco and green felt lining, binding attributed to the Laurenchet workshops.
Fine copy handsomely bound.

First edition.
With frontispiece photograph showing a general view of Eyguières.
Spine and boards marginally faded, handsome interior condition.
Rare.

First edition.
Work illustrated with more than 100 photographs.
Spine faded and clumsily restored, an angular lack at the foot of the second cover, handsome interior condition despite occasional foxing.
Rare but in this condition.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Autograph inscription from H. Thorossian.
Work illustrated with numerous plates and 3 folding maps at rear.
Marginal dampstains affecting the very first and last pages, two corner lacks to boards.
Rare.

First edition of which no deluxe copies were printed.
Inscribed by the author to Pierre Fresnay.
Three pale dampstains to covers, handsome interior condition.

The first edition, published in a small number of copies.
Autograph inscription by Hélène Foure-Selter.
Handsome copy.

The first edition, not published commercially and printed in a very small number of copies.
Spine split, a small tear at foot of first cover re-adhered on verso with tape, three tiny corner lacks on covers very slightly and marginally aged, a postal mark at head of first cover.
Rare pamphlet.

First edition printed in 250 hors commerce copies.
Rare.
Spine slightly faded and warped, otherwise handsome copy.
Provenance: from the library of Paul Léautaud who inscribed a date in pencil, probably that of receiving this work.

First edition.
A nice copy.

First edition printed in 150 numbered copies justified by the author on Rives laid paper.
A tiny, light stain at the foot of the first cover.
Rare and handsome copy enhanced with the subscription bulletin for the author's forthcoming work "Les mots pour un orage".

First edition.
Bradel binding in half cardboard imitating vellum, smooth spine decorated with a gilt floral motif, date and double gilt fillet at foot, marbled paper boards, original wrappers preserved.
Rare collection of poems by Magu, poet-weaver from the Île-de-France region.

Fifth edition.
Bradel binding in half vellum-effect boards, smooth spine decorated with a gilt floral motif, date and double gilt fillet at foot, marbled paper boards, original wrappers preserved.
Rare collection of poems by Magu, poet-weaver from the Île-de-France region.

First edition published in a small number of copies of this offprint from the Revue française de phoniatrie.
Inscribed by Octave Lerichomme, accompanied by an autograph letter from the author addressed to the same recipient, a newspaper clipping, and a postcard depicting the author.
Pamphlet illustrated with a portrait of the author by Léandre.

First edition, one of 500 copies on vellum, the only printing with 10 on Japan paper.
Handsome inscription from Claude Aveline posing as Molène and referencing his "three months in prison" to Louis Martin-Choffier (sic).
Illustrated pamphlet with 2 compositions by Steinlen.

First edition printed in 500 numbered copies initialed by the author.
Author's inscription.
Additionally, our copy is enriched with an autograph letter addressed to the same recipient.Illustrations.
Small tears to the unlettered spine, otherwise a handsome copy.
Rare.

First edition.
Bradel binding in half burgundy cloth, smooth spine, havana morocco title label, marbled paper boards, original wrappers preserved.
Illustrated with 105 figures.
Preface by Louis Hautecoeur.

First edition. Illustrated with 2 plates including a frontispiece. Some light foxing.

First edition.
Inscription from Léon Bollack to the Countess of La Rochefoucauld on the front cover.
Split spine with some losses, small corner losses to the front cover.
Rare.

First edition. Rare.
In original wrappers. Lacking right corner of title page (the letter E of "lune" is therefore missing), and lower right corner.
A satire of the French Revolution. Cousin Jacques was the pseudonym of the journalist Beffroy de Reigny to whom he owed his celebrity. He is the author of comic pieces on the French Revolution and the political and social transformations of his time.

Tenth edition with some parts in first edition as it was revised and expanded, containing the correction of 100 French language errors and the translation of 105 expressions or proverbs.
Spine and boards slightly and marginally faded, handsome interior condition.

The first edition, published in a small number of copies of this offprint.
Repaired tears with lacks to head and foot of spine, handsome interior condition without any foxing.
Rare.

First editions.
Illustrated front covers.
Iconography, works illustrated with drawings by the author.
Three small tears to the spines, handsome interior condition for each of the volumes.

First edition.
Small lacks to head and foot of spine, front board detached, tiny corner losses to boards.
Rare.

First edition.
Rare autograph inscription from Antoine Etex.
Split spine with small lacks, minor tears and slight corner lacks to covers, dampstains mainly at rear affecting the leaves. Rare.

First edition, one of 200 numbered copies, the only printing.
A frontispiece by Vieira Da Silva.

First edition.

First edition published in a small number of copies.
Work illustrated with 12 reproductions.
Handsome autograph inscription by E. van Heurck, some foxing.

First edition.
Half maroon sheep, with quadruple gold fillets.
Foxing.
Rare.

First edition published in a small number of copies and presented in typescript form.
Author's signature at end.
Minor marginal losses of no consequence to the second cover, rare.

First edition.
Minimal lacks to head of spine, otherwise handsome copy.
Rare.

First edition.
Half black cloth binding, smooth spine decorated with ornamental motifs and gilt friezes, one tear with loss to a joint.
A history of the Papacy and the Church in verse form.
Foxing mainly affecting the edges.

First edition. Small lack at foot of spine, rear board reattached, fine interior condition. Rare.