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Michel
  1. Very rare Brest edition
    Les Deux arts poétiques d'Horace et de Boileau Despréaux, collationnés sur les meilleures éditions de ces deux poèmes
    HORACE

    Les Deux arts poétiques d'Horace et de Boileau Despréaux, collationnés sur les meilleures éditions de ces deux poèmes[The Two Art of Poetry Treatises by Horace and Boileau Despréaux, Collated from the Best Editions of These Two Poems]

    G.M.F. Michel|Brest 1819|28.8 x 43.4 cm|Relié

    New edition printed in 55 copies only (see publisher's foreword).

    Only one copy of this edition listed in the CCF (BnF).

    Contemporary temporary binding in full cherry paper boards, flat spine without lettering, minor rubbing to the binding.

    Foxing, restorations to the head and tail of the spine, lower corners worn, a dampstain to the lower outer corner of the final leaves.

    The text of Horace is in Latin only.

    This rare folio edition was preceded in 1815 and 1818 by two small-format printings intended for student use.

    The aim was to bring together in a single small volume the two principal sources of taste in versification, as upheld by classical...

    €850
  2. Eloge de l'ivresse
    Albert-Henri de SALLENGRE

    Eloge de l'ivresse[Ebrietatis encomium, or, The Praise of Drunkenness]

    De l'imprimerie du vieux Silène • et chez Michel|à Bacchopolis [Fictional Place] • & à Paris 1798 - An VI|In 12|Copper engraving|relié

    Second edition, revised and expanded after the sole edition of 1714 by Pierre Auguste Miger. This second edition was never reprinted. With a frontispiece by Leroy. Rare.
    Later binding in half polished green sheep, circa 1820. Smooth spine decorated with 5 restoration tools. Boards rubbed. A good copy.

    €400
  3. Fables
    Pierre LACHAMBEAUDIE, Pierre LEROUX

    Fables

    Michel|Paris 1851|15.50 x 24.50 cm|relié
    First printing of the illustrations and original preface by Pierre Leroux.
    Half red shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands set with gilt fillets decorated with triple gilt compartments enhanced with gilt floral motifs, double gilt fillet frame on red paper boards, corners slightly bumped, some rubbing to bottom edge, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, binding signed by Sénez.
    Work illustrated with a frontispiece, 13 steel-engraved plates by Nanteuil, Staal, Daubigny, Cabasson, Marville... as well as in-text vignettes.
    Some foxing.
    €200
  6. Fables
    Pierre LACHAMBEAUDIE

    Fables

    Michel|Paris 1851|15 x 24 cm|relié
    First illustrated edition preceded by an introduction by Pierre Leroux.
    Half chocolate shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt compartments and fillets, some traces of use, contemporary binding. Work illustrated with steel engravings in and outside the text after drawings by Daubigny, Gérard-Séguin, Cabasson, Adrien Guignet, C. Marville, C. Nanteuil, Staal, Traviès and others.
    As frontispiece, a portrait of the author engraved by Pannier.
    Rare.
    €200
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