s. n.: Rare and antiquarian books, inscribed books and letters, and manuscripts

[François AUGIÉRAS as] Abdallah CHAANBA
Le vieillard et l'enfant
S. n. • imprimé par Pierre Fanlac]|imprimé en Belgique [Périgueux] s. d. [circa 1950]|14 x 19 cm|broché
The true first edition, hors commerce, of the complete version of 138-[6] pages, which preceded the 1954 edition by Editions de Minuit.
Previously, only parts had been published (between 1949 and 1951), and only in a few copies.
Additionally, a new “Belgian” edition, similar to this first edition, came out in 1958 comprising no more than 80 pages and dated “de 1958” on the cover.
The author had André Gide's (the dedicatee of the first part of the work in 1949) review especially printed: "L'intense et bizarre joie que j'éprouve à la lecture (et relecture) de ces pages remarquables entre toutes. André Gide [There is an intense and bizarre joy I experience when reading (and...
€1,500
Paul-Philippe GUDIN DE LA BRENELLERIE
Aux manes de Louis XV, et des grands hommes qui ont vêcu sous son règne. Essai sur les progrès des arts & de l'esprit humain, sous le règne de Louis XV
S. n.|à Lausanne 1777|10 x 17 cm|relié
New edition, following the first published in 1776.
Contemporary blonde sheep binding. Decorated smooth spine. Green morocco title-label. Triple gilt fillet frame on boards. Head worn down. One crack at foot. Joints cracked at head. 2 worm tracks on spine and 2 holes. 2 corners bumped. Generally rubbed. Faint dampstain to corners of the first 10 leaves.
Abridgment of the events of Louis XV's reign, particularly in arts and sciences, but also voyages (with multiple references to American colonies), roads and urban planning...
€180
Auguste RODIN, Léon RIOTOR
Statuaire
S. n.|s. l. s. d. [circa 1900]|11.50 x 19 cm|broché
first edition printed in small numbers on laid Holland paper.
Signed autograph of Leo Riotor Gustave Coquiot.
Illustrated book, frontispiece, a sketch of Auguste Rodin.
The work and adventures, Rodin designer, characters and projects and comments by Leon Riotor.
A small bright spot in the top of the first flat, small marginal tear on the boards, nice interior state.
€300
Louis Dufour de LONGUERUE
Recueil de pièces intéressantes pour servir a l'histoire de France
S. n.|à Genève [Geneva] 1769|10 x 16.50 cm|relié
First edition.
This collection contains: Abrégé de la vie de Richelieu - Abrégé de la vie de Mazarin - Traduction d'une lettre de Frapaolo, venitien - Introduction à l'histoire de France - Histoire abrégé de la donnation du Dauphiné - Dissertation sur la question : si Esdras a inventé de nouveaux caractères hébreux. In the preliminary leaves, notices on the manuscripts of abbé de Longuerue contained in the library of Monsieur ***.
€200
Honoré Gabriel Riquetti Comte de MIRABEAU
Arlequin réformateur dans la cuisine des moines, ou plan pour réformer la gloutonnerie monacale, au profit de la nation épuisée par les brigandages de harpies financières
S. n.|Imprimé à Rome [Rome] 1789|13 x 19 cm|relié
The rare first edition, probably printed in Paris, anonymously, by Mirabeau according to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
Half morocco binding in faded red with long grain from the late 19th century signed L. Lemardeley, with a tool at head and tail, gilt title, rubbing, the binding bears the title: Stephan Bordese - Blanc et bleu, which indicates that the work has been rebound.
Handsome copy.
Avis charitable aux moines so that they enrich the state and population by ceasing their gluttony at the expense of the people. The author promises the different monastic orders a monument to their glory if they comply with his prayers. Anticlerical libel, violently...
€700
Nicolas FRÉRET
Lettre de Thrasibule à Leucippe. Ouvrage posthume de M. F
S. n.|à Londres [London] 1766 (S.d)|9.50 x 17 cm|relié
First edition posthume.
Contemporary full glazed blonde calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with acorn tools. Red morocco title-label. One lack at head. Worming at foot. Scuffing to boards, with a lack of 2 cm in diameter. Nevertheless a good copy.
Work presented as translated from ancient Greek. It is a philosophical dialogue on the senses and illusion, pleasure and love, God... The whole following materialist theses. "The thorough work of R. Brummer and R. Besthorn has shown in a very convincing way [.] that Fréret is indeed the author of the Lettre de Thrasibule à Leucippe and that Holbach [.] cannot be considered its author." (Vercruysse p. 38).
€300
Pierre BETTENCOURT
Fables fraîches pour lire à jeun
S. n. • [ Pierre Bettencourt]|s. l. • [Saint-Maurice-d'Ételan] 1943|12.50 x 16.50 cm|broché
First edition printed in 300 numbered copies on Arches.
Work illustrated, as frontispiece, with a portrait of the author engraved on lino.
Minimal spotting to the endpapers, handsome copy.

€230
Pierre BETTENCOURT
La bête à bon dieu. Dialogues à bâtons rompus sur le luxe et sur l'homme
S. n. • [ Pierre Bettencourt]|Saint-Maurice-d'Ételan 1944|14.50 x 19.50 cm|broché
First edition printed in 224 numbered copies on Arches.
Some tiny stains mostly on the lower cover, otherwise a good copy.
€300
Pierre BETTENCOURT, Pablo PICASSO
La vie est sans pitié
S. n. • [ Pierre Bettencourt]|Saint-Maurice-d'Ételan 1948|14.50 x 23 cm|broché
First edition printed in 101 numbered copies on grand vélin Arches.
Illustrated cover by Pablo Picasso.
Spine slightly sunned, otherwise a good copy.
€680
Pierre BELLANGER
Supplément aux destinées d'Alfred de Vigny
S. n.|s. l. 1929|26 x 34 cm|en feuilles
first edition printed in small numbers on Holland paper.
Signed autograph of the great bibliophile Pierre Bellanger Louis Barthou.
Rare copy and pleasant.
€80
L.-H. FONDS-LAMOTHE
De l'antiquité de la ville de Limoux
S. n.|s. l. s. d. [circa 1850]|14.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Rare in its softcover, as issued.
€40
Albert BABEAU
Les fossés du Louvre
S. n.|Paris 1904|14 x 22.50 cm|broché
first edition printed in small number of the reprint of the memories of the National Society of Antiquaries of France.
Tribute autograph signed Albert Babeau top of the page title.
Light marginal gaps without gravity on the first board, otherwise rare and nice brochure.
€40
John SHEBBEARE
Le peuple instruit ; ou Les Alliances dans lesquelles les Ministres de la Grande-Bretagne ont engagé la Nation, & l'emploi qu'ils ont fait de ses Escadres & de ses Armées, depuis le commencement des troubles sur l'Ohio, jusqu'à la perte de Minorque, considérés dans une Quatrième Lettre au Peuple d'Angleterre
S. n.|s. l. 1756|10.1 x 16.8 cm|relié

SHEBBEARE John
Le Peuple instruit; ou Les Alliances dans lesquelles les Ministres de la Grande-Bretagne ont engagé la Nation, & l’emploi qu’ils ont fait de ses Escadres & de ses Armées, depuis le commencement des troubles sur l’Ohio, jusqu’à la perte de Minorque, considérés dans une Quatrième Lettre au Peuple d’Angleterre
N. n., n. p. 1756, 9 x 16,3 cm, (2) xxiv, 212 pp., contemporary calf
First edition, rare.
Contemporary light brown polished calf. Spine in decorated compartments. Red morocco title-piece. Upper joint with narrow crack to head. A very good and fresh copy.
An important document on the history of Canada and the United...
€950
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Claudel à la fosse à merde
S. n. • [ Groupe surréaliste du Zénith Occulto Barbare]|s. l. s. d. [1968]|21 x 27 cm|une feuille
First mimeographed edition of this scurrilous pamphlet written by the Z.O.B. (Zénith Occulto Barbare) on the occasion of the centenary of Paul Claudel's birth.
The anti-Claudelian diatribe concluding with an invitation to violate the young girl Violaine.
Manuscript indication of the printing date of this document at the foot of the leaf and small tears to margins.
Rare and edifying document.
€100
Adrien BARRERE, Émile CODEY
Le cirque de Paris
S. n.|Paris 1923|25.50 x 33 cm|broché
First edition illustrated with drawings by Adrien Barrère, pseudonym of Adrien Baneux.
Text by Emile Codey.
The work, folded accordion-style, forms a fresco when unfolded.
Tears to spine with minimal lacks, lacks and tears to board margins, handsome interior condition.
€400
Samuel RICHARDSON
Nouvelles lettres angloises, ou Histoire du Chevalier Grandisson
S. n.|à Amsterdam 1770|9.50 x 17 cm|8 tomes reliés en 4 volumes
New edition. Translation by Abbé Prevost, with his introduction on the translation.
Full glazed purple calf bindings. Smooth spines decorated in the grotesque style. Red morocco title labels and beige morocco volume labels. Headcap of volume 4 worn down, with lack to joint at head. 9 corners bumped. Overall rubbed. Cut on upper board of volume 1. Half-title of volume III lacking. Good copy.
"Richardson was the inventor of bourgeois tragedy [...] He invented this novel where art consists in neglecting all the precepts of art, where the accumulation of details foreign to the action, where the repetition of the same scenes and the same feelings, produce more effect than precision...
€300
Henry Saint-Jean Lord Vicomte de BOLINGBROKE
Lettres sur l'histoire
S. n.|s. l. 1752|10 x 16.20 cm|relié
New edition, after the first edition published in 1749. One portrait as frontispiece. Les réflexions sur l'exil has its own title page, in volume I, as does the Lettre à Mylord Bathurst in the second.
Contemporary full glazed blonde calf binding. Spine with raised bands decorated. Red morocco title and volume labels. 4 corners bumped, one trimmed. Volume II slightly worn at foot. Rubbing. Rather handsome copy.
Secretary of state, then English Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lord Bolingbroke was an influential statesman who experienced both notoriety and disgrace. He pursued a literary career alongside his political activities, beginning by contributing to the writing...
€400
(Léo MALET) Bruno de MONES
Léo Malet - Portrait 4
S. n.|s. l. • [Paris] 1983|24 x 30.50 cm|une feuille
Original photograph. Vintage gelatin silver print in black and white. Artist's proof signed on verso.
Portrait of the writer Léo Malet.
In 1983, Bruno de Monès began a regular collaboration with Le Magazine littéraire that would continue until the mid-nineties.
€350
Julien Offray de LA METTRIE
Oeuvres philosophiques
S. n.|à Amsterdam 1764|7 x 12.50 cm|3 volumes reliés
Second collected edition, more complete than the one published in 1751 in Berlin, and additionally containing Anti-Sénèque (Discours sur le bonheur), L'Art de jouir, L'Homme plus que machine (which forms volume III). Rare.
Contemporary full bordeaux morocco bindings. Smooth spines decorated. Gilt title labels and volume labels. Triple gilt fillet frame on covers. All edges gilt. One line of discoloration on one cover of volume III. Possible restoration to lower cover of volume II. Very handsome copy, rare in this condition.
The importance of La Mettrie's philosophical theses has continued to grow since the 18th century, and the praise he receives today is matched only by...
€3,000
Charles ANCILLON
Traité des Eunuques, dans lequel on explique toutes les différentes sortes d'Eunuques, quel rang il ont tenu, & dans quel cas on en a fait, &c. On éxamine principalement s'ils sont propres au Mariage, & s'il leur doit être permis de se marier. Et l'on fait plusieurs Remarques curieuses & divertissantes à l'occasion des Eunuques, &c. Par M***. D***.
S. n.|s. l. • [Berlin] 1707|9.50 x 16.50 cm|relié
First edition. Title page with sphere. Dedicatory epistle to M. Bayle, signed C. d'Ollincan, anagram of Charles Ancillon.
Contemporary full brown grained sheep binding. Decorated raised spine. Havana morocco title-label. Headcaps partially torn. 2 corners bumped. Overall rubbing. Brown dampstain traces on the first 2 leaves.
Excellent and curious history of eunuchs within society, based on civil and religious law. Ancillon traces in short chapters the different causes of castration, in East and West, supporting his discourse with numerous anecdotes. The work was composed on the occasion of the marriage of an Italian castrato, the author examining texts and various objections to...
€550
Francis CARCO
La bohême et mon coeur
S. n.|Paris 1912|12.50 x 19.50 cm|relié
first edition of the second book of the author.
Bound in half red morocco, spine slightly discolored with five nerves decorated with black boxes, golden tail date a little bit split head, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, wrappers and back preserved and bound in, gilded head signed binding Alix.
Precious autograph signed by Francis Carco: "A tribute to Charles Maurras vivid literary sympathy."
Our copy has two handwritten corrections Francis Carco pages 62 and 66.
Nice copy pleasantly established.
€800
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XVème Congrès français de criminologie : Aspects modernes du banditisme
S. n.|Clermont-Ferrand 1975|16 x 24 cm|broché
First edition.
Ex-dono.
A rare and good copy.
€60
Jean de LA FONTAINE, Charles EISEN
Contes et nouvelles en vers[Tales and Novellas in Verse]
S. n.|à Amsterdam • [Paris] 1762|12 x 18.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
The so-called Fermiers Généraux edition, using the editions of 1685 and 1696 for the text and adding tales by d’Autreau and de Vergier, present in the 1718 edition.

From an edition of 2,000 copies on vergé de Hollande, the present copy is one of the rare first issue copies in contemporary morocco with uncensored engravings and a fleuron error on p. 240 of vol. 1, later corrected.
€9,000
Antoine HAMILTON
Oeuvres
S. n. • [ Le Jay]|s. l. • [Paris] 1760 - 1776|8 x 14.50 cm|7 volumes reliés
Factitious collection of several editions by the same publisher at different dates comprising the author's works. The first 4 volumes dated 1762 bring together the tales and miscellaneous works. The 2 volumes numbered 5 and 6 are the Memoirs of the Count of Grammont, dated 1760 and with the same device as on the title pages of the first 4 volumes. The seventh volume contains miscellaneous works dated 1776, the only volume bearing an address and place (Le Jay in Paris).
Contemporary bindings in full glazed blonde marbled calf. Smooth spines decorated with acorn tools. Red morocco title labels, and black morocco volume labels (that of volume II in green morocco may have changed color)...
€300
(Maurice BLANCHOT)
Photographie originale de Maurice Blanchot posant fièrement à bord d'un bateau[Original photograph of Maurice Blanchot proudly posing aboard a boat]
S. n.|Elbeuf S.d (1900)|5.50 x 8 cm|une feuille
Original photograph of Maurice Blanchot standing against a wall.
Vintage silver gelatin print.

« Blanchot long defied photographers and caricaturists of the literary press. Minimalist and extremely rare, over so many years, are the illustrative sketches: in 1962 in L'Express, a hand brandishing a book, against a page background; in 1979, in Libération, a blank square in the middle of the page, bearing only the name Maurice Blanchot as caption and a quotation from L'Entretien infini ("un vide d'univers: rien qui fut visible, rien qui fut invisible" ["a void of universe: nothing that was visible, nothing that was invisible"]) » (C. Bident, Maurice...
€1,200
Guillaume APOLLINAIRE
La chanson du mal-aimé
S. n. • [ Pierre Bettencourt]|s. l. • [Saint-Maurice-d'Ételan] 1943 (1945)|8.50 x 13.50 cm|broché
Rare edition with imprint stating it was finished on a sunny day in the countryside and printed in a small number of copies for the flower of our friends towards the end of the world.
Spine slightly warped without gravity.
€180
François René de CHATEAUBRIAND
Proposition faite à la Chambre des Pairs, dans la séance du 23 Novembre dernier, et tendante à ce que le roi soit humblement supplié de faire examiner ce qui s'est passé aux dernières élections , afin d'en ordonner ensuite selon sa justice
S. n.|s. l. • [Paris] 1816|14 x 22 cm|broché
First edition.
Copy presented in its original wrappers.
Spine with three small paper losses, pale dampstaining and some light worming marginally affecting certain leaves.
€100
Elena RICCOBONI
Fanny Butler
S. n.|Paris 1827|7.50 x 11.50 cm|relié
New edition.
Half long-grain caramel morocco binding, spine with one raised band decorated with black romantic fleurons, hazelnut morocco title-label, gilt fillet framing the marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, one lower corner slightly bumped, marbled edges, contemporary romantic binding.
Printed bibliophile's stamp with crowned monogram serving as bookplate.
Some light foxing.
Copy handsomely bound in a charming contemporary romantic binding.
€100
François DESHOULIÈRES
Marcilhac église Saint-Pierre
S. n.|Paris 1938|14.50 x 23 cm|agrafé
First edition published in a small number of copies of this offprint.
Brochure illustrated with 11 photographs in-text and hors-texte as well as a folding plate hors-texte.
Rare and handsome copy.
€30
Juan Enrique LAGARRIGUE
La voie à suivre après la plus grande guerre
S. n.|Santiago du Chili [Santiago] 1919|12 x 18.50 cm|broché
The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Rare and signed autograph inscription from Juan Enrique Lagarrigue to Henri Béraud.
Some light foxing to the boards
Provenance: from Henri Béraud's library on Île de Ré.
€150
Francis CARCO
Pour faire suite à La Bohême et mon coeur
S. n.|Paris 1933|14.50 x 19.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of the few nominative copies printed for the author on blue laid paper, ours in the name of Henri Béraud.
Precious autograph inscription signed by Francis Carco to Henri Béraud below the justification page.
Two small tears reglued at head and tail of spine which also has a tiny lack at head, light foxing.
Provenance: from the library of Henri Béraud in Ré.
€150
Pierre de COUBERTIN
La chronique de France. Deuxième année complète
S. n.|Paris 1901|12 x 18.50 cm|broché
First edition of this review published under the auspices of Pierre de Coubertin.
Spine fadedw with a small tear to foot.
Rare.
€300
Maximilien de Béthune, Duc de SULLY
Mémoires de Maximilien de Bethune, Duc de Sully, principal ministre de Henry le Grand
S. n.|à Londres [London] 1768|9.50 x 17 cm|9 tomes en 8 volumes reliés
New edition after the first one produced by Abbé de Lescluse in 1745 (in-4° and in-12°); illustrated with a portrait of Henri IV as frontispiece to the first volume and a second portrait of Sully in the same volume. Supplement to the memoirs in volume 9.
Contemporary (or near-contemporary) half blonde sheep binding with marbled boards. Smooth spine decorated with 2 grotesque compartments and 2 ornamental tools. Red morocco title-label and green morocco volume labels. One cut at head of volume II. Beginning of crack to upper joint of volume I at head, upper joint of volume 2 partly split. Title page of volume 2 stained. Upper joint of volume 6 split. One hole in title page of volume...
€400
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Gravures de mode de l'An 10 à 1828
S. n.|s. l. • [Paris] 1802-1828|12.50 x 21 cm|102 planches reliées
First edition of these 102 plates heightened in colors.
Modern cream-colored paper boards with gilt floral motif by Thomas Boichot, black morocco title label to spine. Ex libris of the "Fashion Group of Paris" on pastedown.
A little worming to first plate, the other plates very fresh.
A nicely bound copy.
€2,300
Eugène LEFEVRE
Documents officiels recueillis dans la secrétairerie de Maximilien. Histoire de l'intervention française au Mexique
S. n.|Bruxelles [Brussels] • & Londres [London] 1869|13.50 x 22 cm|2 volumes reliés en 1
First edition.
Half green sheep binding, smooth spine faded and decorated with triple gilt fillets, headcaps slightly rubbed, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, some minor tears to the leading edges without consequence, contemporary binding.
Light foxing affecting mainly the edges, ballpoint pen annotations by a former owner concerning the copy of this work held by the Bibliothèque Nationale.
Rare.
€350
Noël VALOIS
Jacques de Nouvion et les religieux de Saint-Denis
S. n.|Paris 1902|16 x 24.50 cm|broché
First edition published in a small number of copies of this offprint from L'Ecole des Chartes.
Joint cracked at foot, boards and spine lightly and marginally sunned, small corner lacks to boards, handsome interior condition.
€30
Joseph VASSELIER
Poésies de Vasselier [suivies des] Contes de Vasselier
de l'imprimerie d'Egron • S. n.|à Paris • et à Londres [London] 1800|12.50 x 21 cm|2 parties reliées en un volume
Vasselier's Poésies appear to have had several editions at the same date, this one is considered the first. Unsigned portrait of the author as frontispiece.
Near-contemporary binding, Restoration period, in full brown calf signed Thouvenin. Spine with five raised bands richly decorated with gilt dentelles and fillets, as well as blind-tooled fleurons in the compartments and a black morocco title label. Blind dentelle, black fillet and gilt cornerpieces framing the boards. Joints slightly cracked. Foxing on the endpapers, frontispiece and opening and closing leaves.
Works of a minor Lyonnais poet of the late 18th century in the tradition of Grécourt, apparently director of the Post...
€250
The Enlightenment under the Terror
The Enlightenment under the Terror
Nicolas-Antoine BOULANGER
Oeuvres de Boullanger
S. n.|à Amsterdam 1794|12 x 20 cm|6 tomes reliés en 3 volumes
New edition, following the first collected edition also published in Amsterdam in 1775 and produced by d'Holbach.
Contemporary full blonde calf bindings. Smooth spines richly decorated with gilt compartments and fleurons, as well as red morocco title labels and green volume labels with red morocco inlay. Fine gilt decorative board-edges framing the boards. Gilt roulettes on the leading edges and headcaps. All edges marbled.
Headcaps slightly rubbed and some minor wormholes. Each volume shows dampstaining to outer margin. Quite good copy, of handsome appearance.
The first volume contains the author's most famous text: L'Antiquité dévoilée, the second the Recherches...
€600
Achille Arthur DESJARDINS
Les trois flèches d'Hassan, conte
S. n.|s. l. s. d. [1888]|13 x 16.50 cm|broché
Edition printed small number on rod.
Signed autograph Arthur Desjardins Achilles Madame Charles Buloz.
Rare copy and pleasant.
€120
Pierre BOURET
Recuëil de Poësies diverses
S. n.|s. l. 1733|12 x 20 cm|relié
New edition.
Later red morroco by (19th century), Jansenist spine in six compartments, large gilt dentelle frame to pastedowns, all edges gilt.
Spine and joints slightly rubbed.
€500
Jean-François de SAINT-LAMBERT
Les Saisons, poëme
S. n.|Paris 1775|-|relié
Seventh edition, illustrated with a frontispiece, a fleuron on the title and 4 figures by Moreau le jeune, 4 delightful vignettes by Choffard, for Les Saisons, and 2 figures by Moreau le jeune for the Contes, Poésies fugitives and the Fables orientales. Our copy is enhanced with separate pulls of the title fleuron and Choffard's vignettes.
Nineteenth-century binding in full midnight blue morocco. Spine with five raised bands decorated with pastoral fleurons (vine, wheat and pruning hook, game and hunting horn...) as well as gilt compartments. Triple fillet and gilt geometric dentelle framing the covers. Wide gilt dentelle framing the marbled paper...
€1,200
THOMAS A KEMPIS
Libri quatuor de Imitatione Christi
S. n. • [ Pierre-François Didot]|Paris 1788|24.50 x 32.50 cm|relié
Sumptuous edition printed on laid paper by Pierre-François Didot, decorated with a portrait of the infant Jesus engraved in copper by Klauber.
Near-contemporary binding (circa 1800) in full blonde calf. Spine with five raised double bands decorated with gilt compartments and fillets, as well as anchor tools, a red morocco title-label and green morocco publisher's label. Wide gilt floral dentelle framing the pastedowns. Greek-style dentelle framing the pastedowns. All edges gilt.
Two corners damaged, lower part of the joints destroyed by worms. A very faint and minimal dampstain in the margin of the last page.
Fine full-margined copy, elegantly established in an elegant...
€600
Henri Comte de BOULAINVILLIERS
Essais sur la noblesse de France, contenans une dissertation sur son origine & abaissement
S. n.|à Amsterdam 1732|10.50 x 16.50 cm|relié
First edition. Title page in red and black.

Contemporary full glazed blonde calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with foliage, stamps and fillets. Red morocco title-label. Monogram B.P. at foot. Small lack at head. Joints cracked at foot for 1cm. Corners rubbed. Leaf 53 repeated, same for leaf 73.

Handsome copy.

€500
Maurice BLANCHOT
Sade ou le Royaume de l'Unique [Quelques remarques sur Sade] - Manuscrit autographe complet
S. n.|s. l. S.d (1946)|-|en feuilles
Complete autograph manuscript of 12 pages on 6 octavo leaves with a title difficult to decipher, perhaps: "Sade or the Kingdoms of the Unique" and which would appear under the title "Some Remarks on Sade" in Critique no. 3-4 of August-September 1946.
Manuscript with very dense writing, containing numerous deletions, corrections and additions.

"It is Sade's thought that pushes Blanchot's to its fulfillment, and it is also Blanchot's that fulfills that of Sade." (Georges Bataille)
Bataille's writing and friendship are undoubtedly not unrelated to the importance that Blanchot would attach throughout his life to this tutelary figure of his philosophical...
€2,300
Serge CHARCHOUNE
Foule immobile
S. n.|s. l. 1966|11.50 x 15 cm|agrafé
Second edition.
Handsome autograph inscription dated and signed by Serge Charchoune to Raymond Queneau : "... avec amitié..."
With drawings by the author.
Spine and covers slightly and marginally sunned.
€400
Paul SCARRON
Le Virgile travesty
S. n.|à Paris 1668|8 x 13 cm|relié
New illustrated edition which is joined to the Elzevier collection, illustrated with a repeated frontispiece and eight charming plates (four in each volume) unsigned.
Nineteenth-century binding in full chocolate morocco, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt compartments and fleurons, date at foot, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, gilt dentelle framing the doublures, all edges gilt. Ex-libris from the library of Don Joannes Baptista Moens (1855) mounted on the doublures of both volumes.
Spine sunned, otherwise a handsome copy.
Very fine edition of this satire of the Aeneid, a masterpiece of seventeenth-century burlesque literature, in which the author deployed...
€1,200
Emile GRANDJEAN, Colin MUSET
Quelques chansons du ménestrel Colin Muset
S. n.|s. l. 1927|17.50 x 23 cm|en feuilles sous étui
WIth 17 originale etchings by mile Grandjean, one of 85 numbered copies on papier moyen âge teinté.
A good copy.
€350
Jules COIGNET [attributed]
Arbre mort et homme au chien
S. n.|s. l. circa 1830|41 x 35 cm|une feuille sous marie-louise encadrée
Unsigned pencil drawing, depicting a large dead tree with a drowsing man and his dog at its foot.
Fine wooden frame showing some scratches.
A student of Jean-Victor Bertin, Jules Coignet adopted his master's predilection for landscape painting. He is the author of a great number of canvases representing views and landscapes painted during his numerous travels in Tyrol and the Baden region, in Switzerland, in Italy and Sicily, in Egypt and Lebanon in the Orient, as well as in several provinces of France, notably Brittany and the Isère valley.
€450
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Annuaire de la société fraternelle du caducée. Anciens médecins et pharmaciens des armées de terre, de mer et des colonies
S. n.|s. l. 1920|10.50 x 16 cm|agrafé
First edition.
Spine and covers slightly and marginally sunned, not serious, three small ink spots to head of upper cover.
A good copy.
€50
Eilhard LUBIN
Florilegium hoc est Veterum graecorum poëtarum epigrammata comprehensa libris septem
S. n.|In bibliopolio Commeliniano [Heidelberg] • [Heidelberg] 1604|16 x 22 cm|relié
The rare first edition.
Contemporary vellum binding. Darkened spine bearing a title label (lacks). Traces of ties. Several gatherings protruding.
An anthology of Greek quotations translated by Lubin and grouped in thematic chapters (Mulieres, In virtutem, In infantes...).

€550
Abbé DELAGRIVE
Plan de la banlieue ouest-parisienne
S. n.|s. l. s. d. [circa 1750]|100 x 68 cm|une feuille repliée
First edition.
This large folded map shows the cities of villes de Saint-Cloud, Sèvre, Marly, Saint-Germain en Laye, Le Vézinet, Suresnes, Nanterre...
Some skillful repairs to the back.
€600
Maurice BLANCHOT
Le Paradoxe d'Aytré - Manuscrit original et tapuscrit complets
S. n.|s. l. 1949|13.50 x 21.50 cm
Autograph manuscript by the author of 16 pages in-8 published in number 9 (June 1946) of Les Temps modernes and reprinted, slightly revised, in La Part du Feu (1949).
Complete recto-verso manuscript, very densely written, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
Accompanied by the complete typescript with autograph corrections in black ink.

"Le Paradoxe d'Aytré" ["Aytré's Paradox"] is the first text by Maurice Blanchot that Jean-Paul Sartre published in the pages of Les Temps modernes, the spearhead of committed literature. Three others would follow until 1952 ("Le roman, œuvre de mauvaise foi" ["The Novel, a Work of Bad Faith"], "A...
€2,800
Jules-Edmond CUISINIER
Paysage marin
S. n.|s. l. 1880|50 x 34 cm|encadré
Original oil on wood showing a rural landscape with the sea in the background in an imposing gilded frame.
Signed at lower right. One small insignificant lack to right of frame.
Edmond Cuisinier (1857-1917) was a minor painter of the Barbizon school.
€1,800
MARCEL-LENOIR
Nus masculins et féminins. EtudeSketches and ink drawings of male and female nudes, alone or in pairs. Signed by the artist at the bottom of the sheet.
S. n.|s. l. circa 1900|49 x 40.50 cm|une feuille sous marie-louise encadrée
Sketches and ink drawings of male and female nudes, alone or in pairs. Signed by the artist at the bottom of the sheet.
In an unvarnished wood frame.
Marcel-Lenoir, pseudonym of Jules Oury (1872-1931) was a French painter. Fascinated by Symbolism, he was a frequent visitor of the poet Paul Fort's and also frequented Rosicrucian circles. It was also at this time that he discovered the works of the Swiss artist Arnold Böcklin, the English artist Edward Burne-Jones and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes.
Alberto Giacometti had enormous admiration for him and said: “For me, he was the greatest of his age…he had a way of painting in facets that was totally his own. He made a profound...
€1,200
Edmond HEUZÉ
Nantes - Rue Fourchon - Quai de la Fosse
S. n.|s. l. circa 1920|25 x 30.50 cm|une feuille sous marie-louise encadrée
Original drawing in colored pencils and pastels depicting a view of Nantes.
Edmond Heuzé, pseudonym of Amédée Letrouvé (1884-1967), was a French draughtsman, painter, engraver and writer. For some thirty years, Edmond Heuzé would make his living from seventeen different odd jobs: Nénesse got him into the Moulin Rouge troupe with La Goulue as a dancer under the pseudonym "Williams," which allowed him to travel around the world. He also became a merchant, intermediary, street vendor, traveling circus manager, tap dancer at Maxim's, etc. It was in this last profession that he had the opportunity to paint the circus world in his leisure time. He married Nina Bacquet, the director of the...
€600
Achille DEVÉRIA
Portrait de femme
S. n.|s. l. circa 1840|30.50 x 39 cm|une feuille sous marie-louise encadrée
Original pencil drawing depicting a seated woman with crossed hands, wearing a dress with imposing drapery and flowers in her hair. Artist's stamp at bottom left of the sheet.
Achille Devéria (1800-1857) is a French painter, illustrator and engraver, student of Girodet-Trioson. He is a recognized illustrator and published numerous lithographs (Contes by Perrault, Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, La Henriade...). In 1849, he was appointed director of the prints department of the Bibliothèque Nationale and assistant curator of the Egyptian department of the Louvre.
The famous portrait of Honoré de Balzac as a young man (1825) is attributed to him. He...
€600
Pierre PUTTEMANS
A chaque seconde
S. n.|s. l. s. d. [1959]|17 x 13 cm|broché
First edition, one of 300 numbered copies, the only issue with 10 deluxe copies.
Precious dated autograph inscription signed by Pierre Puttemans to Roger Caillois "... en respectueux hommage..."
Covers slightly and marginally sunned, handsome interior condition.
€60
Pierre-François-Eugène GIRAUD
Deux petits dessins à l'encre
S. n.|s. l. (circa 1870)|12.50 x 17.50 cm|une feuille
Two original inks on heavy paper, each depicting two men conversing, in two different styles. Giraud sale stamp at bottom right of the sheet. Three tiny tears at head of sheet and some very minor foxing.

Giraud is a painter, watercolorist, pastellist and engraver. His father obtained a study scholarship from Empress Marie-Louise of Austria, which allowed the young boy to enter an Orléans lycée. Subsequently Eugène Giraud became a pupil in the studio of the history painter and portraitist, Louis Hersent and also frequented the studio of engraver Joseph-Théodore Richomme, then in late 1821, entered the Paris École des Beaux-Arts. In 1826, the young artist won the grand prix de Rome...
€200
David HUME
Histoire d'Angleterre, contenant la maison de Plantagenet ; contenant la maison de Tudor ; contenant la maison de Stuart
S. n.|à Amsterdam 1769|19 x 25.50 cm|relié
New edition, and undoubtedly the first quarto to bring together the three histories published between 1760 and 1765. Translation by Mme Belot, approved by the author himself.
Contemporary full marbled sheep binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with fillets. Blue morocco title label and brown morocco volume label. Surface wear to headcaps of all six volumes. Some lacks to boards due to worming and to the last raised band of volume I. Edge of lower board half stripped over one cm. Nevertheless a good copy, very fresh.
This History of England is unquestionably the most popular work, and which had great success, of philosopher David Hume, father of philosophical empiricism and...
€1,000
Maurice BLANCHOT
De la louange à la souveraineté. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets
S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1943]|13.50 x 21 cm|4 1/2 pages in-8
Autograph manuscript by the author, 4 and a half octavo pages, published in the June 2, 1943 issue of the Journal des Débats.
Complete manuscript in very dense handwriting, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
Literary chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of Servius et la fortune by Georges Dumézil. The complete typescript is included.

By devoting his study to Dumézil's work on Servius, Blanchot established a crucial milestone in the evolution of his own thought, the passage from political conviction to literary engagement.
This reflection on sovereignty indeed led the former Maurrassian to reorient...
€1,500
Maurice BLANCHOT (Jean GIRAUDOUX)
Le mythe de Giraudoux. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.
S. n. • [ Paysage dimanche]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1945]|11.50 x 22 cm|3 pages in-4
Autograph manuscript by the author, 3 quarto pages, published in issue 17 of October 7, 1945 of the newspaper Le Paysage Dimanche. Complete manuscript in very dense handwriting, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
Chronicle published on the occasion of the numerous studies on Giraudoux's work that appeared since his death in January 1944.
The complete typescript is included.
While the numerous references to his work in the articles of the Journal des Débats reveal Giraudoux's ascendancy over Blanchot, the latter nevertheless manifests a clear desire to free himself from this paternity. Thus he removes from Faux-Pas numerous...
€1,500
Maurice BLANCHOT
Une étude sur l'Apocalypse. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets
S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1945]|13.50 x 21 cm|4 1/2 pages in-8
Autograph manuscript by the author of 4 and a half pages in-8 published in the issue of November 3, 1943 of Journal des Débats.
Complete recto-verso manuscript, in very dense handwriting, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
The complete typescript is included.
Chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of L'Apocalypse de St Jean, vision chrétienne de l'histoire by Father H.M. Féret.

From the outset, Maurice Blanchot, doing his job as a critic, praises the seriousness of the study conducted by Father Féret. But what interests him more than this careful orthodoxy are the powerful echoes of L'Apocalypse in the...
€1,200
Maurice BLANCHOT (André DHÔTEL)
A l'ombre du romanesque. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets
S. n. • [ Paysage dimanche]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1945]|11.50 x 22 cm|3 pages 1/2 in-4
Autograph manuscript by the author of 3 and a half pages in-4 published in number 23 of November 18, 1945 of Paysage Dimanche. Complete manuscript in very dense handwriting, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions. Literary chronicle of André Dhôtel's work. The complete typescript is included.
When the apostle of silence in literature speaks of the novelist of the invisible, this produces a strange apology for a work « destinée à sauver [...] l'essence du romanesque, sa vie pure et secrète », « passionnante jusque dans sa monotonie, selon le rythme des plus belles histoires romanesques où il ne se passe rien, mais où l'imprévu est toujours imminent. »...
€1,200
Maurice BLANCHOT (Claude ROY)
Nouvelles et récits. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets
S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1944]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|2 1/2 pages in-8
Autograph manuscript by the author of 2 and a half octavo pages published in the April 20, 1944 issue of Journal des Débats. Complete manuscript with very dense writing, containing numerous strikethroughs, corrections and additions. Literary chronicle on the work of Claude Roy. The complete typescript is included.
This critique of La Mer à boire by Claude Roy is at once a detailed analysis of each short story and a poetic hymn to the poet's writing: "Le style de Claude Roy répond à merveille à ce jeu de nuances : il est lui aussi plein d'échos qui s'évanouissent, de mots qui se répercutent: il est libre, discipliné, tout en inventions et fidèle à la réalité qu'il...
€1,200
Maurice BLANCHOT (Yvon BELAVAL)
Le souci de sincérité. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets
S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1944]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|2 1/2 pages in-8
Autograph manuscript by the author of 2 and a half pages in-4 published in the March 2, 1944 issue of Journal des Débats. Complete manuscript with very dense writing, containing numerous strikethroughs, corrections and additions. Literary chronicle published on the occasion of the publication, in the new collection of Gallimard editions devoted to "La Jeune Philosophie," of the work "Le souci de sincérité" by Yvon Belaval. The complete typescript is included.

Under Blanchot's pen, philosophical criticism acquires its own autonomy which makes it impossible to distinguish between Belaval's original thought and the luminous interpretation that Maurice Blanchot offers of it, in a few...
€1,500
(Jean-Paul SARTRE) Maurice BLANCHOT
Le roman de Jean-Paul Sartre - Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.
S. n. • [ Paysage dimanche]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1945]|11.50 x 22 cm|3 pages 1/2 in-4
Autograph manuscript by the author of 3½ pages octavo published in the October 21, 1945 issue (no. 19) of Paysage dimanche.
Complete recto-verso manuscript, very densely written, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
Literary chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of the first two volumes of Jean-Paul Sartre's trilogy Les chemins de la liberté: "L'Age de raison" and "Le Sursis".
The complete typescript is included, with one deletion and one autograph correction by the author.

When this chronicle appeared in autumn 1945, Maurice Blanchot and Jean-Paul Sartre had already demonstrated mutual interest in their respective...
€3,000
Maurice BLANCHOT
Romans nouveaux. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets
S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1942]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|4 1/2 pages in-8
Autograph manuscript by the author of 4½ pages octavo published in the December 23, 1942 issue of Journal des Débats.
Complete recto-verso manuscript, very densely written, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
The complete typescript is included.
Chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of four new novels: Les Hommes forts by Georges Magnane, Le Vent se lève by Marius Grout, Clément by Maurice Toesca and Si le ciel tombe by Roger de Lafforest.

At the end of 1942, Maurice Blanchot reviews current literary events and provides uncompromising criticism of four novels by Georges Magnane, Marius...
€1,000
Maurice BLANCHOT
Journal sans épisodes. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets
S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1944]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|2 1/2 pages in-8
Autograph manuscript by the author of 2½ pages in-8 published in the February 10, 1944 issue of Journal des Débats.
Complete manuscript with very dense handwriting, containing numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
Literary chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of Jean Dumay's "Journal de guerre".
The complete typescript is included.
Between April 1941 and August 1944, Maurice Blanchot published 173 articles on recently published books in the "Chronique de la vie intellectuelle" of Journal des Débats.
In half a newspaper page (approximately seven pages in-8), the young author of "Thomas l'obscur" takes his first steps in the field of literary...
€1,200
Maurice BLANCHOT
Les plaintes de l'ombre. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.
S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1943]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|2 1/2 pages in-8
Autograph manuscript by the author, 2½ pages octavo, published in the December 10, 1943 issue of the Journal des Débats. Complete manuscript in very dense handwriting, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions. Literary chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of Passage de l'homme by Marius Grout, winner of the 1943 Prix Goncourt. Accompanied by the complete typescript.
Blanchot's critique of this future Prix Goncourt winner is not gentle, although he perfectly grasps its stakes. This story whose tragic unfolding ends in a deception that creates a new faith contains, for Blanchot, an equivocal moral.
"We understand what Marius Grout seeks to show...
€1,200
Maurice BLANCHOT
Le pèlerinage aux sources - Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.
S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1944]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|2 1/2 pages in-8

Autograph manuscript by the author, 2½ pages octavo, published in the January 13, 1944 issue of the Journal des Débats.
Complete recto-verso manuscript, in very dense handwriting, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
Accompanied by the complete typescript, with one autograph correction in black ink.

Chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of Le pèlerinage aux sources by Joseph Lanza del Vasto.

This chronicle by Maurice Blanchot forms an astonishing echo to one of his very first published texts (1931), devoted to Gandhi's Memoirs, which already contained the essence of his thought from the 1930s...
€1,200
Maurice BLANCHOT
D'un roman à l'autre. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.
S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1944]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|2 1/2 pages in-8
Autograph manuscript by the author of 2 and a half octavo pages published in the January 20, 1944 issue of Journal des Débats. Complete manuscript in very dense handwriting, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions. Literary chronicle on the literary current events of the moment. The complete typescript is included.

"The subject is not limited to the plot: it depends equally on incidents of language, details of composition and, even more, on those images that reveal the meaning of creation; the subject of a novel is above all the world it brings to birth."

This principle of the novelistic art could just as well apply to the chronicle it...
€1,000
Maurice BLANCHOT
Tradition et surréalisme. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets[Tradition and Surrealism. Complete Autograph Manuscript and Typescript]
S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1943]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|2 1/2 pages in-8
Autograph manuscript by the author of 2 and a half quarto pages published in the December 23, 1943 issue of Journal des Débats.
Complete manuscript in very dense handwriting, with numerous deletions, corrections and additions. The complete typescript is included.
This article, one of the rare pieces to appear on the journal's front page, is an audacious critique of the traditionalist vision of Art, which, arguing for the necessary adequacy between Art and Truth, condemns Modernity. With implacable intellectual rigor, Blanchot demonstrates how this conception of "authentic Art" "joins exactly that of the surrealists" and cites one of the major...
€1,500
Maurice BLANCHOT
Voyages de Montesquieu. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets. [Montesquieu’s Travels. Complete autograph manuscript and typescript]
S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1943]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|4 1/2 pages in-8
Autograph manuscript by the author of 4½ pages in-8 published in the September 8, 1943 issue of Journal des Débats.
Complete manuscript with very dense handwriting, containing numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
The complete typescript is included.
Literary chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of Les Voyages de Montesquieu, prefaced by Marcel Arland.
This artificial collection of Montesquieu's travel notebooks gives Blanchot the opportunity to praise a form of "natural" writing, "pure of all concern for readership". These intimate notes indeed testify to an art of "concision [which] delivers [facts] to...
€1,200
Maurice BLANCHOT
Les treize formes d'un roman. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets.
S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1943]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|4 1/2 pages in-8
Autograph manuscript by the author of 2½ pages in-4 published in the May 26, 1943 issue of Journal des Débats. Complete manuscript with very dense handwriting, containing numerous deletions, corrections and additions. The complete typescript is included.
Each chapter of Roland Cailleux's novel, Saint-Genès ou la vie brève, presents a different narrative form. This gives Blanchot the opportunity to return to the interest of this literary audacity initiated a few years earlier by Joyce: "The novel showed itself there with all its possibilities, it metamorphosed into everything it could be."
Between April 1941 and August 1944, Maurice Blanchot published 173...
€1,200
Maurice BLANCHOT
Le baron d'Holbach. Manuscrit autographe et tapuscrit complets[Baron d'Holbach. Complete autograph manuscript and typescript]
S. n. • [ Journal des débats]|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1943]|13.50 x 21.50 cm|4 1/2 pages in-8
Autograph manuscript by the author of 4½ pages in quarto published in the November 27-28, 1943 issue of Journal des Débats.
Complete manuscript with very dense handwriting, containing numerous deletions, corrections and additions.
Literary chronicle published on the occasion of the publication of Paul Thiry d'Holbach et la philosophie scientifique au XVIIIe siècle by Pierre Naville.
The complete typescript is included.
Far more than a critique of Pierre Naville's work on Baron d'Holbach, this long article by Blanchot is a veritable philosophical pamphlet against the materialist thought of the Encyclopedists, whom he accuses of wanting to « know the world...
€1,200
LONGUS
Les amours de Daphnis et Chloé
S. n.|à Londres [London] 1779|10 x 16.20 cm|relié
New reprint of the so-called Regent edition, small quarto published in 1718. A frontispiece by Coypel and 29 figures of the Regent (Philippe d'Orléans) engraved by B. Audran. Some figures are folded. Translation by Amyot. This 1779 edition also appeared in quarto format with text pages in frames. The reprinted figures are before letters.
Contemporary brown calf binding with scale pattern. Smooth spine decorated in grotesque style. Triple fillet frame on boards. Top headcap worn. Lower joint cracked at head. One corner bumped. Scattered foxing.
€350
ANONYME
Projet de charte du métier de charcutier 1415-1941. Réunis en congrès à Lyon les charcutiers de France et des colonies à Monsieur le Maréchal de France Philippe Pétain, chef de l'Etat français
S. n.|s. l. 1941|-|relié
First edition.
Half sand cloth binding, smooth spine, red shagreen title-label with small scratches, marbled paper boards.
Work illustrated with two photographic facsimiles.
Some light foxing to endpapers, handsome interior condition.
€80
André SIRAMY, Jean RAYMOND
Auvergne
S. n.|s. l. • [Clermont-Ferrand] 1976|27 x 36.50 cm|en feuilles sous chemise
First edition, one of 25 hors commerce copies on Canson paper reserved for the author and collaborators, deluxe copy.
Work illustrated with 10 original drawings hors-texte by Jean Raymond.
Signed autograph inscription by the illustrator expanded with the author's signature below the justification page.
Fine copy.
€100
Charles ROESSLER
Les influences celtiques avant et après Colomban, essai historique et archéologique
S. n.|Paris 1901|14 x 19 cm|broché
First edition printed in a small number of copies on laid paper.
Work illustrated with 8 hors-texte plates.
A central fold mark on the parchment covers, marginal dampstaining to the final leaves.
Rare.
€60
Colette REMARCK
Les mains nouées
S. n.|s. l. 1953|13.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition printed in a run of 500 numbered copies on alfa mousse paper.
Illustrated with a frontispiece engraved by Jo Etcheverry.
Rare and handsome copy despite some minimal foxing of no consequence.
€80
Christian DAUTCOURT
Rencontres
S. n.|s. l. 1951|14.50 x 19.50 cm|en feuilles
First edition printed in 200 numbered copies, ours bearing No. 1, the only printing.
Autograph inscription signed by Christian Dautcourt on the first endpaper which shows slight light stains at the foot.
Last endpaper partially shaded due to a small press cutting about the work.
€80
Hermann E.S. CHAYES
La préparation des cavités
S. n.|Genève [Geneva] s. d. [circa 1950]|13.50 x 20.50 cm|agrafé
First edition.
Illustrated with photographs to text and hors texte.
A good and rare copy.
€45
Abbé DOUAY
Histoire généalogique des branches de la maison de Béthune, existantes en Flandre et en Artois, et connues pendant plusieurs siecles sous le nom de Desplanques [...]
S. n.|à Paris 1783|23 x 37.50 cm|relié
The rare first edition, and only edition of this work. Illustrated with numerous tables, a large folding plate showing the armorial genealogy of the Desplanques, heraldic figures in the text, and a notable feature of this book, 15 medallion portraits "au physionotrace" (a process invented by Louis Chrétien and developed by Edmé Quenedey in the style of wash engraving, whose signatures can be found at the bottom of the portraits with the date and place of their creation). Also noteworthy is the presence of a 4-page supplement with a plate of coats of arms on fine blue paper.
Near-contemporary half blonde sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with 4 tools and roulettes. Gilt title. A tear...
€1,500
PANAGE
Les moeurs
S. n.|s. l. 1748|10 x 16.50 cm|3 parties reliées en un volume
First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece, a title vignette repeated on the three title pages, and three title vignettes.
Contemporary full marbled brown calf binding. Smooth spine decorated. Red morocco title label. Lower joint open at foot. Lacks and holes along the lower joint. One corner bumped.
An essay on virtues, of which we know there were countless in the 18th century, this one containing particular qualities; immediately aligning itself with the Enlightenment movement by rejecting the notion that virtues are the privilege of a single religion, the author addresses all men, stigmatizing the wealthy, social position and the model of the honest man of the 17th century...
€180
COLLECTIF
Bulletin de la Grande masse N°54
S. n.|s. l. 1953|23.50 x 30.50 cm|agrafé
First edition.
About Auguste Perret, New York, Ronchamp...
Iconography.
Minor corner tears to boards, handsome interior condition.
€50
François PARFAICT, Henri Barthélemy de BLANES
Neraïr et Melhoë. Conte ou histoire. ouvrage orné de digressions
S. n.|s. l. [1740] An IX l'âge de l'auteur|9 x 16.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition, rare, attributed to Blanes by Barbier and to Parfaict (who cites Blanes as second attribution) by Cioranescu. Title pages in red and black. This novel later appeared, with a new beginning, under another title: Le Miroir, ou Histoire de Griguenodine; apart from the first page, the pagination and chapters correspond with this edition.
Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with 4 fleurons and an eagle at foot. Red morocco title and volume labels. Head damaged with lacks to joints. Foot rubbed with lacks to joints. Corners very bumped.
Utopia, that is to say according to Cioranescu's definition: "individualized literary description of...
€700
Etienne ROBERT
Causes amusantes et connues
S. n.|Berlin 1769|9.50 x 17 cm|relié
New edition, after the original of 1749, illustrated with 5 unsigned captioned figures on heavy paper.
Contemporary full brown calf binding. Decorated smooth spine. Red morocco title-label. Head worn. 2 corners slightly bumped. Rubbing. One fill using old paper to title page.
Collection of various memoirs by lawyers on amusing subjects (community of pork butchers against that of pastry makers; claim of a blind man against his wife...). These various memoirs were gathered by Etienne Robert with the aim of entertaining.
€250
COLLECTIF
L'automobile dans la ville
S. n.|s. l. 1963|19.50 x 28 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition of the French translation established by J.E. Leymarie.
Bradel binding in full orange cloth, smooth spine.
Iconography.
Bookplate pasted on an endpaper.
Handsome copy.
€50
ANONYME, [Paul LACROIX as] BIBLIOPHILE JACOB
La Tasse, comédie propre pour estre exhibée au temps de Caresme-prenant, extraite du Cabinet de la Muse du conte d'Aulbe, Gevrien, plus Une salade d'espis de Grame. Le tout avec tant de facetieuseté et plaisanterie que l'autheur et l'imprimeur se condamnent de payer le vin à qui pourra lire sans rire, moyennant que ce ne soit quelque ladre d'esprit, ou quelque chassieux Héraclite, ou pour le moins quelque cerveau anormalement songe-creux, ou rechineusement Héraclite
S. n.|s. l. s. d. [circa 1880]|15.50 x 23 cm|relié
New edition printed on China paper in small numbers and established by the bibliophile Jacob of this play almost unknown to all theater historians.
Bradel binding in half mouse-gray cloth with corners, smooth spine decorated with a gilt floral motif, double fillet at tail, gray shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, contemporary binding.
€100
Abbé E. ROUSSEAU
Nouvelle description de l'église Saint-Louis-en-lIle et de ses richesses artistiques
S. n.|Paris s. d. [1917]|12.50 x 19 cm|broché
First edition.
Work illustrated with 50 photogravures.
Two small tears at head and foot of spine, a light marginal dampstain and a crease mark at head of front cover, handsome interior condition.
€40