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Autograph manuscripts, signed, comprising two humorous tales and three poems, written in blue ballpoint pen and violet ink, on both sides of a single sheet of ruled paper.
A few cancellations and ink smudges; minor soiling.
Autograph letter from Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, written in a tall, narrow hand on one page, addressed to his wife Renée-Pélagie.
Undated, this letter was written in early July 1779 at the Vincennes prison. It is published in Marquis de Sade. Lettres à sa femme, Marc Buffat, 1997 (p. 112).
Marginal dampstaining, a few creases, and a small marginal loss from the letter's unsealing. Address to Madame de Sade in Paris on the verso.
Autograph postcard, signed "Alain", addressed to Lucien Daniaux in Papeete, Tahiti, written on the reverse of a photographic portrait of a smiling young Polynesian woman. Stamp of Australian Papua, postal marks, English censorship stamp ("passed by censor").
Sent a few months before his death, this postcard documents the final journey of the French traveller, undertaken amid the hostile climate of the Second World War.
First edition, illustrated with several reproductions, including a photograph of Genss's library as frontispiece. One of two hundred numbered copies, signed by Julius Genss on the limitation leaf. Only three copies on WorldCat (UCL, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).
Grey laid paper wrappers, title label mounted to the front cover. Weak stitching, minor soiling to the covers, light corner creasing to the covers and leaves.
A rare copy printed in small numbers of the autobiography of an esteemed Estonian book collector. The provenance of his vast collection, first pillaged by the Nazis, is being actively...
First edition printed in 45 numbered copies, signed in pencil by Ania Staritsky, ours is number 29. Original collage accompanied by the manuscript initials GW on the wrapper, 5 original engravings, and text presentation by Ania Staritsky.
Wrapper composed of two cardboard boards joined by cords, five kraft paper booklets containing bifolia of thick white paper. The year "1964" is inscribed in pencil on the first booklet. One of the three cords is missing, otherwise a fine copy.
Laid in are Gerhard Weber's autograph visiting card, a clipped page from the bilingual French-German newspaper Pariser Kurier, and a postcard reproducing a work by Ania...
First edition, illustrated with three reproductions of works by Victor Brauner, Jacques Hérold and Yves Tanguy. One of 450 numbered copies on satin-finish paper.
Illustrated wrappers. A fine copy.
First edition, privately printed in a small number of copies as an offprint from issue No. 6 of the review Hermès, devoted to the theme of emptiness, of which Henri Michaux was the first editor-in-chief.
A few stains to the upper wrapper.
Signed autograph inscription by Henri Michaux to his friend, the painter and draughtsman Bernard Saby: "Quelques mots encore amicalement à Bernard Saby. Henri Michaux."
Inspired both by his investigations into serial music and by his experiments with mescaline and hashish, Bernard Saby's painting aroused keen interest among his contemporaries. In 1956, his friend Henri Michaux welcomed him into the pages of...
Very rare first edition, one of 150 copies signed at the colophon by Conrad Rooks. OCLC records only two copies at the American College of Greece and at Princeton University Library.
Spine and boards marginally sunned, two stains to the right margin of the rear board.
Presentation copy, inscribed, dated and signed "to Sueeva Viegand with appreciation for kind thoughts and friendship. Sincerely Conrad Rooks 5/7/1963 / Paris 26 rue Saint Beniot [Benoît] ’
Extremely rare first edition of Conrad...
First edition, actually printed in Nantes by Malassis despite the Paris imprint on the title-page, as revealed by a manuscript note by Mangourit himself cited by Barbier.
An anonymously published pamphlet, with a typographical vignette on the title-page.
Copy preserved in its original stitched state and therefore without wrappers, with a pencilled manuscript note on the title-page identifying the author.
Our...
Autograph card signed and dated by Marguerite Yourcenar, 12 lines in black ink written on both sides, addressed to Jane Bathori.
The ink has slightly faded.
With the original manuscript envelope addressed to Jane Bathori.
"6-III-54,
Dear Madam, I thought of you this morning as I was passing through your neighbourhood, and was reminded of the charming welcome you gave me last month. I did not have the time to try to call on you, but these flowers will at least convey my warm remembrance and friendly regards. Marguerite Yourcenar."
Jane Bathori was a French mezzo-soprano, choir director, teacher, theatre...
Autograph postcard, dated and signed by Louise de Vilmorin, addressed to her friend Frédéric Fresco with wishes for the festive season.
The recto of the card depicts Louise de Vilmorin's house in Verrières.
The postcard is embellished with a large hand-drawn four-leaf clover framing her message, from which her signature emerges.
Photograph depicting Henri Calet with his young son Louis Nordmann seated on his lap.
Contemporary print.
Minor tears without significance to the left margin of the photograph.
The photograph was taken by Jean-Nicolas De Boé, the writer's nephew.
Complete set of uncorrected galley proofs dating from August–September 1935, comprising 65 pages on as many leaves numbered in pencil from 1 to 65.
First set of galley proofs for Henri Calet's debut novel La Belle Lurette (Gallimard, October 1935), forwarded to the author by Gallimard in the summer of 1935.
"On 15 June 1935, in a small room on the rue Edgar-Poe, close to the Buttes-Chaumont, Calet completed the writing of his first book, La Belle Lurette, which appeared in November of that same year with Gallimard, with the support of Jean Paulhan. The book met with little commercial success, yet Calet earned the esteem of distinguished...
Autograph postcard dated and signed by Florette Lartigue addressed to the woman of letters Christiane Baroche (12 lines in blue felt-tip), additionally initialled by Jacques-Henri Lartigue and embellished with a small drawn sun.
The postcard reproduces an original photograph by Jacques-Henri Lartigue entitled "Bibi à Marseille"; a crease to the lower right corner of the postcard. Florette Lartigue congratulates Christiane Baroche on all her publishing successes and would like to embrace her "de vive voix" et non toujours par écrit...
The postcard bears the photographer’s handwritten initials, which he enhanced with a small drawn...
Autograph card signed, dated 18 November 1984, 12 lines in blue ballpoint pen, addressed to her friend the woman of letters Christiane Baroche, in which she discusses her latest work "Plaisirs amers" and the friendship binding the two women writers.
Autograph envelope addressed to Christiane Baroche enclosed.
A fine and affectionate letter of thanks, written six days after the announcement of the Prix Renaudot awarded to Ernaux for La Place:
« Merci Christiane de ta lettre qui m'a fait très chaud au coeur, car les moments de "gloire" sont aussi ceux qu'on a envie de traverser avec les gens qu'on aime bien. Je t'embrasse. Annie. »
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First edition, one of 250 numbered copies, this being one of 10 numbered in Roman numerals, the deluxe issue.
Illustrated with original black engravings by Ania Staritsky.
A rare and very handsome copy, complete with its original school-style green flexible card chemise, marginally faded.
Manuscript pencil signatures of Michel Butor and Ania Staritsky at the colophon.
As stated in the limitation notice, our copy does indeed contain a manuscript page by Michel Butor and an original signed collage by Ania Staritsky.
First edition printed in 25 numbered copies on pure rag paper, pulled on Ania Staritsky’s press on the occasion of an exhibition of her works at Larroque.
Illustrated with 7 original engravings numbered and signed in justification by Ania Staritsky who also designed the original layout of the work with the collaboration of Claude Nardin.
A rare and handsome copy complete with the following 7 engravings :
- Magical cockerel
- Fishing of flies
- Fire hamste
-...
First edition, one of 30 numbered copies printed on handmade pure rag paper.
Illustrated with original colour engravings by Ania Staritsky, who also designed the original layout of the work with the collaboration of Claude Nardin.
A rare and very fine copy, complete with its chemise and brown cloth slipcase.
Pencil signatures of Philippe Jones and Ania Staritsky at the colophon.
Inscribed by Philippe Jones to Claude Nardin at the colophon.
Our copy is enriched with a five-line autograph manuscript text by Philippe Jones, as well as an original collage by Ania Staritsky, signed by her.
First edition, printed in 40 numbered copies on "citronnelle de lin troué" paper, this being one of the copies numbered from 11 to 30 (No. 30).
Illustrated with original colour engravings by Ania Staritsky, who also designed the original layout of the work with the assistance of Claude Nardin.
A rare and very fine copy, complete with its chemise and slipcase in full olive green cloth.
Pencil signatures of Jacques Izoard and Ania Staritsky at the colophon.
A unique copy, exceptionally enriched with a manuscript text by the poet Jacques Izoard, an original engraving by Ania Staritsky signed by her, as well as three engravings not retained for...
First edition printed in 30 numbered copies on handmade rag paper, this copy unnumbered.
Illustrated with original colour engravings by Ania Staritsky, who also designed the book’s original layout.
A rare and very fine copy, complete with its chemise and brown cloth slipcase.
Pencil signatures of Philippe Jones and Ania Staritsky at the colophon.
As stated in the limitation page, this copy includes a manuscript text by the poet Philippe Jones as well as an original signed collage by Ania Staritsky.
Autograph card signed, dated 25 April 1987, 17 lines in black ballpoint pen, addressed to her friend, the woman of letters Christiane Baroche, in which she lavishes praise on her latest work entitled "L'hiver de beauté".
With the original envelope.
"Ma chère Christiane,
après tout, je me console : celui qui a fauché "L'Hiver de Beauté" a eu du nez, il a passé de bons moments, avec ta superbe Isabelle, ta non moins acide et volontaire Queria. Tu as réussi un très beau livre dans une langue que je trouve de plus en plus rigoureuse, la construction est remarquable et "fluent" comme on dit en anglais, c'est très naturellement qu'on passe de l'une...
Autograph signed postcard, 12 lines in black ballpoint pen, addressed to her friend, the woman of letters Christiane Baroche, in which she expresses her complete intellectual affinity with her.
The recto of the postcard features a reproduction of the painting "Trompe l'oeil" by Cornelis Gysbrechts.
"Ma chère Christiane,
merci ! Ce petit prix a surtout le mérite de grossir ma cagnotte pour la maison de mes rêves, enfin, un peu : 5000 F. Mais je suis très contente. Je voulais te dire depuis les vacances de Pâques combien j'avais eu le plaisir à écouter ta voix fraternelle dans ton recueil de "Rimes intérieures". J'aime ce que tu aimes, je...
First edition, one of 35 copies printed on B.F.K. de Rives paper, numbered and signed by Michel Seuphor and Ania Staritsky at the colophon, our copy being one of the few hors commerce.
Illustrated with original engravings by Ania Staritsky, who also designed the original layout of the work.
A rare and pleasing copy, complete with its chemise and slipcase in full anise cloth.
Our copy is exceptionally enriched with an original collage signed by Ania Staritsky and an 8-line autograph manuscript text signed by Michel Seuphor,
Duodecimo edition, published in the same year as the first edition, setting out a key episode in the Chinese Rites Controversy, a dispute still ongoing at the time of publication, pitting the Jesuits against the Franciscans and Dominicans.
Contemporary mottled brown sheep, spine with five raised bands and gilt compartments, gilt board edges, red mottled edges. Two early ownership inscriptions, the first on the upper pastedown and the second on the title page, both in brown ink.
New edition, partly original as revised and expanded.
Vertical creasing to the upper cover, a pleasant copy.
Illustrated with a photographic portrait of the author as frontispiece, together with three further plates.
Scarce pamphlet issued by the relief committee for political prisoners of the Russian penal camps in Grenoble.
First edition of the French translation by Eugène Guillevic, printed in 35 copies numbered and signed in the colophon on japon ancien, ours one of the 10 hors commerce lettered copies.
Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by Hélène Iliazd to Claude Nardin in pencil in the colophon.
A rare copy complete with its folders and guards made of various papers, its folded parchment chemise with a large outward flap, and its blue cloth chemise and slipcase.
This first edition, conceived and produced by Hélène Iliazd and Ania Staritsky in memory of Iliazd, contains an unpublished poem by the Russian poet, with his autograph Russian...
Edition of this work of popular science, composed in prison by the celebrated Brazilian anarchist and philologist José Oiticica.
Minor losses at the upper headcap, spine sunned as is common, together with some wear and a split at the lower left joint measuring 4 cm, and very slightly split at the upper joints as well, offsetting and marginal colour loss to the boards, small tear at the head of the rear board, untrimmed edges.
First edition, one of 35 numbered copies on B.F.K. de Rives paper, signed by Michel Seuphor and Ania Staritsky at the limitation page, our copy one of the few hors commerce.
Illustrated with original engravings by Ania Staritsky.
A rare and handsome copy, complete with its chemise and matching brown cloth slipcase.
Our copy, like the first 10 copies, exceptionally contains an original collage signed by Ania Staritsky, a 9-line manuscript text signed by Michel Seuphor, and a suite of all the engravings by Ania Staritsky. This association copy is also inscribed in pencil by Ania Staritsky to her collaborator Claude Nardin who...
First edition of this work published by the Société du Bout-du-Banc, the celebrated literary salon presided over by Mademoiselle Jeanne-Françoise Quinault and the Comte de Caylus. This intimate circle, originally comprising eight members, would gather on Mondays at dinner to exchange ideas and to write; at the close of each meal, every distinguished guest was required to set down a few lines (whether in the coarse poissard style or in a more refined vein) on paper. It was in this context that Les Fêtes roulantes, ou les regrets des petites rues came into being, in the wake of the celebrations...
First edition, one of 119 numbered copies on edition paper, the only issue after 1 on chine, 10 on japon and 20 on hollande paper.
Contemporary half hazelnut shagreen with bands, smooth spine slightly faded, boards covered with wood-patterned paper, light rubbing to the corners and to the right margin of the upper board, wood-patterned endpapers and pastedowns, covers preserved and slightly discoloured at the margins.
A pleasing copy internally.
First edition, at one time attributed to Bernard Le Bouyer de Fontenelle, on the loves of a shepherd of illustrious lineage: Mirtil, son of Venus and Adonis. Complete copy with its engraved title page by Louis Legrand and its six plates drawn by Hubert François Gravelot and engraved by Louis Legrand.
Half marbled calf binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with dotted gilt fillets, five compartments richly gilt with fillets and fleurons, pebble-pattern marbled paper boards, red edges, pastedowns and...
First edition. One of 10 copies on vélin de Lana (lettered G, around which Genet has signed in blue ink), signed by Genet at the limitation page, most limited deluxe issue, except for a unique copy. Complete with the loose leaf beginning with “Une brusque lassitude...”. With an autograph letter signed by Jean Genet, on one page with customary fold marks from mailing, published in Edmund White, Jean Genet, pp. 260-261.
Illustrated with 29 erotic lithographs by Jean Cocteau, and an original pencil drawing by Cocteau, as well as a suite of the illustrations...
Bronze cast of the Marquis de Sade’s skull by the master founder Avangini. One of a unique numbered edition of 99 bearing a reproduction of Sade’s signature, this one No. 30.
Also included is a certificate of authenticity signed by the Comtesse de Sade, with the family’s wax seal.
Provenance: family archives.
First edition of this important work, the fruit of nearly thirty years of research conducted in China by the Jesuit Léon Wieger (1856–1933), and which remains a valuable reference despite the narrowly confessional bias that frequently comes to the fore.
Contemporary half tan shagreen binding, faded spine with four raised bands ruled in blind, some rubbing to spine and joints, marbled paper boards, paste-paper endpapers and pastedowns, corners bumped.
Illustrated with figures in the text.
First editions in mimeographed form of each of the fascicles (cf. Cuénot 312 & Cuénot 333).
Modern pink marbled paper Bradel binding, smooth spine, some rubbing with small losses of paper to the spine and along the edges of the boards; original wrappers preserved for the first fascicle.
Bound after the first text are: Trois Contes comme Benson (only Tales 2 and 3 are present: L'Ostensoir et La Custode) and En regardant un cyclotron (an offprint from Recherches et Débats, April 1953).
A rare collection.
An unrecorded edition of the first of the nine geographical booklets published by Marc Bonifas, known as Du Carla (1738-1816), between 1779 and 1780.
At the end of the volume, the work is illustrated with a folding plate.
A light dampstain to the upper margins of the final leaves.
Bradel binding in full blue paper-covered boards, smooth spine, date at foot, navy blue sheep title-piece, modern binding.
Ordinary editions bear the Geneva imprint, and the pagination is more extensive.
The author is chiefly known for having been the first to advocate the use of contour lines for the representation of terrain, extending to topography techniques already employed...
First edition, no copy recorded in the CCF.
Modern bradel binding in full burgundy cloth, spine ruled in gilt.
First leaf restored to the right margin with an adhesive repair, some light foxing, dampstain to the upper margin of the opening leaves.
A native of the Briançonnais (Villeneuve-la-Salle), like many booksellers who settled beyond the Alps, Yves Gravier established himself in Genoa in the second half of the eighteenth century, first in partnership with Louis Fantin, and subsequently on his own.
His parents Jean, Thomas and Simon Gravier were likewise active in Italy (Thomas in Rome itself).
In 1839, the firm was placed into liquidation.
...Anonymous manuscript of 23 pages, complete as this first notebook, accompanied by a title leaf bearing a manuscript table of nine articles and entitled Cap de Bonne Espérance. 1er cahier. The title identifies it as a first notebook, although no continuation accompanies the present group. On one page, the text shows a visible revision, with a word crossed out and corrected; the manuscript therefore appears to be a working draft rather than a final fair copy. A small brown stain affects one page of the arrival narrative without impairing legibility.
...Press clipping comprising a photograph of Joséphine Baker in stage costume, signed and dated by her in black felt-tip.
A fine example.
Autograph letter signed and dated September 26, 1955, by Georges Simenon, addressed from Cannes to André David.
18 lines in black ink on one leaf bearing his American address in Lakeville, Connecticut.
Mailing fold as usual.
Georges Simenon apologizes for his delayed response: "mais j'étais en plein roman. Parbleu ! si je me souviens de vous !" and indicates his upcoming availability to his correspondent, even specifying his future address in Cannes. He authorizes André David's project to adapt his novel "Maigret et la Grande Perche" for the screen, while setting his terms: "vous pouvez travailler sur La Grande Perche mais, bien entendu, mon acceptation ne...
First edition, one of 605 numbered copies on pur fil d'arches, this copy being one of the 20 hors commerce lettered name copies, including an additional suite on papier à la main du moulin Richard de Bas.
A few minor foxing spots to the front wrapper; slipcase and chemises split at several joints.
17 woodcuts engraved with a knife by Lucien Jacques.
Our copy is complete with its additional suite of the 17 illustrations on papier à la main du moulin Richard de Bas.
Signed and dated 1968 by Jean Giono to Monsieur Lachaud.
An intriguing first edition, complete with its engraved frontispiece of the author by Giovanni Volpato after Domenico Corvi, and its introductory poem by the Abbé Luigi Godard. A copy unrecorded in non-European libraries according to WorldCat.
Contemporary binding of fawn mottled calf, smooth spine divided into five gilt compartments by gilt rolls, brown morocco lettering-piece, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, double gilt fillet on the board edges, blue speckled edges, and shell-pattern marbled pastedowns and endpapers.
The lower cap lacking, some surface...
A new duodecimo edition of the most celebrated work by the writer and historian Charles Pinot Duclos, published in the same year as the first edition. According to the Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes of 1822, "the edition without place of publication, 1751, 12mo, in large type"—the present edition—"should be preferred to that bearing Prault's name, 1751, which contains a dedicatory epistle to the King." (our own translation)
Fine contemporary binding in polished tan...
First edition of this handsome trade catalogue illustrated with 33 plates (printed recto and verso), incorporating several mounted colour fabric samples (silks, woollens, etc.), each facing a pochoir-coloured vignette depicting a young woman dressed in a garment fashioned from the textiles presented; the designs bear evocative names: Caprice, Oasis, Pluie de rose, Polyanna, Divine chanson, Pêcheuse, Vamp, Mickey, Poupée blonde, Intrépide, Espiègle, Montparnasse, Sibéria, Câline, Incognito, Magicienne, etc.
Bound in full grey flexible boards, smooth spine lettered in gilt on the upper cover, the copy complete with its original textile cord.
A few leaves with staining or foxing...
First edition of this in-folio broadside signed "Phelypeaux", printed on one side only and in two columns.
A scarce and pleasing copy despite traces of central folding.
First edition of a poetry collection printed in a very small number of copies.
No copy recorded in the CCF. A single copy held in WorldCat (National Library of Australia).
Light, scattered foxing.
Half brown percaline Bradel binding, smooth spine, date and place gilt at the foot of the spine, marbled paper boards, original wrappers preserved, corners slightly rubbed, contemporary binding.
Four-page manuscript in black ink on a folio bifolium (31.9 x 20.1 cm), entitled Compte de dépense & de recette pour l'habitation de Monsieur le Vte de La Bourdonnaye and, on the verso, Etat des naissances de Nègres et mortalités & crues et déficits d'animaux, together with Etat des revenus fabriqués sur l'habitation de Monsieur le Vte de La Bourdonnaye. Signed Pérès and Grasset frères, Pitteu & Cie, certified at Verrettes and Saint-Marc on 30 June 1785.
First edition of one of the many productions of an odontological charlatan (cf. David, p. 245).
Illustrated with a portrait of the author as frontispiece.
Spine clumsily restored with an adhesive repair and showing small losses; corner losses to the boards; foxing.
Born into a Dutch Jewish family, Benjamin Cohen (1818–1852) adopted an Anglicised pseudonym in order to facilitate his business dealings, passing himself off as a London practitioner holding a degree from the University of Edinburgh, where he claimed to have been "admitted" in 1833. In reality, he had undertaken no formal studies.
Nevertheless, he set himself up as a dentist in Paris in 1836. Lacking any...
Extremely rare first edition, illustrated with two plates and issued as a separate offprint from the Phytographia Canariensis of the Histoire naturelle des Îles Canaries by Barker-Webb and Sabin Berthelot.
The plates, lithographed by J. Rigaud et Cie, were drawn by Alfred Riocreux, the gifted botanical artist and pupil of Redouté, responsible, among other works, for Choix de plantes de la Nouvelle-Zélande (1846).
Some foxing.
Contemporary binding in red half-morocco with corners, smooth spine ruled in gilt at head and foot, long-grained title, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Not recorded by Nissen.
The Vicomte de...
First edition of this in-folio printed broadside signed "Phelypeaux", printed on one side only.
Visible fold marks to the broadside.
A very rare collection of three anonymous political pamphlets, issued without place or publisher in 1783 and 1784, all in first edition and bound together at the time in one octavo volume:
Very rare first edition illustrated with one map and one colour plate.
Not recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Cordier, or Lorentz.
Half midnight-blue shagreen, smooth spine decorated with quadruple gilt fillets, one joint very fragile, upper headcap worn down, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Some foxing.
Folio manuscript from the second half of the 18th century, comprising 2 unnumbered leaves and 258 foliated pages, containing extracts and summaries of royal orders and dispatches of the Conseil de Marine from September 1715 to March 1723. The volume therefore covers the entire period of activity of this institution, created at the beginning of the Regency as part of the polysynody and maintained until its disappearance in 1723.
Contemporary restored full tan calf. Smooth spine decorated with gilt compartments and gilt tools, partly faded, lettering-piece lacking, a gilt rampant lion stamped at the centre of...
Manuscript of unnumbered leaves comprising a digest of ordinances and regulations relating to the French naval troops, most promulgated between 1690 and 1751.
The manuscript is preserved in its original stitched wrappers, in contemporary paper covers with manuscript annotations; tears to the opening leaves affecting the text; housed in a cream card portfolio.
It contains: Royal regulation of 1690 concerning the levy, pay and discipline of the naval troops. – Royal regulation of 1691 governing the billeting, conduct, march, policing and discipline of the naval troops. – Royal ordinances of 1695 and 1700 on the policing and discipline of the compagnies franches. – Ordinance of...
Fine contemporary manuscript plan in colour depicting the region (now within the Var department) extending from Le Thouar in the north to the Château Sainte-Marguerite in the south, of considerable strategic importance as the eastern defensive line protecting the approaches to Toulon.
Fold marks without tears or loss.
Fine hand-coloured manuscript plan depicting the area (now in the Var department) situated north of the village of La Valette (today La Valette-du-Var), extending to the lower slopes of Mont Coudon (702 m).
Creasing to the manuscript sheet.
Manuscript drawing consisting of a coloured sketch of one of the fort’s bastions, with scale in toises.
Construction of the Fort de Lamalgue, situated on the hill of the same name and intended to secure the landward approaches to Toulon while also protecting Fort Saint-Louis (Mourillon), which had been bombarded and abandoned during the siege of 1707, began in 1764 under the direction of Milet de Monville.
Works continued until 1792.
Traces of folding to the sheet.
First edition, printed in a limited number, of this extract from the Mémoires de la Société nationale des antiquaires de France, volume XXXIX.
Only two copies recorded in the CCFr (BnF and BULAC). Not listed in Hage Chahine.
This fascicle is illustrated with one in-text figure and two folding plates; our copy is exceptionally enhanced with an additional hand-coloured plan, featuring manuscript annotations in pencil.
Contemporary half-cloth binding in almond percaline, smooth spine with a central gilt ornament and double gilt fillet at the tail, red morocco leather title label, pebbled paper boards, original rear wrapper preserved.
Archaeologist and...
An uncommon first edition (cf. Palau, 92 173. Barbier, IV, 1072. Quérard, II, 40. Cioranescu, XVIII, 28675-28678.)
Contemporary full marbled fawn calf, smooth spine decorated with double gilt panels and ornaments, hazelnut calf lettering-piece, spine caps defective, covers framed with a single blind fillet, marbled endpapers, corners rubbed, gilt fillets to the edges, red edges; a fragile contemporary binding: spine ends trimmed, joints and upper hinge entirely split.
The imprint is fictitious: the pamphlet was not printed at Saint-Malo.
This satire, directed against the government, religion and customs of the Spaniards, and marked by singular bad faith (Fleuriot never...
Very rare first edition, printed anonymously in London in June and July 1784. Octavo. Sabin 21044. The French Catalogue collectif de France records only two copies, at the Bibliothèque nationale de France and in Rouen. The first edition collates v, 320, viii pp., with table and errata.
Nineteenth-century green half calf with corners, smooth spine slightly darkened and ruled in gilt, marbled paper boards framed with a gilt fillet and with a crowned gilt cipher within a central cartouche, lemon edges. Corners bumped, a few small abrasions to board edges. Bookplate to one pastedown. A few small spots...
First edition illustrated with 2 engraved plates of this rare anonymous collection of poems, recently and definitively attributed to the poet from Réunion Antoine de Bertin (1752-1790), and believed to constitute his earliest works (cf. Seth, Poète créoles, 304. Ryckebusch, Bibliographie… Réunion, 750. Conlon 71: 879.)
Contemporary-style half black sheep with corners, spine with five raised bands ruled in blind, comb-marbled paper boards, some rubbing to the covers, corners bumped, modern binding.
They were never included in subsequent editions of his Œuvres complètes.
Bertin alludes to his island in his “Vers à Jeannette. A l'Orient” (p. 68): « …Mais...
Rare group of six fascicules, all in the original edition.
Bradel-style binding in green mottled boards, smooth unlettered spine, printed title label mounted at the centre of the upper cover; modern binding.
Not recorded by Polak. Apparently no copy located in the CCFr.
A stain at the head of the title page.
This curious compilation, bearing almost no identifying information, appears to be particularly rare.
It contains:
- 1. A notice to mariners concerning the change in the lighting of the lighthouse in the Bay of the Somme, scheduled for 25 Pluviôse, Year IX [14 February 1801].
- 2. An instruction on filters for purifying water, signed by the...
Unpublished manuscript comprising 17 original signed and captioned watercolours executed in 1873 by a certain A. Poquet, an illustrator whose name has not been traced in the principal artists' dictionaries. The work announced on the calligraphic title page, Vues et types du Sénégal (Views and Types of Senegal), appears never to have been published; these watercolours almost certainly constitute the original maquette, or preparatory artwork, intended for its illustration.
The volume comprises a calligraphic title leaf, with a table of plates on the verso, followed by thirteen leaves on which the seventeen watercolours are mounted, one or two to a page...
First edition of the French translation (cf. Bruun (Christian), Bibliotheca Danica, V, 235.)
Contemporary uniform marbled full calf bindings, spines in six compartments with five raised bands, decorated with faded gilt fillets, gilt compartments and floral tools, gilt roll tooling to the caps partly rubbed, marbled endpapers, gilt rules to board edges, corners lightly bumped, contemporary bindings.
Some restorations to several joints and a few spines.
The first volume is devoted to Holland and Denmark, the second to Sweden and Russia, the third deals exclusively with Russia, and the fourth concerns Poland.
A pleasing copy.
First edition, printed in a very small run as a separate issue.
No copies recorded in the CCFr or WorldCat.
Our copy is presented in its original wrappers, preserved under the original cream paper dust wrapper.
Oxford antiquary and numismatist, William Sandys Wright Vaux (1818–1885) was also closely associated with the Oxford Movement.
On the front cover, autograph inscription from William Sandys Wright Vaux to Count Melchior de Vogüé (1829–1916), the renowned French archaeologist.
A very rare collection, unrecorded by both Martin & Walter and Sabin.
Modern bradel binding in full grey paper-covered boards, smooth spine, white longitudinal title label.
The second Assembly of Notables, a little-known historical episode, concerned itself not only with the affairs of metropolitan France but also with those of the colonies.
Following the preliminary matter, comprising four letters from the commissioners (to the Notables, to the King, to the Minister of the Navy, and again to the King), the principal text consists of an Mémoire instructif sur le régime & l'importance de la colonie de Saint-Domingue. The two principal issues addressed are the...
First edition of this important pre-Revolutionary economic pamphlet. (See INED 3994. Stourm 152. Not in Kress, Goldsmith, or Einaudi.)
Our copy is preserved in its original wrappers and plain paper covers.
A marginal waterstain to the left edge of the leaves.
"Ruelle, an advocate of physiocratic economic principles, demonstrates that the burden of taxation ultimately always falls upon landowners. He argues for the necessity of consolidating all taxes into a single direct income tax. Combined with unrestricted freedom of trade, this tax would constitute the only means of restoring the finances of the State. A critique of public borrowing and a defence of property." See...
A very rare first edition of this atlas only, comprising a folding map and 46 plates mounted on guards depicting a total of 135 figures.
Contemporary Bradel-style binding in black half-cloth over marbled boards, spine damaged at the foot, title label partially rubbed away along its length, boards with scuffs and losses to the marbled paper covering, bumped corners, minor wear to the edges.
An exceptionally rare standalone atlas from this landmark monograph on the Chibcha, or Muisca, civilization.
First edition, here in its 12mo issue; the 4to edition is more commonly encountered (cf. Sabin 50563. See Gagnon 1217, Lande 656 and Higgs 1032. Not in Kress, Goldsmiths or Einaudi. The NUC records 4 copies of the 4to edition.)
Contemporary half brown sheepskin over boards with vellum tips, spine in five compartments tooled in blind with garland motifs, paper-covered boards, red-speckled edges; an old binding with a later spine.
"A review of the causes of Anglo-French hostilities in America, from a French point of vue, and with the intention of persuading the Dutch correspondent of England's aggressiveness" Cf. James Ford Bell Library catalogue, p. 359.
The...
Contemporary manuscript copy of the important unpublished memoir written in Tonkin in 1841 by the Spanish Dominican Domingo Martí (1811–1852), devoted to the lives and martyrdom of twenty-seven Servants of God who died between 1838 and 1840 during the anti-Christian persecutions carried out under the reign of Emperor Minh Mạng.
Small quarto (15 × 19.8 cm). 6 unnumbered leaves, 2 blank leaves, 117 numbered leaves with a few pagination errors...
First edition illustrated with 2 folding tables.
Only two copies recorded in the CCF (BnF and Strasbourg).
Bradel binding in full black paper boards, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets and a gilt fleur-de-lys tool, tan shagreen title label, upper corners slightly rubbed, speckled edges. Slightly later binding.
Offset from an old paper in the left margin of the title page.
Despite its great popularity, the publication of "Histoire de Napoléon" by Philippe-Paul de Ségur (1780-1873), issued in 1824, prompted numerous reactions, responses, and corrections from many participants in the Russian campaign (Gourgaud’s, of extreme violence, remains...
First edition, illustrated with 1 plate and 3 folding maps printed outside the text (cf. Tulard, 694.)
Our copy is preserved in its original wrappers, in soiled temporary covers with angular losses and wear to the spine; internally in pleasant condition despite some foxing.
The only edition, and uncommon, of this report on the operations at Peschiera (1–19 January 1801), which followed the Battle of Marengo and were entrusted to François de Chasseloup-Laubat, Commander-in-Chief of Engineers with the Army of Italy.
The diplomat Étienne-Félix d'Hénin de Cuvillers (1755–1841) was then serving in the same army as a captain, and later as a squadron leader attached to the...
Rare first edition of this early biography of Agustín Arturo Prat Chacón (1848-1879), Chilean naval officer and national hero, who was killed at the Battle of Iquique shortly after boarding the Peruvian warship Huáscar during the War of the Pacific (1879-1884).
Cf. Palau 110 041. No copy recorded in the CCF.
This pamphlet is illustrated with a lithographed portrait frontispiece.
Some minor foxing, chiefly affecting the wrappers.
First edition of the French translation, illustrated with 105 full-page plates (including 2 folding tables, 21 maps and plans, and 82 views and facsimiles of documents).
Remarkable account of one of the most significant international opinion manipulations by China and North Korea at the onset of the Korean War: as early as 1952, North Korean and Chinese officials (including Zhou Enlai) claimed that the U.S. Army was deploying "insect vectors" on a large scale to spread diseases such as plague and cholera among the populations of Korea and Manchuria.
As later confirmed by Soviet documents published in 1998, the entire operation had been meticulously staged.
Spine with...
New edition, partly original, published anonymously (see Sabin 20,288).
Disbound copy, preserved in a modern marbled paper wrapper.
Abbé Louis Genty (1743–1817) is better known for his Influence de la découverte de l’Amérique sur le bonheur du genre humain, published in 1788, but this Dissertation appears here in a form close to its first draft.
This critical survey of the Dutch possessions in Indonesia survives in three versions — English, French, and Dutch — without it being possible to determine with certainty which constitutes the original edition.
Only three copies are recorded in the CCF.
Written at the outset of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780–1784), triggered by the early recognition of American independence by the United Provinces, this pamphlet seeks to highlight the weaknesses of the administration of the Dutch East India Company and the vulnerability of its possessions to a French or British attack.
In fact, hostilities quickly turned to the disadvantage of the Dutch, who in 1784 were compelled to...
Rare collection of 16 hand-coloured engravings, comprising a frontispiece and 15 plates, illustrating the virtues of soldiers and young men during the Consulate period.
Contemporary half bronze calf binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, dotted tools and floral ornaments, minor rubbing to the spine, brown morocco title label, boards, endpapers and pastedowns of marbled paper, ex-libris pasted on the front pastedown.
An attractive copy.
Rare first edition.
Our copy is offered in the original unbound state, with paper losses to the final leaf and a light waterstain affecting the opening leaves.
By General Duhesme (1766-1815), then serving with the army entrusted with the conquest of the Kingdom of Naples.
First edition (cf. Quérard, Sup., II, 1252).
Modern tan half calf by Laurenchet, smooth spine lettered gilt lengthwise, marbled paper boards, red edges.
A loss to the title-page professionally made good, a few small spots of foxing.
Among the subjects discussed are: newspapers in Russia in 1838; military education in Russia; fishing in Russia; a survey of Russian literature in 1838; the work of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences; deportation to Siberia; scientific expeditions commissioned by the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg; the form of government of the Russian Empire (imperial authority); the political constitution of the Russian Empire (the Council...
Album of 25 hand-finished colour lithographs depicting French military uniforms from the last quarter of the 19th century (cf. Glaesser pp. 320-321. Colas 2003 (issued in quarto format?)).
Contemporary paper boards, plain smooth spine in brick-red cloth.
Some foxing.
The unnumbered military costume plates are captioned.
First illustrated edition, featuring at the end of the volume 12 charming hand-coloured copper engravings depicting fashionable hairstyles and costumes (10), as well as furniture (2).
Contemporary binding in half midnight-blue calf, smooth spine decorated with lozenge tools and gilt fillets, gilt tail ornament, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, marbled edges.
The work is also illustrated with a portrait of Bonaparte as a frontispiece and one plate hors-texte.
Foxing, black ink stains to page 81.
This work, intended for an American readership, as stated in the Preface ("L'espèce de journal dont nous offrons ici le premier essai, ne contiendra que rarement...
First editions of two works by Baron Jean-Baptiste de Cloots, known as Anacharsis Cloots.
Contemporary half green basane bindings, green paper boards, smooth spines decorated with gilt fillets and dotted rolls, red basane title-labels, yellow edges. Bindings rubbed, some scuffing and losses, a few light corner creases. The "Lettres d'un jeune philosophe à un jeune théologien," a text intended to close La Certitude des preuves du Mahométisme, is bound in the first volume after the first part of the work. It is followed by the "Supplément à la certitude des preuves du mahométisme," and, also in the first volume, by another work by Cloots, the Lettre sur...
Manuscript on graph paper comprising nearly 60 original drawings in black pencil, coloured pencil and watercolour, describing various species of edible and poisonous fungi: agaric, Caesar's mushroom, edible bolete, ceps, chanterelles, beefsteak fungus, morel, winter truffle, etc.
Each drawing is captioned in French and Latin.
Contemporary amateur binding in full flexible boards, plain orange spine split and with portions lacking, blue boards; spine cracked.
Provenance: from the library of Dr Bacquias of La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, with his name inscribed in the upper left-hand corner of the front board.
Some foxing.
