Urbain Canel

Edition illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and a folding facsimile at the beginning of the volume.
Full marbled sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fleurons and compartments, spine with some rubbing, red shagreen title-label, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, one inner gutter split, corners slightly bumped, speckled edges, contemporary binding.
Copy free from foxing.

First edition bringing together unpublished texts, notably 'Le refus' by Honoré de Balzac.
Some foxing.
Half glazed brown calf binding, spine slightly faded with four raised bands decorated with gilt and black fillets, two joints cracked at foot, gilt monogram of Alcide de Beauchesne at tail of spine, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary Romantic binding signed by Closs.
Other contributions by Jules Janin, Roger de Beauvoir, Alcide de Beauchêne, Eugène Sue, Théodore Muret...
Work illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Delphine Gay.
Provenance: from the library of Alcide de Beauchesne with his gilt monogram stamped at tail of spine.

Very rare and highly sought-after first edition of Balzac's first novel signed by his name. Published a small number of copies, this first novel whose original title is inspired by the last of the Mohicans James Cooper, reappeared, reworked in 1834 under a new title: The Chouans .
This first important work of Balzac also marks the beginning of the comedy Humaine which she constitura since 1845 a scene of the military life .
Bindings in half red Russian leather, smooth backs adorned with gilt and black threads, gold friezes in heads and tails, marbled paper plates, Contemporary binding.
A restored bit and a flap sheet of the first volume changed, some small foxing.

Exceptional exemplary set in a charming Contemporary binding.

First edition.
Half dark green shagreen bindings, smooth spines decorated with gilt arabesques, dark green cardboard boards with some epidermures, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, tears to leading edges, corners slightly bumped, contemporary bindings.
Some foxing.

The rare first edition.
Bound in contemporary half mottled sheep with small corners, smooth spines decorated with gilt fillets, raciné paper boards, contemporary bindings.
One joint partially cracked, a discreet dampstain to inner margin of volume 2, occasional light foxing. A narrow-margined copy.
Provenance: from the library of Tegernsee castle, property of Prince Charles-Theodore of Bavaria (1795-1875). Charles-Theodore of Bavaria, son of the first King of Bavaria Maximilian I, was "Generalfeldmarschall" and privy councillor to the King of Bavaria (Stamp "S.K.H.D Prinzen Carl V. Bayern Güter Administration Tegernsee").
A rare copy, of princely provenance, in strictly contemporary bindings.

New edition, one of the very rare copies printed on salmon paper of which no mention is made.
Full brown shagreen bindings, spines with five raised bands set with black fillets decorated with double black compartments decorated with central gilt fleurons, gilt roulettes on headcaps, quintuple black fillet frames on boards enriched at corners with gilt fleurons and struck at their centers with four gilt fleurons forming a diamond, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt dentelle frame on pastedowns, edges gilt, gilt dots on leading edges, elegant unsigned bindings.
The complete set in 6 volumes comprises:
- Volumes 1 & 2: Le caravansérail
- Volume 3: Bardouc ou le pâtre du mont Taurus
- Volumes 4, 5 & 6: Contes nouveaux et Nouvelles nouvelles
Minor foxing of no consequence on white endpapers of bindings.
Rare and handsome copy, probably unique, beautifully produced and printed on salmon paper.

First edition. Two poems not reprinted in subsequent editions.
Contemporary full brown shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt compartments and fillets, triple gilt fillet framing the covers, gilt dentelle framing the marbled paper pastedowns, all edges gilt.
A handsome copy.

First edition.
Contributions notably by George Sand "Une vieille histoire", Anaïs Ségalas "Un visage rose et un visage ridé", Ernestine Legouvé "Un lâche", Amable Tastu "Trop tard", Marie de Surville "Mystère", Isabelle de Montolieu "Mina"...
Lacks to spine ends, occasional light foxing.
Rare gathering of the first four volumes of these works written by women writers.

First edition.
Half glazed navy calf bindings, smooth spines decorated with gilt compartments embellished with gilt arabesques, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, yellow and speckled edges, bookplates pasted at head of pastedowns, two corners slightly bumped, contemporary bindings.
Some foxing, a repaired tear at head of a marbled endpaper of the first volume, printed bibliophile stamps on title pages.

First edition for each volume.
Half red shagreen bindings, spines with four raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons, marbled paper boards, two corners slightly bumped, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Works illustrated with a facsimile and a portrait of M. Joseph Prudhomme as well as 6 lithographs hors-texte by H. Monnier for the first volume, with drawings by the author in-text for the second volume
A tiny marginal lack not touching text at foot of page 172 of the second volume, some minor foxing.
Handsome set in uniform binding.

First edition of the author's first published work.
Half green sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with double gilt fillets, dark blue sheep title-label, marbled paper boards, one joint cracked along its entire length, rubbed edges, contemporary binding.
Reading library stamps, some foxing.

First edition for the first text and second edition for the second.
Full cardboard binding, smooth spine, olive shagreen title-label, slight rubbing to one joint, contemporary binding.
Some foxing.

First edition.
Worming to the front board, a repaired angular tear to the half-title page, marginal lack to the rear board, occasional foxing.

Second illustrated edition of a frontispiece and a plate on China.
Binding half shagreen green back with four nerves nerves set with gilded nets and adorned with double gilded boxes, golden monograms tail tail, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, binders of the time.
Some small foxinges.
Our copy is enriched, on a slip, of an instructive autograph signed by Alexandre Dumas to Mr. Beauchesne as a present of this book: "My dear Beauchesne, I send you the work of General Dermoncourt: read it carefully and you will see that he has only blown the lady of the dagger, only to make one forget his republican temperament, to you anyway. "

First edition. Work illustrated with a frontispiece engraving depicting the château de la Penifsière. Joints cracked at foot with losses, tears and marginal losses to the boards, a pale dampstain affecting the first leaves and diminishing throughout the pages. Rare.