Signed book

LONGCHENE

Le monde souterrain ou merveilles géologiques

A. Mame & fils, Tours s.d. (circa 1840), 10,5x17,5cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

New edition.
Binding in full black shagreen, smooth back decorated with golden romantic arabesques, golden wheels slightly dimmed on the caps, framing of a golden thread on the boards richly decorated with romantic arabesques cold stamped, marbled edges, golden borders at the heads and in [...]

100 €

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First edition

Edmond NOCARD & Emmanuel LECLAINCHE

Les maladies microbiennes des animaux

Masson & Cie, Paris 1903, 15,5x25cm, 2 volumes reliés.

Third edition partly original because completely remelted and considerably increased.
Bindings in Havana half shagreen, back with five nerves, rubbed backs, framing of cold fillets on caramel cardboard trays, first board of the second volume marginally shorn, guards and contreplats of handmade [...]

350 €

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ANONYME

Théorie pour l'exercice et les manoeuvres de l'infanterie. Ordonnance du 4 Mars 1831. Ecole du ...

C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, Paris 1848, 7,5x12,5cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

New augmented edition of the service in the posts.
Binding in half brown sheepskin with small corners, smooth discolored back adorned with a gilt typographic floret, marbled paper plates with some scratches, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, speckled edges, Contemporary [...]

60 €

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First edition

Jacques Christophe VALMONT DE BOMARE

Minéralogie, ou nouvelle exposition du regne minéral

Chez Vincent, à Paris 1774, In-8 (13x20cm), LXII (2) 590pp. (2) et (2) 640pp. (4 pp.), 2 volumes reliés.

Mention second edition, after the first published in 1762, with 14 unfolding tables (most copies' nen annoking only 13).

Binding full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin. Back with ornate nerves. title label in red morocco, piece of tomaison in black morocco. Headdress of volume I [...]

800 €

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Francis Xavier Paul GARNIER

Traité des chemins de toute espèce, comprenant les grandes routes, chemins de halage, vicinaux et ...

S.n., Paris 1827, 13,5x21cm, relié.

Third edition.
Black spots on a guard.
Binding half tawny sheepskin, smooth back decorated with friezes and gilded florets, title label of black shagreen, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, yellow slices, some small friction on the plates and the upper corners, Contemporary [...]

150 €

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First edition

R. HERRMANN

Rapport de l'inspecteur d'horticulture, de Francfort s/Main R. Herrmann sur l'état de la culture ...

Imprimerie de Castro, Constantinople 1893, 14x21cm, broché.

First edition.
Discolored back with two small gaps without gravity, some angular gaps on marginally insolated boards, a fold at the top of the first sheets.
Rare.

150 €

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First edition

Esprit-Paul de LAFONT-POULOTI

Instruction sur les haras par un ancien capitaine de cavalerie

S.n., Paris 1789, 13,5x21,5cm, broché.

First Edition published anonymously.
Small tears and marginal lack of gravity on the boards.
Rare and nice copy presented in its original blue waiting pinout.

 

400 €

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First edition, Signed book

Henri BOSCO

Barboche

Gallimard, Paris 1957, 12x19cm, broché.

First Edition, one of 35 numbered copies on Holland paper, ours bearing the No. 1, leading print.
A small tear in the foot of the first board.
A moving autograph dated and signed by Henri Bosco to his godson Henri Raillard to whom Barboche is dedicated: "For my dear godson Henri [...]

1 000 €

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