Arts and Crafts

Isidore LÖWENSTERN
Essai de déchiffrement de l'écriture assyrienne pour servir à l'explication du monument de Khorsabad
A. Franck|Paris • & Leipzig 1845|18.50 x 26.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Absence of the back and the second board, first board marginally soiled, pleasant interior state.
Fascicule full of his 3 folding boards.
Autograph of Isidore Löwenstern to Monsieur de La Roquette.
€150
Joseph MARRYAT
Histoire des poteries, faïences, et porcelaines
Veuve Jules Renouard|Paris 1866|15.50 x 24 cm|2 volumes reliés
Illustrated edition with 618 in-text figures and plates hors-texte at the end of the second volume.
Preface by M. Riocreux.
Half green sheep bindings, smooth spines faded and decorated with gilt fillets and stippling, epidermures on marbled paper boards, boards stamped at their centers with gilt arms, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, small tears on the leading edges.
Some light foxing.
€80
Henri DEFRANCE
Réalisations d'ensembles modernes
C. Massin & Cie|Paris 1930|32.50 x 40.50 cm|en feuilles sous chemise à lacets
The rare first edition.
Publisher's laced chemise in full boards with smooth unlettered spine, some foxing on the boards, the back board is detached.
Rare work on interior decoration and furnishing, complete with its 32 plates.
€300
COLLECTIF, Paul COLIN
Le cirque vu par Paul Colin
S. n.|Paris 1932|23 x 29.50 cm|broché
First edition of this program published for the tenth anniversary of the Gala de l'Union des Artistes held at the Cirque d'Hiver on March 5, 1932.
Rare program illustrated with 10 drawings by Paul Colin.
The fragile red velvet cover, in homage to the curtains of the Cirque d'Hiver, has slight tears and minute marginal losses.
We include an invitation card to the circus buffet offered after the show.
Rare and handsome copy.

€400
Francis Xavier Paul GARNIER
Traité des chemins de toute espèce, comprenant les grandes routes, chemins de halage, vicinaux et particuliers, arbres et fossés qui les bordent, les rues et les places publiques ; suivi d'un appendice au régime des eaux
S. n.|Paris 1827|13.50 x 21 cm|relié
Third edition.
Black stains on one endpaper.
Half tan sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt friezes and fleurons, black shagreen title-label, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, yellow edges, some minor rubbing to boards and upper corners, contemporary binding.
Handsome copy.

€150
COLLECTIF
Maisons d'architectes - Design contemporain
Editions Place des victoires|Paris 2009|29.50 x 29.50 cm|relié
First bilingual French-English edition.
Rich iconography.
Publisher's full grey cloth binding, smooth spine, retaining the illustrated dust jacket which has a tear at the foot of the spine.
Handsome copy.

€450
Benoit BRUNSWICK
La crise financière de Turquie
Amyot|Paris 1874|14.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Back very slightly warped with two small gaps, a wet at the head of all leaflets ..
Rare but in the state.
Signed autograph of Benoit Brunswick to a count whose name has been blurred by the wetness.
€150
Joseph Toussaint REINAUD
Notice sur la gazette arabe de Beyrout
Imprimerie Impériale|Paris 1858|14 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition published in a small number of copies on laid paper of this offprint from No. 10 of the Journal Asiatique of 1858.
Some light foxing.
Rare copy presented in its original wrappers and without covers.

€500
Henri GUILHAUME
Le régime déchloruré dans les ascites cirrhotiques
A. Maloine|Paris 1908|14 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Some small inner foxing.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Henri Guilhaume to Dr. Camille Ferté and his family.
€100
R. HERRMANN
Rapport de l'inspecteur d'horticulture, de Francfort s/Main R. Herrmann sur l'état de la culture des légumes et des arbres fruitiers en Anatolie
Imprimerie de Castro|Constantinople [Istanbul] 1893|14 x 21 cm|broché
First edition.
Spine faded with two small insignificant lacks, some corner lacks to the marginally sunned boards, a fold at the head of the first leaves.
Rare.
€150
ANONYME
Considérations sur l'armée, sur son budget et sur les fonctionnaires militaires par un fonctionnaire militaire
Madame Huzard|Paris 1837|14 x 22 cm|broché
First edition.
Some foxing, some tears and marginal lacks to the covers.
Rare.

€70
Esprit-Paul de LAFONT-POULOTI
Instruction sur les haras par un ancien capitaine de cavalerie
S. n.|Paris 1789|13.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition published anonymously.
Minor tears and marginal lacks without gravity to the covers.
Rare and handsome copy presented in its original blue temporary binding.

€400
Georges, marquis de CHAMBRAY
De l'agriculture et de l'industrie dans la province du Nivernais
Madame Huzard • Pillet aîné|Paris 1834|15 x 22 cm|broché
First edition.
Some minor interior foxing, minimal marginal lacks without consequence to the boards.
Rare.

€100
Christian LACROIX
Qui est là ?
Mercure de France|Paris 2004|15.50 x 22 cm|broché
First edition.
Nice full copy of his trailer.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Christian Lacroix to a woman named Madeleine enriched with an autograph dedication signed by singer Sapho.
These dedications were made during a conversation organized by Frédéric Mitterrand with Christian Lacroix and some of his muses at the Café de l'Industrie on Saturday 21 April 2007.
€120
ANONYME
Photographie originale - Séchage du thé
Japon [Japan] s. d. [circa 1880]|27.50 x 21 cm|une photographie
Original albumen photograph, mounted on heavy paper and enhanced with watercolor.
This image shows a group of young women and a man proceeding with tea drying.
€250
ANONYME
Photographie originale - Street amazake seller, a kind of drink made of fermented rice
Japon [Japan] s. d. [circa 1880]|34 x 26 cm|une photographie
Original albumen photograph, mounted on card and heightened with watercolor.
Caption at bottom right of the photograph: "Street amazake seller, a kind of drink made of fermented rice".
Fine proof with good contrast and finely heightened.
€250
Raymond TEMPLIER, Laure ALBIN-GUILLOT
Catalogue de la maison Paul Templier & filsMaison Raymond Templier & Fils Catalogue
Paul Templier & fils|Paris s. d. [circa 1930]|18.50 x 24.50 cm|en feuilles
Rare first edition of this catalogue presenting jewellery creations by the Maison Templier.
Very nice copy.
Illustrated catalogue with 3 photographs by Laure Albin-Guillot.
€1,200
André WOGENSCKY
Architecture active
Casterman|Paris 1972|14.50 x 21 cm|broché
First edition of which it was not drawn of great papers.
Iconography.
Beautiful copy despite a minor scratch without gravity head of the back.
Rare autograph dedication dated and signed by André Wogenscky to Georges Raillard and his wife Alice .
€300
Joseph JACOTOT
Enseignement universel. Musique
Au bureau du journal l'Emancipation intelectuelle|Louvain [Louvain] 1829|12.50 x 20 cm|relié
Second edition.
Half brown sheep binding with small vellum-style corners, smooth spine decorated with gilt friezes and fleurons, black sheep title-label and author's name, marbled paper boards, contemporary binding.
Some foxing affecting mainly the first and last leaves.
Rare.

€100
MINISTERE DES TRAVAUX PUBLICS
Compte rendu des travaux des ingénieurs des mines pendant l'année 1839
Imprimerie Royale|Paris 1840|23.50 x 29.50 cm|relié
First edition, rare. A large hand-colored map.
Contemporary full red long-grain morocco binding. Smooth spine decorated with rocaille tools and small tools. Covers decorated with central panels featuring rich Restoration ornamentation. Complex angular Restoration cornerpieces connected by curved fillets. Wide decorative border. Blue silk endpapers. A black line crossing the title. Lower joint cracked at head for 2 cm but stopping before the headcap. Scratches on the second cover, and 2 black stains. Scraped area on the first cover. The 2 lower corners slightly worn. Traces of rubbing. Very fresh laid paper. Despite some flaws, splendid contemporary binding, bound for a high official...
€500
NAPOLÉON III
Annuaire du ministère de l'agriculture, du commerce et des travaux publics pour l'année 1868
Dunod|Paris 1868|18 x 26.50 cm|relié
First edition.
Full red shagreen binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with 4 small tools surrounded by a garland. Title and date in gilt. Wide decorative border on boards. Interior frieze. White watered silk endpapers. Edges gilt. Minimal traces of rubbing. Paper perfectly fresh except for 2 pale foxing spots on title page and a few on endpapers. Very handsome copy, in very fine condition.
Testament to civil service under the Second Empire. Staff status as of May 1st, 1868. The volume also concerns mines, railways, ports. Each time there is a section for the administration of Algeria.

NB: This work is available at the bookstore on request within 48...
€280
Trajan SAINT-INÈS, Alfred Baring GARROD
J'avais 20 ans... ou la mission
Editions Nicolas|Niort 1955|14 x 20.50 cm|broché
First edition on current paper.
Some slight bites without gravity on the boards, nice copy.
Illustrated book of 42 photographs and 46 drawings of the author.
Our copy is complete of his trailer on which a previous owner of the book wrote this handwritten note about the author: "Totally eliminated from the RTF since December 1957 ... It was his only additional livelihood . "
Signed autograph from Trajan Saint-Inès to Jean Mahé: "... last confident hope of the author in a bit of human justice ..."
€50
Tancrède de VISAN
La vie passionnée de André-Marie Ampère
Agence Archat|Lyon s. d. [circa 1936]|14.50 x 23 cm|broché
First edition of which there is no mention of great papers and published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of Andre-Marie Ampere.
Small foxing on the margins of the boards.
Illustrated book, frontispiece, a portrait of André-Marie Ampère and 5 inset photographic plates.
Autograph signed by Tancède de Visan to Claude Carret: "... this little essay on a big Gone ..."
€30
Édouard FOURNIER
Le vieux neuf. Histoire ancienne des inventions et découvertes modernes
E. Dentu|Paris 1859|11 x 17 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition.
Bradel binding in full dark green cardboard, smooth spines decorated with gilt floral motifs, gilt dates and places at foot, black shagreen title labels, contemporary bindings.
Minor scattered foxing, endpapers lightly and partially shaded.

€80
Elie de BEAUMONT, Adrien MOREAU
Etude sur l'utilité agricole et les gisements géologiques du phosphore
Madame Veuve Bouchard-Huzard|Paris 1857|13.50 x 21.50 cm|relié
First Edition printed in small numbers of this reprinted from the memoirs of the imperial and central society of agriculture.
Binding in full fir green shagreen, smooth back adorned with gilded and black fillets, framing of gilt and black fillets on the boards, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, framing of a frieze of rhombuses and golden circles on the contreplats, nets golden on the cups, all gilded edges, Contemporary binding.
Rare and nice copy.
Precious autograph signed by Elie de Beaumont to the Duke of Bassano.
€200
Ernest LEBON
Traité de géométrie descriptive pour l'enseignement secondaire classique. Supplément au premier volume à l'usage des candidats à l'école spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr
Delalain frères|Paris s. d. [circa 1890]|16.50 x 26 cm|relié
First edition
Half red shagreen binding, smooth spine slightly faded decorated with crosses and cold fillets, red paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Some foxing.
Work illustrated with in-text figures as well as 4 plates.

€100
Charles KESSLER
Tactique des trois armes
R. Chapelot & Cie|Paris 1902|14.50 x 23 cm|relié
First edition.
Bradel binding in red half-cloth, smooth spine decorated with a gilt fleuron, double gilt fillets at foot, navy blue shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, orange paper endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Gift inscription in pen from a previous owner on the half-title page, some light foxing, a tear with loss to margin of the last page of the table of contents.

€50
Henri STEIN
Dictionnaire topographique du département de Seine-et-Marne comprenant les noms de lieu anciens et modernes
Imprimerie Nationale|Paris 1954|23 x 28.50 cm|broché
New edition revised and published by Jean Hubert.
Spine and boards lightly and marginally sunned and faded, handsome interior condition.
Complete with its folding map at end of volume.

€120
André MALRAUX
Esquisse d'une psychologie du cinéma[Sketch for a Psychology of Cinema]
Gallimard|Paris 1946|21 x 28 cm|broché
First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on Holland paper, the deluxe issue.
A fine copy.
€1,500
Maurice Comte de SAXE
Les rêveries ou Mémoires sur l'art de la guerre[Reveries, or, Memoirs concerning the Art of War]
Chez Pierre Gosse Junior|à La Haye [The Hague] 1758|24 x 35 cm (In-folio)|Copper engraving|relié
Second edition, a reprint of the first folio edition published in 1756 by the same publisher. A rare edition, illustrated with 40 plates including 4 folding and 16 double-page (arms, costumes, plans, manoeuvres...). Large vignette with coat of arms on the title-page, and 41 ornaments (headpieces, tailpieces). Title-page printed in red and black. At the end, Supplement aux Reveries, with its own title-page; this short addition, spanning only a few pages, contains the corrections made to the original. A two-volume quarto edition appeared in Paris in 1757.
Bound in later full marbled brown calf; a skilful early 20th-century pastiche signed Saingy at foot. Spine with raised bands richly...
€1,500
Pierre MEGNIN
Les chenils et leur hygiène comprenant la construction rationnelle des habitations des chiens et les règles de l'hygiène dans l'élevage, l'alimentation et les maladies
Aux bureaux de l'Eleveur|Vincennes 1896|14 x 23 cm|broché
First edition.
Two tears without loss at head and foot of spine.
Work illustrated with 60 figures in the text.

€120
COLLECTIF
Marius Berliet l'homme et son oeuvre 1866-1949
Draeger frères|Montrouge 1950|21.50 x 27 cm|broché
First edition, our copy printed for Monsieur Betmont.
Calling card of Madame Marius Berliet included.
Work illustrated with photographs.
Handsome copy.

€60
Auguste BERNARD
Geofroy Tory, peintre et graveur, premier imprimeur royal réformateur de l'orthographe et de la typographie sous françois 1er
Edwin Tross|Paris 1857|14 x 22.50 cm|relié
Rare first edition.
Half havana shagreen binding, spine slightly faded with five raised bands showing evidence of rubbing, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, slightly worn covers preserved.
Work illustrated with figures in the text.
Some minor foxing without significance.
€120
Henri WELSCHINGER
Les almanachs de la Révolution
Librairie des Bibliophiles|Paris 1884|12.50 x 19.50 cm|relié
First edition.
Bradel binding in red half-cloth, smooth faded spine decorated with gilt fleuron, double gilt fillets at tail, black shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, orange paper endpapers and pastedowns.
Light foxing, gift inscription in pen from a previous owner on the half-title page.

€50
Adrien-Félix-Marie-Joseph PAIMBLANT DU ROUIL
Feuillets d'or de l'école militaire d'infanterie. Avord & Saint-Maixent
Henri-Charles Lavauzelle|Paris 1897|16.50 x 26 cm|relié
First edition.
Braided binder in indigo halfcalcaline, smooth back decorated with a golden floral bouquet, double gilded nets in head and tail, title piece of red shagreen, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of orange paper, binder 'time.
Rare foxing, ex-dono pen of a previous owner on the page of fake title.
Nice copy.
Handwritten signature of the captain of the Rouil below the printed dedication.
€180
COLLECTIF
Historique du 106e régiment d'infanterie de ligne
C. Tanera|Paris 1874|14 x 23 cm|relié
First edition.
Bradel binding in half sienna percaline cloth, smooth spine decorated with a gilt floral motif, double gilt fillets at foot, navy blue shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, orange paper endpapers and pastedowns.
Gift inscription in ink from a previous owner on the half-title page, scattered foxing.
Rare.

€80
ANONYME
Historique du 2e régiment du génie
Henri Charles-Lavauzelle|Paris 1893|12.50 x 19.50 cm|relié
First edition.
Binding in the bradel in half percaline Siena, smooth back decorated with a golden floret, double gilded nets in tail, title piece of black shagreen, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of orange paper, Contemporary binding .
Illustrated book of inset figures.
Signed autograph from a soldier to an officer by way of present.
Rare and nice copy.

€100
Paul D'HERBINGHEM
Instructions particulières pour les bâtiments à vapeur naviguant en courrier sur les côtes de l'Algérie
Paul Dupont|Paris 1852|35.50 x 26.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition, one of 185 copies numbered and justified by Paul Fort on vergé d'Arches paper and reserved for his friends.
Publisher's binding.
Retaining its 51 lithographs.
Scattered foxing and light dampstain on some leaves.
Very rare.
€2,800
Alexander CALDER (Juan-Luis BUÑUEL)
Carte postale autographe signée d'Alexander Calder à Juan Luis BuñuelHandwritten signed postcard addressed to Juan Luis Bunuel
(Saché) 29 décembre 1956|14.70 x 10.40 cm|une carte postale
Handwritten signed postcard from Alexander Calder to Juan Luis Buñuel, written in English in ballpoint pen and blue felt-tip. Saché postmark (Indre-et-Loire). Paris address of Juan Luis Buñuel.
Card perforated with two holes at the top. Photograph of one of Calder's stabiles on the front.
Provenance: Buñuel family archives.
In 1939, Luis Buñuel, who had just received an offer to work in Hollywood, decided, with his wife and child, to leave the chaotic situation in Europe to go and live the American Dream. The penniless Buñuels initially spent a few precarious months living in New York. Luis Buñuel found himself forced to ask Dali—his longstanding friend in exile...
€1,400
Alexander CALDER, Juan-Luis BUÑUEL
Carte postale autographe signée d'Alexander Calder et Juan Luis Buñuel adressée à Jeanne Rucar épouse BuñuelHandwritten signed postcard from Alexander Calder and Juan Luis Bunuel to Jeanne Bunuel Rucar
(Saché) 22 décembre 1966|14.70 x 10.40 cm|une carte postale
Handwritten signed postcard from Alexander Calder and Juan Luis Buñuel to Jeanne Buñuel née Rucar
N. p. [Saché] December 22^th 1966, 14,7 x 10,4 cm, one postcard
Handwritten signed postcard from Alexander Calder and Juan Luis Buñuel to Jeanne Buñuel, written in French in black felt-tip. Saché postmark (Indre-et-Loire). Jeanne Buñuel's address in Mexico.
Card perforated with two holes at the top. Photograph of Calder's studio in Saché on the front of the card.
Provenance: Buñuel family archives.
In 1939, Luis Buñuel, who had just received an offer to work in Hollywood, decided, with his wife and child, to leave the...
€1,400
Robert DAUVERGNE
Les engins de pêche dans l'art
D. Janvier|Paris 1935|16.50 x 25 cm|broché
First edition.
Two lacks to head and foot of spine, light worming to boards.
Work illustrated with 34 figures in text and hors-texte.
Rare.
€40
Maurice ALLINNE
Les faïences anciennes (Espagne, Italie, France, Asie-Mineure)
Lestringant|Rouen 1928|17 x 25.50 cm|broché et un volume en feuilles sous chemise cartonnée à lacet
First edition printed on laid paper.
Preface by J.J. Marquet de Vasselot.
Work complete with its 56 plates, including 8 in color, contained in a separate volume from the text.
Spine of chemises slightly discolored and faded, a tear at the head of the spine of the chemise containing the plates.
Handsome copy complete with its full brown cardboard chemise, smooth havana cloth spine.
€60
Gustave SCHELLE
Le docteur Quesnay - Chirurgien, médecin de madame de Pompadour et de Louis XV, physiocrate
Félix Alcan|Paris 1907|12 x 18.50 cm|relié
First edition.
Braid binding in half green percaline, smooth back decorated with a golden floral pattern, golden frieze in tail, piece of red sheepskin, marbled paper plates, preserved covers, Contemporary binding.
Pleasant illustrated copy of a portrait of Dr. Quesnay frontispiece.
Autograph signed by Gustave Schelle to Georges Lévy.
€100
Jacques STERNBERG, Pierre CHAPELOT
Les charmes de la publicité
Denoël|Paris 1971|21.50 x 27.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition.
Publisher's full brown cloth binding, smooth spine, with the illustrated dust jacket.
Rich iconography.
Handsome copy.
€40
COLLECTIF
Album des types et costumes de tous les peuples du monde d'après des documents authentiques et les voyages les plus récents
Librairie générale|Paris 1869|17.50 x 27 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition illustrated with numerous plates.
Light rubbing to spine and boards which also show some discoloration at head and foot.
Publisher's binding in full dark green shagreen, smooth spine lightly browned, headcaps somewhat worn, blind-ruled frame to boards, title stamped in gilt to center of front board, corners slightly bumped, yellow paper endpapers and pastedowns.
Handsome interior condition.

€400
John Frederick William HERSCHEL
Publication complète des nouvelles découvertes de Sir John Herschel dans le ciel austral et dans la lune. - Découvertes dans la lune, faites au Cap de Bonne-Espérance par Herschel fils, astronome anglais
Masson & Duprey • Louis Babeuf & Ainé|Paris • & Lyon 1836|12.50 x 19.50 cm|2 volumes reliés en 1
First edition of the French translation for the first volume, second edition of the french translation for the second.
Bradel binding, signed by Thomas Boichot.
Occasional foxing.
Rare set.
€750
Charles ROBIN
Anatomie et physiologie cellulaires
J.-B. Baillière & fils|Paris 1873|14 x 23 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition illustrated with 82 in-text figures.
Publisher's full green cloth binding, smooth spine, headcaps rubbed, boards with cold-stamped Greek fret borders, corners slightly bumped.
Handsome interior condition.
€100
Henri ALGOUD
Le mobilier provençal
Charles Massin & Cie|Paris s. d. [circa 1925]|22 x 32 cm|en feuilles sous chemise à lacet
First edition.
Complete with all 44 plates.
Copy complete with text and its full cardboard chemise secured with ties.
The chemise shows one corner slightly bumped and some foxing to the covers.
€50
Louis GABRIEL-ROBINET
Une vie de journaliste
Grasset|Paris 1970|14.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 29 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
A handsome copy.
€50
Maurice WALLON, André MASSON
Les saint-Simoniens et les chemins de fer
A. Pedone|Montpellier 1908|16 x 25 cm|broché
First edition.
Spine with two tears at head and foot as well as a dampstain, a pale marginal dampstain on the first leaves.
Rare.
€150
Henri-Frédéric PEDRONI FILS
L'art du souffleur à la lampe et au chalumeau
Librairie encyclopédique de Roret|Paris 1849|9 x 15 cm|relié
First edition illustrated with 3 folding plates at the end containing 93 figures.

Half chocolate brown shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.

Rare and handsome copy.

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€150
Adolphe PINARD
Traité du palper abdominal au point obstétrical et la version par manoeuvres externes
G. Steinheil|Paris 1889|15.50 x 25 cm|relié
Second edition illustrated with 37 figures in the text.

Half red sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, gilt initials at foot, small stains and rubbing traces on spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.

Some minor foxing.
€150
Daniel RÉAL
Tissus des Indes néerlandaises
Librairie des Arts décoratifs|Paris s. d. [circa 1930]|25.50 x 33 cm|en feuilles
First edition.
Work complete with its 49 plates hors-texte including 6 in color.
Spine and boards of the chemise lightly and marginally discolored and sunned as usual.

€150
Henry BARBET DE JOUY
Musée impérial du Louvre - Description des sculptures modernes
Vinchon et Charles de Mourgues|Paris Août 1855|12 x 20 cm|relié
Rare first edition printed on laid paper.

Full binding green shagreen, back with five nerves decorated with a grotesque decor, back with five nerves decorated with a grotesque decor, triple net gilded framing boards, double net gilded on the cuts, domestic gold lace all edges gilt, contemporary binding signed Lortic father.

Signed autograph from the author: "To His Excellency the Minister of State and the home of the Emperor's very obliged and grateful H. Barbet de Jouy".

Bookplate engraved (J. Pelletier).

Very nice and valuable copy in a binder perfectly established time Lortic, bookbinder Charles Baudelaire.
€800
Paul BIZET
Aperçu général sur les terrains sédimentaires représentés dans l'est du département de l'Orne
Typographie F. Le Blanc-Hardel|Caen 1885|14 x 22.50 cm|broché
first edition printed in small number of the reprint of the bulletin of the Linnean Society of Normandy.
Signed autograph of Paul Bizet, head of the first flat, Mr. Governor.
Slight discoloration spots on boards, rare and small inner minor foxing.
Rare and nice brochure copy.
€50
Jean de BOSSCHERE
La sculpture anversoise aux XVe et XVIème siècles
Librairie nationale d'art et d'histoire G. Van Oest & Cie|Bruxelles [Brussels] 1909|15.50 x 21 cm|broché
First edition.
Iconography.
Small tears repaired at head of spine, black stains on back cover, handsome interior condition.
€40
John GETZ
Hand-book of a collection of chinese porcelains loaned by James A. Garland
The Metropolitan museum of art|New-York [New York] 1895|14.50 x 22.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition.
Full brown cloth binding, smooth spine, burgundy shagreen title label, cold-stamped fillet frame on paper boards, gilt medallion of the Metropolitan Museum of New York at center of front cover, endpapers and pastedowns of moiré-effect gilt paper.
Illustrated with 33 photographic plates not in text.
Very light scratches of no consequence to boards.
Rare and handsome copy.

€450
Benigno CACARES
Histoire de l'éducation populaire
Seuil|Paris 1964|12 x 17.50 cm|broché
First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Autograph inscription from Benigno Cacérès to Monique Nathan.
€40
Pierre GASCAR
Auto
Gallimard|Paris 1967|12.50 x 19.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 70 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only large paper copies.
A slight trace of an angular fold to lower cover.
A good copy.
€150
Jurgis BALTRUŠAITIS
Anamorphoses ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux
Olivier Perrin|Paris 1955|22 x 28.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition.
Publisher's full sand cloth binding, smooth spine, complete with its dust jacket which has two lacks at the head of the first cover as well as some marginal tears.
Pleasant interior condition.
€100
Étienne BÉZOUT, Antoine-André-Louis REYNAUD
Traité d'arithmétique à l'usage de la marine et de l'artillerie avec des notes et des tables de logarithmes par A.A.L. Reynaud - Notes sur l'arithmétique
Madame Veuve Courcier|Paris 1816|12.50 x 20 cm|2 volumes reliés en 1
Eighth edition for each of the volumes.
Half hazelnut sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with fleurons and triple gilt fillets, spine showing traces of rubbing, green paper boards affected by surface losses, yellow edges, corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
Some foxing without too much severity, a tear on page 129 of the second volume.
€180
Albert BÉGUIN
Gravures
Chez l'auteur|Paris 2004|20.50 x 28.50 cm|en spirales
first edition.
Signed autograph André Beguin to the painter and engraver Jacques (Castex): "... for my friend regiment and burning ..."
Rich illustration.
Small spots on the second flat, otherwise nice copy.
€70
Denis DIDEROT, Jean Le Rond D'ALEMBERT
L'encyclopédie. Recueil de planches sur les sciences, les arts libéraux et les arts mécaniques, avec leurs explications
Henri Veyrier|Paris 1965|-|broché
New edition.
With 110 plates, some of them folding.
One small clear stain to foot of spine.
Rare.
€150
Comte de SAINT-QUENTIN
Rapport sur le projet de réforme de l'impôt sur les boissons et le rétablissement de l'exercice chez les bouilleurs de cru
Imprimerie Le Blanc-Hardel|Caen 1886|14.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition printed in a small number of copies.
Tears, not serious, to foot of spine and to edges of covers, a few small spots.
Rare.
€50
Louis BOUTEILLIER
Notice nécrologique sur M. Antoine-François Passy, membre de l'Institut de France
Imprimerie Léon Deshays|Paris 1875|14 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition.
A rare and good copy.
€50
COLLECTIF
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
Michel de MAROLLES
Le livre des peintres et graveurs
P. Jannet|Paris 1855|10 x 17.50 cm|relié
New edition revised by Georges Duplessis, one of the rare copies on China paper.
Half chocolate brown shagreen binding with corners, spine with five raised bands set with gilt dots decorated with richly ornamented double gilt compartments, place and date gilt at foot, gilt fillets framing the marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt.
Bookplate pasted at head of one pastedown.
Some minor foxing of no consequence.
€200
Henri LECOQ, Jean-Baptiste BOUILLET
Vues et coupes principales formations géologiques du Puy-de-Dôme accompagnées de la description et des échantillons des roches qui les composent. Atlas seul
F.G. Levrault • Bouillet|Strasbourg • & Clermont-Ferrand 1830|28 x 22 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition.
Publisher's Bradel binding in full boards, smooth spine with a tear at foot, boards soiled, corners slightly bumped.
Our atlas volume, which we offer for sale alone, is illustrated with 31 lithographed plates outside the text, sometimes double-page and some mounted, and heightened with watercolor.
Angular dampstain at head of endpaper and title pages, some minor interior foxing.
Rare but incomplete without the text.
€800
COLLECTIF
[RELIURE] Exposition de 1867. Délégation des ouvriers relieurs : Première partie : La reliure aux expositions de l'industrie (1798-1862). - Deuxième partie : La reliure à l'exposition de 186, études comparatives de la reliure ancienne et moderne
Au siège de la commission|Paris 1868-1869-1875|11.50 x 18.50 cm|2 volumes reliés en 1
First edition.
Half burgundy morocco binding, spine with five raised bands, light scratches to joints, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, contemporary binding.
Work illustrated with 9 plates of bindings.
Light foxing affecting mainly the endpapers.
Rare and handsome copy complete in two volumes.
€580
Don Francisco LAIGLESIA Y DARRAC
Elementos de equitacion militar para el uso de la caballeria espanola, ecritos para los alumno; de las escuela militar de equitacion por el colonel de caballeria
Establecimiento Tipo-litografico|Madrid 1883|-|relié
Third edition.
Marbled sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt friezes, brown shagreen title-label, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, corners slightly bumped, speckled edges.
Work illustrated with 13 plates hors-texte.
Some minor foxing of no consequence.
Pen gift inscription on one endpaper, printed stamp of a Madrid bookshop on the title page.
Rare.
€680
Louis-Furcy GROGNIER
Cours de multiplication et de perfectionnement des animaux domestiques, où l'on traite de leurs services et de leurs produits
Bouchard-Huzard • C. Savy jeune|Paris • & Lyon 1841|12.50 x 22.50 cm|relié
Third edition, revised and expanded with general considerations on the improvement of breeds and a treatise on pigs by H. Magne.
Half brown sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with black and gilt fillets, a tear on the brown sheep title-label, headcaps rubbed and worn, some rubbing on the spine, one cracked joint, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, some tears on the leading edges, contemporary binding.
Work illustrated with 2 plates outside the text decorated with figures.
Printed bibliophile stamps and pen gift inscriptions on one endpaper and the half-title page.
€100
Placide BOUÉ
Traité d'orfévrerie, bijouterie et joaillerie ; contenant la description détaillée des caractères physiques et chimiques des métaux et pierres précieuses qui constituent les matières premières de cette belle branche de l'industrie française; de leur extraction du sein de la terre ; de l'art de les essayer, de les évaluer et de les mettre en oeuvre ; et généralement tout ce qui se rapporte à la théorie ou à la pratique de ces trois arts, qui, par leur analogie, n'en font qu'un
Delaunay • Marteau • Borely ainé • Joanne frères • Levasseur • Pailhiez • Vallory|Paris 1832|14.50 x 22 cm|relié
First edition.
Half red shagreen over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments with black fillets to bands, foot of spine scratched (the initials of a former owner which have been scratched out), brown shagreen title label, covers preserved (a little rubbing to edges).
Retaining its seven folding plates.
Occasional spotting, principally affecting the plates of the second volume.
Rare.
€1,800
Marcelin DUPONT
L'âge du cheval et des principaux animaux domestiques
J.-B. Baillière & fils|Paris 1893|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition.
Illustrated with 30 plates in color and with 6 black plates.
A good copy.
€80
A. SORET
Le chien. Elevage alimentation hygiène
Librairie Cynégitique Guérin, Delahalle & Cie|Paris 1909|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition.
Spine and covers slightly and marginally sunned, internally good.
€30
COLLECTIF
Annuaire présenté à S.M. l'Empereur et Roi par le bureau des longitudes pour l'an 1812
Madame Veuve Courcier|Paris 1811|8.50 x 13.50 cm|relié
First edition.
Half marbled sheep with small vellum corners, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, two minute holes to spine, red morocco title-label, marbled paper boards with small lacks of paper, contemporary binding.
Handsome interior condition.
€150
Marcel Etienne GRANCHER
La soierie meurt...
Editions Lugdunum|Lyon 1933|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on vélin Montgolfier, the only deluxe copies.
Precious autograph inscription signed by Marcel-Etienne Grancher to Henri Béraud who is not named specifically: "A vous, maître, avec tout le respectueux dévouement... (Pour Prix Gringoire 1933)" ["To you, master, with all respectful devotion... (For Prix Gringoire 1933)"].
Illustrated cover.
Two small tears reglued on spine, some light foxing on the slightly soiled back cover.
Provenance: from Henri Béraud's library in Ré.
€150
Maurice BOUVIER-AJAM
Recherches sur la genèse et la date d'apparition des corporations médiévales en France
R. Pichon & R. Durand-Auzias|Paris 1978|15 x 20.50 cm|broché
The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Signed autograph inscription from Maurice Bouvier-Ajam to Madame Bastiel.
Handsome copy complete with publisher's slip.
€50
Abel GANCE (inscribed to Henri BÉRAUD)
Prisme
Nrf|Paris 1930|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition on ordinary paper, false statement of seventh edition.
Precious and beautiful autograph inscription signed by Abel Gance to Henri Béraud: "Il y a de si beaux mensonges que la vérité se tend vers eux comme une déesse altérée; vous en trouverez quelques uns dans ce livre, mon cher Béraud, vous que j'admire comme un des derniers vrais amoureux de la France..." ["There are such beautiful lies that truth reaches toward them like a thirsting goddess; you will find some of them in this book, my dear Béraud, you whom I admire as one of the last true lovers of France..."]
Spine sunned, worming to boards, a pen mark to front board, foxing to endpapers.
€450
Georges de SEGOGNE
Notice sur Henry Pascalis avocat à la cour d'appel, docteur en droit, né à Bougival le 30 Août 1857, mort à Paris le 16 Juin 1887
Alcan-Lévy|Paris 1877|16.50 x 24.50 cm|broché
First edition of this speech delivered at the opening session of the Beccaria conference on November 14, 1887.
Autograph inscription signed by Georges de Segogne to his colleague Sanlaville.
Handsome copy despite small marginal stains on the boards.
€60
COLLECTIF
Saint-Gobain. Glaces et produits verriers
R.L. Dupuy|Paris 1956|24.50 x 32.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur sous étui
First edition printed on coated paper.
Publisher's cream cardboard binding, smooth spine slightly sunned and showing a pale dampstain at foot, minute marginal spotting to first cover.
Work illustrated with gouaches by Yves Delfo as well as kodachromes by d'Anger and Chevalier.
Iconography.
Handsome copy well complete, at beginning of volume, with its facsimile of the privilege letter granted by the King of France and the wax that served to seal this missive.
€50
Paul VERLAINE
La Décoration & l'Art industriel à l'Exposition de 1889[Decoration and Industrial Art at the 1889 Exhibition]
Typographie Monnoyer|Le Mans 1889|22.50 x 33 cm|relié
First edition of 30 copies printed on Japon paper of this offprint of L'Artiste for November 1890.
Contemporary Bradel binding of beige paper boards, ex-libris to pastedown.
Autograph inscription signed from Paul Verlaine to Edmond Bonnaffé on the justification of printing at end: “Exemplaire de Monsieur E. Bonnaffé. P. Verlaine [Monsieur E. Bonnaffé's copy. P. Verlaine]”. Edmond Bonnaffé (1825-1903) was a wealthy collector and noted historian of art, very close to the artistic movements of the age.
These pages by Verlaine are a critical review of the book by Roger Marx of the same name (Paris, 1890). In it, the poet discusses the great names in Art...
€3,800
Etienne DENNERY
Maisons françaises d'autrefois
L'immobilière de construction de Paris|Paris 1966|26 x 32.50 cm|en feuilles sous chemise et étui
First edition strictly hors commerce printed in 600 copies on Mandeure rag paper and illustrated with 24 heliogravure plates after various documents.
Text by Etienne Dennery.
Slipcase in full burgundy leather with slight scuffs, chemise spine lightened and in matching burgundy leather, the whole made and signed by Hermès.
Our copy is printed for Jack Francès.
Handsome copy.
€80
Joséphine BAKER
Les mémoires de Joséphine Baker recueillis et adaptés par Marcel Sauvage
Corrêa|Paris 1949|12 x 19 cm|broché
Les Mémoires de Joséphine Baker recueillis et adaptés par Marcel Sauvage
Corrêa | Paris 1949 | 12 x 19 cm | original wrappers
New edition, one of 50 numbered copies on vélin Johannot, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Illustrated cover.
Illustrations, some press clippings tipped in, which caused a clear fading, on half-title page.
A rare and good copy.
€800
Paul BORY
Le sang de l'industrie
C. Paillart|Abbeville 1897|14 x 22.50 cm|relié
First edition.
Half black cloth binding with corners, smooth spine decorated with gilt fleurons and black fillets, double gilt fillets framing the marbled paper boards, price label pasted on front pastedown, contemporary binding.
Work illustrated with engravings in the text.
€60
Robert W. HODGSON
La culture fruitière en Tunisie. Son état actuel, ses possibilités et son amélioration
Société anonyme de l'imprimerie rapide de Tunis|Tunis 1931|16 x 24.50 cm|broché
First edition in French.
Work illustrated with photographic plates and complete with its 2 folding maps.
Gift inscription in ink at the head of the first endpaper.
Rare and handsome copy.
€80
COLLECTIF
Le cinquantenaire du Métropolitain de Paris
R.A.T.P.|Paris 1951|21.50 x 27.50 cm|broché
First edition on ordinary paper.
Iconography.
Covers slightly and uniformly sunned, not serious, a good copy.
€70
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
COLLECTIF
Cahiers de la céramique et des arts du feu N°13 et son supplément
Société des amis du Musée national de céramique|Sèvres 1959|25 x 32 cm|2 volumes brochés
First edition of each volume.
Rich iconography.
Spine and covers slightly and marginally sunned without gravity, a small tear at head of spine of the supplement, handsome interior condition.
Copy well complete with its supplement devoted to Limoges porcelain.
€50
COLLECTIF
Guide pratique pour l'emploi des bois du nord, charpente
Fédération nationale des importateurs de bois du nord des ports français|Paris Juillet 1956|11 x 21.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition.
Publisher's green paper boards greene.
A very good copy.
€20
Robert BRASILLACH, Maurice BARDÈCHE
Histoire du cinéma[History of Cinema]
Denoël|Paris 1943|14.50 x 23 cm|broché
The definitive edition, first in parts, one of 25 numbered copies on vélin d'Arches paper, the only large paper copies.
Illustrated.
One small insignificant lack to foot of spine, a few small wormholes principally to endpapers, two tiny marginal tears without lack to lower cover, internally good.
Rare.
€1,000