First edition.
Contributions from J. Giono, L. Jacques, C. Vildrac, R. Rolland, Alain, and the French translation of Moby dick by H. Melville published here before its first edition.
Illustrations by L. Jacques, A. Noll, H. Chenet, Kardas, E. Jos, Joset, and others.
Very occasional wormholes affecting mostly the endpapers of some volumes, spine and covers of first volume lightly and uniformly faded, a small inkspot to upper cover of second volume, but otherwise a good set.
A rare complete set.
First edition of the adaptation in three acts written by Albert Camus, a numbered copy on alfa paper, this one of 200 hors commerce advance (service de presse) copies.
Nice inscription from Albert Camus to Marcel Arland: "...pour le remercier, de tout cœur, d'avoir si bien préparé ce spectacle... […to thank him, from the bottom of my heart, for having made this such a good show…]."
Marginal wormholes principally to lower cover, retaining its advertising slip.
First collected edition.
Half dark green morocco over antique paper by Goy & Vilaine, spine in six compartments, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt.
Handsome autograph inscription from Joris-Karl Huysmans to Jean Lorrain.
Preface by abbé A. Mugnier. Worming to covers, internally good without spotting.
A very good copy handsomely bound.
Second edition (after the first Latin and French of 1741) with a frontispiece and seven engraved plates (including one folding, a map of the underground world) by Brühl. It's worth noting that numerous copies from this date don't have eight plates, while the first French edition had only three and the Latin none. Originally translated from the Latin Nicolai Klimii Iter subterraneum by Eléazar de Mauvillon (1712-1779). Attributed to Holberg by Barbier (Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes). Manuel bibliographique des sciences psychiques et occultes, Caillet, 1912-1913. Engraved title.
Contemporary brown sheep. Spine in decorated compartments. Beige title-piece. Headpieces shaved. Leather missing from edges of corners. Endpapers renewed in the 20 th century.
An allegorical and satirical work by the Danish writer and Professor of Law and Philosophy Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754). This utopian work is a fierce critique of the political and social institutions of the day, much like Swift's Gulliver's Travels. This is the first tale of the underground. Klimius, a poor student, falls down a hole and finds himself in the centre of the earth, where he discovers the planet Nazar and its inhabitants, who live according to the laws of nature and reason. It's worth nothing that Nicolas Klimius is the first fictional text based on the astronomical theories of Edmund Halley. The illustrations are very unusual and prefigure Grandville and his fantasies of the animal world.
Engraved armorial ex-libris of the Baron de Barenghien. Manuscript ex-libris "kabbalisticis Stanislaj de Guaita 1890".
First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on pur fil paper, this one specially printed for the co-publisher of the work, Bernard Steele, the tirage de tête after 5 on China paper.
Slightly sunned at foot of spine, otherwise a very good and rare copy.
