First edition, with edition statement and title-pages printed in red in the first two volumes (the opening part, Fantine), and without edition statement in the remaining eight volumes. An issue printed only a few days after the earliest issue. Copies combining first-issue volumes with volumes bearing title-pages carrying edition statements reflect the publication history of the work and the publisher's editorial practice.
Contemporary half chocolate morocco bindings. Spines with raised bands, richly gilt with floral tools. A few scratches to the covers. Minor rubbing. Leaf 150 of Volume I detached but present and neatly inserted. A remarkably fresh copy with only a few...
Important dossier of documents relating to a dispute between the bakers of Le Mans and the city’s mayor and aldermen, comprising the following items:
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...
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.
Rare first edition.
According to the CCF, the only recorded copy is held by the BnF.
Spine restored and rebacked, small marginal losses to the wrappers, front wrapper relaid, internally in very good condition.
Autograph inscription signed by Claude-René-Jacques David de Pénanrun to Odilon Barrot (1791-1873), in his capacity as "President of the Decentralisation Commission".
Indeed, the elderly Orléanist, despite having withdrawn from political life, had accepted, following a meeting at the Tuileries Palace with Napoleon III, the chairmanship of an extra-parliamentary committee tasked with examining decentralisation projects (1869).
Rare first edition.
Minor stains on the front cover, some light foxing of no consequence.
This lesser-known pamphlet is among the military works of the future Emperor Napoleon III; its purpose, it must be said, was more electoral than purely technical, as it aimed to introduce the young deputy to the public.
Rare first edition. Rare.
Plain spine with small tears, slight angular losses to the wrappers, some foxing, imperial printed colportage stamps at foot of several leaves.
First French edition of the translation (Cf. Gay 3573. Chadenat 5378 for the original English edition of 1805. See also Brunet, Table, 19960 and Graesse, III, 155).
Bound in half tan calf, smooth spine decorated with quadruple gilt and blind fillets, gilt tailpiece, marbled paper boards, speckled edges, binding slightly later.
Minor rubbing to the binding.
A member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Griffiths visited Constantinople, Smyrna, and Mytilene, then the island of Chios and the ruins of Croesus's palace at Sardis, the ancient capital of Lydia. He then traveled to Konya, Aleppo, and Basra; from there, he descended the Persian Gulf, passed through Muscat, and...
Rare first edition of this virtuoso plea in defence of Prince Pierre Bonaparte (1815-1881), first cousin of the Emperor, in the case of the assassination of the journalist Victor Noir [Yvan Salmon], which took place on 10 January 1870 and caused an immense scandal.
According to the CCF [Catalogue Collectif de France], copies are held only at the BnF, Compiègne and Versailles.
Smooth spine, unlettered, small corner losses to the boards, some foxing.
The High Court of Justice, the only body empowered to try a prince of the Emperor's family, convened at Tours on 21 March 1870 and heard counsel for the civil party recall the accused's unfortunate past record (he was said to...
First edition, printed in a limited run, of this extract from the Revue britannique of February 1880.
Only three known copies in the CCF (BnF, INHA, and Sorbonne).
This copy is presented in its original wrappers, with a blank temporary cover.
Pamphlet adorned with in-text black-and-white illustrations.
In Greek mythology, the Cabeiri were minor deities worshipped in mystery cults across several regions of Greece, particularly on the islands of Samothrace, Lemnos, and Imbros.
These deities, little understood even by the Greeks themselves, were remnants of an Aegean past influenced by Phoenician culture, yet they later became protectors of...
First edition, privately printed, of this offprint from the August 1811 issue of the Magasin encyclopédique.
Our copy is offered disbound, with a few minor foxing spots of no consequence.
Illustrated with one engraved plate hors texte, this pamphlet concerns a Byzantine boxwood triptych then preserved in the Library of Grenoble.
Autograph presentation inscription from Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac to the painter Pierre Revoil (1776-1842).
Very rare first edition.
According to the CCFr, copies are recorded only in Dijon and Nîmes.
Our copy is offered disbound, with a few foxing spots and a small wormhole in the left margin of all leaves, not affecting the text.
Having observed that the water supplied to Dijon was unwholesome, the author argues that the waters of the River Ouche, being of good quality, could be used for consumption.
Jean Fournier, doctor of the University of Montpellier, was successively salaried physician to the city of Dijon, physician to the Estates of Burgundy, and naval physician in the ports of Brest and Lorient.
First edition, printed in a small number of copies, of this offprint from the Revue de l'Orient, de l'Algérie et des colonies, published in the February 1857 issue.
According to the CCFr, copies are recorded only at the BnF, the BULAC and the Académie de médecine.
Our copy is preserved in its original stitched wrappers, with plain blue temporary paper covers, unopened.
Some foxing.
This pamphlet surveys all the animals mentioned in the Quranic surahs.
The author, Antoine-Paulin Pihan (1810-1879), who was proficient in Arabic, Turkish and Persian, was merely a proofreader in the Oriental typography department of the Imprimerie Impériale. Yet the number of...
First edition, forming the tenth volume of Voyages, Relations et Mémoires Originaux pour servir à l'Histoire de la Découverte de l'Amérique, published by H. Ternaux-Compans (cf. Sabin, 94854).
Some foxing, front board tending to detach, minor losses to the spine and at the corners of the boards.
This volume contains the Itinerary of the Voyage of the Fleet of the Catholic King to the Island of Yucatan, undertaken in 1518 under the command of Captain General Juan de Grijalva, first published in Italian in Venice in 1522.
It is followed by 19 other previously unpublished pieces relating to the history of Mexico, including: A Brief Account of New...
First edition, printed in a small number of copies, cf. Gay 204; Bourquelot I, 115.
Contemporary full mottled fawn sheep, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets and fleurons, joints rubbed, red shagreen title-piece, gilt rolls to the headcaps partly faded, gilt dentelle border to the boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt fillets to the edges of the boards, partly browned, red edges.
Joints restored, circular losses filled in the blank areas of the title and half-title pages.
First edition (cf. Sabin 23192).
Contemporary half brown shagreen, spine with four raised bands decorated with blind-stamped compartments, slight rubbing to the spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.
A few small spots of foxing, with several imperial colportage stamps at the foot of certain leaves.
The sole edition of this commemorative text, apparently composed directly in French for the author’s nephew.
The physician Thomas Wiltberger Evans (1823-1897) had practised as a dentist in Maryland until 1847, before moving to Paris at the invitation of a fellow American, Dr Cyrus Starr Brewster (1799-1870), who had been...
First edition, one of 70 named and numbered copies on Madagascar paper.
Faint marginal crease marks to the lower right-hand corner of the front wrapper.
Illustrated with a frontispiece drawn and wood-engraved by Vassily Photiadès.
Signed presentation inscription from Joseph Kessel to Emmanuel Arago, for whom this copy was specially printed.
First edition, one of 45 numbered copies on hollande, most limited deluxe issue.
Contemporary full red morocco, spine with four raised bands framed with black fillets, date gilt at foot, taupe morocco doublures, red silk endleaves, gilt fillets and dots to board edges, all edges gilt, slipcase, an elegant binding signed Favre-Petit-Mermet.
A fine copy, handsomely bound in full morocco with morocco doublures by Favre-Petit-Mermet.
Very rare first edition of this pamphlet issued by the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda Fide, recounting the martyrdom of several Catholic missionaries in Tonkin in 1837 and 1838.
Only one copy recorded in WorldCat (Biblioteca Casanatense). No copy in the CCF.
Modern binding in half mottled tan calf, smooth spine ruled in gilt, date and place gilt at foot, longitudinal spine label, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved.
Some foxing.
Letter written by a secretary and signed by Louis XVI, addressed to Cardinal Ludovico Calini, in ink over eleven lines. The signature of Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes, appearing at the foot of the bifolium, accompanies that of the King for these New Year wishes. The recipient's name is inscribed on the verso: "Mon Cousin le Cardinal Calino".
A few waterstains, a small hole at "qu'il vous ait".
"My Cousin, I have seen with pleasure from your letter of October 1st the token of the sincerity of the wishes you express for me at the beginning of this year. Your good intentions are as well known to me as you must be certain of my desire to give you...
First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on Holland paper, the deluxe issue.
Bound in full ebony morocco, smooth spine decorated with small inlays of garnet morocco and pearl-grey box calf, the latter framing the author’s initials and the title; the first numeral of the date, given in Roman numerals, appears within a square of pearl-grey box calf. Morocco boards framed with wide panels of chocolate suede, the upper cover with a large granulated paper panel lettered with the title and date of the edition set in garnet morocco, the initials framed by a rectangle of paper taken from a map of Haute-Savoie; bluish paper...
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...
First collected edition, one of 30 copies on alfa paper, this copy unnumbered but duly identified as printed on alfa at the foot of the spine and in the limitation statement, the only deluxe-paper copies.
Albert Camus's foreword appears here for the first time.
A pleasant copy.
First edition on ordinary paper.
Spine very lightly sunned, a trivial defect.
Signed autograph inscription from Marcel Pagnol to Mr. R. Bouchard on the printed dedication page.
First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece in each volume and a folding plate at the end of the first volume.
Bradel-style bindings in brown half cloth with small corners, smooth spines very slightly faded and ruled in gilt, marbled-paper boards with a few minor scuffs, blue-grey endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, bookplates pasted to the front pastedowns.
Some foxing, as usual.
Our copy is complete with all three engravings: a view of St Peter's in Rome and a plan of the remains of ancient Rome in the first volume, and Trajan's Column in the second.
It also includes a second state of the plan of the remains of ancient Rome, with slight variations...
First edition, one of 56 hors commerce name copies on Saint-Amand, the only deluxe issue with 32 copies on hollande.
A fine copy.
Name copy printed for Kessel's friend Eddy Marnay signed and inscrbied by Joseph Kessel beneath the limitation statement and his name: "... ou le zombie son ami Jef."
Born Edmond Bacri, he was a French lyricist and singer who wrote approximately 4,000 songs, including Les Amants de Paris for Edith Piaf.
First American edition.
Publisher's original brown paper-covered boards, flat spine, spine ends and corners lightly rubbed, complete with its illustrated dust jacket showing a few minor closed tears.
Profusely illustrated throughout.
An exceptionally important presentation copy inscribed Paul Bocuse to Lionel Poilâne: "A monsieur Poilane avec toutes mes amitiés gourmandes. Paul Bocuse 1978." [with all my gourmand sympathies]
The first Paris edition, published simultaneously with the Brussels edition.
Most of the volumes bear a statement of fourth, seventh, or eighth edition.
Some foxing to several volumes.
Contemporary half tawny speckled sheep bindings, smooth spines decorated with double gilt fillets, red sheep lettering-pieces lettered "Oeuvres de V. Hugo", sky-blue sheep title and volume labels, volume label lacking from the fifth volume, three others partially lifting, marbled paper-covered boards, decorative endpapers and pastedowns.
First edition.
Contemporary half brown shagreen bindings, spines with four raised bands framed by blind fillets, gilt floral tools at head and tail, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, bookplates mounted at the head of the pastedowns, sprinkled edges.
A few minor spots of foxing, with press cuttings loosely inserted and leaving offsetting to the front endpapers of the first volume.
Signed autograph presentation inscription by Jules Claye, the printer of this work, to Ferdinand Taillefer on the front of the first volume: "... souvenir typographique à mon ancien et excellent collaborateur..."
First edition on ordinary paper.
Bound in half red shagreen with corner pieces, spine with four raised bands ruled in blind and gilt, a few rubs to the spine, marbled paper boards, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, upper cover preserved, corners lightly bumped.
Illustrated edition featuring original lithographs by Edmond Lajoux, one of 40 numbered copies printed on Rives wove paper.
A pleasing copy, complete with its slipcase and chemise, both partially and lightly sunned, a minor condition issue.
The slipcase is slightly split at the upper edge.
As called for in the limitation statement, our copy retains the black suite of the illustrations as well as an original preparatory artwork for the illustrations.
Our copy is further exceptionally enriched with an original signed colour watercolour by Edmond Lajoux depicting a column of French infantrymen carrying their packs and...
First edition on ordinary paper.
A crease to the lower right corner of the upper cover, a library shelf-mark to the upper left corner of the half-title page, which also bears, at its foot, a library stamp overprinted with the word "cancelled".
On the same half-title page, a signed autograph inscription by Alain: "A Monsieur Prulhières et vivent les lions ! Alain. Le 5 juillet 1935."
Edition limited to 100 numbered copies on laid paper.
Bradel binding in half vellum-style paper boards with corners, smooth spine very lightly toned, black date lettered at foot, blue paper-covered boards with a few small stains, endpapers partially foxed, pasted bookplate.
Original edition of Marcel Schwob's introduction and facsimile reproduction of the Stockholm manuscript.
First edition, issued without any edition statement.
Contemporary half mottled fawn sheep bindings, smooth spines ruled in gilt with double fillets, red sheep lettering pieces bearing the author's name "Works of V. Hugo", sky-blue sheep title and volume labels, marbled paper-covered boards, decorative endpapers and pastedowns.
Some occasional foxing, small holes at the head of the half-title leaf of the first volume.
Widely regarded as Hugo's masterpiece in the realm of fiction, a dark and baroque work in which his poetic style, built upon antitheses and oxymora, is carried to its furthest limits, anticipating qualities later embraced by the Surrealists.
First edition, one of the press service copies.
Sun-faded spine, boards marginally faded and sunned, as is usually the case.
Precious signed autograph inscription by André Malraux: "A Pierre Mac Orlan, introuvable, en témoignage de gratitude et de vieille sympathie."
Definitive edition with a foreword by the author, one of 12 numbered hors commerce copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe paper issue.
The first edition of 1935 was not issued on deluxe paper.
A rare and pleasing copy.
Signed autograph inscription from Jacques Debû-Bridel to Monsieur and Madame Claude Gallimard.
First edition illustrated with a photographic portrait of Paul Valéry as frontispiece.
Contemporary forest green half morocco over marbled paper boards with corners, spine faded and with four raised bands, boards slightly faded at the margins, marbled and gilt paper-covered boards, moiré-effect endpapers and pastedowns, wrappers and spine preserved, bookplate mounted on a pastedown, signed binding by Lagadec.
Signed autograph inscription from Paul Valéry to Louis Barthou on the title page: "... ces propos subversifs, son confrère et ami..."
First edition, one of the press review copies.
Trimmed copy, joints soiled and restored, stain to the lower cover.
Humorous signed autograph inscription by Paul Morand: "Cher Caracalla, j'apprends que vous n'avez jamais reçu mon Fouquet ; en juin dernier je vous l'envoyais avec ma fidèle pensée. Que le diable patafiole le facteur ! Je vous renouvelle ici ma très amicale sympathie. Morand."
First edition, one of 24 numbered copies on pure wove paper, the deluxe issue.
Spine showing two small areas of sunning at the head and foot.
A rare and pleasing copy of this novel set against the backdrop of the French collapse during the Second World War.
First edition, without the mention “oeuvres complètes de Victor Hugo” (see Clouzot).
Contemporary red polished half calf bindings, spines slightly mellowed and decorated with four raised bands framed by gilt garland tools and gilt quintuple rules, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges.
Very slight rubbing to the spines, a pleasing copy, lacking the preliminary preface leaf, attractively bound in a contemporary Romantic-style binding.
First edition, one of 35 numbered copies on hollande paper, top-of-edition issue.
A very fine copy.
First edition of Aristide Bruant’s electoral manifesto, written in his signature chansonnier style, for the legislative elections of May 8, 1898, covering the Belleville–Saint-Fargeau district, the first constituency of the 20th arrondissement of Paris.
The fourth leaf of this fragile electoral document features a hagiography of Aristide Bruant, "poet of the outcasts and the wretched," by Michel Morphy.
The manifesto is illustrated with a drawing by Borgey.
First edition, one of 110 numbered copies on vergé pur fil d'arches, the most limited deluxe issue.
A blue ballpoint pen mark to the upper cover, spine and boards lightly and partially sunned, as is often the case.
Untrimmed copy with wide margins, illustrated throughout.
A typed letter of thanks from Pierre Clostermann, signed by him and addressed to Henri Torrès, bound to the left margin of the half-title page.
Our copy exceptionally contains two original watercolours (14 x 10.5 cm) depicting two R.A.F. bomber aircraft flown by Pierre Clostermann: the Vickers-Armstrong "Wellington" and the Bristol...
Very rare first edition, with second edition statement on title page.
Bradel binding in half blue-grey percaline, smooth spine decorated with a central gilt fleuron, double gilt fillet at tail, title label lacking, cat's-eye paper boards, original wrappers preserved with angular losses and discolouration, corners slightly rubbed, period binding.
Foxing, front wrapper and first free endpaper clumsily restored, small tears repaired on the first three leaves.
Rare presentation copy inscribed by Louise Michel: "... à de méchants amis que l'on aime quand même et toujours. LMichel." [to...
First edition on ordinary paper for the second volume; statement of 1000th edition on the first volume.
Minor foxing to the top edges.
A handsome set, housed in a white paper covered chemise and slipcase.
Exceptional presentation copies signed by Marcel Pagnol to Maurice Druon on each volume: "à Maurice Druon, écrivain véritable, hommage du romancier amateur, son ami, MarcelPagnol. 1958" [to Maurice Druon, true writer, homage from an amateur novelist, his friend, Marcel Pagnol] and "Cher Maurice, puisque ça te plaît, voilà la suite. Mais rassure-toi, il n'y en a plus qu'un ! affectueusement, Marcel." [Dear Maurice, since you liked it...
Rare first edition. First volume published on 6 May 1867, the second on 27 July and the third the next year (28 January 1868). All of 18° format are first editions of Verne's novels.
Contemporary brown half shagreen bindings, spines with four raised bands ruled in black and decorated with double black panels featuring central gilt floral tools, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, two upper corners slightly bumped, speckled edges, contemporary bindings.
A handsome copy attractively housed in its contemporary bindings. In Search of the Castaways is the very first Verne novel to be adapted for the cinema. predating even...
Rare first edition. This first appearance of the text in book form was Jules Verne's preferred format, as Jauzac notes, instead of the more famous gilded publisher's bindings.
Contemporary brown half shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands ruled in black and decorated with double black panel compartments featuring central gilt floral tools, marbled paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers, speckled edges, a few small abrasions to one edge, contemporary binding.
A small black ink stain to the lower right margin of the opening leaves.
A handsome first edition copy attractively housed in a contemporary binding. This founding novel is considered one of, if...
Rare first edition. The first volume dated 4 August 1876, followed by the second volume published on 6 November with Un drame au Mexique bound in. All first editionswere published in 18° format.
Half brown shagreen bindings, spines with four raised bands ruled in black and framed in black with with central gilt fleurons, marbled paper boards, paste-down endpapers and flyleaves of hand-marbled paper, sprinkled edges, contemporary bindings.
A handsome first edition copy of this celebrated Siberian adventure, attractively bound in contemporary bindings.
This first appearance of the text in book form was Jules Verne's preferred format, as Jauzac...
First edition, one of the press review copies.
Spine with a small waterstain at the foot.
Signed autograph inscription from Jorge Semprun: "A Mr Pierre Pain, a good bookseller like good bread, in memory of a signing day and of a shared memory far richer. With warm regards. JSemprun."
First edition on ordinary paper.
A pleasing copy, complete with its illustrated dust jacket.
Important presentation copy inscribed by Romain Gary to the jeweller Alexandre Reza: "To Alexandre Reza, in memory of the precious stones of our youth. Romain Gary, 1 December 1970."
Loosely inserted in a folded sheet of tracing paper is an original colour drawing by the jeweller Alexandre Reza depicting a ring and captioned 'Jonquille" No. 33'
First edition on ordinary paper.
Contemporary half navy blue morocco, spine in পাঁচ raised bands decorated with gilt dotted tooling and gilt fillets, marbled paper sides, endpapers and pastedowns, wrappers preserved.
Our copy is complete with the author’s printed dedication to Marshal Pétain, later suppressed in subsequent editions.
First edition.
Half morocco binding, spine with five raised bands tooled in black with gilt fleurons, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, sprinkled edges, contemporary binding.
Some minor foxing.
Presentation copy signed by Victor Hugo to René Heymann.
Victor Hugo most likely came to know René Heymann (1866-1944) through his beloved grandson, the future painter Georges Victor-Hugo. In the immediate aftermath of the great poet's death, two years after the publication of this penultimate series of La Légende des siècles, Heymann would receive from Georges a heartbreaking letter: "Do not come today. If you only knew...
First edition of the French translation, of which no deluxe paper copies were issued.
Rare copy.
Rare signature by Alexandre Solzhenitsyn on the title page.
First edition, one of 2,270 numbered copies printed on alfa paper, the only printing.
A pleasing copy despite small marginal tears to the wrappers.
First edition, one of 10 numbered copies on Alfama paper, the only deluxe paper issue apart from a few hors commerce copies also printed on Alfama.
Minor, unobtrusive traces of corner creasing to the wrappers.
A rare and pleasing copy.
First edition, one of 175 numbered copies on pur fil wove paper, this being copy No. 1, specially printed for Madame General Frère, one of the deluxe issue.
Contemporary full red shagreen, spine with four raised bands decoratively tooled in blind with fillets and a coat of arms, light rubbing to the joints, gilt rolls to the spine ends, spotting to the boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt fillet border to the pastedowns, gilt rules to the edges, corners slightly bumped, top edge gilt, others untrimmed.
General Aubert Frère was notably a hero of the French Resistance, serving as organizer and commander of the Resistance within the Army; he was arrested by the Nazis in...
Rare first edition.
Corner creases to the covers, minor tears to the spine.
First edition, with the false statement of 16th edition.
Light discoloration at the head of the spine and along the left margin of the upper cover.
Autograph inscription signed by Léon Blum to Charles-André Julien: "à André Julien, son camarade fidèle et son ami reconnaissant, Léon Blum."
Charles-André Julien was one of the leaders of the Communist Party in Algeria. He left it in 1926 and contributed to the journal Clartés edited by Henri Barbusse.
A committed anti-colonialist and activist, he established contacts with independence movements, notably with the group formed around Habib Bourguiba, who became his friend...
Rare first edition.
Small tears at the head and foot of the spine, a few angular losses to the partially soiled covers, foxing.
First edition, one of the ordinary issue, with no deluxe paper copies noted.
Small angular losses at the upper margins of the first leaves, paper occasionally brittle in the margins of certain leaves.
Signed autograph inscription from Rachilde to Léon Frapié.
Rare first edition.
Some foxing, spine slightly cocked.
First edition, one of 110 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe paper copies.
Frontispiece with a photographic portrait of Léon Blum.
A pleasant copy.
First illustrated edition issued for the Club français des bibliophiles, one of the numbered copies.
Publisher’s full olive-green cloth bindings, smooth spines, gilt medallions in relief depicting General de Gaulle and Free France stamped at the centres of the upper covers, fine copies complete with their original glassine wrappers.
A complete set in three volumes, richly illustrated.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Charles de Gaulle in the first volume, manuscript signatures dated in the second and third volumes.
First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on japon paper, deluxe issue.
Minor tears and two small losses at the foot of the spine at the level of the deckle edges, a stain in the left margin of the upper cover, a wide-margined copy.
Illustrated with a photographic portrait of the author as frontispiece.
Second edition, the "most complete of this work" (baron Pichon sales catalogue, 3rd part, no. 5531) containing a map of Dauphiné, an engraving by Berey fils, and six plates depicting seals.
Full marbled brown sheep bindings, spines with six raised bands framed by gilt fillets and compartments richly decorated with gilt floral motifs, red morocco title labels, green morocco volume labels, blind fillets on the board edges, red edges; contemporary bindings.
First edition, printed in a small number on Dutch paper.
Spine and covers lightly sunned, small tears to the spine, final endpapers browned.
Speeches by M. Chaumié, Anatole France and Abel Hermant.
Autograph inscription signed by Eugène Fasquelle to Marcel Batilliat, whose name he misspelled: "à M. Marcel Batillat."
The Symbolist novelist Marcel Batilliat was a close friend of Émile Zola and campaigned to preserve the memory of the author of the Rougon-Macquart cycle.
First edition of the French translation, for which no deluxe paper copies were issued, with the correct "achevé d’imprimer" dated February 1939.
A fine copy, complete with its illustrated dust-jacket, as usual showing only slight rubbing and minor marginal tears, not affecting its overall appearance.
The work is illustrated, facing the title-page, with a map of the south-eastern United States during the Civil War.
A rare original edition, printed in a limited number of copies, of this extract from the Journal asiatique.
The work is illustrated with two folding plates at the end of the volume.
Contemporary half havana calf binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, rubbed joints, library classification label pasted at the head of the spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, speckled edges.
The Libyco-Punic monument of Dougga (Tunisia), also known as the Mausoleum of Atban, is one of the few well-preserved examples of Punic architecture still extant. It bore a bilingual inscription (Libyco / Punic) which was clumsily removed from the monument in 1842 by the British...
First edition of this one-act play. Rama VI (Vajiravudh, 1881-1925) was not only the successor to the celebrated Chulalongkorn (Rama V) on the Siamese throne in 1910; he was also a man of letters who composed numerous works of prose, poetry and drama.
Contemporary full dusky-pink glazed cloth, plain smooth spine, title blocked in gilt within a large architectural border on the upper board.
The author played a major role in the development of modern Thai literature, introducing Western-style theatre to Siamese audiences.
In addition to the thousands of original works he produced in a wide variety of genres, including short stories, novels and political essays, he...
First edition.
Official series not recorded by Polak.
Contemporary full cherry-red morocco binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt Romantic arabesques, gilt roll tooling partly worn at the spine ends, covers with a wide panel of sextuple gilt fillets and Romantic arabesques, corner ornaments in gilt, crowned "FO" cipher stamped in gilt at the centre of each cover, doublures and endpapers lined with azure watered silk, gilt garland frame to the doublures, corners slightly rubbed, all edges gilt, an elegant Romantic binding of the period.
A few dark stains to the covers, occasional foxing mainly affecting the endpapers.
Copy from the library of Ferdinand-Philippe...
First edition, very scarce, of this important work.
Contemporary-style half speckled fawn calf binding, smooth spine decorated with triple gilt fillets, green shagreen title label, small vellum corners, marbled paper boards, bookplate pasted onto a pastedown, red edges, modern binding.
A restored loss to the left margin of the title page.
Hydrogéologie contains Lamarck’s geological observations gathered during his travels in Germany, Hungary, and France.
Its principal merit lies in demonstrating the considerable importance of plants and animals as agents of geological transformation.
It is in this work that the word biology appears for the first time, on...
First edition illustrated at the end of the volume with 2 folding engraved plates by Gobille after drawings by Guillet, depicting an ancient theatre and a plan of Athens with its surroundings (cf. Blackmer 766. Weber 364. Brunet, Table, 22855.)
Contemporary full brown sheep binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with compartments tooled in gilt, now very rubbed, restorations to the spine and covers.
First historiographer of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, to which he was admitted in 1682, Guillet de Saint-George (Thiers, circa 1625 - Paris, 1705) became known through several writings, the principal ones relating to Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
...First edition (cf. Cordier, Sinica, 2558).
Only one copy recorded in the CCF (BnF).
The First Convention of Peking (18 October 1860) was one of those unequal treaties through which the Western powers sought to impose their conception of international law upon China, which remained reluctant to comply with its provisions.
The clauses addressed in this brief memorandum concern, in particular, the full freedom of practice of the various Christian denominations as stipulated in Article 13.
Loss at the foot of the spine, marginal loss at the foot of the upper cover, minor spotting to the covers.
Rare first edition of the author's first published work, illustrated with three maps, one of which is hors texte.
Only one copy of this edition is recorded in the Catalogue collectif de France (Nanterre).
With an introduction by professor H. S. Jevons. Rangoon, Burma Book Club, 1931, 12mo.
Publisher's full green cloth, smooth spine, printed title label pasted to the spine, extensively rubbed and chipped with substantial loss.
John Sydenham Furnivall (1878-1960) joined the Indian Civil Service in 1901 and spent his entire career in Burma from 1902 onwards, remaining in the country even after independence. Married to a Burmese woman, he founded and developed the...
First edition of the extract from the fourth part, devoted to geology and palaeontology, of Pierre de Tchihatcheff’s work entitled: Asia Minor. A Physical, Statistical and Archaeological Description of the Region.
Contemporary full beige paper-covered boards, smooth spine lettered in black with the author's name, title and author's name neatly inscribed in ink on the upper board, bumped corners.
Our copy brings together the five palaeontological papers by the naturalist Paul-Henri Fischer (1835-1893): Middle Tertiary Fauna. - Lacustrine Tertiary Fauna. - Upper Marine Tertiary Fauna (Steppe Limestone). - Quaternary Formation (Raised Beaches). - Microscopic Organisms...
First edition of the French translation, illustrated with 14 hand-coloured engravings depicting costumes (cf. Colas 961.)
Bindings in blue half morocco, spines slightly faded, with five raised bands and minor rubbing, dates gilt at the foot, illustrated wrappers preserved, marbled paper boards, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled top edges, corners slightly bumped.
Foxing, small paper flaw to the corner of page 37 and misbound leaves in volume 1.
First edition (cf. Cordier, Sinica, 1430).
Our copy is preserved in its original temporary grey paper wrappers.
This is the first memoir only of a monograph that was eventually completed in 648 pages.
Unlettered spine split with losses, chipped corners to the wrappers, occasional foxing throughout.
The engineer Edouard-Constant Biot (1803-1850), son of the mathematician Jean-Baptiste Biot, studied under Stanislas Julien and rapidly established himself as an outstanding sinologist whose scholarship remains authoritative today.
Provenance: From the library of the celebrated mathematician Michel Chasles (1793-1880), member of the Académie des sciences...
First edition, illustrated with full-page 65 plates.
Occasional light foxing.
Blue morocco half-binding, spine with five raised bands ruled and decorated in gilt with gilt floral tools, marbled boards, marbled endpapers, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt; bookplate on front pastedown.
A handsome copy in an attractive binding.
Copy in parts, unbound, each one of them a first edition.
According to the CCFr, the Lunéville media library holds the first text in manuscript copy form. On May 28, 1777, France renewed in Solothurn (Switzerland), for fifty years, its long-standing treaties of alliance with the thirteen cantons. The privileges specified in the second text are chiefly commercial and financial in nature; they derive, to varying degrees, from the Treaty of Perpetual Peace of 1516 (Treaty of Fribourg).
Rare first edition.
Contemporary half fawn cloth Bradel binding, smooth spine, place and date gilt at foot, marbled paper boards, covers preserved.
A single copy recorded in the CCF (BnF).
The only edition, uncommon. A collection of notes and anecdotes relating to Abbé Castel’s period of study in Rome (born 1894, ordained 1920) during his seminary years.
Some spotting to the endpapers.
First edition.
Green sheepskin half binding, flat spine decorated with gilt garlands, marbled paper boards, speckled edges, contemporary binding.
A restoration at the head of the spine, a tear with loss to the first endpaper, library stamps (red stamps of the École Sainte-Geneviève on the title page, Jesuit stamp of Jersey "Dom. S. Aloys. Jerseiens S.J." on an endpaper, Bibliothèque jésuite des Fontaines stamp on the half-title.
The present copy was deaccessioned; another copy from the same provenance is held under the shelfmark SJ IG 266/100 in the collections of the Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon, which now houses the collections of the Bibliothèque des...
First edition of the French translation, established from the second edition.
Our copy, preserved in its original wrappers under a plain provisional cover, is complete with its coloured map, almost invariably lacking.
The only French translation, uncommon, of "A sketch of the military and political power of Russia in the year 1817", an anti-Russian pamphlet composed in the context of the growing opposition between Great Britain and Russia, once the aftermath of the Empire had been settled.
General Robert Thomas Wilson (1777-1849) had served in 1812 as liaison officer with Alexander’s army.
Provenance: copy from the library of Armand-François-Théophile...
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.
Rare first edition of this poem, printed on bluish paper and composed by Tissot in honour of the birth of the King of Rome, the Emperor’s son.
Not in Quérard.
Our copy is preserved in its original wrappers, under a modern marbled paper cover. Not in Quérard. A fine copy.
Second edition, partly original as revised and enlarged, illustrated with a folding map at the end of the volume.
Slight corner wear to the boards, otherwise a well-preserved copy with internal foxing.
The author takes a very broad view of the Serbs, seemingly including all Slavic populations of the Balkans.
