Gift ideas between 500 and 700 €

Octave MIRBEAU
"je voudrais pouvoir chanter en votre honneur un bel épithalame. Le malheur est que je ne suis pas poète."Autograph letter signed by Octave Mirbeau addressed to Alfred Natanson
Nice, Villa Ibrahim, chemin des Baumettes [Nice] 8 Février 1901|12.50 x 17.60 cm|une feuille
Friendly autograph letter signed by Octave Mirbeau, addressed to the playwright and founder of the Revue Blanche, Alfred Natanson, some time after his marriage. 12 lines in black ink on a folded sheet, mourning paper with black border, watermarked "JDL & cie", envelope included.
"Je vous envoie, à votre femme et à vous, tous nos vœux affectueux, et je voudrais pouvoir chanter en votre honneur un bel épithalame. Le malheur est que je ne suis pas poète. Mais nous somme vos amis et nous vous embrassons de tout notre cœur. Nous avions espéré que vous viendriez passer quelques jours à Cannes et nous nous faisions une fête de vous avoir ici. Misia nous dit que vous avez renoncé à ce...
€500
Antoni TÀPIES
"Voici l'article que m'as demandé. J'ajoute un de l'AVUI où j'amplifie quelques détails."Autograph letter signed by Antoni Tàpies to Georges Raillard
Barcelone [Barcelona] 19 décembre 1990|22 x 20 cm|une feuille
Autograph letter signed by Antoni Tàpies addressed to Georges Raillard, his close friend and greatest French specialist of his work. Sheet written in blue ballpoint pen on letterhead paper bearing the author's name with his Barcelona address at the bottom "C. Zaragoza, 57 - Tel. 217 33 98 - Barcelona-6". Traces of folds inherent to the letter's envelope insertion.
The Catalan artist writes to his friend about newspaper articles, including one published in the Catalan daily l'Avui: "Voici l'article que tu m'as demandé. J'ajoute un de l'AVUI où j'amplifie quelques détails. Merci encore pour ta présence à Sénanque. Nous pensons beaucoup à vous et envoyons nos...
€700
Sacha GUITRY
"avec ce naturel incomparable que l'on a pris souvent pour du talent et qui n'est que du génie comique"Autograph note signed by Sacha Guitry to the actor Louis Bouchené dit Baron fils
s. l. s. d.|20.70 x 10.60 cm|une feuille
Autograph note signed by Sacha Guitry to the actor Louis Bouchené known as Baron fils. 7 lines in blue ink on "Basseau Strong" watermarked paper.
"O Grand Baron. Je vous dédie, en témoignage de reconnaissance, cette bouffonnerie dont vous avez incarné le rôle principal avec ce naturel incomparable que l'on a pris souvent pour du talent et qui n'est que du génie comique". ["O Great Baron. I dedicate to you, in token of gratitude, this buffoonery in which you embodied the leading role with that incomparable naturalness which has often been mistaken for talent and which is nothing but comic genius"]
The actor Baron fils embodied numerous roles in Sacha Guitry's plays...
€600
Charles NODIER
Dictionnaire des onomatopées françaises
Demonville|Paris 1808|12.50 x 20.50 cm|relié
First edition.
Half brown calf binding with corners, smooth spine decorated with gilt typographical motifs, gilt friezes at head and foot, navy blue calf title label, gilt fillet on marbled paper boards, speckled paper endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, contemporary binding.
Handsome copy attractively bound in contemporary binding.
€500
Charles MAURRAS
Maîtres et témoins de ma vie d'esprit. Barrès, Mistral, France, Verlaine, Moréas
Gallimard|Paris 1954|12 x 19 cm|relié
First edition, one of 55 numbered copies on pure Arches laid paper, deluxe copy.
Half navy blue morocco binding with corners, spine with four raised bands, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, gilt fillets framing the boards, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, contemporary binding signed Bellevallée.
Very handsome copy in perfect condition.
€680
Paul FÉVAL
[PHOTOGRAPHIE] Portrait photographique de Paul Féval
Disdéri & Cie|Paris s. d. [circa 1860]|6.20 x 10.50 cm|une photographie
Original albumen photograph of Paul Féval, in carte-de-visite format, mounted on cardboard from the Disdéri et Cie studio.
Pencil annotation on verso of the photograph.
We have found no copy of this photograph in public collections.
€500
Léon-Paul FARGUE
Hernando de Bengoechea ou l'âme d'un poète
Amiot-Dumont|Paris 1948|14 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Complete with publisher's wraparound band.
Handsome copy of this work devoted to the Franco-Colombian poet, who volunteered for the French Foreign Legion and died in action during the Allied offensive in Artois in 1915.
€600
(to Boris VIAN) Bernard HEUVELMANS
De la bamboula au Be-Bop
Editions de la main jetée|Paris 1951|12.50 x 19 cm|broché
The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
A small dampstain at foot of spine and light sunning at foot of rear board, complete with publisher's (advertising) slip.
Very precious autograph inscription dated and signed by Bernard Heuvelmans on the front endpaper: "A Boris Vian avec l'espoir qu'il aimera ce petit livre d'un jazz nourri de mystère, d'érotisme et d'humour. En toute sympathie" ["To Boris Vian with the hope that he will love this little book of jazz nourished by mystery, eroticism and humor. With all sympathy"].
€500
Abbé Jean-Baptiste GLAIRE
Le Nouveau Testament
Firmin Didot|Paris 1865|21.50 x 28 cm|relié
First deluxe edition of this translation of the Vulgate by Abbé Glaire, whose first edition appeared in 1861. Printed on white satin laid paper. Very rich iconography with 56 hors-texte engravings after paintings by the old masters in rich Renaissance frames, all text pages in frames inspired by books of hours or from the 16th or 17th century. Careful layout, typical of fine works printed by Firmin Didot at this period.
Publisher's full red morocco binding of the period in large grain. Raised band spine decorated with gilt compartments and blind fillets. Wide gilt frame with interlaced fillets forming decorative motifs in the corners on the covers, blind heavy fillets, series of gilt...
€700
Adrien RICHER
Vies des plus célèbres marins
Chez Belin|à Paris 1789|8 x 12.90 cm|12 parties en 6 volumes reliés
First collected edition. The various parts composing this collection were first published separately from 1780 to 1786. The volume numbering is placed on the half-title. The thirteenth part which completes the collection is absent from this set, the second part of the life of Tourville being missing. 11 portraits at frontispiece. The life of Ruiter is divided into 2 volumes and is found in the second part of the fifth volume and in the first part of the sixth volume. The edition is composed of certain volumes from the first editions to which a half-title has been added.
Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with fillets. Red sheep title label, black sheep volume...
€700
Ernest L'ÉPINE, Gustave DORÉ
La légende de Croque - Mitaine
Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie|Paris 1863|24.50 x 32 cm|relié
First edition illustrated with 177 drawings by Gustave Doré, including vignettes, plates, headpieces... All engraved by Maurand, Sarglat... Fine printing on large white laid paper. Title page in red and black.
Contemporary half red morocco binding with corners in long grain. Smooth spine richly decorated with large romantic tools in compartments. Triple fillet rule on boards. Original wrappers preserved. Rubbing to joints, headcaps and edges. Corners bumped and slightly turned. Joint fragile at tail of upper board. Fine copy, with very white paper free from foxing.
This fable features Charlemagne and his brave knights, and all the characters from Ariosto.
€650
Armand MASSON, Henri Gaston DARIEN
Pour les quais. Première partie. Pièces dites par l'auteur au Chat-Noir, au Chien-Noir et chez d'autres animaux dépourvus de candeur
Léon Vanier|Paris 1905|16 x 20.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 12 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies.
A full-margined copy.
Spine creased, a small lack to head of second board, light tears to margins of certain leaves at the deckled edges.
Work illustrated with a frontispiece on Japan paper by Charles Léandre and drawings in and out of text by Henri Gaston Darien, Henri Charles Auguste Gounin, Jean-Louis Fernand Fau, Charles Léandre, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, David Ossipovitch Widhopff and Adolphe Willette.
€600
Jules LÉVY, Jules JOUY
Programme du concert des Décadents du 27 avril au 3 mai 1894
Paris 27 avril-3 mai 1894|26.50 x 17.60 cm|broché
Jules LEVY & Jules JOUY
& CARPENTIER
Décadent's concert program from 27 April to 3 May 1894
Paris 27 April-3 May 1894| 26.5 x 17.6 cm | one leaf
Rare first edition of the Décadent's concert program held from 27 April to 3 May 1894 at 16 bis Rue Fontaine, in Paris.
On the reverse there is an elegant and humorous blue lithographed poster promoting Carpentier's “lively shadows.”
The leaflet has significant foxing, its lower left corner is cut, there are superficial sections of paper missing and the remains of some adhesive paper in the margin of the program.
Successor of the Café des Incohérents created by Jules Lévy, writer, actor and ex-Hydropath...
€600
Rodolphe TÖPFFER
Nouveaux voyages en zig-zag, A la grande Chartreuse, autour du Mont Blanc, dans les vallées d'Herenz, de Zematt, au Grimsel, a Gênes et a la Corniche
Victor Lecou|Paris 1854|19 x 27.20 cm|relié
First edition, illustrated with 48 hors-texte engravings including the frontispiece, several in-text woodcuts, all after drawings by the author and engraved by Girardet, Français, Daubigny... With a notice by Sainte-Beuve.
Publisher's polychrome binding in full navy blue percaline cloth. Superb first cover decorated with a large polychrome plate (blue, red, cream, green, yellow and gold) featuring a walker tipping his straw hat in nature. Lenègre bindery at bottom of the plate. Spine decorated with a large polychrome plate with somewhat faded colors, notably the blue, but the golds remain bright. Handsome second cover decorated with a gilt landscape on beige ground within rich ornament...
€650
Bernard-Laurent SOUMILLE
Le grand Trictrac, ou methode facile pour apprendre sans maître la marche, les termes, les regles, et une grande partie des finesses de ce jeu, enrichie de 288 planches ou figures
Chez De Hansy|à Paris 1766|13 x 20.50 cm|relié
New edition, after the original published in 1738.

269 numbered figures at mid-page.
Contemporary full marbled sheep binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label. Upper joint cracked at head, and a small crack at tail over 0.5cm. 3 corners very bumped and worn. 3 traces of surface wear on lower board. Good copy.
Didactic treatise on Backgammon, a game of Chinese origin that was very popular in Europe under the name of Trictrac, and which features numerous games. The rules of the game remained unchanged until 1931, the date at which the Americans modernized the game rules.

€500
Jean COCTEAU, Amedeo MODIGLIANI
Appogiatures
Editions du Rocher|Monaco 1953|14.50 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the tirage de tête.
A nice copy despite tiny spots, not serious, on the first free endpaper.
Illustrated, as frontispiece, a portrait of the author by Modigliani and a drawing hors-texte by Hans Bellmer.
€500
Jules VERNE
L'étoile du sud. Le pays des diamants
Hetzel|Paris 1884|-|relié
First illustrated edition. 63 engravings and one map after Benett. CH catalogue in fine.
Publisher's binding called "Aux initiales" in dark green signed Magnier at tail. Second board with blind rosette. Handsome first plate with particularly brilliant gilt. Corners rubbed, and the 2 of the pastedown slightly turned in. Spine with faded gilt. Headcaps rubbed. Traces of rubbing on joints. Blue stamp in the form of a label on half-title. Lescude bookshop label, Pau on pastedown.
Paper overall very fresh, with some pale foxing on title page and on first leaf of catalogue.
Handsome copy.
L'Étoile du Sud is an adventure novel by Paschal Grousset, sold to publisher Hetzel, then...
€500
Jean TARDIEU, Elie LASCAUX
Il était une fois, deux fois, trois fois... ou la table de multiplication en vers[Once Upon a Time, Twice, Thrice... or the Multiplication Table in Verse]
Gallimard|Paris 1947|25.50 x 33.50 cm|broché
First illustrated edition with 92 original colour compositions by Elie Lascaux, one of 65 numbered copies on pure Lana wove paper, deluxe issue.
Endpapers slightly shaded, minor tears to the spine without loss, a pleasant copy.
€500
Jules JANIN
La Bretagne
Ernest Bourdin|1844|16.50 x 26.50 cm|relié
Edition illustrated with 150 in-text wood-engraved vignettes and 24 beautiful full-page plates (including 2 maps) steel-engraved after Morel-Fatio, Tellier, Gigoux, Daubigny, Debon, H. Bellangé and Alfred Johannot. It also includes 8 additional hand-colored engravings, including 2 of coats of arms and 6 of costumes, which are not found in the first edition of 1843.
Publisher's binding in full black and polychrome cloth. Light rubbing traces. Small lack of gilding at foot. Very occasional pale foxing on clean white paper.
A very handsome copy.
€650
Émile BOURGEOIS
Le Grand siècle. Louis XIV. Les arts, les idées
Hachette|Paris 1896|20.50 x 31 cm|relié
First edition abundantly illustrated with photogravures after period documents and engravings as well as 22 portraits hors-texte.
Publisher's binding in full tawny sheep, spine with five false raised bands set with gilt garlands and decorated with blind-stamped compartments decorated in their centers with gilt crowns, boards richly decorated with a radiating device with central sun framed by a wide fleur-de-lis gilt band separated by blind-stamped crowns, blue paper endpapers and pastedowns, all edges gilt.
Very handsome copy.
€500
COLLECTIF
Almanach dédié aux dames pour l'An 1828
Imprimerie de Jules Didot l'aîné|Paris 1828|7.50 x 11.40 cm|relié sous étui
Imprimerie de Jules Didot l'aîné | Paris 1828 | 7.5 x 11.4 cm | publisher's binding
First edition, with title vignette, 6 plates and 12 vignettes for the Souvenirs calendar.
Gilded paper boards, slipcase. Covers
and spine decorated with silk painted in colors with dancing figures surrounded by friezes and floral motifs to spine, all edges gilt.
Silk slightly peeling on lower cover of case, head of joint of case with 1.2 cm crack, silk of case slightly soiled, a little foxing.
€600
Auguste de FORBIN
Voyage dans le Levant en 1817 et 1818 par M. le C.te de Forbin
Delaunay|1819|12 x 20 cm|relié
Second edition published the same year as the first, by the same publisher. Large folding plan of the Holy Sepulchre at rear. The large and famous atlas, published in only 325 copies and sold separately, is absent. At rear explanation of the 78 lithographed plates in colors that compose the atlas.
Contemporary full brown sheep binding with porphyry grain. Smooth spine decorated with 4 compartments with grotesque cross-hatching and a central ornament. Framing frieze on boards. Chocolate morocco title-label. Spine uniformly faded. Small lacks to joints at head. A slight lack at foot. Upper joint split narrowly at tail for 8 cm, and for 5cm along the lower joint. Trace of pale dampstain on...
€500
Jules VERNE
Les Frères Kip
Hetzel|Paris s. d. [1902-1904]|18.50 x 28 cm|relié
First edition in octavo illustrated with 2 maps, 12 large chromotypographies, 6 full-page photographic reproductions, (39 illustrations engravings and documents including photographs), by Georges Roux.
Publisher's Hetzel binding with golden globe, signed Blancheland plate, bound by Engel, spine with lighthouse, second board of Engel "h" type according to Jauzac.
Fine first plate with well-marked and brilliant gilding. Light soiling in the cartouche. Small scratches in the sky. Some rubbing on the outer red border. 2 corners slightly bumped, the corners folded. Spine sunned, but with gilding well preserved. Rubbing to headcaps. Second board good, with soiling. Copy slightly warped...
€600
Raymond QUENEAU, Christiane ALANORE
Le cheval troyen
Georges Visat|Paris 1948|16.50 x 21.50 cm|en feuilles sous chemise et étui
First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on vélin d'Arche paper with a suite of engravings on Japon if the second state of the illustrations by Christiane Alanore.
Illustrated with 20 original engravings by Christiane Alanore.
Three leaves stained and a few marginal spots marginales on some others.
€600
Domenico DOLCE, Stephano GABBANA
20 years - Dolce & Gabbana
5 Continents Editions|Milano [Milan] 2005|24.50 x 32 cm|reliure de l'éditeur sous étui
First edition.
Publisher's cloth, slipcase in cloth, reproducing the cover.
Handwritten signatures of Domenico Dolce and Stephano Gabbana surriounded with a heart.
Richly illustrated.
A nice copy.
€600
Louis Marie NORMAND
Paris moderne, ou choix de maisons construites dans les nouveaux quartiers de la capitale et dans ses environs
Chez L'auteur • Bance fils|1837|25 x 34 cm|relié
First edition illustrated with a frontispiece and 159 plates drawn and engraved by Normand fils. A second part containing, in addition to the house, public buildings, would appear in 1843, then a third part in 1849 on country houses and rural constructions. A collective edition from Liège in 1849 would include these three parts, but a fourth part on interior and exterior decorations of buildings would be published in 1853. This first volume bears no indication on the title page of volume numbering or part, because undoubtedly at the time it was published, the volumes to come were not yet planned or decided upon.
Contemporary half brown sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with fillets...
€500
Pierre-Jean DE SMET
Missions de l'Orégon et voyages dans les Montagnes Rocheuses en 1845 et 1846
Pussielgue-Rusand|Paris 1848|11 x 18.3 cm|relié
Missions de l'Orégon et voyages dans les Montagnes Rocheuses en 1845 et 1846
First edition in French, translated by Bourlez. Smet’s father also produced a translation in an edition published in Ghent, also in 1848. Two-tone lithographed frontispiece and frontispiece-title on China paper. 12 two-tone lithographic plates on thick paper showing the lives of Native Americans.
Half dark brown sheep. Spine with mock-bands with three Romantic blindtools and gilt roulettes. Upper joint cracked at head and foot and rubbed. Leather tail-piece worn away, revealing cardboard. Leaves 251 and 253 detached. Scattered spotting. Covers and edges rubbed.
The work is the account of a journey by...
€650
Jean-Paul SARTRE, Michel LEIRIS
L'affaire Henri Martin[The Henri Martin Affair]
Gallimard|Paris 1953|14.50 x 20.50 cm|broché
First edition of which there were no grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Texts by Michel Leiris, Jacques Prévert, Vercors, Hervé Bazin and commentaries by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Autograph inscription signed by Jean-Paul Sartre to Mademoiselle Marchais.
€580
Charles KOECHLIN, Daniel BIOT
Ports
Collection Formosa-Veritas|Paris 1933|18 x 24 cm|broché
First edition illustrated with 33 original photographs, under protective papers, by Charles Koechlin, Daniel Biot and Jean de Morène.
Illustrated covers with photographs.
A slight tear glued down to foot of upper cover, small rubbing, not serious, on the joints.
Internally good.
€600
Joseph CONRAD
Entre terre et mer[Between Land and Sea]
Nrf|Paris 1929|16.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition of the French translation, one of 109 numbered copies on Lafuma-Navarre laid paper, reimposed in quarto tellière format, tête de tirage.
Spine slightly sunned, a pleasing copy.
€600
Pierre BETTENCOURT, Pablo PICASSO
La vie est sans pitié
S. n. • [ Pierre Bettencourt]|Saint-Maurice-d'Ételan 1948|14.50 x 23 cm|broché
First edition printed in 101 numbered copies on grand vélin Arches.
Illustrated cover by Pablo Picasso.
Spine slightly sunned, otherwise a good copy.
€680
Alfred JARRY
Les minutes de Sable Mémorial suivies de César antéchrist
Fasquelle|Paris 1932|18 x 21.50 cm|broché
First collected edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Japon, the only large paper copies.
With drawings by Alfred Jarry.
Two pale dampstains to head of spine.
A copy with good margins.
€680
Alphonse de LAMARTINE
Jocelyn
Furne • Librairie de Charles Gosselin|Paris 1836|14 x 22.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition.
Half aubergine calf bindings with small corners, spines faded with four raised bands set with gilt garlands and decorated with gilt fleurons, gilt dates at foot, one stain at foot of spine of first volume, gilt fillets on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spines (restored) preserved, elegant romantic pastiche bindings.
€600
Jean-Baptiste Henri du Trousset VALINCOURT DE
Lettres a Madame la Marquise *** sur le sujet de la Princesse de Cleves
Chez Sébastien Marbre-Cramoisy|à Paris 1678|9 x 15.50 cm|relié
First edition, rare.
Full glazed blonde calf 18th-century binding. Spine with raised bands richly decorated. Red morocco title label. Split at head of upper joint. Two corners bumped. Light rubbing. Owner's name crossed out on title page. Old pen note on endpaper. Handsome copy, well bound.
These Letters appear shortly after the first edition of La Princesse de Clèves (1678), and they are of crucial importance for the history of Belles-Lettres. Valincourt begins by retracing the history of the work, which was well known before being published. He gives a detailed account of it, following the novel step by step, with the aid of historical and critical considerations. If Valincourt's...
€600
Jean de LA BRUYÈRE
Les caracteres de Theophraste, traduits du grec, avec les caracteres ou moeurs de ce siecle
Chez Thomas Amaulry|à Lyon 1689|9 x 15.50 cm|relié
Fourth edition, partly first edition as it was significantly expanded. The first three, similar to each other, appeared during 1688. The fourth edition is therefore considered the second first edition. It appeared simultaneously at the Parisian publisher Etienne Michallet, who had indeed shared his privilege with Amaulry since the first editions. Title page in red and black.
Half vellum 19th-century binding with corners. Spine with raised bands decorated with roulettes. Brown shagreen title label. Upper joint split at tail for 8 cm. Small split in vellum at lower joint at head. Rubbing.
This fourth edition is the first to have been completed, it indeed contains 764 remarks against...
€500
DAVID, Jeanne LANVIN
Douze robes pour décembre 1925 (Croquis, La Gazette du Bon ton, 1925 n°9)
Lucien Vogel éditeur|Paris 1925|18 x 24 cm|relié
Set of eight original prints in color, drawn on laid paper. The boards are introduced by a text signed LRF Sketches L, LII, LIII, LV, are signed David, respectively on the lower right and left boards.
Original prints made ??for the illustration of The Gazette fashionable, one of the finest and most influential twentieth century fashion magazines, celebrating the talent of creators and artists French burgeoning art deco.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, The Gazette fashionable appeared until 1925 with an interruption during the War of 1915 to 1920, due to mobilization of its editor. She is 69 Deliveries from...
€500
Arthur KOESTLER
The heel of Achilles. Essays 1968-1973
Hutchinson|London 1974|14 x 22.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition of which there were no grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Publisher's cloth, copy retaining its dust jacket with a small tear to head of first cover.
Rare autograph inscription dated and signed by Arthur Koestler, in French, to Olivier Bourdet.
A nice copy.
€500
Jules VERNE
Michel Strogoff. De Moscou à Irkoutsk, suivi de un drame au Mexique
Hetzel|Paris 1884|18 x 27.50 cm|relié
Edition illustrated with drawings of J. Férat, engraved by Barbant. BR catalog for 1884.
Cardboard with two elephants to the rare pink fuchsia signed tail Lenègre, type 1. spine three decorated boxes. Second flat Wearing a button Cold round, registered cold bottom left Lenegre rel. gray guards.
Beautiful first plate, but two small spots along the black edge. upper joint split in head 2.5cm. Upper corner slightly blunted law. Insolated back evenly. Micro cuts copings. Inkblot down the second course, and on the last pages of the catalog. Fresh copy, free of foxing.
€650
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
Alexandre DUMAS
Ange Pitou
Chez Dufour • Mulat • Boulanger|Paris 1856|18 x 27 cm|relié
First illustrated edition, rare, with 27 plates hors-texte, including the frontispiece by Philippoteaux, Pisan,
Contemporary half black grained shagreen binding signed Ch. Girard (Angers) with grained green percaline boards. Spine with raised bands decorated with blind and gilt fillets. Gilt title. Small pale and whitish stains on lower board, one darker stain on upper board. Leaves 351 and 355 restored (torn corner). Fresh overall but with small pale browning scattered and unevenly distributed. Although the paper appears clean, it now has a color close to laid paper and has lost its whiteness.
A title rarely encountered, the Three Musketeers or Count of Monte-Cristo series being...
€600
Honoré de BALZAC, COLLECTIF
Les français peints par eux-mêmes
J. Philippart|Paris 1876 S.d.|19 x 28 cm|4 tomes en 4 volumes reliés
Completely revised edition, with some parts in first edition, both for texts and illustrations. Introduction by Jules Janin and texts by Balzac, La bedollière, Charles Nodier, Frédéric Soulié, Petrus Borel... with in-text and full-page illustrations by Grandville, Daubigny, Pauquet, Français, Bertall, Johannot, Daumier, Bayard... Printed in double columns.
Contemporary half brown shagreen bindings. Spine with raised bands decorated with 4 fleurons. Title and volume labels in chocolate morocco. Rubbing to headcaps and raised bands, boards, edges and corners. Spines slightly lightened. Corners slightly bumped. Some foxing, mainly in margins, some signatures browned, but overall paper...
€500
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de MARIVAUX
Le paysan parvenu
Chez Henri Scheurleer|à La Haye [The Hague] 1756|9 x 16 cm|8 parties reliées en 2 volumes
New édition. The 8 parts each have a title page. Title pages of the first part and the fifth in red and black. Novel first published between 1734 and 1736, the last three parts are apocryphal and appear here at Scheurleer in first edition.

Contemporary full brown calf bindings. Raised band spines ornate with fleurons and stars. Red morocco title labels, and brown morocco volume labels. Restorations to joints and headcaps. Scattered browning. Good copy.

Like La vie de Marianne, Le Paysan parvenu is based on memoirs, and the rise of a handsome young man of great wit, but poor and of peasant extraction. His qualities which will make him appealing in...
€500
Antoine-François-Félix ROSELLY DE LORGUES
Christophe Colomb
Victor Palmé|Paris 1879|19.50 x 28.80 cm|relié
First illustrated edition with 5 chromolithographs, one color map, all pages within a wide engraved border featuring marine scenes, landscapes, monuments... The effect of these borders is quite extraordinary when one further considers that they are renewed on each page.
Publisher's binding in half red shagreen bound by Engel and richly decorated with two special plates, a repeated ornament at head and foot, scattered stars throughout and thick and thin fillets. Special gilt plate created by Souze, an anchor in the foreground, caravels on the sea and the setting sun in which the American continent appears. The same plate is found on the back without the title. Traces of rubbing at the...
€600
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de SEVIGNE
Lettres de madame de Sévigné à sa fille et à ses amis
Ménard & Desenne|Paris 1827|8.50 x 14.50 cm|12 volumes reliés
New illustrated edition, with frontispiece in the first volume of a portrait of Madame de Sévigné engraved by Dequevauviller.
Half raspberry calf bindings, spines with four raised bands set with gilt garlands decorated with fleurons and typographical motifs stamped in blind, black calf title and volume labels, raspberry cardboard boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, two corners slightly bumped, elegant contemporary romantic bindings.
Some minor foxing.
Handsome copy, complete in 12 volumes, in charming and elegant contemporary romantic and decorative binding.
€680
Honoré de BALZAC, Louis HUART
Physiologie du flaneur [Ensemble] Physiologie de l'employé [Ensemble] Physiologie de la femme la plus malheureuse du monde
Aubert • Lavigne|1841|8.50 x 13.50 cm|relié
First edition of these three well-illustrated physiologies; for example, the first physiology contains 65 vignettes. Only the Physiologie du flaneur bears a date.
Physiologie du flaneur. Vignettes by Alophe, Daumier and Maurisset.
Physiologie de l'employé. Vignettes by Trimollet.
Physiologie de la femme la plus malheureuse... Vignettes by Valentin.
Contemporary half black sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with fillets. Gilt titles. Rubbing. Occasional light foxing, on paper that has remained quite white.

€550
Jonathan SWIFT
Le conte du tonneau, contenant tout ce que les arts et les sciences ont de plus sublime et de plus mystérieux
Chez Henri Scheurleer|à La Haye [The Hague] 1757|9.50 x 16.50 cm|3 volumes reliés
New edition, the first having appeared in 1721, it contained only 6 figures against 8 on strong paper in this edition. The third volume which was added to the Tale of a Tub and which contains various treatises (The Art of Political Lying, A Discourse on the Contests and Dissensions) was added later, around 1750. Certain very curious plates in this collection are highly appreciated, notably that of the famous battle of the books. The translation is by Van Effen. Title pages in red and black.
Contemporary half sheep binding with marbled sides. Smooth spine decorated with 4 fleurons, gilt roll at head and foot. Tan morocco title label, black wax volume label. Corners...
€550
François MITTERRAND
Ma part de vérité
Fayard|Paris 1969|14.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition of which there were no large paper copies.
With an autograph inscription from François Mitterrand to Monsieur Morlin.
Spine folded as usual, small folding traces to head and foot of covers, in the margins.
€680
Edmond Auguste TEXIER
Voyage pittoresque sur les bords du Rhin
Mrizot|Paris 1858|17.50 x 27 cm|relié
First edition, illustrated with 24 steel engravings by the Rouargue brothers, including 2 hand-colored woodcuts.
Contemporary half navy blue shagreen binding. Spine with false raised bands decorated with gilt compartments. Shagreen-textured cloth boards with blind fillets. Gilt edges. White moiré endpapers.
Fine copy, in perfect condition, free from foxing and retaining its tissue guards.
This book which visits all the cities along the Rhine was published during the golden age of tourism there; the spa towns of the Rhine were then fashionable, as were the Swiss and German cities. The work consists of descriptions, contemporary and historical anecdotes and notes on customs.
€500
Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de BUFFON, Tavy NOTTON
Les chants du printemps
Aux dépens d'un artiste|Bourg-la-Reine 1957|25.50 x 32.50 cm|en feuilles sous chemise et étui.
Edition illustrated with 21 original engravings by Tavy Notton, one of 15 numbered copies on Japan super nacré, deluxe copy after 6 others differently enhanced.
Our copy, as stipulated in the justification page, is complete with the original signed drawing by Tavy Notton, with its two duplicate suites on Auvergne and Rives blanc, with the silk printing of 3 simple plates.
However, the copperplate and the silk printing of 3 double plates are lacking in our work. Tavy Notton's illustrations thus comprise: 1 frontispiece in black, 20 hors-texte in black of which 6 are double-page.
Very handsome copy.
€500
Georges DUPLESSIS
Histoire de la gravure, en Italie, en Espagne, en Allemagne, dans les Pays-bas, en Angleterre et en France ; suivis d'indications pour former une collection d'estampes
Hachette|Paris 1880|18.50 x 27.50 cm|relié
First edition, illustrated with 72 engravings (etchings), re-engraved after the originals. All plates, printed before lettering, have been annotated in pencil (author and title).
Publisher's binding. Special plate by Souze. Binding by Charles Magnier. Half red shagreen richly decorated; red percale boards stamped with a large decorative gilt plate on black ground. All edges gilt. White moiré endpapers. Upper joint slightly cracked at head. Some foxing on the first leaves and on the index.
Handsome copy
€550
Quintus CURCIUS RUFUS [QUINTE-CURCE]
Alexander Magnus et illum commentarius Samuelis Pitisci quo antiquitates persarum, macedonum, phoenicum...
Apud Petrum van Thol|Hagae-Comitis [The Hague] • (La Haye) [The Hague] 1708|11.50 x 19.50 cm|relié
New edition annotated by Samuel Pitiscus with third edition statement, and illustrated with a frontispiece title, a portrait of Pitiscus, 4 folding maps and 11 plates with 29 numbered figures (most of them folding) often quite curious (the gardens of Babylon) by Johan van den Avelen after G. Hoet. The first edition appears to have been published in 1684.
Contemporary brown half sheep binding with corners. Spine with raised bands decorated with 5 fleurons. Brown morocco title-label. Marbled edges. Overall rubbed, with paper lacking to boards. Outer edges worn and corners slightly bumped.
Abundantly annotated edition by Pitiscus, including Freinshemius's supplement, and a...
€650
Pierre DRIEU LA ROCHELLE
Fond de cantine
Nrf|Paris 1920|12.50 x 19 cm|broché
First edition on ordinary paper, false statement of fourth edition used for advance copies (NRF stamp at head of second board).
Fine autograph inscription signed by Pierre Drieu la Rochelle to Romain Coolus on the front endpaper: "... ce petit livre qui a traîné un peu chez les imprimeurs / avec toute ma franche gratitude pour les encouragements prodigués par un bon aîné" ["... this little book which lingered a bit at the printers / with all my sincere gratitude for the encouragement given by a good elder"].
Spine and boards lightly sunned without concern, clear traces of adhesive tape removal at heads and feet of endpapers and on verso of boards.
€580
André-Joseph PANCKOUCKE
L'art de désoppiler la rate. Sive de modo C. Prudenter. En prenant chaque feuillet pour se T. le D
S. n.|à Gallipoli des Calabres [Gallipoli] 1756|9 x 16 cm|relié
First edition, rare.
Contemporary marbled blonde calf binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label. Joint cracked at foot on back board. Good copy.A collection of jokes, witticisms, riddles, gasconades, extracts from rare and humorous books, fables and short tales, ancient customs, etc, all intended to delight the most melancholic...
€550
Henri de RÉGNIER, George BARBIER
Les rencontres de monsieur de Bréot
A. & G. Mornay|Paris 1930|16.50 x 20 cm|broché
Illustrated edition, one of 78 copies on Japan paper, our copy being one of 12 hors-commerce copies nominally printed specially for Gaston Morancé, from the deluxe issue.
Our edition is illustrated with numerous and beautiful color illustrations in and out of text by George Barbier.
First cover with folded illustrated cover in colors by George Barbier. Spine slightly sunned with a small stain.
€600
Chansons choisies, avec les airs notés
S. n. • [ Cazin]|à Londres [London] • [Reims] 1784|8.50 x 14.50 cm|6 volumes reliés
Second edition and first published by Cazin, with two volumes added; a first edition in 4 volumes was published in Geneva in 1782. Musical scores at the end of volumes. Only volumes 5 and 6 contain no musical score, the songs being sung to airs already noted in the other volumes, which are identified by the air numbers. 48pp. of musical scores in volume 1; 48pp. in volume 2; 38 in volume 3; 40 in volume 4.

Later brown half-sheep binding (1800). Smooth spine decorated with three fleurons and fillets. Red morocco title-label with roulettes. Red morocco volume label in a roundel. Marbled paper boards. Rubbing to headcaps and joints. Corners slightly bumped.
€500
Henry LEE
Historique des courses de chevaux de l'Antiquité à ce jour
Charpentier & Fasquelle|Paris 1914|14 x 20.50 cm|relié
First edition.
Bradel binding, covers with small stains and spine preserved, modern binding.
Illustrated with 22 plates hors-texte and 63 engravings.
A little light spotting.
Rare.
€600
Hugues LE ROUX, Jules GARNIER
Les jeux du cirque et la vie foraine
Plon-Nourrit & Cie|Paris 1889|21 x 28.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition on ordinary paper, there has been printed only 50 Japon large paper copies.
Publisher's binding over flexible paper boards, top edge gilt.
Original illustrations by Jules Garnier.
Endpapers uniformly shaded, otherwise nice copy.
Very fresh binding.
€600
Jean-Jacques BARTHÉLEMY
Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce, vers le milieu du quatrième siècle avant l'ère vulgaire
Lebigre frères|Paris 1819-1834|13 x 21 cm|6 volumes reliés
New edition.
Half aubergine sheep bindings, smooth spines slightly faded decorated with gilt arabesques, minor rubbing traces on some spines, gilt roulettes on headcaps, worn headcaps with some small losses, gilt fillet frames on boards enhanced with Romantic blind-stamped decoration, gilt laurel leaves surmounted by a gilt crown bearing the inscription "collège de Chateau-Thierry Ainse" stamped to center of front covers, gilt dots on edges, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, contemporary bindings. Our copy is complete with its rare atlas which is almost always missing.
The atlas complete with its 31 engraved plates, dated 1819, is bound in full navy sheep, smooth...
€500
YANAGAWA SHIGENOBU II
Yanagawa Gafu. Sansui no bu
Shubundo|Edo [Tokyo] • [Tokyo] 1856|12 x 18 cm|cousu
Rare first edition. Illustrated with 44 plates including one double-page, totaling 110 figures enhanced in period colors by Yanagawa Jushin.
Contemporary wrappers, original binding in cold-embossed green paper with cloud motifs. Excellent condition.
The author published 5 volumes of this type, each addressing a different theme—animals, flowers; this one depicts the mountains and rivers of Japan represented in prints by the artist.
€500
Charles DU FRESNY SIEUR DE LA RIVIERE
Amusemens serieux et comiques
Chez Estienne Rogier|à Amsterdam 1705|8 x 15 cm|relié
Second edition, rare, after the first edition published in 1698 by Barbin.

Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Head worn. Rubbing. Foxing.

The work belongs to no defined genre; in a very free manner, a Siamese tells anecdotes which he mixes with maxims on various subjects: The palace, the court, the public, the Bois de Boulogne, the opera... These satirical considerations of Parisian society, pell-mell, do not possess a continuous narrative; the work would pave the way for Montesquieu's Persian Letters. It is one of its principal sources.
€550
BOUILLET, Alphonse CHASSANT
La Normandie monumentale et pittoresque, édifices publics, églises, châteaux, manoirs, etc. Evreux & Conches.
Lemale & Cie|Le Havre 1894|51.50 x 39.50 cm|relié
First edition with no mention of deluxe paper copies.
Publisher's binding in full pine green boards, smooth spine decorated with gilt typographical motifs, date at foot, front cover richly illustrated with gilt reproduction of Evreux monuments, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Work illustrated with 15 heliogravure plates hors texte by P. Dujardin after photographs by Paul Robert and from the collection of historic monuments.
Very fresh binding.
Handsome interior condition without any foxing.
€500
René DAUMAL
Lettres à ses amis, 1[Letters to His Friends, 1]
Gallimard|Paris 1958|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 35 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe paper issue.
Illustrated.
A fine copy.
€450
MOLIÈRE
L'estourdy ou les contretemps
S. n. • [ Claude Barbin]|à Paris 1679|8 x 13.20 cm|relié
The first edition dates from 1662, with the date 1663 on the title page. It was published again in 1674 then in 1679. Title page with sphere. Elzevir edition. Rare.
Full burgundy morocco binding early 20th century Jansenist style. Date at foot. Decorative gilt board-edges. 18th-century endpapers preserved. Light dampstain to the last two leaves. Very handsome copy.
L'étourdi is considered one of Molière's first true plays, in which he creates for the first time the character of Mascarille. He first performed it in Lyon in 1653, then in Paris in 1658, and only obtained a privilege to have it printed in 1660.
€500
Philippe SOUPAULT
Westwego, poème 1917-1922
Editions de la librairie Six|Paris 1922|16.50 x 23.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 300 numbered copies on laid paper, ours not justified, only print with 3 Japan and 15 Holland paper.
A very small spot without gravity at the head of the second board, otherwise pleasant copy.
Rare.
€500
Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (dit) PLINE LE JEUNE
Panegyrique de Trajan
Chez Antoine de Sommaville|à Paris 1638|16.50 x 22.50 cm|relié
First edition of this translation by Pilet de Ménardière. A title vignette featuring the emperor's effigy (repeated after the preface).
Contemporary full vellum binding. Smooth spine with faded red ink title. Visible stitching.
This panegyric, as announced on the first page of text, was delivered by Pliny the Younger before the Senate, in the emperor's presence, when Pliny was Consul. In fact, the speech delivered by Pliny was much shorter than this one and it was written to thank the emperor for choosing him as consul; it was only later that Pliny reworked his text by expanding it historically and gave it this title. Some believe that Trajan and Pliny were close from the time of...
€500
Jean de LA FONTAINE
Les oeuvres posthumes de monsieur de La Fontaine
Guillaume de Luyne|Paris 1696|9.50 x 15 cm|relié
A counterfeit of the first edition published the same year in Holland.
Full sheep binding with raised spine, spine in four compartments decorated with double panels and gilt fleurons, brown calf title-label, date at foot, elegant pastiche binding signed Desnaux. Engraved headpieces, initials and tailpieces.
One manuscript endpaper concerning the work at rear.
€600