Idées cadeaux : Beaux livres reliés en histoire

Full autograph manuscript, written in black and red ink for the title page and in black ink for the text.

Our manuscript is presented under shirt and case in full gray canvas made for Henri Béraud, label of title glued at the top of the shirt.


Complete manuscript in 414 sheets (single-sided), all foliated, dated and written from October 15, 1928 to March 21, 1929.

Precious manuscript of first draft, abundantly corrected and presenting numerous variants with the definitive text published in 1929.

First edition, one of 15 numbered copies on alfa mousse paper, the only deluxe copies.
Half red shagreen binding with corners, lightened spine with five raised bands set with blind fillets, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt retaining its deckled edges.
A handsomely bound copy.

First edition, one of 52 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
Half red shagreen with corners, spine very slightly faded with five raised bands set with blind fillets, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, retaining deckled edges.
A handsome copy attractively bound.

First edition for each of the volumes: one of 100 numbered copies on alfa paper for volumes I, II and III and III bis, one of 50 numbered copies on alfa paper for volumes IV & V, the last and sixth volume printed in 70 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
Bound in half red shagreen with corners, spines with five raised bands set with blind fillets, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spines preserved, top edges gilt, retaining deckled edges.
Spines slightly faded.
Handsome copy attractively bound and complete in 7 volumes (the third volume comprising two volumes).

First edition, one of 70 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
Half red shagreen binding with corners, spine with five raised bands with blind fillets, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt retaining deckled edges.
Handsome copy handsomely bound.

First edition in French, one of 10 numbered copies on Annonay laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Half black shagreen binding with corners, spine with five raised bands set with black fillets, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt retaining its deckled edges.
Handsome copy beautifully bound of this biography devoted to Frederick II of Prussia.

First edition, one of 44 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe edition.
Half red morocco binding with corners, smooth spine decorated with gilt triple cartouches ending in interlaced patterns enhanced with green mosaicked morocco pieces, gilt date at foot, gilt fillet frame on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, covers and spine preserved, elegant contemporary binding signed Charles Lanoë.
Some light rubbing to one joint and to upper corners.
Handsome copy elegantly bound.

First edition, one of 100 copies numbered and justified on Holland paper by the publisher, deluxe copy.
Fine copy despite small marginal worming on first endpaper.
Work illustrated with a color frontispiece, a facsimile letter as well as 7 plates of which 3 in color, historiated bandeaux and initials, reproducing drawings by Detaille, Berne-Bellecour, Baugnies, etc...

Edition published by Paul de Rémusat of this fundamental correspondence for the Restoration.
Half tawny shagreen bindings, spines browned with five raised bands showing minor rubbing, gilt dates at foot, author's name in red shagreen, green shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.
Spines of bindings browned and showing rubbing.
Handsome interior condition.

Edition published with notes and an introduction by chevalier Alfred d'Arneth and A. Geffroy.
Half black shagreen bindings, browned spines with five raised bands decorated with double compartments and black fillets showing traces of rubbing, gilt dates at foot, black paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edges gilt, armorial bookplates pasted on pastedowns.
Spine of bindings showing rubbing, handsome interior condition.
Work illustrated with two facsimiles at beginning of volumes.
Rare complete correspondence in three volumes.

First edition.
Light lacks and angular tears to covers, some minor interior foxing, pages 104-105 shadowed due to the presence of a loose annotation sheet.
Copy in original wrappers.

First edition.
Half hazelnut morocco bindings with corners, slightly faded spines with five raised bands, gilt dates at foot, marbled paper boards marginally and slightly faded without concern, combed paper endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, top edges gilt, bindings signed Bretault.
Introduction and notes by Count de Circourt and Count de Puymaigre.
Handsome copy.

Edition illustrated with numerous in-text illustrations.
Half bottle-green shagreen bindings, spines with five raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons and fillets, author's name gilt at foot of spines, some rubbing to spines without serious damage, blind fillet frame on bottle-green paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, some corners slightly bumped, contemporary bindings.
Handsome interior condition.

First edition, one of 45 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, ours one of the 10 out of trade, only leading copies.
Nice copy.
Signed autograph of Louis de Saint-Piere Gérard Mainguet: "... with the certainty that he will always love this intelligent and faithful soldier, who showed so much common sense in an era that was so often missing."

First edition.
Bradel binding in sienna half-cloth, smooth spine decorated with a gilt fleuron, double gilt fillets at foot, marbled paper boards, one upper corner slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
Gift inscription in pen from a previous owner on the half-title page, some foxing affecting mainly the endpapers.
Complete with its folding map at the end of the volume.

First edition.
Bindings in half Empire green shagreen, spines with four raised bands decorated with double gilt compartments, green paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary bindings.
Autograph inscription signed on the first volume as a gift.
Ex-donos in pen from a previous owner of the work on the half-title pages, some light foxing.
Work illustrated with a portrait of Pierre de Pelleport as frontispiece to the first volume, 14 special maps, 2 facsimiles, 1 folding plan.

First edition.
Contemporary Bradel binding in half sienna cloth, smooth spine decorated with a gilt fleuron, double gilt fillets at foot, marbled paper boards.
Some foxing mainly on the edges and also at beginning and end of volume, gift inscription from a previous owner on the half-title page.
Our copy complete with the 3 portraits outside text in heliogravure: Nicolas Louis Planat de la Faye as frontispiece painted by H. Winterhalter, Madame F. E. Planat de la Faye painted by L. Knaus, portrait of N. L. Planat de la Faye drawn from life on July 24, 1815, aboard the Bellerophon.

First edition.
Bradel bindings.
Occasional foxing, ex-donos.
Rare.
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First edition of the French translation established by J.F. Minssen.
Half dark green morocco bindings, spines with five raised bands, dates and places gilt at foot, some traces of rubbing and scratches on some spines, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, some corners slightly bumped without gravity for the set, marbled edges, elegant bindings.
Some light foxing. Second board damaged at head with head joint slightly cracked and two corners bumped for volume 4.
Bookplates from the library of Vaux-le-Vicomte pasted on pastedowns.
Handsome complete set in 23 volumes (22 volumes of text and 1 volume of introduction to 19th century history) established in a charming uniform binding.

First collected edition of this selction of text choosen by Suzy Leparc, one of 10 numbered copies on Japan paper, the tirage de tête.
A very good copy.

First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, only leading copies.
Back and boards of the second volume partially and slightly insolated, otherwise pleasant together.
Signed autograph of Jean Bourguignon Gérard Mainguet on the first volume.