Idées cadeaux de Noël | Religion : À Dieu plaise.

Complete Ottoman Qur'an, lithographed in Istanbul in 1889 after the calligraphic composition of Mustafa Nazif Kadırgalı Efendi, then individually finished by hand with red rubrication, gilding and illumination.

The volume comprises 612 pages printed in black on fine paper with a parchment-like surface. The Arabic text, written in an elegant naskh hand in fifteen lines to the page, is enclosed within black rules heightened in bright and matt gold, the text panels measuring 8.1 x 13.2 cm. The verses are divided by small gilt and polychrome rosettes, while larger illuminated medallions appear in the margins of selected leaves. Chapter...

First edition printed in 130 copies, all nominative and numbered, on Rives vellum.
Full chocolate-brown morocco binding, spine with four double raised bands framed by black fillets extending onto the covers, gilt date at foot, gilt rolls on the caps, endpapers and pastedowns of hand-made paper, quintuple gilt fillet borders on the pastedowns, double gilt fillets on the board edges, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt.
Illustrated with a frontispiece, 15 plates and 6 vignettes by Georges Leroux engraved on copper by Raoul Serres.
This copy is supplemented, at the end of the volume, with a suite of the 22 illustrations together with the printed menu for the dinner...

Third edition after the original published in Bordeaux in 1593 and a second Parisian edition in 1594. The copy mentions the second edition because it is the second to be published in Bordeaux.
Extremely rare handwritten presentation signed by the author on the page of the endpaper: “Pour Monsieur de Rives en memoire de moy. A Caors ce iiij [4] may 1595. Charron.” “For Monseiur de Rives in memory of me. In Caors this iiij [4] May 1595. Charron.” It is, without doubt, about Jean III de Rieu, Lord of Rives, who belonged to the family of Antoine Hébrard de Saint-Sulpice, bishop of Cahors. Pierre Charron had been called theological by this same bishop of Cahors and became his curate...

The rare first edition, illustrated with a handsome frontispiece by Van der Laan and engraved by Bernart. Title pages printed in red and black. Attribution to Bruys is sometimes contested by bibliographers. Two letters defending the work against criticism can be found in volumes I and III.

Contemporary mottled sheep binding. Richly decorated raised spine. Red morocco title labels, brown morocco volume labels. Head of volume I partly lacking, volumes III and IV torn away, same at tail of volume IV. Worming to boards, quite present on the boards of volume IV. Joints of volume IV cracked. Despite the defects, spines in good appearance.
The work became a constantly...

First edition of all the texts comprising the collection. Each of the funeral orations features a title vignette with the arms of the deceased and a second as a title headpiece with a medallion portrait as well as a tailpiece. The dates of the orations range between 1695 and 1714. The two letters from Cardinal de Noailles that conclude the collection date respectively from 1712 and 1714.

Contemporary full brown speckled and glazed sheep binding. Spine with raised bands richly decorated. Havana morocco title label. Roulette on the leading edges. Rubbing to headcaps and joints. Scuffing and brown stains on the upper part of the front board. 2 dampstains on the Duke of...

Rare Collection of Three Theological Commentaries: 

-In libros Paralipomenon, sive Chronicorum Commentarius. Ludwig Lavater. Printed by Christophorus Froschoverus, Zurich, 1573. First edition, with the printer’s mark on the title-page. Preface by Ludwig Lavater dated February 1573. Numerous genealogical tables.

- Praelectiones Ioannis Calvini in librum prophetiarum Danielis. Jean Calvin. Edited by Jean Budée and Charles de Jonvilliers. Apud Bartholomaeum Vincentium, 1571. Place not indicated, but almost certainly Geneva, based on typographical evidence and the preface dated 14 September 1571. Hebrew text in bold, with translation to the...

First edition. Dorbon no. 4403: "rare, full of singular documents." Caillet [III, 9922] 
Contemporary full brown calf binding. Spine gilt-tooled in compartments. Brown morocco title-piece. Loss at head of spine. Corners worn and somewhat clumsily restored. A filled loss on lower cover. Scattered foxing. A waterstain at one corner of the final leaves. Several gatherings protruding. 

First edition, one of 10 numbered copies on Hollande paper, the only large paper copies along with 10 on China.
Contemporary half red morocco over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments with gilt flowers, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers preserved, top edge gilt.
Provenance : from the Lallemand de Mont collection, Stanislas de Guaita's son in law with his ex libris to pastedown.
A rare large paper copy with an exceptional provenance. 

First edition, on ordinary paper, of the French translation.
A small tear restored at the foot of the spine, a pleasing copy.
Letter-preface by Jean Cocteau, preface by Somerset Maugham.
Illustrated cover with a portrait of the Aga Khan by Kees Van Dongen, with iconography.

Rare and precious signed autograph presentation from the Aga Khan to Madame Avrillier.

 

New edition.

Illustrated with 130 vignettes and a portrait of Perrault, by the greatest illustrators of the century: Tony Johannot, Achille Devéria, Jean Gigoux, Napoléon Thomas, Célestin Nanteuil, engraved by Jacoste Jeune.

Bound in half roan, smooth spine framed in gilt, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns in papier caillouté. 

This edition contains La Barbe Bleue, Le petit chaperon rouge, Les fées, La belle au bois dormant, Le Chat Botté, Cendrillon, Riquet a la houpe, Petit poucet, L'adroite princesse, Peau d'ane, Griselidis, followed by Lettre à M*** en lui envoyant Griselidis, and Les souhaits ridicules.
Dry stamp of Henry Bertrand's...

First edition of this work considered to be Grandville's masterpiece, with illustrations in first print.

Illustrated frontispiece, 36 colored illustrations and 146 in-text woodcuts in black.

Contemporary binding in blue half glazed calf, sunned spine with gilt arabesques, small holes at foot of spine, marbled paper boards, mould made endpapers and flyleaves, speckled edges. 
This exuberant and prodigious production of Grandville and Delord (whose name is printed at the bottom of page 292), judged by its contemporaries as already being mad, was rediscovered by the Surrealists.

"Published in 1844 by éditions Fournier, Un autre monde is Grandville's...

Autograph manuscripts and epigraphic studies with several drawn maps (108 leaves and 86 half-leaves, as well as 28 pages with numerous glued papers) in paper folders and a notebook with a cloth cover titled “Decrees of Alexandria”. Numerous tears to the margins and paper folders, stained cloth cover.
Important unpublished set of epigraphy manuscripts by Egyptologist Auguste Baillet (1834-1923), colleague and friend of Gaston Maspero, the leader of French Egyptology.

Precious notebooks gathering the remarkable philological work of Auguste Baillet, who carried out from the 1860s until his death in 1923 meticulous transcriptions and translations of...