Gabriel-Martin DUMONT
Recueil de plusieurs parties d'architecture de différents maîtres tant d'Italie que de France
Chez l'auteur|Paris 1765|25 x 34 cm|relié
First edition of this collection of 75 plates including 4 engraved titles: Manière d'accoupler les colonnes et pilastres de l'ordre dorique (one title and 11 plates - the catalogue at the end announces 6 plates); Parallele de grands entablements et de charpentes à l'italienne (one title and 8 plates - the catalogue at the end announces 9); Suite de croisée des plus beaux palais de Rome (one title and 8 plates); Les Eglises des stations de Rome (one title and 10 plates); Suite de ruines d'architecture (33 plates, the catalogue announces 24).
The different copies held in public collections or in trade records are all different and do not contain the same parts, and sometimes not the same...
€1,800
ALAIN
Lettres à Sergio Solmi sur la philosophie de Kant
Paul Hartmann|Paris 1946|12.50 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on laid paper, deluxe copy.
Handsome copy.
€150
Pierre PARAF
Israël dans le monde
Flammarion|Paris 1947|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 56 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
Foxing to margins of covers and spine, a slight tear without loss at foot of rear cover, otherwise a handsome copy.
€300
Marcel PAGNOL
Le masque de fer
Editions de Provence|Paris 1965|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 100 copies on Dame Blanche wove paper, deluxe issue.
A fine copy.
€1,200
Théophile GAUTIER (Charles BAUDELAIRE)
Lettre à la Présidente[Letter to the President]
S. n.|s. l. • (Paris) 1850 (1890)|11 x 18 cm|broché sous chemise et étui
First edition, one of 50 copies printed anonymously on papier japon.
First edition, one of 50 copies printed anonymously on papier japon.
Illustrated with an erotic frontispiece by Félicien Rops on chine.
Custom chemise and slipcase in half morocco and paper boards signed Boichot, some discreet restorations to the spine and covers, some discreet restorations to the top margin of the frontispiece, not affecting the engraving.
“La Présidente”, honorary nickname given to Apollonie Sabatier (alias Aglaëe Savatier, her real name), was one of the most captivating Salon hostesses of the 19th century. She inspired an ethereal love in Baudelaire who...
€6,000
(Honoré DAUMIER)
[PHOTOGRAPHIE] Portrait photographique en médaillon d'Honoré Daumier
Pierre Petit|Paris s. d. [circa 1875]|6.20 x 10.50 cm|une photographie
Extremely rare original albumen photograph, carte-de-visite format in a medallion, mounted on cardboard.
We have been unable to find any copy of this photograph in international public collections.
€1,200
(Auguste RENOIR)
[PHOTOGRAPHIE] Portrait photographique de jeunesse d'Auguste Renoir en médaillonPhotographic medallion portrait of a young Auguste Renoir
Bingham|Paris s. d. [circa 1875]|6.20 x 10.20 cm|une photographie
Photographic medallion portrait of a young Auguste Renoir
Bingham | Paris n. d. [circa 1875] | 6,2 x 10,2 cm | photograph
An extremely rare original medallion photograph on albumin paper, in visiting card format, laid down on card from the Studio Bingham, Paris.
Manuscript annotations to verso, including the note “Collection Romi.” Robert Miquel, journalist and French “chronicler of the unusual” kept a shop at 15 rue de Seine, immortalized by Robert Doisneau in his series La Vitrine de Romi.
We have not been able to find any copies of this photograph in any of the international public collections.
€2,800
STENDHAL
Lamiel
Librairie moderne • Maison Quantin|Paris 1889|13 x 19 cm|relié
First edition, one of 12 numbered copies on Hollande, the only deluxe issue.

Complete with the folding map at the end.

Full fawn morocco binding, five raised band spine, date at foot, comb-marbled paper pastedowns framed with a rich gilt roll, comb-marbled endpapers, gilt fillet to headcap, gilt fillet to leading edges, gilt roll to headcaps, original wrappers and spine preserved, all gilt deckled edges, housed in a fawn morocco-edged slipcase. Binding signed by Semet & Plumelle.

Provenance: From the libraries of Dr André Chauveau, Lucius Wilmerding, and RBL, with their bookplates affixed.

A splendid deluxe copy of exceptional...
€13,500
François Romain CAMBOULIU
Etude sur les femmes d'Homère
Imprimerie Ve sens et Paul Savy|Toulouse 1854|13 x 21 cm|relié
First edition.
Contemporary full dark green shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons and blind fillets, covers richly decorated with blind lozenges containing gilt tools, triple blind fillet framing the covers, combed paper endpapers and pastedowns, all edges gilt. Some rubbing at the joints, otherwise handsome copy.
Armainvilliers library label pasted on the front pastedown.
Our copy contains an autograph letter signed by the author dated June 1863.
€400
Alfred JARRY (inscribed to Georges RODENBACH)
Ubu roi[Ubu Roi – Copy from the library of the poet Georges Rodenbach]
Mercure de France|Paris 1896|9.50 x 15.50 cm|relié
The first edition with two portraits of Père Ubu drawn by Alfred Jarry.
Half brown morocco over marbled paper boards by G. Gauché, spine in five compartments, raised bands with blind ruled fillet, gilt date to foot of spine, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine (repaired) preserved, top edge gilt.
A rare, handsome autograph inscription signed by Alfred Jarry: “Georges Rodenbach's copy. Alfred Jarry.”
Provenance: from the personal collection of President Georges Pompidou with his ex-libris to endpaper.
“He showed that he could, at the same time, love Racine and Soulages... Poussin...
€12,000
Chris MARKER
Commentaires
Seuil|Paris 1961|14 x 20.50 cm|broché
Commentaires

Seuil | Paris 1961 | 14 x 20.5 cm | original wrappers
First edition of which there were no grand papier (deluxe) copies, one of the advance (service de presse) copies.
One clear, small water stain at the top of the very lightly sun-damaged spine, tiny tears at the top and bottom of the spine.
Work decorated with illustrations and photographs by Chris Marker.
Very rare and humorous handwritten presentation signed by Chris Marker to André and [Sacha?]: «et ce n'est pas fini.» («and it isn't finished.»)
€2,000
Baudelaire and Hugo: The Storm-Swept Meeting of the Albatross and the Man of the Ocean
Baudelaire and Hugo: The Storm-Swept Meeting of the Albatross and the Man of the Ocean
Charles BAUDELAIRE, Victor HUGO
Théophile Gautier. Notice littéraire précédée d'une lettre de Victor Hugo
Poulet Malassis & De Broise|Paris 1859|11.50 x 18 cm|relié
First edition, of which only 500 copies were issued. With an etched frontispiece portrait of Théophile Gautier by Émile Thérond.

With a substantial prefatory letter by Victor Hugo.

Full red morocco binding, gilt date at the foot of spine, marbled endpapers, Baudelairian ex-libris from Renée Cortot’s collection on the first endpaper, wrappers preserved, top edge gilt. Pale foxing affecting the first and last leaves, beautiful copy perfectly set.

€75,000
Hector BERLIOZ
Les grotesques de la musiqueThe Musical Madhouse
A. Bourdilliat & Cie|Paris 1859|11.50 x 18 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
Les Grotesques de la musique [The Musical Madhouse]
A. Bourdilliat & Cie | Paris 1859 | 11.5 x 18 cm | publisher's original binding
First edition.
Publisher's green cloth, spine and boards ruled in blind, yellow endpapers and pastedowns, pastedowns soiled, edges spotted.
A little light foxing.
A rare and handsome autograph inscription signed by Hector Berlioz in pencil to title: "à mon ami Théodore Ritter, souvenirs affectueux"
Théodore Ritter, son of composer Eugène Prévost, was Berlioz's student for whom he composed a piano arrangement of L'Enfance du Christ [The Childhood of Christ]
Berlioz inscriptions are rare and highly...
€6,800
Stefan ZWEIG (Honoré de BALZAC)
Balzac
Albin Michel|Paris 1950|14 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition of the French translation, one of 80 numbered copies on vélin de Renage, the only deluxe copies printed.
Spine and boards slightly and marginally sunned without consequence, otherwise a handsome copy.
« Le Grand Balzac comme Zweig désignait dans la vie familière son entreprise, - pour la distinguer d'essais antérieurs de moindre importance, - devait selon le voeu de l'auteur, devenir son oeuvre capitale, son magnus opus. Il travaillait au manuscrit depuis dix ans. Il voulait y inclure la somme de son expérience d'écrivain et de sa connaissance de la vie, Balzac lui semblait le plus grand sujet accessible, et à proprement parler, prédestiné à son talent...
€2,000
Rabbi Juda (Yehouda) ben Shmouel ibn Alhassan HALEVI, Johannes BUXTORF FILS
[Kuzari] Liber Cosri : continens colloquium seu disputationem de religione, habitam ante nongentos annos, inter regem cosarreorum, & R. Isaacum Sangarum Judæum; contra philosophos præcipuè è gentilibus, & Karraitas è Judæis; synopsin simulexhibens theologiæ & philosophiæ judaicæ, variâ & reconditâ eruditione refertam
Sumptibus authoris [l'auteur] • typis Georgi Deckeri|Basileae [Bâle] [Basel] 1660|16 x 20.50 cm|relié
Sumptibus authoris. Typis Georgi Deckeri | Basileae [Basel] 1660 | 4to (16 x 20.5 cm) | (50 pp.) 455 pp. (29 pp.) | modern vellum

First edition of the Latin translation by Johannes Buxtorf The Younger of the first translation into Hebrew by Juda ibn Tibbon, Juda Halevi's Arabic text not being rediscovered till 1887 (today in the Bodleian).
Modern vellum binding, flaps.
Skillful restoration to inside margin of final third of work, without loss to text. A few small wormtracks, filled in, to lower margins of pastedowns as well as first and final endpapers. A few dampstains to lower portion and some pages browned.
Stamp of the University Library at Leiden («Acad...
€4,000
DIOSCORIDE, Marcellus VERGILIUS
Pedacii Dioscoridae Anazarbei de Medica materia Libri sex [Traité de matière médicale]
Filippo Giunta|Florence 1518|21 x 32.50 cm|relié
First edition of the Marcello Virgilio translation in Latin, dedicated to Leo X. The princeps edition was based on an old translation by Petrus de Abano (ca. 1250-1316), and published in 1478 in Colle di Val d'Elsa. The original text was written in Greek around 60 AD.
Title page in red and black. 45 lines per page. Colophon : "Florentiæ per hæredes Philippi Iuntæ Florentini. Anno ab incarnatione Domini.1518. Idibus Octobris. Leone decimo Christiana[m] Rempub. gerente." Superb Filippo Giunta printer's mark on verso of last leaf. Bibliographical note in French opposite the title page.
Full modern limp vellum binding, all edges faintly bluish.
A lack of a small piece of paper...
€8,000
Albrecht DÜRER
Alberti Dureri clarissimi pictoris et geometræ. De sym[m]etria partium in rectis formis hu[m]anorum corporum
In aedib. viduae Durerianae • [ Hieronymus Andreae]|Norimbergae [Nürimberg] [Nuremberg] 1532|20.50 x 32 cm|relié
Alberti Dureri clarissimi pictoris et geometræ. De sym[m]etria partium
in rectis formis hu[m]anorum corporum
In aedibviduae Durerianae [Hieronymus Andreae] | Norimbergae [Nuremberg] 1532
| folio (20.5 x 32 cm) | (80) f. (A-E6, F4, G-N6, O4) | full parchment

First edition of the Latin translation created by Joachim Camerarius, the work appeared in German in 1528 under the title Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion. Our edition contains the first two books, the following two will be published in 1534 under the title De varietate figurarum et flexuris partium ac gestibus imaginum. We will have...
€20,000
Jean EPSTEIN, Blaise CENDRARS
La poésie d'aujourd'hui. Un nouvel état de l'intelligence
Editions de la Sirène|Paris 1921|14.50 x 19.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 50 copies on kraft roux, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Spine and covers marginally sunned as usual, a small spot on the last endpaper.
Cover illustrated with a drawing by Dalbanne reprinted on the title page.
Letter-postface by Blaise Cendrars.
€1,500
Ernst TOLLER
Le livre de l'hirondelle
Cahiers du sud|Marseille 1928|14 x 19.50 cm|broché
First edition in French, one of 11 numbered copies on Madagascar paper, deluxe copy.
Illustrated work with a frontispiece photographic portrait of the author.
Ernst Toller was a pacifist militant, anarchist who participated in establishing the ephemeral Bavarian Council Republic, alongside Gustav Landauer and Erich Mühsam. He would commit suicide in exile in the United States, despairing at the triumph of Nazism, thus preceding Stefan Zweig in death.
Very fine and rare copy.
€1,500
René LOUVAT, Germaine KANOVA
Affiche de la France libre : "French resistance helps throttle the Boche"Free French poster: "French resistance helps throttle the Boche"
Londres [London] 1944|-|2|une feuille
Free French poster: “French resistance helps throttle the Boche”

Londres 1944 | 49 x 75 cm | one poster

Rare original Free French poster published in London in 1944, with the tagline: “French resistance helps throttle the Boche”.
One tear without loss, very skillfully repaired.

Executed by René Louvat after a photograph by Germaine Kanova, the first female war correspondent for the Armed Forces Film Service (SCA).

The color lithograph, signed “R. Louvat, 1944, photo G. Kanova” shows two hands with red-white-and-blue flames coming out of them strangling a German soldier, recognizable by his helmet...
€2,000
COLLECTIF
L'Espagne sanglante. Badajoz, Irun, l'Alcazar, Madrid
U.N.C.|Paris 1936|24 x 31 cm|agrafé
First edition of this pro-Francoist publication, presented in the form of an illustrated journal with photographs, intended to document the atrocities perpetrated by the Republicans, Anarchists and International Brigades during the Civil War then raging in Spain.
Rare and handsome copy.

€200
Georges DARIEN
Gottlieb Krumm, Made in England
R.A. Everett & Co|London 1904|12.50 x 19 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
Georges DARIEN
Gottlieb Krumm,
Made in England
R.A. Everett & Co | London 1904| 12.5 x 19 cm | publisher's binding
First edition of an extraordinary rarity published in London and written in English. The French edition, translated by Walter Redfern, only appeared in 1984.
Publisher's binding in glazed brown calico, spine ends lightly rubbed, without significant damage, illustrated first board.
Small and light dirt marks on the second board, small sections of paper missing due to the fragility of this featherweight laid paper.
Exiled with the majority of the French anarchists following the enactment of the “Lois scélérates” in 1893...
€6,000
Raymond TEMPLIER, Laure ALBIN-GUILLOT
Catalogue de la maison Paul Templier & filsMaison Raymond Templier & Fils Catalogue
Paul Templier & fils|Paris s. d. [circa 1930]|18.50 x 24.50 cm|en feuilles
Rare first edition of this catalogue presenting jewellery creations by the Maison Templier.
Very nice copy.
Illustrated catalogue with 3 photographs by Laure Albin-Guillot.
€1,200
Exceptional copy inscribed by Charles Baudelaire
Exceptional copy inscribed by Charles Baudelaire
Charles BAUDELAIRE
Les Fleurs du mal[Flowers of Evil]
Poulet Malassis & De Broise|Paris 1857|12.10 x 18.80 cm|relié sous étui
First edition, printed on vélin d'Angoulême paper, with the usual misprints and including the six condemned poems, one of the few copies given to the author and “intended for friends who do not deliver literary services”.
Full emerald morocco binding, signed by Marius Michel, original wrappers preserved.

Precious presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author in pencil on the half-title page: “à M. Tenré fils, souvenir de bonne camaraderie, Ch. Baudelaire” (“to M. Tenré Jnr, a reminder of good friendship, Ch. Baudelaire”) and three handwritten corrections, in pencil on pages 29 and 110 and in ink on page 43.
...
€170,000
André PIEYRE DE MANDIARGUES, Giacomo LEOPARDI
La mode et la mort. Suivi d'un essai sur Soriano et l'Italie.
Fata Morgana|Fontfroide 1989|19 x 28.50 cm|en feuilles
First edition of the French translation by André Pieyre of Mandiargues, one of 50 copies numbered on "pur-fil" paper Arches paper, only leading copies, ours one of the 20 copies enriched with a color suite of engravings signed and numbered by Juan Soriano.
Nice copy.
Illustrated book of two original engravings by Juan Soriano that he has numbered and signed .
Handwritten signature of André Pieyre of Mandiargues to the colophon.
Our copy is enriched with a business card of Juan Soriano on which it was split of an autograph shipment dated and signed for Alice and Georges (Raillard), envelope attached.
€1,200
Friedrich NIETZSCHE
La volonté de puissance - Essai d'une transmutation de toutes les valeursWill to power
Mercure de France|Paris 1903|13 x 18.50 cm|2 volumes brochés
La volonté de puissance. Essai d'une transmutation de toutes les valeurs [Will to power], Mercure de France, Paris 1903, 13x18,5cm, 2 volume in original wrappers.
First edition of the French translation, one of 12 numbered copies on Hollande paper, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
One small trace of folding, not serious, to lower cover of the second volume, endpapers very slightly and partially shaded.
Nice and rare copy with untrimmed edges.
€7,500
René LEYNAUD, Albert CAMUS (Pref.)
Poésies posthumes
Gallimard|Paris 1947|12 x 18.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 13 numbered copies on pur fil paper, this copy one of 3 lettered hors commerce, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Preface by Albert Camus.
Endpapers slightly and partially shaded.
Rare and nice copy with a photographic portrait of the author as frontispiece.
€2,500
Pierre BOULEZ
Relevés d'apprenti
Seuil|Paris 1966|14.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition of these texts presented by Paule Thévenin, one of 15 numbered copies on vélin neige, this copy one of 5 hors commerce, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Copy slightly warped.
Handwritten signature of Pierre Boulez under the justification.
€1,200
Jules BARBEY D'AUREVILLY
L'amour impossible[Impossible Love]
Imprimerie de E.B. Delanchy|Paris 1841|13.50 x 21.50 cm|relié sous étui
First edition very rare of the first novel of Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (see Clouzot).
Occasional rare spotting.
Half sheep, very light traces of repair on the spine, covers marbled, contemporary binding.
A very nice copy.
€3,800
Marc DVORJETSKI
Ghetto à l'est
Robert Marin|Paris 1950|14 x 19.50 cm|broché
First edition of the French translation from Yiddish by Arnold Mandel, one of 50 numbered copies on alfa mousse paper, the only deluxe copies.
Rare and handsome copy with the illustrated dust jacket.
€300
Charles-Augustin SAINTE-BEUVE
Critiques et portraits littéraires[Literary Criticism and Portraits]
Eugène Renduel|Paris 1832-1839|14 x 22.50 cm|5 volumes reliés
First edition, the first volume being at the right date of 1832, which is very rare according to Clouzot.
Binders in half navy blue morocco navy corners, smooth back decorated with cartridges decorated with golden floral friezes, golden dates in tails, gilt fillets on the plates of marbled paper, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, blankets and back preserved, elegant bindings in the romantic style signed by Champs.
Rare and pleasant copy set in a perfect romantic binding of Champs.
€2,300
Michel FOUCAULT
Folie et déraison - Histoire de la folie à l'âge classiqueMadness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Plon|Paris 1961|14 x 20.50 cm|broché
[Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason]
Plon, Paris 1961, 5 1/2 x 8 1/16 ”, original wrappers.
First edition, of which there were no grand papier (deluxe)copies, an advance (service de presse) copy. A second, revised, edition appeared in 1972.
Spine slightly bowed, retaining dj, dj with a few tears and lacks to plastic film cover.
Handsome autograph inscription signed by Michel Foucault, at the time a young teacher, on his first important work, taken from his doctorate.
A very rare advance copy, which could be said to have taken the place of the grand papier (deluxe) copies.
€4,500
Valery LARBAUD
Aux couleurs de Rome[In the Colours of Rome]
Nrf|Paris 1938|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 35 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, head print.
Pleasant copy despite two very slight insolations without gravity in the head and foot of the back.
€1,000
(Maurice BLANCHOT)
Photographie originale de Maurice Blanchot posant fièrement à bord d'un bateau[Original photograph of Maurice Blanchot proudly posing aboard a boat]
S. n.|Elbeuf S.d (1900)|5.50 x 8 cm|une feuille
Original photograph of Maurice Blanchot standing against a wall.
Vintage silver gelatin print.

« Blanchot long defied photographers and caricaturists of the literary press. Minimalist and extremely rare, over so many years, are the illustrative sketches: in 1962 in L'Express, a hand brandishing a book, against a page background; in 1979, in Libération, a blank square in the middle of the page, bearing only the name Maurice Blanchot as caption and a quotation from L'Entretien infini ("un vide d'univers: rien qui fut visible, rien qui fut invisible" ["a void of universe: nothing that was visible, nothing that was invisible"]) » (C. Bident, Maurice...
€1,200
Albert CAMUS
Lettres à un ami allemand[Letters to a German Friend]
Gallimard|Paris 1945|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, most limited issue.

The book Camus dedicated to his friend René Leynaud.

Rare and handsome copy.
€8,000