Complete and illustrated 1756 edition of naval lieutenant general Duguay-Trouin's memoirs, that were first published posthumously in 1740, in accordance with the author's wishes. In 1730, from the same publisher as our copy, an unauthorized edition prepared by Pierre de Villepontoux revealed Duguay-Trouin's achievements during his lifetime. Manuscript ownership inscription in black ink on the title page.
Contemporary binding in full brown sheep, richly decorated spine with five raised bands, brown morocco lettering piece, gilt roll on the board edges, blue pebbled marbled edges, marbled pastedowns and endpapers.
Headcap damaged, repairs and minor rubbing to the front board, corners bumped.
Half-title expertly repaired on verso, 2.8 cm tear at p. 105 not affecting the text, minor dampstaining toward the end of the volume, brief brown ink annotation on the rear free endpaper.
The work is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author and 6 folding plates depicting ships, fleets, and naval battles, including a plan of the capture of Rio de Janeiro in 1711.
First edition, one of 330 numbered copies on Arches wove paper.
Minor tears to the head and tail of the spine; a pleasing copy.
With wood-engraved illustrations by François de Marliave, printed in several colours by E. Gasperini.
First edition, illustrated with a folding map and 469 engravings within the text.
Contemporary half black shagreen, the spine with four raised bands ruled in gilt and decorated with triple blind-tooled panels, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns; a few small scuffs to the edges, corners slightly rubbed.
Contents include: history; construction and manufacture of telegraph cables; laying and repair of submarine cables; electrical testing; fault detection; signal transmission; and the operation of submarine lines.
The author, Jules Hippolyte Eugène Wünschendorff (1840–1901), was an engineer with the telegraph service and director of military telegraphy.
A pleasing copy.
Rare first edition, illustrated with four plates at the end of the volume (cf. Polak 8728).
This practical treatise was reissued repeatedly until the end of the Ancien Régime.
Our copy is offered in its original state, stitched in the temporary blue paper wrappers.
A waterstain in the right margin of the first fifty leaves, with another affecting the lower margins of the subsequent leaves; title page detached.
Gilles-François Segondat (1724–1791), deputy commissioner of the navy, was to conclude his career as an ordinary commissioner of the ports.
First edition.
Our copy is preserved in its original wrappers beneath a plain cover, the spine split with losses to the paper and the title label also with defects.
Pleasing condition internally, with only occasional foxing.
Among the finest works relating to naval medicine; a substantial section (pp. 90–212) is devoted to scurvy.
The author, a physician in the Dutch navy, composed this work entirely from his own firsthand observations.
A substantial section (pp. 90–212) is devoted to scurvy.
Very rare first edition, illustrated with two frontispieces, eighteen plates, and a folding map table bound at the end of the second volume.
Scattered foxing.
Half black shagreen bindings, smooth spines tooled in blind with fillets and small ornaments, gilt lettering at the foot of the spines showing some rubbing, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, light rubbing to the extremities, sprinkled edges, contemporary bindings.
Born at Versailles in 1809, Anne Jean-Baptiste Raffenel entered the Naval administration in 1825.
After several voyages, notably to Africa, the West Indies and the United States, he was posted to Senegal and from 1843 explored the Falémé river together with the regions of Bondou and Bambouk.
The account of this expedition was published in 1846 under the title Voyage dans l'Afrique occidentale (1 vol. in-8 and 1 atlas in-4). That same year, the Ministry of the Navy entrusted Raffenel with a more ambitious mission: to cross the African continent from west to east, from Senegal to Egypt via the sources of the Nile.
Armed with detailed instructions from the Académie des Sciences and provided with significant funding, he reached the upper Senegal basin in 1847, travelled through Kaarta on the right bank of the river, but was refused access to the Niger by El-Hadj Omar.
Reaching the borders of Ségou, he was betrayed by his guides and handed over to the Bambara, who held him captive for eight months. He returned to France in June 1848.
During his captivity he gathered the material for his Nouveau voyage dans le pays des Nègres: "Non seulement cette relation renferme un tableau complet de l'état social, moral et politique du Soudan occidental, mais elle contient en outre d'utiles réflexions sur les réformes et améliorations à introduire dans le gouvernement du Sénégal" (Hoefer).
First edition (cf. Sabin, 64,876).
Spine cracked with small losses; slight marginal tears and losses to the wrappers.
The subject of this dissertation does not, of course, concern the State of the same name (a member of the Confederacy during the Civil War), but the vessel, the CSS Alabama, a sloop of war with combined steam and sail propulsion, built in Great Britain in 1862. It served in the Confederate States Navy until it was sunk on 19 June 1864 following a naval engagement with the Union sloop of war USS Kearsarge off the port of Cherbourg, France.
In the aftermath of the war arose the Alabama Claims, demands for damages brought by the Federal Government of the United States against the Government of the United Kingdom for the latter’s clandestine assistance to the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.
The dispute was resolved only by recourse to an international court of arbitration which sat at Geneva in 1872 and was composed of representatives of the United Kingdom (Alexander Cockburn), the United States (Charles Francis Adams, Sr.), the Kingdom of Italy (Federigo Sclopis), the Swiss Confederation (Jakob Stämpfli), and the Empire of Brazil (Marcos Antônio de Araújo).
The Alabama Claims case marked the first submission of an inter-state dispute to supra-national arbitration, and the tribunal convened for this purpose laid the foundations of modern public international law. The lawyer Paul-Ernest Pradier-Fodéré (1827–1904) was a specialist in international law, which he had been teaching since 1857.
First edition, illustrated with two plates, including an engraved portrait frontispiece by S. Desmaretz and Couché after Scheibler, together with an engraved headpiece by De Launay (cf. Quérard, VII, 240; Polak, 7650).
Account of the career of Jean Bart, squadron leader in the French Navy and Knight of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis, forming part of the collection devoted to the nineteen engagements of this celebrated seaman, engraved by M. Le Gouaz; followed by historical, biographical and topographical notes on the origins of Dunkirk and the political importance of its port (...). With engraved plates and vignettes. Dedicated to H.E. the Minister of the Navy and the Colonies. Paris, Arthus Bertrand [printed by P. Didot the Elder], 1807, 8vo.
Contemporary half cherry calf, smooth spine very slightly cocked and tooled in gilt with fillets, garlands and fan tools, marbled paper sides, marbled edges, corners a little rubbed; mid-19th-century binding.
Paper repairs to the lower outer corners of pp. 125–126 and 127–128.
The only edition of this very rare short monograph, published as much in praise of Dunkirk as of Jean Bart. The second part bears its own title: Coup-d'oeil sur Dunkerque, sa population progressive depuis 1685 jusqu'en 1789, et le grand nombre de ses célèbres marins qui ont précédé et suivi Jean-Bart. A lawyer from Dunkirk, Louis-Eugène Poirier (1753–1818) came to notice after the fall of Robespierre for his vehement denunciation of the actions of Joseph Lebon at Arras.
First edition of this important first-hand account of the deportation and enforced stay in French Guiana of the counter-revolutionary journalist and songwriter Louis-Ange Pitou (1767–1846), placed under “preventive” arrest after the Directory’s coup d’état of 18 Fructidor, Year V [4 September 1797], sentenced to transportation, and released from exile only after 18 Brumaire (cf. Fierro, 1170. Sabin 63057. Leclerc 3445.)
The work is illustrated with two folding engraved frontispieces: La détention des déportés sur la frégate La Décade and Le désert de Konanama dans la Guyane.
Contemporary bindings in fawn calf, half-bound with small vellum corners, smooth spines decorated with dentelle tools and double gilt fillets, cherry morocco lettering- and volume-labels, with an inlaid green morocco piece on the volume labels, some rubbing to the spines, marbled paper boards, speckled edges; period bindings.
A pleasing copy preserved in its contemporary bindings.
First edition of the French translation (cf. Gay 3146).
Our copy is preserved in the original wrappers, with yellow and black marbled covers and a title label pasted at the head of the spine.
Occasional light foxing; a numbering in black ink facing the half-title.
First edition of the French translation of this account, originally published under the title: "An Account of the Island of Ceylon" in London in 1803 (cf. Boucher de La Richarderie, V, 135. Brunet, IV, 490 and Quérard, VII, 43 mention an edition published by Dentu, 1804).
Contemporary full mottled calf bindings, smooth spines decorated with gilt compartments and gilt tools, red morocco lettering pieces, green calf volume labels, gilt rolls at the head and tail partly worn, fragile joints, marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, bookplates pasted to the pastedowns, gilt fillets on the board edges, speckled edges.
Bindings rubbed, small losses at the foot of the joints, a few light foxing spots.
Our copy is complete with its four folding maps and plans issued out of text: map of the island of Ceylon, plan of the port of Trinquemale, map of the pearl fisheries, and plan of the port of Colombo.
An English officer, Robert Percival (1765–1826) took part in the capture of the Cape of Good Hope in 1796, then occupied by the Dutch.
The following year he was sent to Ceylon with the British troops, where he remained for more than three years, allowing him to visit nearly all the coasts as well as the interior of the island. He was also a member of an embassy sent to the island’s native sovereign.
His account offers a comprehensive panorama of the island of Ceylon at the end of the eighteenth century: history, geography, natural resources, agriculture, trade, civil and military institutions, customs and manners of the Dutch, Portuguese, Malays and Sinhalese, fauna and flora, etc.
Provenance: from the library of the Château de Menneval, with bookplates pasted to the pastedowns.
Rare first edition of this curious work recalling the voluntary exile to Jersey of the man of letters Auguste Luchet (1806–1872).
Only two copies recorded in the Catalogue collectif de France (BnF and Avranches).
From 1842 to 1847 the author chose to leave France rather than serve the two-year prison sentence to which he had been condemned: his novel "Le Nom de famille" had led him to appear, together with his publisher Hippolyte Souverain, before the Assize Court jury on 10 March 1842 for "excitation à la haine et au mépris du gouvernement et provocation à la haine de classes".
Slight corner losses to spine and boards, without consequence; faint water-stain on the opening leaves.
Second edition of the french translation.
Some light foxing.
Contemporary full mottled calf bindings, smooth spines richly gilt with typographical ornaments, slight rubbing to the joints, red morocco title and volume labels, gilt rolls to the headcaps, sides framed with a gilt floral dentelle, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt dotted edges, marbled edges.
Gay 368 : "On y trouve l'extrait du voyage de Picard qui se rendit à Fouta Tora ; cette relation ne se rencontre pas ailleurs".
First edition illustrated with 1 large folding map: "Carte de la côte occidentale d'Afrique depuis le Cap Barbas jusqu'au Cap Tagrin par Lapie, Ingénieur Géographe (et) gravée par P.F. Tardieu" (cf. Gay 2905.)
Our copy in original stitched wrappers with interim covers lined with marbled paper.
Light dampstaining to the right margin of the final leaves.
Important details on the slave trade in connection with the Gorée Island stopover at the end of the volume.
Pierre Labarthe (Dax 1760 - Paris 1824) was appointed head of the Bureau of Eastern Colonies and African Coasts in 1794, a position he held until 1808.
He had gathered numerous authentic documents and important observations which he recorded in works still consulted with profit. (Cf. Hoefer.)
First edition, printed in a small number of copies, of this offprint from the Mémoires de la Société naturelle des sciences naturelles de Cherbourg, vol. XX (1876).
See O'Reilly, Tahiti, 2693. Only three copies recorded in the CCF (BnF, Aix-Marseille, Cherbourg).
Bradel binding in blue half cloth, smooth spine, long red marbled morocco title label, marbled paper sides, original wrappers preserved, modern signed binding by Boichot.
This pamphlet, which contains a large number of botanical entries on the Marquesas, Tahiti, the Sandwich Islands, New Zealand, etc., is a continuation of the study entitled Les Plantes alimentaires de l'Océanie (1875).
A rare and pleasing copy.
First edition.
Contemporary full mottled fawn calf, smooth spine gilt with floral tools and gilt geometric tooling, tan calf lettering-piece, gilt rolls to the headcaps now largely faded, a small loss to the upper headcap, some rubbing to the joints, single blind fillet framing the covers, marbled endpapers, gilt fillets to the edges of the boards mostly worn away, yellow sprinkled edges, corners just a little softened; a period binding.
Sole edition of this history of travel since Antiquity, considered from the standpoint of its benefits to trade and commerce.
The work is nominally presented as a translation, though it is in fact by the Marseille man of letters Marc-Antoine Eidous (1724–1790), one of the industrious but somewhat pedestrian contributors to the Encyclopédie.
First edition.
Minor marginal tears to the boards, a few spots of foxing.
Not recorded by Sabin.
First separately issued edition, illustrated with a large folding map, issued as a plate outside the text (cf. Sabin 94850).
The work was first published in 1838 in the Notices statistiques sur les colonies françaises.
"La lecture des documents officiels réunis dans la Notice statistique laissera déjà dans tous les esprits cette conviction que la Guyane française offre de nombreux éléments de richesse et de prospérité, et que, pour les avoir laissés improductifs pendant deux siècles, la France ne peut avoir renoncé à les mettre un jour en valeur".
Some light foxing, otherwise a pleasing copy.
First edition, illustrated with four plates, three of them folding (cf. Cordier, Sinica 442).
Losses to the head and tail of the spine, marginal tears to the covers, a light dampstain to the lower portion of the upper board, one plate torn across the centre without affecting the images,
Text of the lecture delivered on 13 December 1878 before the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.
Albert-Auguste Fauvel (1851–1909), a naval officer, accompanied the Duc de Penthièvre on his voyage around the world (1866–1867).
A graduate in Manchu, he had held a post since 1872 within the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service.
A naturalist, he devoted himself to the study of the fauna and flora of the Chusan Islands, off Ning-Po (Numa Broc). He was also a gifted economist.
First edition illustrated with a folding map and a folding plate of fossils (cf. O'Reilly, Nouvelle-Calédonie, 486a).
Light waterstaining affecting the plate and the map at the end of the volume.
The palaeontologist Eugène Eudes-Deslongchamps (1830–1889) devoted most of his work to Normandy, his native region, but he also produced geological monographs based on collections assembled by other researchers, as is the case here.
First edition, printed in a small number of copies, of this interesting report extracted from the Annales maritimes et coloniales of 1839 (cf. Polak 2837).
Our copy is preserved in its original wrappers, with a plain blue-grey cover.
Tears to the spine and to the margins of the covers, some foxing, notably on the title page.
First edition.
Our copy is offered in loose sheets, unbound.
First edition of this defence of the exclusive privilege of the Compagnie des Indes, then being challenged by the deputies of the National Assembly.
This memorandum is signed by Le Couteux du Mollay, Greffulge, Boyd, Dangirard, Picquet, and Le Cocq, commissioners representing the Company’s shareholders.
Our copy is preserved in its original stitched wrappers, issued in the temporary blue waiting covers.
A central fold throughout, rubbing with losses to the waiting covers, otherwise a pleasingly clean copy internally.
First edition, illustrated with three folding tables in the text.
Our copy is preserved sewn, as issued, in plain contemporary waiting wrappers of pink marbled paper.
The plain spine is browned and detached, with some losses.
Second edition, partly original, as enlarged (cf. Barbier II, 241: gives "Deslandes". Polak 1130. INED 737. See Sabin 19744 for the first English edition published the same year.)
Full brown sheep binding, smooth spine gilt-ruled and decorated with gilt compartments and floral tools, rubbing to the joints, gilt rolls on the head- and tailcaps partly dulled, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt fillets on the board edges faint in places, red edges, a period binding.
Some repairs to the spine.
Pages 191 to 252 contain the "Mémoire historique sur les Indes Braves, et les Forbans François du Golfe de Darien".
This edition appeared in the same year as the original; the historical memoir on the "Indes Braves" and the French buccaneers of the Gulf of Darien (Caribbean), which is not by Boureau-Deslandes, is published here for the first time.
"Contains many interesting notices relating to America, particularly the design of Cromwell to become possessor of that country, the expedition of Thomas Gage, etc." (cf. Sabin).
The Gulf of Darien lies in the Caribbean Sea between the Panamanian and Colombian coasts. "Place tenue par la marine chez les peuples de l'antiquité et en France depuis le commencement de la monarchie (...) Critique du luxe, éloge des manufactures : l'une des plus graves conséquences de la révolution de l'Edit de Nantes fut le départ d'ouvriers ; il faudrait imiter Edouard IV qui fit venir en Angleterre des ouvriers spécialisés" Cf. INED.
Rare group of six fascicules, all in the original edition.
Bradel-style binding in green mottled boards, smooth unlettered spine, printed title label mounted at the centre of the upper cover; modern binding.
Not recorded by Polak. Apparently no copy located in the CCFr.
A stain at the head of the title page.
This curious compilation, bearing almost no identifying information, appears to be particularly rare.
It contains:
- 1. A notice to mariners concerning the change in the lighting of the lighthouse in the Bay of the Somme, scheduled for 25 Pluviôse, Year IX [14 February 1801].
- 2. An instruction on filters for purifying water, signed by the health officers Dubrueil, Thaumur, Dupré, and Billard.
- 3. A notice on naval provisions, signed by Rivoire.
- 4. A description of the sillomètre (an instrument for measuring longitude at sea), addressed to the editor of the Moniteur by the former journalist Charles Mozard (1755–1810), who had served as Commissioner of France’s commercial relations in Boston from 1794 to 1799 and was at that time among the contributors to the Moniteur.
- 5. A discourse by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre delivered at the Institut (Nautical experiments, and dietary and moral observations, proposed for the benefit and health of sailors on long-distance voyages). This contribution had already been printed in La Décade philosophique, littéraire et politique of 30 Vendémiaire, Year IX [22 October 1800].
- 6. Two practical notices on means of preserving ships (from fire, water, and rats). The nature of these texts and their immediate sources suggest that this publication was probably conceived as a trial maritime periodical intended to make available sea-related articles previously published in other journals. For reasons unknown, the experiment was not continued, a circumstance that is fairly common in the history of periodicals.
Very scarce first edition, issued in a small printing, of this offprint from the Annales des Sciences naturelles for September 1828 (cf. Engelmann I, 315).
This paper is preceded by "Extrait du rapport fait à l’Académie royale des sciences sur le mémoire présenté par MM. Audouin et Milne-Edwards, par MM. Cuvier et Duméril".
The CCF records only two copies, in Paris (Muséum) and Montpellier.
The author of several entomological papers published from 1821 onwards, Victor Audouin also took an interest in marine biology: in 1826, 1828 and 1829 he undertook, together with Henri Milne-Edwards, three field trips to Brittany and Normandy.
The present article summarises the observations made by the two young naturalists on Ascidians, Flustra, Pennatulidae, Alcyonaria, Sponges, Polyps, etc.
The preliminary report by Cuvier and Duméril expresses a highly favourable opinion of their research.
A handsome copy, bearing on the upper wrapper a presentation inscription in the hand of Henri Milne-Edwards: « Monsieur Dutrochet, de la part des auteurs ».
A physician, botanist and physiologist, Henri Dutrochet (1776–1847) is remembered for his discovery of osmotic phenomena: his « Nouvelles recherches sur l’endosmose et l’exosmose » appeared in 1828.
New edition, partly original, published anonymously (see Sabin 20,288).
Disbound copy, preserved in a modern marbled paper wrapper.
Abbé Louis Genty (1743–1817) is better known for his Influence de la découverte de l’Amérique sur le bonheur du genre humain, published in 1788, but this Dissertation appears here in a form close to its first draft.
Uncommon first edition (cf. O'Reilly & Reitman, 6271: "Travail consciencieux, bien documenté et toujours utile"; Numa Broc, Océanie, pp. 377-380).
Our copy retains the two folding maps bound at the end of the first volume.
The two maps are titled: Carte de l'île Taïti d'après Vilson et les travaux récens de la frégate l'Artémise; Carte de l'archipel Taïti d'après les travaux les plus récens [et] des archipels français dans l'Océanie par Mr Vincendon-Dumoulin, 1844.
Contemporary half bottle-green sheep, spine with five raised bands gilt with scrolling tools and floral ornaments, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, spines slightly darkened.
Scattered foxing; two rather clumsily repaired tears to pp. 421 and 813 in vol. II.
The hydrographer-engineer Vincendon-Dumoulin (1811–1858) accompanied Dumont d’Urville aboard the Astrolabe during his visit to Tahiti in September 1838, at the time of the French intervention on the island.
Beyond an opening chapter on colonisation in Oceania, the work comprises a geographical section and a historical one.
The first offers a description of the Leeward Islands (Maupiti, Bora-Bora, Huahine, Raiatea, Tahaa), followed by the Windward Islands, including Tahiti.
The historical section, after several remarks on the institutions and customs of the inhabitants, recounts their history.
The table placed at the beginning of the volume provides a clear chronological sequence of events.
An appendix of 51 documents gathers the correspondence, notes, and reports exchanged by the representatives of France, England, and Pomaré in 1842–43.
First edition, illustrated with a folding plate bound at the end of the volume (cf. Quérard IX, 259).
Contemporary full boards covered with marbled paper, smooth spine heavily rubbed, a label with a now-effaced manuscript title affixed at the head of the spine, surface abrasions with paper losses to the boards, snags to the edges, bumped corners, sprinkled edges; a period binding.
Following general remarks on the designation, status, quality, and responsibilities of consuls, the work presents the texts of ordinances, treaties, and conventions relating to the Levant and Barbary trading posts (1781), prizes brought into foreign ports (1784), navigation and commerce between France and Russia (1787), trade between Portugal and Russia (1787), commerce between Russia and the King of the Two Sicilies, and that between Germany and Russia (1784–1785), Denmark and Russia (1782), etc.
The author served as Privy War Councillor in Berlin.
First edition of the French translation, illustrated with a plate showing the alphabet and a large folding map at the end of the first volume (cf. Quérard V, 561). Two modern bookplates pasted to the front pastedowns.
Contemporary full marbled tan calf bindings, smooth spines decorated with gilt friezes (partly rubbed), blond morocco lettering-piece, lower headcap slightly damaged, some wear to joints and boards, old restorations on boards, a few bumped corners, gilt rolls on board edges, red edges.
Small ink stain and marginal tear on the map, otherwise a clean and appealing copy.
The most comprehensive work of its time devoted to the largest island of Indonesia.
New edition, illustrated with 111 drawings by Neuville and Riou. 7 plates, some in color.
Publisher's gilt Globe binding, upper cover signed Blancheland, Engel relieur, spine with lighthouse motif, rear cover of Engel H type, publisher's Y catalogue at rear of volume.
Spine with minor discoloration, a few small stains to upper corner of front cover, endpapers discolored, corners slightly twisted, the engraving between pages 122-123 with small corner lacks, occasional light foxing mainly to edges.
Undoubtedly the most famous of Jules Verne's novels, featuring the mythical figure of Captain Nemo and his legendary submarine, the Nautilus.
First and only edition. This copy is one of the rare examples complete with the 64 full-page plates. The work is also illustrated with a title vignette depicting the artist Ambroise-Louis Garneray in a small boat, sketching the entrance to the port of Brest.
Contemporary binding of half tan sheep with corners, smooth spine richly decorated in gilt and blind with multiple large typographic tools, discreet restorations to the joints, marbled-paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
A magnificent work on the ports of France, and one of the finest collections ever produced on the subject.
The author of these highly precise engravings joined the navy at the age of thirteen and thereby witnessed numerous naval battles. From 1806 he was imprisoned for eight years in Portsmouth, using his captivity to study drawing and painting and to record the scenes he had observed during his voyages. Upon his return from the United Kingdom, Garneray became painter to the Duke of Angoulême, then Grand Admiral of France, later serving as director of the Rouen museum, and entering the Sèvres manufactory where he executed numerous maritime subjects.
His work, of remarkable delicacy and realism, was praised by Melville in Moby-Dick: "Who Garneray the painter is, or was, I know not. But my life for it he was either practically conversant with his subject, or else marvellously tutored by some experienced whaleman. The French are the lads for painting action."
Il était né à Bois Colombe
Mais ne rêvait que d'océan
Et l'appel des sirènes blondes
Lui travaillait déjà le sang
Un soir en sortant de l'usine
Il but un petit coup de trop
Lâcha les copains, les copines
Et s'en alla sur son vélo
Au Havre il arriva quand même
Vers les quatre heures du matin
Un cargo s'en allait vers Brême
Et recueillit le clandestin
First edition, one of 170 numbered copies on vélin du Marais, the only issue after 30 copies on Arches.
Custom chemise and slipcase, chemise in half blue box calf, flat spine with blind and palladium-stamped lettering, date in palladium at foot, patterned paper boards, slipcase edged in blue box calf, patterned paper boards, sides and spine in petrol blue paper, signed by Boichot.
A very fine copy.
Illustrated with 3 original etchings in black by Georges Braque and one in black and grey as frontispiece.
Signed by René Char and Georges Braque on the colophon.
First edition.
Publisher's full black cloth binding, smooth spine, handsome condition complete with illustrated dust jacket.
Rich iconography.
Text by Manthia Diawara.
Signed autograph inscription from David Rosenthal to a man named Jean.
Un bateau
Et de l'eau
Et du vent pour gonfler la grand'voile
Une amie
Près de moi
Sur les mers de saphir tout là-bas
