Arts and Crafts

First edition.
Two dampstains to head and foot of all leaves not touching text.
Rare.

First edition.
Two lacks and one stain to spine, tears and corner lacks to boards, two light dampstains to front board, some interior foxing and to boards.
Rare.

The first edition, published in a small number of copies of this offprint from the Revue numismatique.
Covers absent, small fold marks at head of leaves, handsome interior condition.
Pamphlet with one plate.

The first edition, published in a small number of copies.
Light foxing, small fold marks to margins of leaves, light dampstain at foot of both plates.
Pamphlet with 2 plates.
Copy in original temporary binding awaiting binding.
Rare.

First edition printed on laid paper.
Spine slightly faded, small tears at foot of front cover which also has three stains at head, handsome interior condition.
Work illustrated with 1 color plate, 52 plates, 18 figures and 3 plans.

First Edition printed in small numbers on Auvergne.
Back and flat very slightly and marginally insolated.
Pleasant illustrated example of original woods of François Angeli.
Autograph dedication dated and signed Henri Pourrat Anne-Marie Kempf: "... wishing she likes, a little later, this paper in hand, our paper mills, and their devil same, with the compliment the best of the country of Ambert ... "

First edition, one of 725 numbered copies on Auvergne, only leading copies.
Pleasant copy decorated with illustrations by Henri Charlier.
Autograph signed by Henri Pourrat on a piece of paper Auvergne to Gilbert Kempf: "This book of the mountain and its people, - and he can make friends with them ..."

The rare first edition presented in temporary wrappers.
Lacks to spine and corners of covers, green title label pasted on spine and partly torn, the title of the work has been written in ink at the head of the first cover.
Some foxing.
Rare.

First edition.
Publisher's binding, red cloth spine, yellow paper boards, brown paper endpapers and pastedowns, top edge red.
Handsome copy.
Work illustrated with 109 illustrations.

Intérieurs au salon des artistes décorateurs, Paris 1928
[Interiors at the Salon des artistes décorateurs]
tCharles Moreau | Paris 1928 | 25 x 32.5 cm | in leaves in a chemise
First edition printed on Japan for the text. Introduction by René Prou.
Beautiful and rare copy.
Illustrated with 48 plates, including 6 colored by stencil reproducing the interiors presented to the eighteenth Salon des Artistes Décorateurs at the Grand Palais by the following artists and workshops: P. Montagnac, J.E. Leleu, l'Atelier moderne, H. Rapin, E. Printz, L. Bouchet, L. Jallot, M. Jallot, Holt Le Son, Studio Abran, Compagnie des glaces de Boussois, A. Fréchet, J. Rulh
mann, Pomone, R. Cogneville, A. Lavezzari, E. Bagge, E. Champion, M. Dufrène, Djo-Bourgeois, C. Perriand, S. Guichard, F. G. Saddier, Compagnie des Arts Français, L. Renaudot, G. de Bardyère.

First edition printed on laid paper.
Half chocolate brown morocco with corners, spine with five raised bands showing some rubbing, marbled paper boards, two scratches at head of second cover, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, scratches to corners, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt.
The appendix to session No. 36 has been bound following the subject of the 1841 session to the Chamber of Deputies presented by Adolphe Thiers.
Rare.
Provenance: from the library of Château de Prye with a bookplate pasted to one pastedown.

First edition, one of 39 numbered copies on Japan, head print.
Small tears and shortfalls witnesses, a slight lack and a tear in the head of the first board and margins of both boards.
Copy at all margins.
Handwritten signature of Henri Béraud below the justification of the draw.
Our copy is complete of a manuscript sheet of the book.

Illustrated edition with color reproductions of 294 monograms mounted with their identification opposite.
The collection of monograms is organized around 8 themes: religious monograms; painters, sculptors and engravers; ceramics; publishers, printers and booksellers; emperors, kings and sovereigns; princes, great lords; cities; miscellaneous.
Following these, 38 blank leaves have been placed with frames intended to receive other categories of monograms, where one actually finds a monogram and an armorial label pasted on the first two blank pages.
Full purple paper boards binding, smooth unlettered and faded spine, title stamped in gold on the lightened first cover, orange paper endpapers and pastedowns, corners slightly bumped, all edges gilt, contemporary binding.
Handsome interior condition.

First edition.
Absence of the back and the second board, first board marginally soiled, pleasant interior state.
Fascicule full of his 3 folding boards.
Autograph of Isidore Löwenstern to Monsieur de La Roquette.

Illustrated edition with 618 in-text figures and plates hors-texte at the end of the second volume.
Preface by M. Riocreux.
Half green sheep bindings, smooth spines faded and decorated with gilt fillets and stippling, epidermures on marbled paper boards, boards stamped at their centers with gilt arms, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, small tears on the leading edges.
Some light foxing.

The rare first edition.
Publisher's laced chemise in full boards with smooth unlettered spine, some foxing on the boards, the back board is detached.
Rare work on interior decoration and furnishing, complete with its 32 plates.

First edition of this program published for the tenth anniversary of the Gala de l'Union des Artistes held at the Cirque d'Hiver on March 5, 1932.
Rare program illustrated with 10 drawings by Paul Colin.
The fragile red velvet cover, in homage to the curtains of the Cirque d'Hiver, has slight tears and minute marginal losses.
We include an invitation card to the circus buffet offered after the show.
Rare and handsome copy.

Third edition.
Black stains on one endpaper.
Half tan sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt friezes and fleurons, black shagreen title-label, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, yellow edges, some minor rubbing to boards and upper corners, contemporary binding.
Handsome copy.

First bilingual French-English edition.
Rich iconography.
Publisher's full grey cloth binding, smooth spine, retaining the illustrated dust jacket which has a tear at the foot of the spine.
Handsome copy.

First edition.
Back very slightly warped with two small gaps, a wet at the head of all leaflets ..
Rare but in the state.
Signed autograph of Benoit Brunswick to a count whose name has been blurred by the wetness.

First edition published in a small number of copies on laid paper of this offprint from No. 10 of the Journal Asiatique of 1858.
Some light foxing.
Rare copy presented in its original wrappers and without covers.

First edition.
Some small inner foxing.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Henri Guilhaume to Dr. Camille Ferté and his family.

First edition.
Spine faded with two small insignificant lacks, some corner lacks to the marginally sunned boards, a fold at the head of the first leaves.
Rare.

First edition.
Some foxing, some tears and marginal lacks to the covers.
Rare.

First edition published anonymously.
Minor tears and marginal lacks without gravity to the covers.
Rare and handsome copy presented in its original blue temporary binding.

First edition.
Some minor interior foxing, minimal marginal lacks without consequence to the boards.
Rare.

First edition.
Nice full copy of his trailer.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Christian Lacroix to a woman named Madeleine enriched with an autograph dedication signed by singer Sapho.
These dedications were made during a conversation organized by Frédéric Mitterrand with Christian Lacroix and some of his muses at the Café de l'Industrie on Saturday 21 April 2007.

Original albumen photograph, mounted on heavy paper and enhanced with watercolor.
This image shows a group of young women and a man proceeding with tea drying.

Original albumen photograph, mounted on card and heightened with watercolor.
Caption at bottom right of the photograph: "Street amazake seller, a kind of drink made of fermented rice".
Fine proof with good contrast and finely heightened.

First edition of which it was not drawn of great papers.
Iconography.
Beautiful copy despite a minor scratch without gravity head of the back.
Rare autograph dedication dated and signed by André Wogenscky to Georges Raillard and his wife Alice .

Second edition.
Half brown sheep binding with small vellum-style corners, smooth spine decorated with gilt friezes and fleurons, black sheep title-label and author's name, marbled paper boards, contemporary binding.
Some foxing affecting mainly the first and last leaves.
Rare.

First edition, rare. A large hand-colored map.
Contemporary full red long-grain morocco binding. Smooth spine decorated with rocaille tools and small tools. Covers decorated with central panels featuring rich Restoration ornamentation. Complex angular Restoration cornerpieces connected by curved fillets. Wide decorative border. Blue silk endpapers. A black line crossing the title. Lower joint cracked at head for 2 cm but stopping before the headcap. Scratches on the second cover, and 2 black stains. Scraped area on the first cover. The 2 lower corners slightly worn. Traces of rubbing. Very fresh laid paper. Despite some flaws, splendid contemporary binding, bound for a high official. Generally, this type of ministerial report was bound before being placed on the desk of a responsible high official. The state worked with large binding workshops such as Simier's.
Review of mineral research in France. Mines, quarries, salt works, steam engines, 48 locomotives, steamships, geological works, the École des Mines. Commercial movement of mineral fuels produced or consumed in France with a large folding colored map at the end. Iron industry... The report provides very precise information, enhanced by numerous tables on coal basins, fuel consumption, railways, iron production...

NB: This work is available at the bookstore upon request within 48 hours.

First edition.
Full red shagreen binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with 4 small tools surrounded by a garland. Title and date in gilt. Wide decorative border on boards. Interior frieze. White watered silk endpapers. Edges gilt. Minimal traces of rubbing. Paper perfectly fresh except for 2 pale foxing spots on title page and a few on endpapers. Very handsome copy, in very fine condition.
Testament to civil service under the Second Empire. Staff status as of May 1st, 1868. The volume also concerns mines, railways, ports. Each time there is a section for the administration of Algeria.

NB: This work is available at the bookstore on request within 48 hours.

First edition on current paper.
Some slight bites without gravity on the boards, nice copy.
Illustrated book of 42 photographs and 46 drawings of the author.
Our copy is complete of his trailer on which a previous owner of the book wrote this handwritten note about the author: "Totally eliminated from the RTF since December 1957 ... It was his only additional livelihood . "
Signed autograph from Trajan Saint-Inès to Jean Mahé: "... last confident hope of the author in a bit of human justice ..."

First edition of which there is no mention of great papers and published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of Andre-Marie Ampere.
Small foxing on the margins of the boards.
Illustrated book, frontispiece, a portrait of André-Marie Ampère and 5 inset photographic plates.
Autograph signed by Tancède de Visan to Claude Carret: "... this little essay on a big Gone ..."

First edition.
Bradel binding in full dark green cardboard, smooth spines decorated with gilt floral motifs, gilt dates and places at foot, black shagreen title labels, contemporary bindings.
Minor scattered foxing, endpapers lightly and partially shaded.

First Edition printed in small numbers of this reprinted from the memoirs of the imperial and central society of agriculture.
Binding in full fir green shagreen, smooth back adorned with gilded and black fillets, framing of gilt and black fillets on the boards, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, framing of a frieze of rhombuses and golden circles on the contreplats, nets golden on the cups, all gilded edges, Contemporary binding.
Rare and nice copy.
Precious autograph signed by Elie de Beaumont to the Duke of Bassano.

First edition
Half red shagreen binding, smooth spine slightly faded decorated with crosses and cold fillets, red paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Some foxing.
Work illustrated with in-text figures as well as 4 plates.

First edition.
Bradel binding in red half-cloth, smooth spine decorated with a gilt fleuron, double gilt fillets at foot, navy blue shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, orange paper endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Gift inscription in pen from a previous owner on the half-title page, some light foxing, a tear with loss to margin of the last page of the table of contents.

New edition revised and published by Jean Hubert.
Spine and boards lightly and marginally sunned and faded, handsome interior condition.
Complete with its folding map at end of volume.

First edition.
Two tears without loss at head and foot of spine.
Work illustrated with 60 figures in the text.

First edition, our copy printed for Monsieur Betmont.
Calling card of Madame Marius Berliet included.
Work illustrated with photographs.
Handsome copy.

Rare first edition.
Half havana shagreen binding, spine slightly faded with five raised bands showing evidence of rubbing, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, slightly worn covers preserved.
Work illustrated with figures in the text.
Some minor foxing without significance.

First edition.
Bradel binding in red half-cloth, smooth faded spine decorated with gilt fleuron, double gilt fillets at tail, black shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, orange paper endpapers and pastedowns.
Light foxing, gift inscription in pen from a previous owner on the half-title page.

First edition.
Braided binder in indigo halfcalcaline, smooth back decorated with a golden floral bouquet, double gilded nets in head and tail, title piece of red shagreen, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of orange paper, binder 'time.
Rare foxing, ex-dono pen of a previous owner on the page of fake title.
Nice copy.
Handwritten signature of the captain of the Rouil below the printed dedication.

First edition.
Bradel binding in half sienna percaline cloth, smooth spine decorated with a gilt floral motif, double gilt fillets at foot, navy blue shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, orange paper endpapers and pastedowns.
Gift inscription in ink from a previous owner on the half-title page, scattered foxing.
Rare.

First edition.
Binding in the bradel in half percaline Siena, smooth back decorated with a golden floret, double gilded nets in tail, title piece of black shagreen, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of orange paper, Contemporary binding .
Illustrated book of inset figures.
Signed autograph from a soldier to an officer by way of present.
Rare and nice copy.

First edition, one of 185 copies numbered and justified by Paul Fort on vergé d'Arches paper and reserved for his friends.
Publisher's binding.
Retaining its 51 lithographs.
Scattered foxing and light dampstain on some leaves.
Very rare.

First edition.
Two lacks to head and foot of spine, light worming to boards.
Work illustrated with 34 figures in text and hors-texte.
Rare.

First edition printed on laid paper.
Preface by J.J. Marquet de Vasselot.
Work complete with its 56 plates, including 8 in color, contained in a separate volume from the text.
Spine of chemises slightly discolored and faded, a tear at the head of the spine of the chemise containing the plates.
Handsome copy complete with its full brown cardboard chemise, smooth havana cloth spine.

First edition.
Braid binding in half green percaline, smooth back decorated with a golden floral pattern, golden frieze in tail, piece of red sheepskin, marbled paper plates, preserved covers, Contemporary binding.
Pleasant illustrated copy of a portrait of Dr. Quesnay frontispiece.
Autograph signed by Gustave Schelle to Georges Lévy.

First edition.
Publisher's full brown cloth binding, smooth spine, with the illustrated dust jacket.
Rich iconography.
Handsome copy.

First edition illustrated with numerous plates.
Light rubbing to spine and boards which also show some discoloration at head and foot.
Publisher's binding in full dark green shagreen, smooth spine lightly browned, headcaps somewhat worn, blind-ruled frame to boards, title stamped in gilt to center of front board, corners slightly bumped, yellow paper endpapers and pastedowns.
Handsome interior condition.

First edition of the French translation for the first volume, second edition of the french translation for the second.
Bradel binding, signed by Thomas Boichot.
Occasional foxing.
Rare set.

First edition illustrated with 82 in-text figures.
Publisher's full green cloth binding, smooth spine, headcaps rubbed, boards with cold-stamped Greek fret borders, corners slightly bumped.
Handsome interior condition.

First edition.
Complete with all 44 plates.
Copy complete with text and its full cardboard chemise secured with ties.
The chemise shows one corner slightly bumped and some foxing to the covers.

First edition, one of 29 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
A handsome copy.

First edition.
Spine with two tears at head and foot as well as a dampstain, a pale marginal dampstain on the first leaves.
Rare.

First edition illustrated with 3 folding plates at the end containing 93 figures.

Half chocolate brown shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.

Rare and handsome copy.



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Second edition illustrated with 37 figures in the text.

Half red sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, gilt initials at foot, small stains and rubbing traces on spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.

Some minor foxing.

Rare first edition printed on laid paper.

Full binding green shagreen, back with five nerves decorated with a grotesque decor, back with five nerves decorated with a grotesque decor, triple net gilded framing boards, double net gilded on the cuts, domestic gold lace all edges gilt, contemporary binding signed Lortic father.

Signed autograph from the author: "To His Excellency the Minister of State and the home of the Emperor's very obliged and grateful H. Barbet de Jouy".

Bookplate engraved (J. Pelletier).

Very nice and valuable copy in a binder perfectly established time Lortic, bookbinder Charles Baudelaire.

first edition printed in small number of the reprint of the bulletin of the Linnean Society of Normandy.
Signed autograph of Paul Bizet, head of the first flat, Mr. Governor.
Slight discoloration spots on boards, rare and small inner minor foxing.
Rare and nice brochure copy.

First edition.
Iconography.
Small tears repaired at head of spine, black stains on back cover, handsome interior condition.

First edition.
Full brown cloth binding, smooth spine, burgundy shagreen title label, cold-stamped fillet frame on paper boards, gilt medallion of the Metropolitan Museum of New York at center of front cover, endpapers and pastedowns of moiré-effect gilt paper.
Illustrated with 33 photographic plates not in text.
Very light scratches of no consequence to boards.
Rare and handsome copy.

First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Autograph inscription from Benigno Cacérès to Monique Nathan.

First edition, one of 70 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only large paper copies.
A slight trace of an angular fold to lower cover.
A good copy.

First edition.
Publisher's full sand cloth binding, smooth spine, complete with its dust jacket which has two lacks at the head of the first cover as well as some marginal tears.
Pleasant interior condition.

First edition printed in a small number of copies.
Iconography.
Spine and covers slightly and marginally sunned, otherwise a good copy.

Eighth edition for each of the volumes.
Half hazelnut sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with fleurons and triple gilt fillets, spine showing traces of rubbing, green paper boards affected by surface losses, yellow edges, corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
Some foxing without too much severity, a tear on page 129 of the second volume.

first edition.
Signed autograph André Beguin to the painter and engraver Jacques (Castex): "... for my friend regiment and burning ..."
Rich illustration.
Small spots on the second flat, otherwise nice copy.

New edition.
With 110 plates, some of them folding.
One small clear stain to foot of spine.
Rare.

First edition printed in a small number of copies.
Tears, not serious, to foot of spine and to edges of covers, a few small spots.
Rare.

First edition.
A rare and good copy.

First edition of this advertising booklet published on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Kléber company in Colombes and produced after the design by Jean Garcia.
Text by Jean Giono.
Each double page is illustrated in full-page color and opens with 2 pages of black and white photographs by Roger Catherineau and Michel Desmarteau.
Spine and boards lightly and marginally yellowed, handsome interior condition.

First edition.
Ex-dono.
A rare and good copy.

New edition revised by Georges Duplessis, one of the rare copies on China paper.
Half chocolate brown shagreen binding with corners, spine with five raised bands set with gilt dots decorated with richly ornamented double gilt compartments, place and date gilt at foot, gilt fillets framing the marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt.
Bookplate pasted at head of one pastedown.
Some minor foxing of no consequence.

First edition.
Publisher's Bradel binding in full boards, smooth spine with a tear at foot, boards soiled, corners slightly bumped.
Our atlas volume, which we offer for sale alone, is illustrated with 31 lithographed plates outside the text, sometimes double-page and some mounted, and heightened with watercolor.
Angular dampstain at head of endpaper and title pages, some minor interior foxing.
Rare but incomplete without the text.

First edition.
Half burgundy morocco binding, spine with five raised bands, light scratches to joints, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, contemporary binding.
Work illustrated with 9 plates of bindings.
Light foxing affecting mainly the endpapers.
Rare and handsome copy complete in two volumes.

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.

Third edition, revised and expanded with general considerations on the improvement of breeds and a treatise on pigs by H. Magne.
Half brown sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with black and gilt fillets, a tear on the brown sheep title-label, headcaps rubbed and worn, some rubbing on the spine, one cracked joint, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, some tears on the leading edges, contemporary binding.
Work illustrated with 2 plates outside the text decorated with figures.
Printed bibliophile stamps and pen gift inscriptions on one endpaper and the half-title page.

First edition.
Half red shagreen over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments with black fillets to bands, foot of spine scratched (the initials of a former owner which have been scratched out), brown shagreen title label, covers preserved (a little rubbing to edges).
Retaining its seven folding plates.
Occasional spotting, principally affecting the plates of the second volume.
Rare.

First edition.
Illustrated with 30 plates in color and with 6 black plates.
A good copy.

First edition.
Spine and covers slightly and marginally sunned, internally good.

First edition.
Half marbled sheep with small vellum corners, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, two minute holes to spine, red morocco title-label, marbled paper boards with small lacks of paper, contemporary binding.
Handsome interior condition.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on vélin Montgolfier, the only deluxe copies.
Precious autograph inscription signed by Marcel-Etienne Grancher to Henri Béraud who is not named specifically: "A vous, maître, avec tout le respectueux dévouement... (Pour Prix Gringoire 1933)" ["To you, master, with all respectful devotion... (For Prix Gringoire 1933)"].
Illustrated cover.
Two small tears reglued on spine, some light foxing on the slightly soiled back cover.
Provenance: from Henri Béraud's library in Ré.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Signed autograph inscription from Maurice Bouvier-Ajam to Madame Bastiel.
Handsome copy complete with publisher's slip.

First edition of this speech delivered at the opening session of the Beccaria conference on November 14, 1887.
Autograph inscription signed by Georges de Segogne to his colleague Sanlaville.
Handsome copy despite small marginal stains on the boards.

first edition.
Binding half morocco black shagreen, back with five nerves decorated with double black boxes, small traces of minor friction on the back, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, sprinkled edges, contemporary binding.
Signed autograph Eugene Muller Jules Lucien.

First edition printed on coated paper.
Publisher's cream cardboard binding, smooth spine slightly sunned and showing a pale dampstain at foot, minute marginal spotting to first cover.
Work illustrated with gouaches by Yves Delfo as well as kodachromes by d'Anger and Chevalier.
Iconography.
Handsome copy well complete, at beginning of volume, with its facsimile of the privilege letter granted by the King of France and the wax that served to seal this missive.