First edition

SPALLANZANI

Expériences pour servir à l'histoire de la génération des animaux et des plantes. Avec une ...

Chez Barthélémi Chirol, à Genève 1785, in-8 (12,5x20,6cm), (4) XCVI, 413pp., relié.

Original French edition, illustrated with 3 folding plates containing many figures. Full calf blond marbled time. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Two small restorations on the upper flat. Nice copy. Fundamental work on the theory of generation. The conclusions reached above those [...]

950 €

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First edition, Signed book

André MALRAUX

L'espoir

Gallimard, Paris 1937, 14,5x21cm, broché.

First edition, one of 230 numbered copies on Alfa paper. Handwritten inscription signed by the author. A tiny marginal tear on the front cover, ex-libris pasted on the first blank endpaper.

2 500 €

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Antoine François PREVOST D'EXILES (dit Abbé PREVOST)

Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut

Lemerre, Paris 1878, Pet. in-8 (13x20cm), 261pp., relié.

Edition on Velin paper on China after 50 and Watmann. Illustrated with a portrait of Braquemont and eight purposes and Inserts by beautiful Monzies from Plover and Pasquier. Half morocco navy vintage signed David corners. Back to nerves and ornate mosaic of red diamonds. Nets on the boards. Golden [...]

450 €

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First edition

Madame de LA FAYETTE (Marie-Madeleine PIOCHE DE LA [...]

Memoires de la cour de France, pour les années 1688 & 1689

Chez Jean-Frederic Bernard, à Amsterdam 1731, In 12 (9,5x16cm), (2) 234pp., relié.

First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece by Bernard Picart, engraved by Bush. Title page in red and black. Full red morocco late nineteenth. Spine decorated with 5 small florets. Gilt. Inner wheel. Golden head. Beautiful conditions. As announced preface, Madame de La Fayette's memoirs from [...]

1 000 €

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First edition

Gérard de NERVAL

Contes et facéties

Giraud & Dagneau, Paris 1852, 9,5x16cm, relié.

The very rare first edition, of which there were no large paper copies, this copy being from the very first issue without mention and with the correct publisher, Giraud et Dagneau.
Bradel binding in half indigo cloth over marbled paper boards, spine with a gilt floral motif, double gilt fillet [...]

1 500 €

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First edition

Emile de LA BEDOLLIERE

Soirées d'hiver

Curmer, Paris 1839, Pet. in 8 (12x19,2cm), 342pp., relié.

First edition, illustrated with 12 full-page on acier.Plein morocco brown vintage long grain. Smooth spine decorated with great Romantic date with irons tail. boards with great coaching cold Greek golden framing net. Gilt edges. Interior lace. Guards moire white paper. spine uniformly irradiated, [...]

450 €

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First edition

Joseph Guichard DU VERNEY

Traité de l'organe de l'ouie, contenant la structure, les usages & les maladies de toutes les ...

Chez Estienne Michallet, à Paris 1683, in-12 (9x17cm), (24) 210pp., relié.

The very rare first edition with 16 unsigned folding plates.

Contemporary brown sheep, spine in compartments, headpiece and one corner repaired, wormtrack to middle of upper margin, a few insignificant wormholes. The final engraving is shaved and lacking the last lines [...]

3 000 €

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First edition

Jean GIONO & Lucien JACQUES

Moby Dick in Collection complète des "Cahiers du Contadour"

Les cahiers du Contadour, Saint-Paul 1936-1939, 16,5x22cm, 8 fascicules brochés en 7 volumes.

First edition.
Contributions from J. Giono, L. Jacques, C. Vildrac, R. Rolland, Alain, and the French translation of Moby dick by H. Melville published here before its first edition.
Illustrations by L. Jacques, A. Noll, H. Chenet, Kardas, E. Jos, Joset, and others.
Very occasional [...]

2 000 €

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