Pierre CORNEILLE

Oeuvres de Corneille avec les commentaires de Voltaire

Chez Antoine-Augustin Renouard, à Paris 1817, 13,5x23cm, 12 volumes reliés.

Later edition of the works of Pierre Corneille with a commentary by Voltaire.
Contemporary half green Russia over paper boards (a little rubbed), spine with gilt Restoration typographic motifs.
A little foxing.
The set is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author drawn and [...]

1 000 €

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First edition

MOLIERE

Les Oeuvres de Monsieur de Molière

Chez Denys Thierry & Claude Barbin & Pierre Trabouillet, à Paris 1682, in-12 (9x16,5cm), (24) 304 pp. (4) et 416 pp.

MOLIèRE
Les œuvres de Monsieur de Molière [The Works of Monsieur de Molière] Chez Denys Thierry, Claude Barbin et Pierre Trabouillet, Paris 1682, in-12: 90 x 165 mm (3 9/16 x 6 1/2 ”), (24) 304 pp (4) et 416 pp [...]

15 000 €

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First edition

François RABELAIS, Eugène DEVERIA

Oeuvres

chez Dalibon, à Paris 1823, 14x22,5cm, 9 volumes reliés.

Edition variorum qui reprend toutes les remarques, notes et variantes des éditions précédentes (Le Duchat, La Monnoye, Gueullette, Voltaire, Marsy, etc.), elle est illustrée d'un portrait en frontispice et de dix planches hors-texte par Devéria, ainsi que de 120 figures à la grotesque hors [...]

850 €

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First edition, Signed book

Jean de LA FONTAINE, Abram KROL

XXIV fables de La Fontaine

Chez l'illustrateur, Paris 1959, 24x31cm, en feuilles sous chemise illustrée et étui décoré de l'éditeur.

Edition illustrations printed only 99 copies on laid Rives, all signed by the artist to the justification.
Book decorated with 24 original chisels clipped, printed on wood colors and Abrahm Krol learned intaglio by André Moret.
autograph dedication [...]

450 €

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François RABELAIS

Oeuvres

Desoer, Paris 1820, 8,5x14,5cm, 3 volumes reliés.

New edition printed on rod and illustrated by 15 etchings inset drawn on China.
Binders full blue glazed calf, back thinned with five nerves set with gilded garlands adorned with jewels and dotted stamped cold, golden friezes heads and tails of the back roller cold on the covers, light rubbing [...]

450 €

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MOLIERE

Oeuvres

Desoer, Paris 1819-1825, 12,5x20cm, 9 volumes reliés.

Edition illustrated with 14 engravings inset and a genealogical table brochure.
Binders half black shagreen, back with four nerves set with gilded garlands adorned with quintuple gold and black boxes, framing of double net gilded on the boards of black cardboard, guards and contreplats of [...]

450 €

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Maurice LELOIR, Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU

Les confessions

H. Launette & Cie, Paris 1889, 22x32cm, 2 volumes reliés.

With 96 original engraved compositions by Maurice Leloir.
Superb contemporary red morocco by Gardiel, spine in six compartments, gilt dates to spines, gilt roulettes to head- and tail-pieces, gilt dentelle frame to pastedowns, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, double gilt fillets to edges of [...]

1 700 €

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PLUTARQUE

Ploutarhou tou Haironeos Ethika suggrammata, en 'ois muria sfalmata katorthotai. Plutarchi ...

Per Hier. Frobenium et Nic. Episcopium, Basilae (Bâle) 1542, in-folio (20x30cm), (12) 877pp., relié.

Rare Greek edition of the Moralia (Moral and mixed works) given by the editor Jerome Froben and his brother-Nicolas Episcopium who continue the work of their father Johann Froben Basel making an important center of printing. Beautiful brand editor title page and a bandage over wood topped the first [...]

1 100 €

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