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Librairie Le Feu Follet - Paris - +33 (0)1 56 08 08 85 - Contact us - 31 Rue Henri Barbusse, 75005 Paris
This name generally refers to the books from the XVIth to the XVIIIth century enriched with engravings off-text copies sometimes reserved for luxury copies. Always prepared with art, antique books with engravings perpetuate ancestral tradition of illumination.
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William COWPER
Poems
Printed for J. Johnson, London 1798, in-16 (9,5x16cm), x (2) 324pp. et iv (4) 335pp. (1), 2 volumes reliés.
New illustrated edition of 10 charming figures by Stothard and engraved by Neagle, Heath, Angus.
Binding in full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back smooth decorated with four irons lyre in a crown; nets, roller. Part of title and volume number in red morocco. Dark area on the upper flat of the [...]
400 €
Jonathan SWIFT
Le conte du tonneau, contenant tout ce que les arts et les sciences ont de plus sublime et de plus ...
Chez Henri Scheurleer, à La Haye 1757, in-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (6) xvj (2) 312pp. et xij, 296pp. et xvj, 280pp., 3 volumes reliés.
New edition, illustrated with 8 figures, including the famous Battles books; the other figures are just as curious.
Binding half mottled brown sheepskin contemporary. Back smooth decorated with four finials, roulette tail and head. As Exhibit tan morocco, black wax piece volume number. Corners [...]
550 €
Salomon GESSNER
Oeuvres
Chez Dufart [S.d.] 1797, in-8 (12x20,5cm), 2 volumes reliés.
New edition, illustrated with two engraved titles, a portrait 9 figures in Volume I and Volume II at 15 or 27 prints by Monnet, Marillier, Giraud, engraved by Letellier, Dupré. The same issue features in the Oxford catalogs contains only 18 figures.
Glossy full calf binding vintage green and [...]
400 €
First edition
Antoine Jacob dit MONTFLEURY
Les oeuvres de Monsieur de Mont-Fleury, contenant ses pieces de theatre
Chez J. Van den Kieboom & Gerard Block & Adrien Van Dorsten, à La Haye 1735, in-12 (9,5x17cm), (8) 7-547p. (6) 484pp., 2 volumes reliés.
Collective Edition, illustrated frontispiece and two 12 figures before the letter, unsigned.
Binding full glossy golden calf contemporary. Back with nerves decorated. Part of title and volume number in red morocco. Inner lace and cuts. Gilt edges. Mors partly restored. Beautiful copy, in a [...]
400 €
Philippe POT, Romain DE HOOGHE
Les cent nouvelles nouvelles. Suivent les cent nouvelles contenant les cent histoires nouveaux, qui ...
Chez Pierre Gaillard, à Cologne 1736, in-12 (9,5x15,5cm), (30) 397pp. et (24) 389pp., relié.
New edition, reprint
Binding eighteenth end (possibly later) open russia red leather. Foreign Binding, maybe Russian. Back with nerves decorated with tulip boxed irons. Title and volume number gilded. Roulette tail and head. Frieze framing on the boards. All edges gilt. Headdress head of Volume [...]
1 800 €
Giovanni Battista GUARINI
Le berger fidelle
Chez Pierre du Marteau, à Cologne 1671, in-12 (7,5x13,2cm), (24) 573pp., relié.
Bilingual edition with the French text next, and illustrated with a frontispiece and 5 Webber signed Dutch Bloote figures (particularly thin and beautiful).
Binding in full black morocco circa 1860. Back to nerves Jansenist cold framing nets. Triple cold framing net on the boards. Rich inner [...]
1 000 €
First edition
Remy de BEAUVAIS
La Magdeleine de F. Remi de Beauvais
ChezCharles Martin, à Beauvais 1617, in-8 (10x15,5cm), (46) 746pp. (7), relié.
First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece and title of two beautiful figures
Bound in brown full morocco late nineteenth signed Capé. Back to Jansenist nerves. Title, place and date of gilt. Large inner frieze. Gilt edges. Very nice copy, particularly fresh.
1 600 €
Charles SOREL
La vraye histoire comique de Francion
Chez les Hackes, A Leyde et Rotterdam 1668, in-12 (8x13,5cm), (16) 368pp et 454pp., 2 volumes reliés.
New edition published under the pseudonym Nicolas Le Moulinet.
Binders later (XIX) in full green morocco, signed C. Hardy. Back with five nerves decorated with cold boxes. Double fillet on cold boards. Golden lace coaching contreplats. All edges gilt.
Back a little past, otherwise fine copy.
1 000 €
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