First edition

Benjamin de LABORDE

Mémoires historiques sur Raoul de Coucy. On y a joint le Recueil de ses Chansons en vieux langage, ...

De l'Imprimerie de Ph.- D. Pierres, Paris 1781, in-8 (10,5x17,5cm), (8) 108pp. et (4) 106pp., 2 volumes reliés.

The first edition, finely printed by Pierres. The work is illustrated with three portraits, including one of Raoul de Coucy, one hors-texte figure showing the town of Coucy-le-Château, and twelve pages of music engraved with the greatest care after manuscripts belonging to the king and the Marquis [...]

2 500 €

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COLLECTIF

Recueil des plus belles pièces des poëtes françois, tant anciens que modernes, depuis Villon ...

par La Compagnie des libraires, Paris 1752, in-12 (8x13,5cm), ix (1) 322pp. (4) 314pp. et (2) 292pp. (2) 312pp. et (2)

Famous poetry anthology, known as the Compendium of Barbin because records within it are believed to have been composed by François Barbin, son of the bookseller who printed for the first time in 1692. This valuable collection was the first to accord importance to the poets of the Middle Ages, [...]

550 €

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First edition

Edmond de AMICIS

Scènes de la vie militaire

Librairie illustrée, Paris 1886, 11,5x18,5cm, relié.

first edition of the French translation for which there is no mention of leading copies.
Binding half full morocco anthracite gray, brightened back with five nerves set with black nets, date and place golden tail, golden wheels on caps, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, framing a wide [...]

350 €

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First edition

Louise-Adélaïde de BOURBON-CONDE

Lettres écrites en 1786 et 1787, publiées par M. Ballanche

Imprimerie de Jules Didot l'aîné, Paris 1834, 10,5x17,5cm, relié.

first edition, published by Pierre-Simon Ballanche, the intimate correspondence of Louise Adelaide de Bourbon, called Mademoiselle de Conde, addressed to his friend the Marquis Louis-Nicolas Magon The Gervaisais. It contains 2 letters of 4 pages each, in facsimile.
Contemporary binding in full [...]

450 €

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Jean-François de LA HARPE

Oeuvres, accompagnées d'une notice sur sa vie et sur ses ouvrages

Verdière, Paris 1821, 12,5x20,5cm, 16 volumes reliés.

Illustrated collected edition with a portrait of the author copper engraved by A. Migneret after a painting by Ducreux, a portrait engraved by Roger after Gérard, two illustrations after Devéria, with the artists' names simply engraved á la pointe, and 13 portraits copper engraved by Pierre [...]

1 000 €

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First edition

Victor HUGO

Toute la lyre

Jules Hetzel & Cie & Maison Quantin, Paris 1888-1893, 14x23cm, 3 volumes reliés.

first edition.
Binders half red shagreen, back with five nerves set with black nets decorated with golden florets, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, binders of the time.
Some small minor foxing.
Provenance: Library of Jules Félix Louis Gastinger with his [...]

750 €

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First edition, Signed book

André CHENIER

Oeuvres en prose de André Chénier augmentées d'un grand nombre de morceaux inédits et ...

Librairie de Charles Gosselin, Paris 1840, 11,5x18,5cm, relié.

Second edition, in large part because original fully revised and expanded, one of the few copies on China which it is makes no mention only leading copies.
Binding half navy blue morocco, spine cleared on five bands set with gilded ornate triple net gilded boxes, date and dual gold tail thread, [...]

150 €

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First edition

Louis LORTET

La Syrie d'aujourd'hui. Voyages dans la Phénicie, le Liban et la Judée 1875-1880

Hachette & Cie, Paris 1884, 25,5x34,5cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

First edition, with 364 engravings, of which some after original photographs by Bonfils, as well as 9 maps.
Publisher's polychromatic shagreen, the spine with Orientalizing decorative gilt elements, the covers with a large plaque of polychrome decorative elements by A. Souze, marbled endpapers [...]

1 200 €

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