Ludovico Ariosto (dit) L'ARIOSTE

Orlando Furioso

appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari , In Vinegia (Venise) 1547, in-8 (10,5x16cm), 227 ff. (29f.) - Sig.A-Z 8 Aa-Ff8 *-***8, relié.

 (Venice), bound.
A handsome illustrated edition and one of the first printed by Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari, dedicated to the Dauphin of France. It has a superb engraved title with Giolito's printer's device (a phoenix being reborn from its ashes on a globe marked with the printer's [...]

7 000 €

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First edition

Antoine de SAINT-EXUPERY

Terre des hommes

Gallimard, Paris 1939, 13,5x19,5cm, relié sous étui.

First edition, one of 23 numbered copies on Hollande paper, tirage de tête after one copy on Whatman and 9 on China paper.
Light brown Oasis goatskin by Morina Mongin, covers and spine with dreamlike decoration of humanized mountains after a drawing by Peter Sis, printed in brown [...]

10 000 €

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[MISSALE ROMANUM] Missae in agenda defunctorum

Apud Andram Poleti, Venetiis (Venise) 1713, in-folio (22x32cm), 24pp., relié.

New edition. This Mass has been constantly reissued until the late eighteenth.
Copy to weapons of Friuli and Verona, the Republic of Venice. The eagle and the lion in a central medallion and angular medallions.
Bound in red full morocco Italian time in the band.

1 000 €

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COLLECTIF

Traité de la noblesse des Capitouls de Toulouse

Aux dépens de Jean-François Forest, à Toulouse (ca.1720), in-4 (19x26cm), (1f. tit.) (1f. avert.) 204pp. (2f. tab.) (1f. priv.), relié.

Fourth edition, after the original appeared in 1673.
Contemporary binding in full red morocco ornate. Back with five nerves ornate gilded nets and florets and a room as black morocco. Large gold lace framing boards. Fine gold lace (40 min width) in coaching contreplats; irons spandrel of [...]

2 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

René CREVEL

Mon corps et moi

Simon Kra, Paris 1926, 12,5x17,5cm, relié.

First edition on ordinary paper, falsely stated the fifth.
Half navy blue morocco over moiré-effect marbled paper boards by Goy & Vilaine, spine in six compartments, gilt date to foot, navy blue endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt (covers and spine (faded) preserved.
Handsome [...]

1 200 €

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Henri GUERLIN

Au pays de la prière

A. Mame & fils, Tours s.d. (circa 1900), 21x30cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

New edition adorned with numerous illustrations in and inset.
Binding of the editor in full percaline ocher and polychrome, flat spine decorated with gilt typographical reasons, first dish adorned with a large polychrome plate P. Souze contained inside a cathedral in which the faithful pray and [...]

70 €

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First edition

Louis Antoine Francois de MARCHANGY

Tristan le voyageur ou la France au XIVe siècle

F.M. Maurice & Urbain Canel, Paris 1825-1826, 13x21cm, 6 volumes reliés.

Original edition.
Binders half marine glazed calf, back smooth decorated with gilded boxes decorated with golden arabesques, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, yellow and sprinkled edges, bookplate pasted heads of contreplats two corners slightly Dull, binders of [...]

250 €

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First edition, Signed book

Joris-Karl HUYSMANS

Trois primitifs

Albert Messein, Paris 1905, 16,5x23,5cm, relié.

First edition on ordinary paper; there were only 17 large paper copies on Japon paper.
Elegant pastiche Bradel binding by T. Boichot in varnished marbled paper boards, blue Russia title label to spine, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt.
Handsome autograph inscription signed by [...]

1 500 €

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