First edition, Signed book

Claude LEVI-STRAUSS

Place de l'anthropologie dans les sciences sociales et problèmes posés par son enseignement

Unesco, Paris 1954, 13,5x21,5cm, agrafé.

Rare first edition for which he was not drawn to this leading copies reprinted printed small number of the collective work: Social Sciences in Higher Education published the same year.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed by Claude Levi-Strauss in [...]

480 €

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First edition, Signed book

Claude LEVI-STRAUSS

Du miel aux cendres

Plon, Paris 1966, 15,5x24cm, broché.

First edition for which there were no large paper copies.
Autograph inscription from Claude Lévi-Strauss in English to Raymond Firth.
A good copy, some press clippings tipped in.

480 €

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Jean PASSERAT

Kalendae Januariae, & Varia quaedam Poëmatia [Ensemble] De caecitate oratio [Ensemble] ...

Mamert Patisson, Lutetiae (Paris) 1603, Pet. in-8 (10x15,2cm), (2f.) 77ff. (2f.) ; 12ff. ; 13ff. ; (2f.) 44ff., 4 parties en un volume relié.

Rare meeting four older editions of Jean Passerat.
Binding full brown calf galcé eighteenth. Backpacks ornate nerves. As an exhibit in brown morocco. Mors finely restored. Lace on cuts. Beautiful copy.

2 000 €

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First edition

Charles-Augustin SAINTE-BEUVE

Lettres à la princesse

Michel Lévy frères, Paris 1873, 11x18cm, relié.

Edition originale.
Reliure en demi chagrin cerise, dos à cinq nerfs orné de filets, pointillés et fleurons dorés, plats de papier à la cuve, reliure de l'époque.
Rousseurs éparses.

[English description on demand]

60 €

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First edition

Louis de LOMENIE

Discours de M. de Loménie prononcé à l'Académie Française le jour de sa réception, 8 Janvier ...

Didier & Cie, Paris 1874, 14x22,5cm, relié.

first edition.
Binding half caramel shagreen, back with five nerves set with black nets decorated with double black boxes to centers which include the golden initials of the great bibliophile Roger Cormenin repeated five times, as part of turquoise shagreen, marbled paper plates, guards and [...]

100 €

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First edition

Jean PASSERAT

Le Premier Livre des poemes de Jean Passerat

Par la veuveMamert Patisson, à Paris 1602, Pet. in-8 (9,5x14,8cm), (2f.) 44ff., relié.

Partly first edition.
Bound in full morocco pine green late nineteenth. Back with nerves decorated with florets 5. boards decorated with the Duseuil, inétrieur supervision with the jewels in the spandrels. Rich inner frieze. spine cleared. Light rubbing to corners, joint and caps. The copy [...]

1 000 €

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First edition

Charles-Augustin SAINTE-BEUVE

Lettres à la princesse

Michel Lévy frères, Paris 1873, 11x18cm, relié.

first edition.
Binding half black shagreen, back with five nerves decorated with gilded finials, rubbed a bit fragile, marbled paper boards containing scuffs, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, contemporary binding.
Some small foxing mainly affecting margins.

50 €

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Jean PASSERAT

Recueil des oeuvres poetiques. — Kalendae Januariae, & Varia quaedam Poëmatia

Chez Abel l'Angelier, Paris 1606, in-8 (11x16,5cm), (6) 464pp. (8) ; (16) 248pp. [mal chiff. 148] (6), 2 ouvrages reliés en un volume.

Posthumous editions of these works, prepared and published by John Rougevalet, nephew of the author. The Compendium is decorated with a lovely portrait of Passerat engraved on copper by Thomas de Leu. Among the various French plays in it, there are his famous hunting poems: The Deer of [...]

1 200 €

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