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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Charles-Augustin SAINTE-BEUVE

Volupté

Charpentier , Paris 1840, 11x17,5cm, relié.

First and second edition in-12.
Binding half navy blue shagreen, back smoothes decorated with double gilded boxes, flat black cardboard, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, sprinkled edges, a tear on the upper edge.

70 €

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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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First edition

Louis LEGER

Chants héroïques et chants populaires des Slaves de Bohême

Librairie internationale Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie, Paris & Bruxelles & Leipzig & Livourne 1866, 11,5x17,5cm, relié.

first edition.
Binding half green fir shagreen, back with five nerves decorated with gilded initials of great bibliophile Roger Cormenin repeated five times, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, sprinkled edges, slightly later binding.
Provenance: the library [...]

100 €

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First edition, Signed book

Ernest RENAN

L'eau de jouvence

Calmann Lévy, Paris 1881, 14,5x22cm, relié.

first edition.
Binding half caramel calf, back smoothes decorated with gilded nets and dotted, golden tail date, title piece of chocolate morocco small traces of restoration on a bit, marbled paper plates, a slight lack of skin Length of the first flat, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, [...]

200 €

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First edition

Charles-Augustin SAINTE-BEUVE

Volupté

Charpentier, Paris 1845, 11,5x18,5cm, relié.

Third edition published anonymously, partly original as revised and corrected.
Open marine glazed calf binding, back with four nerves decorated with double gilded boxes, nets gilded head and tail, lower cap with a slight hitch, wheels on golden headdresses, triple frames nets gilded on the [...]

150 €

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Alexandre MORET

Au temps des pharaons

Armand Colin, Paris 1908, 11,5x18,5cm, relié.

Edition illustrated with 16 original plates in collotype well as a fine in-folding map.
Binding sheepskin half caramel, back with four nerves set with black dotted decorated with double gilt fillets, gilt dotted head and tail, part of title and name of the author of olive cloth, marbled paper [...]

30 €

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