First edition

ANONYME

Thérèse qui rit quand elle a de la braise

Antony Balpe, Paris s.d. (circa 1900), 8,5x13cm, cousu.

First edition of this book illustrated with three drawings including an inset.
Pink cover illustrated.

180 €

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First edition

ANONYME

Lettres d'amour de Don Juan - L'amant de mille vierges

Antony Balpe, Paris s.d. (circa 1900), 8,2x12,5cm, cousu.

First edition of this comic book and saucy illustrated with an engraving inset and a small cul-de-lamp.
Illustrated cover of a reproduction of the Psyche Rapture.
Amusing anonymous publication listing the so-called letters of Don Juan to his lovers.

150 €

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Jean de LA FONTAINE

Contes et nouvelles en vers

Chez Henry Desbordes, à Amsterdam 1695, In-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (16) 236 pp. (2) ; (8) 216 pp. (2), relié.

This edition is a slightly modified impression of the first illustrated edition of 1685. The illustration consists of 2 frontispieces and 58 half-page vignettes designed by Romeyn de Hooghe (except the second frontispiece which is not in the edition of 1685). "The frontispiece of the first volume [...]

3 000 €

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Philippe PETIT-RADEL

De amoribus Pancharitis et Zoroae, poema eroticon seu Umbratica lucubratio De cultu veneris

Apud Molini, Parisiis 1798 (An VI), In-8 (13x20,5cm), xxiv, 286pp. (2), relié.

First edition, rare. An allegorical frontispiece signed Clément. Print on vellum.
Binding full red morocco long grain glazed contemporary in the style of Derome. Smooth back decorated with 7 nets, title and date golden. Double cold framing thread on the plates with small angular irons. [...]

500 €

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Fedor Rojankovsky, dit ROJAN, Pierre Jean de BERANGER

Chansons galantes

Editions de La Belle Etoile, Paris 1937, 19x24cm, broché.

Illustrated edition of 16 original watercolors from Rojan, one of 1500 numbered copies on Navarre vellum, single print after 16 Holland paper.
Back slightly thinned without gravity, nice copy.
 

120 €

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Rodolphe SALIS, Joseph HEMARD

Contes du chat noir

Les arts et le livre, Paris 1927, 15x19,5cm, 281pp. et 278pp., 2 volumes reliés.

SALIS Rodolphe & HEMARD Joseph
Contes du chat noir
Les arts et le livre, Paris 1927, 15 x 19.5 cm, 281pp. and 278pp., 2 bound volumes
This edition was illustrated with the first printing of 180 compositions by Hémard, coloured in stencils. One of 1,100 copies on velin de Rives [...]

650 €

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Henriette de Coligny Comtesse de la SUZE & Paul [...]

Recueil de pieces galantes, en prose et en vers de Madame la Comtesse de la Suze, et de Monsieur ...

Par La Compagnie, à Trevoux 1748, In-12 (10x16,6cm), (4) xxij, 345pp. (3) et (4) 307pp. (4) et (4) 277pp. (2) et (4)

New edition, considerably increased by several volumes.
Binding full icy blond calf vintage. Smooth back decorated with 4 irons sun with semi stars. title label in red morocco. Piece of tomaison in blond calf. Lace framing on the boards. Very nice copy, in a fine and elegant binding.

1 200 €

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Johannes MEURSIUS & Nicolas CHORIER

Elegantiae latini sermonis seu Aloisia segaea Toletana. De arcanis amoris & veneris. Adjunctis ...

S.n., Londres 1781, in-18 (8,5x12cm), (4) xxx 31-330 pp. et (4) 233 pp., relié.

New edition.
Binding full green morocco crisscross contemporary. Smooth back decorated with 3 florets, wheels and nets. Double framing net on the boards. Golden slices. Inland frieze. Back insolated and thinned. 2 wormholes along the upper joint of volume 2.
Superb copy, in a quality binding.

900 €

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