First edition

Auguste Comte de VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM

Axël

Maison Quantin, Paris 1890, 14x23cm, relié.

First Edition. Binding to bradel half percaline mint, smooth back with a gold floral pattern, golden double thread tail piece as red sheepskin with small traces of friction plates marbled paper, corners slightly blunted, small traces of friction on the edges, wrappers preserved and bound in [...]

250 €

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Henri LIZERAY

Ogmios ou Orphée

Vigot frères, Paris 1903, 12x19cm, broché.

First Edition. Both Gallic schools: Orpheus and Pythagoras, Orpheus in Greece, on the opinions of the ancient world and the immortality of the soul, how to understand Rabelais ... Nice and rare copy. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas [...]

70 €

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Claude-Prosper Jolyot de CREBILLON (dit CREBILLON FILS)

Le Sylphe ou songe de Madame de R***. [Ensemble] Lettre d'un jeune officier a Monsieur de V... En ...

Chez Prault & fils, à Paris 1735, in-12 (9,5x16,5cm), 40pp. ; xxij, 28pp., 2 volumes reliés.

The Sylph was published for the first time in 1730, this is the first tale Crébillon. Letter from a young officer in the first edition anonymous; very rare, this first edition seems absent from all libraries. At the end of the letter, signature: LBDK Rare edition. Cardboard cream parchment modern. [...]

500 €

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Louis FIGUIER

Histoire du merveilleux dans les temps modernes, tomes 1 et 2 (sur 4)

Hachette & Cie, Paris 1860, 11x18cm, 2 volumes reliés.

First Edition. Binders half navy sheepskin back smooth decorated with golden threads quad, flat cardboard fathead negro, binders of the time. In these first two volumes of the tetralogy: Devils of Loudun, the Jansenists convulsionaries, wand and divining Protestants. Almost free copies of any [...]

100 €

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Allan KARDEC

Esquisse géologique de la terre : chapitre extrait de La Genèse

Lib. des sciences psychologiques, Paris 1878, 12x18,5cm, broché.

First Edition. A bit split in mind, a small marginal tear at the head of first plate, some spots. Very rare brochure. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are inaccurate. Contact us for any information!

300 €

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François Antoine POMEY & Andrew TOOKE

The pantheon, representing the fabulous histories of the gods, and most illustrious heroes, in a ...

Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington…, London 1787, In 12 (11x17,5cm), relié.

Certainly erroneous entry of 28th edition, the 1824 edition is itself rated 25th. Illustrated with 28 full-page plates in the style of the late eighteenth unsigned. The first edition and contained only the following seven figures. The first edition of this book seems to date from 1694 Full Calf [...]

450 €

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Thomas ARTUS (Sieur d' EMBRY)

Description de l'isle des hermaphrodites. Nouvellement decouverte, concernant les moeurs, les ...

chez les héritiers de Herman Demen [François Foppens], Cologne [Bruxelles] 1724, (8) 352pp., relié.

Second edition, the first edition from 1605 is extremely rare. Illustrated with a frontispiece depicting a hermaphrodite, with the inscription 'I am neither male nor female ...'. Sheepskin full of used time. Back tooled raised. Missing part of title. Light foxing in the margins endnotes. Considered [...]

700 €

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Claude ROY

Arts fantastiques

R. Delpire, Paris 1960, 21x19cm, relié.

First edition.
Richly illustrated, a very good copy.

35 €

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