First edition

Paul GAVARNI

Oeuvres choisies. Etudes de moeurs contemporaines. 1- Les enfants terribles. Traductions en langue ...

J. Hetzel & Cie, Paris 1846 - 1848, Grd. in-8 (18x26,8cm), 4 tomes en 2 volumes reliés.

First edition and first print of the engravings. Publications of the 4 volumes from 1846 to 1848, which explains why they are found separately.
Contributions by Théophile Gautier, Laurent-Jan, Léon Gozlan, Auguste Lireux and Jules Hetzel under the pseudonym of P.-J. Stahl among [...]

850 €

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François René de CHATEAUBRIAND

Oeuvres

Chez Lefèvre & Ledentu, à Paris 1838, In-8 (14,5x22,5cm), 6 volumes reliés.

New illustrated edition of 25 plates, either of a portrait on the frontispiece by Girodet and engraved by Hopwood, 5 figures on steel by Johannot in volume 1, 5 in volume 2, 9 in volume 3 and a folding map, 3 in volume 4, 2 portraits on steel in volume 6. Johannot for illustrations, others for [...]

780 €

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John TRUSLER, William HOGARTH

The works of William Hogarth ; in a series of one hundred engravings and fifty by the first artists

The London printing and publishing company, London And New-York 1844 (S.d.), In-4 (22x28cm), 280pp., 2 tomes en un volume relié.

Illustrated edition of an engraved title, a portrait on the frontispiece and 150 plates on vellum.
Publisher's binding in full brown shagreen. Back to nerves decorated with 5 small florets framed with cold irons, rollers in tail and head and on the nerves. Large decorative plate composed of [...]

1 200 €

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First edition

Joseph Mallord William TURNER, LEITCH RITCHIE

The rivers of France, from drawings by Turner

Henry G. Bohn, London 1857, Fort grd. in-8 (18,5x28cm), 336pp., relié.

First edition illustrated with a title engraved with a vignette of the chateau Gaillard and 61 inserts on steel by Turner and engraved by Higham, Brendard, Smith, Willmore ... The whole on strong vellum.
Publisher's binding in full shagreen green leather. Richly decorated false nerves back. [...]

700 €

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First edition

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard GRANDVILLE, Jonathan SWIFT

Voyages de Gulliver dans des contrées lointaines

Furne et Cie & H. Fournier, Paris 1838, in 8 (13x21cm), 279pp. et 319pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First edition edition of the illustration of Grandville. A frontispiece on flying china and 450 vignettes on wood in-text, and 5 out of text, the four titles of the four voyages and the literary allegory in frontispiece of the notice. New translation, biographical and literary note on Jonathan [...]

850 €

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First edition

Jules VERNE

Mathias Sandorf

Jules Hetzel 1885, 18x27,5cm, relié.

First illustrated edition of 111 drawings by Benett and a map. One of the only editions bearing the date in title page.
Editor's cartonnage "to the silver banner" connected by Lenègre, special plate by Souze, second flat type Lenègre "e1" according to Jauzac.
This cartonnage was used only [...]

700 €

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First edition

Edouard MONTAGNE

La feuille à l'envers

Ed. Monnier, Paris 1885, In-8 (16x24cm), 109pp., relié.

First edition, illustrated alternately by Gorguet and Fau with black caps and clevers, and 10 beautiful full-page compositions in black with borders in colors and gold.
Binding full morocco burgundy contemporary.

600 €

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Antoine François PREVOST D'EXILES (dit Abbé PREVOST)

Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du Chevalier Des Grieux

Ernest Bourdin & Cie, Paris 1839 (S.d.), Grd. in-8 (17,5x27,8cm), 344pp., relié.

Illustrated edition First printing by Tony Johannot, preceded by a historical record by Jules Janin. 18 insets on China laminated on strong paper and 90 in-text vignette; Frontispiece in monochrome by Wattier. In title page, the title is well Manon Lescaut in white letters, detail that signals a [...]

300 €

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