Gustave DORE, Honoré de BALZAC

Les contes drolatiques colligez es abbayes de Touraine et mis en lumière par le sieur de Balzac ...

Garnier frères, Paris 1860 (S.d), 13,5x20cm, 614pp., relié.

Sixth edition and second edition of the 425 compositions by Gustave Doré.
Binding full red morocco long signed Thivet (top of the first page). Back with nerves richly adorned. Golden title. Triple framing net on the boards. Rich interior frieze. Golden slices. Back slightly [...]

650 €

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Alfred de VIGNY

Servitude et grandeur militaires

Librairie des Bibliophiles, Paris 1885, In-8 (13,5x21,5cm), 287pp., relié.

Illustrated edition of a portrait with frontispiece and 6 etchings after Julien Le Blanc, engraved by Champollion. Title printed in red and black.
Binding half morocco brown antique corners. Back to Jansenist nerves. Title and date golden. Golden head.

300 €

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First edition, Signed book

Antony THOURET

Blanche de Saint-Simon, ou France et Bourgogne. Chronique de 1468

Ladvocat, Paris 1835, 14,5x22,5cm, relié.

First edition of this historical novel written by Antony Thouret while incarcerated in the prisons of Saint-Waast.
Binding in half morocco green morocco, smooth back decorated with a central and gilded floral pattern, golden date tail, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade [...]

350 €

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First edition

Félicien CHAMPSAUR, Georges BOTTINI

Nuit de fête

Offenstadt frères, Paris s.d. (1902), 16,5x25,5cm, broché.

First edition on current paper.
Small scratches without gravity on the back.
Book decorated with 75 illustrations in black and watercolor stencil Georges Bottini, Auguste Francois-Marie Gorguet and Charle Lucas.
Cover illustrated by Georges Bottini.

80 €

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First edition

Utagawa SADAHIDE

Kawanakajima gunkan (Batailles de l'île Kawanaka)

Sadahide 1860 (S.d), 12x18cm, 50 feuillets., broché.

First edition consisting of 50 illustrated sheets including many scenes on double page. The author of the text could not be identified.
Japanese binding in acordon. Title label with several gaps. Folds on the blue embossed cover.
The battles on Kawanaka Island took place in 1550-1560 [...]

700 €

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First edition

Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC

Lithographie originale pour la pièce de théâtre "L'argent" d'Emile Fabre

Imprimerie Eugène Verneau, Paris s.d. (1895), 23,5x31,5cm, une feuille.

Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
Original lithography for the play
L'Argent by émile Fabre
Imprimerie Eugène Verneau | Paris [1895] | 23.5 x 31.5 cm | one leaf
Original print by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec created for the production of émile Fabre's play entitled [...]

3 000 €

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First edition

Henry Rider HAGGARD

Découverte des mines du roi Salomon

Hetzel, Paris 1889, In-8 (16,5x24,5cm), 260pp., relié.

First french edition published in the library of education and recreation of Hetzel. Translation and adaptation by G. Lemaire. Preface and afterword by Bentzon. EK catalog in fine.
Publisher binder in half red shagreen signed Lenègre tail. Back with false nerves decorated with gilded and cold [...]

650 €

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First edition

Charles DICKENS

Little Dorrit

Bradbury and Evans, London 1857, Fort in-8 (14x21,7cm), xiv, 625pp., relié.

First edition illustrated by HK Browne of a frontispiece, a title engraved with a vignette and 37 boards
Binding half glazed black glazed vintage. Back with false nerves decorated with nets. title label of burgundy veal. boards of percaline binds wine. A slight and small lack in mind. Traces of [...]

1 200 €

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