First edition

Louis ESQUIEU

L'armée d'autrefois. Le racolage et les racoleurs

Imprimerie Lefebvre-Ducrocq, Lille 1911, 19x28,5cm, relié.

first edition.
Binding sheepskin half beast with corners, rubbed smooth back, marbled paper boards also including friction, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, bookplate pasted on a contreplat, preserved covers, speckled head.
Book decorated with illustrations in and Inserts.
Rare.

80 €

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Friedrich von SCHILLER

Histoire de la guerre de Trente ans

Charpentier, Paris 1841, 11x18,5cm, relié.

Edition of the French translation.
Binding navy blue glossy half calf, back smoothes decorated with double gilded coffered, gilded friezes at the head and tail, a joint with traces of friction, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, marbled, bookbinding romantic [...]

70 €

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First edition, Signed book

Emile DURANDEAU

Civils et militaires

Tresse, Paris 1878, 11,5x18,5cm, relié.

first edition.
Binding to bradel half red calico, smooth back thinned with a gold floral motif, double net gilded tail, as a piece of blue shagreen, marbled paper plates, wrappers preserved and bound in, contemporary binding.
Bel autograph signed Emile Durandeau: "My dear sir, [...]

150 €

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First edition

Alphonse de NEUVILLE, Georges BASTARD

La défense de Bazeilles

Paul Ollendorff, Paris 1884, 12,5x19,5cm, relié.

First edition, one of the few copies on Holland paper which he makes no mention.
Bound in full red morocco, spine fives nerves decorated with black lines, golden tail date on castors golden headdresses, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, framing a golden lace on contreplats, double gilt [...]

300 €

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First edition, Signed book

Gustave FLAUBERT

Salammbô

Michel Lévy frères, Paris 1863, 14x22cm, relié.

First edition.
 
Contemporary half navy blue shagreen over marbled paper boards, spine with triple gilt fillets (slightly discolored, but not seriously), speckled edges. 
 
Inscribed by Gustave Flaubert to the jurist and politician from Rouen, F[rédéric] [...]

15 000 €

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ROULLION-PETIT & AUBER

Campagnes des Français en Italie, en Egypte, en Hollande, en Allemagne, en Prusse, en Pologne, en ...

Bance aîné, Paris 1835, 12,5x20,5cm, 2 volumes reliés.

New edition published under the auspices of a company of men of letters.
"Bradel" binding half brown shagreen, back smooth decorated with gold and black double nets dotted gilded heads and feet back, marbled paper plates, paper contreplats guards and to the tank.
The volume of atlas with 54 [...]

400 €

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First edition

Guy ARNOUX

Quelques drapeaux françois

Devambez, Paris s.d. (circa 1920), 32x47,5cm, en feuilles sous chemise à lacets.

First edition, one of 475 numbered copies on Ingres, one draw with 25 Japan.
This book consists of a collection of 10 colored plates stenciled by Guy Arnoux French flags representing different from Joan of Arc to the First World War.
A stain Length of the title page and on the first board, [...]

280 €

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ANONYME & Alfred FRANKLIN

Journal du siège de Paris en 1590 rédigé par un des assiégés

Léon Willem, Paris 1876, 13x20cm, relié.

Edition published after the original manuscript of Mazarine library, one of 320 numbered copies on Holland paper, one draw with 30 Whatman.
Binding half blue morocco, spine thinned with five nerves decorated with the golden initials of great bibliophile Roger Cormenin is repeated five times, [...]

100 €

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