Paul SCARRON

Le Virgile travesty

S.n., à Paris 1668, 2 volumes petit in-12 (8x13cm), relié.

XIX Binding in full morocco brown back with five nerves decorated with boxes and gilded florets, date tail, triple net gilded framing dishes, gold lace coaching contreplats, all edges gilt. Back insolated, otherwise fine copy.

1 200 €

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (dit) HORACE

Quintus Horatius Flaccus

Typis Johannis Baskerville [John Baskerville], Birminghamiae (Birmingham) 1770, in-4 (22x29cm), (1p. tit) 344pp., relié.

Edition illustrated with a frontispiece engraved by Henriquez, a title label engraved by Le Grand and four figures Plover, engraved by Laine, Leveau, Le Vasseur and Godfrey; absent Cohen.

Contemporary binding in full red morocco, back with five nerves richly decorated with gilded finials [...]

3 000 €

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SULPICE SEVERE

Opera omnia quae extant

Ex officia Elzeviriana [Abraham Elzevier], Lugduni Batavorum (Leyde) 1643, Pet. in-12 (7x12,5cm), relié.

Elzévirienne second after the first edition of 1634, plus the continuation of the sacred by Sleidan history. An engraved title frontispiece depicting Saint Martin willing to share his coat. Printing in lower case.
Bound in full red morocco eighteenth. Back with nerves decorated. As an [...]

450 €

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Abbé Charles COTIN

Oeuvres galantes

Chez Etienne Loyson, à Paris 1665, 2 tomes en 2 Vol. in-12 (8,5x14,8cm), relié.

Collective first edition of the second volume increased and illustrated two unsigned securities headpieces.
Bound in full morocco burgundy early twentieth century, elegant pastiche of a contemporary binding. Smooth back adorned with gilt title and date. Triple mentoring net on the boards. Gilt [...]

900 €

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ANONYME

L'office du matin et du soir pour les dimanches et les festes de l'année. Partie d'esté. Partie ...

Aux dépens des libraires, à Paris 1739, in-16 (6,5x12cm), 2 volumes reliés.

Religious almanac Masses.
Bound in full morocco old vintage red. Smooth back elegantly and richly decorated. Two pieces of title, in red morocco, the second in black leather. Triple mentoring net on the boards angle irons. Gilt edges. 2 corners bumped. 2 wormholes along the upper jaw of the [...]

230 €

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VIRGILE

Publii Virgilii Maronis carmina omnia perpetuo commentario ad modum Joannis Bond

Ex typographia Firninorum Didot, Parisiis (Paris) 1858, 8x14cm, relié.

Beautiful typographic tiny edition with commentary distributed around the text. Text in a red frame. Engraved title, with Renaissance-type frame.
Illustrated edition of 27 photographs pasted albuminous as thumbnails at the top of chapters, while the photographic process to albumin had been [...]

750 €

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First edition

Jean-Paul SARTRE

Les mouches

Gallimard, Paris 1943, 12x19cm, relié sous chemise et étui.

First edition, one of 18 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the tirage de tête (deluxe copy).
 
Jansenist red morocco, spine in six compartments, gilt [...]

15 000 €

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First edition

COLLECTIF

Almanach des Dames pour l'an 1809.

Chez J. G. Cotta librairie, à Tubingue s.d. [1809], in-16 (8x11,5cm), relié.

Edition adorned with seven inset printed on heavy paper, designed by Poufsin and executed by Lambert boards. Contemporary binding in full red morocco, flat spine decorated with coffered gilded geometric and floral patterns, dots and gilded frieze grecisante coaching boards, fine golden roulette [...]

200 €

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