First edition

Charles de SAINTE-AGNES

Le grand homme considéré dans les excellences de Saint Jean-Baptiste

Chez Alexandre Fumeux, à Lyon 1652, in-8 (10,2cmx17,2cm), (8) 389pp., relié.

First Edition, a great rarity, adorned with a frontispiece title: Saint John the Baptist and Christ capped with arms, probably those of the dedicatee, lord of Fontenille Full red morocco of the late nineteenth signed David. Back to nerves decorated with threads forming boxes. Gilt title, date and [...]

600 €

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First edition

William ROSCOE

Vie et pontificat de Léon X

Le Normant & H. Nicolle, Paris 1808, 12,5x20,5cm, quatre volumes reliés.

First edition of the French translation. Full morocco bindings Russian fir, flat spines decorated with triple nets and typographical golden patterns, light scuffs without gravity on some boards, a golden frame on the flat wheel, a top corner slightly dull, yellow edges, binding of time. Book [...]

230 €

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First edition, Signed book

Prosper MERIMEE

Lettres à Requien. - Lettres inédites à Sutton Sharpe - In La revue de Paris N°10 de la 5ème ...

La Revue de Paris, Paris 1898 &1910, 16,5x25cm & 14x22,5cm, 2 volumes reliés.

First edition for each volume.
Full brown morocco bindings, smooth spines double framed in gilt, headpieces lined in gilt, boards elaborately framed in gilt, beige morocco pastedowns framed in gilt, brown moiré silk free endpapers, following free endpapers in mould made paper, all edges gilt, [...]

3 800 €

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First edition, Signed book

A. de FLEURIAU

L'activité réfléchie

Grasset, Paris 1911, 12,5x19cm, relié sous étui.

First Edition, one of 21 numbered copies on Holland paper paper with only 3 major Japan. Bound in full morocco bordeaux, back with five nerves, initials and golden tail date on casters golden headdresses, gilt on the cuts, framing a scroll decorated with burgundy morocco gilt sextuple the guards, [...]

150 €

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Pierre Simon BALLANCHE

Antigone

De l'imprimerie de Didot l'aîné, Paris 1819, Grd. in 8 (14,5x23cm), 328pp., relié.

First illustrated edition and mention of second edition after the original, published in 1815 by the same publisher. 6 figures a Broth antique engraved by Baquoy. Beautiful print on Velin and elegant typographic realization of Didot.Plein green morocco long contemporary grains. spine 4-board [...]

500 €

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First edition, Signed book

Léon BLOY

Vie de Mélanie bergère de la Salette écrite par elle-même en 1900 - Son enfance (1831-1846)

Mercure de France, Paris 1912, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition
Handsome autograph insciption from Léon Bloy to the painter Georges Rouault: "Rien pour son art - Il n'y a pas de caricature".
Spine reinforced with some filled in lacks, a tear repaired to the half title page,the one with the inscription.
This copy has a [...]

5 000 €

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Chansons choisies, avec les airs notés

S.n., Genève [Lyon] 1782, 4 tomes en 4 Vol. in 24 (6,5x12,3cm), (4) xvi ; 220pp. et (2) 236pp. et (4) 240pp. et (4) 239pp., relié.

Lyon edition of this famous songbook.
Scores at the end of each volume. 48 pages of scores in volume 1, 48 in volume 2, 38 in volume 3, 40 in volume 4.
Publisher's bindings, full contemporary red morocco. Spine with motifs in gilt. Red morocco title labels. Gilt tooling on the covers. [...]

950 €

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First edition

Evariste PARNY

La guerre des dieux anciens et modernes. Poeme en dix chants. [Ensemble] Les nouveaux saints. ...

Chez Didot, à Paris 1799 - An VII, In 12 (9,5x15,8cm), 202pp. ; (2) 24pp. ; 72pp. ; 24pp. ; 24pp., relié.

First Edition, peppered with a frontispiece by Cochin engraved by Sornique. New saints. In Dabin. Paris. 1801. Third Edition. André Marie Chénier. What the théophilantropie? At the claissique library. Paris.1801. Natural religion is it absurd, intolerant, contrary to popular belief, and it leads [...]

1 000 €

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