First edition

Michel Alexandre, comte KLECZKOWSKI

Cours graduel et complet de chinois parlé et écrit

Maisonneuve & Cie, Paris 1876, 17,5x27cm, relié.

First edition printed on laid.
Binding in full morocco chocolate brown Russia, back with five nerves slightly lightened adorned with triple black boxes, golden wheels on the headdresses, initials gold on the first board, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, framing of triple golden nets on [...]

2 000 €

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First edition

Pavel PIASSETSKY

Voyage a travers la Mongolie et la Chine

Hachette, Paris 1883, Grd. et fort in-8 (19x27,5cm), 563pp., relié.

First edition illustrated with 90 engravings after the sketches of the author and a map, including 61 inset and a color.
Binding in half shagreen red editor signed Magnier tail. False nerve decorated with richly decorated boxes. boards of red percaline. Friction in caps. 3 blunt corners. [...]

450 €

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First edition, Signed book

Pham VAN KY

Frères de sang

Seuil, Paris 1947, 14,5x19,5cm, broché.

First Edition, one of 55 nuimérotés copys on vellum snow, ours one of the 5 hors commerce, only leading copies.
Back slightly warped, marginally insolated boards.
Signed autograph of Pham Van Ky.

450 €

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First edition, Signed book

Etienne DINET & Sliman BEN IBRAHIM

L'Orient vu de l'Occident

H. Piazza & P. Geuthner, Paris s.d. (1921), 11,5x19cm, relié.

First edition of which there were no grand papier (deluxe) copies, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Small foxing on covers marginally and slightly sunned, one joint cracked and glued down to foot, a small tear to head of spine.
Illustrated, as frontispiece, with a drawing by Etienne [...]

1 500 €

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First edition

Pierre François HENRY

Route de l'Inde, ou Description géographique de l'Égypte, la Syrie, l'Arabie, la Perse et l'Inde

Carteret & Dentu, Paris 1798, In-8 (12,5x20,2cm), viij, 457pp., relié.

Rare first edition, illustrated with a folding map.

Binding half green sheepskin contemporary. Smooth back decorated with nets. Golden title. Hook in headdress with missing. A bare corner of paper. Friction. Trace of pale wetness on the map and the first page of text on p. 69 in the [...]

400 €

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First edition, Signed book

Henry MILLER

La Chine. Numéro spécial - Le voile d'Isis N°152-153

Le voile d'Isis, Paris 1932, 14x19,5cm, broché.

First edition of this issue entirely devoted to China.
Back gauchi.
Contributions of René Guénon, André Préau, Patrice Genty ...
Our copy belonged to Henry Miller who then offered it to Raymond Queneau with this signed autograph that he sent to him at the head of the first [...]

750 €

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First edition

Emile MASQUERAY

Souvenirs et visions d'Afrique

E. Dentu, Paris 1894, 12x19,5cm, relié.

First edition.
Binding in the bradel in half percaline Siena, smooth back decorated with a golden floret, double gilded nets in tail, title piece of black shagreen, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of orange paper, Contemporary binding .
Some small foxinges, ex-dono in the pen [...]

80 €

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First edition

George KEATE

Relation des îles Pelew, situées dans la partie occidentale de l'Océan Pacifique, composée sur ...

Chez Le Jay et Maradan, A Paris 1788, in 8 (12,5x19,5cm), (4) 282pp. et (4) 274pp. (3), 2 volumes reliés.

First french edition, illustrated with 16 boards, including 11 unfolding and a large folding map (native views, objects ...). This edition was published the same year as the English original.
Bindings in full marbled and glossy sheepskin. Smooth back decorated with 4 boxed florets. Title pieces [...]

900 €

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