First edition

Honoré de BALZAC

Le lys dans la vallée

Werdet, Paris 1836, 12x19,5cm, 2 volumes reliés.

The rare and very sought-after first edition (cf Clouzot).
Contemporary Romantic half green sheep over marbled paper boards, spine with gilt Romantic typographical motifs, gilt friezes to head and foot of spine, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges.
Occasional minor spotting, [...]

10 000 €

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First edition

Antoni TAPIES, Georges RAILLARD

La syllabe noire de Tapies

André Dimanche, Marseille 1994, 19x26,5cm, broché.

First edition, one of 60 numbered copies on vélin d'Arche papers, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies with a few hors commerce also on vergé d'Arches.
Illustrated with 6 original lithographs by Antoni Tapies.
HAndwritten signatures of Antoni Tapies and Georges Raillard to [...]

2 300 €

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First edition, Signed book

Henry BARBET DE JOUY

Musée impérial du Louvre - Description des sculptures modernes

Vinchon et Charles de Mourgues, Paris Août 1855, 12x20cm, relié.

Rare first edition printed on laid paper.

Full binding green shagreen, back with five nerves decorated with a grotesque decor, back with five nerves decorated with a grotesque decor, triple net gilded framing boards, double net gilded on the cuts, domestic gold lace all edges gilt, [...]

800 €

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First edition

François MITTERRAND

Ici et maintenant

Fayard, Paris 1980, 14,5x22,5cm, broché.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Japan bamboo from Navarre, only large papers.
Very nice copy.

1 200 €

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First edition

André BRETON, André DERAIN

Mont de piété

Au sans pareil, Paris 1919, 14x19cm, relié.

First edition Breton's first book, one of 115 numbered copies on Hollande, the only printing after 10 Japon.
Nicely bound in black and red Révorim by Jean de Gonet, endpapers and pastedowns of black paper, covers and spine preserved, binding made for only 200 copies.
Illustrated with two [...]

3 500 €

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First edition

Placide BOUE

Traité d'orfévrerie, bijouterie et joaillerie ; contenant la description détaillée des ...

Delaunay & Borely ainé & Joanne frères & Levasseur & Marteau & Pailhiez & Vallory, Paris 1832, 14,5x22cm, relié.

First edition.
Half red shagreen over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments with black fillets to bands, foot of spine scratched (the initials of a former owner which have been scratched out), brown shagreen title label, covers preserved (a little rubbing to edges).
Retaining its [...]

1 800 €

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Walter SCOTT

Peveril du Pic

Charles Gosselin & A. Sautelet & Cie, Paris 1828, 7,5x11cm, 8 volumes reliés.

New edition of the French translation by AJB Defauconpret.
Binders half morocco caramel, back to a large nerve adorned with romantic black cartridges, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, marbled, three corners bumped, romantic bindings of the time signed by Meslant [...]

250 €

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Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de SEVIGNE

Lettres de madame de Sévigné à sa fille et à ses amis

Ménard & Desenne, Paris 1827, 8,5x14,5cm, 12 volumes reliés.

New illustrated edition, frontispiece of the first volume of a portrait of Madame de Sevigne engraved by Dequevauviller.
Binders half raspberry calf, back with four nerves set with gilded garlands adorned with jewels and typographical motifs stamped cold as exhibits and black calfskin volume [...]

680 €

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