Signed book

LONGCHENE

Le monde souterrain ou merveilles géologiques

A. Mame & fils, Tours s.d. (circa 1840), 10,5x17,5cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

New edition.
Binding in full black shagreen, smooth back decorated with golden romantic arabesques, golden wheels slightly dimmed on the caps, framing of a golden thread on the boards richly decorated with romantic arabesques cold stamped, marbled edges, golden borders at the heads and in [...]

100 €

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André René Polydore ALYSSAN DE CHAZET

Mémoires, souvenirs, oeuvres et portraits

Postel & Allardin & Dentu & Tessier & Delloye, Paris 1837, 13,5x21,5cm, 3 volumes reliés.

Illustrated edition of 11 original etchings by Eugène Béjot, one of 300 numbered copies on laid Arches paper, only one print after 25 imperial Japan, variously enriched.
Bindings in fawn half sheepskin, smooth backs adorned with golden romantic arabesques, small losses and slight friction in [...]

350 €

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George Noel Gordon BYRON LORD

Oeuvres

Furne, Paris 1836, In-8 (13,5x21,8cm), clxxxix, 284pp. et 420pp. et 408pp. et 571pp. et 469pp. et 456pp., 6 volumes reliés.

New edition, illustrated with a portrait on the frontispiece and 10 inserts on steel by Johannot, Geoffroy. Translation by Amédé Pichot.
Binding in half glazed navy calf, signed in tail (illegible signature). Smooth back decorated with a long mirror iron with central ornament. Golden title [...]

900 €

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First edition

LOUIS-PHILIPPE

Almanach royal et national pour l'an M DCCC XLVI

Chez A. Guyot et Scribe, Paris 1846, Très fort in-8 (13,5x22cm), 1148pp., relié.

first edition.
Binding in full green glazed calf of time. Smooth back decorated with large romantic intertwined irons. Golden title and date. Ornamental plate cold on the boards with fatty framing framing. Marbled slices. Traces of friction. 2 blunt corners. Lower joint split head 2cm.

450 €

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First edition

Alphonse de LAMARTINE

Jocelyn

Librairie de Charles Gosselin & Furne, Paris 1836, In-8 (13x21cm), 2 volumes reliés.

first edition.
Bindings in full green sheepskin strictly from the time. Smooth back richly decorated with irons Restoration. Black sheepskin title and number pieces. Large cold decorative plate on the boards and a golden framing wheel. Roulette on the cups. Back evenly lightened. Traces of [...]

800 €

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First edition

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard GRANDVILLE, Jonathan SWIFT

Voyages de Gulliver dans des contrées lointaines

Furne et Cie & H. Fournier, Paris 1838, in 8 (13x21cm), 279pp. et 319pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First edition edition of the illustration of Grandville. A frontispiece on flying china and 450 vignettes on wood in-text, and 5 out of text, the four titles of the four voyages and the literary allegory in frontispiece of the notice. New translation, biographical and literary note on Jonathan [...]

850 €

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ODDOUL

Lettres D'Abailard et D'Heloise

E. Houdaille, Paris 1839, In-8 (17x26cm), cxcvii, 115pp. et 272pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First illustrated edition of 2 color frontispieces and 38 boards on applied China including a facsimile in chromolithography. Typographic ornaments.
Publisher's binding in full black morocco signed Boutigny tail. Smooth back decorated with a rich Rocaille decoration. Plates struck with a large [...]

900 €

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Jacques-Henri BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE

Paul et Virginie suivi de la chaumière indienne

Editions Curmer, Paris 1838, grd et fort in 8 (17x25,7cm), 458pp., Un Vol. relié.

First edition at Curmer and First printing.
Binding called "oriental" editor, commissioned to Simier. Full red shagreen. Smooth back decorated with a plate with orientalising motifs. Plate richly stamped with a large plate with a six-pointed star at its center. Golden slices. Restoration in [...]

1 100 €

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