First edition

Stefan ZWEIG

Balzac

Albin Michel, Paris 1950, 14x21,5cm, broché.

First edition of the French translation, one of 80 numbered copies on vellum Renage, only leading copies.
Back and flat slightly and marginally insolated without gravity, otherwise beautiful copy.
"The Grand Balzac, like Zweig, designated in his familiar life his enterprise-to distinguish [...]

2 500 €

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First edition

Alphonse de LAMARTINE

La chute d'un ange

Charles Gosselin et W. Coquebert, Paris 1838, In-8 (13,5x21,2cm), 339pp. et 429pp., relié.

First edition, without fictional mention of editing, which is quite rare for this work.
Binding full calf vintage tobacco. Smooth back of 4 romantic irons mirrored. Title and volume pieces of brown calf. Frieze framing cold and golden net. Small scattered foxinges. Upper joint rubbed. Traces of [...]

800 €

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Silvio PELLICO

Mes prisons suivies du discours sur les devoirs des hommes

Delahaye, Paris 1843, In-8 (18,5x26,5cm), 374pp., relié.

First illustrated with a frontispiece on China and 25 inset and many vignettes by Tony Johanot. Beautiful illustrated romantic.
Editor binding in full red shagreen with special irons. Back richly adorned with a large ornamental plaque in length, the name of the editor in tail. Upper dish with a [...]

500 €

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ANONYME

Album orné

Branston, London 1840 (S.d), In-4 (24x30,5cm), relié.

Collection consisting of an anonymous hand of chromolithographs, engravings. Many pages with various frames, Gothic, ornamental, intended to receive engravings. Frontispiece in chromolithography enhanced with colors. The papers intended to receive drawings, engravings or chromos are of various [...]

450 €

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First edition

(Honoré de BALZAC) COLLECTIF

Le saphir, morceaux inédits de littérature moderne

Urbain Canel & Adolphe Guyot, Paris 1832, 11x18cm, relié.

First edition bringing together unpublished texts, including 'The refusal' of Honoré de Balzac.
Some foxinges.
Binding in brown icy calf, back slightly crossed for four nerves ends adorned with gilt and black nets, two split joints in feet, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, [...]

400 €

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First edition

Alphonse de LAMARTINE

Raphaël, pages de la vingtième année

Perrotin & Furne & Cie, Paris 1849, relié.

First edition.
Binding half shaggy bitter wine, back with four false nerves adorned with boxes consisting of quadruple net. Traces of friction. Slight traces of wetness at the top of the margins of some leaflets, otherwise very clean. Good copy.
Biographical and fictional novel, Lamartine [...]

350 €

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First edition, Signed book

Léo LARGUIER

Alphonse de Lamartine

Hachette, Paris 1929, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition, on current paper.
Slightly insolated back with a small tear in the foot.
Autograph signed by Leo Larguier Maurice Martin du Gard.

40 €

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First edition, Signed book

Antony THOURET

Blanche de Saint-Simon, ou France et Bourgogne. Chronique de 1468

Ladvocat, Paris 1835, 14,5x22,5cm, relié.

First edition of this historical novel written by Antony Thouret while incarcerated in the prisons of Saint-Waast.
Binding in half morocco green morocco, smooth back decorated with a central and gilded floral pattern, golden date tail, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade [...]

350 €

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