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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Théophile Marion DUMERSAN & COLLET

Chants et chansons populaires de la France

Garnier frères, Paris 1848, 3 tomes en 3 Vol. Grd. in 8 (18x28,5cm), relié.

Second edition with a new Garnier increased milling after the first among Delloye in 1843, in 125 deliveries including a 4-leaf form, the score and four double-sided pages of steel engravings (extraordinary compositions surrounding the text of the song) besides three headpieces. Illustration [...]

900 €

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First edition

André BILLY

Mérimée

Flammarion, Paris 1959, 15,5x21cm, broché.

First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on chiffon de Lana paper, the only large paper copies.
Ex-libris pasted onto an endpaper, a very good, well-margined copy.

100 €

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First edition

Jules BERTAUT

Villégiatures romantiques

Le Goupy, Paris 1927, 17x24cm, broché.

First Edition, one of 50 numbered on Arches paper after only 20 Japan 30 Netherlands copies. Illustrated book of 15 plates hors-texte and numerous in-text vignettes. Light bites on the guards, nice copy. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the [...]

70 €

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Charles DOVALLE

Poésies

Charpentier, Paris 1868, In 16 (8,5x13,5cm), 221pp., relié.

Second edition. Half shagreen red time. Back tooled raised to grotesque.2 corners bumped. Scattered spots on paper remained white. Good copy. Preface by Victor Hugo in the first edition of 1830. Poet of the Maine-et-Loire died tragically at age 22 in a duel. --- Please note that the translation in [...]

200 €

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Emmanuel BLANCHE 1880-1946, Gérard de NERVAL

La main enchantée

Editions Marcel Besson, Paris 1943, 19x24cm, broché.

Edition decorated with original artwork Emmanuel White, one of 600 numbered copies on vellum Renage. Illustrated book of 15 plates hors-texte color E. White and 14 vignettes in color in-text. Nice copy. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the [...]

70 €

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Ernest FOUINET

Le robinson des glaces

Chez Martial Ardant frères, A Limoges & à Paris 1855, Grd. in 8 (18,5x28,5cm), 190pp., relié.

4 new illustrated edition lithographs sepia. text in a frame. Polychrome cartonnage editor black calico. Special large golden plate on the top plate. Rich blue frame, yellow, pink, white. Smooth back richly decorated with polychrome. Special plate on the bottom plate: Robinson in a medallion [...]

300 €

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MARTES

Firmin ou le jeune voyageur en Egypte

Alfred Mame & Cie, Tours s.d. ( circa 1850), 10,5x17,5cm, relié.

New edition. Bound in full tree shagreen, smooth spine gilt decorated with arabesques, on casters golden headdresses, traces of friction on the joints, triple frames nets on cold boards with arabesques in their centers stamped cold as well as a golden fountain, gilt on the cuts, corners bumped, [...]

80 €

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