First edition

Prosper MERIMEE

mosaïque, par l'auteur du théatre de Clara Gazul

H. Fournier jeune, Paris 1833, In-12 (13x20cm), 439pp., relié.

first edition.

Binding in half icy shagreen from the end of the 19th century. Smooth back decorated with repeated romantic irons, golden title and date. Golden head. Back uniformly exposed. Scattered pale freckles.
Bookplate with crowned figure, Alfred and Blanche de [...]

800 €

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First edition

Ernst Theodor Amadeus HOFFMANN

Contes fantastiques

Jouaust, Librairie des Bibliophiles, Paris 1883, In-12 (11x17,9cm), 306pp. et 308pp., 2 volumes reliés.

New edition in first print of the 11 etchings by Lalauze and a portrait on the frontispiece. Preserved covers and back. Print on Holland paper.
Binding in half cognac morocco with vintage corners. Smooth back mosaic of red flowers and green leaves and golden interlacing. Titles, volume number [...]

450 €

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First edition, Signed book

Henri POURRAT

Le trésor des contes

Gallimard, Paris 1948-1962, 12x19cm, 13 volumes brochés.

First edition, one of 25 (for the first four copies of the series) or one of 23 (from the fifth volume until thirteenth) numbered copies on cloth Auvergne for each of the volumes, sometimes a non-commercial copies literate, draw of head.
Very rare and beautiful complete copy in 13 [...]

10 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Georges DUMEZIL

Le Mahabarat et le Bhagavat du colonel de Polier

Gallimard, Paris 1986, 14x20,5cm, broché.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Back slightly cleared.
Signed autograph of Georges Dumézil to Jacques Soustelle: "... these reveries Euro-Asian ..."

120 €

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Jean de LA FONTAINE

Contes et nouvelles en vers

Chez Henry Desbordes, à Amsterdam 1695, In-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (16) 236 pp. (2) ; (8) 216 pp. (2), relié.

This edition is a slightly modified impression of the first illustrated edition of 1685. The illustration consists of 2 frontispieces and 58 half-page vignettes designed by Romeyn de Hooghe (except the second frontispiece which is not in the edition of 1685). "The frontispiece of the first volume [...]

3 000 €

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First edition

Claude-Etienne SAVARY

Les amours d'Anas-Eloujoud et de Ouardi, conte traduit de l'Arabe

Chez Onfroy, A Bagdad se trouve à Paris 1789, In-18 (7,5x12,5cm), (2) 4p. (4) 96pp., relié.

First Edition posthumous, rare. After the subtitle, 4p. catalog.
Binding full porphyry vintage calfskin. Smooth back decorated with 4 florets. Title piece of black calf. Frieze framing on the boards. Small slot on 0,5cm with the upper joint in head and in tail, tiny. Nice copy.

500 €

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First edition

Giovanni Battista MASCOLO, Johann Wolfgang BAUMGARTNER [...]

Encomia Coelituum, Digesta Per Singulos Anni Dies, Una Cum Veterum Fastis, Recensibitus Victorias, ...

Viennae 1753-1755, in-12 (11x17,5cm), (24) 158 pp. et 159-324 pp. et 325-505 pp. et 506-677 pp., 4 volumes reliés.

Édition originale viennoise, très rare, illustrée de 366 figures par Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner. Remarquable iconographie baroque. Un seul exemplaire repéré dans les catalogues électroniques de la bibliothèque de Strasbourg, un exemplaire à Cambridge et un autre à Oxford.
Reliures de [...]

2 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Georges DUMEZIL

Mythe et épopée, tome III : Histoires romaines

Gallimard, Paris 1973, 14x22,5cm, broché.

first edition for which no large papers were taken, one of the review copies service.
Autographed autograph dedication of the author from Georges Dumézil to Pierre Dumayet.
Back slightly insolated.

80 €

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