First edition

Henry Hamilton FYFE

Aux pays de l'or et des diamants. Cap - Natal - Orange - Transvaal - Rhodésie

Pierre Roger & Cie, Paris s.d. (1912), 13,5x20,5cm, broché.

first edition of the French translation for which there is no mention of large papers.
Illustrated book of 22 photogravures and 1 in-fine folding card.
Pleasant copy.

30 €

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First edition

Georges DARIEN & Marcel LAURAS

Biribi

Fasquelle, Paris 1906, 12x19cm, broché.

Edition on current paper it is printed in Holland paper than 10 leading copies.
Binding to bradel half red calico, smooth back, double golden tail thread, marbled paper plates, wrappers preserved and bound in.
Cover and drawings by Bernard Naudin including a double page.

150 €

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First edition, Signed book

Jean-Toussaint SAMAT

Razava ou la jeune-fille-qui-aimait-jouer-avec-les-hommes-forts. Conte du pays malgache

Fasquelle, Paris 1929, 13,5x20,5cm, broché.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on Madagascar, the only major paper.
Signed autograph of John Toussaint Samat at Monsarrat captain and his wife.
Book decorated with illustrations of Renée Jean-Toussaint Samat.
Tiny gaps minor on the back wrinkled and [...]

80 €

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James BRUCE

Voyage aux sources du Nil

Chez Lepetit, à Paris An VII, in-18 (8,5x13,5cm), 237pp. et 225pp. et 244pp. et 255pp. et 255pp. et 223pp. et 213pp.

New illustrated edition, after the original was published in 1790. Our edition presents good volume atlas consists of a map and twenty-two engraved plates by Tardieu the Elder. The first board was connected frontispiece of the first volume of text. Cardboard brown time marbled paper. Parts of title [...]

800 €

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First edition

COLLECTIF

Musée Universel. Album-Livre

Lebrun et Cie, Paris 1840, 19,5x28,5cm, relié.

COLLECTIVE
first edition.
Cardboard percaline in full, smooth back slightly past and ornate rococo irons with blue and green hightlights first board decorated with a large golden plate with different colors of canvas titled hightlights surrounding a medallion nets frame stamped cold second [...]

180 €

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André GIDE

Journal 1939-1949. Si le grain ne meurt. Souvenirs de la cour d'assises. Voyage au Congo. Le retour ...

Gallimard, Bibliothèque de La Pléiade, Paris 1988, 10,5x17,5cm, reliure de l'éditeur sous étui.

Editing the library of The Pleiades printed on paper Bible.
Publishers'binding full grained brown sheep, orange head, back smoothes decorated with gilded nets.
Bel full copy of his rhodoïd of his jacket and the holster.

40 €

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Benedetto ACCOLTI

De bello contra barbaros a christianis gesto, pro Christi sepulcro & Iudaea recuperandis, Benedicti ...

Robertus Winter, Basilae (Bâle) 1544, petit in-8 (8x14,5cm), (128)f. (sur 136) [sig : A-Q8], relié.

Edition although bearing the mark from the publisher to the last leaf verso.
Binding XIX in full brown sheepskin, back smoothes decorated with gilded nets and a part of title in red morocco, place and date of edition golden tail, frame patterns stamped on cold boards, head slices and red [...]

2 000 €

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Torquato Tasso (dit) LE TASSE

Jérusalem délivrée

chez Bossange, Masson et Besson, à Paris 1808, 9,5x17cm, 2 volumes reliés.

New illustrated edition of 19 figures inset designed by Plover and engraved by Le Roy.
Binders full calf olive green, smooth back a bit rubbed, adorned with typographical reasons, double gilded nets and rollers, fine hatching on the caps, joints slightly cracked at the head and tail if not a [...]

250 €

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