First edition

Joseph-John GURNEY

Un Hiver aux Antilles en 1839-1840, ou Lettres sur les résultats de l'abolition de l'Esclavage, ...

Chez Firmin-Didot, Paris 1842, In-8 (13,5x21,5cm), XI (1) 358pp., relié.

Edition originale française traduite par J. J. Pacaud, bibliothécaire à Saint-Geneviève.
binding en demi veau glacé marine d'époque. spine à faux nerfs orné de filets à froid et dorés, roulettes en queue et tête. Titre doré. 

800 €

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Signed book

Jorge AMADO

Os velhos marinheiros ou a completa verdade sobre as discutidas aventuras do commandante Vasco ...

Editoria Record, Rio de Janeiro 1976, 13,5x20,5cm, broché.

Nouvelle édition ornée d'illustrations. 
Agréable exemplaire.
Envoi autographe signé de Jorge Amado, en portugais, à un ami prénommé André.

 

150 €

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First edition, Signed book

Darcy RIBEIRO

Migo

Editora Guanabara, Rio de Janeiro 1988, 14x21cm, broché.

Edition originale. 
Agréable exemplaire malgré une pâle mouillure qui affecte les derniers feuillets en pied.
Rare envoi autographe signé de Darcy Ribeiro, en portugais, à la traductrice Alice (Raillard).

 

120 €

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First edition, Signed book

Francisco CONTRERAS

L'esprit de l'Amérique espagnole

Editions de la Nouvelle revue critique, Paris 1931, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition despite a fanciful mention of a thousand at the top of the first cover, one of 50 numbered copies on Alfa paper, the only large papers.
Rare autograph shipment signed by Francisco Contreras to André Lautier .
Freckles mainly affecting the margins of certain pages.

50 €

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First edition, Signed book

André MAUROIS

Histoire parallèle : U.S.A. 1917-1960

Presses de la Cité, Paris 1962, 13,5x21,5cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

first edition on current paper.
Publisher's binding in full cardboard, full copy of its illustrated jacket which includes small marginal tears without gravity.
Autorgaph autograph dedication of the author signed by André Maurois to the historian Parias.
Iconography, nice copy.

30 €

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First edition

Alain ROBBE-GRILLET

Projet pour une révolution à New York

Les Editions de Minuit, Paris 1970, 14,5x19cm, broché.

First edition, one of 106 numbered copies on pure Lafuma thread, the only large papers after the 92 copies on select "bouffant" paper reserved for midnight editions.
Beautiful complete copy of his prayer to insert.

100 €

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Edmund OLLIER

History of the United States

Cassell Petter & Galpin, London & Paris & New York s.d. (circa 1880), 18,5x26cm, 3 volumes reliés.

Edition adorned with many in-text illustrations.
Bindings half shagreen bottle green, back with five nerves adorned with jewels and golden nets, golden name of the author in tails of the backs, some friction without too much gravity on the backs, framing of cold nets on the boards of cartonnage [...]

400 €

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First edition

Johann Baptist HOMANN

Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae implantata Anglorumque coloniis florentissima Geographica ...

Nuremberg s.d. (circa 1716), 61,4x53cm, une feuille rempliée.

Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae implantata Anglorumque coloniis florentissima Geographica exhibita


Nuremberg | [ca 1716] | 61.4 x 53 cm | one map
Beautiful copy of one of the rare maps of the American North-East in the early eighteenth century, showing the region as [...]

1 500 €

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