Jean de PARIVAL

Les delices de la Hollande

Chez Charles Ger Stecoren, à Leide 1660, In-12 (8x13,8cm), (8) 419pp. (4), relié.

Nouvelle édition.
binding en demi chagrin rouge ca 1820. spine à nerfs orné de fers Restauration. Titre doré. Frottements.
Premier guide touristique français sur la Holland papere et qui connut de multiples éditions, notamment au XVIIIe avec figures.

200 €

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André FRENAUD, André MASSON

Agonie du Général Krivitski

Pierre Jean Oswald, Paris 1960, 12x19cm, broché.

first edition on current paper.
Illustrated book of five drawings by André Masson.
Pleasant copy.
Autograph signed by André Frénaud to the poet Charles Dobzynski: "... attentive to the great upheavals of history with its hopes and disappointments ..."

90 €

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Leitch RITCHIE

La Russie - Voyage pittoresque de Saint-Pétersbourg à Moscou

Louis Janet, Paris s.d. (circa 1840), 13x20,5cm, relié.

Illustrated edition of 25 inset engravings.
Binding in half brown morocco from Russia, smooth back slightly lightened decorated with a golden decorative motif representing the roof of a Russian church, apple green cardboard plates decorated with cold stamped geometric patterns, guards and [...]

300 €

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Joseph Mallord William TURNER, LEITCH RITCHIE

The rivers of France, from drawings by Turner

Henry G. Bohn, London 1857, Fort grd. in-8 (18,5x28cm), 336pp., relié.

First edition illustrated with a title engraved with a vignette of the chateau Gaillard and 61 inserts on steel by Turner and engraved by Higham, Brendard, Smith, Willmore ... The whole on strong vellum.
Publisher's binding in full shagreen green leather. Richly decorated false nerves back. [...]

700 €

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Signed book

Henri LAURENS, HOMERE

L'Odyssée (chants V et VI)

Henri Creuzevault, Paris 1952, 21,5x32cm, en feuilles sous chemise et étui.

Illustrated edition of 14 original Henri Laurens woods, one of 125 numbered copies on laid Montval, single print after 25 Japan or China.
Beautiful copy despite small bites without gravity on the first guards and the page of false title.

1 200 €

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Charles PATIN

Quatre relations historiques

S.n., à Basle 1673, In-12 (9x15,8cm), (8) 3-336p., relié.

First edition.

Binding full brown speckled brown and glossy vintage. Back with ornate nerves. title label of brown calf. Restorations in caps, joints and corners. Missed marbled cover pages on the blank sheets.
Ex libris of the twentieth: Bibliotheca Altholii doctoris.

350 €

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Louis VEUILLOT

Keepsake chrétien 1840. Les pèlerinages de Suisse. Einsiedlen, Sachslen, Maria-Stein

A. Canuet & I. Rousset, Paris 1938, 13,5x20cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

First edition illustrated with 13 lithographs, one in color on the fake title page.
A clear wetness in the margins of the sheets of the second half of the book.
Publisher's binding in full black shagreen, smooth back richly adorned with romantic arabesques gilded, lightly rubbed headdresses [...]

100 €

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MARS

La Vie de Londres

Librairie Plon, Paris s.d. [1894], 32,5x25cm, relié.

First edition.
Binding of the publisher full khaki percaline, mute smooth back, first flat historiated polychrome with a broad title to gold, small golden typrographic floret in the center of the second board.
Binding presenting some small friction without gravity, hunting of the first [...]

200 €

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