First edition

André POTTIER

La Normandie illustrée. Monuments, sites et costumes de la Seine-Inférieure, de l'Eure, du ...

Charpentier, Nantes 1852, In-Folio (35x47cm), relié.

First edition, copiously illustrated with a map in color, 5 frontispieces, 150 boards with a bistre bottom by F. Benoist, including 22 costumes designed and engraved by Lalaisse.
Publisher's binding in half blue shagreen to flat of percaline.

1 800 €

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Antoine Claude Pasquin VALERY

Voyages historiques, littéraires et artistiques en Italie. Guide raisonné complet du voyageur et ...

Baudry & Aimé André, Paris 1831 - 1833, In-8 (13x21,5cm), 487pp. et 307pp. ; 443pp. et 359pp. ; 315pp., 5 tomes en 3 volumes reliés.

First edition composed of the first 3 volumes of 1831 and volumes 4 and 5 published in 1833.
Binding ca 1850 in brown glazed half calf. Back with nerves adorned with series of fat and lean fillets and wheels in tail and head. Title and volume coins in black morocco.
Valery was unanimously [...]

450 €

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First edition, Signed book

Lawrence DURRELL

Carte postale autographe inédite signée de Lawrence Durrell à son amante française : "je n'aime ...

22 juillet 1970, 14,6x10,1cm, une feuille.

After many years spent in Greece, Egypt and Rhodes, travel writer Lawrence Durrell was forced to flee Cyprus following popular uprisings that led the island to independence. With only a shirt and a typewriter, but with the success of his Bitter Lemons novels, he arrived in France in 1956 and [...]

350 €

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First edition

Edouard AUBERT

La vallée d'Aoste

Amyot, Paris 1860, 34x27cm, relié.

Amyot, Paris 1860, 11.5 x 18.5 cm, bound
First edition published the same year the Aosta Valley became part of Italy. The work is illustrated with 97 wood engravings in the text, 33 steel insert engravings, 6 chromotypographies and a map.
Bound in half red shagreen, spine decorated [...]

7 000 €

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First edition

Rodolphe TOPFFER

Nouveaux voyages en zig-zag, A la grande Chartreuse, autour du Mont Blanc, dans les vallées ...

Victor Lecou, Paris 1854, Grd. in-8 (19x27,2cm), 454pp., relié.

First Edition, illustrated
Polychrome cardboard of the editor in full marine percaline.

650 €

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First edition

B. WINKLES & R. GARLAND

French cathedrals

Charles Tilt, London 1837, In-4 (26x32cm), 169pp., relié.

First edition illustrated with a title engraved with a large vignette, and 50 boards on steel, drawn on the spot by Garland and engraved by Winkles.
Publisher's cardboard in full blue percaline.

200 €

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First edition

Léon GALIBERT & Clément PELLE

Angleterre. L'univers. Histoire et description de tous les peuples

Firmin Didot frères, Paris 1842, Fort in-8 (13,5x21,7cm), 488, 560, 469 et 574pp., 4 volumes reliés.

First Edition illustrated 197 boards and 5 cards including 3 unfolding. Collection The illustrated universe.
Bindings half green sheepskin contemporary. Smooth backs decorated with 2 irons and a succession of monastic casters. Titres and golden tomatoes. Upper joint of volume 4 split at the [...]

400 €

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Hippolyte TAINE, Gustave DORE

Voyage aux Pyrénées

Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, Paris 1860, 15,5x23,3cm, relié.

New edition illustrated by Gustave Doré. Binding signed Vigneau and Pasquier.
Contemporary binding half red shagreen, back adorned with triple boxes and gilded florets, box and nets cold cold percaline boards, contreplats and guards of white percaline, all golden slices.
Two blunt corners, [...]

200 €

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