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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Pierre Charles LEVESQUE

Histoire de Russie

Chez Debure l'aîné, à Paris 1782, In-12 (10x17cm), xlviij, 442pp. et (4) 516pp. et (4) 570pp. et (4) 548pp. et (4) 565pp. (3), relié.

First Edition, illustrated with 2 large folding maps of Western Russia and Eastern Russia.
Binders full marbled vintage calf. back with ornate nerves, wheels in tails and heads. Title piece in red morocco, pieces of tomaison with black wax. A wormhole along the upper joint at the end of Volume [...]

1 500 €

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Thomas ALOM, Alexandre SOSSON

Itinéraire pittoresque aux comtés de Chester, de Derby, de Leicester, Lincoln, de Nottingham, et ...

Fisher, fils et Cie, Paris & New York & London 1837-1838, 22x28,5cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

First edition of the French translation by Alexandre Sosson.
Publisher's binding, smooth back of navy heartache decorated with golden and decorated cartouches, slightly blue-discolored sky-blue canvas plates decorated with angles of romantic arabesques stamped cold, discoloration spots on [...]

120 €

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First edition

Ferdinand de NAVENNE

Rome le palais Farense et les Farnèse

Albin Michel, Paris 1945, 16,5x25cm, broché.

First edition.
Back slightly insolated and with minor minor tears in the head and foot, stamp printed bibliophile on the first plate and the following three pages, small bites on the guards.
Illustrated book frontispiece of a portrait of Pope Paul III.

 

60 €

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First edition

Hector BERLIOZ

Voyage musical en Allemagne et en Italie - Etudes sur Beethoven, Glück & Weber

Jules Labitte, Paris 1844, 14,5x22,5cm, 2 volumes brochés sous chemises et étuis.

Jules Labitte, Paris 1844, 14.5 x 22.5cm, 2 volumes in original wrappers with chemises and slipcases.

Rare first edition of Hector Berlioz's first book.
Some restorations to the top spine-end, volume label on the spine of the second volume not fully visible, boards strengthened or [...]

2 500 €

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Rodolphe TOPFFER

Nouveaux voyages en zigzag à la Grande Chartreuse, autour du Mont Blanc dans les vallées ...

Victor Lecou, Paris 1854, 17,5x27,5cm, relié.

First edition and first edition of the illustrations.
Binding half black shagreen, back with four nerves adorned with boxes decorated with cold florets, framing of cold nets on the black cardboard plates, guards and contreplats of white silk moire marginally dirty, all golden edges.
Book [...]

150 €

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Tony JOHANNOT, Eugène GUINOT

L'été à Bade

Boivin, Paris 1931, 23x29cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

Second edition partly original because revised and corrected.
Publisher's binding in full navy shagreen, back with four nerves set with gilded nets and adorned with five golden boxes decorated with golden motiffloral angles, golden wheels on the caps, some traces of friction without too [...]

350 €

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