First edition

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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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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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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Charles HUARD

Berlin comme je l'ai vu

Eugène Rey, Paris 1907, 15,5x20,5cm, broché.

Edition illustrated with drawings by Charles Huard, one of 200 numbered copies on vellum, only leading copies after 100 Japan.
Nice copy.
 

60 €

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Georges LOUKOMSKI, André MAUREL & Henri de REGNIER

Les délices du pays des Doges (Vénétie)

J. Peyronnet & Cie, Paris 1929, 25,5x32,5cm, en feuilles sous chemise et étui.

Edition adorned with 24 original illustrations inset Georges Loukomski, one of 222 numbered copies on vellum Marais, only leading copies after 24 various Japan.
Text by André Maurel and preface by Henri de Régnier.
Slight snags on the back of the case.
Nice copy.

250 €

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