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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Charles MARTIN, Henri de REGNIER

Contes vénitiens

Emile Chamontin, Paris 1927, 16,5x24cm, broché sous chemise et étui.

Illustrated edition of 12 original watercolors in colors of Charles Martin as well as vignettes, one of 450 numbered copies on vellum in the shape of Arches paper.
Guards poorly shaded without gravity.
Nice copy.
 

280 €

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First edition, Signed book

COLLECTIF

Album des types et costumes de tous les peuples du monde d'après des documents authentiques et les ...

Librairie générale, Paris 1869, 17,5x27cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

First edition illustrated many plates inset.
Small traces of friction on the back and boards that also have some traces of discoloration in heads and tails.
Publisher's binding in full fir green shagreen, smooth back slightly browned, headdresses somewhat frayed, framing of cold fillets on [...]

400 €

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First edition

Vue d'optique - Décoration du feu d'artifice tiré à Londres en réjouissance de la paix en 1763

Chez Mondhare1734-1799, Paris circa 1765, 32x46cm, une feuille.

Original engraving. Optical view highlighted in watercolor, representing a view of the fireworks shot in Green Park, London in celebration of peace in 1763
Optical views, also called views, perspectives or "mondo nuovo", are engravings very fashionable between the late eighteenth and early [...]

230 €

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First edition

Jean Levesque BURIGNY de

Histoire generale de Sicile

Chez Isaac Beauregard & Pierre Gosse, à La Haye 1745, In-4 (19,5x25cm), (14) 511pp. et (4) 454pp. (10), 2 volumes reliés.

First edition, rare.
Bindings plain marbled plain vintage. Back with nerves adorned with boxed glans. Title pieces in brown morocco, and tomaison in red morocco. Friction. 2 blunt corners. Head of Volume I a little soft and fragile. Beautiful paper dominated by the guards.

1 000 €

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P. H. MALLET

[DANEMARK] Histoire de Dannemarc

Chez Barde, Manget & Compagnie & Chez Buisson, A Genève & à Paris 1787, 9 tomes en 9 Vol. in-12 (10,5x17,5cm), XXIV,

Third and best edition; it is indeed the most complete. Before composing this ensemble, several editions were published: in the first place an Introduction to the history of Dannemarc in 1755, which forms in our copy the first illustrated volume of a large folding map of Scandinavia. Two volumes in [...]

950 €

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First edition

J. J. PREVOST

L'Irlande au dix neuvième siècle

Mandeville [Léon Curmer], Paris 1845 (S.d), In-4 (22,5x28,5cm), 126pp. 62Pl., relié.

A magnificently illustrated first edition of 62 plates engraved on steel by Bartlett, including a frontispiece and an engraved title, all on strong vellum. Introduction by Baron Taylor. A map.
Binding in half red morocco with corners of shagreen about 1860 signed Amand. Back to jansenist [...]

500 €

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