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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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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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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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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Fernand CHAFFIOL-DEBILLEMONT, André DESLIGNERES

Au pays des eaux mortes (Flandre-Hollande)

Marcel Seheur, Paris 1929, 11,5x17,5cm, broché.

first edition for which it was not taken from large papers.
Signed autograph signed by Fernand Chaffiol-Debillemont to Henri Béraud.
Illustrated book of wood by André Deslignières.
spine slightly discolored and insolated, some small foxinges mainly affecting the guards.

60 €

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Noël DU BORD

Sorciers brigands

Les livres nouveaux, Paris 1938, 14x19cm, broché.

first edition for which it was not taken from large papers.
Autographed by Noël Du Bord to Henri Béraud: "Tribute to the tasty author of the Lurons de Sabolas, where the regionalist customs of Valais are reflected in patois so resembling."
Some small foxing [...]

50 €

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