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First edition.
Le Vaudreuil : une méthode d'étude and de réalisation; bibliographie; spécial transports nouveaux.
Iconography.
A good copy.

First edition.
Iconography.
A good copy.

First edition.
Illustrated.
A good copy.

First edition.
About Copenhague, Stockholm, Helsinki.
Iconography, maps.
A good copy.

First edition.
Cultural and socio-educational facilities; university groups in France and abroad.
Iconography, maps.
Spine sunned, otherwise handsome copy.

First edition.
Publisher's flexible cardboard binding, smooth spine.
Work illustrated with 14 color plates.
Preface by Jean-Louis Vaudoyer, introduction by Rodolphe Guilland.
Handsome copy.

First edition, illustrated with 36 steel plates, printed on heavy paper. Text on tinted vellum.
Publisher's binding. Half wine-colored morocco. Spine richly decorated with two large romantic stamps within frames. Date at foot. Wine-colored cloth boards stamped with a large blind plate of rinceaux and foliage. Boards slightly faded. Occasional light foxing to margins of some engravings. Handsome copy.
Poetic anthology of this collection devoted half to India with 18 engravings of views, ruins, villages, tombs, by Allom, Purser, Prout. The following 18 engravings represent England, some portraits. Bookplate of M. and H. Hocquette. Romantic books.

First edition.
Publisher's full navy and red cloth binding, smooth spine, complete with its illustrated dust jacket which has minor marginal tears of no consequence.
Rich iconography.
A library classification sticker and bookplate pasted to endpapers.
Handsome copy.

First edition.
Publisher's soft binding.
Iconography.
Library classification sticker and bookplate pasted to endpapers, handsome copy.

First edition.
Publisher's binding in cream half cloth, smooth spine, complete with its illustrated dust jacket which has small marginal tears.
Rich iconography.

First edition printed in a small number on laid paper.
Publisher's Bradel binding in brown half cloth, smooth spine, cream paper boards, title label pasted on front cover.
Richly illustrated.

First edition in French.
Publisher's full charcoal cloth binding, smooth spine, complete with its dust jacket and illustrated slipcase which show no defects.
Rich iconography.
Handsome copy.

First edition in French.
Publisher's full white paper boards, smooth spine.
Rich iconography, bookplate pasted on title page.
Handsome copy.

First edition, a numbered copy on vélin chamois apprêté paper.
With 22 reproductions of works.
A good copy.

First edition.
The set is composed as follows: The industrial revolution, Avant-garde and modern movement (1890-1930), conflicts and the post-war period, the inevitable eclecticism (1960-1980).
Rich iconography.
Minor traces of rubbing on spines of volumes 2 and 3.
Handsome complete set in 4 volumes.

First edition.
Publisher's binding over paper boards, illustrated covers.
Richly illustrated.
A good copy.

First edition.
Illustrated with 103 plates.
With bookplate pasted at foot of an endpaper and a library shelf label pasted on its recto.
Handsome copy.

First edition.
Publisher's half black cloth binding, smooth spine, gilt title, marginal scuff to spine, flexible boards, title label on front board, corners slightly bumped.
Work illustrated with numerous photographic plates.
Handsome copy.

First edition.
Work illustrated with reproductions of works by Georges Rouault.
Handsome copy complete with its split slipcase as well as its illustrated dust jacket.

First edition published in a small number of copies.
Illustrated brochure with 3 plates.
Spine and covers slightly and marginally sunned without significance.
Rare and handsome copy.

First edition in French.
Publisher's full lemon cloth binding, smooth spine, with the illustrated dust jacket, bookplate pasted on a dust jacket flap.
Rich iconography.
Handsome copy.

First edition of each volume, one of 200 numbered copies on deluxe paper, the only deluxe copies.
Each fascicle is illustrated with 20 pen drawings by G. Latallerie-Beurier.
Autograph inscription signed by the illustrator on each volume.
Texts by C. de Seauve, J. Pothier and prefaces by R. Chazelle.
The set is presented in a half tan sheep slipcase and chemise, spine with four false raised bands, marbled paper boards.
The slipcase spine is slightly rubbed at head.
Handsome copy.

First edition of this catalogue whose sale took place at the Bordeaux auction house.
Illustrations hors-texte.
A small angular tear at the head of the first cover affecting the following pages and having occasionally caused small lacks without gravity and not touching the text, otherwise a handsome copy.

First edition.
Work illustrated with 50 photogravures.
Two small tears at head and foot of spine, a light marginal dampstain and a crease mark at head of front cover, handsome interior condition.

First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint.
Covers missing.
Rare brochure.

First edition, one of 10 copies numbered and justified by the artist containing an original drawing by Ricardo Mosner on the title page, deluxe copy.
Signed autograph inscription by Ricardo Mosner.
Illustrations hors-texte by Ricardo Mosner.
Rare and handsome copy.

First edition.
Work illustrated with 153 engravings.
Spine and joints restored, light corner wear to boards, some minor foxing, minimal traces of adhesive tape at head and foot of endpapers.
Provenance: from the library of Prince Roland Bonaparte with his bookplate pasted opposite the half-title page.

First edition.
With 68 etchings.
Spine and upper covers soiled, lower cover less than skillfully repaired, a few small spots.

First edition.
Illustrated with 1200 engravings.
Some worming to boards, a tear without loss at head of first leaf, otherwise a handsome copy.

First edition.
Illustrated with 1350 gravures.
Some spots to endpapers, otherwise a good copy.

First edition.
Spine very slightly warped, otherwise a good copy.

First edition.
Illustrated booklet with 32 reproductions of O. Kokoschka's work in photogravure.
Three light stains of no consequence to the margin of the front cover, handsome interior condition.

First edition.
Publisher's binding over yellow plain paper boards citron, dust jacket missing.
Richly illustrated.

First edition ronéotypée of 500 numbered copies.
A rare and good copy.

First edition.
Publisher's binding in full brown boards, smooth spine, complete with its illustrated dust jacket which has no defects.
Presentation by José E. Mindlin, autograph inscription from him to a female friend.
Iconography.
Handsome copy.

First edition.
Autograph inscription signed by Henri Filleul to vice-president of Sacem Monsieur Julsam.
Our copy is enhanced with a concert program given at the municipal theater of Saint-Omer by the Lille symphony orchestra in honor of Henri Filleul.
Handsome ensemble.

First edition printed in 500 numbered copies.
Very fine autograph inscription signed by Francis Casadesus to Monsieur Julsam, director of Sacem.
Spine and boards slightly and marginally sunned, some small spots to boards, handsome interior condition.

First edition.
Autograph inscription from Pierre Darras.
Tiny insignificant spots to upper cover, a very good copy.

First edition.
Publisher's full cream cloth binding, complete with its illustrated dust jacket whose spine is slightly sunned as well as its slipcase.
Rich iconography, handsome copy.

First edition.
Publisher's full cream cloth binding, handsome copy complete with its illustrated dust jacket and slipcase.
Rich iconography.

First edition.
Publisher's full rose cardboard bindings, copies complete with their dust jackets which have no defects as well as their slipcase.
Volume 1: Impressionist painting in France.
Volume 2: Impressionism in Europe and North America.
Rich iconography.
Very fine set.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Arches paper, deluxe issue.
Our copy, like all copies from the deluxe issue, is complete with its original etching in double state signed by Auguste Brouet.
Work illustrated with 270 plates reproducing the artist's engraved work.
The slipcase of the second volume is worn.
Handsome copy.

First edition.
Half hazel shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands slightly faded, publisher's gilt monogram at foot of front cover, marbled paper boards, top edge gilt, publisher's binding.
Work illustrated with 49 plates at the end.

First edition, illustrated with a medallion portrait of Corneille on the title page, and three figures on heavy paper after Cochin, and engraved by Prévost, Ponce and Saint-Aubin.
Contemporary brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with 5 fleurons. Red morocco title-label. Roulette on leading edges. Rubbing. 3 corners slightly bumped.
Didactic and lyrical poem, in alexandrines.

First edition printed on ordinary paper.
Fascicule illustrated with an unpublished portrait of the artist by himself engraved on wood by G. Aubert as well as reproductions of works by M. Denis.
Two tiny lacks to head and foot of sunned spine, handsome interior condition.
Precious autograph inscription signed by François Fosca to Pierre Drieu la Rochelle.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Precious autograph inscription signed by Louis Cheronnet to Pierre Drieu la Rochelle.
Fascicle illustrated with 32 reproductions of the artist's works.
Some worming.
Precious relic.

First edition printed in 2000 copies, ours being one of the copies on laid paper.
Some stains on the chemise.
The work is illustrated with six hors-texte plates in black and color by Henri Montassier and Raoul Serres.

First edition, one of 2000 numbered copies, the only printing with 300 copies containing an original etching by Ignacio Zuloaga.
Publisher's binding in full red cloth, smooth spine, complete with its illustrated dust jacket, the spine of which is sunned and has small marginal tears.
Rich iconography.
Interior in pleasant condition.

First edition printed in 300 copies (n°202).
Copy in sheets under publisher's half-cloth chemise closed with laces.
Chemise flaps torn and cover faded. Work illustrated with 54 plates and 50 vignettes after drawings by Alcime Sinan.

First edition of the two series published respectively in 1835 and 1836. 36 steel engravings for the first volume and 40 for the second, totaling 76 engravings engraved by various English engravers and printed on strong paper, under tissue guards. A large title vignette and a frontispiece in the second volume, both dated 1836, therefore could not have been part of the first.
Green half morocco signed Boutigny. The second volume, although using the same tools (and the same endpaper), and coming from the same workshop, is in a noticeably different binding (bound two years later), in navy blue half shagreen, the ensemble being ultimately more aesthetic than if the color were similar. Romantic gilt tool along the spine, gilt title. Very fine blue marbled paper. Despite some minimal foxing at the tissue guards and in the margins, very fine copy. The selection of works highlights the great sites of Europe, including even Mont Saint-Michel, and universal representations, such as Don Quixote. Each work is accompanied by an introductory text.

First edition.
Extract from the Revue des deux mondes.
In loose sheets, under chemise.

First edition, one of 7000 numbered copies.
Publisher's full mouse-grey cloth binding, complete with its illustrated dust jacket which shows some minor marginal scuffs.
Our copy is complete with its original lithograph.
Rich iconography.
Minimal light and marginal stains on the title page, otherwise a handsome copy.

First edition.
This edition is often mistakenly confused with the Garnier edition Chants et chansons populaires de la France (in one volume and in several), yet it is rigorously different both in illustration and content. It is illustrated with 48 steel-engraved plates printed in bistre after Gavarni, Travies... and numerous wood engravings.
Half brown shagreen. Spine with false raised bands decorated with thick and thin compartments. Wine-colored percaline boards. Edges gilt. Boards discolored in places (borders). Joints of volume 1 rubbed in places. Tissue guards browned. Occasionally some foxing in margins or around tissue guards. Overall quite fresh and clean.
The two volumes offer nearly 1400 songs covering all styles, often accompanied by historical and literary notes.

SEVERINI Gino & BOCCIONI Umberto
Les Peintres futuristes italiens
[The Italian Futurist Painters]
Bernheim jeune, Paris 1912, 12 x 16 cm, stapled
First edition, for which there were no grand papier (deluxe) copies, of the catalogue of the first and most important foreign futurist exposition.
Two tiny marginal spots, not serious, to upper cover, otherwise a good copy.
$ 500

First edition. One frontispiece.

Contemporary full blonde sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated, red morocco title-label. Headcap worn. One hole at foot. 2 corners slightly bumped. Rubbing.

First edition.
Contemporary full sheep binding. Decorated smooth spine. Red morocco title label. Double fillet frame on boards. Joints cracked. Headcap partly worn. One corner bumped.
The author, responding to a letter, takes a moral position regarding the spectacles he condemns, as well as the encyclopedists.

First edition.
Lullabies, nursery rhymes, riddles, sayings and quatrains...
Small lacks to foot of spine, one repaired tear to back cover, foxing to covers.

First edition, one of 75 numbered copies on Rives paper, the only printing with 10 others also on Rives signed by Adrian Wilson and 3 hors commerce copies.
Cream-colored cloth, complete with slipcase.
With numerous original woodcuts by Adrian Wilson.
This copy retains its chemise, which holds 50 or so characteristic examples of the work of the printer Adrian Wilson.
A fine and rare copy.

First edition of the first major study on the sculptor Jean Goujon (c. 1515 - c. 1568) who played a key role in the French School of sculpture.
Bottle-green Bradel half paper over marbled paper boards, spine with gilt fillets, navy blue shagreen title piece, edges of covers rubbed.
With 85 hors texte engravings, of which 3 double page, accompanied by an explicatory text on each of the monuments for which Goujon provided sculptures.
With an essay on the life and works of Jean Goujon at end.
A little scattered spotting affecting both text and plates.
Rare.

First edition.
Publisher's full mouse-gray paper boards in Bradel binding, complete with dust jacket.
Iconography.
Handsome copy.

Edition printed in 210 numbered copies, ours one of 170 on Holland paper.
Bradel bindings in half olive morocco with corners, smooth spines, dates at foot, marbled paper boards, corners slightly bumped, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, contemporary bindings.
Work illustrated with original etchings by E. Morin.
Occasional light worming, otherwise a handsome set attractively bound.

First edition on ordinary paper, only 100 copies were printed on Arches laid paper as deluxe copies.
Autograph inscription signed by Maurice Denis to Jacques-Emile Blanche: " à Jacques Blanche en toute sympathie d'art, et peut-être de pensée..." ["to Jacques Blanche with all artistic sympathy, and perhaps of thought..."]
Minimal worming on the endpapers.

First edition.
Publisher's full olive cloth binding, complete with its illustrated dust jacket which shows no defects.
Rich iconography, a very handsome copy.

First edition of this auction catalogue held on November 27, 28 and 29, 1922 at the Hotel Drouot.
Iconography.
A small tear at the head of one joint, small stains on the front cover, handsome interior condition.

First edition, decorated with 6 figures drawn by Berlin and engraved by Devilliers. 80 pages of engraved music.
Contemporary full red straight-grained morocco binding. Smooth spine decorated with two butterflies and two fleurons. Frame border on boards. One tiny lack at foot. Rubbing. Scattered foxing. Handsome copy.
Song collection, whose songs are mainly drawn from operettas (Boieldieu, Piccini, Lemoine...). Although most of the texts are amorous laments, one notes an intruder: God save the king...

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First edition.

Rare handwritten inscription from Josef Pankiewicz to [Moïse] Kisling.
Illustrations. Three light, minor snags at the top of the spine, tiny marginal tears without pieces missing at the top of the first board, otherwise pleasant copy.

In 1906, Pankiewicz was appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Notably, one of his pupils was Moïse Kisling whom he encouraged to abandon sculpture in favor of painting. He introduced the young man to French painting and more specifically Cézanne and Renoir. In 1910, on the advice of his mentor, Kisling – aged nineteen years old – left Poland for Paris where he quickly became a significant figure of Parisian artistic life.

First edition.
Extracted from the Revue des Deux Mondes.
Rare.
In plain wrappers.

First edition.
Extracted from the Revue des Deux Mondes.
Rare.
In plain wrappers.

First edition.
Extracted from the Revue des Deux Mondes.
Rare.
In plain wrappers.

First edition.
Extracted from the Revue des Deux Mondes.
Rare.
In plain wrappers.

First edition, illustrated with 68 fine photogravures including one large folding colored plate.
Preface by André Michel. A chronological catalogue of his principal works, and the location where they are found.
Publisher's wrappers.
Virgin copy, conjugate leaves, printed on strong laid paper. (After 100 deluxe copies). The colored plate is detached. A crack to the lower joint at head.
Very good condition.

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First edition.
This catalogue consists of the presentation of 11 paintings by Diaz reproduced in 11 etchings engraved by Charles Jacque.
Spine faded, foxing on all etchings, auction prices noted in pencil.
Rare.

First edition.
Contemporary half calf bindings. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label and brown sheep volume label. Lacks to headcaps of volume IV. A small lack to tail of volume III. Rubbing. Quite good copies, very fresh.
The complete set comprises 24 plays. Many of these plays were originally intended for the children of Orléans under the care of the Comtesse de Genlis. The roles are performed by children. Madame de Genlis thus inaugurated a new genre in theatre, a theatre made by and for children. In the final volume, the preface specifies that this volume is intended solely for the children of artisans and merchants. It goes without saying that none of the plays is without a certain moral lesson which it demonstrates.
Volume I: Agar dans le désert; La belle et la bête; Les flacons; L'isle heureuse; L'enfant gâté; La curieuse; Les dangers du monde. Volume II: L'aveugle de Spa; La colombe; Cécile ou le sacrifice de l'amitié; Les ennemies généreuses; La bonne mère; L'intrigante. Volume III: Le bal d'enfans; Le voyageur; Vathek; Les faux amis; Le magistrat. Volume IV: La rosière de Salency; La marchande de mode; La lingère; Le libraire; Le vrai sage; Le portrait.

First work on contemporary painting in Japan, following the first exhibition of Japanese art in Paris at the Grand Palais in 1922.
Numerous plates.
Rare.
In original wrappers with folded covers.
Excellent condition.

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First edition, illustrated with 148 steel-engraved plates, including 96 in the first three volumes, by Thomas Allom; the fourth volume comprises 52 plates including 36 by Eugène Lami and 16 by Allom.
Full midnight blue glazed calf. Flat spine with false raised bands decorated with various roulettes and fillets with some compartments in morocco. Covers decorated with rich Romantic frieze and angular blind stamps. Red morocco title-label. Marbled edges. Scratches to covers. Headcaps and joints lightly rubbed. Superb English binding.
Volume IV, which is often lacking, is the translation of Un été à Paris, by Jules Janin. Through its illustrations, one finds a Balzacian Paris. It should be noted that the first volume contains numerous scenes of the Pyrenees, very fashionable at the time. Another volume contains numerous scenes of the Loire (Saumur, Angers, Amboise...).
The work thus seeks to bring together everything remarkable to be found in France, both from an architectural and landscape perspective, with illustrations accompanying the historical and descriptive text. The illustrative richness is remarkable, and one can admire equally the château de Pau and the Panthéon, the cirque de Gavarni and the cathedral of Orléans. What is interesting is that following the trends of the time, the engravings feature figures in period costume, and often show places as they were then.

First edition, one of 550 copies on vélin blanc, the only printing with 30 Normandy vellum.
16 illustrations.

First collected hors commerce edition printed in 100 numbered and hand-justified copies on Holland paper.
Preface by Abel Bonnard.
Frontispiece with an original silver gelatin print by Wladimir Rehbinder mounted on cardboard, portrait of the countess
Light worming to spine marginally affecting boards, handsome interior condition.
Rare.

First edition, for which there were no large paper copies.
Work decorated with several original plate illustrations by Gustave Courbet. Spine slightly split at the head also with a small section missing.
Emile Zola quotes this work in ‘L'Evénement illustré' on 5 May 1868: 'c'est là une œuvre qui fera sensation. L'auteur est un utilitaire tombant à bras raccourcis sur la bourgeoisie fainéante et oisive. (...) Courbet ne pouvait guère trouver un texte dont l'esprit convînt mieux à son genre de talent. Le Franc-Comtois a dû se réjouir en lui de ce plaidoyer en faveur des paysans, des rudes enfants de la terre. Aussi, comme il s'est mis volontiers à dauber les bourgeois, les messieurs qui ne sauraient distinguer une pelle d'un râteau ! Chacun de ses dessins est une satire.' ‘this is a work that will cause a sensation. The author is a vehicle lashing out at the lazy and idle bourgeoisie. (...) Courbet could scarcely find a text whose spirit was better suited to his talent. The Franc-Comtois must have rejoiced in this plea in favour of peasants, the formidable children of the earth. Also, since he was willing to ridicule the bourgeois, gentlemen who could not tell a spade from a rake! Each of his drawings is a satire.' Very rare.

First edition.
Small tears without lack to head and foot of spine, sewing fragile, foxing.

First edition.
Half caramel sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt and blind fillets showing some rubbing.
Work written in collaboration with Albert Lenoir and Charles Lenormant.
Rare work dealing with Gallic, Roman, Greek, and Christian monuments and illustrated with in-text engraved figures.

First edition.
Plain paper cover.
Rare.

First edition.
Plain paper cover.
Rare.

First edition.
Plain paper cover.
Rare.

First edition.
This is a collection of letters from prisoners gathered and published by the prison musical team.
Preface by Camille Mauclair.
Handsome copy.

First edition.
Publisher's illustrated boards.
Human beings and animals, bas-reliefs, leafy designs, fleurons... Work illustrated with 432 plates and figures.
Handsome copy.

First edition.
Half sheep binding in burgundy, smooth spine decorated with blind-tooled compartments, dotted lines and gilt fillets.
A handsome copy.

First edition.
In original wrappers with flaps.
Capacci: surrealist painter. Limited edition of 1500 numbered copies. No. 420.
Texts by Paul Colinet, Marcel and Gabriel Piqueray, Marcel Lecomte. Texts on Alfa paper, reproductions on coated paper. Exhibitions and bibliography of the painter.

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One of 950 copies on swiss thick paper, after 100 deluxe copies.
Study of the work and census, illustrated with fine photographic plates.
Dedication on frontispiece: "La république de Genève reconnaissante à son grand artiste Alexandre Cingria."
Lower cover detached and reinforced. Very good condition.

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