Northern terroirs: Picardy traditions, Norman heritage, Hauts-de-France folklore and regional chronicles

Second edition with some parts in first edition as it was revised and expanded.
Full glazed bronze calf binding, spine with five raised bands set with gilt friezes decorated with blind friezes as well as gilt typographical motifs, gilt friezes at head and foot, gilt roulettes on headcaps, traces of rubbing on joints, frame of gilt fillet and gilt dots in corners as well as blind tooling on boards struck with a central blind medallion in diamond shape embellished with blind decorative motifs, gilt edges on leading edges, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, elegant contemporary binding.
Autograph inscription signed by Francis Garnier.
Our copy...

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Publisher's full black cloth binding, complete with its illustrated dust jacket which has no defects.
Iconography, handsome copy despite minimal light worming to edges.

First edition.
Two slight tears with tiny lacks at head and foot of spine, a small tear without lack at foot of front cover.
Rare.

First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint from the bulletin of the Academy of Rouen.
Copy presented in plain temporary wrappers with small marginal tears and minimal losses, handwritten title on front cover.
Scattered foxing.

Reprint of the 1826 first edition.
Staining to covers of the second volume, otherwise good copies.

First edition printed in a small number of copies.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Work illustrated with 167 heliogravures, cover illustrated by A. Hambourg.
Spine slightly faded with two small tears at head and foot, a marginal strip of adhesive paper on the front endpaper, handsome copy.

First edition.
Work illustrated with in-text and full-page illustrations.
Spine lightly sunned with small lacks at head and foot, worming to boards, interior foxing.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Publisher's binding in full boards, spine partially faded but not seriously, handsome interior condition.
Work illustrated by Jean Gay.
Handsome copy complete with its wraparound band.

First edition.
First part: the town, history, bridge, castle, fortifications. Second part: The church, description, furniture, stained glass windows, tombstones, sacristy.
Lacking covers. Manuscript annotation on title page.

First edition.
Spine split, front cover lacking, rear board detached.

First edition.
Work illustrated with 26 figures in the text and complete with its folding plate.
Rare and handsome copy.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Illustrated with 64 photographs by Jean-Marie Marcel.
Handsome copy.

First edition.
Autograph inscription from the author.
Illustrated.

First edition printed in 350 copies on Normandy vellum.
Work illustrated with 30 hors-texte heliotype plates.
Spine slightly sunned at head and foot and also with two small tears without loss at head, boards marginally sunned at head and foot, handsome interior condition.

First edition on ordinary paper, with only 5 Holland deluxe copies printed.
Work illustrated with 8 engravings.
A pale dampstain at head of spine, some light foxing.

First edition, one of 500 copies on antique laid paper.
Light worming to covers, otherwise a handsome copy complete with its folding plan at rear.
Rare.

First edition.
Contemporary half burgundy shagreen with corners, spine with five raised bands decorated with richly ornamented double gilt compartments, double gilt fillets framing the boards, top edge gilt on deckled edges.
Rare and very handsome copy.

First edition complete with all fourteen etchings by Boisselat and the folding map.
Modest binding in half navy cloth, red morocco title-label.
Joints cracked at head, copy partially loosened, interior in fine condition.
Rare.

Edition with some parts in first edition, one of 30 copies numbered in Roman numerals on Holland paper, deluxe copy.
Fine full-page inscription by Jacques-Noir.
Work decorated with headpieces, initial letters, tailpieces, 5 illustrations including two in color and two facsimiles.
Spine lightly sunned otherwise handsome full-margined copy.

First edition.
Work illustrated with figures in the text, complete with its folding plate at the end.
Spine slightly sunned, some dog-eared pages otherwise handsome copy.

New edition with illustrations from nature by H. Magron.
Covers replaced with plain wrappers, lacking spine.
Rare.

First edition.
A tear without lack to foot of a joint.

The rare first edition.
Half brown calf binding, smooth spine decorated, one joint cracked at head and foot, headcaps rubbed, red edges, contemporary binding.
Very fresh copy complete with the folding map at rear.

First edition printed on alfa paper.
Occasional light foxing mainly affecting the margins.

First edition.
Spine and boards slightly and marginally faded, handsome interior condition.
Rare.

First editions.
Half chocolate brown sheep binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt fillets and gilt cartouches showing traces of rubbing, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Rare.

First edition of which no deluxe copies were printed.
Autograph inscription from Geoffroy de Grandmaison.
Work illustrated, as frontispiece, with a portrait of Joseph l'Hopital.
Spine and covers lightly and marginally faded, otherwise fine copy.

Ninth edition, with some parts in first edition, as revised and corrected.
Small tears with, occasionally, minimal marginal losses to spine and covers, small stains to covers.

First edition of this satirical play in Norman dialect.
Foreword, variants and dialectal notes by C. Guerlin de Guer. Spine and boards slightly and marginally sunned, bookseller's label pasted at head of front endpaper, marginal foxing on endpapers, handsome interior condition.

First edition of this collection compiled by abbé Cochet.
Half navy sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with quadruple gilt fillets, gilt initials at tail, marbled paper boards, corners slightly bumped, light traces of rubbing on edges, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
A stain on the half-title page diminishing and disappearing through the following pages, occasional foxing.

First edition.
Spine slightly cracked at head and foot, first cover faded, minimal marginal lacks to boards.

First edition published and annotated by R.N. Sauvage.
Spine and covers uniformly faded, occasional foxing affecting mainly the edges.

First edition printed in a very small number of copies.
Crease marks with minimal lacks to covers, worming affecting the entire text block.
Rare.

First edition.
Inscription from Abbé Malais on the front cover.
Spine split, worming and small stains on covers, three small corner lacks to rear cover, one tear without loss to page 183, otherwise handsome interior condition.

Edition printed in 250 numbered copies on Holland paper.
Work illustrated with an etching by Valentin.
Some minor worming without consequence, a small marginal tear at the head of the first cover.

First edition.
Split spine with small lacks, marginal fold to second cover, some light foxing, otherwise handsome interior condition.

First edition.
Half black Russia morocco binding, spine very lightly faded with five raised bands, gilt arms and mottoes at foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, label bearing the same arms and motto pasted on verso of front board under which is also pasted a label from a prestigious bookseller.
Rare and handsome copy. A typographical error on the title page prevents us from dating exactly the publication of this work.

First edition of this agricultural thesis defended in July 1921 at the agricultural institute of Beauvais.
Spine and boards slightly and marginally faded, marginal foxing to boards.
Rare.

The first edition, published in a small number of copies.
Autograph inscription by Hélène Foure-Selter.
Handsome copy.

First edition published in a small number of copies of this offprint.
Split spine with small lacks, some light foxing.
Rare.

First edition printed in a small number of copies on laid paper.
With a frontispiece portrait of A. de Saint-Léger.
Pale marginal dampstains to covers, handsome interior condition.
Rare.

First edition published in a small number of copies on laid paper.
Minor foxing affecting almost exclusively the margins, otherwise a handsome copy.
Rare.

First edition published in a small number of copies on Ingres paper.
Spine faded, foxing to endpapers, otherwise handsome interior condition.
Rare.

First edition published in a small number of copies on laid paper.
Spine and covers uniformly faded with minor lacks of no consequence, handsome interior condition.

Second edition with the text largely in first edition.
Spine restored with kraft paper, small corner losses to boards, some foxing.

Illustrated edition with numerous photographs, color plates depicting local folk costumes, a color cover and 4 folding plates.
Chronology of illustrious men at the end, handsome copy.

First edition.
Very thorough work, good interior condition, spine of the second volume split, some tears at foot and head of joints.
Rare.

First edition.
Lacking to spine, some foxing to cover.
The château of Navarre, near Evreux, was built by Joan of Navarre in 1330 then rebuilt by Louis XIII. Joséphine de Beauharnais stayed there for two years after her divorce. The château was destroyed in 1836.
At the head of the work, a folding plan of the château and gardens.
The work draws upon all rare, unobtainable or lost documents relating to the history of the château.
Very rare.

First edition.
Half sheep binding in blue, smooth spine decorated with gilt fleurons and fillets, contemporary binding.
Handsome very fresh copy.

First edition, false statement of edition.
Illustrated.

First edition.
Richly illustrated, very rare.

First edition.
Illustrated, rare.

Definitive edition, no mention of deluxe copies.
Illustrated covers in colors, iconography, list of mayors of Falaise, bibliography.
Handsome full-page autograph inscription by the author.

First edition.
Illustrated, bibliography.
A very good copy.

First edition.
A very good and rare copy.

First edition.
Complete with its folding frontispiece engraving.
Foxing.

First edition.
Slight marginal lacks at head of spine and on boards, otherwise a rare and handsome copy.

First edition published in a small number of copies of this offprint established from unpublished documents.
Front cover marginally sunned, some light foxing.

First edition.
Spine faded, internally very good.
Rare.

First collected edition.
Half sheep binding, smooth spine rubbed with gilt fillets, lacking and heavy wear to headcaps, library label pasted on, some tears to joints, binding heavily worn.
Interior very clean.

The first edition, published in a small number of copies.
Illustrated pamphlet with 4 drawings.
A handsome and rare copy.

First edition.
Spine cracked at head and foot, reglued, one joint reglued, worming to boards, foxing.
Rare.

First edition published in a small number of copies of this offprint from the Annales de l'Est et du Nord.
Autograph inscription from E. Desplanque to his brother.
Small lack to foot of spine, small marginal tears to covers.

First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint.
Spine sunned, covers slightly and marginally faded, fine interior condition.
Rare.

Second edition.
Work illustrated with a frontispiece by the author.
Minor stains of no consequence to spine and boards.
Rare.

First edition.
These are works produced by the Society of Antiquarians of Normandy.

First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint.
Work illustrated with 2 plates at rear.
Rare and handsome copy.

First edition printed in a small number of copies on laid paper.
A small corner loss to rear cover, otherwise a handsome copy.
Rare.