Fin de Siècle & Belle Epoque

Georges DARIEN
La belle France
P.V. Stock|Paris 1901|12 x 18.50 cm|relié
First edition.
Bradel binding in full paper, smooth spine, chocolate brown morocco title-label, covers preserved, signed binding by Thomas Boichot.
Handsome copy attractively bound.
Autograph inscription signed by Georges Darien to Henri Fèvre.
€1,000
Jean de MERLIN
La débauche à Paris
Librairie Antony|Paris 1901|12 x 19 cm|relié
The rare first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Bradel binding in half vellum-style boards, smooth spine, marbled paper boards, original covers preserved and bound in, contemporary binding.

€150
Charles VIRMAITRE
Paris-cocu
Librairie Antony|Paris s.d. (ca 1890)|12 x 19 cm|relié
The rare first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Bradel binding in half vellum-style boards, smooth spine, marbled paper boards, illustrated covers preserved, contemporary binding.

€150
Henri MINCZELES
Histoire générale du Bund, un mouvement révolutionnaire juif
Denoël|Paris 1999|15 x 23 cm|broché
First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy, illustrated.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Henri Minczeles to Bernard Kouchner: "... en souvenir d'une rencontre à Varsovie le 15 avril 2008..." (in memory of a meeting in Warsaw on April 15, 2008...)
Founder of Médecins sans frontières then Médecins du monde, Bernard Kouchner was appointed Secretary of State for Social Integration then Secretary of State to the Prime Minister for Humanitarian Action in Michel Rocard's government from 1988 to 1991.

€150
Emile ZOLA
Photographie originale dédicacée au critique d'art Vittorio Pica
Benque & Cie|Paris s.d. (ca 1880)|10.50 x 16.50 cm|une feuille
Original dedicated photograph representing Emile Zola facing forward, head slightly turned to the right. Vintage silver gelatin print.
The photograph is mounted on cardboard. On verso, studio stamp of Benque & Cie.
Worming to verso of the photograph. Small stain in lower left margin of the photograph and a clear fingerprint stain in lower right margin.
Autograph inscription signed by Emile Zola to the art critic and great friend of the Goncourt brothers Vittorio Pica.
Art critic of Neapolitan origin, Vittorio Pica took an early interest in French naturalist and symbolist movements: "Curious about all avant-garde movements, he first...
€3,500
(Emile ZOLA) Robert MASSIN
Zola photographe
Denoël|Paris 1979|21.50 x 27.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Work illustrated with 480 documents selected and presented by François Emile-Zola and Massin.
Handsome copy despite light foxing to edges.
Publisher's full red cloth binding, smooth spine, complete with illustrated dust jacket.
Autograph inscription signed by Massin with a small drawing of an eye to the Immortal Pierre-Jean Rémy, nom de plume of Jean-Pierre Angremy: "Pour Jean-Pierre Angremy (qui a l'oeil), avec l'amitié fidèle, Massin." ("For Jean-Pierre Angremy (who has the eye), with faithful friendship, Massin.") with the manuscript signature of François Emile-Zola.
€150
Emile ZOLA
La république et la littérature
Charpentier|Paris 1879|14 x 23 cm|relié
First edition on ordinary paper.
Full tawny morocco binding, spine with four raised bands set with black fillets bearing small stains at foot, gilt fillet frame on burgundy morocco pastedowns, brown watered silk endpapers, following endpapers of marbled paper, original wrappers preserved, all edges gilt, elegant signed binding by Georges Cretté.
Scattered foxing, covers marginally and lightly faded.
Autograph inscription signed by Emile Zola to the painter and photographer Eugène Montrosier at the head of the title page.
€2,000
Hubert, Maréchal LYAUTEY
Lettre autographe signée du maréchal Hubert Lyautey
Thorey (Meurthe-et-Moselle) [Thorey] 19 Août 1933|21 x 27 cm|une page
Autograph letter dated and signed by Marshal Lyautey to Monsieur Lanvoisin, journalist at the daily newspaper "Les débats", 11 lines in black ink written from his property at Thorey in Meurthe-et-Moselle.
Crease marks inherent to postal folding.
The Marshal congratulates and thanks his correspondent for his latest article: "Avec quelle émotion je lis ce matin "Les débats" ! Comme je suis touché de la façon dont vous parlez de ma "maison morte" et de ma "maison ressuscitée"..." (With what emotion I read "Les débats" this morning! How touched I am by the way you speak of my "dead house" and my "resurrected house"...)
and invites him to visit...
€150
Giuseppe TOMASI DI LAMPEDUSA
Le guépard[Il Gattopardo][The Leopard]
Seuil|Paris 1959|14.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition in French, one of 150 numbered copies on vélin neige paper reserved for bibliophiles of Sélections Lardanchet, the only deluxe copies.
A small area of sunning at head of spine extending slightly onto the back board.
Rare and handsome copy of this masterpiece magnificently adapted for cinema by Luchino Visconti, (Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1963), with Claudia Cardinale, Burt Lancaster and Alain Delon as the principal actors.
Rare and fine copy.
€4,500
Karl MARX, Joseph ROY (trans.)
Le Capital
Librairie du Progrès - Directeur Maurice Lachatre & Cie|Paris s. d. [1875]|19.50 x 28 cm|relié
First edition in French, translated by Joseph Roy, partly previously unpublished, with corrections and additions by Karl Marx.
Complete with the two title pages addressed to Lachatre, a frontispiece portrait of Karl Marx, the facsimile of his letter to the publisher and his reply on the verso, removed from later editions.
Simple contemporary bronze half-cloth binding, smooth spine framed in gilt, gilt title, bookbinder's ticket at foot of the pastedown, "Buchbinderei Schey & Co, Zürich".
***
This first French edition of 'Das Kapital' was published in parts between 1872 and 1875, but met with no success, as the publisher writes in a letter to Marx dated 24 December 1873...
€3,500
Henry MURGER, André GILL
La vie de Bohême
Librairie illustrée|Paris s. d. [1877]|18 x 27.50 cm|relié
Illustrated edition with coloured plates by André Gill.
Each title page is decorated with a border by Eugène Grasset.
Half brown sheep binding, spine with four raised bands adorned with gilt friezes and decorated with double gilt fillets, some rubbing to spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Handsome interior condition despite some light foxing.

€150
Charles-Lucien HUARD
Paris province étranger
Eugène Rey|Paris 1906|14 x 20.50 cm|relié
First edition consisting of 100 drawings by Charles Huard, one of the numbered copies on Japan paper, the only deluxe copies announced.
Preface by Henry Bataille.
Bradel binding in blue-green half-cloth, smooth spine, blue sheep title-label, cat's-eye paper boards, marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, covers preserved.

€150
[PHILADELPHEUS as] Filadelf GORILLA
Le singe dégénéré, notes et impressions d'un singe à travers le monde ancien et moderne
Henri Jouve|Paris 1893|12 x 18.50 cm|relié
First edition.
Half red shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands set with black fillets, light rubbing to spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Filadelf Gorilla is the pseudonym of Alexandros Themistokles Philadelpheus (1866-1954), director of the Acropolis of Athens and its museum until 1920.

€680
Charles-Lucien HUARD
Paris province étranger - Exemplaire de Jean Richepin
Eugène Rey|Paris 1906|14 x 20.50 cm|broché
First edition consisting of 100 drawings by Charles Huard.
Preface by Henry Bataille.
Spine cracked with small losses, four marginal losses to boards, handsome interior condition despite light foxing to endpapers.
Precious autograph inscription signed by Charles Huard to Jean Richepin.

€150
Jean JAURÈS
L'organisation socialiste de la France - L'armée nouvelle[The Socialist Organization of France – The New Army]
Jules Rouff & Cie|Paris 1911|11.50 x 18 cm|relié
First edition.
Contemporary half red sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with triple gilt fillets, some stains to spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, some marginal rubbing to boards, contemporary binding.
Marginal lack affecting 3 letters on pp. 467-469, some reading marks by the dedicatee in pencil in margins of certain paragraphs.
Rare autograph inscription signed by Jean Jaurès: "Au citoyen Mauranges. Jean Jaurès."
Georges Mauranges (1884-1975), lawyer at the Parliament of Paris and member of the Socialist Party from 1905 (identified with the "right wing" of the movement). He was a member of the 11th SFIO section of Paris...
€2,800
Henry Morton STANLEY
Through the dark continent or the sources of the Nile around the great lakes of equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone river to the atlantic ocean
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington|London 1878|14.50 x 23 cm|2 volumes en reliures de l'éditeur
First edition.
Publisher's full brown cloth binding, smooth spines illustrated in black with African landscapes, gilt publisher's imprints at foot of spines, front boards decorated with black illustrations depicting African landscapes and stamped at their centers with a map of Africa crossed by the gilt Livingstone river framed by the two gilt lakes Victoria and Tanganika, yellow paper endpapers and pastedowns, corners slightly bumped.
Work illustrated with 2 frontispiece portraits, 8 maps, 2 large folding maps contained in a pocket at the end of each volume, as well as 33 plates and numerous illustrations in the text.
Two small black stains on the rear board of the first...
€1,400
Jules CLARETIE
Souvenirs du dîner Bixio
Charpentier|Paris 1924|12 x 19 cm|relié
First posthumous edition, one of 20 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies.
Bradel binding in full brick-red percale, smooth spine decorated with gilt floral motif, double gilt fillet at foot, black shagreen title-label, original wrappers preserved, bookplate pasted on pastedown, contemporary binding.
Handsome copy despite some minor stains on boards.
Deferential and beautiful autograph inscription signed by Georges Clarétie, the author's son, to Raymond Poincaré: "... en souvenir de son père qui aimait tant vous rencontrer à ces dîners dont vous étiez pour lui un des charmes." (in memory of his father who so loved to meet you at those dinners where...
€150
Émile ZOLA
Le docteur Pascal[Doctor Pascal]
Charpentier|Paris 1893|12 x 19 cm|relié
First edition on ordinary paper.
The genealogical table is lacking in our copy.
Half-red shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with triple gilt compartments, gilt name at foot, blind-ruled frame on red paper boards, pebbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.

€300
Jacques-Émile BLANCHE
La Troisième république, 1870 à nos jours - Les arts plastiques
Les Editions de France|Paris 1931|13 x 20.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 40 numbered suralfa copies, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Preface by Maurice Denis.
Manuscript signature of Jacques-Emile Blanche below the justification page.
€250
Ernest RAYNAUD
Souvenirs de police (Au temps de Ravachol)
Payot|Paris 1923|12 x 18.50 cm|broché
The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine slightly sunned at head and foot.
Preface-letter by Louis Barthou.
Autograph inscription signed by Ernest Raynaud to Edmond Teulet.
€100
Léon WALRAS, William JAFFE
Major final private holdings comprising manuscripts, typescripts, corrected proofs, offprints, and first editions
S. n.|s. l. 1887|divers|11 pages sur 7 feuillets pour les manuscrits + 4 feuillets pour la transcription
Very important and last remaining archives in private hands, including autograph manuscripts, typescripts, corrected proofs, offprints, first editions, etc.

Exceptional collection of manuscript and printed archives – the last in private hands – of the founder of liberalism and modern economics, Léon Walras, preserved and annotated by his most prominent scholar William Jaffé. One of the 5 most important sets of personal archives belonging to Walras, considered by Schumpeter “the greatest of all economists”.

This collection of 42 important documents, including complete autograph manuscripts, corrected proofs, abundantly annotated offprints...
€75,000
Louis CARPEAUX
La chasse aux pirates (Tonkin)
Grasset|Paris 1913|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, service de presse stamp at head of second cover.
Light marginal foxing on covers, manuscript notation in black ink below title: "les légionnaires en colonne" on front cover.
Autograph inscription signed by Louis Carpeaux to mademoiselle Montgenault.
€100
Jules FERRY
Lettre autographe signée à une amie à propos de la difficulté d'organiser un concert du compositeur et pianiste Anton Rubinstein alors en tournée en France
s. d. [ca 1880]|11 x 17.50 cm|une page
Autograph letter signed by Jules Ferry, 14 lines in black ink, to a lady, apologizing for a delay beyond his control.
Traces of folds inherent to being placed in an envelope.
"Ma chère Céline,
il y a donc une question Rubinstein ! ou plutôt une question "Colonne". En deux mots la société des concerts de [...] s'inquiète de voir installer dans la salle dont elle a le monopole de faire jusqu'au 15 avril, tous les soirs, un orchestre rival. Ces messieurs me porteront demain leurs doléances. Rubinstein, oui, mais son orchestre, c'est toute une affaire. Voilà le pourquoi du retard. Fraternellement vôtre. Jules Ferry." (My dear Céline,
so there is a Rubinstein...
€250
Émile ZOLA (Arthur MEYER)
Lettre autographe datée et signée adressée au magnat de la presse Arthur Meyer à qui il recommande Louis de Robert "... vous trouveriez sans doute en lui un excellent rédacteur pour "Le Gaulois"
Paris 5 Avril 1893|13.50 x 20.50 cm|une page et demie
Autograph letter dated and signed by Emile Zola, 23 lines in black ink on a page and a half, addressed to press baron Arthur Meyer
Folds inherent to postal delivery.
Emile Zola intervenes with Arthur Meyer, proprietor of the high-circulation newspaper "Le Gaulois", on behalf of his friend Louis de Robert: "Vous sentirez comme moi que c'est un garçon d'avenir, et je suis convaincu que vous l'utiliserez... Je le connais et je désire qu'il travaille." ["You will feel as I do that he is a young man with a future, and I am convinced that you will make use of him... I know him and I want him to work."] in whom he recognizes a talented writer: "Me...
€1,500
Charles de FOUCAULD
"Votre très respectueusement et affectueusement dévoué dans le coeur de Jésus"Autograph letter signed from his hermitage in Hoggar
(Hoggar) 17 matin (1909)|10.20 x 15.80 cm|un feuillet remplié
| Foucauld and the temptation of the desert |
Foucauld's Sahara Epistle

Precious handwritten letter signed by Saint Charles de Foucauld, 4 pages in purple ink on a folded sheet. At the top of the first page is a handwritten version of his famous motto "Jésus Caritas", accompanied by a drawing of the Sacred Heart of Jesus surmounted by a cross, which he wore on his habit. He repeats this sketch accompanied by the word “Jesus” at the head of each subsequent page of the letter.

Published in Georges Gorrée, Les amitiés sahariennes du Père de Foucauld, 1946, vol. 2, p. 183.

This long and...
€5,000
Georges DARIEN
Le voleur
P.V. Stock|Paris 1898|12 x 19 cm|relié
First edition on ordinary paper and without statement of edition.
Bradel binding in orange half cloth, smooth spine very slightly darkened decorated with a central gilt floral motif, double gilt fillet at foot, navy blue shagreen title label, some rubbing to headcaps, marbled paper boards, original wrappers preserved very slightly trimmed, corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
Some light foxing, particularly on the cover boards.
We include a correspondence of 5 letters and telegrams, spanning the year 1955, between two admirers of Georges Darien's work who wish to preserve his memory and have his works republished: Georges Quesnel whose father served as model...
€1,700
Léon BLUM
"N'oubliez pas que nous sommes des sectaires."Signed autograph letter addressed to a journalist recommending that he rewrite an article in accordance with the obedience of the newspaper's management and its readers
Paris s. d. [circa 1897]|11 x 18 cm|deux pages et demie
Autograph signed letter addressed to a fellow journalist, 45 lines written in purple ink.
Central fold inherent to the mailing.
Léon Blum warns his fellow journalist about his article which differs from the editorial line of his own (probably La Revue Blanche to which Alexandre Varenne contributes, who is cited at the beginning of the letter): "... I confess to you in all frankness - that the very substance of the article was troublesome for our readership. First, in your enumeration, a term was missing: the priests. Don't forget that we are sectarians. Furthermore, a sentence about financiers could seem, in our publication, rather singular..." and...
€600
Pierre BENOIT
La chaussée des géants
Albin Michel|Paris 1922|12 x 19 cm|relié
First edition, with printed service de presse stamp at foot of back cover.
Bradel binding in full sea-green boards, smooth spine with some light rubbing, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Signed autograph inscription from Pierre Benoit: "A Madame Léon Daudet , pour lui dire mon amitié, et aussi qu'elle se trompe absolument en ce qui concerne le jeune Laboulbène. Son Pierre Benoit" ["To Madame Léon Daudet, to express my friendship, and also that she is absolutely wrong about young Laboulbène. Her Pierre Benoit"].
€80
Émile ZOLA
Pot-Bouille[Pot-Bouille]
Charpentier & Cie|Paris 1882|11 x 17.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 250 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies after a few rare copies on China paper.
First cover skillfully restored, printed library stamp with numbering on the half-title page.
Copy as issued.

€1,200
Maurice BARRÈS
Un homme libre
Albert Fontemoing|Paris 1904|13.50 x 20.50 cm|relié
Edition with some parts in first edition as expanded with an unpublished preface.
Half marbled sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt cartouche, some rubbing to spine, top headcap worn down, navy blue shagreen title label, marbled paper boards, beige paper endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt, contemporary binding.
Precious signed autograph inscription by Maurice Barrès: "A Léon Daudet , son ami. Maurice Barrès." ["To Léon Daudet, his friend. Maurice Barrès."]
€300
Maurice BARRÈS
Huit Jours chez M. Renan
Emile-Paul frères|Paris 1913|12 x 18.50 cm|relié
First collected edition, one of the numbered copies from the first issue reserved for the author.
Bradel binding in half marbled sheep, smooth spine decorated with a gilt cartouche, top headcap worn, some rubbing to spine, navy blue shagreen title label, marbled paper boards, beige paper endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt, contemporary binding.
Precious autograph inscription signed by Maurice Barrès: "A Léon Daudet , son ami. Maurice Barrès." [To Léon Daudet, his friend. Maurice Barrès.]
€350
Maurice BARRÈS
Leurs figures
Félix Juven|Paris s. d. [1902]|12 x 18.50 cm|relié
First edition, with service de presse stamp at end of volume.
Bradel binding in half brown cloth, smooth spine decorated with gilt fleuron, double gilt fillet at foot, navy blue shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, one tear to lower edge, corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
Precious autograph inscription signed by Maurice Barrès: "A Léon Daudet, souvenir amical. Maurice Barrès."
€350
Maurice MAC-NAB
Humoristique chanson autographe en octosyllabe datée et signée intitulée "Le banquet des maires"
S. n.|s. l. • (Paris) 14 juillet1888|13.50 x 21 cm|trois feuillets
Autograph song in octosyllables dated and signed by Maurice Mac-Nab entitled "Le banquet des maires", 58 lines in black ink on three leaves.
Maurice Mac-Nab, poet and hydropath songwriter (he wrote a thesis on hangovers), performed notably at the famous Montmartre cabaret Chat Noir where he recited "advertising songs".
"Le banquet des maires"
Enfant gâté de mon canton
Depuis quartorze ans je suis maire
Bien que je me flatte, dit-on,
D'être un peu réactionnaire
Un beau matin monsieur Floquet
Me dépêche une circulaire :
Il me convie au grand banquet
Que nous offre le Ministère (bis)
"Je t'en prie, Hector, n'y va pas,
Me...
€400
Maurice BARRÈS
Au service de l'Allemagne
Félix Juven|Paris 1906|12.50 x 19.50 cm|relié
First edition on ordinary paper.
Bradel binding in brown half cloth, smooth spine decorated with gilt floral motif, double gilt fillet at foot, black shagreen title-label with minor scratches, marbled paper boards, blue paper endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
Precious autograph inscription signed by Maurice Barrès at the head of the half-title page: "A Léon Daudet, son ami Maurice Barrès"

€300
Henri ROCHEFORT
Ironique pensée manuscrite signée
S. n.|s. l. s. d. [circa 1900]|21 x 58.50 cm|une feuille
Amusing signed manuscript note by the pamphleteer Henri Rochefort, six lines written in black ink on a sheet:
"I don't know why people claim that the current generation is old before its time. I met two young men yesterday of about nineteen years. They seemed very well preserved to me. Henri Rochefort."
€120
« So that justice finally be done for women »
« So that justice finally be done for women »
Victor HUGO (Léon RICHER)
« Pour qu'enfin justice soit rendue à la femme »Signed autograph letter addressed to Léon Richer : « So that justice finally be done for women »
Mardi 7 novembre [1871]|13.30 x 20.80 cm|2 pages sur un feuillet double
Autograph letter signed by Victor Hugo to Léon Richer, two pages in black ink on a double sheet framed in black. Crosswise folds inherent to envelope inserting. A central tear at the junction of the two sheets. Published in Œuvres complètes de Victor Hugo (Ollendorff, 1905).
Manuscript housed in a blue half morocco chemise and slipcase, marbled paper boards, marbled paper slipcase, signed Boichot.

A magnificent and important letter to Léon Richer, one of the first male feminist activists, considered by Hubertine Auclert as the "father of feminism" and later regarded by Simone de Beauvoir as its "true founder". This deeply humanist text is a compendium of...
€18,000
Sadi CARNOT, COLLECTIF
Itinéraire de la visite à Bruay de monsieur le président de la république, 1er & 2 juin 1889
Imprimerie Paul Dutilleux|Douai 1889|9 x 13.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition complete with its folding map, at end of volume, detailing the Bruay mines visited by Sadi Carnot on June 1st & 2nd, 1889.
Copy tending to come apart.
Publisher's binding in full red cloth, smooth unlettered spine, black fillet frame on front cover.

€150
HERMANN-PAUL
Le veau gras
Charpentier & Fasquelle|Paris 1904|14.50 x 22.50 cm|relié
First edition, one of 50 copies on China paper printed specially for the bookseller Carteret, ours bearing No. 1, the only deluxe copies.
Work consisting of 87 plates of drawings by the author which he captioned in order to ridicule bourgeois marriage.
Bradel binding in half green morocco with corners, smooth spine slightly discolored, gilt date at foot, marbled paper sides, covers and spine preserved, endpapers and pastedowns of combed paper, top edge gilt on deckled edges, contemporary binding signed Durvand.
Handsome full-margined copy agreeably bound in contemporary binding signed Durvand.
€500
Albert CAMUS
Les justes
Gallimard|Paris 1950|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 70 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the deluxe issue after 2 reimposed on pur fil vergé hors commerce reserved for Jacques Hébertot and 13 on holland paper.
A handsome and rare copy of this response by Albert Camus to Jean-Paul Sartre's "Les mains sales".

€4,500
Victor GRIFFUELHES
Le syndicalisme révolutionnaire
La publication sociale|Paris 1909|10.50 x 17 cm|agrafé
First edition
First cover marginally shaded and foxed, handsome interior condition.
€50
Alfred NAQUET
Antisémitisme et histoire
Gallimard|Paris 1895|11 x 16.50 cm|agrafé
First edition of this speech delivered at the session of May 27, 1895 of the Chamber of Deputies.
Adhesive tape stains on the first and last pages of the text, copy unstapled.
Alfred Naquet denounces and expresses concern about the virulent antisemitism agitating France.

€450
COLLECTIF
Rapport présenté au bureau socialiste international par le parti socialiste et révolutionnaire arménien Daschnaktzoutioun
Fédération révolutionnaire arménienne • Imprimerie Paul Singer|Stuttgart 1907|13 x 18.50 cm|agrafé
The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Dampstains around the staples, two folds on the first cover also affecting some leaves at the beginning.
Very rare.
€200
COLLECTIF
Revue blanche La N°59 de la sixième année
La Revue Blanche|Paris 15 Novembre 1895|16.50 x 25.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Contributions by Paul Adam "De la pudeur", Debagori-Mokrievitch "Souvenirs sur Bakounine", Gutave Kahn on Jules Soury, the memoirs of General Rossignol (1793), Raoul Chélard "Le millénaire de la Hongrie", Jean de Mitty, Tristan Bernard...
Issue illustrated with 3 woodcuts by Charles Maurin.
Spine slightly warped, small marginal tears to boards.
€100
CARAN D'ACHE
Carnet de chèques
E. Plon, Nourrit & Cie|Paris 1892|28 x 12.50 cm|relié
First edition of this collection of ferociously anti-Semitic caricatures presented in the form of a booklet of 24 checks.
Bradel binding in full olive cloth, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, very light scratches of no importance to the right margin of the front cover, endpapers and pastedowns of decorative patterned paper, front cover preserved.
Some inevitable minor restorations to the check stub area, some foxing at the end of the volume, handsome copy.

€300
Georges TOURNAIRE
Le socialisme - Notions élémentaires
Chez l'auteur|Paris 1909|11.50 x 18 cm|relié
The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Half red cloth binding, spine with gilt fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top corners very slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
Foxing.
Preface by Gustave Hervé.

€50
Miguel de UNAMUNO
Paz en la guerraPaz en la Guerra
Libreria de Fernando Fe|Madrid 1897|14 x 21.50 cm|relié
Paz en la Guerra

Libreria de Fernando Fe | Madrid 1897 14 x 21,5 cm | full cloth

First edition of the first work by Miguel de Unamuno.

Binding in full marbled cloth, spine in five compartments set with gilt stippling and adorned with gilt fleurons, title pieces and name of the author in olive green sheep, some scratches on the spine ends and in the margins of the boards, marbled endpapers.
Two restored tears affecting the text to pages 305-306 and 319-320, ex-dono in purple pencil by a former owner of the work on the half-title page, library stamp printed on the title page.

Rare autograph presentation signed by Miguel de...
€1,800
COLLECTIF
L'amateur d'autographes - Revue historique et biographique bi-mensuelle - Années 1909 et 1910 complètes
Noël Charavay|Paris 1909-1910|14.50 x 23 cm|relié
First edition.
Bradel binding in half sienna cloth, smooth spine decorated with a gilt floral motif, double gilt fillet at tail, brown shagreen title-label with some marginal scratches, marbled paper boards, contemporary binding.
Pencil annotations on the blank endpapers of the binding, some light foxing of no consequence.
Handsome copy.
€100
COLLECTIF
L'amateur d'autographes - Revue historique et biographique bi-mensuelle - Années 1911 et 1912 complètes
Noël Charavay|Paris 1911-1912|14.50 x 23 cm|relié
First edition.
Bradel binding in half sienna cloth, smooth spine decorated with gilt floral motif, double gilt fillet at foot, brown shagreen title-label with some scratches, marbled paper boards, contemporary binding.
Pencil annotations on the last blank endpaper, occasional light foxing.
Handsome copy.
€100
COLLECTIF
L'amateur d'autographes - Revue historique et biographique bi-mensuelle - Années 1913 & 1914 complètes
Charavay frères|Paris 1913-1914|14.50 x 23 cm|relié
First edition.
Bradel binding in half sienna cloth, smooth spine decorated with a gilt floral motif, double gilt fillet at foot, brown shagreen title-label with light rubbing, marbled paper boards, contemporary binding.
Handsome copy.
€100
Maurice BARRÈS
Au service de l'Allemagne
Félix Juven|Paris 1906|11.50 x 18.50 cm|relié
New edition.
Bradel binding in half almond-green percale, smooth spine decorated with a central gilt fleuron, double gilt fillet at foot, burgundy shagreen title-label, pebbled paper boards, original covers preserved, contemporary binding.
Small lack at head of one endpaper.
Handsome copy.
€50
Paul BONNET
Adolphe Guillot
Imprimerie Berger-Levrault & Cie|Nancy 1907|16.50 x 25 cm|broché
First edition printed in a small number of copies of this speech delivered during the session of January 7, 1907 at the Paris Court of Appeal.
Rare and handsome copy.
€60
Auguste ANGLÈS
André Gide et le premier groupe de La nouvelle revue française : La formation du groupe et les années d'apprentissage 1890-1910 - L'âge critique 1911-1912 - Une inquiète maturité 1913-1914
Gallimard|Paris 1978-1986|14 x 22.50 cm|3 volumes brochés
First edition of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Signed autograph inscription by Auguste Anglès, at the head of the first volume, to a couple of friends named Eric and Martine: "A Eric, pour qu'il en parle, et à Martine, pour qu'elle ne lise pas cela, en amitié !" ["To Eric, so he may speak of it, and to Martine, so she won't read this, in friendship!"]
We include three signed autograph letters by Auguste Anglès (dated November 27 and December 8, 1964, and April 10, 1978), the first two on letterhead from the Maison française of Oxford University, addressed to his friend named Eric.
€150
COLLECTIF COMITE COLONEL MARCHAND, Jean-Baptiste MARCHAND
Le Colonel Marchand - Soudan - Fachoda - Chine
L. de Soye & fils imprimeurs|Paris 1906|15.50 x 24 cm|agrafé
First edition of this brochure paying tribute to Colonel Marchand and his battles for colonial France against the British Empire
Two small corner lacks on the title page due to the former presence of adhesive paper.
Brochure illustrated with 3 maps hors-texte.
Texts by Ernest Judet and Etienne Lamy.
Photographic portrait of Jean-Baptiste Marchand as frontispiece.
Autograph inscription signed by Colonel Marchand to Monsieur Lagarde below his photographic portrait.
Our copy is enhanced with an autograph letter signed by Jean-Baptiste Marchand, dated May 1906, of 18 lines in which he apologizes for being unable to respond to the solicitations of committees...
€200
Victor LENEPVEU (Louis LEPINE)
Musée des horreurs - Affiche originale lithographiée en couleurs - n°3 "A la niche !"[AFFAIRE DREYFUS] [Museum of Horrors - Original Color Lithograph Poster - No. 3 'To the Doghouse!']
Imprimerie Lenepveu|Paris s. d. [octobre 1899]|49.80 x 65.20 cm|une affiche
Original lithographed color poster representing Louis Lépine as a dog. Behind him is drawn an imposing sign on which is indicated: "Liberté ! Egalité ! Fraternité !!! Ordre d'arrêter et de conduire immédiatement au poste tous les vendeurs du Musée des horreurs" ["Liberty! Equality! Fraternity!!! Order to arrest and immediately conduct to the station all sellers of the Musée des horreurs"], in reference to the arrests of street vendors selling the publication.
Transverse folds, one tear without loss to left margin partially filled by a paper stamp.
Distributed between October 1899 and December 1900 in a France inflamed by the Dreyfus Affair, these immense colored satirical portraits...
€900
Victor LENEPVEU (Émile ZOLA)
[AFFAIRE DREYFUS] Musée des horreurs - Affiche originale lithographiée en couleurs - n°4 "Le Roi des Porcs"Original colour lithographed poster
Imprimerie Lenepveu|Paris s. d. [novembre 1899]|49.80 x 65.20 cm|une affiche
Musée des horreurs – Original colour lithographed poster – n° 4 “Le Roi des Porcs”

Imprimerie Lenepveu | Paris [November 1898] | 49,8 x 65,2 cm | one poster

Original colour lithographed poster depicting Émile Zola in the shape of a pig, sitting on a tub containing his fictional works and smearing “international poop” on the map of France.
Transverse folds, some tiny tears, two small holes above Zola's head, without affecting the image.
The representation of Émile Zola as a pig does not date back to Lenepveu, as Guillaume Doizy highlights in his article dedicated to pig caricatures (“Le porc dans la caricature politique (1870-1914)...
€2,500
Victor LENEPVEU (Alfred DREYFUS)
[AFFAIRE DREYFUS] Musée des horreurs - Affiche originale lithographiée en couleurs - n°6 "Le Traître"Original colour lithographed poster
Imprimerie Lenepveu|Paris s. d. [novembre 1899]|49.80 x 65.20 cm|une affiche
Musée des horreurs – Original colour lithographed poster – n° 6 “Le Traître”

Imprimerie Lenepveu | Paris [Novembre 1899] | 49,8 x 65,2 cm | one poster

Original colour lithographed poster depicting Alfred Dreyfus as a Gorgonian headed hydra pierced by a military sword.

Far from the classic zoomorphic codes usually used by caricaturists, Alfred Dreyfus is associated here with the hydra, a mythical creature emblematic of evil. Beyond this symbolism, the choice of a monster with sprawling and perpetually regenerating heads gives the image a strong anti-Semitic charge, exceeding that of the Dreyfus Affair.
Ironically, it is the...
€2,500
Victor LENEPVEU (Jean JAURÈS)
[AFFAIRE DREYFUS] Musée des horreurs - Affiche originale lithographiée en couleurs - n°14 "L'Eléphant du Jourdain"Original colour lithographed poster
Imprimerie Lenepveu|Paris s. d. [janvier 1900]|49.80 x 65.20 cm|une affiche
Original colour lithographed poster depicting Jean Jaurès as an elephant sitting on a chair and holding a bottle of “water from the Jordan”. Until then portrayed as a dog – caricaturists mocking his aggressiveness – Jean Jaurès is here, for the first time, represented as an elephant. It is a question here of highlighting his potbelly and his pachyderm silhouette, but we can, nevertheless, highlight the great dignity of this massive personality with a high gaze. The water from the Jordan is held on one of his hoofs and alludes to the rumour that he had his son baptised in the scared river, thus acting against his anticlerical policy. Despite the caricaturist's desire to...
€3,000
Victor LENEPVEU (Théophile DELCASSÉ)
[AFFAIRE DREYFUS] Musée des horreurs - Affiche originale lithographiée en couleurs - n°21 "Del-Lâchoda devant l'Angleterre 11xbre 1898"
Imprimerie Lenepveu|Paris s. d. [mars 1900]|49.80 x 65.20 cm|une affiche
Original lithographed color poster depicting Théophile Delcassé as a circus poodle.
Transverse folds and minor marginal tears without loss.

Distributed between October 1899 and December 1900 in a France inflamed by the Dreyfus Affair, these immense color caricature portraits are the work of Victor Lenepveu who announced the publication of 150 then 200 drawings and ultimately produced only about fifty. Despite the 1881 press freedom law allowing the distribution of politically subversive imagery, the publication of this nightmarish pantheon was interrupted by order of the Ministry of the Interior.

The fragility of the paper and the imposing format of these...
€700
Victor LENEPVEU (Georges LEYGUES)
[AFFAIRE DREYFUS] Musée des horreurs - Affiche originale lithographiée en couleurs - n°27 "Ministre-bâillon"
Imprimerie Lenepveu|Paris s. d. [avril/mai 1900]|49.80 x 65.20 cm|une affiche
Original color lithographed poster depicting Georges Leygues as a donkey.
Transverse folds and minute marginal tears without loss.

Distributed between October 1899 and December 1900 in a France inflamed by the Dreyfus Affair, these immense satirical color portraits are the work of Victor Lenepveu who announced the publication of 150 then 200 drawings and ultimately produced only about fifty. Despite the 1881 press freedom law allowing the distribution of politically subversive imagery, the publication of this nightmarish pantheon was interrupted by order of the Ministry of the Interior.

The fragility of the paper and the imposing format of these extremely violent...
€700
Victor LENEPVEU (Louis LUCIPIA)
[AFFAIRE DREYFUS] Musée des horreurs - Affiche originale lithographiée en couleurs - n°28 "Luci-pouah !"
Imprimerie Lenepveu|Paris s. d. [mai 1900]|49.80 x 65.20 cm|une affiche
Original color lithographed poster depicting Louis Lucipia as a dog wearing a masonic sash.
Transverse folds and minute marginal tears without loss.

Distributed between October 1899 and December 1900 in a France inflamed by the Dreyfus Affair, these immense satirical color portraits are the work of Victor Lenepveu who announced the publication of 150 then 200 drawings and ultimately produced only about fifty. Despite the 1881 press freedom law allowing the distribution of politically subversive imagery, the publication of this nightmarish pantheon was interrupted by order of the Ministry of the Interior.

The fragility of the paper and the imposing format of these...
€700
Victor LENEPVEU (Joseph REINACH)
[AFFAIRE DREYFUS] Musée des horreurs - Affiche originale lithographiée en couleurs - n°34 "Que le chambardement commence !"
Imprimerie Lenepveu|Paris s. d. [juin 1900]|49.80 x 65.20 cm|une affiche
Original color lithographed poster depicting Joseph Reinach in the guise of a king slumped on his throne.
Transverse folds and minute marginal tears without loss.

Distributed between October 1899 and December 1900 in a France inflamed by the Dreyfus Affair, these immense satirical color portraits are the work of Victor Lenepveu who announced the publication of 150 then 200 drawings and ultimately produced only about fifty. Despite the 1881 press freedom law allowing the distribution of politically subversive imagery, the publication of this nightmarish pantheon was interrupted by order of the Ministry of the Interior.

The fragility of the paper and the imposing...
€900
Victor LENEPVEU (Jude PHILIPP)
[AFFAIRE DREYFUS] Musée des horreurs - Affiche originale lithographiée en couleurs - n°32 "Le Traître Philipp"
Imprimerie Lenepveu|Paris s. d. [mai 1900]|49.80 x 65.20 cm|une affiche
Original color lithographed poster depicting Jude Philipp in the guise of a vulture nailed to a wall.
Transverse folds and minute marginal tears without loss.

Distributed between October 1899 and December 1900 in a France inflamed by the Dreyfus Affair, these immense satirical color portraits are the work of Victor Lenepveu who announced the publication of 150 then 200 drawings and ultimately produced only about fifty. Despite the 1881 press freedom law allowing the distribution of politically subversive imagery, the publication of this nightmarish pantheon was interrupted by order of the Ministry of the Interior.

The fragility of the paper and the imposing format...
€700
Victor LENEPVEU (Émile ZOLA)
[AFFAIRE DREYFUS] Musée des horreurs - Affiche originale lithographiée en couleurs - n°26 (exceptionnel) "Un bal à l'Elysée"Original colour lithographed poster
Imprimerie Lenepveu|Paris s. d. [mai 1900]|49.80 x 65.20 cm|une affiche
Musée des horreurs – Original colour lithographed poster – n° 26 (exceptionnel) “Un bal à l'Elysée”

Imprimerie Lenepveu | Paris [May 1900] | 49,8 x 65,2 cm | one poster

Original colour lithographed poster depicting Émile Loubet as a bear holding a tambourine marked “Panama”, Émile Zola as a pig, Dreyfus as a hydra, Joseph Reinach as a monkey, the rabbi Kadoc Kahn as a donkey and Georges Picquart as a dromedary.

This imposing poster, featuring several people already caricatured in the previous issues, is a direct reference to the Panama Scandal. This large-scale corruption affair, which saw the resignation of Émile Loubet, then...
€3,000
Marthe de KERRIEU, Francis POULENC
Mélie - Histoire d'une Cocotte de 1900
Arrault & Cie|Tours 1936|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on vellum, the only deluxe copies.
Some foxing affecting mainly the endpapers.
Preface by Francis Poulenc, iconography.
Autograph inscription dated December 1936 and signed by Marthe de Kerrieu to a couple of friends presenting her wishes and wishing them happy holidays for the end of year, enhanced with the signature of Francis Poulenc.
€400
Victor LENEPVEU (Joseph REINACH)
[AFFAIRE DREYFUS] Musée des horreurs - Affiche originale lithographiée en couleurs - n°1 "Boule de Juif"Original colour lithographed poster
Imprimerie Lenepveu|Paris s. d. [1er octobre 1899]|49.80 x 65.20 cm|une affiche
Musée des horreurs – Original colour lithographed poster – n° 1 “Boule de Juif”

Imprimerie Lenepveu | Paris [1^st october 1899] | 49,8 x 65,2 cm | one poster

Original colour lithographed poster depicting Joseph Reinach as a monkey. Here is the description given to this first poster announced in the press through L'Intransigeant: “Issue number 1 of the series depicts Boule-de-Juif as a hamadryas. The resemblance between the hideous Yousouf and the guest of the great coconut trees is so perfect that it would not even need a caption since the same exclamation came to all lips. Perhaps the only criticism is that this...
€1,200
Georges CLEMENCEAU, Octave MIRBEAU
Livre d'hommages des lettres françaises à Emile Zola
Georges Balat • Société libre d'édition des gens de lettres|Bruxelles [Brussels] • & Paris 1898|12 x 19 cm|relié
First edition published in the wake of the resounding and historic front page "J'accuse" printed in the newspaper "L'Aurore", one of 200 numbered copies on laid paper, each justified by the publisher.
Bound in red half-shagreen, spine with four raised bands gilt-ruled with dotted fillets and decorated with gilt fleurons, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Some rubbing along the joints, pleasingly fresh interior.
Illustrated with a photographic portrait of Emile Zola as frontispiece.
Includes numerous contributions, among them Paul Alexis, Jean Psichari, Elisée Reclus, Joseph Reinach, Paul Adam, Maurice Bouchor...
€700
Duc de BRISSAC
Les Brissac Maison de Cossé
Fasquelle|Paris 1952|14 x 19 cm|broché
First edition on ordinary paper.
Small tear at foot of spine, light worming to upper left corner of front board.
Fine autograph inscription signed by a member of the Brissac family: "Un cousin de l'auteur et un ami de Vincennes touché de l'intérêt que vous portez à une famille qui a connu jusqu'aux cachots du donjon. Charles de Cossé de Brissac 22 Novembre 1957." ["A cousin of the author and a friend from Vincennes, touched by the interest you show in a family that has known even the dungeons of the keep. Charles de Cossé de Brissac November 22, 1957."]
€50
Alfred RIGNY, Pierre NOURY
Les Drapeaux des Etats-Unis. - The american flags (Old glory)
Gründ|Paris 1945|13 x 17.50 cm|broché
First edition illustrated with drawings by Pierre Noury.
Minor stains of no consequence to foot of second cover.
Handsome copy of this work tracing the history and evolution of the American flag.

€150
Paul GAUGUIN
Lettres de Gauguin à sa Femme et à des Amis
Grasset|Paris 1946|14 x 21 cm|broché
First edition, one of 312 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies after 28 on laid paper.
Handsome copy.
Iconography.

€80
Émile ZOLA
"Je désire simplement toucher au sujet dans mon livre, pour le besoin du petit drame commercial qui me sert de fable."Autograph letter, signed, unpublished, addressed to Léon Carbonnaux, head of department at Le Bon Marché and advice for the writing of Au bonheur des Dames
Médan 23 juin 1882|13.40 x 21.60 cm|1 page 1/2 sur un double feuillet - enveloppe jointe
Autograph letter signed by Emile Zola - apparently unpublished - addressed to Léon Carbonnaux, written in black ink on a double sheet. Folds inherent to mailing. Envelope included.
Important testimony to the colossal documentation work and the capital role of Emile Zola's informants in depicting his immense natural and social fresco.
This letter was sent to Léon Carbonnaux, department head at Bon Marché who transmitted precious information to Emile Zola for the creation of the eleventh volume of the Rougon-Macquart series: Au Bonheur des Dames.
Only two letters from Léon Carbonnaux to Emile Zola are known: they can be...
€2,800
Howard FAST
La Route de la Liberté
Gallimard|Paris 1948|14.50 x 20.50 cm|broché
First edition in French, one of 55 numbered copies on wove paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy of this work evoking, in a novelistic manner, the condition and situation of Black people in the southern states of the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War.
€150
Jacques CHASTENET
La France de M. Fallières
Arthème Fayard|Paris 1949|12.50 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 80 numbered copies on pure laid paper, the only deluxe copies after 2 Holland.
Fine copy despite a crease mark at the head of the second cover.
€80
Marcel BARRIERE
Les Princes d'Orléans
Gallimard|Paris 1933|13 x 20 cm|broché
The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Marcel Barrière to Alfred Fabre-Luce.
€50
Aristide BRUANT, Théophile Alexandre STEINLEN
Dans la Rue. Chansons et Monologues Volumes I, II & III . - Sur la Route. Ensemble complet en 4 volumes[In the Street. Songs and Monologues Volumes I, II & III. – On the Road. Complete set in 4 volumes]
Furne & Cie|Paris 1885-1900|13.50 x 19 cm|4 volumes reliés
First edition of each of the four volumes, one of 50 copies (for the first and third works) or one of 150 copies (for the second and fourth) printed on Japan paper, the only deluxe issue.
Bradel bindings in citron half morocco with corners, smooth spines slightly darkened, marbled paper boards, pebble-grained endpapers and pastedowns, covers and backstrips preserved in one piece, contemporary bindings signed Champs.
Covers and in-text or full-page drawings by Théophile Alexandre Steinlen for the first and second volumes, by Francisque Poulbot for the third, and by Louis Borgex for the fourth and final volume.
Each volume bears Aristide Bruant’s autograph signature...
€4,000
Adrien de MEEÜS
Histoire de Belgique
Plon|Paris 1928|12.50 x 19 cm|relié
First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies.
Half red shagreen binding with corners, spine with five raised bands set with blind fillets, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt on deckled edges.
Spine and boards slightly and marginally lightened, otherwise a handsome copy attractively bound.
€70
Octave UZANNE
La Française du siècle
A. Quantin|Paris 1886|17.50 x 25.80 cm|relié
First edition. Printed on laid paper. Illustrated covers on Japan paper. Watercolor illustrations by Albert Lynch, engraved in colored etching by Eugène Gaujean. 20 colored engravings (including 10 full-page), 10 illustrated colored initials, numerous tailpieces and vignettes in black.
Contemporary full mosaic shagreen binding in blue and brown. Spine with raised bands decorated with 4 fleurons in ornate compartments. Head and tail rolls. Bordeaux morocco title label, ornate brown shagreen date label. Covers with mosaic work featuring a large rectangular frame very richly decorated in the manner of lace-work bindings, corner and angular tools, multiple framing fillets. Broad inner...
€800
Georges CLEMENCEAU
Au pied du Sinaï[At the Foot of Sinai]
Georges Crès & Cie|Paris 1920|13 x 20 cm|relié
New edition, one of 550 numbered copies on vellum, the only large-paper issue.
Illustrated wrappers.
Half chocolate-brown morocco, spine with five raised bands, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, wrappers preserved, top edge gilt on witnesses, binding signed P. Goy & C. Vilaine.
Autograph presentation signed by Georges Clemenceau to his secretary Jean Martet on the front wrapper.
€1,200
Louis ROUGIER
Les accords secrets franco-britanniques. Histoire et imposture
Grasset|Paris 1951|12 x 18.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite a vertical crease mark on the back cover.
€120
André DESLIGNIERES, Maurice BARRÈS
Colette Baudoche[Colette Baudoche]
Librairie Delagrave|Paris 1928|22.50 x 28.50 cm|relié sous étui
Edition illustrated with original woodcuts within and outside the text by André Deslignières, one of 100 numbered copies on tinted laid Rives paper, the deluxe edition after 50 Annam copies.
Full orange morocco binding, spine very lightly darkened with four raised bands set with black fillets, gilt roulettes on the headcaps, endpapers and pastedowns of moiré-effect paper, frame of gilt fillets finished at the corners with floral motifs in yellow and green mosaic morocco pieces as well as a brown mosaic morocco fillet, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, gilt fillets on the edges, slipcase bordered with orange morocco, boards of moiré-effect paper, binding signed J. Van West.
€800
Hermann VOGEL, François FLAMENG
Les élégantes
Hachette & Cie|Paris s. d. [circa 1910]|23 x 30 cm|relié
First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Japan, the “tirage de tête”.
Half chocolate brown morocco binding, spine in five compartments set with gilt stippling and decorated with double gilt panels decorated with gilt typographic and floral motifs, frame of gilt fillets on the water-effect paper boards, marbled endpapers, fragile parchment covers (two marginal restorations to the backs of the boards) and spine preserved, top edge gilt on the rough, ex-libris glued to a paste down, contemporary binding signed by Pouillet. Literary contributions from Gaston Maspéro, René Doumic, Gaston Boissier, Gustave Schlumberger, Gaston Paris, Emile Gebhardt, Edmond Rostand, Jules Lemaître, Gustave...
€680
Christian DE WET
Trois ans de guerre [guerres des Boers]
Félix Juven|Paris s. d. [circa 1905]|17.50 x 23.50 cm|relié
First edition in French.
Half red shagreen binding with corners, spine slightly faded with five raised bands set with dotted lines and decorated with gilt double compartments adorned with gilt typographic motifs, double gilt fillet frame on marbled paper boards, combed paper endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt.
Illustrated work with, as frontispiece, a portrait of Christian De Wet, photographic plates and a folding map at the end of the volume.
Handsome copy.
€80
HANSI
L'histoire d'Alsace racontée aux petits enfants par l'Oncle Hansi
Henri Floury|Paris 1913|28 x 35.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition illustrated with color images by Hansi and Huen.
Publisher's full sky blue paper boards binding, smooth spine, illustrated covers, endpapers and pastedowns of decorative patterned paper.
Small spots of discoloration on covers, occasional foxing, last inner hinge split at head and foot.
Handsome copy of this work published for the little children of Alsace and France.
€300
Charles DUVENT, René BOYLESVE
Sainte Marie des fleurs[Our Lady of the Flowers]
Le livre contemporain|Paris 1914|13.50 x 19.50 cm|relié sous étui
Edition illustrated with 54 original color etchings by Charles Duvent and printed in 123 numbered copies on vellum.
Full navy blue morocco binding, spine very slightly darkened with four raised bands set with black fillets extending onto the boards, gilt date at foot, cold-stamped roulettes on boards, blue watered silk endpapers and pastedowns, frame of quintuple gilt fillets and gilt fleurons at corners on pastedowns, following endpapers of marbled paper, covers and spine preserved, all edges gilt, slipcase with navy blue morocco entry, marbled paper boards, blue felt lining, elegant contemporary binding signed by Septier.
Fine copy perfectly bound in full morocco by Septier.
€750
Edouard VAILLANT
Pour le peuple russe. Contre le Tzar
L'Humanité|Paris 1908|11.50 x 17.50 cm|agrafé
First edition of this speech delivered to the Chamber of Deputies during the session of June 29, 1908.
Light worming and a small stain at the foot of the front cover.

€50
Gueorgui Valentinovitch PLEKHANOV
Les questions fondamentales du marxisme
Editions sociales internationales|Paris s. d. [1930]|14 x 23 cm|broché
Third edition.
Marginal foxing on the covers.

€50
Claude WILLARD
Jules Guesde l'apôtre de la loi
Les Editions Ouvrières|Paris 1991|13 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Handsome copy, iconography.
Autograph inscription signed by Claude Willard to Jacques Zwirn.

€30
Victor MÉRIC
A travers la jungle politique et littéraire
Librairie Valois|Paris 1930|13 x 20.50 cm|broché
First edition on ordinary paper.
Some foxing mainly at beginning and end of volume.

€30
Paul ROBIN
Le néo-malthusianisme
Librairie de la régénération|Paris 1905|10.50 x 17.50 cm|agrafé
First edition.
Covers and spine with marginal tears and small lacks, copy disbound, name of a previous owner written in pen at the head of the front cover.
Rare libertarian and Malthusian pamphlet.

€60
Victor MÉRIC
Les milieux anarchistes. Les bandits tragiques
Simon Kra|Paris 1926|12 x 19 cm|broché
The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Beautiful illustrated cover.
€40
GROUPE DES ETUDIANTS SOCIALISTES REVOLUTIONNAIRES INTERNATIONALISTES
Le coopératisme et le néo-coopératisme
Editions de L'education libertaire|Paris 1900|11 x 17.50 cm|broché
First edition of this report presented to the International Revolutionary Workers' Congress of 1900.
Small lacks and light corner dampstains to boards.
Rare.
€50