Jean-Joseph MEALLET, Comte de FARGUES
La vérité sur les événemens de Lyon en mil huit cent dix-sept - Réponse au mémoire de M. le colonel Fabvier par M. le comte de Fargues, maire de la ville de Lyon, membre de la chambre des députés
Chambet • Delaunay|Lyon • & Paris 1818|14 x 21 cm|broché
First edition.
A rare and handsome copy presented under its interim covers and in its original stitched wrappers.
€120
Lazare CARNOT
Rapport sur la reprise des quatre places de la frontière du Nord qui avoient été envahies par l'ennemi, présenté à la Convention Nationale, au nom du comité de salut public, par Carnot, l'un de ses membres ; le premier Vendémiaire, l'an troisième de la République une & indivisible
S. n.|s. l. • (Paris) s. d. [1794]|13.50 x 21 cm|broché
First edition of this speech delivered by Lazare Carnot, the Organizer of Victory, to the assembly of the National Convention.
A rare and handsome copy presented in its original stitched wrappers.
€150
ANONYME
Précis historique du 10 août 1792 et du momument érigé à Lucerne aux mânes des Gardes Suisses
Imprimerie de C. Hübscher|Lucerne 1854|12.50 x 19.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Stains on the last page and the rear board of the temporary wrappers.
Pamphlet under temporary wrappers and in its original stitching.
€120
Henri Jean-Baptiste DARD
Réflexions sur les moyens de faire cesser la différence qui existe, dans l'opinion, entre la valeur des biens patrimoniaux et les biens dits nationaux ; et sur les avantages qui en résulteroient pour les finances, pour la sécurité des propriétaires de biens nationaux, ainsi que pour les créanciers des émigrés
Egron|Paris 1821|13 x 21 cm|broché
First edition.
A tear at the head of the front cover, a crease at the foot of the rear cover.
A rare and handsome copy in its original stitching and under plain temporary wrappers.
€150
Charles MORISSON
Opinion du citoyen Morisson, député du département de la Vendée, concernant le jugement de Louis XVI
S. n.|Paris 1792|14 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition of this speech delivered by Charles Morisson, deputy of the Vendée department, at the session of November 13, 1792 of the National Convention assembly.
Rare copy presented in its original wrappers which has small tears on the spine.
€300
ANONYME
De l'administration diocésaine en Languedoc, pour servir d'instruction aux députés de cette province aux etats-généraux
S. n.|s. l. 1789|14 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition presented in its original wrappers.
Rare and handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by the author: "Pour monsieur le marquis de Chalvet. Na : cet écrit fut publié en xbre 1788." ["For monsieur le marquis de Chalvet. Note: this work was published in December 1788."]
€200
Baron de MARGUERIT
De l'assassinat de monseigneur le duc d'Enghien et de la justification de M. de Caulaincourt
Chez Les Marchands de nouveautés|Paris • & Orléans 1814|13.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
Second edition, largely original as it was corrected and considerably expanded.
A stain on the temporary cover with offsetting onto the title page.
Rare and handsome copy presented in temporary cover in its original wrappers.
€100
René-Jean DURDENT
Campagne de Moscow en 1812
Alexis Eymery|Paris 1814|14 x 21 cm|broché
Third edition, with some parts in first edition, as revised, corrected and expanded.
A dampstain at foot throughout the pamphlet.
Copy presented in temporary wrappers with lacks and in its original stitching.
€60
Louis-Charles-François PETIT-RADEL
Recherches sur les bibliothèques anciennes et modernes jusqu'à la fondation de la bibliothèque Mazarine et sur les causes qui ont favorisé l'accroissement successif du nombre de ses livres
Chez Rey et Gavier|Paris 1819|13.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition.
A dampstain at foot throughout the work, spine split, title written in black ink at head of unlettered spine.
The frontispiece and two folding plans are lacking from our copy presented in temporary wrappers and in its original stitching.
€100
ANONYME
Que doit-on penser des évènemens de Lyon et du département du Rhône en 1817 ? A-t-on raison d'attaquer en calomnie M. le colonel Fabvier ?
Chez Guyot frères|Lyon 1818|14.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition published anonymously.
Rare and handsome copy presented under temporary covers in its original wrappers.
€150
Simon CANUEL
Réponse de M. le lieutenant-général Canuel, à l'écrit intitulé : Lyon en 1817, par le colonel Fabvier, ayant fait les fonctions de chef de l'état-major du lieutenant du roi dans les 7e et 19e divisions militaires
J.-G. Dentu|Lyon 1818|14.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Some minor foxing.
Rare and handsome copy presented under temporary covers in its original wrappers.
€150
Charles Nicolas FABVIER
Lyon en mille huit cent dix-sept
Delaunay|Paris 1818|14 x 21 cm|broché
First edition.
Rare and handsome copy presented in temporary covers in its original wrappers.
€150
Charles Nicolas FABVIER
Lyon en mille huit cent dix-sept - Seconde partie
Carez • Thomine et Fortic|Paris 1818|14 x 21 cm|broché
First edition.
Rare and handsome copy presented in temporary covers in its original wrappers.
€150
Paul de SVIVINE
Détails sur le général Moreau et ses derniers momens, suivis d'une courte notice biographique
Léon Foucault|Paris 1814|13.50 x 21 cm|broché
First edition.
Title label pasted on the unlettered spine.
Rare and handsome copy in temporary covers in its original wrappers.
€150
Agricol Hippolyte de CHATEAUNEUF
Histoire du général Moreau, surnommé le grand Capitaine, avec les particularités les plus secrètes de son procès, de son retour d'Amérique, sa mort, etc...
L.-G. Michaud|Paris 1814|13.50 x 21 cm|broché
First edition.
Some light foxing.
Title label pasted on the unlettered spine.
Rare and handsome copy in temporary covers in its original wrappers.
€120
Friedrich Melchior GRIMM
Nouveaux mémoires secrets et inédits, historiques, politiques anecdotiques et littéraires, du baron de Grimm, agent, à Paris, de la cour de Russie et de Pologne, ou chronique curieuse des personnages célèbres qui ont illustré le siècle dernier, suivie de la relation de ses voyages
Lerouge-Wolf|Paris 1834|13.50 x 22 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition.
Half red cloth Bradel bindings, smooth spines decorated with central gilt fleuron, dates and double gilt fillets at foot of spines, brown shagreen title-labels with scratches and angular lacks, pebbled paper boards, original wrappers preserved, upper corners of second volume damaged.
A light dampstain at foot of last leaves of first volume, occasional foxing.
Bookplates pasted to pastedowns.
Rare work complete in two volumes.

€600
Albert DU CASSE
Le maréchal de Marmont duc de Raguse devant l'histoire - Examen critique et réfutation de ses mémoires
E. Dentu|Paris 1857|13 x 22 cm|relié
Second edition with some parts in first edition as it was expanded with an appendix.
Half blue shagreen binding, spine slightly faded with four raised bands underlined with double black fillets, marbled paper boards with surface rubbing, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Occasional light foxing.
€80
Stefan ZWEIG
Un caprice de Bonaparte
Grasset|Paris 1952|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition of the French translation, one of 38 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the deluxe copies after 21 on vélin d'Arches.
Very handsome copy.
€800
(Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de SAINT-SIMON) COLLECTIF
Album Saint-Simon
Gallimard • , Bibliothèque de La Pléiade|Paris 1969|10.50 x 17.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition.
Publisher's binding in full brown grained sheep, orange top edge, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets.
Rich iconography.
Handsome copy complete with its cellophane wrapper, lacking dust jacket and slipcase.
€70
Théophile GAUTIER, Arsène HOUSSAYE
Le palais pompéien de l'Avenue Montaigne
Au palais pompéien • Librairie Internationale|Paris s. d. [1866]|18.50 x 28 cm|relié
First edition.
Bradel binding in red half-cloth, smooth spine decorated with gilt fleuron and double gilt fillet at foot, brown shagreen label, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Our copy contains a folding engraving depicting a theatrical rehearsal in the atrium of His Majesty Napoleon III.
Handsome copy.
Rare.
€450
Jean de LA FONTAINE, Jean-Baptiste OUDRY
Fables choisies mises en vers[Selected Fables Put into Verse]
chez Belin • De l'imprimerie de Valade|Paris 1783|26 x 39 cm|2 volumes reliés
Fine edition with Oudry's 276 engravings, from the 1755-1759 edition. [...] it is little known and quite rare, much rarer than the Desaint and Saillant edition of 1755. (Rochambeau, 124)
Near-contemporary bindings (late 18th century) in half brown calf, smooth spines decorated with camel morocco title and volume labels, paste-paper boards, all edges red. Rubbing to boards.
Some leaves uniformly browned and light dampstains without any damage to the engravings.
Contemporary bibliographical label pasted to verso of first endpaper.
Fine edition of this great classic of French literature illustrated by the greatest animal painter, Jean-Baptiste Oudry.
€6,000
François René de CHATEAUBRIAND
Oeuvres complètes
chez Ladvocat|à Paris 1826 -1831|12.50 x 21 cm, longueur totale de la série 89 cm|32 volumes
First collected edition of the works of François-René de Chateaubriand, each volume decorated with a frontispiece engraved by Charles Thompson depicting a young woman seated on a stone engraved "Chateaubriand, Œuvres complètes" and contemplating the horizon. The author contributed largely to the publication of this edition through the organization of the whole and by writing new prefaces for all the texts. As he writes himself these prefaces are more pieces of autobiography than prefaces.
Binding in half brown calf strictly contemporary Restoration period. Spine with raised bands decorated with 2 blind stamps, roulettes at head and tail and on the bands. Brown calf title label and volum
€2,000
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
Jeanne de SAINT-LÉGER
Sur l'Evasion de Louis XVII
Gambart & Cie|Paris 1915|11.50 x 17.50 cm|agrafé
The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite spine and boards marginally sunned.
€40
E.A. NAVILLE
Louis XVII en Suisse. Son ami Frédéric Leschot de Genève - In Bibliothèque Universelle & Revue Suisse N°109
Bibliothèque Universelle & Revue Suisse|Lausanne • & Paris Janvier 1905|14 x 22.50 cm|2 fascicules reliés en 1
First edition published in two instalments (we have not been able to determine the publication date of the second part nor the number of the journal in which it was printed).
Half black shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands set with gilt garlands and gilt fleurons, gilt friezes at head and foot, wood-effect paper boards, front cover of the first fascicle preserved, sea-green paper endpapers and pastedowns, bookplate pasted on a pastedown, contemporary binding signed F. Vanzeghbroeck.
Library stamp in upper right corner of the first text page.
€80
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
EGGER
Le Papier dans l'Antiquité et dans les Temps modernes
Hachette & Cie|Paris 1866|9.50 x 10.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Small stains on covers, two tears to margin of half-title page and at foot of rear cover, handsome copy.
€50
Frédéric MASSON
L'impératrice Marie-Louise
Goupil & Cie|Paris 1902|24 x 32 cm|relié
First edition printed in 1000 copies on laid paper. No. 870. One frontispiece heightened in colors and 51 illustrations printed in sepia and various tints, of superb execution.
Deluxe publisher's binding in full olive green long-grain morocco signed Durvand at foot of upper cover. Smooth spine richly decorated with 2 compartments with grotesques and the Empress's monogram, and various roulettes. Covers stamped with the Empress's arms at center, with a wide framing frieze with foliage in the corners. Interior frieze composed of Empire motifs. Edges gilt. Spine evenly faded. Traces of rubbing. Narrow leather split along upper joint after headcap, for several cm. Fresh overall but some sca
€850
Edgar KNECHT
Le Mythe du Juif errant. Essai de Mythologie littéraire et de Sociologie religieuse
Presses universitaires de Grenoble|Grenoble 1977|17 x 24 cm|broché
The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Signed and inscribed by Edgar Knecht to Claude Duchet.

€60
[Louis SILVY]
Relation concernant les évènemens qui sont arrivés à Thomas Martin, laboureur à Gallardon, en Beauce, dans les premiers mois de 1816. Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée de plusieurs lettres du sieur Martin écrites en 1821 sur de nouvelles apparitions, avec un exposé de plusieurs autres qui lui sont arrivées en 1830.
L.- F Hivert|Paris 1832|14 x 22.50 cm|relié
Edition with some parts in first edition. Written under the pseudonym By M. S***, former magistrate.
Bradel binding in blue half cloth, smooth spine decorated with gilt fleuron and double gilt fillets, havana morocco title label, covers with extensive restored lacks preserved.
Important historical anecdote that caused a sensation at the time and subsequently had numerous repercussions on religious, historical and spiritualist convictions throughout the century.
Thomas Martin, an uneducated peasant, received a visit from the archangel Raphael who ordered him to report to King Louis XVIII that his nephew Louis XVII was alive, along with various other prophecies and advice for re
€200
André CASTELOT
Joséphine
Librairie académique Perrin|Paris 1961|14 x 23 cm|en feuilles sous double chemise et étui cartonnés
First edition, one of 50 copies on deluxe paper, the only deluxe copies.
Fine copy in double chemise and red cloth slipcase, spine of chemise slightly faded.
€120
Léon FAURE
Une Page des Origines de la Révolution en Dauphiné, Gap en 1788
A. Fillon & Cie|Gap 1888|14 x 22 cm|broché
First edition printed on laid paper.
Unlettered spine with small tears, two marginal stains on the first cover and three other small ones on the last endpaper.
Handsome interior condition.
€50
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
François PIÉTRI
Lucien Bonaparte à Madrid
Grasset|Lyon 1951|13.50 x 20.50 cm|broché
First edition on ordinary paper, fourth edition statement.
Iconography.
Light worming to spine.
Signed and inscribed by François Pietri to Alfred Fabre-Luce.
€50
Edgar FAURE
12 Mai 1776. La Disgrâce de Turgot
Gallimard|Paris 1961|14.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition on ordinary paper.
Some worming to spine and top edges, retaining publisher's wraparound band.
Autograph inscription signed by Edgar Faure to René and Raymond Bousquet.
€100
Jean HUMBERT
J.G. Lacuée Comte de Cessac, Général de Division, Ministre de Napoléon Ier 1752-1841
Imprimerie F. Paillart|Paris 2000|13.50 x 22 cm|broché
First edition printed in a limited edition of 200 numbered hors commerce copies.
Introduction by General Marquis de Brantes.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by General de Brantes, great-great-grandson of J.G. Lacuée, to Alfred Fabre-Luce.
€150
Pierre LESOURD, Claude PAILLAT
Dossier secret. L'Eglise de France, Tome I : De Clovis à la Révolution. - Tome II : De la Révolution à nos Jours
Les Presses de la Cité|Paris 1967-1968|14.50 x 22 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition, one of 200 numbered copies on deluxe paper for each volume, the only deluxe copies.
Half brown shagreen bindings with corners, spine with five raised bands decorated with blind fillets, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edges gilt retaining deckled edges.
Fine copy handsomely bound.
€150
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
Maurice ANDRIEUX
Les Français à Rome
Arthème Fayard|Paris 1968|14 x 23 cm|relié
First edition, one of 70 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
Half red shagreen binding with corners, spine with five raised bands with blind fillets, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt retaining deckled edges.
Handsome copy handsomely bound.
€150
Ludwig REINERS
Frédéric II
Amiot Dumont|Paris 1956|14 x 23 cm|relié
First edition in French, one of 10 numbered copies on Annonay laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Half black shagreen binding with corners, spine with five raised bands set with black fillets, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt retaining its deckled edges.
Handsome copy beautifully bound of this biography devoted to Frederick II of Prussia.
€150
Frédéric SOULIÉ
La lanterne magique. Histoire de Napoléon
Alphonse Henriot|Paris 1838|14 x 22.20 cm|relié
First illustrated edition with 50 vignettes by Charles Jacque. Chronological table at end.
Half red straight-grained morocco binding, late 19th or early 20th century. Raised-band spine decorated with 4 fleurons and roll-tooling on bands and headcaps. Top edge gilt. Original wrappers preserved. Front wrapper with restorations. Uncut throughout, full-margined, of superb freshness.
Very handsome copy. Rare in this condition.
Popular and entertaining history of Napoleon. In narrative form, the narrator tells how as a child, he witnessed the arrival of two soldiers who, by means of a magic lantern, recounted Napoleon's story to him. The vignettes thus correspond to the magic lante
€400
Dominique-Jean, Baron LARREY
« Année de malheur en effet combien de catastrophes ne sont-elles pas déjà arrivées. »Signed autograph letter addressed to his wife Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux
Berlin 24 avril 1812|20.30 x 24.50 cm|3 pages sur un double feuillet
Autograph letter signed by Dominique-Jean Larrey, surgeon-in-chief of the Grande Armée, addressed to his wife Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux. Three pages written in black ink in a fine hand, with erasures and corrections. Folds inherent to posting. Traces of a wax seal - probably that of the postal services of the Grande Armée - which appears to have been removed and whose hole has been repaired, causing the loss of a few letters but not impeding reading.
Fine and lengthy letter by Larrey, shortly before his departure for the Russian Campaign and only a few weeks after his appointment as surgeon-in-chief of the Grande Armée.
Provenance: from the Bibliotheca Lindesi
€3,500
Pierre MORTIER
Conversation familière avec le Prince de ligne
Fasquelle|Paris 1953|14.50 x 19.50 cm|broché
First edition of this speech delivered in Brussels on the occasion of the bicentenary of the birth of the Prince de Ligne, one of 15 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies.
Three small dampstains at foot of front cover and head of back cover, some light interior foxing.
€50
Edme-Bonaventure COURTOIS
Rapport fait au nom de la commission chargée de l'examen des papiers trouvés chez Robespierre et ses complices dans la séance du 16 Nivôse, an III.e de la République française, une et indivisible
Imprimerie nationale des lois|Paris An III (1794)|13 x 21.50 cm|relié
First edition.
Half red shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands set with black fillets, revolutionary calendar date gilt at foot, rubbing to spine, black shagreen title label, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt.
Printed stamp on title page, two faint marginal dampstains at very beginning and end of volume, tear at foot of page 247 not touching text, minor worm damage with text loss over approximately two to three lines at foot of pages 403 to 406.
€380
An exceedingly rare letter from Restif: « Les événemens du 18 fructidor' m'ont rendu la vie ... en affligeant mon cœur »
An exceedingly rare letter from Restif: « Les événemens du 18 fructidor' m'ont rendu la vie ... en affligeant mon cœur »
Nicolas-Edme RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE
Lettre autographe signée adressée à la citoyenne Fontaine
30 fructidor 1797 An V [16 septembre 1897]|18.50 x 21.30 cm|3 pages sur un double feuillet
Extremely rare autograph letter signed « Restif Labretone » addressed to Citoyenne Fontaine. Three pages written in black ink on a double sheet of laid paper. Remains of a wax seal, folds inherent to mailing.
This letter was published, with some inaccuracies, in Lettres inédites de Restif de Labretone by V. Forest and É. Grimaud, 1883.
€15,000
Edmond ROSTAND
L'aiglon
Eugène Fasquelle|Paris 1928|14.50 x 20.50 cm|relié
New edition, limited to 3000 copies on wove paper. No.953.
Rare art-deco Jotau binding, in full vermillion red bakelite, joints mounted on piano-type hinges, beveled boards at edges, front board struck with three horizontal recessed fillets and decorated with a frieze of chiseled wheels, this same frieze is set with a silver metal plate bearing the engraved title of the work, small plate of the same on the spine. Original wrappers preserved. Small lacks of bakelite on the first three pivots at foot otherwise superb copy, with perfect freshness of paper.
Binding bearing the signature on the second pastedown in a medallion: Jotau, for Joseph Taupin, with the mention inside the second
€1,400
LOUIS XVI
Constitution française. Recueil de 287 lois, édits, proclamations, etc, pour l'année 1790
Chez J. G. Duprat|Auch 1790|15.50 x 20.50 cm|relié
First editions of these 287 edicts, royal proclamations, letters patent, from January 1790 to November 1790.
Contemporary cream paper binding. Title in red and black on cover: Constitution française, tome 2. One lack to spine. Set trimmed short.

€1,000
Napoleon's grand state funeral
Napoleon's grand state funeral
[NAPOLEON BONAPARTE] (Adrien PROVOST)
Panorama de 15 lithographies figurant le cortège funéraire ou Retour des cendres de l'Empereur Napoléon Ier Panorama of 15 lithographs depicting the funeral procession or Return of the ashes of the Emperor Napoleon I
S. n.|Paris s. d. [ca 1840]|14.50 x 18.50 cm|un panorama sous reliure
binding: 14.5 x 18.5 cm / panorama: 2,06 m (80 inches)

A very rare first edition of 15 lithographed views in bistre tint, mounted in an accordion pleat, forming a panorama of 6.75 ft and showing the Parisian procession of the return of Napoleon's mortal remains (his "ashes" used here as a metaphor since he was not cremated). The parade started from the Arc de Triomphe to his resting place in Invalides. In the lower margin, the caption presents the different groups forming the procession: Ajaccio delegation, Paris Municipal Council, Prince of Joinville Commission of Saint-Helena...in the centre of the panorama stands the spectacular
€2,800
Exceptional copy enriched with 12 original drawings
Exceptional copy enriched with 12 original drawings
Pierre-Georges JEANNIOT, Anatole FRANCE
Les dieux ont soif[The Gods Are Thirsty]
Le livre contemporain|Paris 1925|22.50 x 28.50 cm|relié sous étui
Edition illustrated with 33 original etchings by Pierre-Georges Jeanniot, including 30 full-page plates, 1 title vignette and 2 headpieces, together with 37 wood engravings by Paul Bornet after Pierre-Georges Jeanniot, comprising 29 initials heightened in red and 8 tailpieces.
Printed in 124 numbered copies on vellum, all bearing a nominative dedication, this copy issued for Henri Legendre.
Full burgundy morocco binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with a fasces of the lictor in red morocco mosaic set within gilt fillets, date and place gilt at foot, gilt rolls on the caps, front cover ornamented at center with a circle enclosing a Phrygian cap in red morocco mosaic fram
€2,000
Horace-Napoléon RAISSON
Histoire populaire de Napoléon et de la Grande armée [Suivi de ] Histoire populaire de la famille Bonaparte de 1260 à 1830
Jules Lefebvre et Compagnie|Paris 1830|8.50 x 14 cm|11 volumes reliés
Third edition illustrated with 10 frontispieces and 4 portraits including 2 at the frontispiece of Marie-Louise, Eugène, Joséphine, Murat. The volumes have been bound with their blue covers bearing the eagle title vignette by Johannot. This cover is found lined in white in the volume of L'histoire populaire de la famille Bonaparte which bears no volume number. The genealogy of the Bonaparte family occupies 3 leaves in this volume.
Binding ca 1920 in half green sheep. Smooth spine decorated with 2 mirror tools and a laurel crown. Gilt title. Spines sunned becoming uniformly blonde. Traces of rubbing. Scattered foxing. Good set.
Journalist and historian, Horace Raisson, whose full na
€700
STENDHAL
Rome, Naples et Florence[Rome, Naples and Florence]
Delaunay|Paris 1826|13.50 x 21.50 cm|2 volumes brochés
Third original edition: "In reality, an entirely new work, completely rewritten by Stendhal and expanded by one volume" (cf Clouzot).
The second edition was in fact only a reissue, after a few weeks, of the original edition with a new title page bearing publisher Colburn's address and mention of "second edition". This "third edition" is therefore the true second original edition, much more complete than the first.
Covers slightly and partially browned without gravity, some minor foxing.
Very rare copy as issued in original wrappers.

€3,000
Alexandre DUMAS
Histoire de la vie politique et privée Louis-Philippe
Dufour et Mulat|Paris 1852|17 x 27 cm|2 volumes reliés
First illustrated edition (the original having appeared in 6 volumes in-8 on the same date), illustrated with 2 frontispieces and 18 plates by Philippoteaux, Riffaut, Karl Girardet.
Contemporary half aubergine morocco bindings, smooth spines decorated with gilt and blind fillets as well as small blind typographical motifs, paste-paper boards, all edges speckled.
Head of first volume slightly damaged without loss, minor scuffing. Endpapers offset and scattered foxing mainly at beginning and end of volumes.
€400
Edmond & Jules de GONCOURT
Histoire de la société française pendant le Directoire
E. Dentu|Paris 1855|15.50 x 23.50 cm|relié
First edition.
Some minor foxing, bibliophile's printed stamp serving as bookplate at head of title page.
Contemporary half bottle-green sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with blind-stamped fleurons and gilt fillets, slight scratches to spine, marbled paper boards, speckled edges.
€80
Maximilien FOY GÉNÉRAL ET COMTE
Discours du Général Foy précédés d'une notice biographique par M. P.F. Tissot; d'un éloge par M. Etienne; et d'un essai sur l'éloquence politique en France par M. Jay
Moutardier|Paris 1826|14 x 22 cm|2 volumes brochés
Second edition.
Illustrated work, with an engraved portrait of the author as frontispiece to the first volume, and a facsimile.
Spine cracked with some lacks, some corner lacks to boards, foxing.
€80
Jean PINASSEAU
Lettres et documents inédits pour servir à une biographie de A. Fabre d'Olivet
S. n.|Paris 1931|16 x 24.50 cm|agrafé
The first edition, published in a small number of copies of the bulletin of the History of Protestantism.
Handsome copy despite spine and covers marginally discolored.
€40
Auguste-Frédéric-Louis Viesse, duc de Raguse MARMONT
Mémoires du Maréchal Marmont, Duc de Raguse de 1792 à 1841 imprimés sur le manuscrit original de l'auteur avec le portrait du Duc de Reischstadt, celui du duc de Raguse et quatre fac-similé de Charles X, du duc d'Angoulême, de l'empereur Nicolas et du duc de Raguse.
Perrotin|Paris 1857|14 x 22.30 cm|10 volumes reliés
First edition without statement of edition, illustrated with 2 portraits including one in color of the Duke of Reichstadt, 4 facsimiles and 2 maps, as well as a folding table. The 10th volume, in uniform binding, is the refutation of Raguse's memoirs by Laurent de Lardeche: Réfutation des Mémoires du Maréchal Marmont, Duc de Raguse devant l'histoire.
Contemporary half black shagreen binding. Smooth spine in Jansenist style with cold fillets. Gilt title and volume number. Boards rubbed. One library label at the foot of volume 5. Some foxing on an otherwise fresh set. Good copy.
"Of first order for Bonaparte's youth, but only for this period. Does not Marmont declare that he admires
€800
Romain ROLLAND
Le jeu de l'amour et de la mort
Albin Michel|Paris 1925|11.50 x 18.50 cm|broché
Edition from the year of the first edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe copy.
Handsome copy despite a small lack at foot of spine.
€80
Gilbert CHINARD
Les amitiés américaines de madame d'Houdetot d'après sa correspondance inédite avec Benjamin Franklin et Thomas Jefferson
Edouard Champion|Paris 1924|16 x 24 cm|broché
First edition printed on laid paper.
Some foxing concentrated mainly on the endpapers.

€30
COLLECTIF
Les procès célèbres. De Jeanne d'Arc à Pétain. Crapouillot N° 26
Imprimerie spéciale du Crapouillot|Paris 1954|24.50 x 31.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 330 numbered copies on coated paper, the only deluxe copies.
Under the direction of Jean Galtier-Boissière, cover illustrated with a drawing by Maurice Henry.
Rich iconography, complete with publisher's slip, sought after.
Light worming at foot of covers, one scratch with slight lack of paper to margin of rear cover.
€70
Xavier MARTIN
Voltaire méconnu, aspects cachés de l'humanisme des Lumières (1750-1800)
Dominique Martin Morin|Poitiers 2015|15 x 22.50 cm|broché
The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Signed and inscribed by Xavier Martin to Pierre Gourdin.

€30
Georges d' ESPARBÈS
La Légende de l'Aigle
Librairie de la Collection des dix|Paris 1901|30.30 x 21.10 cm|relié
New edition and first illustrated. Copy on chine paper, finest paper with duplicate suites, expanded with an original watercolor. The first edition, published in 1893, was subtitled: Epic poem in twenty tales. The work is illustrated with 61 compositions engraved on wood after François Thévenot: 8 captioned plates. 20 headpieces. 32 text illustrations. 1 cover illustration. Limited to 351 numbered copies. This is one of 25 (no. 21) on chine containing a separate printing on chine and a separate printing on japan pelure mounted on chine. Copy expanded with an original watercolor signed F. Thévenot and two prospectuses for the work, one on chine and the other on vellum.
Binding in full gr
€1,400
Paul DÉROULÈDE
Le premier grenadier de France : La Tour d'Auvergne
Georges Hurtrel|Paris 1886|11.50 x 16.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 100 copies numbered and justified on Holland paper by the publisher, deluxe copy.
Fine copy despite small marginal worming on first endpaper.
Work illustrated with a color frontispiece, a facsimile letter as well as 7 plates of which 3 in color, historiated bandeaux and initials, reproducing drawings by Detaille, Berne-Bellecour, Baugnies, etc...
€250
Charles de RÉMUSAT
Correspondance de M. de Rémusat pendant les premières années de la Restauration
Calmann Lévy|Paris 1883-1886|14 x 22.50 cm|6 volumes reliés
Edition published by Paul de Rémusat of this fundamental correspondence for the Restoration.
Half tawny shagreen bindings, spines browned with five raised bands showing minor rubbing, gilt dates at foot, author's name in red shagreen, green shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.
Spines of bindings browned and showing rubbing.
Handsome interior condition.

€300
MARIE-ANTOINETTE
Correspondance secrète de Marie-Antoinette et le comte de Mercy-Argenteau
Librairie de Firmin-Didot frères, fils & Cie|Paris 1874|16 x 25 cm|3 volumes reliés
Edition published with notes and an introduction by chevalier Alfred d'Arneth and A. Geffroy.
Half black shagreen bindings, browned spines with five raised bands decorated with double compartments and black fillets showing traces of rubbing, gilt dates at foot, black paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edges gilt, armorial bookplates pasted on pastedowns.
Spine of bindings showing rubbing, handsome interior condition.
Work illustrated with two facsimiles at beginning of volumes.
Rare complete correspondence in three volumes.

€500
Comte de FALLOUX
Madame Swetchine sa vie et ses oeuvres
Auguste Vaton|Paris 1860|13.50 x 22.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition.
Half red shagreen bindings, spines with five raised bands decorated with double gilt fillets and dotted gilt ornaments showing traces of rubbing, one joint of the first volume fragile, upper headcaps of volumes rubbed, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges, contemporary bindings.
Pleasant interior condition.

€50
Alexandre de PUYMAIGRE
Souvenirs sur l'émigration, l'Empire et la Restauration publiés par le fils de l'auteur
Plon, Nourrit & Cie|Paris 1884|14 x 23 cm|relié
New edition.
Half olive green shagreen binding, rubbed spine with five raised bands, date and gilt arms at foot of spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Occasional foxing.
Provenance: from the library of the Bourlon de Rouvre family with their engraved bookplate pasted on a pastedown.

€70
Jean-Baptiste-Antoine SUARD, John WILKES
Lettres inédites de Suard à Wilkes publiées par Gabriel Bonno
University of California press|Berkeley 1932|16.50 x 24.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Handsome copy despite the unlettered spine being slightly discolored.
Autograph inscription signed by Gabriel Bonno to Félix Gaiffe.
€50
Paul GINISTY
Comédiennes du XVIIIème siècle. Mademoiselle Gogo, mademoiselle Beauménard de la Comédie Française 1730-1799
Charpentier & Fasquelle|Paris 1913|12 x 19 cm|relié
First edition on ordinary paper.
Bradel binding in grey half cloth, smooth spine, gilt date at foot, black shagreen title label with marginal tear, marbled paper boards, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Work illustrated with 12 plates hors-texte.
Autograph inscription signed by Paul Ginisty to Henri Lavedan.
€50
Benjamin CONSTANT
Journaux intimes
Gallimard|Paris 1952|14 x 23 cm|broché
Complete edition of the autograph manuscripts published for the first time, one of the numbered copies on châtaignier paper, the only printing after 88 on pur fil.
Index and notes by Alfred Roulin and Charles Roth.
Handsome copy despite slight sunning to the foot of the first cover.
€70
Athanase-Jean-Baptiste BRICOGNE
Opinion et observations sur le budget de 1814, sur le budget de Juin 1815 et sur les différens systèmes de finances suivis en France depuis l'An VIII jusqu'au 8 Juillet 1815 par un créancier de l'Etat
Pelicier|Paris 1815|14 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Light lacks and angular tears to covers, some minor interior foxing, pages 104-105 shadowed due to the presence of a loose annotation sheet.
Copy in original wrappers.

€120
Ernest DAUDET
Joseph de Maistre et Blacas. Leur correspondance inédite et l'histoire de leur amitié 1804-1820
Plon, Nourrit & Cie|Paris 1908|14 x 22.50 cm|relié
First edition.
Introduction, notes and commentary by Ernest Daudet.
Half green shagreen binding, faded spine with five raised bands, gilt zodiacal Sagittarius at foot of spine, two friction marks on headcaps, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Work illustrated with a portrait of Joseph de Maistre and the Count of Blacas as frontispiece.

€50
Joseph-Alphonse de VÉRI
Journal de l'abbé de Véri
Plon|Paris 1933|16.50 x 20 cm|2 volumes brochés
Edition published with an introduction and notes by Baron Jehan de Witte.
Preface by Pierre de Nolhac.
Spine and boards lightly and marginally sunned.

€50
Charles de LONPRE, baron d' HAUSSEZ
Mémoires du baron d'Haussez dernier ministre de la marine sous la Restauration
Calmann Lévy|Paris 1896|14 x 23 cm|2 tomes reliés
First edition.
Half hazelnut morocco bindings with corners, slightly faded spines with five raised bands, gilt dates at foot, marbled paper boards marginally and slightly faded without concern, combed paper endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, top edges gilt, bindings signed Bretault.
Introduction and notes by Count de Circourt and Count de Puymaigre.
Handsome copy.

€200
René STOURM
Bibliographie historique des finances de la France au XVIIIème siècle
Guillaumin & Cie|Paris 1895|14.50 x 23 cm|relié
First edition.
Half midnight blue shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt fillets, gilt initials at foot, traces of rubbing to bands and head of spine, marbled paper boards, combed paper endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, one upper corner slightly bumped.
A small annotation in blue ballpoint pen on the rear endpaper.

€60
Charles NISARD
Mémoires et correspondances historiques et littéraires inédits 1726 à 1816
M. Lévy frères|Paris 1858|11 x 18 cm|relié
First edition.
Half blue shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands set with gilt fillets ornamented with gilt fillets and dotted lines, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Foxing affecting principally the edges.
€50
ANONYME
Ludovicus XVI innocens mortuus. Relation de la mort de Louis XVI
S. n.|s. l. 1793 (S.d)|12 x 20 cm|relié
First edition. This pamphlet contains no editorial information, an understandable absence in these times of repression.

Modern Bradel cardboard binding. Smooth spine with a long burgundy shagreen title-label. lacks to head. Joints rubbed. The cardboard is covered with a reproduction of a naive engraving in the style of chapbook editions, with a caption: Louis XVIII Le Désiré, King of France and Navarre, praying for his brother.
Bookplate, circa 1920 with the letter R on a floral background. A facsimile of the account of the king's death referenced in the text has been pasted onto the endpapers.
Testimony on the events that preceded Louis XVI's execution, his co
€300
Francis Leggatt CHANTREY
prix de ses sculptures de généraux des guerres napoléoniennes à la Cathédrale Saint-Paul de LondresSigned autograph letter
Edinburgh 1812 (June 2nd)|18.30 x 23 cm|une feuille rempliée
Signed autograph letter by the British sculptor sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey, to the Saint-Paul Cathedral's committee, about his four monuments to military heroes from the Napoleonic wars commissioned by the government.
Sir Chantrey, leading portrait sculptor in Regency era Britain, carved the portraits of Major-General Daniel Hoghton, Major-General Bowes, and Colonel Henry Cadogan, and (in a single monument) Major-Generals Gore and Skerrett.
He gives in this letter an estimate for five marble statues of generals from the British army, four of which have ultimately not been selected by the committee and replaced by other names.
"Edinburgh, June 2nd 1812,
€500
Georges d' HEYLLI
L'évasion de La Valette (1815)
P. Rouquette & fils|Paris 1891|13 x 19 cm|broché
First edition printed in 200 numbered copies on laid paper of this offprint from La Gazette anecdotique.
Rare and handsome copy.
€80
Honoré de BALZAC, François SCHOMMER
Une ténébreuse affaire[A Dark Business]
L. Carteret|Paris 1909|17.50 x 27 cm|relié
Edition illustrated with 29 original compositions by François Schommer (including the cover), one of 75 deluxe numbered copies on Japan or Marais laid paper, ours on Japan paper, deluxe issue.
Full blue morocco binding, spine very lightly sunned with five raised bands set with gilt dots and decorated with gilt interlaced designs, date and place gilt at foot, gilt roulettes on headcaps, wide frame of fifteen gilt fillets in interlaced pattern on boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, frame of gilt fillets in interlaced pattern on pastedowns, double gilt fillets on edges, covers preserved, top and fore edges gilt, engraved bookplate pasted on one pastedown, elegant English binding very
€1,800
Joseph DELTEIL
La Fayette
Grasset|Paris 1928|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 790 numbered copies printed on alfa paper.
Handsome copy.
€60
Louis-Pierre ANQUETIL, Jacques Marquet de Montbreton NORVINS
Histoire de France depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à la Révolution de 1789 suivie de L'Histoire de la République française du Directoire, du Consulat, de l'Empire, de la Restauration et de la Révolution de 1830
Furne et Cie|Paris 1839|17 x 26.50 cm|5 volumes reliés
First edition illustrated with 50 plates (7 for volume 1, 12 for volume 2, 13 for volume 3, 5 for volume 4 and 13 for volume 5).
Half black Russia morocco bindings, smooth spines richly decorated with gilt fleurons and blind-stamped motifs, pebbled paper endpapers and pastedowns.
Scattered foxing.

€450
ANONYME
[Adoucissement sur les boissons alcoolisées "du à la sollicitude de l'Empereur pour le peuple"] Administration des contributions indirectes. Instruction N°I relative à l'exécution du décret impérial du 8 avril 1815. Système d'impôt sur les boissons
Imprimerie Impériale|A Paris 1815|13.50 x 22 cm|broché
First edition.
The imperial decree, which took place during the Hundred Days, concerns a softening of the taxation regime for beverages. The pamphlet contains all the articles that regulate behaviors related to beverages: harvests, unions, entry duties, storage, license tariffs for brewers and others...
The copy is presented in original wrappers in three gatherings sewn together.
€250
Charles Louis de FOSSÉ
Idées d'un militaire pour la disposition des troupes confiées aux jeunes officiers dans la défense et l'attaque des petits postes
Chez Alexandre Jombert|à Paris 1783|21 x 27.50 cm|relié
First edition illustrated with a colored vignette at head of the dedication and 11 folding plans drawn by Fossé and engraved in colors by Louis Marin Bonnet. Printed on heavy paper.
Contemporary full fawn sheep binding showing wear. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Beige morocco title-label. Split headcaps. Joints cracked at head and foot. Rubbing and scuffing. Corners cut and worn. Large lack to half-title.
A treatise on military defense and attack strategy. It draws on concrete examples situated on a plain, at a ford, on a bridge, in a castle or a village.
The work concludes with a Summary for representing military plans, dealing with colors appropriate for wash
€1,600
Jean-Paul SARTRE
Manuscrit inédit sur l'idéologie bourgeoise et la Révolution française [Unpublished Manuscript on Bourgeois Ideology and the French Revolution]
s. d. [1952]|-|12 feuillets
Autograph manuscript of 12 pages on squared sheets, written in blue ink, with numerous passages underlined.
A previously unpublished set of reflections by Jean-Paul Sartre on social structure and bourgeois ideology, probably written in 1952 as part of a projected screenplay on the revolutionary period. This series of interior dialogues on the nature of individual and collective power constitutes an early draft of the ideas later developed in his 1960 masterpiece, Critique of Dialectical Reason. Through the example of the French Revolution and the Terror, Sartre questions the role of the citizen and of property, drawing on the writings of Kant, Marx, Ro
€4,500
Jean-Paul SARTRE
Extrait manuscrit inédit d'une pièce de théâtre inachevée
s. d.|-|une feuille
A two-sided autograph page written in black ink on checkered paper, undated.
Unpublished manuscript sketch of a play by Jean-Paul Sartre at the time of the French Revolution.
€800
Charles, Baron DAVILLIER
La vente du mobilier du château de Versailles pendant la Terreur
Auguste Aubry|Paris 1877|15 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition printed in a small number of copies on laid paper.
A small lack at head of spine which also has a tear, light dampstains on the second cover, a crease mark at head of first cover, pleasant interior condition.
Rare.

€50
Edmund OLLIER
History of the United States
Cassell Petter & Galpin|London • & Paris • & New York s. d. [circa 1880]|18.50 x 26 cm|3 volumes reliés
Edition illustrated with numerous in-text illustrations.
Half bottle-green shagreen bindings, spines with five raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons and fillets, author's name gilt at foot of spines, some rubbing to spines without serious damage, blind fillet frame on bottle-green paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, some corners slightly bumped, contemporary bindings.
Handsome interior condition.
€400
ANONYME
Liste des représentans du peuple composant le conseil des Cinq-Cents
S. n.|s. l. 1798|9.50 x 14 cm|broché
First edition presented in plain interim wrappers.
Handsome copy despite some corner chips to the interim wrapper boards.

€110
Armand-François ALLONVILLE, Alphonse de BEAUCHAMP
Mémoires tirés des papiers d'un homme d'Etat, sur les causes secrètes qui ont déterminé la politique des cabinets dans les guerres de la Révolution
L.-G. Michaud|Paris 1831 - 1838|12.80 x 21 cm|13 volumes reliés
First edition, with 2 maps, one in color, the second plain at the end of volume I, both showing the position of the coalition armies.
Contemporary full wine-colored sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with rocaille tools. Gilt titles and volume labels. Boards stamped in blind with central medallion in a lozenge with Restoration ornaments. Spines now uniformly faded to blond, the gilding on volumes more or less worn. Some corners slightly bumped. Scattered foxing. Cuts on some head caps. Despite flaws, handsome set in full contemporary binding.
19th-century armorial bookplate, Count Bernard d'Imécourt. Second bookplate: L. Dussieux.
Political history of Europe from 1786 to 18
€700
Sébastien Claude Salicon CHARRIER-SAINNEVILLE
Compte rendu des événements qui se sont passés à Lyon, depuis l'ordonnance royale du 5 Septembre 1816, jusqu'à la fin d'Octobre de l'année 1817
Tournachon-Molin & H. Seguin • J. Targe|Paris • & Lyon 1818|13.50 x 21 cm|broché
First edition.
Small fold marks at head and foot of front cover.
Handsome copy in original wrappers.

€80