François CANTAGREL
Le fou du Palais-Royal
A la libraire sociétaire|Paris 1845|12.50 x 18.50 cm|relié
Second edition with some parts in first edition.
Half brown shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt friezes and fillets, traces of rubbing to joints, one with a small tear at head.
Copy almost free from foxing.
€120
LORD ONE
Les vivants & les morts (portraits politiques)
H. Pelagaud • P. Reichel|Lyon • & Paris 1877|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition. The Count of Chambord, Pius IX, The Tsar, Emperor Francis Joseph, Lord Byron, Bismarck, Mac-Mahon... Worming affecting the front cover and endpapers.
€60
Henri d' ORLEANS
Lettre sur l'histoire de France adressée au prince Napoléon
S. n.|Bruxelles [Brussels] 1861|14 x 21 cm|broché
First edition. Small foxing.
€60
Henri LASSERRE
L'esprit et la chair. Théorie matérialiste, théorie catholique, philosophie des macérations
V. Palmé|Paris s. d. [1859]|12 x 19 cm|relié
First edition.
Bradel binding in half brown boards, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, red shagreen title label.
Light interior foxing.
€80
Pierre ANGRAND
Les versaillais in La Pensée N°81
La Pensée|Paris Septembre-Octobre 1958|18 x 26.50 cm|agrafé
The first edition, published in a small number of copies, of this offprint from the journal 'La pensée'.
Autograph inscription by the author.
One crease mark, one tear with slight loss to the back cover.
Rare.

€45
Élias REGNAULT
Histoire du gouvernement provisoire
V. Lecou|Paris 1850|13 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Pen annotations relating to the text on the half-title page, foxing.
€75
J. QUIN
Mémoires autographes de Don Augustin Iturbide ex-empereur du Mexique
Bossange frères|Paris 1824|13.50 x 22 cm|relié
First edition in French.
Temporary binding in full boards, corners of front cover slightly bumped without touching text.
Some worming at beginning and end of volume.
Rare.
€200
Léon de WAILLY
Curiosités philologiques, géographiques et ethnologiques
Paulin & Le Chevalier|Paris 1855|11 x 16.50 cm|broché
First edition. A small lack at head of spine, some light foxing, otherwise handsome copy.
€60
Arthur ARNOULD
Histoire populaire et parlementaire de la Commune de Paris
Librairie socialiste H. Kistemaeckers|Bruxelles [Brussels] 1878|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition. Spine cracked and reglued with a small lack at foot, slight marginal lack affecting the second cover, scattered foxing. Our copy is curiously presented under a wrapper bearing an entirely different title from that of the work, namely: 'Tablettes d'un libre-penseur' by one Dom Jacobus from the same publisher the following year.
€100
Arthur de BOISSIEU
Lettres d'un passant, deuxième série : figures contemporaines
E. Maillet|Paris 1869|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition.
Two small lacks to head and foot of spine, crossed-out gift inscription on front cover, occasional light foxing.
€70
Philibert AUDEBRAND
Soldats poètes & tribuns, petits mémoires du XIXème siècle
Calmann Lévy|Paris 1899|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition.
Le souper de Beaucaire, H. Murger, L'homme au camélia, P.J. Proudhon et l'écuyère de l'hippodrome...
Spine cracked and reglued with a small loss at head, small marginal losses to front cover, handsome interior condition.
€60
C.L. SAND
Mémoires avec le récit des circonstances qui ont accompagné l'assassinat de Kotzebue et une justification des universités d'Allemagne
A. Wahlen & Cie|Bruxelles [Brussels] 1820|12.50 x 18.50 cm|broché
Second edition of the French translation. With a frontispiece engraved portrait of the author. A slight dampstain affecting the front endpaper, copy almost free from foxing. Rare.
€120
Philarète CHASLES
La littérature et les moeurs de l'Allemagne au XIXème siècle
Amyot|Paris 1861|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition. About 'Quelques semaines au bord de la Baltique' by A. de Humboldt, 'Les trois mages du Nord' by H. Heine, 'Le fou de la révolution', 'Pensées d'un somnambule sur le XIXème siècle'... A tear at the head of one joint, two small corner lacks on the front cover, some light foxing.
€60
Charles-Augustin SAINTE-BEUVE
De la liberté de l'enseignement, discours prononcé au Sénat le 19 Mai 1868
Michel Lévy frères|Paris 1868|14.50 x 23 cm|broché
The first edition, published in a small number of copies. Minor marginal lacks to boards and to the first page not touching text. Rare.
€80
Auguste LAUGEL
La guerre civile aux Etats-Unis 1861-1863, le gouvernement fédéral, les armées et es partis
J. Claye|Paris 1863|16.50 x 25 cm|broché
First edition published in a small number of copies of this offprint from the Revue des deux mondes. Autograph inscription from the author on the front cover. Rare and handsome copy.
€80
Jacques DE LA FAYE
La princesse Mathilde (1820-1904), une nièce de Napoléon
Emile-Paul|Paris 1928|14.50 x 23 cm|relié
First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Bradel binding in full decorative boards with floral motifs, smooth spine browned, red shagreen title-label.
Frontispiece portrait of Princess Mathilde.
Iconography.
€40
Augustin THIERRY
Dix ans d'études historiques
J. Tessier|Paris 1835|12.50 x 21 cm|relié
First edition.
Half bottle-green sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt rolls and fillets, slight skin loss at foot, corners slightly bumped.
Some foxing.
€80
ANONYME
Les tyrans démasqués, recueil d'anecdotes historiques, épigrammes, chansons, etc... inédites ou peu connues sur les turpitudes des premier et second Empire
S. n.|Londres [London] • & Bruxelles [Brussels] 1870|12.50 x 18.50 cm|broché
First edition published anonymously.
Broken spine with a lack at foot, significant tear to back cover, copy free from foxing.
€80
COLLECTIF
Correspondance, articles extraits du Globe
Au bureau du Globe|Paris 1831|13.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Small angular lacks to the leaves not touching text.
Rare.
€150
Mary SUMMER
La jeunesse de 1830
E. Dentu|Paris 1885|12 x 19 cm|broché
Third edition.
Copy with occasional foxing.
€45
Nicolas-Pierre ROULLET
Notice historique des évènements qui se sont passés dans l'administration de l'Opéra, la nuit du 13 Février 1820
P. Didot|Paris s. d. [circa 1820-1823]|12.50 x 20.50 cm|relié
First edition published in very small number.
Bradel binding in full boards, smooth spine, red shagreen title-label.
Some occasional light foxing, otherwise handsome copy.
Rare.
€300
(Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de SAINT-SIMON) ANONYME
A un catholique, sur la vie et le caractère de Saint-Simon
Au bureau de l'Organisateur|Paris 1830|14 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition published in a small number of copies.
Rare and handsome copy almost entirely free from foxing.
€170
V.B. MARTY
L'Empereur Napoléon III, essai sur sa politique
Lécrivain & Toubon|Paris 1859|16 x 24.50 cm|broché
First edition printed in a small number of copies.
Foxing.
Rare.
€60
Hippolyte MAGEN
Les deux cours et les nuits de Saint-Cloud, moeurs, crimes et débauches de la famille Bonaparte
Chez tous les libraires|Bruxelles [Brussels] • & Paris s. d. [circa 1870]|8.50 x 14 cm|broché
New edition. Tiny loss to head of spine, angular losses to front cover, one joint cracked at foot, handsome interior condition.
€45
Nicolas BOUSSU
La vérité sur le roi
Bray & Retaux|Paris 1883|9.50 x 14.50 cm|broché
First edition printed in a small number of copies on laid paper.
Stains on the front cover which also has two small angular tears without loss, handsome interior condition.
Rare.
€70
COLLECTIF
Réglement du Corps Législatif précédé de la constitution, des sénatus-consultes modificatifs de la constitution et des décrets concernant l'élection des députés
L. Poupart-Davyl|Paris 1867|11 x 17 cm|broché
First edition.
Spine clumsily reinforced with transparent tape with a lack at head, slight marginal worming on first cover, fine interior condition.
€80
(Henri ROCHEFORT) ANONYME
Le vrai Rochefort
Agence artistique du Courrier de Paris|Paris 1868|16 x 24.50 cm|broché
First edition published in a small number of copies on laid paper.
Cover illustrated with a caricature of H. Rochefort and as frontispiece, an engraved portrait of the same by Adrien Tournachon.
Small marginal tears with slight lack affecting the boards, otherwise handsome copy.
Rare.
€100
Pierre de CASTELLANE
Souvenirs de la vie militaire en Afrique
V. Lecou|Paris 1854|11.50 x 18.50 cm|relié
Second edition, with some parts of the text in first edition. Half-sheep binding in chocolate brown, smooth spine showing traces of rubbing decorated with gilt fillets, three tears with small losses to one joint, corners slightly bumped. Foxing, peddler's stamp.
€70
M. E. DE CHABROL-CHAMÉANE
Dictionnaire de législation usuelle
Au bureau|Paris 1835|grand in 8|2 tomes en un Vol. relié
First edition.
Contemporary half glazed calf in the Romantic style, light brown, with small corners, gilt and black fillets, black lettering- and volume-pieces, spine with four flat raised bands richly decorated with large Romantic tools in blind and gilt, gilt rolls on bands and headcaps. Attractive marbled endpapers. Some rubbing to joints, one edge worn.

€100
G. MERIGOT
Le feu grégeois
Librairie générale|Paris 1871|12 x 17.50 cm|relié
First edition.
Bradel binding in full red boards, spine and inner margins faded, several small tears, one fold affecting the front board, modest binding.
Greek fire as a foretaste of the atomic bomb.
Very curious and rare little work.
€120
Eugène FROMENTIN
Correspondance et fragments inédits
Plon|Paris 1912|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition on ordinary paper, false statement of second edition, only 20 copies were printed on Holland paper as deluxe copies.
As frontispiece, a photographic portrait of the author.
Biography and notes by P. Blanchon.
Two small marginal dampstains affecting the boards, some light foxing.
€70
Henri HAUSER
Quelques souvenirs de Victor Duruy sur le collège Sainte-Barbe, Michelet, Montalembert et Cousin
La Grande Revue|Paris 25 octobre 1913|16 x 24.50 cm|agrafé
First edition published in a small number of copies of this offprint.
Autograph inscription by the author on the front cover.
Spine torn and nearly detached, handsome interior condition.
€30
François-Joseph GRILLE
Le bric-à-brac avec son catalogue raisonné
Ledoyen|Paris 1853|11 x 18.50 cm|2 volumes reliés en un
First edition. Full black paper boards binding, smooth spine decorated with blind fillets, blind-ruled frames on boards. About theaters, B. Constant, Chaptal, Ampère, C. de Salm, the tombs of Fontevrault... Some foxing. Rare.
€60
Hippolyte CASTILLE
Les journaux et les journalistes sous l'Empire et la Restauration
F. Sartorius|Paris 1858|9 x 14 cm|broché
First edition. The work is illustrated with a facsimile autograph and a portrait. Marginal dampstain affecting some leaves.
€60
Ernest DAUDET
Les coulisses de la société parisienne, deuxième série
P. Ollendorff|Paris 1895|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition on ordinary paper, false statement of third edition.
A small lack at foot of spine.
€45
Amédée LEBLANC
Nos malheurs, leurs causes leurs remèdes
Mme A. Leblanc|1871|13.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
Second edition.
A small lack to foot of spine.
€50
J. MAZZINI
Le Pape au dix-neuvième siècle
Au bureau du Nouveau monde|Paris 1850|12 x 18.50 cm|plaquette
First edition.
Small lacks to head and to foot of spine, a joint cracked to head, some occasional foxing.
Rare.
€120
ANONYME
Histoire militaire et anecdotique du coup d'état (1851) avec documents inédits et lettres des principaux personnages
E. Dentu|Paris 1872|14.50 x 23 cm|broché
First edition. Spine reinforced but cracked, occasional foxing. Rare.
€90
Maxime VUILLAUME
Mes cahiers rouges : quand nous faisions le Père Duchêne Mars-Avril-Mai 1871
In les Cahiers de la Quinzaine|Paris Mars 1908|13 x 18.50 cm|broché
New edition.
A good copy.
€40
M. VUILLAUME
Mes cahiers rouges : quelques uns de la Commune
In les Cahiers de la Quinzaine|Paris Janvier 1909|13 x 19 cm|broché
New edition.
Spine sunned, a joint with one small nick to foot.
€50
Henri d' ALMÉRAS
Avant la gloire : leurs débuts, deuxième série
Sté française d'imprimerie et de librairie|Paris 1903|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition.

Concerning notably H. de Rochefort, E. Drumont, G. Clémenceau, J. Verne...

Dampstains and worming to front board, worming to rear board, handsome interior condition virtually free of foxing.

Rare.
€60
Jacques REYNAUD
Portraits contemporains, nouvelle série
Amyot|Paris 1864|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition. About A. Thiers, I. & E. Pereire, P. Leroux, A. de Musset, T. Gautier, G. Meyerbeer... Scattered foxing. Rare.
€80
ANONYME
Histoire d'un soldat par un ex-sous-officier de l'Armée du Rhin : Bazaine sa vie son procès
Lachaud & Burdin|Paris s. d. [circa 1873]|11 x 15 cm|broché
First edition. Contributions by L. Veuillot, C. Lachaud... Illustrated pamphlet with a frontispiece portrait and an autograph facsimile at the end.
€60
M. VUILLAUME
Mes cahiers rouges : Proscrits
Cahiers de la Quinzaine|Paris Juin 1914|13 x 19 cm|broché
New edition.
€45
M. VUILLAUME
Mes cahiers rouges : Par la ville révoltée
Cahiers de la Quinzaine|Paris Janvier 1909|13 x 19 cm|broché
New edition.
Spine sunned with a small nick to foot.
€30
Lieutenant-Général Vte TIRLET
Discours prononcé par M. le Lieutenant-Général Vte Tirlet, député de la Marne, dans la discussion de la section relative à la solde et à l'entretien de l'armée
Imp. de Dondey-Dupré|Paris 1828|12.50 x 20 cm|broché
First edition of a speech delivered to the Chamber of Deputies on July 21, 1828.
Pen gift inscription on the front cover.
€70
Lieutenant-Général Vte TIRLET
Discours prononcé par M. le Lieutenant-Général Vte Tirlet, député de la Marne, dans la discussion du chapître du budget de la guerre relatif au matériel de l'artillerie
Imp. de Dondey-Dupré|Paris 1828|12.50 x 20 cm|broché
First edition of a speech delivered to the Chamber of Deputies on July 22, 1828. Pen gift inscription on the detached front cover.
€50
A.S.M. BONNEVILLE
Le faubourg Saint-Antoine ou considérations sur l'administration politique et municipale du 8ème arrondissement de la ville de Paris
Chez l'auteur • Albert & Dégieux & Fournier|Paris 1er Juin 1834|15 x 23.50 cm|broché
First edition.
A rare and good copy.
€150
Auguste BRICHAUT
Quelques médailles françaises récentes
F. Gobbaerts|Bruxelles [Brussels] 1874|16 x 24 cm|en feuilles
First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint.
Brochure illustrated with one figure.
Minor foxing on the rear cover.
Rare.
€55
Monseigneur l'Evêque d' ORLEANS
Lettre à M. le Vte de la Gueronnière en réponse à la brochure 'La France, Rome et l'Italie'
C. Douniol|Paris 1861|16.50 x 25 cm|broché
First edition. A rare and good copy.
€60
ANONYME
Juin 1848 : histoire de Napoléon-Louis-Bonaparte représentant du peuple par A. d'A
Au bureau|Paris 1848|12 x 17 cm|broché
First edition.
Lacks to spine, foxing on covers which show tears and marginal lacks, pen annotations on front cover.
Rare pamphlet entirely devoted to the cause of N.L. Bonaparte, defender of the Republic.
€80
T. FAUCON
H. de Villemessant par un témoin de sa vie
E. Dentu|Paris 1879|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition.
Spine slightly split, a small lack to one joint, handsome interior condition.
Rare.
€40
LE CEREMONIAL OFFICIEL OU LES HONNEURS, LES PRESEANCES ET RANGS CIVILS, MILITAIRES, MARITIMES ET DIPLOMATIQUES OBSERVES DANS LES CEREMONIES PUBLIQUES ET A LA COUR D'APRES LA LEGISLATION ET LA JURISPRU
Lib. administrative P. Dupont|Paris 1865|13.50 x 22.50 cm|relié
First edition. Half sheep binding in black, smooth spine with a small tear at foot decorated with blind fillets, contemporary binding. Some light foxing of no consequence. Rare.
€120
(Victor HUGO) Camille PELLETAN
Victor Hugo homme politique
Ollendorff|Paris 1907|14.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition with false statement of third edition. A small tear re-adhered at the foot of the spine, handsome interior condition.
€40
Henri ROCHEFORT
La lanterne, Paris-1868
Victor-Havard|Paris 1868|12 x 19 cm|broché
Fourth edition.

A very slight corner loss to the second cover, otherwise a handsome copy complete with the publisher's catalogue at the end.
€45
Cte d'. HERISSON
Journal d'un officier d'ordonnance, Juillet 1870 - Février 1871
Ollendorff|Paris 1885|12 x 19 cm|broché
Seventh edition. Two lacks to head and to foot of spine, a joint cracked to head.
€70
DISCOURS PRONONCE PAR MGR L'EVEQUE DE POITIERS LE 11 OCTOBRE 1860 A L'OCCASION DU SERVICE SOLENNEL POUR LES SOLDATS DE L'ARMEE PONTIFICALE QUI ONT SUCCOMBE PENDANT LA GUERRE
V. Palmé|Paris 1860|16.50 x 25.50 cm|broché
First edition. A pale marginal dampstain affecting the boards which also show minor corner chips of no consequence, colportage stamps. Rare.
€80
Eugène de MIRECOURT
Bismark
A. Faure|Paris 1867|9.50 x 15.50 cm|broché
First edition. With a frontispiece portrait of Bismarck. Minor spots of no consequence to front board and front endpaper, handsome copy.
€45
Cte d'. HERISSON
Les responsabilités de l'année terrible
Ollendorff|Paris 1891|12 x 19 cm|broché
Ninth edition.
Spine sunned with a lack at foot, slight corner lacks to boards.
€45
Guillaume LIBRI
Lettre à M. de Falloux ministre de l'instruction publique et des cultes contenant le récit d'une odieuse persécution et le jugement porté sur cette persécution...
Paulin|Paris 1849|14.50 x 23 cm|broché
First edition.
Manuscript notes from a previous owner regarding the author's legal troubles on the half-title page.
Evidence of marginal and clumsy restoration to spine and one joint, foxing.
€150
Louis WOLOWSKI
Mémoire sur le cours de politique constitutionnelle de Benjamin Constant
Guillaumin|Paris 1862|14.50 x 23 cm|broché
First edition.
Lacking spine, light foxing to interior.
Rare.
Library stamps to half-title page.
€80
Abbé. FERET
Histoire diplomatique : La France et le Saint-Siège sous le Premier Empire, la Restauration et la Monarchie de Juillet d'après les documents officiels et inédits
A. Savaète|Paris 1911|16.50 x 25 cm|2 volumes brochés
First edition.
Volume 1: Le Premier Empire et le Saint-Siège. Volume 2: La Restauration et le Saint-Siège. Volume 3 lacking.
Spine and boards lightly and marginally sunned, otherwise handsome copies.
Rare.
€200
Louis BARA
La science de la paix, programme
C. Muquardt • Blanc Imer • Lebet|Bruxelles [Brussels] • & Lausanne 1872|16.50 x 25 cm|broché
First edition.
Spine and boards with unskillful marginal restorations using adhesive, corner lacks to boards, handsome interior condition free from foxing.
€80
Auguste BOUCHER
La guerre civile aux Etats-Unis
C. Douniol & Cie|Paris 1874|16.50 x 25.50 cm|broché
First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint. Light worming to the front cover, occasional minor marginal foxing.
€60
Pierre-Joseph-Marie PROUDHON
France & Rhin
A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie|Paris • & Bruxelles [Brussels] 1867|12 x 19 cm|broché
New edition. Split spine with small lacks, three corner lacks to boards, light foxing at end.
€70
Charles FOURIER
Egarement de la raison démontré par les ridicules des sciences incertaines et fragments
Au bureau de La Phalange|Paris 1847|15 x 22 cm|broché
First edition of this offprint from the journal La Phalange.
Blue-grey temporary wrappers, title-label pasted to front cover.
Rare and handsome interior condition almost entirely free of foxing.
€350
J. VALFREY
Histoire de la diplomatie du gouvernement de la Défense Nationale
Amyot|Paris 1871|15.50 x 24.50 cm|3 volumes brochés
First edition.
A small angular lack to upper cover of first volume, otherwise a good copy.
€180
F. abbé. KLEIN
Lettres inédites de Xavier de Maistre à sa famille
De Soye & fils|Paris 1902|15.50 x 24 cm|broché
First edition published in a small number of copies as an offprint from 'Correspondant'. Lacks to spine (absence of spine at foot), an angular lack at foot of first cover, handsome interior condition. Rare.
€60
W.P. TOMLINSON
Kansas in 1858 : a history of recents troubles in the territory
H. Dayton|New-York [New York] 1859|12.50 x 19 cm|relié
First edition.
Full black cloth binding, smooth spine decorated with blind fillets, blind frames on boards.
A pale marginal dampstain affecting the very last pages of text and table of contents, otherwise handsome interior condition.
Rare.
€200
Auguste-Hilarion de KÉRATRY
L'élévation et la chute de l'empereur Maximilien
Revue contemporaine • Lib. internationale A. Lacroix|Paris 1867|14 x 22.50 cm|autre
Second edition enriched with a preface by Prévost-Para Dol.
Foxing at the very beginning and very end of the volume, otherwise a handsome copy.
€150
François ARAGO, Félix-Auguste DUVERT
27, 28 et 29 Juillet, tableau épisodique des trois journées
J.N. Barba|Paris 1830|14 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition of the theatrical adaptation of this major 19th-century event.
Light marginal lacks not affecting the text on some pages, two small stains on the final endpaper.
Rare.
€230
M. FONTANE
La guerre d'Amérique récit d'un sodat du sud
A. Le Clère & Cie & C. Dillet|Paris s. d. [circa 1910]|12 x 18.50 cm|2 volumes brochés
First edition of this account by a French volunteer who served alongside the Confederates.
Work illustrated with a folding map at the end of the first volume.
A tiny marginal lack at foot of the first board of the first volume, light worming on the first board of the second volume, otherwise a handsome copy.
€150
Alexandre WEILL
Etrennes politiques
Dentu|Paris 1848|10.50 x 15.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Autograph inscription from Alexandre Weill on the front cover to Madame de Girardin.
Some minor foxing of no consequence, one leaf roughly cut with small marginal lacks of no consequence.
Rare.
€120