From the Restoration to the Commune

Alain KRIVINE, COLLECTIF
Rouge, hebdomadaire d'action communiste N°111 "1er Mai 71 pour que vive la Commune ! "
Rouge|Paris Lundi 26 Avril 1971|29 x 43.50 cm|une feuille
First edition of this issue celebrating on its front page the ever-living memory of the Paris Commune, also devoted to the revolutionaries of Sri Lanka.
Texts by Michel Lesquenne, Patrick Fresnel, Gérard Vergeat, Alain Krivine, and various correspondents of the journal.
Handsome and rare copy.

€40
Benoît MALON
Précis historique, théorique et pratique du socialisme
Félix Alcan • Librairie de la revue socialiste|Paris 1892|12.50 x 19.50 cm|broché
Edition from the year of the first edition, statement of edition.
Minor angular tears to foot of spine and boards, some light marginal foxing to second cover bearing a printed service de presse stamp.
Photographic portrait of Benoit Malon as frontispiece.

€80
Arthur de GOBINEAU
Oeuvres, Tomes I, II & III - Complet en trois volumes
Gallimard • , Bibliothèque de La Pléiade|Paris 1983-1987|10.50 x 17.50 cm|3 volumes en reliures de l'éditeur
Bibliothèque de La Pléiade edition printed on bible paper.
Publisher's full green grained sheep bindings, blue tops, smooth spines decorated with gilt fillets.
Complete set with rhodoids but lacking some slipcases and dust jackets.
€100
François René de CHATEAUBRIAND
Essai sur la littérature anglaise et considérations sur le génie des hommes, des temps et des révolutions
Furne • Charles Gosselin & Cie|Paris 1836|13.50 x 22.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition.
Half brown sheep bindings, smooth spines decorated with triple gilt fillets and gilt decorative motifs, gilt friezes at head and foot, marbled paper boards, combed paper endpapers and pastedowns, covers (soiled, with black ink stains, lacks or corner restorations, significant lack to the rear board of the first volume) and spine preserved, modern pastiche bindings.
Foxing, one stain at the foot of the leaves in the first half of the second volume not affecting the text.
Very rare autograph inscription signed by François René de Chateaubriand on the half-title page of the first volume to his secretary and faithful friend [Bernard Jean Erhard Desmousseaux]...
€5,000
Benjamin CONSTANT
Discours de M. Benjamin Constant à la Chambre des députés
Ambroise Dupont & Cie|Paris 1827-1828|12.50 x 21 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition.
Bradel bindings in full marbled boards, smooth spines decorated with double gilt fillets, brown sheepskin title labels, tears without loss to headcaps, two corners slightly bumped, yellow edges.
Work illustrated with a portrait of B. Constant as frontispiece to the second volume and complete with the folding facsimile.
Scattered foxing affecting mainly the first volume.
€230
COLLECTIF
L'amateur d'autographes - Revue historique et biographique bi-mensuelle - Années 1862 et 1863 complètes : Du N°1 de la 1ère année au N°48 de la 2ème année
Librairie de J. Charavay ainé|Paris 1er Janvier 1862 - 16 Décembre 1863|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, marbled paper boards, front board slightly discolored at upper left corner.
Pencil annotations on the blank endpapers of the binding, some light foxing of no consequence, the leaf containing pages 119 to 122 of the second year is detached.
Handsome copy.
€100
COLLECTIF
L'amateur d'autographes - Revue historique et biographique bi-mensuelle - Années 1868, 1869, 1870 et 1871 complètes : des N°145 & 146 des 1er et 16 Janvier 1868 aux N° 204 & 205 des 1er et 16 Novembre1871
Librairie J. Charavay ainé|Paris 1868-1871|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, corners slightly bumped.
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 1866 et 1867 complètes : du N°97 du 1er Janvier 1866 aux N° 143 & 144 des 1er et 16 Décembre1867
Librairie J. Charavay ainé|Paris 1866-1867|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, marbled paper boards, two corners slightly bumped.
Pencil annotations on final blank endpaper, occasional light foxing.
Handsome copy.
€100
COLLECTIF
L'amateur d'autographes - Revue historique et biographique bi-mensuelle - Années 1864 et 1865 complètes : du N°49 de la troisième année du 1er Janvier 1864 au N° 92 de la quatrième année du 16 décembre 1865
Charavay frères|Paris 1864-1865|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 tail, brown shagreen title label with slight rubbing, marbled paper boards, corners slightly bumped.
Ink and pencil annotations on the final blank endpaper.
Handsome copy.
€100
COLLECTIF
L'amateur d'autographes - Revue historique et biographique bi-mensuelle - Années 1872, 1873, 1873 et 1875 complètes : des N°208 & 209 de la dixième année du 1er & 16 Janvier 1872 aux N° 266 & 267 de Novembre-Décembre 1875
Charavay frères|Paris 1872-1875|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 tail, brown shagreen title-label with slight rubbing, marbled paper boards, first cover stained at upper left corner, corners slightly bumped.
Pencil annotations on the last blank endpaper.
Handsome copy.
€100
Frédéric PASSY
De la souveraineté temporelle des papes au point de vue de la justice et de la religion
E. Dentu|Paris 1860|15.50 x 25 cm|broché
First edition.
Some lacks to head and foot of spine as well as to corners of boards, worming to boards, offsetting from blue cover to title page.
Rare.
Autograph inscription signed by Frédéric Passy to Victor Modesse.

€80
Charles ERDT
Exposé de l'organisation de l'armée des Etats-Unis d'Amérique
Renaud|Montpellier s. d. [circa 1870]|16 x 23 cm|2 fascicules brochés en 1
First edition of the French translation established by d'Herbelot.
Some light foxing, the temporary wrapper has been reinforced at the margins of the boards with adhesive paper strip, small corner losses to the boards.
Rare work presented under temporary wrapper and in its original stitching.
Autograph inscription signed by the translator M. d'Herbelot to a member of his family.
€250
Paul-Émile DAURANT-FORGUES
La révolte des Cipayes
Hachette & Cie|Paris 1861|11.50 x 18.50 cm|relié
First edition.
Half red shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands set with black fillets decorated with gilt compartments, a tear at foot of spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Some light foxing.
€50
P. BOURLIER
Messieurs Fabvier et Sainneville convaincus d'être ce qu'ils sont
Guyot frères|Lyon 1818|14.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Rare and handsome copy presented in temporary covers in its original wrappers.
€150
ANONYME
Mémoires, correspondances, pièces et autres documents sur les affaires de Lyon
L.-G. Michaud|Paris 1818|14 x 21 cm|4 volumes brochés
First edition.
Two tears to two covers, some marginal lacks to the temporary covers, those of the first part are rubbed.
Rare and handsome set, complete in 4 volumes, presented in their temporary covers and original stitching.
€300
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
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
COLLECTIF, Charles MONSELET
Le Journal illustré, quatrième année complète (1867), du n°152 du 6 janvier 1867 au n°203 du 29 décembre 1867, soit 51 numéros
Le Journal illustré|Paris 1867|28.50 x 38 cm|relié
First edition.
Publisher's binding in full cream paper boards, smooth spine decorated with fleurons stamped in blind, important plate designed by Delannoy and engraved in red, representing a pediment framing a bull's eye on the first cover and architectural element stamped in red as central ornament and double fillet frame designed by Delannoy on the second cover, publisher's binding.
Handsome copy.
Le Journal illustré is a French weekly newspaper created in February 1864. It was conceived on the model of the Penny Illustrated Paper published in 1861 in England. It is illustrated with large wood engravings and covers magazine subjects in eight pages in 27 x 37.5 cm format. A...
€400
George AMAURY-DUVAL
L'atelier d'Ingres
G. Charpentier|Paris 1878|11.50 x 18 cm|relié
First edition.
Half red cloth binding, smooth spine decorated with blind fillets, marbled paper boards, speckled edges, contemporary binding.
Occasional light foxing.
€60
A. D'HERBELOT
De l'influence que doivent exercer sur le système de fortification moderne les changements opérés au 19ème siècle dans l'art de la guerre
S. n.|s. l. s. d. [circa 1880]|16 x 24.50 cm|broché
First French edition translated by A. d'Herbelot, printed in a small number of copies of this extract from the Journal militaire de Darmstadt.
Lacks and tears to margins of covers, some interior spotting.
Rare copy presented in plain temporary wrappers.
€80
Docteur L. CAPOLEONE
Une réponse à M. de Kératry, à propos de son ouvrage intitulé : Mourad V, prince-sultan-prisonnier d'état
S. n.|Contantinople [Istanbul] 1878|16.50 x 24 cm|broché
First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint from the Journal Asiatique of March-April 1893.
Small corner losses to covers, marginally soiled, handsome interior condition.
Rare.

€120
Charles MAURRAS
Les amants de Venise, George Sand & Musset
Albert Fontemoing|Paris s. d. [1902]|13.50 x 20.50 cm|relié
First edition on ordinary paper.
Bradel binding in half saffron cloth, smooth spine decorated with gilt floral motif, double gilt fillet at foot, chocolate brown shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Small traces of discoloration at foot of boards.
Work illustrated with medallion portraits of George Sand and Alfred de Musset.
Signed autograph inscription from Charles Maurras to lawyer and politician Joseph Paul-Boncour.
€200
Rufus GRISWOLD
The republican court or America Society In The Days of Washington
D. Appleton & Co|New York 1855|19.50 x 28.20 cm|relié
First edition, illustrated with 21 steel portraits of women from American society. Gift inscription on the title page.

Contemporary publisher's full black shagreen binding. Spine with raised bands, 5 decorated compartments, roulette at head and tail. Central blind medallion on boards surrounded by rich ornamental frame with foliage and flowers. Wide interior border. Rubbing to upper joint at tail, very narrow split in leather to lower joint at tail along 3 compartments. Gilt edges. Traces of rubbing. Perfectly fresh copy, with tissue guards, printed on tinted laid paper.
History of the United States after the War of Independence under Washington's governance. The...
€450
Léon Jean-Baptiste SABATIER, Albert ADAM
Château de Saint-Cloud - Paris et ses ruines, Lithographie originale
Charpentier|Nantes • Paris 1874|48.80 x 33.50 cm|une feuille
Original color lithograph engraved by Albert Adam after a drawing by Léon Jean-Baptiste Sabatier and used as illustration for Paris et ses ruines by Victor Fournel, a work bearing witness to the ravages of the Paris Commune.
Some marginal soiling, otherwise a handsome copy.
€100
Jules DAVID
Massacre des otages - Paris et ses ruines, Lithographie originale
Charpentier|Nantes • Paris 1874|48.80 x 33.50 cm|une feuille
Original black and white lithograph drawn and engraved by Jules David and used as an illustration for Paris et ses ruines by Victor Fournel, a work documenting the devastation of the Paris Commune.
Some marginal worming, otherwise a handsome copy.
€50
Léon Jean-Baptiste SABATIER
Greniers d'abondance - Paris et ses ruines, Lithographie originale
Charpentier|Nantes • Paris 1874|48.80 x 33.50 cm|une feuille
Original black and white lithograph drawn and engraved by Léon Jean-Baptiste Sabatier and used as an illustration for Paris et ses ruines by Victor Fournel, a work documenting the devastation of the Paris Commune.
Some marginal worming, otherwise a handsome copy.
€90
Léon Jean-Baptiste SABATIER, Albert ADAM
Docks de la Villette - Paris et ses ruines, Lithographie originale
Charpentier|Nantes • Paris 1874|48.80 x 33.50 cm|une feuille
Original color lithograph engraved by Albert Adam after a drawing by Léon Jean-Baptiste Sabatier, used as an illustration for Paris et ses ruines by Victor Fournel, a work documenting the ravages of the Paris Commune.
Some marginal soiling, otherwise a handsome copy.
€100
Léon Jean-Baptiste SABATIER, Albert ADAM
Colonne de la Place Vendôme - Paris et ses ruines, Lithographie originale
Charpentier|Nantes • Paris 1874|48.80 x 33.50 cm|une feuille
Original black and white lithograph engraved by Albert Adam after a drawing by Léon Jean-Baptiste Sabatier, used as an illustration for Paris et ses ruines by Victor Fournel, a work documenting the ravages of the Paris Commune.
Some marginal soiling, otherwise a handsome copy.
€90
Léon Jean-Baptiste SABATIER
Ministère des Finances - Paris et ses ruines, Lithographie originale
Charpentier|Nantes • Paris 1874|48.80 x 33.50 cm|une feuille
Original color lithograph drawn and engraved by Léon Jean-Baptiste Sabatier and used as illustration in Paris et ses ruines by Victor Fournel, a work documenting the ravages of the Paris Commune.
Handsome copy.
€80
Léon Jean-Baptiste SABATIER, Albert ADAM
La Sainte Chapelle - Paris et ses ruines, Lithographie originale
Charpentier|Nantes • Paris 1874|33.50 x 48.80 cm|une feuille
Original color lithograph engraved by Albert Adam after a drawing by Léon Jean-Baptiste Sabatier and used as illustration in Paris et ses ruines by Victor Fournel, a work documenting the ravages of the Paris Commune.
Some marginal worming and a small tear without loss to lower margin, not affecting the image.
€80
Léon Jean-Baptiste SABATIER, Jules GAILDRAU
Palais des Tuileries - Paris et ses ruines, Lithographie originale
Charpentier|Nantes • Paris 1874|48.80 x 33.50 cm|une feuille
Original lithograph in colors engraved by Jules Gaildrau after a drawing by Léon Jean-Baptiste Sabatier and used as an illustration for Paris et ses ruines by Victor Fournel, a work documenting the devastation of the Paris Commune.
Some marginal foxing spots, otherwise a handsome copy.
€120
Léon Jean-Baptiste SABATIER, Charles-Claude BACHELIER
Hôtel de ville, Grande salle des fêtes - Paris et ses ruines, Lithographie originale
Charpentier|Nantes • Paris 1874|48.80 x 33.50 cm|une feuille
Original lithograph in colors engraved by Charles-Claude Bachelier after a drawing by Léon Jean-Baptiste Sabatier and used as an illustration for Paris et ses ruines by Victor Fournel, a work documenting the devastation of the Paris Commune.
Some marginal soiling, otherwise a handsome copy.
€90
Léon Jean-Baptiste SABATIER, Albert ADAM
Hôtel de Ville - Paris et ses ruines, Lithographie originale
Charpentier|Nantes • Paris 1874|48.80 x 33.50 cm|une feuille
Original color lithograph engraved by Albert Adam after a drawing by Léon Jean-Baptiste Sabatier, used as an illustration for Paris et ses ruines by Victor Fournel, a work documenting the devastation of the Paris Commune.
Some marginal worming, otherwise a handsome copy.
€80
Léon Jean-Baptiste SABATIER, Albert ADAM
Exposition universelle de 1867 - Paris et ses ruines, Lithographie originale
Charpentier|Nantes • Paris 1874|48.80 x 33.50 cm|une feuille
Original color lithograph by Albert Adam, Léon Jean-Baptiste Sabatier and Félix Benoist, used as an illustration for Paris et ses ruines by Victor Fournel, a work documenting the devastation of the Paris Commune.
Some marginal worming, otherwise a handsome copy.
€150
Philippe BENOIST
Nouveau Pavillon de Flore - Paris et ses ruines, Lithographie originale
Charpentier|Nantes • Paris 1874|33.50 x 48.80 cm|une feuille
Original black and white lithograph drawn and engraved by Philippe Benoist and used as illustration for Paris et ses ruines by Victor Fournel, a work documenting the ravages of the Paris Commune.
Handsome copy despite some worming.
€80
Philippe BENOIST
Nouvelle église de la Trinité - Paris et ses ruines, Lithographie originale
Charpentier|Nantes • Paris 1874|33.50 x 48.80 cm|une feuille
Original black and white lithograph drawn and engraved by Philippe Benoist and used as illustration for Paris et ses ruines by Victor Fournel, a work documenting the devastation of the Paris Commune.
Handsome copy despite some worming.
€100
Philippe BENOIST
Eglise St Laurent - Paris et ses ruines, Lithographie originale
Charpentier|Nantes • Paris 1874|48.80 x 33.50 cm|une feuille
Original black and white lithograph drawn and engraved by Philippe Benoist and used as illustration for Paris et ses ruines by Victor Fournel, a work documenting the devastation of the Paris Commune.
Handsome copy despite some discreet worming.
€120
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...
€2,000
Honoré de BALZAC, Alfred de MUSSET
Scènes de la vie privée des animaux[Scenes from the Private Lives of Animals]
J. Hetzel • et Paulin|Paris 1842|18.50 x 27 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition illustrated with 200 plates and 120 vignettes by Grandville, engraved by Brévière. One plate missing from volume 2 ("Tous l'aimaient éperdument..." in the chapter entitled "Les peines de coeur d'une chatte française". In volume 1, the plates from pages 241 and 378 are incorrectly bound at pages 140 and 275. The frontispiece of the first volume is different in the first volume from most other copies, however the usual frontispiece has been placed further along.
Contemporary half red calf bindings, smooth spines decorated with large uniformly faded gilt tools, marbled paper boards with some minor rubbing as well as on the bindings overall, pebbled paper endpapers and...
€1,000
Léandre VAILLAT
La Taglioni ou la Vie d'une Danseuse
Albin Michel|Paris 1942|13.50 x 21 cm|broché
First edition on ordinary paper.
Minor tears of no consequence at head and foot of the slightly ridged spine, one tear to the upper right corner of the back board.
Work illustrated with 8 photographic plates.
Fine autograph inscription signed by Léandre Vaillat to Maryelle Krempff who completed her brilliant dancing career as principal dancer at the Opéra Comique before teaching dance at the Conservatoire National de région de Saint-Maur des Fossés from 1969 to 1989: "A mademoiselle Maryelle Krempff qui a le grand privilège de savoir danser, cette vie d'une étoile de la danse et du ballet romantique, en sympathique souvenir de sa précieuse présence aux...
€120
Adolphe BLANQUI
Voyage en Bulgarie pendant l'année 1841
W. Coquebert|Paris 1843|11.50 x 18.50 cm|relié
First edition.
Occasional light foxing.
Half black shagreen binding, smooth spine decorated with double blind compartments and gilt fillets, gilt initials at foot, black paper boards, pebbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, one lower corner slightly bumped, contemporary binding.

€100
Édouard de WARREN
L'Inde anglaise en 1843
Sté belge de librairie Hauman & Cie|Bruxelles [Brussels] 1844|10 x 15.80 cm|3 volumes reliés
Belgian first edition, published simultaneously with the Paris edition by Comptoir des Imprimeurs-Unis.
Contemporary half sheep binding in tender green. Smooth spine decorated with romantic tools in mirror pattern, roulette at head and tail. Rubbing to headcaps. Fine copy, completely free of foxing, with decorative spines.
The author, a Frenchman of Irish origin, spent nine years in British possessions in service of the East India Company. He consulted a great number of documents in order to present a portrait of the true India. His work is composed of a picturesque journal and political and geographical studies. He gives in addition a precise idea of the English army of India.
€600
[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...
€200
Georges RIAT
Gustave Courbet Peintre[Gustave Courbet, Painter]
Henry Floury|Paris 1906|20.50 x 27 cm|relié
First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on japon paper, the only deluxe issue.
Tawny half sheep binding with corners, spine in three compartments with gilt fillets, typographical motif stamped in blind at the centre of the spine (faded), author’s label and title label in red Russian morocco, minor repair at head of spine along one joint, marble-covered paper boards, combed-paper endpapers, original wrappers and spine preserved, one upper corner slightly rubbed, contemporary binding.
Illustrated with 18 plates, here in double state as in the other japon paper copies; text illustrations also present.
€600
Paul GAVARNI
Oeuvres choisies. Etudes de moeurs contemporaines. 1- Les enfants terribles. Traductions en langue vulgaire. Les lorettes. Les actrices. Notices par Théophile Gautier et Laurent-Jan. 2- Fourberies de femmes en matière de sentiment. Clichy. Paris le soir. Notices par Laurent-Jan, Auguste Lireux et Léon Gozlan. 3- Le Carnaval à Paris. Paris le matin. Les étudiants de Paris. Notices par Théophile Gautier, A. Barthet et A. de Soubiran. 4- La vie de jeune homme. Les débardeurs. Notices par P.J. Stahl.
Hetzel|Paris 1845-1848|17.70 x 26.80 cm|4 volumes reliés
First edition and first printing of the engravings.
Contributions by Théophile Gautier, Laurent-Jan, Léon Gozlan, Auguste Lireux and Jules Hetzel under the pseudonym P.-J. Stahl among others.
Contemporary publisher's binding in full black shagreen. Smooth spine decorated with 3 ornate compartments, blind and gilt fillets. Large rocaille composition on boards, thick triple fillet frame. Interior frieze. White watered silk endpapers. All edges gilt. Perimeter of watered silk endpapers brown-stained. Tailcap of volume 2 with a loss. Traces of rubbing. Thin scratch on the upper board of volume 1, lower board of volume 2. Some very occasional foxing on clean white paper. The binder...
€1,800
Francis VIELÉ-GRIFFIN, Walt WHITMAN
Thrène pour le président Lincoln
Bibliothèque de l'Occident|Paris 1908|16.50 x 25.50 cm|broché
First edition of the transposition of the poem by Walt Whitman by Francis Viélé-Griffin, one of 100 copies on Holland, only print.
Small tears and gaps on the back and in the margins of the boards which have been internally patched at the head and the foot, spine and boards marginally sun-damaged, good internal condition.
Modern ex-libris glued to the foot of the verso of the first board.
Rare.
€300
Henri MONNIER
Les Bourgeois de Paris. Scènes comiques
Charpentier|Paris 1854|11.50 x 18.50 cm|relié
First edition.
Full navy blue cloth Bradel binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt floral motif, date and double gilt fillets at foot, brown shagreen title-label, binding signed in blind by Pierson.
Some minor foxing of no consequence.
€80
A.H. SAXON, Phineas Taylor BARNUM
Barnum par lui-même
Editions de la Gardine|Sorvilier 1986|22 x 22 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition of these letters selected and presented by A.H. Saxon, French translation by L.R. Dauven, one of 1000 numbered copies, the only printing with 100 hors commerce copies.
Publisher's full fawn chamois binding, smooth spine.
Iconography, handsome copy.
Signed autograph inscription from L.R. Dauven to publisher Bernard de Fallois.
€120
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
Louis ROSSEL
Rossel (1844-1871). Mémoires, Procès et Correspondance présentés par Roger Stéphane
Jean-Jacques Pauvert|Paris 1960|13.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
The first collected edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Spine slightly sunned as generally the case, otherwise a handsome copy.
€40
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
Raymond RECOULY
Louis-Philippe Roi des Français. Le Chemin vers le Trône
Les Editions de France|Paris 1930|12.50 x 19 cm|relié
First edition, one of 218 numbered copies on alfa paper, deluxe issue after 29 on pure linen.
Half navy blue shagreen binding with corners, spine with five raised bands set with blind fillets, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, original covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt retaining deckled edges.
Handsome copy attractively bound.
Manuscript signature of Raymond Recouly on the half-title page.
€70
Adolphe BLANQUI
Des classes ouvrières en France pendant l'année 1848. Première partie
Pagnerre • Paulin & Cie|Paris 1849|9.50 x 16 cm|relié
First edition.
Contemporary half tanned calf binding, smooth spine decorated with triple gilt fillets, gilt library name at foot, red morocco title-label, marbled paper boards, pebbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.
Copy free from foxing.
Precious signed autograph inscription from Adolphe Blanqui to the economist Michel Chevalier.
Provenance: from the library of economist Michel Chevalier with his engraved bookplate pasted on a pastedown and from that of Jacques Laget with his bookplate pasted on the facing page.

€1,500
Paul GAVARNI, Eugène DELACROIX
Les Français peints par eux-mêmes. Encyclopédie morale du dix-neuvième siècle - Le prisme [Avec] Les Anglais peints par eux-mêmes[The French Painted by Themselves. Moral Encyclopaedia of the Nineteenth Century – The Prism [With] The English Painted by Themselves]
Léon Curmer|Paris 1840-1842|18 x 26.50 cm|11 volumes reliés
Les Français peints par eux-mêmes. Encyclopédie morale du dix-neuvième siècle – Le Prisme [with] Les Anglais peints par eux-mêmes [The French painted by themselves – The English painted by themselves]

Léon Curmer | Paris 1840-1842 | 18 x 26,5 cm 11 volumes in half morocco

First edition, one of the grand papier (deluxe) copies with two states of the illustrations for the 8 volumes of Les Français peints par eux-mêmes: one in black on tinted paper, and one enhanced by hand using the so-called “coloris gommé” technique with watercolour and varnish on...
€10,000
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
Adolphe JULLIEN, Hector BERLIOZ
Hector Berlioz sa vie ses oeuvres
Librairie de l'art|Paris 1888|24.50 x 32.50 cm|relié
First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe issue.
Work illustrated with 14 original lithographs by Adolphe Fantin-Latour printed on China paper as well as 12 portraits of Hector Berlioz, 3 plates hors-texte and 122 engravings, facsimiles of autographs, caricatures...
Binding in full red morocco, spine with five raised bands, gilt rolls on headcaps, endpapers and pastedowns of combed paper, fine engraved bookplate mounted on one pastedown, gilt dentelle border on pastedowns, covers preserved, all edges gilt, double gilt fillets on edges, perfect contemporary binding signed Cuzin.
Our copy is enhanced with an autograph note signed by Hector Berlioz...
€2,300
Albéric SECOND
Les Petits Mystères de l'opéra
Kugelmann|Paris 1844|14 x 22.80 cm|relié
First edition illustrated with vignettes by Gavarni.
Half red glacé long-grained morocco binding signed on endpaper by Durvand. Yellow printed wrappers preserved. Smooth spine decorated with a tool at head and 2 mirrored tools. Gilt title. Date at tail. Uncut copy, perfectly fresh, very clean. Top edge gilt. Discreet restorations to front wrapper. Very handsome copy.
Satirical writing on the world of the Paris Opera, its singers, its dancers, its audience, its administration, its stagehands, etc.

€450
LABORDE
Le Cotillon
Bertaut|Paris 1853 (S.d)|23.50 x 30.50 cm|relié
First edition composed of 15 sepia lithographs, illustrating the different figures of the Cotillon.

Publisher's cream and gold boards, covered with glazed moiré paper. Top headcap pushed in. Soiling. Corners slightly bumped. Good copy.

A ballroom dance created around 1820 which became wildly popular at the end of balls, the main venues for fashionable entertainment of the era, the cotillon mixed parlor games and dances; composed of several figures (the flowers, the handkerchief chase, the ribbon, the cavaliers, etc.) and accessories, it could last up to two hours and more depending on the cotillon leader. 19 pages of text in the work explain the figures of the cotillon...
€1,000
Pierre-Joseph-Marie PROUDHON
Les majorats littéraires - Examen d'un projet de loi ayant pour but de créer, au profit des auteurs, inventeurs et artistes, un monopole perpétuel
Office de la publicité|Bruxelles [Brussels] 1862|14 x 23 cm|relié
First edition.
Bradel binding in full caramel boards, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, green shagreen title label, author's name in red shagreen, slightly later binding signed in pen by Champs.
Bound at the head of the work is an article by P.J.M. Proudhon entitled "L'Empire et la Bohême" and printed by the same publisher, the journal of the Office de la publicité, in which the work and the related law are discussed; namely the defense of intellectual property rights for each artist.

€250
Ludovic HALÉVY
Notes et souvenirs 1871-1872
Calmann Lévy|Paris 1889|11 x 18 cm|relié
First edition.
Half blue sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets and dots as well as black fillets, spine with some light rubbing, gilt initials at foot, marbled paper boards, pebbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges, one corner slightly bumped, near-contemporary binding.
Handsome copy.
Precious signed autograph inscription from Ludovic Halévy to his friend Alexandre Dumas fils: "A mon cher maître et ami Alexandre Dumas. Ludovic Halévy" ["To my dear master and friend Alexandre Dumas. Ludovic Halévy"]
€300
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
Pascal DAGNAN-BOUVERET, Honoré de BALZAC
Eugénie Grandet
Motteroz|Paris 1886|16 x 25 cm|relié sous étui
Illustrated edition with 8 original full-page engravings after Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret by Le Rat. 120 numbered copies on vélin satiné, our copy one of 100 nominative.
Beige morocco by Marius Michel, mint green morocco doublures, framed with a gilt floral frieze decorated with inlaid morocco pieces and fillets on the boards, moiré silk endpapers, original wrappers preserved, double gilt fillets on the edges, all edges gilt, case lined with morocco, moiré paper boards, superb binding signed Marius Michel.
Bookseller's ticket label glued on a guard.
Our copy includes a suite of 8 full-page etchings.
A very nice copy superbly set by Marius Michel in doubled morocco.
€2,000
Charles LEANDRE, Henry MURGER
Scènes de la vie de bohême[Scenes from Bohemian Life]
Romagnol|Paris 1902|17 x 26.50 cm|relié sous étui
Edition illustrated with 40 original watercolors by Charles Léandre engraved by Eugène Decisy, one of 40 numbered copies on Arches vellum, deluxe edition after 35 on Japan blanc.
Full red morocco binding, spine with four raised bands set with black fillets, gilt date at foot, gilt roulettes on headcaps, frame of gilt fillet on the pastedowns in full mint green morocco, red watered silk endpapers, following endpapers of pebbled paper, all edges gilt, covers and spine preserved, slipcase with morocco entry, pebbled paper boards, brown felt interior, superb contemporary binding signed by Semet & Plumelle.
Our copy contains both states of all the illustrations and the decomposition of...
€1,200
Robert de MONTESQUIOU, Gabriele D'ANNUNZIO
La divine comtesse. Etude d'après madame de Castiglione[The Divine Countess. A Study Based on Madame de Castiglione]
Goupil & Cie|Paris 1913|19.50 x 28 cm|relié sous étui
First edition, one of the few numbered copies on Japan, the “tirage de tête”.
Binding in full dark midnight blue morocco, spine in four compartments with discreet recolouring, chocolate brown iridescent endpapers, frame of five gilt fillets and gilt fleurons in the corners of the paste-down endpapers, all edges gilt, preserved illustrated covers, slipcase lined with blue morocco, marbled paper boards, light blue baize interior, superb contemporary binding signed Meunier.
Preface by Gabriele D'Annunzio.
Work decorated with 54 monochrome and colour illustrations.
A very beautiful copy perfectly set in full morocco by Meunier.
€2,000
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
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
Gustave LE GRAY (Alexandre DUMAS)
Portrait photographique original d'Alexandre Dumas[Original photographic portrait of Alexandre Dumas]
Paris s. d. [circa 1860]|6.30 x 10.30 cm|une photographie
Original carte-de-visite photograph, albumen print, mounted on card made by Gustave Le Gray and showing Alexandre Dumas bearded in white trousers. Contemporary print.
A few very minor spots in the lower margin, otherwise deep blacks and fine contrast.
Very fine full-length standing portrait of the writer staring intensely at the lens.
About this portrait, which he reproduces on the front page of his magazine Monte-Cristo dated January 5, 1860, Alexandre Dumas writes: "Des qualités de ce portrait, je ne veux qu'affirmer la première, la plus essentielle : la ressemblance. C'est à vous, chers lecteurs, de voir si jamais la photographie est allée plus...
€1,000
Dick de LONLAY
Français & Allemands. Histoire anecdotique de la guerre de 1870-1871
Garnier frères|Paris 1888 - 1891|17.50 x 27 cm|4 volumes reliés
First editions of these 4 volumes abundantly illustrated with 484 color engravings in the text and numerous black and white ones, being 121 per volume. The editions of each volume appeared from 1888 to 1891.
Publisher's special bindings, grey for the first volume, green for the following 3. Smooth spine decorated with ornate compartments. Color composition on the first cover, different for each volume. All edges gilt. Signs of rubbing at head and corners. One tiny cut on a headcap. Fresh paper, free from foxing.
Superb copies.
Vol.1, Niederbronn, Wissembourg, Froeschwiller, Châlons, Reims, Buzancy, Beaumont, Mouzon, Bazeille, Sedan. 956 pages. Vol.2, Sarrebrück, Spickeren, La...
€850
Charles HERVEY, Alexandre LACAUCHIE
The theatres of Paris
John Mitchell • Galignani & Co|London • & Paris 1846|15 x 22.50 cm|relié
Illustrated edition with 10 portraits of the most celebrated actresses of the time by Alexandre Lacauchie, printed outside the text.
Half red calf binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with garlands and double gilt compartments, some scuffs notably to the upper headcap, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, a small harmless nick to the top edge, contemporary binding.
Handsome interior condition without foxing.
€400
Docteur L. CAPOLEONE
Une réponse à M. de Kératry à propos de son ouvrage intitulé : Mourad V, prince-sultan-prisonnier d'état
S. n.|Constantinople [Istanbul] 1878|15.50 x 24 cm|broché
First edition for which no deluxe copies are mentioned.
Four corner lacks to boards, handsome interior condition.
Rare.

€400
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
Astolphe de CUSTINE
Mémoires et voyages, ou diverses lettres écrites à diverses époques pendant des courses en Suisse, en Calabre, en Angleterre, et en Ecosse
Alexandre Vezard • Le Normant père|Paris 1830|13.50 x 22 cm|2 volumes brochés
First edition very scarce according to Clouzot.
Nice copy in its original wrappers.
Second volume with coated ex-libris "Fortis and Fidelis" engraved by Desnoyers.
Rare signed handwritten inscription by Astolphe de Custine on top of first volume to the Duchesse de Blains.
€5,000
Alfred DELVAU, Félicien ROPS
Les cythères parisiennes. Histoire anecdotiques des bals de Paris
E. Dentu|paris 1864|11 x 17.20 cm|relié
First edition illustrated with a frontispiece and 24 etchings on chine collé by Félicien Rops and Emile Thérond (the frontispiece and 18 of the vignettes are indeed by Rops).
Contemporary half brown shagreen binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with fillets. Some rubbing. 2 corners slightly bumped.
One of Auguste Poulet-Malassis's first productions in Brussels, the F. Rops frontispiece is a heliogravure reworked with etching and drypoint.
Monograph of all Parisian balls, a fashion particularly followed by all social classes at the time.
€450
Hubert SAINT-JULIEN
Louis Rossel (1844-1871), pensée et action d'un officier insurgé
Les presses continentales|Paris 1962|14 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Small light vertical marks on boards, light foxing on endpapers.
Illustrated with a photographic portrait of Louis Rossel.

€40
Léon TOLSTOI
Oeuvres inédites et posthumes (1850-1910)
Paul Dupont|Paris 1947|12.50 x 19 cm|broché
First edition in French, one of 25 numbered copies on superior laid paper, ours being one of 5 hors commerce copies, the only deluxe copies.
Spine lightly sunned, tiny tear at foot of front board, a full-margined copy.
€180
STENDHAL
Guide à l'usage d'un voyageur en Italie[Guide for the Use of a Traveller in Italy]
Le Divan|Paris 1951|10.50 x 16.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Arches paper, deluxe issue.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by the publisher, Henri Martineau, to Professor Alajaouine.
€350
Théophile GAUTIER
[PHOTOGRAPHIE] Portrait photographique de Théophile Gautier[PHOTOGRAPH - Photographic portrait of Théophile Gautier]
Ad. Braun & Cie|Paris s. d. [circa 1870]|6.30 x 10.50 cm|une photographie
Original albumen photograph of Théophile Gautier, in carte-de-visite format, mounted on cardboard from the Charles Barenne et Cie studio, 127 Faubourg Saint-Honoré.
Manuscript annotation and small ink stain on verso of the photograph.

€1,000
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
Victor HUGO
Actes et paroles - Avant l'exil 1841-1851
Michel Lévy frères|Paris 1875|19.50 x 25 cm|broché
First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on China paper, deluxe copy,
Four minute marginal lacks and small corner tears to the covers.
Handsome full-margined copy as issued.

€1,500
Jules SUPERVIELLE
Bolivar suivi de La première famille
Gallimard|Paris 1944|12.50 x 19 cm|broché
First collective edition, one of the 35 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies ("grands papiers").
Nice copy.
€400
Abbé COULLIE
Mars, Avril, Mai 1871. Saint-Eustache pendant la Commune
Imprimerie et librairie administrative|Paris 1872|14.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
Third edition.
Minor corner wear to spine and boards, printed bibliophile's stamp as bookplate on half-title page.
€50
Louis, vicomte de BONALD
Démonstration philosophique du principe constitutif de la société, suivie de méditations politiques tirées de l'Evangile
Adrien Leclère & Cie|Paris 1830|12.50 x 20.50 cm|relié
Edition published in the author's complete works.
Half navy blue sheep binding, smooth spine lightly browned decorated with gilt arabesque, gilt frieze at foot of spine which also features two fleurons stamped in blind at head and foot, marbled paper boards, bookplate pasted on pastedown, speckled edges, contemporary binding.
Foxing, a paper flaw at foot of table of contents page not touching text.
€60
Jacques BOTTENHEIM
Corvetto et son oeuvre financière
P.U.F.|Paris 1941|15 x 25 cm|broché
First edition.
Back cover slightly sunned at head, otherwise handsome copy.
€50
Charles MAURRAS
Les amants de Venise. George Sand & Musset[The Lovers of Venice. George Sand & Musset]
E. de Boccard|Paris 1900|12.50 x 20 cm|relié
New edition, with some parts in first edition as expanded with a preface, one of 30 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe copies after 6 on Japan paper.

Full chocolate brown morocco binding, spine with five raised bands, gilt roulettes on headcaps, quadruple black fillets framing the boards, black fleurons at corners, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, triple gilt fillets framing the pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, double gilt fillets on leading edges, top edge gilt on deckled edges, contemporary binding signed by Stroobants.

Bookplate pasted at head of one pastedown.

Very fine copy perfectly executed by Stroobants.
€600
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
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