Romantic Illustrated Books (1800-1860)

André René Polydore ALYSSAN DE CHAZET
Mémoires, souvenirs, oeuvres et portraits
Postel • Allardin • Dentu • Tessier • Delloye|Paris 1837|13.50 x 21.50 cm|3 volumes reliés
Illustrated edition of 11 original etchings by Eugène Béjot, one of 300 numbered copies on laid Arches paper, only one print after 25 imperial Japan, variously enriched.
Bindings in fawn half sheepskin, smooth backs adorned with golden romantic arabesques, small losses and slight friction in the back tails, joints slightly split in heads and in tails, marbled paper boards, guards and counterplates of paper in the tank, speckled edges , bindings of the time.
Some foxinges.
Illustrated book of three frontispiece portraits and 6 autographed facsimiles.
Our copy is enriched with a handwritten autograph letter dated February 15 (1826) from ARP Allysan de Chazet in...
€350
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.
J. Hetzel & Cie|Paris 1846 - 1848|18 x 26.80 cm|4 tomes en 2 volumes reliés
First edition and first printing of the 320 wood engravings. Publication of the 4 volumes from 1846 to 1848, which explains why they are found separately.
Contributions by Théophile Gautier, Laurent-Jan, Léon Gozlan, Auguste Lireux and Jules Hetzel under the pseudonym P.-J. Stahl among others.
Contemporary half black shagreen bindings. Flat false raised bands spine decorated with ornate compartments. Gilt titles and volume labels. Gilt edges. Blind ruling frame on boards. A. Gaillard at foot. Roulettes on bands. Very fine gold and grey decorative endpapers. Pale scattered foxing on very white paper.
Work illustrated with a general frontispiece, 14 vignettes including one...
€850
DESTOUCHES
Oeuvres dramatiques de N. Destouches
Chez Haut-Coeur|Paris 1820|13 x 21 cm|6 volumes reliés
New edition preceded by a notice on the life and works of this author.
Half bottle-green shagreen bindings, spines with four raised bands decorated with gilt compartments, gilt fillets on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, bindings signed Vernier-Reitz at foot of spines.
Work illustrated with plates.
Occasional light foxing.
Handsome set in charming signed bindings.
€350
Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard GRANDVILLE, Jonathan SWIFT
Voyages de Gulliver dans des contrées lointaines
Furne et Cie • H. Fournier|Paris 1838|13 x 21 cm|2 volumes reliés
First printing of Grandville's illustration. A frontispiece on flying China paper and 450 wood-engraved vignettes in-text, and 5 hors texte, the four titles of the four voyages and the literary allegory as frontispiece to the notice. New translation, biographical and literary notice on Jonathan Swift by Walter Scott.
Contemporary grey glazed calf half-binding in Romantic style. Smooth spine with a long Romantic tool and 2 mirrored tools, with fillets. Light traces of rubbing. Some scattered foxing, mainly marginal. Handsome copy.
"This complete illustration occupies one of the first ranks in Grandville's work." (Carteret, III, 578). This very beautiful illustrated Romantic work is...
€850
Edward Daniel CLARKE
Voyage en Russie, en Tartarie et en Turquie
Chez Fantin|à Paris 1812|13 x 21 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition, rare, illustrated with 3 maps and 2 plans, including the general map of Crimea and the plan of the capital of the Don Cossacks. Rare first French edition, translated by Emmanuel de Laubespin, which was withdrawn from sale. Quérard: "The [French] government did not permit the sale of this translation; only a few copies were distributed".
Contemporary full brown calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with 4 quatrefoil tools and multiple fillets. Red morocco title and volume labels. Decorative border on the board doubled with gilt fillet. Interior fillet. Wear to spine and boards. Volume 2 label scraped with loss of leather. 3 corners slightly bumped. Some rare and pale...
€1,400
Pierre-André LATREILLE
Histoire naturelle des fourmis, et recueil de mémoires et d'observations sur les abeilles, les araignées, les faucheurs et autres insectes
Imprimerie de Crapelet|Paris 1802|13 x 20 cm|relié
First edition.
Bradel binding in green morocco with small corners, smooth spine faded and richly decorated with gilt stylized birds and compartments decorated with grotesques, lacking to lower headcap, green cardboard boards, orange paper endpapers and pastedowns, bookplate pasted on one pastedown, corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
Occasional light foxing, library stamp on title page.
Complete copy with its 2 folding tables as well as its 12 colored plates at end of volume.

€400
Jacques-Henri BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE
Paul et Virginie suivi de la chaumière indienne
Editions Curmer|Paris 1838|17 x 25.70 cm|Un Vol. relié
First edition by Curmer and first printing.
Publisher's so-called "Oriental" binding, commissioned from Simier. Full red shagreen. Smooth spine decorated with a plate featuring orientalist motifs. Boards richly stamped with a large plate with a 6-pointed star at its center. Edges gilt. One missing stitch at the internal joint after the first board, without consequence. One missing stitch at the internal joint of the upper board causing slight play at the bottom of the first board, without consequence. Scattered foxing, unevenly distributed. Paper remained white. Tissue guards present. The endpaper covered with white moiré paper is detached at the end of the volume.
Old restoration...
€1,100
Édouard ODDOUL
Lettres D'Abailard et D'Heloise
E. Houdaille|Paris 1839|17 x 26 cm|2 volumes reliés
Illustrated edition in first printing with 2 color chromolithographic frontispieces and 38 plates on chine appliqué including one facsimile in chromolithography. Typographical ornaments.
Publisher's full black morocco binding signed Boutigny at foot. Smooth spine decorated with rich Rococo design. Boards stamped with a large blind plate with Rococo motifs, birds and 2 cherubs mounted on griffins, wide gilt border fillet. Edges gilt. Rubbing to lower part of upper board of volume 2, as well as on certain parts of the joints sometimes chipped. One leaf slightly protruding in volume 1, 2 in volume 2.
Magnificent copy in its rich publisher's binding by Boutigny.
Engraved bookplate...
€900
Jean-Philippe SCHMIT, Paul GAVARNI
Les deux miroirs, contes pour tous
Chez A. Royer|à Paris 1844|16.50 x 26 cm|relié
First edition illustrated with a frontispiece drawn by Schmit and engraved by Hilaire Guesnu, with 37 color plates hors-texte (instead of 38) and vignettes by Schmit, Gavarni, Nanteuil and Schlesinger.
Half green shagreen binding, faded spine with four raised bands set with gilt cartouches and gilt compartments decorated with typographical corner motifs, double gilt fillets framing the green boards, yellow paper endpapers and pastedowns, edges gilt.
Some occasional foxing, one gathering entirely yellowed (pages 26 to 35), one color plate and one gathering foxed, one color hors-texte engraving is missing.
Handsomely illustrated first edition.
€400
Jacques François GROBERT
Description des pyramides de Guizé, de la ville du Caire et de ses environs
Chez Logerot-Petiet • Rémont|à Paris 1801|In-4|relié
First edition illustrated with 5 plates (a figure of a Mameluke on horseback, a view of Mourat-Bey's palace, a plan, an elevation and a cross-section of the pyramids of Giza) after the author's drawings and a large folding map of Cairo.
Modern half marbled tawny calf binding with small corners. The spine is a skillful and deceptive pastiche of the original binding. The boards are period, unchanged. Smooth spine decorated with roulettes. Gilt title. Boards and corners rubbed. The map is detached. The 2 single plates are shorter on the outer margin. A handsome copy.
Just after Bonaparte's Egyptian Campaign, Grobert was placed as commander at Giza. He provides us with one of the first...
€1,500
Silvio PELLICO
Mes prisons suivies du discours sur les devoirs des hommes
Delahaye|Paris 1843|18.50 x 26.50 cm|relié
First illustrated edition with a frontispiece on China paper and 24 hors-texte plates as well as numerous vignettes by Tony Johanot. Fine Romantic illustrated work.
Publisher's binding in full red shagreen with special tools. Spine richly decorated with a large ornamental panel along its length, the publisher's name at foot. Upper cover with a special panel depicting the author in chains, large rocaille ornamental border tools, blind fillets. Lower cover decorated with a large central tool and rocaille border tools. Interior frieze. Gilt edges. White moiré silk endpapers. Spine gilt slightly faded, otherwise light scattered foxing, mainly on the endleaves and at the beginning, then in...
€500
Hippolyte Adolphe TAINE, Gustave DORÉ
Voyage aux Pyrénées
Hachette|Paris 1860|15.50 x 24.50 cm|relié
First octavo edition and first under this new title. The work had been published under the title Voyage aux eaux des Pyrénées in 1855, in a small format and with 64 wood engravings by Gustave Doré; in this edition, 9 of the woodcuts published in 1855 are not included, so there are 332 new woodcuts (Louis Dézé).
Contemporary binding in half midnight blue shagreen, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt compartments, fillets and stippling, paper boards in cardboard style, endpapers and pastedowns of watered paper, all edges gilt.
Some rubbing to head and foot of spine, two corners slightly rubbed, endpapers and pastedowns somewhat darkened.
Two bookplates...
€450
Johann Jacob KIRCHHOFF
Lieder und Fabeln[Songs and Fables]
Edouard Kretzschmar|Leipzig s. d. [circa 1840]|15 x 22.50 cm|relié
Illustrated edition with wood engravings by Edouard Kretzschmar.
Half red shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt fillets, gilt monogram of Alcide de Beauchesne at foot of spine, some rubbing to spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
Foxing.
Provenance: from the library of Alcide de Beauchesne with his gilt monograms stamped at foot of spines.

€50
Bertrand de MOLLEVILLE
Costumes des Etats héréditaires de la Maison d'Autriche[Costumes of the Hereditary States of the House of Austria]
Imprimé pour William Miller|Londres [London] 1804|26 x 36 cm (In-folio)|relié
First edition, superbly illustrated with 50 engraved and hand-coloured plates, all numbered and signed by William Ellis. Bilingual text, first in English, followed by the French translation on facing pages. Printed on deluxe wove paper.
English binding. Spine entirely rebacked in chocolate shagreen, decorated with five blind-stamped romantic floral tools. Brown calf boards adorned with a large central lozenge composed of leafy friezes. Blind-stamped border frieze with corner tools, and a second leafy border. Upper board split along the joint and nearly detached, lower joint open at the foot over 5 cm, with a continuing crack of 10 cm though the leather remains closed. Corners heavily...
€1,500
Jacques ARAGO
Souvenirs d'un aveugle, voyage autour du monde
Hortet et Ozanne|Paris 1839|15.50 x 23.50 cm|4 volumes reliés
Revised and truly new edition, it has been incorrectly described as a new edition, it is ultimately a recast edition, with some parts in first edition and better than those which preceded it, expanded with illustrations. 60 lithographic plates after drawings by Jacques Arago. The book bears for the first time a new title: Souvenirs d'un aveugle, whereas Arago was afflicted with this infirmity in 1837, the previous editions are under the title: Promenade autour du monde.
Contemporary half black shagreen binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with blind compartments and thick fillets. Gilt title and volume number. Signs of rubbing. Scattered pale foxing. Handsome copy, good...
€1,200
(NAPOLÉON III) Édouard AUBERT
La vallée d'Aoste[The Aosta Valley]
Amyot|Paris 1860|34 x 27 cm|relié
Amyot, Paris 1860, 11.5 x 18.5 cm, bound
First edition published the same year the Aosta Valley became part of Italy. The work is illustrated with 97 wood engravings in the text, 33 steel insert engravings, 6 chromotypographies and a map.
Bound in half red shagreen, spine decorated with blind tooling, “Palais de Compiègne” gold stamped at the head of the spine, Napoleon III's monogram gold stamped on the spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, contemporary binding. Some minor foxing.
"Bibliothèque de la Couronne - Compiègne” stamp on the title page. Our copy, unlike those placed in the national collection when the Palais de Compiègne library disbanded, does not have...
€8,000
Rodolphe TÖPFFER
Nouveaux voyages en zig-zag, A la grande Chartreuse, autour du Mont Blanc, dans les vallées d'Herenz, de Zematt, au Grimsel, a Gênes et a la Corniche
Victor Lecou|Paris 1854|19 x 27.20 cm|relié
First edition, illustrated with 48 hors-texte engravings including the frontispiece, several in-text woodcuts, all after drawings by the author and engraved by Girardet, Français, Daubigny... With a notice by Sainte-Beuve.
Publisher's polychrome binding in full navy blue percaline cloth. Superb first cover decorated with a large polychrome plate (blue, red, cream, green, yellow and gold) featuring a walker tipping his straw hat in nature. Lenègre bindery at bottom of the plate. Spine decorated with a large polychrome plate with somewhat faded colors, notably the blue, but the golds remain bright. Handsome second cover decorated with a gilt landscape on beige ground within rich ornament...
€650
Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne LA FAYETTE, Apollin BRIQUET
Mémoires de Hollande, histoire particulière en forme de roman. - Nouveaux claircissements sur les Mémoires de Hollande
J. Techener|Paris 1856 & 1857|10.50 x 16.50 cm|2 tomes reliés en 1 volume
Fourth edition revised from the first edition for the first volume, first edition for the second refuting the thesis that this novel is by Madame de La Fayette.
Handsome copy.
Full green morocco binding, spine with five raised bands set with gilt dots and decorated with double gilt compartments richly decorated, date and place gilt at center of spine, gilt roulettes on headcaps, frame of triple gilt fillets on boards, small black spots on first board, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, frame of gilt dentelle on pastedowns, lower corners very slightly bumped, double gilt fillets on leading edges, very elegant binding signed by Hardy.
Our copy is complete, as frontispiece, with...
€200
Gustave DORE, Honoré de BALZAC
Les contes drolatiques colligez es abbayes de Touraine et mis en lumière par le sieur de Balzac pour l'esbattement des pantagruelistes et non aultres
Garnier frères|Paris 1860 (S.d)|13.50 x 20 cm|relié
Sixth edition and second printing of the 425 compositions by Gustave Doré. "masterpiece where each vignette is a discovery" (Béradi)
Full red long-grained morocco binding signed Thivet (at the top of the first endpaper). Richly decorated spine with raised bands. Gilt title. Triple gilt ruling on boards. Rich inner gilt border. All edges gilt. Spine slightly faded.
Scattered foxing.
Superb copy, very rare in full binding, moreover in full morocco.
"The idea of illustrating these texts had been suggested by the Bibliophile Jacob, Paul Lacroix, who had been commissioned by Balzac's widow for the philological revision of the text. The illustrations fall within a caricatural...
€650
Antony THOURET
Blanche de Saint-Simon, ou France et Bourgogne. Chronique de 1468
Ladvocat|Paris 1835|14.50 x 22.50 cm|relié
First edition of this historical novel written by Antony Thouret while incarcerated in the prisons of Saint-Waast.
Binding in half morocco green morocco, smooth back decorated with a central and gilded floral pattern, golden date tail, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, blankets (dirty and doubled) preserved, binding of XIXth posterior of a few decades at work.
Rare book illustrated with a portrait of the author and an off-text figure engraved on wood by Eugene Forest.
Our copy is enriched by a signed autograph letter of three pages Antony Thouret to his publisher Ladvocat in which it is particularly question a second edition of the book...
€350
Walter SCOTT
The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott
Adam and Charles Black|Edinburgh 1857|18 x 25 cm|relié
New edition, illustrated with a frontispiece, an engraved title and 18 plates, all on steel, and very numerous wood engravings (headpieces, tailpieces, vignettes) after Turner, Birket Foster & John Gilbert. Several facsimiles. Edition with notes, additions and remarks by J. G. Lockhart. Fine careful printing in 2 columns. Each work contains a half-title, an appendix. Clear and well-structured edition, perfectly illustrated with Scottish landscapes and historical scenes.
Publisher's binding in full beveled ultramarine gilt cloth. Smooth spine decorated with a large ornamental composition evoking medieval illuminated books. Large decorative blue and gold plate, very rich, with central...
€550
Thomas ALOM, Alexandre SOSSON
Itinéraire pittoresque aux comtés de Chester, de Derby, de Leicester, Lincoln, de Nottingham, et de Rutland
Fisher, fils et Cie|Paris • & New York • & London 1837-1838|22 x 28.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition of the French translation by Alexandre Sosson.
Publisher's binding, smooth navy blue shagreen spine decorated with gilt and decorated cartouches, sky blue watered silk boards marginally discolored and decorated at corners with romantic arabesques stamped in blind, discoloration stains on front board, yellow paper endpapers and pastedowns, edges gilt.
Work illustrated with its 73 views after drawings by Thomas Allom.
Some light foxing.

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€120
FINDEN, COLLECTIF
Finden's tableaux : the iris of prose, poetry, and art for 1840
Charles Tilt|London 1840|28 x 37.60 cm|relié
First edition of this deluxe keepsake composed of Finden engravings and 12 texts on tinted vellum in prose and verse by Barrett, Mitford, John Hughes. A frontispiece and 12 large steel compositions in an octagon surrounded by vignettes engraved in line and printed on strong vellum. Drawings or paintings by James Brown, engraved by Finden and other English engravers in his circle.
Publisher's binding in full blue shagreen. Smooth spine decorated with a rich ornamental composition of foliage, vases... Boards decorated with a large central ornament of interlaced scrollwork, similar in the corners. Edges gilt. Yellow endpapers. Hard slipcase of blue and red marbled paper (rubbing). Small...
€250
William VAUGHAN, William BLIGH
Relation des malheurs et de la captivité, pendant deux ans et cinq mois, du capitaine Woodard, et de quatre de ses compagnons, dans l'isle de Célébes, située sous la ligne équinoxiale [Ensemble] Relation de l'enlevement du navire Le Bounty[An Account of the Misfortunes and Captivity, for Two Years and Five Months, of Captain Woodard and Four of His Companions, on the Island of Celebes, Situated on the Equinoctial Line [Together with] Account of the Seizure of the Ship The Bounty]
Firmin Didot • Chez F. Buisson|à Paris 1805-1790|12.50 x 20.50 cm|relié
First French edition of the Account of the Capture of His Majesty's Ship Bounty translated by Daniel Lescallier. It is illustrated with 3 maps, including one of the voyage in the launch, one of the islands discovered by Lieutenant Bligh, and one of the coasts of New Holland.
Contemporary full marbled brown sheep binding, spine with raised bands decorated with urn tools in lozenges, rolled decoration at foot, red morocco title-label. Some rubbing.
Captain Woodard was held prisoner by the Malays on the island of Celebes for two years and five months; his testimony was collected by Vaughan in England while the captain was making a stopover. Describing his captivity and...
€1,800
Félix BRACQUEMOND, Charles MONSELET
Les tréteaux
Poulet Malassis & De Broise|Paris 1859|12.50 x 19 cm|broché
First edition published in a small number of copies, only 10 deluxe copies printed on Holland paper.
Work illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author by Félix Bracquemont.
Two tears at head and foot of second cover, handsome interior condition without foxing.
€100
Auguste Marseille BARTHELEMY, Tony JOHANNOT
Némésis, satire hebdomadaire
Perrotin|Paris 1845|15.50 x 24 cm|2 volumes reliés
Third edition with a frontispiece by Tony Johannot and illustrations by Auguste Raffet.
Half caramel sheep bindings, smooth spines decorated with gilt friezes and blind-stamped fleurons, some traces of rubbing to spines, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, two tears to leading edges, contemporary binding.
Some foxing.
€80
Émile de LA BÉDOLLIÈRE
Soirées d'hiver
Curmer|Paris 1839|11.50 x 19 cm|relié
First edition, illustrated with 12 out-of-text steel-engraved vignettes.
Half dark green straight-grained morocco binding, smooth spine decorated with large gilt romantic tools, scratches at foot of spine, green boards, yellow paper endpapers and pastedowns, corners slightly bumped, all edges gilt.
Some minor foxing.
€100
François-Guillaume DUCRAY-DUMINIL
Les soirées de la chaumière
Chez Le Prieur|à Paris 1806|8 x 13.50 cm|8 volumes reliés
Statement of fourth edition, after the first in 1797. 8 frontispieces by Chaillou, with legends. The frontispieces of volumes 5, 6 and 7 have been hand-colored.
Contemporary full speckled brown sheep bindings. Smooth spines decorated with a tool and 2 compartments with grotesques, roulettes. Tawny morocco title labels, and black sheep volume labels. Tear with lack to the volume label of volume 5. Set rubbed. Several corners bumped. Last leaf of volume 1 backed and bearing a tear.
A virtuous father versed in the arts decides, after acquiring a cottage in an idyllic location, to take care of the education of his 4 children aged 12 to 14. Each episode illustrating a feeling or...
€250
Henri-Frédéric PEDRONI FILS
L'art du souffleur à la lampe et au chalumeau
Librairie encyclopédique de Roret|Paris 1849|9 x 15 cm|relié
First edition illustrated with 3 folding plates at the end containing 93 figures.

Half chocolate brown shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.

Rare and handsome copy.

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€150
Charles-Paul LANDON
Annales du Musée et de l'école moderne des Beaux-Arts. Recueil de pièces choisies parmi les ouvrages de peinture et de sculpture exposés au Louvre le 14 Octobre 1808, et autres productions nouvelles de l'art, gravées au trait, avec l'explication des sujets, un examen général du salon, et des notices biographiques sur quelques artistes morts depuis la dernière exposition. - Recueil de pièces choisies parmi les ouvrages de peinture et de sculpture exposés au Louvre le 5 Novembre 1810, et autres productions nouvelles et inédites de l'école française, gravées au trait, avec l'explication des sujets, l'examen du salon, et des notices biographiques sur quelques artistes morts depuis la dernière exposition
Chez l'auteur • Annales du Musée du Louvre • Imprimerie de Chaignieau ainé|Paris 1808-1810|12.50 x 20 cm|3 volumes reliés en 1
First edition of each of the two texts.
Half green shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with blind-tooled compartments with gilt fleurons at their centers, gilt dates, marbled paper boards, marbled endpavers and pastedowns.
The first work, in two volumes, is illustrated with 72 plates, the second, in one volume, with 72 plates.
Some minor foxing of no consequence.

€400
Nicolas BOILEAU DESPREAUX
Oeuvres complètes
De l'imprimerie de Mame frères|Paris 1810|12.50 x 20 cm|relié
Second issue of this edition. A frontispiece portrait after Rigaud engraved by Delaunay and 6 figures after Picard re-engraved by the same. Printed on fine laid paper from the Vosges, with Blondin watermark, St. Dié.
Contemporary full tree calf bindings. Smooth spines decorated with a sun tool, 2 compartments with grotesques and a fleuron. Double framing border on the boards. Red morocco title and volume labels. Head of volume 2 partly cut, but slightly. Spines sunned. Traces of rubbing. Gilt edges. 2 corners bumped.
Complete works with prefaces, variants and correspondence, and notes. Some contemporary pen annotations; one will notice this address to the preface writer at the end...
€200
Charles-Paul LANDON
Annales du Musée et de l'école moderne des Beaux-Arts. Salon de 1822. Recueil de morceaux choisis parmi les ouvrages de peinture et de sculpture exposés au Louvre le 24 Avril 1822, et autres nouvelles productions de l'art, gravés au trait, avec l'explication des sujets et quelques observations sur leur mérite de leur exécution
Imprimerie Royale|Paris 1822|12.50 x 20 cm|2 volumes reliés en 1
First edition.

Half green shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with blind-tooled compartments enhanced at their centers with gilt fleurons, gilt date, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, two corners slightly bumped.

Work illustrated with 128 plates.

Some minor foxing of no consequence.

€280
J. B. de MURAT
La destinée d'une jolie femme, poème érotique en six chants par J.-B... de M...
Mongie|Paris An XI (1803)|14 x 19 cm|relié
First edition published anonymously.
Half wine-colored shagreen binding with corners, spine slightly faded and lightened with five raised bands, gilt fillets framing the marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, one upper corner slightly bumped, top edge red.
Work illustrated with an engraved frontispiece.
Gift inscription in pen serving as bookplate on the title page.
Rare and handsome copy.
€800
Charles NODIER, Théophile GAUTIER
Contes à nos jeunes amis
Eugène Renduel|Paris 1835|11.50 x 18 cm|relié
First edition reissued under new covers and relay title.
This rare collection was initially published in December 1833 under the title: L'amulette. Étrennes à nos jeunes amis.
Half dark green Russia morocco binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt arabesques, gilt date at foot, gilt fillet on marbled paper boards, three scratches on first cover, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, bookplate pasted on pastedown, covers and spine preserved, elegant pastiche binding signed by Pouillet.
Work illustrated with a title vignette and 8 plates.
Some foxing of no great consequence.
€200
Claude François Xavier MILLOT
Abrégé de l'histoire Romaine, orné de 49 gravures, qui en représentent les principaux sujets
Lécrivain|Paris 1816|22.50 x 29.80 cm|relié
New edition, after the first published in 1805, and illustrated with 49 beautiful figures by Gravelot, Piauget, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, Eisen, and engraved by Tardieu, Chenu, Saint-Aubin... including 3 folding plates: a large view of Nero's golden palace, a superb one of the naval battle of Ecnomus, and one of Pompey's triumph in Rome. All plates have tissue guards.
Bound in contemporary half brown calf. Spine with raised bands decorated with 5 blind tools and gilt and blind fillets. Brown shagreen title-label. Boards of beautiful marbled paper in yellow, red and brown. Traces of rubbing to headcaps and joints. Fine copy, very fresh.
This Roman history manual was printed and...
€750
Pierre CORNEILLE, VOLTAIRE
Oeuvres de Corneille avec les commentaires de Voltaire[The Works of Corneille with Voltaire’s Commentaries]
Chez Antoine-Augustin Renouard|à Paris 1817|13.50 x 23 cm|12 volumes reliés
Later edition of the works of Pierre Corneille with a commentary by Voltaire.
Contemporary half green Russia over paper boards (a little rubbed), spine with gilt Restoration typographic motifs.
A little foxing.
The set is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author drawn and engraved by Auguste de Saint-Aubin and 25 hors texte figures by Jean-Michel Moreau.
A very good complete set of the works of Pierre Corneille in contemporary half Russia.
€1,000
Jean-Philippe SCHMIT, Paul GAVARNI
Les deux miroirs, contes pour tous
Chez A. Royer|à Paris 1844|15 x 25.50 cm|relié
First edition illustrated with a frontispiece drawn by Schmit and engraved by Hilaire Guesnu, 38 plates and vignettes by Schmit, Gavarni, Nanteuil and Schlesinger.
Full green shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands set with gilt dentelle, compartments decorated with quadruple gilt framing fillets and cold-stamped fillets, double fillets and dotted gilt rolls at head and foot, fine hatchings on headcaps, cold-stamped fillets and multiple gilt fillets framing the boards, gilt rolls framing the pastedowns, gilt fillet on leading edges.
Some foxing.
Handsomely illustrated first edition.
€150
Jean GIGOUX, Alain-René LESAGE
Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
Paulin|Paris 1835|18 x 27 cm|relié
Illustrated with original vignettes by Jean Gigoux.
Half dark green morocco with corners, spine with five raised bands richly decorated with gilt compartments and fleurons, gilt date at foot, top edge gilt retaining deckled edges. Binding signed Champs.
Work illustrated, as frontispiece, with a portrait of the author on China paper as well as 600 vignettes here in first printing by Jean Gigoux.
Some rubbing to joints, otherwise a handsome copy.

€300
Alphonse de LAMARTINE, Louis MARCKL
Jocelyn
chez Charles Gosselin • Furne et Cie|à Paris 1841|17 x 26.50 cm|relié
New edition published five years after the original of 1836, decorated with a frontispiece, several plates after Marckl and engraved by Quartley, Dujardin and Piaud, with vignettes and tailpieces.
Half green shagreen Empire binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt rococo ornaments, triple gilt fillets on boards and corners, all edges gilt.
Joint at foot of front board slightly cracked.
Some discreet foxing.
Handsome copy elegantly bound in a contemporary Empire binding.
€170
Julius SCHNORR VON CAROLSFELD
Illustrations de la Bible. Ancien et Nouveau Testament
A.W. Schulgen • Georges Wigand|Paris • & Leipzig 1860|37.50 x 33.50 cm|2 volumes en feuilles sous chemises à lacets
Fourth, de luxe, edition.
Chemises in flexible boards with ties intact.
With 240 engravings after drawings by Julius Schnorr de Carolsfeld.
Spotting to all plates and a few clear marginal dampstains to some.
A rare copy.
€1,800
Eugène de MIRECOURT
George Sand - L'abbé de Lamennais
J.-P. Roret & Cie|Paris 1854|9 x 14 cm|2 volumes reliés en 1
Edition for each volume.
"Bradel" binding vellum way, smooth back, calligraphic inscriptions in the medieval manner on the back and flat, black date tail back, wrappers and back preserved and bound in to each volume, guards and contreplats of handmade paper red head, signed binding Thiebaut.
complete copies of their headpieces and their facsimiles.
Our copy is enriched by an autograph letter (mounted on the first book upside tab) Eugene Mirecourt, a page addressed to Chamfleury in which its distance corresponding to about a piece showing that they have jointly written with Champfleury and does not provide enough promotion to the taste of Eugene de...
€200
Charles MONSELET
Rétif de la Bretonne, sa vie et ses amours ; documents inédits ; ses malheurs, sa vieillesse et sa mort ; ce qui a été écrit sur lui ; ses descendants ; catalogue complet et détaillé de ses ouvrages suivi de quelques extraits
Alvarès fils|Paris 1854|11.50 x 19.50 cm|relié
First edition, one of 20 copies on pink paper, deluxe copy.
Half navy blue calf binding, spine with five raised bands set with gilt dots, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved.
Work illustrated with a facsimile as well as a portrait of the author as frontispiece, here in double state, which is the characteristic of deluxe copies.
A bookseller's descriptive label and a bookplate pasted at the head of a pastedown.
Another bookseller's descriptive label pasted on an endpaper has been torn away.
Some foxing affecting mainly the margins of certain leaves, a full-margined copy.
€400
Hyacinthe Joseph Alexandre Thabaud de LATOUCHE, COLLECTIF
Biographie pittoresque des députés. Portraits, moeurs et coutumes
Chez L'éditeur|Paris 1832|9 x 14.50 cm|relié
New edition, published anonymously and written collectively by Henri de Latouche, Emile Deschamps, Louis-François l'Héritier and Pierre-Nicolas Bert.
Bradel binding in full cardboard with vellum appearance and flaps, smooth spine, black date at foot, boards decorated with legal articles calligraphed in the manner of the 19th century, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, pastiche binding signed by A.F. Thiébaut.
Work illustrated with 15 portraits of deputies outside the text.
Some minor light foxing, endpapers entirely sunned.
Rare copy complete, at the end, with the plan of the assembly hall.
€150
Jacques-Pierre MAYGRIER, Antoine CHAZAL
Nouvelles démonstrations d'accouchemensNew Demonstrations of Deliveries
Bechet|à Paris 1822|30 x 43 cm|relié
First edition, with the illustrations of the author (often missing) and 79 plates (plate 27-28 double page) hors texte steel-engraved by Forestier after drawings by Antoine Chazal.
Strictly contemporary Romantic binding in brown calf, spine in six compartments richly decorated with gilt fillets and blindtooled arabesques, boards with blindtooled arabesques to corners, double fillet frame and gilt initials ‘A.D.' to centre, gilt roulette framing marbled endpapers and pastedowns, double gilt fillets to edges of covers. Binding very skilfully restored.
Jacques-Pierre Maygrier (1771-1835) was a student of Antoine Dubois, the obstetrician of Empress Marie-Louise. He practiced at the...
€6,000
COLLECTIF
Chants et chansons populaires de la France
Henri Plon • Lécrivain et Toubon|Paris 1859|18.50 x 27.50 cm|2 volumes en reliures de l'éditeur
New edition.
Publisher's full navy blue cloth bindings, smooth spines decorated with blind-stamped typographical motifs, blind fillet border on covers, three small discoloration spots on first cover of first volume, yellow paper endpapers and pastedowns, corners slightly bumped without consequence.
Work illustrated with numerous in-text engravings.
Bookseller's description label pasted to pastedown of first volume.
One repaired tear to half-title page of second volume, some minor foxing.
€120
C. de CHAUMONT
Alpes et Pyrénées. Descriptions et curiosités de la Suisse, de la Savoie, de la Navarre, du Béarn, du Bigorre et du Comminge, ascencions de montagnes, pics et glaciers, traversées de mers de glace, oules, cols et ports, visites de lacs, cascades et vallées, excursions aux ruines, courses à pied, à cheval, en steamers, en poste, en voiturins
Barbou frères|Limoges s. d. [circa 1860]|18.50 x 28 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
Illustrated with 4 plates.
Publisher's half black shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with double blind-stamped compartments, brown paper boards, white watered silk endpapers and pastedowns with some foxing and soiling, all edges gilt.
Some minor foxing.
Prize award label pasted to one pastedown.
€100
Gilbert Farquhar MATHISON
Narrative of a visit to Brazil, Chile, Peru and the Sandwich islands during the years 1821 and 1822
Charles Knight|London 1825|13 x 21.50 cm|relié

MATHISON Gilbert Farquhar
Narrative of a visit to Brazil, Chile, Peru and the Sandwich islands during the years 1821 and 1822
Charles Knight, London 1825, 13 x 21,5 cm, modern paper boards

First edition.
Modern half green shagreen over marbled paper boards, spine in five compartments with gilt fillets and friezes, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
With four color plates hors texte and a folding map.
Small wormholes occasionally touching text and images. Sold as is.
€450
Silvio PELLICO
Mes prisons suivi Des devoirs des hommes
H.L. Delloye|Paris 1846|17 x 25.50 cm|relié
New edition of the French translation established by Count de Messey, revised by Viscount Alban de Villeneuve and illustrated with drawings by Gérard Séguin, d'Aubigny, Steinheil...
Half green shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt compartments, double gilt fillets framing the green paper boards, white watered silk endpapers and pastedowns, all edges gilt.
Biographical and literary notice on the author and his works by Philipon de la Madelaine.
Some minor foxing without gravity principally at the beginning of the volume.
€180
Matthew Gregory LEWIS, ABBÉ PREVOST
Le moine. Valérie. Manon Lescaut. Le talisman du coeur. La peine du talion. Le règne de Satan. Riche et pauvre. Télémaque. Mes prisons. la princesse de Montpensier. Les contes de l'atelier. Le barbier de Séville. Le mariage de Figaro. La mère coupable.
Gustave Havard|Paris 1849|21.50 x 31 cm|relié
Popular illustrated edition bringing together 14 titles and more, from the Romans populaires illustrés collection. Drawings by Johannot, Beaucé, Staal, Bertall, Baron... It includes the rare title The Monk by Lewis.
Contents: Valérie by Madame de Krudener. Manon Lescaut by Prévost d'Exiles. Le talisman du coeur by Louis Lurine. La peine du talion by Jules Lacroix. Le règne de Satan by Benjamin Gastineau. Riche et pauvre by Emile Souvestre. Télémaque by Fénelon. Mes prisons by Pellico. La princesse de Montpensier by Madame de Lafayette. Les contes de l'atelier by Michel Masson. Le vicaire de Wakefield by Goldsmith. Simple histoire by Inchbald. 3 plays by Beaumarchais. Printed in 2...
€280
Jean-François REGNARD
Oeuvres de J.F. Regnard avec des avertissements sur chaque pièce par M. Garnier
E.A. Lequien|Paris 1820|13 x 21 cm|6 volumes reliés
New edition, with some parts in first edition, carefully collated with the first editions and expanded with a large number of variants. Half red calf bindings, spines with four raised bands adorned with gilt dots and gilt fillets, marbled paper boards, traces of discoloration to margins of some boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges, contemporary Romantic bindings.
Work illustrated with a portrait of the author as frontispiece to the first volume.

Some minor foxing.
€250
Alexandre DUMAS
Ange Pitou
Chez Dufour • Mulat • Boulanger|Paris 1856|18 x 27 cm|relié
First illustrated edition, rare, with 27 plates hors-texte, including the frontispiece by Philippoteaux, Pisan,
Contemporary half black grained shagreen binding signed Ch. Girard (Angers) with grained green percaline boards. Spine with raised bands decorated with blind and gilt fillets. Gilt title. Small pale and whitish stains on lower board, one darker stain on upper board. Leaves 351 and 355 restored (torn corner). Fresh overall but with small pale browning scattered and unevenly distributed. Although the paper appears clean, it now has a color close to laid paper and has lost its whiteness.
A title rarely encountered, the Three Musketeers or Count of Monte-Cristo series being...
€600
Louis LACOUR
Grand monde et salons politiques de Paris après la Terreur. Fragments précédés d'une étude sur la société avant 1789
A. Claudin • A. Meugnot|Paris 1860|10.50 x 16.50 cm|relié
First edition, one of 8 copies numbered on salmon paper and justified by the author.
Full hazel morocco binding, spine with five raised bands, one joint with a small tear at head, small brown stains on covers, gilt roulettes on headcaps, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt dentelle border on pastedowns, gilt fillet on leading edges, top edge gilt, bookplate and library shelf label pasted on one pastedown, elegant unsigned binding.
Our copy is exceptionally expanded with 18 engraved portraits added by a previous bibliophile and representing notably Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Bonaparte, Madame Récamier, Beaumarchais, Molière, Talleyrand...
Handsome and unique...
€300
Théophile GAUTIER, Paul GAVARNI
Oeuvres choisies de Gavarni - Etudes de moeurs contemporaines. "Les enfants Terribles" -Traduction en langue vulgaire- "Les Lorettes". "Les actrices". Avec des notices en tête chaque série par MM, Théophile Gautier & Laurent-Jan.
Hetzel|Paris 1846|17 x 27 cm|relié
New edition revised, corrected and newly classified by the author.
Half brown shagreen binding, spine with four false raised bands, decorated with triple compartments stamped in blind
Suite of captioned engravings accompanied by notices at the head of each series by MM. Théophile Gautier & Laurent-Jan.
€180
Jacques-Henri BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE
Paul et Virginie
L. Curmer|Paris 1838|16.50 x 26 cm|relié
Famous illustrated edition with nearly 450 wood-engraved vignettes, 29 plates printed on China paper, and 7 steel-engraved portraits after T. Johannot, Meissonnier, Iasbey, P. Huet.
Full bottle-green shagreen binding, smooth spine decorated with blind-ruled frame, gilt rocaille arabesque motifs and gilt bird and butterfly ornaments; gilt roulettes on headcaps; boards decorated with quadruple frame of gilt and blind fillets, gilt rocaille arabesque motifs and small gilt rose-branch ornaments applied in the corners; gilt roulette frame on pastedowns, central gilt bilobed cartouche enriched at angles with gilt romantic ornaments, gilt dentelle frame on pastedowns, white watered silk...
€780
Rodolphe TÖPFFER
Nouvelles genevoises
Dubochet|Paris 1845|15.50 x 24 cm|relié
First illustrated edition with 39 wood engravings hors-texte, and 200 wood vignettes in-text, all after drawings by the author, and drawings by Best, Leloir, Regnier...
Full glazed brown morocco binding early 20th century signed Petitot. Raised band spine decorated with compartments composed of series of fillets. Gilt title and date. Triple fillet frame on boards. Elaborate interior decoration. 4 endpaper leaves of handsome brown marbled paper. Some rare foxing on very white paper, except for the browned half-title. The tissue guards have been preserved and remain in fine condition. A small rub to spine, likewise along one edge, but very handsome copy, rare in this condition.
NB...
€700
Tony JOHANNOT, Oliver GOLDSMITH
Le vicaire de Wakefield
Bourgueleret|Paris 1838|14 x 22.50 cm|relié
Bilingual edition translated by Charles Nodier and first printing of the frontispiece printed on China paper as well as the 10 steel-engraved out-of-text plates by Finden after drawings by Tony Johannot.
Half brown shagreen binding with corners, spine slightly faded with four raised bands decorated with gilt fillets and compartments embellished with gilt arabesques, gilt fillet frame on brown cardboard boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, contemporary Romantic binding.
Work also illustrated with more than 100 wood-engraved in-text vignettes.
Some minor foxing of no consequence.
€250
Paul-Louis COURIER
Oeuvres complètes
Paulin • Perrotin|Paris 1834|13 x 21.50 cm|4 volumes reliés
New collected edition, with some parts in first edition as expanded with a large number of unpublished pieces and preceded by an essay on the life and writings of the author by Armand Carrel.
Half caramel calf bindings, smooth spines set with gilt and black fillets decorated with gilt friezes, black calf title and volume labels, joints with some traces of rubbing, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary bindings.
Work illustrated with a portrait of the author engraved by Ethion as frontispiece to the first volume but lacking its folding facsimile frontispiece to the fourth and final volume.
Foxing.
Handsome copy, complete in four volumes...
€200
Joseph MÉRY
Le dernier fantôme
Gabriel Roux|Paris 1854|11 x 18 cm|relié
New edition illustrated with engravings.
Half red shagreen binding, smooth spine decorated with double gilt compartments adorned with gilt arabesques, gilt initials at foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
€50
Paul-Louis COURIER
Oeuvres complètes
Paulin • Perrotin|Paris 1834|13 x 21.50 cm|4 volumes reliés
New collective edition, partially a first edition as it was expanded with a great number of previously unpublished pieces and preceded by an essay on the life and writings of the author by Armand Carrel.
Half bottle-green shagreen bindings, spines slightly faded with four raised bands set with triple gilt fillets decorated with compartments and quadruple gilt fillets, gilt friezes at head and foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, bookplates pasted on pastedowns, speckled edges, contemporary bindings signed by Corfmat.
Work illustrated with a portrait of the author engraved by Ethion as frontispiece to the first volume but lacking its folding facsimile...
€250
Alexandre ANDRYANE
Mémoires d'un prisonnier d'état
Gaume frères|Paris 1850|11 x 18 cm|2 volumes reliés
Third edition revised by the author, expanded with unpublished correspondence by Confalonieri and illustrated with 4 steel engravings.
Half caramel embossed boards bindings, spines slightly faded with four raised bands set with gilt fillets decorated with double gilt compartments adorned at corners with gilt fleurons, black shagreen title and volume labels, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, contemporary bindings.
Occasional light foxing.
€100
Félix BRACQUEMOND, Charles MONSELET
Les tréteaux
Poulet Malassis & De Broise|Paris 1859|12 x 19 cm|relié
First edition printed in a small number of copies, only 10 copies on Holland paper in deluxe format.
Half orange morocco binding, spine sunned with five raised bands set with black fillets, brown morocco title label, date and place in olive green morocco, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt.
Illustrated work, as frontispiece, with a portrait of the author by Félix Bracquemont.
Some foxing affecting mainly the volume at beginning and end.
€150
Honoré de BALZAC, Louis HUART
Physiologie du flaneur [Ensemble] Physiologie de l'employé [Ensemble] Physiologie de la femme la plus malheureuse du monde
Aubert • Lavigne|1841|8.50 x 13.50 cm|relié
First edition of these three well-illustrated physiologies; for example, the first physiology contains 65 vignettes. Only the Physiologie du flaneur bears a date.
Physiologie du flaneur. Vignettes by Alophe, Daumier and Maurisset.
Physiologie de l'employé. Vignettes by Trimollet.
Physiologie de la femme la plus malheureuse... Vignettes by Valentin.
Contemporary half black sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with fillets. Gilt titles. Rubbing. Occasional light foxing, on paper that has remained quite white.

€550
Silvio PELLICO
Mes prisons suivies du discours sur les devoirs des hommes
Delahaye|Paris 1853|18.50 x 26.50 cm|relié
New edition illustrated with a frontispiece and 24 plates and numerous vignettes by Tony Johanot. Handsome romantic illustrated work.
Polychrome publisher's boards signed Lenègre at foot of spine. Smooth spine richly decorated with a polychrome panel with elaborate design. Front board decorated with a chained man and a wide polychrome floral border frame. On the rear board, a scene showing a young man at his work table. The blue is somewhat faded on the spine, one corner rubbed, rear board dusty at margins. One crease on spine. Handsome copy, perfectly fresh, with some occasional scattered foxing.
My Prisons are the memoirs of a man incarcerated by arbitrary power. Following the...
€400
Jean-Baptiste-Louis GRESSET
Oeuvres de Gresset
Chez Ant. Aug. Renouard|Paris 1811|13 x 21 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition of Parrain magnifique.
Near-contemporary full green morocco bindings, spines with five raised bands uniformly sunned, decorated with gilt fleurons, dentelles and fillets, gilt roulette on leading edges, gilt striated stars on headcaps, gilt roulette framing the pastedowns, all edges marbled.
One frontispiece portrait of the author and 8 figures by Moreau, 7 of which engraved by Simonet and 1 by de Gendht.
"This edition is the most complete and the best yet published of this poet." (Brunet)
€600
COLLECTIF
Paris-Londres Keepsake français 1837, nouvelles inédites
Delloye, Desmé et Cie|Paris 1837|15 x 24 cm|relié
First edition illustrated with 26 vignettes.
Full green shagreen binding, smooth spine slightly faded decorated with gilt romantic ornamental motifs, boards with blind-ruled frames decorated at their centers with gilt romantic ornamental motifs, scratch on lower board, gilt edges, romantic binding by Boutigny.
Literary contributions by Vigny, Chateaubriand...
Work illustrated with 26 steel-engraved plates and one title vignette by the finest English artists.
Foxing.
€250
JUVÉNAL
Satires
Dalibon|Paris 1826|15.50 x 25.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
Second edition of the French translation established by J. Dusaulx, expanded with notes and preceded by historical notices on the life of Juvenal and on that of Dusaulx.
Half dark green straight-grained morocco with corners, spine with four raised bands set with double gilt fillets decorated with triple gilt compartments, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edges gilt, elegant near-contemporary unsigned bindings but attributable to Niédrée.
Our copy is exceptionally expanded with over 90 engravings including 3 portraits of Juvenal as well as vignettes and portraits.
Provenance: from the library of Léon Rattier with his bookplates pasted on the blank...
€350
DESTOUCHES
Oeuvres dramatiques de N. Destouches
L. Tenré|Paris 1820|13 x 21 cm|6 volumes reliés
New edition preceded by a notice on the life and works of this author.
Half red calf bindings, spines slightly faded with four raised bands set with seven gilt fillets decorated with cold-stamped fleurons as well as black dotted lines, gilt friezes at head and foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, elegant contemporary Romantic bindings signed by Thouvenin.
Work illustrated with 12 engravings hors-texte.
Occasional light foxing of no consequence.
Handsome set in a charming contemporary Romantic binding signed by Thouvenin, one of the most famous binders of the first half of the 19th century.
€750
Anne-Louis GIRODET, François, Baron GERARD
Oeuvres
Paris 1819|13 x 21.50 cm|3 volumes reliés
New edition illustrated with the author's portrait by Baron Gérard, 20 engravings after Girodet and Desenne as well as 2 music plates.
Half navy blue calf bindings, smooth spines slightly faded decorated with quadruple gilt cartouches, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, elegant contemporary Romantic bindings.
Some minor foxing.
Handsome copy uniformly bound in contemporary Romantic bindings.
€250
Paul GAVARNI, Célestin NANTEUIL
Les deux miroirs, contes pour tous
A. Royer|Paris 1844|-|relié
First edition illustrated with a frontispiece, 37 lithographed plates and numerous vignettes by C. Nanteuil, Gavarni, Français, J.P. Schmit, De Beaumont, Bertand...
Half havana brown morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt compartments, gilt date and monogram at foot, red morocco title label, gilt fillet frame on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, one corner slightly bumped, top edge gilt, elegant binding signed by Petit.
Foxing.
€80
Pierre-Jean de BÉRANGER, Tony JOHANNOT
Oeuvres complètes
Perrotin|Paris 1847|14.50 x 24 cm|2 volumes reliés
New edition and first printing of the beautiful romantic illustrations.
Half red shagreen bindings, spines with four raised bands set with gilt borders decorated with double gilt and black compartments enhanced with gilt typographical motifs, double gilt fillets on red paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns of marbled paper, contemporary binding.
Work illustrated with 52 beautiful steel engravings by Charlet, Lemud, Johannot, Daubigny, Pauquet, Jacques, Penguilly, Rudder, Raffet, Sandoz.
Pleasant copy.
€300
illustré par Henry MONNIER, Monsieur de FONGERAY [Hygin-Auguste CAVE]
Les soirées de Neuilly
Moutardier|Paris 1827|13 x 21 cm|2 volumes reliés
Second edition written under the collective pseudonym of Monsieur de Fongeray and illustrated with a lithographed portrait of the so-called de Fongeray by Henry Monnier, which is actually nothing other than a portrait of Stendhal, for according to Charles Asselineau: "We have it from M. Henry Monnier that the supposed portrait of M. de Fongeray is nothing less than that of Stendhal slightly caricatured".
Half raspberry calf bindings, smooth spines decorated with gilt and black fillets, gilt friezes at head and tail, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, handsome unsigned contemporary romantic bindings
Our copy is complete with the autograph...
€250
Jacques-Henri BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE
Paul et Virginie
L. Curmer|Paris 1838|16.50 x 26 cm|relié
Famous illustrated edition with nearly 450 wood-engraved vignettes, 29 plates printed on China paper and 7 steel-engraved portraits after T. Johannot, Meissonnier, Iasbey, P. Huet.
Full cherry red morocco binding, smooth spine slightly faded decorated with a gilt cartouche embellished with gilt romantic arabesques, gilt roulettes on headcaps, one joint slightly cracked at head, frame of quadruple gilt and blind fillets on boards enriched at corners with gilt typographical motifs, central gilt bilobed cartouche enriched at angles with gilt romantic tools, gilt dentelle frame on pastedowns, white watered silk endpapers and pastedowns, double gilt fillets on edges, all edges gilt, some...
€600
Jean GIGOUX, Alain-René LESAGE
Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
J.J. Dubochet & Cie|Paris 1838|17 x 26 cm|relié
Edition illustrated with a portrait of the author on China paper as well as several wood-engraved vignettes by Jean Gigoux.
Half red shagreen binding, smooth spine decorated with quadruple gilt and blind cartouches enhanced with gilt romantic arabesques, framed with a gilt cartouche on red paper boards enriched in corners with gilt typographical motifs, endpapers and pastedowns of turquoise watered silk, contemporary binding.
A handsome copy almost entirely free of foxing.
€250
Tony JOHANNOT, ABBÉ PREVOST
Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du Chevalier des Grieux
Ernest Bourdin|Paris s. d. [1839]|16.50 x 26.50 cm|relié
Edition illustrated with 18 plates, 1 frontispiece as well as 90 text vignettes by Tony Johannot.
Half red shagreen binding with corners, spine with four raised bands set with double blind fillets decorated with double blind compartments enhanced at angles with gilt typographical motifs, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, a slight tear to one edge.
Some foxing.
€200
Pierre-Jean de BÉRANGER
Oeuvres complètes de P.J. de Béranger, édition unique revue par l'auteur, ornée de vignettes en taille-douce dessinées par les peintres les plus célèbres
Perrotin|Paris 1834|13.50 x 21.50 cm|5 volumes reliés
Edition with some parts in first edition, illustrated with 104 vignettes after drawings by Daubigny, Johannot, Charlet, Raffet, Scheffer, Devéria...
Half cherry red calf bindings, spines with four raised bands decorated with gilt and blind fillets as well as blind typographical motifs and gilt romantic arabesques, gilt friezes at head and foot, black shagreen title and volume labels, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, contemporary romantic bindings.
The illustrations are distributed as follows:
Volume 1: 1 frontispiece and 25 figures,
Volume 2: 33 figures,
Volume 3: 40 figures,
Volume 4: 6 including 1 portrait plus 1...
€600
William COWPER
The poetical works, and memoir of the author
Charles Daly|London • (Londres) [London] 1840|10 x 16.70 cm|relié
New edition, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and 20 steel engravings by G. Standfast on heavy paper (tissue guards present).
Contemporary English binding in full red shagreen. Raised spine richly decorated. Boards very ornate with different frames, large corner pieces... Floral roulette on leading edges and interior floral frieze. Edges gilt. Minor rubbing traces to joints at headcaps. Very handsome copy, completely free of foxing, on tinted paper.
€400
Jacques Marquet de Montbreton NORVINS
Histoire de Napoléon
Furne|Paris 1840|15.70 x 24.20 cm|relié
Edition abundantly illustrated with original vignettes and plates by Raffet. Handsome and famous Romantic illustrated work.
Half black shagreen binding, smooth spines decorated with Romantic rocaille ornaments, frame of two gilt fillets on the aubergine paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns of crosshatched dark blue paper, corners rubbed. Rubbing to headcaps, contemporary Romantic binding. Occasional light spotting on clean white paper. Of note, the presence of three childish drawings made as tracings on the verso of three plates. Each plate is protected by a pink tissue guard.
Work illustrated with 80 wood-engraved plates and a steel-engraved frontispiece as well as numerous...
€400
Pietro & Achille PARBONI
Raccolta di N°60 vedute antiche e moderne della citta di Roma e sue vicinanze : con la giunta delle sale appartementi al Museo Pio Clementino
Presso Agapito Franzetti|in Roma [Rome] 1820 S.d.|15.50 x 22 cm|reliés
First edition illustrated with 159 etched figures depicting views of Rome, plus the engraved title, totaling 160. The engravings bear different signatures: Parboni, Franzetti, Olivieri, or bear none at all, and sometimes the dates 1824, 1827 and 1829. Printed on strong laid paper. Copies found in several libraries, notably that of Quebec, contain only 60 plates, but it is known that a collection of Parboni plates was published later in 1830 containing plates from 1824, with 100 figures, another with 50 plates in 1834; our copy could have been grangerized with plates from these editions. Some plates are numbered, but do not appear to have been bound in order. The plates have relatively...
€1,300
Charles-Gilbert Terray MOREL DE VINDÉ
Zelomir
Chez Bleuet jeune|à Paris 1801|7.50 x 13.50 cm|relié
First edition, a small octavo edition with the same pagination having appeared on the same date. Fine typographic printing by Didot on deluxe laid paper. 6 figures by Lefèvre in double state, and engraved by Godefroy.
Full blonde morocco binding, late 19th century, signed R. Raparlier. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Title and date in gilt. Triple gilt fillet frame on boards. Gilt edges. Wide interior borders. Restoration to first compartment over 1cm. Rubbing to headcaps, joints and corners. Light tears to front board. Loss of gilding to fillet frame on rear board. Handsome copy nevertheless.
Small adventure novel set in the Middle Ages at the time of the first crusades, in...
€500
Amable TASTU
Voyage en France
Alfred Mame & fils|Tours 1852|16 x 25 cm|relié
Second edition illustrated with a frontispiece, a double-page map as well as 5 out-of-text engravings by Rouargue.
Half black shagreen binding, spine with four fine raised bands decorated with fillets and triple black compartments, black paper boards, one lower corner slightly bumped, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, all edges gilt.
Copy almost entirely free from foxing, minor harmless spots on boards.
€100
Johann Rudolf WYSS, Charles NODIER
Le Robinson suisse traduit de l'allemand de Wyss par Mme Elise Voiart précédé d'une introduction de M. Charles Nodier
Lavigne|Paris 1843|15 x 24 cm|relié
New edition of the French translation established by Elise Voiart and illustrated with 200 vignettes engraved after drawings by Charles Lemercier.
Half cherry red shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands set with gilt fillets ornately gilt in triple compartments decorated with gilt typographical motifs, minor scratches to foot of spine, covers framed with triple gilt fillets on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, two corners damaged, marbled edges.
Work illustrated with numerous vignettes in the text.
Preface by Charles Nodier.
Foxing.
€80
LULLIN DE CHATEAUVIEUX, COLLECTIF
La Suisse historique & pittoresque, description de ses vingt-deux cantons
Didier & Cie|Paris 1858|18.50 x 28 cm|2 volumes reliés en 1
Illustrated edition with 31 steel engravings hors-texte and 1 map.
Half brown shagreen binding, spine with four thin raised bands set with gilt dotted lines decorated with double gilt compartments richly ornamented, frame of blind fillets on the hazelnut boards which show traces of marginal discoloration, cream watered silk endpapers and pastedowns, corners slightly bumped, gilt edges.
Contributions by Lullin de Châteauvieux, Le Prés, Monnard, Zschokke, Dubochet, Busoni, Meyer de Knonau, Tscharner, Francini, Ruttimann, Schnell jeune, de Forestier, Strohmeier...
A light dampstain affecting marginally the very first leaves of the first volume, two stains on an endpaper of the...
€250
Jean GIGOUX, Alain-René LESAGE
Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
Paulin|Paris 1835|16.50 x 25.50 cm|relié
Edition illustrated with original vignettes by Jean Gigoux.
Half cherry red Russian morocco binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt romantic arabesques as well as black and gilt fillets, gilt friezes at head and foot, gilt dentelle border on marbled paper boards, two corners slightly bumped, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, some damage to the edges and cuts, yellow edges, contemporary romantic binding.
Work illustrated, as frontispiece, with a portrait of the author on China paper as well as 600 vignettes here in first printing by Jean Gigoux.
Some light foxing of no consequence.

€350
Arnaud BERQUIN
L'Ami des enfants et des adolescents
Librairie Pittoresque de la Jeunesse|Paris 1845|-|relié
New edition.
Publisher's full blue paper boards binding, smooth spine richly decorated with romantic fleurons, boards stamped in blind with multiple frames, first board decorated with a large central fleuron and second with a smaller one, all edges gilt, original yellow endpapers.
Work illustrated with wood engravings by Perrassin, J. Caboche Demerville, Demorain, lithographs by Ferogio.
Foxing.
€150
François-Guillaume DUCRAY-DUMINIL
Oeuvres choisies. Les Soirées de la chaumière ou les leçons du vieux père
Leclere|Paris 1845|16.70 x 26.30 cm|relié
New edition illustrated by Th. Fragonnard.
Romantic binding in publisher's navy blue boards, smooth spines richly decorated with gilt romantic tools, boards decorated with gilt plaques and frames of fillets and arabesques in blind, all edges gilt.
Joint cracked at head of first volume. Extensive foxing.
Copy complete with its 16 plates.
Rare in its romantic binding.
€130
Joseph-Alexis, Vicomte de WALSH
Les Veillées de voyage
R. Pornin & Cie|Tours 1845|13.50 x 21.50 cm|relié
Illustrated edition with 3 out-of-text engravings.
Publisher's signed romantic black cloth binding by Lenègre, smooth spine richly decorated with gilt and polychrome ornamentation, covers with frames of fillets and arabesques in blind, front cover enhanced with gilt and polychrome architectural decoration, large gilt and polychrome ornament on lower cover, edges gilt.
Some stains on covers, small lacks of cloth at foot, occasional foxing.
Handsome copy of this collection of moral tales in its romantic cloth binding.
€70
Jules JANIN
L'Eté à Paris
L. Curmer|Paris s. d.|17.50 x 26 cm|relié
First edition and first printing of the wood-engraved title and 18 steel-engraved plates.
Romantic binding in publisher's black cloth, smooth spine richly decorated with gilt arabesques, double blind-ruled frame on boards, boards decorated with gilt arabesques, all edges gilt.
Foxing.
Handsome romantic binding in excellent fresh condition.
Pasque bookplate. GR.
€700
Jean Marie Nicolas BRALLE
Nouvelles fontaines érigées à Paris, de l'ordre et par la munificience de Napoléon le Grand
Chez Joubert fils • chez Bance|Paris 1810|27.50 x 41.50 cm|relié
Rare first edition consisting of an allegorical title engraved with Napoleon's arms and 59 steel-engraved plates by Boizot, Beauvallet, Vallois after drawings by Bralle. All the engravings are executed with great finesse and present a scale and aerial view at the bottom of each plate. The work would later appear under another title in 1812, without mention of Napoleon, with descriptive text by Amaury Duval: Les fontaines de Paris, anciennes et nouvelles. In later editions, the illustration would be expanded, notably in 1828.
19th-century half black shagreen binding with corners, marbled paper boards, all edges speckled, tail headcap worn and corners very lightly rubbed.
Some...
€1,000
Félix BRACQUEMOND, Charles MONSELET
Les tréteaux
Poulet Malassis & De Broise|Paris 1859|12.50 x 19.50 cm|5|relié
The first edition, published in a small number of copies.
Half fir-green morocco binding, spine slightly faded with five raised bands set with gilt dots decorated with gilt double compartments richly adorned with gilt typographical motifs, red morocco title, place and date labels, gilt fillet on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Our copy is enhanced with a signed autograph note from the author in which he proposes to a person to postpone their meeting to another day.
Work illustrated with a beautiful frontispiece drawn and engraved by Félix Bracquemond.
Fine bookplate pasted above the reproduction of a...
€300
VIRGILE
Publii Virgilii Maronis carmina omnia perpetuo commentario ad modum Joannis Bond
Ex typographia Firninorum Didot|Parisiis [Paris] • (Paris) 1858|8 x 14 cm|1|relié
Fine minuscule typographic edition, with commentary distributed around the text. Text within a red frame. Engraved title, with Renaissance-style border.
Edition illustrated with 27 albumen photographs mounted as vignettes at chapter heads, when the albumen photographic process had just been invented in 1850. One of the first books illustrated with photographs.
Binding in full black morocco signed by Lortic on the pastedown, 1871. Spine with raised bands decorated with 4 tools. Boards hot-stamped with a rich central roundel and corner tools; blind-ruled frame. Wide decorative gilt board-edges. Edges gilt. Light rubbing to upper joint at head (with a tiny floating piece), at foot...
€750