Complete and illustrated 1756 edition of naval lieutenant general Duguay-Trouin's memoirs, that were first published posthumously in 1740, in accordance with the author's wishes. In 1730, from the same publisher as our copy, an unauthorized edition prepared by Pierre de Villepontoux revealed Duguay-Trouin's achievements during his lifetime. Manuscript ownership inscription in black ink on the title page.
Contemporary binding in full brown sheep, richly decorated spine with five raised bands, brown morocco lettering piece, gilt roll on the board edges, blue pebbled marbled edges, marbled pastedowns and endpapers.
Headcap damaged, repairs and minor rubbing to the front board, corners bumped.
Half-title expertly repaired on verso, 2.8 cm tear at p. 105 not affecting the text, minor dampstaining toward the end of the volume, brief brown ink annotation on the rear free endpaper.
The work is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author and 6 folding plates depicting ships, fleets, and naval battles, including a plan of the capture of Rio de Janeiro in 1711.
Folio edition of the Holy Bible illustrated by Gustave Doré in two volumes.
3/4 red calf, spine with five raised bands showing some scuffing, decorated with five blind-stamped panels framed in gilt, gilt roll on the bands and at top and bottom of spine, spine-ends rubbed, spine elaborately decorated with gilt tooling, title and volume number gilt-stamped, marbled paper boards framed in gilt, small losses of paper at upper margin of front board of both volumes, paper lifting at margin of lower cover of volume two, contemporary binding. Some foxing.
Translated by J.J. Bourassé and P. Janvier.
A handsome edition with numerous monumental woodcuts after drawings by Gustave Doré.
First edition, one of 50 numbered copies printed on Edogawa Japan paper, the deluxe issue.
A handsome copy, complete—as with all copies on Japan paper—with the author’s portrait frontispiece by Armand Rassenfosse.
Edition illustrated with 12 original colour watercolours by Gerda Wegener, printed hors texte, one of 400 numbered copies on Arches laid paper.
Spine and boards faintly sunned at the margins, otherwise a pleasing copy.
First edition, one of 330 numbered copies on Arches wove paper.
Minor tears to the head and tail of the spine; a pleasing copy.
With wood-engraved illustrations by François de Marliave, printed in several colours by E. Gasperini.
First edition, one of 45 numbered copies printed on Rajasthan jute paper, the only deluxe issue.
Manuscript signature of Emil Cioran at the colophon.
Spine very slightly faded, of no significance.
Rare and fine copy, complete with the three tantric paintings reproduced hors-texte in colour on cream paper.
First edition, limited to 59 numbered copies on Arches vellum, signed in pink pencil by André Masson beneath the limitation statement.
Rare and fine copy.
Illustrated with two original etchings by André Masson, printed full-bleed and issued hors texte.
First edition, one of 100 copies numbered on Arches wove paper, the only deluxe issue.
This exhibition catalogue devoted to the painter’s work at the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York, marking his sixtieth birthday, is illustrated with three original lithographs (two double-page and one single-page) together with numerous black-and-white and colour reproductions.
Offsetting from the lithographs visible on the facing text leaves.
Autograph signature by Joan Miró, dated at the colophon number.
As stated in the limitation, this copy indeed includes its original lithograph, dated and signed by Joan Miró.
Edition partly original, one of 90 numbered copies on Dutch paper, the only issue following 10 on Japan, 2 on Chapelle and 2 not-for-sale copies.
Volume illustrated with 8 wood engravings by Manolo, four of which are full-page.
Manuscript signatures of Manolo and Pierre Reverdy on the colophon.
A rare and handsome copy of the only work illustrated by Manolo.
Illustrated edition with drawings by D. Rahoult and numerous wood engravings by E. Dardelet (Vicaire I, 812–813; Carteret III, 95–96).
Preface by George Sand. Grenoble, Rahoult et Dardelet, 1864–1874, issued in two parts bound in one volume, large quarto.
Half brown morocco over corners, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons and blind tooling, minor rubbing to the spine, covers of marbled paper framed with double gilt fillets, surface wear to the boards, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt top edge.
The first part, issued in nine instalments between 1859 and 1864, consists of a poem in local patois on the flooding of Grenoble in 1733, first published in that year.
The author, François Blanc (1662–1742), known as La Goutte, was a grocer in Grenoble, described as “impotent and consumed by gout”.
The second part, published in 1874 and illustrated by the same artists, contains a copy of the letter written by François Blanc to one of his friends concerning the flood that struck Grenoble on 20 December 1740; Jacquety de le Comare by the same author (pp. [23]–53); and a glossary by Michal-Ladichère (pp. [55]–78).
These last two items appear to be lacking from the copies described by Vicaire and Carteret, who record only 21 pages.
Printed stamp used as an ex-libris of G. Magnin of Grenoble on an endpaper.
Some foxing, and a light waterstain in the right-hand margin of a few leaves.
First edition illustrated with 24 colour figures mounted within the text.
No copy recorded in the CCFr.
Occasional light foxing.
Publisher’s original full lemon-yellow percaline, smooth spine, upper cover decorated in red, minor spotting to the boards.
Pleasing album devoted to the monuments of ancient China, then undergoing rapid transformation at the beginning of the twentieth century.
The text was set before the Chinese Revolution of 1911 and the Great War.
On the half-title, this copy is enriched with a long dated autograph inscription by the American singer and society figure Tryphosa Bates-Batcheller (1876–1952) to Henry de Galard de Brassac, Prince of Béarn and of Chalais (1874–1947), including an English translation of a Chinese poem by Ssu-K'ung T'u (834–908).
First edition, no copies printed on deluxe paper.
Publisher's full red boards, flat spine, complete with the illustrated dust jacket.
Illustrated with numerous photographs.
Fine signed autograph inscription by Daniel Pennac to his friend Franklin Rist on the title page, each group of words enclosed in a comic strip-style speech bubble: "Nemo par Pennac et POUR FRANKLIN / nom d'un chien / avec / mon / amitié / de toujours / et d'aujourd'hui. Je t'embrasse Daniel"; the inscription is completed with a drawing of a little figure in the style of the Titan Atlas, carrying a fountain pen.
Illustrated edition by George Roux featuring 12 large chromotypographs, 2 maps, and numerous photographic views.
Publisher’s decorative binding by Hetzel, signed Engel, known as “au globe,” type 4, spine with the lighthouse design, lower cover of Engel type "h" as per Jauzac; all edges gilt.
Headcaps very slightly pushed without consequence, original blue endpapers faintly faded as often, a few occasional spots of foxing.
Les Frères Kip is a detective and adventure novel, likely inspired by a late 19th-century criminal case: the Rorique brothers.
Copy not recorded by Jauzac.
A new printing of the works issued by Houssiaux, who had acquired the Furne publishing stock under which the works were originally released. He expanded the series with three additional volumes (Théâtre, Contes drolatiques, etc.), which appeared for the first time within the collected works in 1855. The edition was entirely reprinted in 1855. Most volumes bear the date 1863.
Contemporary half shagreen bindings in brown, spines with five raised bands, decorated with four blind-stamped fleurons within compartments. Author, title and volume numbering gilt. Scattered foxing. One volume with the paper boards renewed. Signs of rubbing.
The set is illustrated with 138 plates hors-texte by the leading artists of the period, including Bertall, Daumier, Gavarni, Johannot and Nanteuil, together with a small number of in-text illustrations and several sheets of printed music.
As is invariably the case with these editions of the complete works, our set "naturally" shows a number of noteworthy variants, detailed as follows:
Volume I: 7 plates including the portrait of Balzac; Volume II: 7 plates; Volume III: 8 plates; Volume IV: 7 plates; Volume V: 8 plates; Volume VI: 8 plates; Volume VII: 8 plates; Volume VIII: 8 plates; Volume IX: 7 plates; Volume X: 8 plates; Volume XI: 8 plates; Volume XII: 6 plates; Volume XIII: 6 plates; Volume XIV: 6 plates; Volume XV: 6 plates; Volume XVI: 5 plates; Volume XVII: 5 plates; Volume XVIII: 16 plates; Volume XIX: 4 plates; Volume XX: 5 plates.
First edition of this important and very rare magazine, complete with 4 issues in 3 volumes.
Complete collection of this luxurious Surrealist magazine, edited and funded by Lise Deharme and characterized by its emphasis on photography. Covers illustrated by Man Ray, illustrations in black.
Contributions by Salvador Dali, Hans Arp, Dora Maar, Oscar Dominguez, Brassaï, Lee Miller, Jacques Lacan, James Joyce, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Ilarie Voronca, Nathalie Barney, Benjamin Fondane, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Alejo Carpentier, Eugène Jolas, Lise Hirtz [Lise Deharme], Raymond Queneau, Claude Sernet, Roger Vitrac, Robert Desnos, Jean Follain, Léon-Paul Fargue, Pierre Keffer, Jacques Baron, Gottried Benn, Céline Arnauld, Monny de Boully, Georgette Camille, André de Richaud, Jules Supervielle, Claire Goll, Paul Laforgue, David Herbert Lawrence, Marcel Jouhandeau, Paul Dermée, Jean Painlevé, Nadar, Pétrus Borel and Stendhal. Sunned spine on the No. 3/4 issue. Spine-ends and corners slightly rubbed, otherwise a wonderfully preserved copy.
A very fine example of this rare avant-garde magazine, which "came into being over the course of a few dinners that brought together the dissidents of Surrealism and other poets in this hospitable abode [of Lise Deharme]. Robert Desnos provided the title. Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes was the editor. Man Ray had designed the cover: a silhouette of a lighthouse against a photographic background of sailing boats. [...] It contains curiosities: a tale by Petrus Borel, a photo by Nadar, popular songs, an investigation into the neurosis of war, epitaphs taken from a cemetery of animals. Among other curiosities, a sonnet by the famous psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. It is entitled Hiatus irrationalis." (Jacques Baron, Cahiers de l'Herne Raymond Queneau, p. 333).
Very rare typographic edition published one year after the facsimile edition from the Montfaucon Research Center and without Sophie Podolski's consent.
This is why this edition was withdrawn from sale; it is illustrated with drawings and includes a preface by Philippe Sollers.
Spine and boards slightly and marginally lightened, otherwise a rare and handsome copy.
First edition of the 4 novels of this 'Histoire contemporaine' tetralogy. First illustrated edition for each. Copy no. 87, one of 100 on japon impérial, including an additional suite of drawings on chine, facing each watercolor illustration. Total run of 1000 copies, with 93 full-page illustrations, head-bands and decorations for each chapter, all in colour ; illustrations after the watercolors of Serge Beaune, made by the workshop of de D. Jacomet & Cie.
Handsomely and uniformly bound copy in red morocco.
A satirical novel about the clergy, the army and civil society in the Third Republic, published from 1897 to 1901, and a portrait of France during the Dreyfus Affair.
Bookplate of J.L and C Pierron.
New edition, illustrated with 111 drawings by Neuville and Riou. 7 plates, some in color.
Publisher's gilt Globe binding, upper cover signed Blancheland, Engel relieur, spine with lighthouse motif, rear cover of Engel H type, publisher's Y catalogue at rear of volume.
Spine with minor discoloration, a few small stains to upper corner of front cover, endpapers discolored, corners slightly twisted, the engraving between pages 122-123 with small corner lacks, occasional light foxing mainly to edges.
Undoubtedly the most famous of Jules Verne's novels, featuring the mythical figure of Captain Nemo and his legendary submarine, the Nautilus.
Complete set of 13 original lithographs by Eugène Delacroix, in first edition, first issue with the letter, one of 20 copies on Chine paper pasted on laid paper:
"It was originally printed in a few proofs on Chine, the format of which exceeds the square line by one or two centimeters. They are highly sought-after, even though they bear the letter" (Robaut).
Bound in the original publisher's brown half-shagreen binding, title gilt stamped on first board, original first cover wrapper preserved. Small restored tear to the margin of the wrapper over 5 cm, sunned spine, joints and corners rubbed, scattered foxing and a dampstain to the lower part of the laid paper on which the lithographs are pasted on, without affecting the lithographs themselves.
Exceptional and rare set of original lithographs by Eugène Delacroix on Chine paper, illustrating Shakespeare's masterpiece.
A cornerstone of Romantic art, this series was "made at M. Delacroix's personal expense. Only 80 copies were printed, 60 on blanc and 20 on chine, and these were sold out at the time of the author's death" (Henri Béraldi). It is now esteemed as Delacroix's most accomplished graphic undertaking, which took him more than ten years to achieve and generally considered to be one of the first modern livres de peintre.
First edition of this rare and fragile advertising object for the Galeries Lafayette consisting of 47 cardboard pieces with a medallion illustration designed by Jack Roberts and a children's song of four verses.
Handsome copy complete with its original crystal paper envelope.
