First edition, one of the press copies.
Important signed autograph inscription from Marcel Jouhandeau to André Malraux: "Pour André Malraux avec mon souvenir affectueux. Marcel Jouhandeau."
First edition, printed in a small number of copies, of this offprint from the Revue des deux mondes, issue of 15 September 1858.
Printed colportage stamp on the half-title, a few small spots of foxing.
Our copy is preserved in its original state, stitched in temporary pink paper wrappers, with a few pale stains at the foot of the rear wrapper.
One of the contributions made by the liberal journalist Prévost-Paradol (1829-1870) to the moderate opposition to the Second Empire: beginning with a comparison between France and Great Britain, he highlights the limited freedom of action enjoyed by believers under France's Concordat system.
At the head of the...
Illustrated edition with decorative initials and 16 original lithographs by Lucien Moretti, each signed in pencil; one of 173 numbered copies on Arches wove paper.
Preface by Georges Brassens.
A fine copy, issued in loose sheets in a folder and burgundy cloth slipcase.
Signed presentation inscription from René Fallet: Pour madame et monsieur Prigent 13 apostoliquement leur René Fallet, together with a signed presentation inscription from Raymond Moretti to the same recipients.
Our copy is further enhanced by the autograph signature of Georges Brassens on the facing page.
Edition illustrated with 159 original illustrations by Louis Jou, printed in a single issue of 135 named and numbered copies on Rives laid paper.
A shadow from newspaper clippings to the left margin of the front free endpaper.
Fine copy housed in a brown full-board chemise and slipcase.
First edition, one of the numbered copies on bouffant alfa calypso paper.
Publisher's full blue cloth binding after the original design by Massin, smooth spine, complete with its original acetate dust jacket and wraparound band.
A fine copy.
Signed presentation inscription from Marguerite Yourcenar to Mr Steiner: "... ces temps troublés comme les nôtres..."
Reunion of three highly sought-after first editions, most notably the last, printed in a very small number of copies, on the expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain between 1609 and 1614, written by Marcos de Guadalajara y Javier and Juan Ripol.
Volume bearing the royal and Jesuit arms, and woodcut initials with foliate and figural designs, after the macabre engravings of Hans Lützelburger. Woodcut-engraved border on the first and third title pages, elegant double black-ruled frame around the text.
A superb copy bringing...
First editions in mimeographed form of each of the fascicles (cf. Cuénot 312 & Cuénot 333).
Modern pink marbled paper Bradel binding, smooth spine, some rubbing with small losses of paper to the spine and along the edges of the boards; original wrappers preserved for the first fascicle.
Bound after the first text are: Trois Contes comme Benson (only Tales 2 and 3 are present: L'Ostensoir et La Custode) and En regardant un cyclotron (an offprint from Recherches et Débats, April 1953).
A rare collection.
First edition, printed in a small number of copies, of this offprint from the Revue illustrée de la Terre sainte et de l'Orient chrétien.
The pamphlet is illustrated with black-and-white illustrations in the text and examines the rediscovery in Jerusalem of the "Crypt of the Pater", also known as the "Crypt of the Credo", which had been forgotten for several centuries.
Only 3 copies recorded in the CCF (BnF, Bibliothèque Mazarine, Centre Sèvres).
Small tears with minor loss at head and foot of spine.
Signed presentation inscription by Léon Cré on the verso of the front wrapper to the celebrated archaeologist and Marquis Charles-Jean-Melchior de Vogüé...
Rare first edition under this title, complete with the engraved title-page. The first edition of 1607, Remonstrance faicte au Roy Très Chrétien pour la réunion des religions à la foy catholique, was printed in Tournon in only 96 pages. This second edition, of which there were probably two issues from the same bookseller, was substantially revised and enlarged by the author.
Contemporary limp vellum with turn-ins, smooth spine, faded ink manuscript title to spine, original ties present...
First edition illustrated with 8 folding plates.
Half vellum binding, smooth spine with gilt initials at foot, black shagreen title label, red morocco label bearing the year of issue, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, sprinkled edges, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Rare Saigon printing. This uncommon directory was published under this title until 1888; in 1889, it became the Annuaire de l'Indo-Chine française.
First edition illustrated with seven folding plates.
Contemporary half vellum binding, smooth spine with gilt initials at foot, brown morocco title label, red morocco date label, marbled paper boards with some rubbing, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.
Rare Saigon printing, and the last year to appear under this title.
This uncommon directory was published under this title until 1888; in 1889 it became the Annuaire de l'Indo-Chine française.
Very scarce first edition of the Armenian translation, illustrated with a lithographed frontispiece and title-frontispiece printed on tinted heavy stock by Weger (Leipzig), together with several in-text figures reproducing seals.
The CCFr records only copies of the French edition (indeed, the same year 1871 saw the publication of a first French translation; a second French edition was issued in Paris in 1888, at which time a German version was also printed at the Leipzig address).
Bradel binding in half brown percaline, smooth spine gilt-ruled and tooled with a gilt frieze, marbled paper boards, endpapers soiled, corners rubbed, edges sprinkled in blue.
Some minor...
Letter written by a secretary and signed by Louis XVI, addressed to Cardinal Ludovico Calini, in ink over eleven lines. The signature of Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes, appearing at the foot of the bifolium, accompanies that of the King for these New Year wishes. The recipient's name is inscribed on the verso: "Mon Cousin le Cardinal Calino".
A few waterstains, a small hole at "qu'il vous ait".
"My Cousin, I have seen with pleasure from your letter of October 1st the token of the sincerity of the wishes you express for me at the beginning of this year. Your good intentions are as well known to me as you must be certain of my desire to give you...
First edition of the English translation of "De Logomachiis eruditorum" (Amsterdam, 1688) by the Swiss Reformed theologian Samuel Werenfels (1657–1740), a notably engaging essay on the obstacles to concord among Christians created by the endless disputes over the terminology used to define points of belief.
A few small spots of foxing.
Full speckled fawn calf, the spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt compartments and gilt tools; rubbing to the spine, the gilt title almost entirely effaced, headcaps trimmed down with a small loss to the tailcap; gilt double-fillet border with gilt corner tools on the covers; some wear to the board edges...
First edition, illustrated with four tinted plates, including a frontispiece (cf. O'Reilly & Reitman, Tahiti, 6452).
Contemporary half plum sheep, the spine faded and decorated with gilt garlands and floral tools, some rubbing to the spine, marbled-paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, a few worn spots along the edges.
Scattered foxing, the plates evenly toned.
The work offers a history of the island, written in the aftermath of its annexation following the cession of his domains by King Pomare V. It provides an overview of the voyages of Quirós, Wallis, Bougainville and Cook, a portrait of Tahitian life a century earlier, and a sketch of the island’s...
Rare first edition, illustrated with two vignettes: one on the title page and another at the head of the opening text leaf (cf. Backer & Sommervogel VII, 185, no. 58.)
See Brunet, "Recherches sur les imprimeries imaginaires, clandestines et particulières", p. 19.
Printed on the private presses of the Turin Court of Appeal, the work offers a detailed account of the miraculous phenomena reported in Rome between July 1796 and January 1797. The author rebuts, in particular, the sceptical reactions of the "fiers à bras du philosophisme".
Our copy is preserved in its original drab paper wrappers, the spine cracked, the covers soiled, a few spots, a pale dampstain at...
Paris, Arthus Bertrand, undated [1861]. One text volume and an atlas.
Very rare first edition of Voyage dans le Haouran et aux bords de la mer Morte, exécuté pendant les années 1857 et 1858.
The text volume, largely unopened, is illustrated with one plate. The atlas, preserved in a full red cloth box and slipcase, is complete with 27 plates, numbered I to XXVI with an...
Very rare first edition of the Ottoman Turkish translation of Catherine II's new regulations for the administration of the governorates of the Russian Empire, published in Saint Petersburg in 1780.
In the aftermath of the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, signed in 1774, Russian expansion towards the Black Sea could no longer be confined to the seizure of fortresses and territory. The newly acquired provinces had to be governed, their inhabitants introduced to the institutions of the Empire, and its regulations made accessible to populations unable to read Russian. The present volume records this decisive transition from military conquest to civil administration through the...
Rare edition printed on laid paper, very likely produced in a small run for Picard bibliophiles (cf. Hage Chahine, 4071).
Listed in the CCF only at Arras, Amiens, and Compiègne.
A few minor spots.
Half cherry morocco binding, spine lightly faded and raised on five bands, a few rubs to the spine, marbled paper sides, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt top edge, a period binding signed by Petit, successor to Simier.
Robert de Clari (c. 1170 – after 1216) was a Picard knight, vassal to the castellan Pierre d’Amiens.
He took part in the Fourth Crusade alongside his lord Pierre d’Amiens. After the deaths in 1205 of his direct suzerains Pierre d’Amiens and...
First edition (cf. O'Reilly, 2192.)
Modern Bradel binding in brown half-cloth, forest-green morocco lettering-piece, marbled paper boards, beige endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers retained albeit lightly soiled; binding signed by Boichot.
Illustrated with 49 photographic plates hors texte.
"Minutieuse histoire analytico-chronologique des trente premières années de la Calédonie européenne. Il annonçait une suite qui n'a jamais vu le jour" (O'Reilly).
First edition of this rare work, offering the very first description in French of this small canton, still nominally under Ottoman rule—though in fact largely autonomous—and which appeared as exotic to early 19th-century Westerners as the most remote corners of China.
Illustrated with 13 hand-coloured plates, including a large folding map, two botanical plates, two depicting celebrations, three views of churches, and five costume plates. (cf. Atabey 1286. Lipperheide 1443. Not in Blackmer or Colas.)
Contemporary half calf binding, smooth spines decorated with gilt fillets, garlands, and floral tools, red morocco lettering-piece, black morocco...
First edition, illustrated with 12 in-text reproductions of coins.
Contemporary half Russian-cherry morocco over marbled boards, smooth spine gilt with a floral tool, date gilt at foot, marbled paste-paper boards, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt edges at head.
Sole edition, uncommon.
Henri Lavoix (1820–1892) served as curator of the Department of Medals and Antiquities at the Bibliothèque nationale.
At the head of the half-title, which shows heavy foxing, signed presentation inscription from Henri Michel Lavoix to the archaeologist Alban-Emmanuel Guillaume-Rey (1837–1916), a specialist in medieval Syria and in particular the Frankish settlements...
First edition of this very rare memorandum advocating the establishment of a Chair of Natural Law at the Collège d’Autun (entrusted to the lawyer Bouheret).
No copies recorded in either CCFr or WorldCat.
The authors of this Dijon-printed text, mindful of their educational mission, examine the Utility of Natural Law from several perspectives—Religion, Government, and the various orders of society. They refer to Abbé Gédouin and his Dissertation sur l’éducation, to Mably’s Entretiens de Phocion, and to La Chalotais’s Essai d’Éducation nationale ou Plan d’études pour la jeunesse, both published the previous year. Burlamaqui’s Principes du droit...
First edition of the French translation by Jean Mourier.
Only one copy listed in the CCF (BULAC).
Full burgundy cloth binding, smooth spine with gilt lettering running lengthwise, pink paper pastedowns and endpapers, a modest modern binding.
Some light, insignificant foxing.
Very rare work tracing the origins of the Kingdom of Georgia up to the introduction of Christianity.
Rare first edition illustrated with 31 figures in the text.
Contemporary half blond calf, the spine slightly sunned, with five raised bands decorated with gilt and black fillets, fawn morocco lettering-piece, marbled paper sides, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, sprinkled comb-marbled edges.
Christophe-Edouard Mauss (1829–1914), architect to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, undertook several archaeological missions in the Levant (Salonika, Smyrna, Alexandria) before being sent by the French government to Jerusalem (1862–1874) to restore the Church of Saint Anne.
He was also deeply interested in ancient metrology, on which he wrote several monographs (the final...
First edition, illustrated with in-text vignettes (cf. Vicaire 733; Bitting 391; Cagle 273; NUC: only 2 copies listed. Not in Oberlé, "Fastes").
At the CCF, copies only at the BnF and Sainte-Geneviève.
Contemporary half green sheep binding, spine darkened and faded, decorated with triple blind fillets, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.
"Une des particularités de ce traité culinaire, c'est qu'il est 'dédié à la Sainte Vierge, mère de Dieu'" [Vicaire].
Another distinctive feature is that the work, divided into 1,187 paragraphs, exemplifies a scientific method and clarity worthy of a publication by Baillière.
...First and only edition of the author's sole work.
Adorned with a fine engraved portrait of Jacques-Nicolas Colbert (1655–1707), youngest son of the minister and Archbishop of Carthage, to whom the book is dedicated.
Bound in full red morocco, spine with five raised bands, richly gilt compartments decorated with gilt fleurs-de-lys, gilt fillets, and Du Seuil-style panels on the covers; gilt tooling to headcaps and board edges, all edges gilt. Contemporary binding.
Some foxing, small wormholes at head and foot of spine, three black spots at the head of the upper cover.
Provenance: from the library of Alfred Massé (1911–1951), Radical-Socialist deputy for Nièvre under...
New edition, one of 50 copies on deluxe paper (no. 29/500) and issued with a named dedication, ours specially printed for Baron Emmanuel-Alban Guillaume-Rey (1837–1916), orientalist and archaeologist specializing in medieval Syria.
Full rigid vellum binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets and floral tools, brick-brown morocco title label, gilt place and date at foot, gilt cornerpieces on the covers, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
A poetic account of the exploits of Peter I of Lusignan, King of Cyprus (1328–1369), written shortly after his death at the request of Charles V, and centered on the so-called “Alexandrian Crusade,” the ill-fated...
First edition of the French translation by the Parisian jurist Luc de La Porte, doctor of law (cf. Cordier, Sinica, 12; Sabin 27780; Palau 105509; Alden, European Americana, 588/37; Leclerc [1878], 258; Streit IV, 1999; Atkinson, 339).
Paris, Jérémie Périer, 1588.
Two parts bound in one octavo volume: 12 unnumbered leaves, 112 leaves, 323 leaves - with errors in foliation - and 25 unnumbered leaves of table and errata.
First edition illustrated with three folding plates.
Half vellum binding, smooth spine, gilt initials at foot, black sheep title label with some rubbing, red sheep year label, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, restored original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Rare Saigon printing. This uncommon directory was published under this title until 1888; in 1889 it became the Annuaire de l'Indo-Chine française.
First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece, in-text illustrations and maps, and a double-page map at the end.
Literary collaboration by Joseph Sachot.
Drawings, cover design and maps by André Millot.
Contemporary binding in green half shagreen with corners, smooth spine without title, marbled paper boards, illustrated wrappers bound in on tabs and preserved.
A compelling account of the life and conditions of Inuit populations: Father Roger Buliard (1909–1978), an Oblate of Mary Immaculate, served for fifteen years as a missionary in the Arctic before joining the Canadian military chaplaincy.
The book was a great success upon publication and inspired many...
First edition on ordinary paper.
Spine slightly sunned with a small defect and a repaired tear at the foot.
Inscribed and signed by Georges Bernanos to Robert Garric: "... bien fraternellement et fidèlement..."
First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on pur fil.
Spine slightly sunned, a small scratch to the front cover, corner creases at the preserved margins.
Rare copy as issued.
First edition of each of the fascicles.
Half brown sheep binding, spine slightly faded with four raised bands framed by blind fillets and decorated with gilt floral tools, some rubbing to the spine and along the edges of the boards, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, corners rubbed, contemporary binding.
This collection of pamphlets includes: 1) Voyage à Tahiti. n.d., 12 pp. 2) Voyage en Cochinchine. Algiers, Impr. Algérienne, 1923, 20 pp. 3) Dans les mers du sud. Australie, Nouvelle-Calédonie. n.d., 20 pp. 4) L'île Bourbon ou une perle de la mer des Indes. Algiers, Impr. Algérienne, 1923, 16 pp. 5) L'exotisme dans la littérature française. n.d., 16 pp. 6)...
Edition from the year of the original, illustrated with a portrait and 22 plates including 2 maps (cf. Taylor Pacific Bibliography p. 520. Cammack & Saito no. 346. Edridge, Solomon Island Bibliography, p. 250.).
Half purple sheep binding, spine with four raised bands tooled with gilt garlands and decorated double panels, traces of rubbing and restorations to spine and joints, gilt fillet framing the black blind-stamped boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, contemporary binding.
Pleasant internal condition despite occasional foxing.
First edition, with a folding map at the beginning of the volume (cf. Ferguson 15420).
Half red shagreen binding, spine slightly faded with five raised bands framed with black fillets, marbled paper boards, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, modern binding signed Laurenchet.
Library stamps on the first endpapers and title page, some foxing, bookseller's label affixed at the head of an endpaper.
First and only edition of this remarkable lithographed album devoted to Toledo, published in parts at Madrid between 1847 and 1848 under the direction of Doroteo Bachiller, Lithographer to the King, with the collaboration of several distinguished artists, among them José Vallejo y Galeazo, Andreas Pic de Leopold and Luis Carlos Legrand.
Picturesque views of the city alternate with studies of its most remarkable architectural details, forming one of the most ambitious Spanish lithographic enterprises of the mid-nineteenth century. The work is absent from the Katalog der Ornamentstichsammlung of...
Very rare first edition of this publication by the young Belgian Orientalist Eugène-Vincent-Stanislas Jacquet (1811-1838), whose career was as swift as it was promising, but tragically cut short by tuberculosis.
Illustrated with a figure at the end of the text.
Only one copy in the CCF (Lyon).
Some minor foxing.
Binding in half black shagreen, smooth spine decorated with cold-stamped garlands and golden fillets, black oasis leather title label, cold-stamped garland on black silk boards, a slightly bumped lower corner, modern binding.
New edition illustrated with 47 engraved and hand-colored costume plates (cf. Colas 2784).
This is a reissue, under the Metz imprint, of a portion (volume IV) of the Tableau Historique des costumes, des moeurs et des usages des principaux peuples de l'antiquité et du moyen âge, originally published in Paris and Metz between 1804 and 1809.
Rare and attractive copy preserved in its original publisher’s wrappers, with the original plain waiting cover and a printed title label affixed at the head of the spine.
First edition of the French translation of the compilation entitled Historia de la dominacion de los Arabes en España sacada de varios manuscritos y memorias arabigas (Madrid, 1820–21), cf. Playfair 528. Palau 59020.
Contemporary bindings in black half sheepskin, flat spines decorated with gilt garlands and blind-tooled floral ornaments, gilt library shelfmark numbers at foot, vellum-tipped corners, headcaps rubbed on two volumes, covers in mottled paper, bookplates pasted on the endpapers, a few small chips to the upper edges and corners of the third volume, sprinkled edges.
Scattered foxing, minor rubbing to the bindings.
Copy from the library of Vittorio...
First edition of this French translation prepared by Abbé J.B. Morvan de Bellegarde, who here renders six of the nine books of the celebrated Brevissima relación by Las Casas, first published in Seville in 1552 (cf. Sabin 11273. Medina BHA 1085n. Streit I:733. Palau 46966. JCB (4) 344-345. Leclerc 337. "European Americana" 697/33).
Contemporary full marbled calf binding, spine gilt in compartments with decorative tooling, red morocco label, gilt rolls to head and tail caps, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt fillets to board edges, red edges.
Minor repairs to joints, discreet restoration in the inner margin of the frontispiece.
A handsome copy.
Las...
First edition, bringing together in a single volume the three Persian sections issued by the Elzeviers at Leiden in 1639: the Historia Christi Persice conscripta and Historia S. Petri Persice, forming the two parts of a single publication, followed by Louis de Dieu's separately titled Rudimenta linguae Persicae. Backer & Sommervogel VIII, 1339-1340; Willems 490 and 477.
Contemporary full stiff vellum with overlapping edges, smooth spine with an early manuscript title partly faded at head, some staining to covers, red-speckled edges. Earlier booksellers' description labels mounted on a flyleaf. An attractive...
Paris, Gervais Clouzier, 1666. Quarto, 5 unnumbered leaves and 436 pages.
First edition in French, translated by the Celestine Father François-Célestin Le Comte from Giovanni Filippo de Marini's account, originally published in Rome in 1663 as Delle missioni de' padri della Compagnia di Giesù nella provincia del Giappone, e particolarmente di quella di Tumkino. The translation appeared with two variant title pages, Relation nouvelle et curieuse and Histoire nouvelle et curieuse des royaumes de Tunquin et de Lao, the present copy bearing the latter. Cordier, Bibliotheca...
First edition (the work was reissued several times up to 1954), illustrated with a double map as frontispiece and numerous black-and-white in-text illustrations (cf. Hage Chahine 1925).
Contemporary binding in black half shagreen with corners, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt floral motifs, gilt fillet framing on marbled paper boards, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, all edges gilt, original illustrated wrappers preserved in color.
The title is somewhat misleading: the book is not a history of the cult of the Virgin Mary in Lebanon, but rather a richly illustrated travelogue across the country from one sanctuary to the next, featuring nearly 660...
First edition, in its first issue with the imprint of the Imprimerie de Tencé frères, Brussels, 1828. The text volume is illustrated with a portrait of Bernard Eugène Antoine Rottiers, lithographed by J. Van Genk after Sir Thomas Lawrence; the atlas contains an engraved map, numbered 1, and 74 lithographic plates numbered 2 to 75, plate 27 being mistakenly numbered 17. Eight plates are hand-coloured: nos. 28, 41, and 61 to 66. The text volume was reissued in 1830 under a new imprint; the present issue is the true first publication of the work.
The text volume is bound in contemporary half dark green morocco, the spine with four raised...
Good edition, published by J.B. Carpzov, illustrated with a frontispiece and a copper-engraved map of Judea in the text (see Graesse IV, 209).
The work includes numerous passages printed in Hebrew.
See Röhricht, p. 240, for a separate edition of the geographical and topographical prefaces to each gospel ("chorographia").
Contemporary full stiff ivory vellum binding, smooth spine, large later-added brown morocco title label mounted on the back, bookplate pasted on the inside cover, red edges.
Some black stains on the boards.
This is the author's most important work; he also dedicated two other volumes to the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles of Saint...
Extremely rare Barcelona reissue of this day-by-day account of the Siege of Buda, printed in 1686, the same year as the Seville first edition, but reset throughout in a completely different typographical setting. No copy of this edition has been located in the principal institutional collections consulted. Cf. Palau, 71807 (reference to be verified against the present copy).
Contemporary full ivory limp vellum with yapp edges, smooth spine with manuscript title written...
First edition and rare gathering of the first twelve issues of La Revue de Madagascar, from no. 1 of January 1933 to no. 12 of October 1935, extensively illustrated with reproduced photographs.
The three volumes were bound in 1935 in full incised and tinted mahogany calf, in bindings signed Ramanakanja. Spines with four raised bands, slightly faded, decorated with incised motifs, dates and volume numbers blind-stamped, the final volume left unlettered; large incised and tinted compositions to the boards, different on each of the...
First edition, one of 35 numbered copies printed on vélin pur chiffon B.F.K. de Rives, the only limited deluxe issue.
A small tear at the top of the lower cover, barely noticeable.
Very handsome copy.
New edition of the French translation.
Bound at the end of this volume are the following two texts:
First edition of the French translation of this account of the Lutheran mission’s activities on the eastern coast of India, originally published under various titles.
Contemporary full marbled light brown calf, spine with five raised bands richly gilt with garland rolls and double decorative panels, light brown calf title label, headcap shaved, gilt fillets along the edges, corners restored, red edges, period binding.
Since 1620, the Danish East India Company had held several trading posts and possessions along the Indian coastline, the principal settlement being Tranquebar. Transferred to the Danish Crown in 1779, these outposts became Danish colonies. However, frequently...
First edition (cf. Barbier IV, cols. 211-212).
Contemporary full red morocco Jansenist binding, spine with five raised bands framed by black fillets, gilt roll tooling on the caps, blind-stamped fillet border on covers, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt dentelle border on the pastedowns, gilt fillets on the edges somewhat faded, all edges gilt, bookplate mounted on pastedown.
Some minor internal defects (dampstains and a small loss at the foot of a few leaves).
Barbier devotes an extensive entry to the condemnation of this work on the mystical movement of Quietism, for which Fénelon long contended with Bossuet before both he and Madame Guyon were condemned by Pope...
Handsome Greek printing of the Psalter according to the Septuagint, followed by traditional Biblical hymnology and a weekly recitation guide.
Illustrated with a charming woodcut depicting David.
Contemporary black cloth-backed marbled boards, spine unlettered and slightly faded, blue endpapers and pastedowns.
Occasional foxing, otherwise clean and well-preserved throughout.
Very rare first edition printed in Algiers at Charles Zamith & Cie (Not listed in Tailliart. No copy recorded in the CCFr).
Minor, unavoidable rust marks around the staples, otherwise a handsome copy.
This perpetual Muslim calendar through to the end of time, with the exact concordance of the Julian and Gregorian calendars, and a simple and easy method for converting dates for every day of the week, from the Hijri year to the year 2660, composed and calculated in accordance with the rules of Muslim astronomers was written by Bernard-Marius Cazeneuve (1838–1913).
A fascinating character: an internationally renowned illusionist, art collector, and scientist...
First edition, illustrated with 6 maps and 89 engravings after the author's drawings.
Contemporary navy blue half shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands ruled in gilt, small tear at head of spine and minor rubbing, gilt stamp of the Join-Lambert institution in Rouen to the centre of the upper board, cold-stamped fillet frame on navy blue paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, sprinkled edges.
Some light foxing, mainly at the beginning and end of the volume; school price label affixed to one pastedown.
A well-preserved copy.
Rare first edition, privately printed in small numbers, of this offprint from the Recueil des notices et mémoires de la Société archéologique de Constantine, vol. XXIV.
Only two copies recorded in the French collective catalogue (BnF and Lyon).
Vertical crease visible throughout the booklet.
Preserved in its original grey paper wrappers, without lettering, with the title and author's name handwritten in pencil.
A member of the Congregation of the White Fathers, particularly active in North Africa, Alfred-Louis Delattre (1850–1932) was first sent as a missionary to Algeria, later becoming chaplain of the Saint-Louis Church in Carthage, and eventually...
First edition of this occasional text, illustrated with 4 plates outside the text.
Spine faintly faded, a rare and attractive copy.
Archbishop of Algiers from 1867, Charles Lavigerie (1825–1892) would become in 1884 Primate of Africa through his exceptional accumulation of titles, including the restored See of Carthage.
He took an early interest in the excavations of the Carthage site.
Uncommon first edition, illustrated with historiated initials and 7 plates (see Brunet I, 710).
Not listed in Atabey, Blackmer or Hage Chahine.
Contemporary full marbled tan calf, spine with five raised bands richly gilt with floral motifs, joints and spine rubbed with traces of restoration, cherry morocco label, covers framed in triple blind fillet, margins of covers rubbed, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, red edges.
Joints rubbed, corners worn, some foxing.
Rare copy of this historical and numismatic monograph devoted to the small kingdom of Osroene (or Edessa), which long served as a buffer state between the Persian and Roman empires.
Born in Königsberg...
First edition, printed in very limited numbers, of this offprint from the Revue archéologique, illustrated with 12 textual figures and 3 plates; only two copies listed in the CCF (Quai d'Orsay and Strasbourg).
Contemporary Bradel binding in olive green cloth-backed marbled boards, smooth spine with red morocco title label, original wrappers bound in.
Christophe-Edouard Mauss (1829–1914), architect to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was entrusted with several archaeological missions in the East (Thessaloniki, Smyrna, Alexandria), and was later sent by the French government to Jerusalem (1862–1874) to oversee the restoration of the Church of Saint Anne. He also...
First edition of this continuation of the series Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, documenting events from 1767 onward in the missions led by the Society of Foreign Missions of Paris (M.E.P.) in Sichuan, Tonkin, Cochinchina, Siam, and along the Coromandel Coast. (cf. Cordier, Sinica, II, 953–957; Cordier, Indosinica, III, 1970–1978; Sabin 40704.)
Contemporary full speckled tan calf, smooth spines richly decorated with gilt garlands, fillets and floral tools, red morocco labels for title and volume number, gilt roll tooling at headcaps, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, single gilt fillet on board edges, yellow edges.
Spines slightly sunned...
First edition, illustrated with a fine engraved frontispiece portrait of Cardinal Casanate, signed by Pet. Paul Bouché, an Antwerp engraver born around 1646 [cf. Bénézit].
Gay 1464.
This engraving is lacking in the copy held by the Bibliothèque nationale.
Contemporary full brown calf binding, spine with five raised bands, compartments decorated with gilt floral tools, gilt fillets on board edges, mottled edges.
Restorations to the spine, dampstain to the outer margins of the opening leaves, some leaves slightly yellowed.
“Another edition of this work by Emmanuel Schelstrate, published in Antwerp in the same year, is recorded.”
The author published this...
First edition, only one other copy recorded (BnF).
Full dark purple morocco binding, spine with five raised bands with gilt floral motifs, gilt date at foot, spine slightly faded, covers numerously framed in gilt, gilt-tooled corners each adorned with a blue onlaid morocco medallion stamped with a central gilt fleuron, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, pastedown bookplate of Ernest Stroehlin, inner gilt dentelle, spine-ends ruled in gilt, very light rubbing to corners, all edges gilt. A tiny restored lack of paper to the upper part of the title page, not affecting the text.
Very rare anti-Protestant satire in the form of a dialogue between the...
First edition, one of 220 numbered copies on pure rag paper, the only deluxe issue.
Fine copy.
First edition of the French translation, one of 50 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
Tiny marginal chips of no consequence on the wrappers, a crease to the upper right corner of the front cover, final page slightly darkened due to the presence of a folding facsimile.
This volume comprises three previously unpublished chapters from the novel "Les possédés".
First edition, one of 80 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only copies printed on deluxe paper.
A handsome and rare copy.
Uncommon first edition illustrated with a double-page plan: "Plan du Saint-Sépulcre, à Jérusalem" (see Röhricht p. 587. Not in Blackmer or Atabey.)
The text is divided as follows: Letters on Italy and Egypt (pp. 5–64), Palestine (pp. 65–604), the Levant and Constantinople (pp. 605–685).
Minor tears to the spine and boards, with some light foxing.
Edition not recorded by Leclerc, Rodriquez or Borba de Moraes (cf. Sabin 43770; Cordier, Bibl. Japonica 62-63, and Bibl. Sinica 782).
Some occasional light foxing; minor worming affecting the index leaves at the end of the volume.
Modern Bradel binding in half vellum, smooth spine with red morocco label, marbled paper-covered boards.
A work of major significance for the history of Jesuit missions in the Americas, India, China, and Japan.
First edition, illustrated with a folding map and 11 tinted lithographic plates (cf. Gay 3137).
Contemporary half aubergine sheep, smooth spine ruled and lettered in gilt, some rubbing to hinges, one joint fragile, marbled paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers, speckled edges.
Some repairs to the spine, occasional foxing.
Arbousset, a Protestant missionary and explorer, recounts the discovery of the Mont des Sources and offers vivid descriptions of the peoples among whom he lived: Bastaards or mixed-race communities, Hottentots, Bushmen, Kaffirs, etc.
Rare.
First edition of the French translation.
Illustrated with photographs by Erica Anderson, with text and captions by Eugène Exman.
Preface by Daniel Halévy.
Pleasing copy complete with its illustrated dust jacket, showing minor losses and angular tears to the spine, along with some marginal scuffing to the panels.
Bookplate affixed to the inside front cover.
Rare dated and signed presentation inscription by Albert Schweitzer on a blank flyleaf: "A monsieur Bernard Tessier en souvenir de son passage à Lambaréné le 1.9.1956, Albert Schweitzer."
First edition, one of 45 numbered copies on Arches wove paper, the deluxe issue.
A handsome copy, untrimmed, despite two pale vertical sunspots on the upper cover.
Inscribed and signed by Michel de Saint-Pierre to Maurice Gorrée, dated: "... ce roman qui est devenu champ-clos, alors que je voulais unir... Amicalement Michel de Saint-Pierre."
First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on laid paper, the only copies printed on deluxe paper.
A handsome and rare copy.
Illustrations.
Signed autograph inscription by Jean de La Varende to Maurice Gorrée.
First edition.
Full blue percaline binding, smooth spine gilt with a central floral motif, date and double gilt rules at foot, brown shagreen title label with minor scuffing along the left edge, original wrappers preserved, slightly later binding signed in blind by Pierson.
Ink initials on the front endpaper and upper wrapper, serving as an ex-libris.
A handsome copy, tastefully bound by Pierson and virtually free of foxing.
First edition, one of 240 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe issue.
A handsome copy.
First edition, one of 165 numbered copies on pur fil d'Arches, deluxe issue.
A fine copy.
First edition, one of 315 numbered copies on Arches wove paper, the deluxe issue.
A fine copy with full margins.
First edition, one of 130 numbered copies on Arches wove paper, the deluxe issue.
A fine copy.
Inscribed, dated and signed by Roger Peyrefitte to Monsieur Gorrée.
First edition, rare, illustrated with a large folding engraved map (cf. Gay 3082).
Contemporary full marbled calf, smooth spine gilt in compartments adorned with gilt floral tools, tan morocco title label, gilt roll tooling at head and foot of spine, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt fillets on board edges, red-speckled yellow edges.
Some restoration to spine and covers, occasional foxing and slight age-toning to a few gatherings.
Written from the memoirs of the missionaries Descourvières and Bellegarde. The first part offers a description of the country and the customs of its inhabitants, followed by notes on their language; the second part recounts the history of...
First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece, a portrait of the author, and 14 copper-engraved vignettes within the text, mostly depicting inhabitants of the North (cf Sabin, 38711.)
Restored binding in full grained morocco, spine with five false raised bands adorned with gilt fillets and double compartments, gilded roulettes on the partially faded caps, small repairs to the joints, gilt fillets on the edges, slightly worn corners, binding of the period.
Ink annotations on the white endpaper and at the top of the false-title page.
Born in Rouen in 1634, La Martinière embarked around 1670 as a surgeon on a ship of the Northern Company bound for Norway, and visited...
Rare first edition of this curious travel account, originally written entirely in verse (7,500 lines), though the author—on the advice of friends—agreed to intersperse it with prose narrative (retaining 2,500 lines of verse); see Sabin 20128, Gagnon 1134 (1710 edition), and Dionne II.
Contemporary full brown calf binding, spine with five raised bands, gilt compartments decorated with gilt floral tools, cherry red morocco label, gilt roll tooling at head and foot, double black fillet border on covers, gilt fillets on board edges, sprinkled yellow edges with red mottling.
Lower right corner of upper cover restored; some spots and minor scuffs to the boards; occasional light...
Rare first edition of this "relation (...) much sought after for its accuracy", illustrated with 19 folding plates, including 2 maps (cf. Sabin 3604, Leclerc 119).
Full marbled tan calf binding, spine with five raised bands, gilt compartments decorated with gilt floral motifs, small chip at foot of spine, scuffing to covers, red edges, bumped corners, gilt fillets along the board edges, contemporary binding.
The author, a physician and botanist born in Perpignan in 1690—where he held a post at the military hospital—was introduced by Antoine de Jussieu to the Conseil de la Marine in August 1721 and appointed royal physician and botanist in French Guiana. He landed in...
First edition of the French translation, one of 40 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only copies printed on deluxe paper.
Handsome copy.
First edition, one of 230 numbered copies on Vélin du Marais, the deluxe issue.
A handsome copy.
New edition, intended as a supplement to the various collections of *Lettres édifiantes* (see Backer & Sommervogel II, 1075; Cordier, Japonica, 424).
Some foxing, minor scuffs, and small paper flaws on the boards.
Contemporary half grey calf bindings, flat spines decorated with blind-stamped romantic arabesques and gilt fillets, gilt decorative rolls at foot, small green vellum tips, boards covered with geometric-patterned paper, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges; romantic period bindings.
First reissue of the *Histoire de l'établissement, des progrès et de la décadence du christianisme dans l'Empire du Japon*, originally published in 1715 in three 12mo...
First edition, (cf Röhricht p. 499. Hage Chahine 2893.)
Rare, light foxing without significance.
Binding in half green cloth, smooth spine slightly faded, decorated with cold fillets, a slight abrasion near the gilt title, marbled paper boards, sprinkled edges, binding of the period. Preliminary pages, departure of the expedition, Lebanon, excursion to Baalbek and the Cedars of Lebanon, military pilgrimage to Jerusalem, the French garrison in Lebanon.
New edition, with mention of the print run.
Illustrated.
Two losses to the spine; complete with its illustrated dust jacket, which shows small chips and angular tears. One gathering poorly opened with minor marginal losses not affecting the text.
Bookplate affixed to the verso of the front cover.
Rare signed presentation inscription by Albert Schweitzer: "A monsieur et madame André Fontan en souvenir de leur passage à Lambarené le 2.6.1963, avec mes bonnes pensées. Albert Schweitzer."
First edition, with no copies printed on deluxe paper.
A pleasant copy despite two small creases at the foot of the front cover.
Inscribed and signed by Jean Favier to the Belgian literary critic Pol Vandromme.
New edition, one of the review copies.
A handsome copy.
Lengthy signed autograph inscription from Gabriel Matzneff to his friend, the Belgian literary critic Pol Vandromme: "Pour Pol Vandromme que j'aimerais beaucoup revoir à Paris ou lors d'un de mes prochains séjours en Belgique, ce roman qui s'est, en onze ans, bonifié, comme le vin, avec mon très amical et fidèle souvenir. Gabriel Matzneff."
