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Techniques & Crafts
  1. Traité de chimie appliquée à l'industrie
    Adolphe RENARD

    Traité de chimie appliquée à l'industrie

    Librairie polytechnique Baudry & Cie|Paris 1890|15.50 x 25 cm|broché
    First edition.
    Half brown shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands set with gilt garlands and decorated with gilt floral motifs, minor rubbing traces on the spine, blind fillets on brown cardboard boards, four scratches on the front board, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
    Some foxing particularly affecting the edges.
    Work illustrated with 225 figures in the text.
    Rare.

    €150
  2. Les Indes noires. Le Chancellor
    Jules VERNE

    Les Indes noires. Le Chancellor[The Black Indies. The Chancellor]

    Bibliothèque d'Education et de Récréation J. Hetzel et Cie|Paris 1903-1904|18 x 28.50 cm|Reliure de l'éditeur
    New edition, illustrated with drawings by J. Ferrat including several polychrome plates hors-texte produced by Belin Frères and appearing here for the first time.
    Publisher's "golden globe" binding signed Engel, first cover plate by Blanchelande, spine with lighthouse, second cover of Engel "i" type, with the monogram JH in straight letters.
    Les Indes Noires are the Scottish coal mines. An operator discovers a deposit and builds a true underground city, a young girl is discovered there who seems never to have seen daylight. The underground city is a utopia, ideal vision of a hidden world.
    Le Chancellor is an adventure novel presented as the Journal du...
    €7,000
  3. Balzac 00.01
    Jean MINEUR

    Balzac 00.01

    Plon|Paris 1981|14 x 22.50 cm|broché
    First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
    Some occasional light foxing.
    Preface by Jean Anouilh.
    Handsome copy of the memoirs of the creator of advertising films shown in movie theaters.
    Autograph inscription signed by Jean Mineur: "Hommage de l'auteur, un ancien confrère, qui espère vous apporter avec ce livre quelques moments de détente et d'entracte..." ["Tribute from the author, a former colleague, who hopes to bring you with this book some moments of relaxation and intermission..."]
    €100
  4. L'apprêt des tissus, traité contenant un recueil des méthodes et des procédés d'apprêt concernant la généralité des étoffes mais plus particulièrement les tissus en fibres végétales
    Paul MONTAVON

    L'apprêt des tissus, traité contenant un recueil des méthodes et des procédés d'apprêt concernant la généralité des étoffes mais plus particulièrement les tissus en fibres végétales

    A. Davy et fils ainé|Paris 1924|15.50 x 24.50 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Handsome copy.
    Half brown shagreen binding, faded and lightened spine with five raised bands set with gilt garlands and decorated with gilt floral motifs, red cardboard boards decorated with blind fillets, endpapers and pastedowns of marbled paper.
    Work illustrated with 211 figures in and out of text.
    €80
  5. Blanchiment et apprêts. Teinture et impression, matières colorantes
    Charles-Eric GUIGNET, Fernand DOMMER

    Blanchiment et apprêts. Teinture et impression, matières colorantes

    Gauthier-Villars & fils|Paris 1895|15.50 x 24.50 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Handsome copy despite minor rubbing to spine and joints.
    Work illustrated with 345 figures in the text and complete with the 23 fabric samples at the end of the volume.
    Half bottle-green shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with black and gilt fillets, green cardboard boards decorated with blind fillets, endpapers and pastedowns of combed paper.
    €230
  6. Traité de la teinture moderne
    Henri SPÉTEBROOT

    Traité de la teinture moderne

    H. Dunod et E. Pinat|Paris 1917|16 x 24.50 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Handsome copy.
    Work illustrated with 119 figures in the text.
    Half brown shagreen binding, spine faded and lightened with five raised bands set with gilt garlands and decorated with gilt floral motifs, red cardboard boards decorated with blind fillets, marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns.
    €120
  7. Guide pratique de teinture moderne suivi de l'Art du teinturier-graisseur contenant l'étude des fibres textiles et des matières premières utilisées en teinture et les procédés les plus récents pour la fixation des couleurs sur laine, soie, coton, etc...
    Victor THOMAS

    Guide pratique de teinture moderne suivi de l'Art du teinturier-graisseur contenant l'étude des fibres textiles et des matières premières utilisées en teinture et les procédés les plus récents pour la fixation des couleurs sur laine, soie, coton, etc...

    L. Mulo|Paris 1900|16 x 24.50 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Handsome copy.
    Work illustrated with 119 figures in the text.
    Half brown shagreen binding, spine faded and lightened with five raised bands set with gilt garlands and decorated with gilt floral motifs, red cardboard boards decorated with blind fillets, marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns.
    €120
  8. Etudes sur les équilibres chimiques
    Georges LEMOINE

    Etudes sur les équilibres chimiques

    Dunod|Paris 1881|15 x 24.50 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Some minor foxing.
    Half dark green shagreen binding, spine faded and browned with four raised bands, combed paper boards, marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns.
    €60
  9. Premier supplément à la teinture du coton et des fibres similaires avec les colorants de la Manufacture lyonnaise de matières colorantes
    COLLECTIF

    Premier supplément à la teinture du coton et des fibres similaires avec les colorants de la Manufacture lyonnaise de matières colorantes

    Léopold Cassela & Cie|Francfort sur le Main [Frankfurt am Main] 1904|16.50 x 25.50 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Handsome copy illustrated with a photographic frontispiece.
    Complete work with its 10 pages containing 84 fabric samples.
    Publisher's binding in half burgundy cardboard with corners, black percaline boards, smooth spine decorated with blind and gilt fillets, endpapers and pastedowns of decorative patterned paper.
    Rare.
    €100
  10. Traité-répertoire des applications de la chimie
    Jules GARCON

    Traité-répertoire des applications de la chimie

    Vve C. Dunod|Paris 1901|15 x 24.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
    First edition.
    Handsome copy.
    Half brown shagreen binding, spine faded and lightened with five raised bands set with gilt garlands and decorated with gilt floral motifs, red cardboard boards decorated with blind fillets, marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns.
    €100
  11. Traité du tissage mécanique
    Franz REH

    Traité du tissage mécanique

    Edition de la société anonyme des publications industrielles|Paris 1928|16 x 24.50 cm|relié
    Third edition of the French translation established by André Simon and expanded with studies and a supplement by the translator.
    Handsome copy despite a stain on the fore edge.
    Work illustrated with 800 figures.
    Gift inscription from a former owner of the work.
    Half black shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt fillets, brown cardboard boards decorated with blind fillets, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
    €60
  12. Traité des matières colorantes artificielles dérivées du goudron de houille
    A.-Mathieu VILLON

    Traité des matières colorantes artificielles dérivées du goudron de houille

    Librairie polytechnique Baudry & Cie|Paris 1890|16.50 x 25.50 cm|relié
    First edition illustrated with 92 figures in the text.
    Handsome copy despite some minor foxing.
    Half brown shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands set with gilt garlands and decorated with gilt fleurons, combed paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
    €80
  13. De l'organe phrénologique de destruction chez les animaux ou examen de cette question
    Louis-Francisque LÉLUT

    De l'organe phrénologique de destruction chez les animaux ou examen de cette question

    J.B. Baillière|Paris 1838|13 x 20 cm|broché
    First edition.
    Our copy is presented in temporary full marbled paper covers, with handwritten title label pasted at head of first cover.
    Small gift inscription in pen at head of title page, occasional foxing, one small hole not affecting text at head of table of contents page.
    Rare and handsome copy complete with its folding plate at rear illustrated with 8 figures.
    €80
  15. L'or
    Henri HAUSER

    L'or

    Vuibert & Nony|Paris 1906 (S.d)|20.50 x 30.50 cm|relié
    Second edition statement, revised and corrected by the author. Abundant illustrations, notably 93 particularly interesting photographs featuring gold prospectors throughout the world and especially in California and Alaska. Numerous engravings after photographs, maps, graphics, photogravures of art objects...
    Publisher's green and gilt binding with scenes of gold prospectors, a planisphere showing places in the world where gold is found... (plate signed Paul Souze) Spine with various ornaments.
    Superb front cover. Spine very good, with traces of rubbing at headcaps and slightly on joints. Lower corners slightly turned. Back cover perfect.
    Very handsome copy.
    Contents...
    €500
  16. "Mémoire de la construction et agréz d'une galère ordinaire, avec l'explication des termes, l'usage des manoeuvres, et de toutes les parties qui composent le corps de la galère et son armement"
    [Jean-Baptiste CHABERT]

    "Mémoire de la construction et agréz d'une galère ordinaire, avec l'explication des termes, l'usage des manoeuvres, et de toutes les parties qui composent le corps de la galère et son armement"Complete autograph manuscript: 'Memoir on the construction and approval of a standard galley, with an explanation of the terms, the use of manoeuvres, and of all the parts making up the hull of the galley and its equipment'

    s. d. [1672-1674]|24 x 34 cm|relié

    Complete autograph manuscript of 106 pages entitled: “Mémoire de la construction et agrèz d'une galère ordinaire, avec l'explication des termes, l'usage des manœuvres, et de toutes les parties qui composent le corps de la galère et son armement”. Penned in a neat, unrubricated hand, with occasional marginal notes in another hand.
     
    Contemporary full vellum binding, lightly soiled with minor wear, smooth spine without lettering.
    A major and invaluable manuscript chronicling the revival of the French galley fleet, written by the most influential galley shipwright of his time: Jean-Baptiste Chabert.
    We have...

    €4,000
  17. Muziekpaper - Musicaper - Papier à music - Notenpapier
    COLLECTIF, Pieter BRATTINGA

    Muziekpaper - Musicaper - Papier à music - Notenpapier

    Jong & Co|Hilversum 1970|24.50 x 24.50 cm|en feuilles sous chemise à rabats
    First edition hors-commerce consisting of a cadrat sheet resulting from a series of printing experiments in the field of graphic art, plastic arts, literature, architecture and music initiated by the lithographic printers of Steendrukkerij de Jong & Co.
    Texts in Dutch, German, English and French.
    This music paper contains 16 cubes subdivided into four series of numbers and a playground composed of 16 plans (one sixteen-plan features white lines on black background and one sixteen-plan bearing black lines on white background).
    The multiple combinations that result offer numerous possibilities to make, for example, a game, an educational shape recognition exercise for...
    €200
  19. Manuscrit illustré de dessins originaux et composé de deux parties "La Porcelaine de Chine" et "Le Bronze chinois"
    ANONYME

    Manuscrit illustré de dessins originaux et composé de deux parties "La Porcelaine de Chine" et "Le Bronze chinois"Manuscript with original drawings and made up of two parts, "Chinese Porcelain" and "Chinese Bronze"

    Paris 1888|18 x 23 cm|relié
    Manuscript with original drawings and made up of two parts, “Chinese Porcelain” and “Chinese Bronze”
    Paris 1888 | 18 x 23 cm | contemporary half shagreen
    Manuscript entitled “Chinese Porcelain”, with numerous original drawings in and hors texte, in black and white and color, some full-page on delicate bits of China paper and stuck in to illustrate text or on occasional leaves of thick paper.

    The text is also enriched with a plate from Racinet's Costume historique (1888), as well as a printed page from the same text. This is a made-up volume from several texts: Octave de Sartel, La Porcelaine de Chine (1881), Stanislas Julien...
    €2,500
  21. Nu N°2
    COLLECTIF, Pieter BRATTINGA

    Nu N°2[Nude No. 2]

    Jong & Co|Hilversum 1967|25 x 25 cm|broché
    First edition of this quadrilingual issue consisting of a series of experiments in printing in the field of graphic art, plastic arts, literature, architecture and music collected by Pieter Brattinga.
    Illustrations.
    Texts in Dutch, German, English and French.
    Covers marginally and slightly sunned without gravity, handsome copy.


    €50
  22. L'ombre de la morte
    Alphonse NARCISSE

    L'ombre de la morte

    Plon|Paris 1954|12 x 19 cm|broché

    Edition of the same year as the first, statement of 17th thousand.
    Spine slightly sunned.
    Signed and inscribed by Alphonse Narcisse to André Morice.

    €30
  24. La culture du riz dans le delta du Tonkin
    René DUMONT

    La culture du riz dans le delta du Tonkin

    Prince of Songkla University|s. l. 1995|16 x 25 cm|broché
    New edition with some parts in first edition.
    Handsome copy complete with its 4 folding color maps at the end of the volume.
    Autograph inscription signed by René Dumont at the twilight of his life.

    €100
  25. L'ombre de la morte
    Alphonse NARCISSE

    L'ombre de la morte

    Plon|Paris 1954|12 x 19 cm|broché

    Edition of the year of the first edition, statement of 17th thousand.
    Spine slightly sunned.
    Autograph inscription signed by Alphonse Narcisse to madame André Morice.

    €30
  26. Près du sol
    Émile GUILLAUMIN

    Près du sol[Near the ground]

    Calmann Lévy|Paris 1906|12.50 x 19.50 cm|relié
    First edition, one of 10 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe copy.
    Half brown morocco binding with corners, spine very lightly sunned with four raised bands set with black fillets, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt on deckled edges, binding signed Semet & Plumelle.
    Handsome copy attractively bound.
    €1,200
  27. Etude sur le tir d'infanterie
    H. PATTE

    Etude sur le tir d'infanterie

    Henri Charles-Lavauzelle|Paris • & Limoges 1890|14 x 22.50 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Bradel binding in half red cloth with corners, smooth spine decorated with a gilt fleuron, double gilt fillet at tail, marbled paper boards.
    Some light foxing, a hole with loss affecting the "T" of the word "tir" in the work's title on the title page, manuscript signature of a previous owner on the title page.
    Work illustrated with 29 figures in the text and tables at the end of the volume.
    €80
  28. Etude sur la géographie botanique de l'Auvergne. Esquisse phytogéographique du massif des Monts-Dores
    Aimé LUQUET

    Etude sur la géographie botanique de l'Auvergne. Esquisse phytogéographique du massif des Monts-Dores

    Université de Grenoble|Grenoble 1926|16.50 x 25.50 cm|relié
    First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint from "Revue de géographie alpine".
    Half green cloth binding, smooth spine slightly faded, double gilt fillet at tail, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved.
    Some light foxing, a hole with loss affecting the "T" of the word "tir" in the work's title on the title page, manuscript signature of a previous owner on the title page.
    Work illustrated with 8 photographic plates and complete with its large folding map at the end of the volume.
    Autograph inscription signed by Aimé Luquet at the head of the title page.
    €100
  29. Chimie des gens du monde
    Samuel PARKES

    Chimie des gens du monde

    Leblanc|Paris 1822|13 x 20.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
    First edition of the French translation based on the ninth English edition.
    Half black shagreen bindings, spines with four raised bands decorated with blind double compartments, traces of rubbing to spines, traces of library shelf labels at head of spines, black paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.
    Foxing, gift inscriptions in pen at head of half-title pages, it appears that an endpaper has been torn at the beginning of each volume.
    Another particularity of our copy: numerous blank leaves have been bound at the end of each volume, certainly intended to contain manuscript observations from a previous owner.
    Copy complete with its folding plate...
    €120
  32. Le mouvement makhnoviste
    Piotr ARCHINOFF

    Le mouvement makhnoviste

    Bélibaste|Toulouse 1969|12.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
    New edition of the French translation.
    Gift inscription from a previous owner on the title page.
    Handsome copy.
    €50
  40. Système financier de la France. Souvenirs de ma carrière
    Charles, marquis D'AUDIFFRET

    Système financier de la France. Souvenirs de ma carrière

    Imprimerie veuve Ethiou-Pérou|Paris 1876|15.50 x 24.50 cm|relié
    New edition.
    Half-green sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with double fillets, gilt dots and black fillets, marbled paper boards, traces of scratches at head of joints, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges, bookplate pasted at head of one pastedown, contemporary binding.
    Some foxing mainly affecting the endpapers.



    €60
  41. Leçons sur le carbone. La combustion, les lois chimiques
    Henry LE CHATELIER

    Leçons sur le carbone. La combustion, les lois chimiques

    Dunot & Pinat • A. Hermann|Paris 1908|16.50 x 25.50 cm|broché
    The first edition, published in a small number of copies of this offprint from the "Annales de chimie et de physique".
    Two tears to the spine lightly cracked at foot, handsome interior condition.
    Gift inscription from a previous owner at head of first cover which has been almost entirely scraped away, gift inscription in pen on the half-title page.
    Work illustrated with 54 figures in the text.
    €100
  43. Rapport sur les recherches faites à la Bibliothèque impériale de Saint-Pétersbourg concernant les lettres originales et manuscrits français sortis de France. - Deuxième rapport sur les recherches faites à la Bibliothèque impériale de Saint-Pétersbourg concernant les lettres originales et manuscrits français sortis de France. - Troisième rapport sur les recherches faites à la Bibliothèque impériale de Saint-Pétersbourg concernant les lettres originales et manuscrits français sortis de France
    Hector, comte de LA FERRIERE

    Rapport sur les recherches faites à la Bibliothèque impériale de Saint-Pétersbourg concernant les lettres originales et manuscrits français sortis de France. - Deuxième rapport sur les recherches faites à la Bibliothèque impériale de Saint-Pétersbourg concernant les lettres originales et manuscrits français sortis de France. - Troisième rapport sur les recherches faites à la Bibliothèque impériale de Saint-Pétersbourg concernant les lettres originales et manuscrits français sortis de France

    Imprimerie Impériale|Paris 1867|15.50 x 24 cm|3 volumes reliés en 1
    The first edition published in a small number of copies of this offprint from the Archives des missions scientifiques et littéraires for each of the three volumes.
    Half brown shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt dots, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
    Some minor light foxing.
    €120
  44. La tactique financière de Calonne
    G. SUSANE

    La tactique financière de Calonne

    Arthur Rousseau|Paris 1901|16.50 x 25.50 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Half navy blue shagreen binding, spine very slightly faded with five raised bands, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled top edge, soiled cover preserved.
    Autograph inscription signed by G. Susane to Monsieur Baron.






    €60
  45. M. de Silhouette, Bouret, les derniers fermiers généraux
    Pierre CLÉMENT, Alfred LEMOINE

    M. de Silhouette, Bouret, les derniers fermiers généraux

    Didier & Cie|Paris 1872|16.50 x 25.50 cm|relié
    First edition, one of the rare copies on Holland laid paper of which no mention is made.
    Half brown shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands set with gilt dots decorated with double gilt compartments, spine with some rubbing, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
    Rare.
    Provenance: from the library of Guy Etchegoyen with his bookplate pasted on a pastedown.






    €150
  46. Système financier de la France
    Charles, marquis D'AUDIFFRET

    Système financier de la France

    Librairie de P. Dufart|Paris 1840|14 x 22 cm|2 volumes brochés
    First edition.
    Spine of the first volume cracked with small angular lacks, three tears at head and foot of both spines, foxing.
    Complete copy with its 6 folding tables at the end of the volume.


    €100
  47. L'industrie française du pétrole en 1955
    COLLECTIF

    L'industrie française du pétrole en 1955

    Union des chambres syndicales de l'industrie du pétrole|Paris 1956|21 x 27.50 cm|broché
    First edition.
    Iconography.
    Handsome copy despite two small tears at the head of the spine.
    €40
  48. L'industrie française du pétrole en 1952
    COLLECTIF

    L'industrie française du pétrole en 1952

    Union des chambres syndicales de l'industrie du pétrole|Paris 1953|21 x 27 cm|broché
    First edition.
    Iconography.
    Handsome copy despite two small stains at the foot of the first cover.
    €40
  51. Les manuscrits et la miniature
    Albert LECOY DE LA MARCHE

    Les manuscrits et la miniature

    A. Quantin|Paris s. d. [circa 1910]|13.50 x 20.50 cm|relié
    New edition.
    Bradel binding in half bottle-green cloth, smooth spine decorated with a gilt floral motif, date and double gilt fillet at foot, red shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, contemporary binding.
    Handsome copy illustrated with 107 figures in the text.
    €50
  52. De l'emploi du chalumeau dans les analyses chimiques et les déterminations minéralogiques
    Jöns Jacob BERZELIUS

    De l'emploi du chalumeau dans les analyses chimiques et les déterminations minéralogiques

    Méquignon-Marvis|Paris 1821|14 x 21.50 cm|relié
    First edition in French established by F. Fresnel.
    Half bronze sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets and typographical motifs, joints cracked and reglued at head and foot, small lacks to headcaps, marbled paper boards, some epidermures to second board, marbled edges, contemporary binding.
    Work complete with its 4 folding plates at rear.
    €200
  53. L'hygiène des travailleurs adultes
    Jean SOURBES

    L'hygiène des travailleurs adultes

    L. Larose & L. Tenin|Paris 1905|16.50 x 25.50 cm|broché
    First edition of this thesis submitted for the doctorate in law at the University of Paris.
    Light marginal worming to boards.
    Rare.
    €120
  54. La pêche et les poissons. Nouveau Dictionnaire général des pêches
    Henri de LA BLANCHÈRE

    La pêche et les poissons. Nouveau Dictionnaire général des pêches

    Librairie de Ch. Delagrave et Cie|Paris 1868|19.50 x 27.30 cm|relié
    First edition abundantly illustrated with 1110 in-text wood engravings and 47 hand-colored lithographs by Mesnel after the author's photographs.
    Contemporary half-glazed black calf binding with small corners. Smooth spine decorated with 4 fleurons. Restorations to headcaps and joints, blue percale boards renewed, corners renewed. Light marginal dampstains on first and last leaves of the table. Scattered foxing mainly in the margins.
    One of the most famous works on fishing, and certainly the most exhaustive ever published.
    €350
  55. L'enseigne. Son histoire & sa philosophie. Ses particularités
    John GRAND-CARTERET, Gustave GIRRANE

    L'enseigne. Son histoire & sa philosophie. Ses particularités

    Librairie Dauphinoise H. Falque & F. Perrin • Librairie Savoyarde François Ducloz|Grenoble • & Moutiers 1902|22 x 29 cm|relié
    First edition printed in a numbered edition of 1,250 copies.
    Half tan shagreen binding with corners, spine slightly faded and rubbed with four raised bands set with gilt dots and decorated with gilt double compartments, gilt friezes at head and foot, a mosaic shagreen piece in sand and black in the middle of the spine representing a sign, gilt fillets framing the marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, red top edge, bookplate pasted at head of one pastedown, contemporary binding.
    Handsome interior condition without foxing.
    Work illustrated with numerous drawings in black and color, within the text and full-page by Gustave...
    €250
  56. Paris-Photographe, revue mensuelle illustrée de la photographie et de ses applications aux arts, aux sciences et à l'industrie. Troisième année complète soit 12 numéros
    Paul NADAR, Louis & Auguste LUMIERE

    Paris-Photographe, revue mensuelle illustrée de la photographie et de ses applications aux arts, aux sciences et à l'industrie. Troisième année complète soit 12 numéros[Paris-Photographe, illustrated monthly review of photography and its applications to the arts, sciences, and industry. Third complete year, comprising 12 issue]

    Office général de Photographie|Paris Janvier-Décembre 1893|18.50 x 27 cm|12 fascicules brochés
    First edition.
    Complete third year in 12 issues of this extremely rare scholarly review founded and directed by Paul Nadar. Each copy includes at least two plates outside the text, including a plate of Nadar's photographic prints and a photograph often reproduced in heliogravure. Contributions by P. Nadar, A. and L. Lumière, A. Marey, G. Geffroy, J. Grand-Carteret, J. Demarçay, Davison, S. Ferrand, H. Fourtier, C. Gravier, A. Guerronnan, Ponton d'Amécourt, H. Reeb, L. Vidal, J. Waterhouse... Among the numerous subjects treated, one will find chronophotography, color reproduction, skies in photography, The pilgrimage to Mecca (very beautiful heliogravure plate outside the text of the...
    €1,500
  57. Zoologie, Tome 1
    COLLECTIF

    Zoologie, Tome 1

    Gallimard • , Bibliothèque de La Pléiade|Paris 1963|10.50 x 17.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
    Pléiade library edition printed on Bible paper.
    Publisher's full black grained sheepskin binding, blue top edge, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, with its rhodoid protective wrapper.
    A bookshop label discretely pasted at the head of one endpaper.
    €25
  58. Plan et mémoire instructif touchant la seigneurie du Pré-aux-Clercs appartenant à l'Université de Paris
    Edme POURCHOT

    Plan et mémoire instructif touchant la seigneurie du Pré-aux-Clercs appartenant à l'Université de Paris

    Chez C. C. Thiboust|à Paris 1737|20.50 x 27 cm|relié
    New edition, rare, after the original published in 1694. A folding plan as frontispiece.
    Full vellum binding ca 1860. Smooth unlettered spine decorated with 5 fleurons and fillets. Title label on upper cover in black morocco. Soiling.
    Description of the Seigneurie du Pré-aux-Clercs, its houses, dependencies, its chapels... This memoir was deemed necessary by the alienation suffered by this possession of the University of Paris, not only by Queen Marguerite de Valois who made a park from part of it and by various neighboring abbeys such as that of Saint-Germain.
    €600
  60. Le monde souterrain ou merveilles géologiques
    LONGCHENE

    Le monde souterrain ou merveilles géologiques

    A. Mame & fils|Tours s. d. [circa 1840]|10.50 x 17.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
    New edition.
    Full black shagreen binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt romantic arabesques, gilt roulettes slightly faded on headcaps, gilt fillet frame on covers richly decorated with romantic arabesques stamped in blind, marbled edges, gilt edges at head and tail of boards, publisher's binding.
    Work illustrated with a title vignette and three plates, one of which has been placed as frontispiece by the binder.
    Le Mans bookseller's label pasted at head of pastedown.

    €100
  61. Memoria sobre la cria caballar de Espana
    Don Francisco LAIGLESIA Y DARRAC

    Memoria sobre la cria caballar de Espana

    D. Leon Amarita|Madrid 1831|15 x 21.50 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Contemporary Spanish binding in full brown tree calf. Smooth spine decorated with rolls and stars. Black shagreen title label. A tear in the tail compartment, with loss. Slash on the upper board. Rubbing. Scattered foxing. A trace of yellowish dampstaining to margin at center on about fifty leaves, in the middle of the work.
    Treatise on horse breeding in Spain. The author analyzes the reasons for the decline of horses in Spain and advocates crossing Spanish horses with Arabian horses. This project was adopted by royal decree in 1831.
    €500
  63. Pilote de ballon à air chaud
    Arnaud de VILLARS

    Pilote de ballon à air chaud

    Chez l'auteur|s. l. s. d. [circa 1978]|21.50 x 29 cm|broché
    First edition.
    Work illustrated with figures, sometimes humorous, in the text.
    Minor soiling and a trace of marginal crease on the first cover, otherwise handsome copy.
    €150
  64. L'alimentation en combustible des moteurs d'aéronautique par le système AM
    Basile DEMTCHENKO

    L'alimentation en combustible des moteurs d'aéronautique par le système AM

    Gauthier-Villars|Paris 1937|15.50 x 24.50 cm|relié
    First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Astra paper, deluxe copy.
    Full tan sheep binding, smooth unlettered spine, black shagreen title vignette on the first cover also decorated with green and black shagreen strips, marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
    Work illustrated with 75 figures and photographs in the text and 19 tables at the end of the volume.
    €200
  65. Cinq années de propagande aéronautique 1928-1933
    AERO-CLUB DU NIVERNAIS

    Cinq années de propagande aéronautique 1928-1933

    Aéro-club du Nivernais|Nevers 1928|13.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
    First edition.
    Work illustrated with photographic figures in the text.
    Covers marginally discolored without gravity, small worming to the covers.
    €150
  66. Libro de los hierros o marcas que usan los criadores para sus ganados caballares, rectificados por fin del ano 1859
    Juan ZABALA

    Libro de los hierros o marcas que usan los criadores para sus ganados caballares, rectificados por fin del ano 1859

    Rafael Arroyo|Cordoba 1860|20 x 29.30 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Contemporary half tawny sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with 2 Romantic mirror tools and monastic roulettes at head and foot. Binding rubbed and worn.
    Armorial bookplate of 19th General Roullet Marconne.
    Complete set of horse owner marks from Spain, arranged by provinces (Cadiz, Sevilla, Cordoba...).

    NB: This work is available at the bookshop on request within 48 hours.
    €350
  67. Reportage photographique des établissements Arbel réalisé dans le cadre de la fabrication de la soucoupe plongeante du commandant Cousteau
    (Jacques-Yves COUSTEAU) Raoul WALLEMME

    Reportage photographique des établissements Arbel réalisé dans le cadre de la fabrication de la soucoupe plongeante du commandant CousteauPhotographic report of the etablissements Arbel carried out for the manufacture of Captain Cousteau's diving saucer

    Février 1964|26 x 30 cm|documents et photographies conservés dans un classeur

    Collection of documents formed of 33 original contemporary silver halide print photographs, a reproduction of a press clipping from La Voix du Nord and three mimeographed technical plans, united in a black binder with a label with the inscription «Production Report «press» – press-forming of the ½ spheres of Ct Cousteau's diving saucer – February 1964.» Handwritten title page.
    Signed, handwritten presentation: «Avec les amitiés du reporter photographe Wallemme Raoul» «With love from the photojournalist Wallemme Raoul.»
    Very beautiful and unique collection, testifying to the genius of the making of the Deep Star 4000, a diving saucer invented by...

    €2,300
  68. Recherches expérimentales sur l'emploi de la gélatine comme substance alimentaire. - Mémoire sur l'emploi de la gélatine comme substance alimentaire. - De la digestion et de la résorption des matières grasses sans le concours du fluide pancréatique
    William Frederic EDWARDS, Jean Baptiste Marie BAUDRY DE BALSAC

    Recherches expérimentales sur l'emploi de la gélatine comme substance alimentaire. - Mémoire sur l'emploi de la gélatine comme substance alimentaire. - De la digestion et de la résorption des matières grasses sans le concours du fluide pancréatique

    Imprimerie de Migneret • Imprimerie et fonderie de Rignoux et Cie • Victor Masson|Paris 1833 & 1835 & 1857|13.50 x 21 cm|3 volumes reliés en 1
    First edition for each issue.
    Some foxinges, pleasantly established examples.
    Binding half morocco green fir, back with five small nerves set with golden dots and adorned with gilt fleurons with a piece of red mosaic morocco, double gilded nets framing marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of combed paper, three corners blunt , golden head.
    Signed autograph dedication of Alfred Donne which was largely cut off by the binder.
    Rare together.
    €800
  69. Histoire physiologique et pathologique de la salive considérée particulièrement sous le rapport de ses usages, du rôle que joue ce fluide dans les fonctions digestives et dans les affections gastriques
    Alfred DONNÉ

    Histoire physiologique et pathologique de la salive considérée particulièrement sous le rapport de ses usages, du rôle que joue ce fluide dans les fonctions digestives et dans les affections gastriques

    Béchet jeune|Paris 1836|14 x 22.50 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Half red shagreen binding, spine with five small raised bands set with gilt dots and decorated with gilt compartments having at their centers a green mosaic morocco piece representing a flower, double gilt fillets framing the marbled paper boards, combed paper endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, near-contemporary binding.
    Some minor foxing.
    Rare and handsome copy beautifully executed.

    €400
  70. Recherches sur la route que prennent diverses substances pour passer de l'estomac et du canal intestinal dans le sang ; sur la fonction de la rate et sur les voies cachées de l'urine
    Friedrich TIEDEMANN, Leopold GMELIN

    Recherches sur la route que prennent diverses substances pour passer de l'estomac et du canal intestinal dans le sang ; sur la fonction de la rate et sur les voies cachées de l'urine

    Méquignon-Marvis|Paris 1821|13 x 21 cm|relié
    First edition of the French translation by S Heller.
    Binding in red half calf, back with five small nerves set with golden dots and adorned with double gilded and decorated boxes, piece of black calf title, double gilded nets framing of marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of combed paper, head gilded, Contemporary binding.
    Some small foxinges.
    Rare and nice copy nicely established.
    Autograph dedication signed by S Heller to Dr. Renauldin.
    €500
  73. Monnaies inédites des Ethiopiens et des Homérites
    Gustave SCHLUMBERGER

    Monnaies inédites des Ethiopiens et des Homérites

    S. n.|s. l. 1886|16 x 25 cm|broché
    The first edition, published in a small number of copies of this offprint from the Revue numismatique.
    Covers absent, small fold marks at head of leaves, handsome interior condition.
    Pamphlet with one plate.



    €80
  74. Monographie des monnaies arméniennes
    Marie-Félicité BROSSET

    Monographie des monnaies arméniennes

    Académie impériale des sciences|Saint-Pétersbourg [Saint Petersburg] 1839|16 x 25 cm|broché
    The first edition, published in a small number of copies.
    Light foxing, small fold marks to margins of leaves, light dampstain at foot of both plates.
    Pamphlet with 2 plates.
    Copy in original temporary binding awaiting binding.
    Rare.



    €200
  75. Le diable au moulin à papier
    Henri POURRAT, François ANGELI

    Le diable au moulin à papier

    La feuille blanche|Paris s. d. [1948]|14.50 x 21 cm|broché
    First Edition printed in small numbers on Auvergne.
    Back and flat very slightly and marginally insolated.
    Pleasant illustrated example of original woods of François Angeli.
    Autograph dedication dated and signed Henri Pourrat Anne-Marie Kempf: "... wishing she likes, a little later, this paper in hand, our paper mills, and their devil same, with the compliment the best of the country of Ambert ... "
    €180
  76. Manuel métrologique des peuples de l'antiquité
    J. GIROD DU SAUGEY

    Manuel métrologique des peuples de l'antiquité

    A. Jeanthon|Paris 1837|13.50 x 21 cm|broché
    The rare first edition presented in temporary wrappers.
    Lacks to spine and corners of covers, green title label pasted on spine and partly torn, the title of the work has been written in ink at the head of the first cover.
    Some foxing.
    Rare.

    €120
  78. Intérieurs au salon des artistes décorateurs, Paris 1928
    René PROU

    Intérieurs au salon des artistes décorateurs, Paris 1928Interiors at the Salon des artistes decorateurs

    Charles Moreau|Paris 1928|25 x 32.50 cm|en feuilles sous chemise cartonnée à lacets
    Intérieurs au salon des artistes décorateurs, Paris 1928
    [Interiors at the Salon des artistes décorateurs]
    tCharles Moreau | Paris 1928 | 25 x 32.5 cm | in leaves in a chemise
    First edition printed on Japan for the text. Introduction by René Prou.
    Beautiful and rare copy.
    Illustrated with 48 plates, including 6 colored by stencil reproducing the interiors presented to the eighteenth Salon des Artistes Décorateurs at the Grand Palais by the following artists and workshops: P. Montagnac, J.E. Leleu, l'Atelier moderne, H. Rapin, E. Printz, L. Bouchet, L. Jallot, M. Jallot, Holt Le Son, Studio Abran, Compagnie des glaces de Boussois, A. Fréchet, J. Rulh
    mann...
    €450
  79. (Chambre des députés) Rapport fait au nom de la commission chargée de l'examen du projet de loi tendant à ouvrir un crédit de 140 millions pour les fortifications de la ville de Paris par M. Thiers député des Bouches-du-Rhône
    Adolphe THIERS

    (Chambre des députés) Rapport fait au nom de la commission chargée de l'examen du projet de loi tendant à ouvrir un crédit de 140 millions pour les fortifications de la ville de Paris par M. Thiers député des Bouches-du-Rhône

    S. n.|1841|22 x 28 cm|relié
    First edition printed on laid paper.
    Half chocolate brown morocco with corners, spine with five raised bands showing some rubbing, marbled paper boards, two scratches at head of second cover, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, scratches to corners, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt.
    The appendix to session No. 36 has been bound following the subject of the 1841 session to the Chamber of Deputies presented by Adolphe Thiers.
    Rare.
    Provenance: from the library of Château de Prye with a bookplate pasted to one pastedown.

    €200
  80. La gerbe d'or
    Henri BÉRAUD

    La gerbe d'or

    Les Editions de France|Paris 1928|14 x 21 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 39 numbered copies on Japan, head print.
    Small tears and shortfalls witnesses, a slight lack and a tear in the head of the first board and margins of both boards.
    Copy at all margins.
    Handwritten signature of Henri Béraud below the justification of the draw.
    Our copy is complete of a manuscript sheet of the book.
    €1,200
  81. Requiem de Clem-Sohn. Signé Auguste Boncors. - La Résurrection triomphale de Clem-Sohn
    Auguste BONCORS

    Requiem de Clem-Sohn. Signé Auguste Boncors. - La Résurrection triomphale de Clem-Sohn

    1937|24.20 x 27.60 cm|un carton imprimé recto-verso
    (CLEM SOHN) Auguste BONCORS
    Requiem de Clem-Sohn. – La Résurrection triomphale de Clem-Sohn
    1937 | 24.2 x 27.6 cm | one two-sided plate
    First edition of this double-sided board sign designed “for the glory of the American immortal Hero, as for the immense glory of the Air Force of all Nations.”
    Portrait of the poet Auguste Boncors, in profile with an emperor's crown and text entitled La Résurrection triomphale de Clem-Sohn, “The triumphal resurrection of Clem-Sohn.” On the reverse, a poem Requiem de Clem-Sohn, printed in red and gold, and dedicated to Franklin Roosevelt.
    Originating from Michigan, Clem Sohn made his very first parachute...
    €1,000
  82. Réalisations d'ensembles modernes
    Henri DEFRANCE

    Réalisations d'ensembles modernes

    C. Massin & Cie|Paris 1930|32.50 x 40.50 cm|en feuilles sous chemise à lacets
    The rare first edition.
    Publisher's laced chemise in full boards with smooth unlettered spine, some foxing on the boards, the back board is detached.
    Rare work on interior decoration and furnishing, complete with its 32 plates.
    €300
  83. Traité des chemins de toute espèce, comprenant les grandes routes, chemins de halage, vicinaux et particuliers, arbres et fossés qui les bordent, les rues et les places publiques ; suivi d'un appendice au régime des eaux
    Francis Xavier Paul GARNIER

    Traité des chemins de toute espèce, comprenant les grandes routes, chemins de halage, vicinaux et particuliers, arbres et fossés qui les bordent, les rues et les places publiques ; suivi d'un appendice au régime des eaux

    S. n.|Paris 1827|13.50 x 21 cm|relié
    Third edition.
    Black stains on one endpaper.
    Half tan sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt friezes and fleurons, black shagreen title-label, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, yellow edges, some minor rubbing to boards and upper corners, contemporary binding.
    Handsome copy.



    €150
  88. Qui est là ?
    Christian LACROIX

    Qui est là ?

    Mercure de France|Paris 2004|15.50 x 22 cm|broché
    First edition.
    Nice full copy of his trailer.
    Autograph dedication dated and signed by Christian Lacroix to a woman named Madeleine enriched with an autograph dedication signed by singer Sapho.
    These dedications were made during a conversation organized by Frédéric Mitterrand with Christian Lacroix and some of his muses at the Café de l'Industrie on Saturday 21 April 2007.
    €120
  89. Memoires de Montecuculi
    Comte Lancelot TURPIN DE CRISSE

    Memoires de Montecuculi

    Chez Arkstée et Merkus|A Amsterdam • & à Leipzig 1770|12.50 x 20 cm (In-8)|Copper engraving|3 volumes reliés

    New illustrated edition with a portrait as frontispiece, 3 title vignettes, and 41 folding plates. According to Brunet, the first octavo edition following the original quarto published in 1769 of these Commentaries. Title pages printed in red and black.
    Contemporary full mottled calf binding. Spine with raised bands, gilt-tooled. Beige morocco title-piece, black basane volume label. Head of volume 2 restored. Surface abrasions on the boards, polished with wax. Traces of rubbing. A handsome copy, the paper of remarkable freshness.
    Ex libris with 18th-century armorial bookplate of Biel D. de Lislemont.


    €1,200
  90. L'espace. Notes pour servir à l'histoire des énergies de l'air. Volume II : L'ancre de miséricorde
    Pierre WEISS

    L'espace. Notes pour servir à l'histoire des énergies de l'air. Volume II : L'ancre de miséricorde

    Berger-Levrault|Paris 1922|14 x 19 cm|broché
    First edition on current paper.
    Some foxing on the boards, a vertical fold on the margin of the first board.
    Signed autograph dated and signed by Commander Pierre Weiss to Henri Mengin, who was a lawyer and mayor of Nancy: "To Hneri Mengin, Mayor of Nancy, president of the Bar Association, and the greatest heart in the world. and dedication, Capit Weiss. "
    €70
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