First Editions

First edition illustrated with two folding plates at the end of the volume.
Half-midnight blue shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands outlined with black fillets, rubbing to spine, midnight blue paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.
Small stains to edges.
Handsome interior condition.

Rare first edition of the French translation established by Edmond Barbier.
Publisher's full green cloth binding, smooth pleated spine, blind-ruled frame on boards, corners slightly bumped, grey paper endpapers and pastedowns. Some foxing, front inner hinge somewhat split.
Work illustrated with figures in the text.

First edition.
A handsome and rare copy.

First edition illustrated with drawings by Luis Benedit.
Handsome and rare copy.

First edition of Georges Duhamel's medical thesis, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Covers and spine slightly and marginally browned without gravity, otherwise rare and handsome copy.
Autograph inscription dated 1922 and signed by Georges Duhamel to Edouard Champion: "A mon ami Edouard Champion, savant, lettré, actif et courageux chevalier des belles lettres, cet ouvrage où je le prie de ne jamais mettre le nez. Duhamel." (To my friend Edouard Champion, scholar, man of letters, active and courageous knight of fine literature, this work in which I beg him never to poke his nose. Duhamel.)

New observations on venereal diseases where one learns what the Great Pox consists of and whence it proceeds, and all the accidents that accompany and follow it. With the means of curing it, either by salivation, or without salivation and without being obliged to keep to one's chamber.
Rare first edition.
Two slight lacks at head and foot of spine, headcaps worn, small scratches and stains on boards, two manuscript ownership inscriptions in pen at head of one endpaper and in right margin of title page.
One tear without loss in right margin of page 53,
Contemporary full sheep binding, spine in five compartments decorated with gilt compartments ornamented with gilt typographical motifs, gilt fillets on leading edges, corners slightly bumped.

First edition illustrated with 30 plates representing 120 figures.
Some foxing, principally at the beginning and end of the volume
Half red sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with black fillets, gilt friezes and blind-tooled fleurons, gilt initials at center of spine, red paper boards with some scratches, boards slightly and very marginally discolored at head, lower corners bumped, contemporary binding.
The text volume is lacking.
Rare copy of the first surgical work dealing exclusively with facial surgery.

First edition illustrated with 20 plates depicting 120 figures.
Some foxing, mainly at beginning and end of volume.
Half red sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with black fillets, gilt friezes and blind-tooled fleurons, gilt initials at center of spine, red paper boards with some light scuffs, contemporary binding.
The text volume is lacking.

First edition illustrated with 11 folding lithographed plates, partly after drawings by Moreau.
The eleventh folding engraving has been bound between plates 7 and 8.
Half red sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with black fillets and gilt friezes, gilt initials in the center of the spine, red paper boards with small scratches, boards slightly and marginally discolored at head, contemporary binding.
Handsome copy despite some foxing.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Spine lightly sunned, complete with the publisher's folding advertising catalogue concerning the author's works.
Autograph inscription signed by Jean des Vignes Rouges to Jean Henri Guillaumet: "... jeune psychologue et écrivain..." (young psychologist and writer...)

First edition of the French translation established by Jean-Jacques Moulinié, the only translation authorized by Charles Darwin during his lifetime.
Indeed, the first French translation by Clémence-Auguste Royer published in 1862 by Guillaumin & Cie and Victor Masson & fils was denounced by Charles Darwin.
This important 1873 edition is also augmented with a chapter as well as notes and additions by the author.
Publisher's binding in full green cloth, smooth spine, gilt friezes at head and foot, headcaps slightly depressed, blind fillet frame to covers, corners slightly bumped, grey paper endpapers and pastedowns.
Some minor foxing without gravity, work illustrated with a folding plate.
Rare and handsome copy of one of the most important scientific texts of the 19th century and the only edition authorized by Charles Darwin during his lifetime.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Precious autograph inscription signed by Jacques Séguéla to his friend Bernard Kouchner: "A Bernard mon frère d'armes mon frère d'âme. Jacques." (To Bernard my brother-in-arms, my soul brother. Jacques.)

First edition, a service de presse (advance) copy.
Preface by Professor J.A. Barré.
Handsome copy retaining publisher's wraparound band.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Pierre Vitiano to Henri Guillaumet: "... j'offre avec plaisir cet ouvrage conçu à la gloire spirituelle d'une France qui vivra toujours !" (I offer with pleasure this work conceived for the spiritual glory of a France that will live forever!)

Third edition, first for some parts as corrected, revised and expanded.
Also about opium, cocaine, ether, magical herbs, pills, narcotic plants...
Spine lightly browned, a small stain at the head of the front cover.
Rare.

New edition, first edition in part as completed with the account of the 1953 expedition, limited to one thousand copies.
Preface by Félix Trombe, work illustrated with 46 heliogravures.
Handsome copy complete with its illustrated dust jacket which has small tears at head of spine.
Autograph inscription signed by Haroun Tazieff to Jean Libbe.

First edition.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Hubert Reeves to a woman named Anne-Florence.

The rare first edition.
20th-century binding in the spirit of a period binding, in half red shagreen. Raised spine, blind fillets. Author and title gilt. Green wrappers preserved. Superb condition. Paper very fresh, except for the wrappers which have some darker areas.
Gilding as well as electrolytic silvering is a technique specific to the House of Christofle. Gold is present in the bath in the form of aurocyanide, silver in the form of shot. The piece, carefully polished and cleaned, is immersed in an electrolytic bath and connected to the negative pole. At the positive pole is placed the aurocyanide. Charles Christofle purchased the patents for electrolytic silvering and gilding in 1842 from Elkington. The work traces the technical aspects of the electrolysis process and relates the opposition from a certain Ruolz who contested the Christofle house's patent and claimed to have fathered it, but it turned out that his technique was different and did not achieve the same results. For 15 years, Christofle was the only one in France to produce objects silvered or gilded by this process, and permanently established the company in the world of goldsmithing and jewelry.

First edition with no mention of deluxe copies.
Half dark green sheep binding with corners, spine with four raised bands, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, modest contemporary binding.
Rare autograph inscription signed by Louis Blériot, one of the most famous pioneer aviators, to Monsieur Devout.
On July 25, 1909, aboard the Blériot XI, his latest prototype, he flew from Calais to Dover in 37 minutes and thus became the first man to cross the English Channel by air.

First edition of the French translation based on the third German edition.
Work illustrated with 530 engravings in the text as well as one color plate at the end of the volume.
Half green sheep binding, smooth spine slightly faded decorated with sextuple gilt fillets, traces of rubbing to spine, marbled paper boards, speckled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges, contemporary binding.

First edition printed in 325 copies, ours unnumbered.
Publisher's binding in half sky blue flexible boards, smooth and unlettered spine in sand-colored cloth, a vignette representing a rose glued to the center of the first board of the first volume, a vignette representing a pear at the center of the first board of the second volume.
Work illustrated with 100 watercolors hors-texte reproduced by Daniel Jacomet.
Introduction by Guillaume Janneau.
Handsome copy.

First edition.
A handsome copy.
Rare and amusing signed autograph inscription from Henri Laborit to the cancer researcher and biologist Monique Castagna who made important contributions to understanding the genesis of cancer in the 1970s: "... en souhaitant qu'elle continue à jouer longtemps, non pas aux dés, mais à la protéine kinase C dont elle nous a déjà révélé les activités essentielles. Bien respectueusement. H. Laborit." ["...hoping that she will continue to play for a long time, not with dice, but with protein kinase C whose essential activities she has already revealed to us. Most respectfully. H. Laborit."]

First edition.
Current state of chemical knowledge concerning silk, thermochemistry of silk, wool and cotton, on the theory of the dyeing phenomenon, the density of silk, influence of water in the spinning of cocoons.
Spine in poor condition, lacks and angular tears to first cover, second cover missing, handsome interior condition despite some light foxing.
Very rare.

First edition illustrated with 14 folding plates.
Worming to covers, handsome interior condition.
Rare.

First edition with recipient's name, ours for Mr Cézilly, deputy chief of staff in the Interior Ministry.
Small marginal tears to rear board, boards lightly soiled.
Rare.

Portuguese first edition.
Handsome copy.
Signed autograph inscription, in French, from Nicolas Kryloff to Monsieur Fripier, then assistant director of the École Centrale.

Rare first edition of the French translation established by Edmond Barbier.
Biographical introduction and additional notes by Charles Martins.
Publisher's full green cloth binding, smooth spine, headcaps skillfully restored, blind-ruled frame on boards, grey paper endpapers and pastedowns.
Some foxing, gift inscription dated in blue ballpoint pen at head of half-title page.
Work illustrated with 30 figures in the text.

First edition of the French translation established by Edmond Barbier.
Biographical introduction and supplementary notes by Charles Martins.
Publisher's full green percale binding, smooth spine, head caps lightly rubbed, blind fillet frame on covers, grey paper endpapers and pastedowns.
Some minor foxing of no consequence.
Work illustrated with 30 figures in the text.
Very rare and handsome copy.

First edition.
A handsome and rare pamphlet.

First edition illustrated with 72 folding plates of which 68 have been finely hand-colored. One folding table. At the end of the first three volumes, 4 plates of prices for recreations found at Guyot's.
Contemporary full glazed lavallière calf binding. Smooth spine handsomely decorated. Red morocco title labels, green morocco volume labels. Triple-ruled frame. Upper joint of volume I rubbed, with a hole, split at foot. Lower joint of second volume narrowly split at foot. Headcap of volume IV worn, tailcap partially worn. The corner of one board exposed. Signs of rubbing. 3 holes to half-title of volume II, in volume I p241 at the end, trace of pale dampstaining to corner, otherwise fresh throughout on white paper. Despite some defects, a handsome copy in a quality binding.
A collection composed of scientific amusements designated under the term recreations. (Caillet, 4900, "Collection infinitely more complete than all those published since, including Robert Houdin's"). These recreations would later be called magic tricks, Guyot here provides the mathematical, physical, chemical and optical methods; for make no mistake, these recreations are today a manual of magic. The first volume deals with mathematics, magnets, mechanics and numbers. The second volume covers geometry, light, optics and electricity. The third volume contains "recreations" around magnets, sleight of hand and catoptrics. And the last, fourth volume consists of chapters on mechanics, on occult writing, magnets, water, fire and air... (with "tricks" involving the camera obscura).

First edition.
Light marginal stains to covers with some minor creasing.
Preface by Maurice Farman.
Rare pamphlet.

First edition.
The oath of Cabanis, the marriage of Cabanis, Cabanis as politician.
Work illustrated with two portraits and one view.
Fine copy.

First edition in French.
A small lack at foot of spine, some minimal foxing to margins of boards, handsome copy.

First edition.
Boards lightly and marginally discolored.
Rare and handsome pamphlet.

First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint from the Royal Academy of Sciences of Uppsala.
Tears and corner lacks to spine and boards, a small dampstain to upper right corner of leaves.
Rare fascicle illustrated with one plate hors-texte at rear containing 5 figures.

First edition.
Small tears to the spine and slight angular lacks to the boards, handsome interior condition.
Rare pamphlet illustrated with 24 figures.

First edition.
Small angular lacks to the slightly sunned boards, handsome interior condition.
Rare illustrated pamphlet with 14 figures in the text.

First edition.
Corner lacks to boards marginally sunned, manuscript library classification marking to upper left corner of first board, handsome interior condition.
Rare illustrated pamphlet with 15 figures in the text.

The first edition, published in a small number of copies.
Boards marginally and slightly browned, a number written in pen in upper left corner of front board which also bears trace of a postal stamp, handsome interior condition.
Rare copy.
Printed stamp reproducing Professor Peugniez's signature at head of title page.
Illustrated pamphlet with 6 photographic plates hors-texte and figures in the text.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy, with a press clipping pasted at the foot of the page bearing the autograph inscription, the sales price reference has yellowed at the foot of the back cover.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Professor Christian Cabrol to Pierre Troillard.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Half brown sheep binding, spine lightly faded with four raised bands, a tear at foot of spine, marbled paper boards, wood-grain endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved,
Handsome copy.
Fraternal autograph inscription signed by the Immortal and Resistance member Louis Pasteur-Vallery-Radot to the Immortal Vichy supporter General Weygand.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Jean-Pierre Luminet to a woman named Nathalie: "... ces chutes & trouvailles célestes..." ["... these celestial falls & findings..."]

First edition in French.
Half aubergine shagreen binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Boards slightly and marginally lightened, a small tear to upper right corner of front board, foxing.
Rare copy of this major text on homeopathy.

First edition.
Two tears with slight lacks of no consequence at foot and head of spine, a light stain and a small scratch on the first cover.
Illustrated catalogue with 12 folding plates at rear of volume as well as in-text figures.
Rare.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy, iconography.
Fine full-page autograph inscription, dated and signed, from Odette Joyeux to Jean-Paul Gibiat.

First edition.
A small inconsequential lack to the foot of one joint, handsome interior condition.

Rare first edition published anonymously.
Lacks to spine, small lacks with tears to board margins, some foxing.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy, iconography.
Beautiful full-page autograph inscription dated and signed by Odette Joyeux to Christian Giudicelli: "A Christian Giudicelli, à mon cher Christian à mon tour de "doubler". Je te fais parvenir un nouvel exemplaire de ces troisièmes regards dont je t'ai tant parlé en souhaitant que tu en sois content. Ton amie, ton interrète Odette (Joyeux), Mars 1990." ["To Christian Giudicelli, to my dear Christian, my turn to 'double.' I am sending you a new copy of these 'Third Looks' which I have spoken to you about so much, hoping that you will be pleased with it. Your friend, your interpreter Odette (Joyeux), March 1990."]

First edition of this catalogue concerning the twin-engine biplane Type G.6 which was first used by the French military aviation in 1916.
Some marginal foxing on the covers.
Brochure illustrated with 2 photographs hors-texte and complete with its folding plan at the end.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Two corner creases to upper right of rear cover.
Signed autograph inscription from Jacques Séguéla to a man named Hervé.

First edition illustrated with 29 plates and 12 trigonometric tables. The first 3 volumes are found in second edition dated 1793.
Contemporary full marbled brown sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with roulettes at head and foot. Brown morocco title labels, tan morocco volume labels. One lack at foot of volume IV. Scuffs and scratches on boards. Volume V: title page creased with a lack to inner margin not touching text. Paper generally fresh with some occasional pale foxing to titles and endpapers. One corner bumped, others rubbed. The folding plates, not always well folded, protrude. Good copy.
Detail of the volumes which concern different aspects and fields of mathematics:
I: "Éléments d'Arithmétique". II: "Contenant les Élemens de Géometrie, la Trigonométrie rectiligne, et la Trigonométrie sphérique". III: "Contenant l'Algèbre & l'application de cette science à l'Arithmétique & la Géométrie". IV: "Contenant les Principes généraux de la Méchanique, précédes des Principes de Calcul qui servent d'introduction aux Sciences Physico-Mathématiques". V: "Suite du Cours de Mathématiques . contenant le Traité de Navigation".
The mathematician Etienne Bezout remained famous, not only for his research in mathematics but especially for the eminent role he played in his time in the development of mathematics pedagogy. He was professor of mathematics to the Marine Guards and the Artillery School.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Fine autograph inscription signed by Jacques Séguéla to a friend named Pierre.

First edition with four plates bound at the rear. On the last endpaper has been pasted a conversion table for timber from log to the sixth deduction.
Contemporary binding in half brown calf, smooth spine decorated with double gilt fillets and a red paper title-label, brown paper boards showing some rubbing, all edges yellow. Scattered foxing.
Handsome copy.

First edition.
Fine copy.
Rare autograph inscription signed by Henri Laborit to Madame Lachatrape.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Publisher's full red cloth binding, smooth spine, front cover stamped with the manufacturer's chevrons.
Handsome copy complete with its illustrated dust jacket, beautiful iconography.
Fine autograph inscription signed by Jacques Séguéla to a couple of friends.

First edition illustrated with more than 100 superb heliogravure photographs of French monuments and churches illuminated by the Mazda company.
A slight lack to foot of spine.
Handsome copy with unfaded blue covers and complete with its two tissue paper sheets protecting the very first and very last pages of this catalogue celebrating the glory of the Mazda company.

First edition on ordinary paper, stating "second edition".
Illustrated cover.
A small tear and slight lack at foot of spine.
Autograph inscription signed by Marcel-Etienne Grancher to Alfred Fabre-Luce: "... ces pages moroses..." ["... these morose pages..."]

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
About Littré, Claude Bernard, Louis Pasteur, Jean Charcot, Honoré de Balzac, Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, Emile Zola, Eugène Delacroix, Stendhal, Prosper Mérimée, Georges Clemenceau, Paul Valéry, Charles Baudelaire...

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Complete with publisher's slip.
Autograph inscription signed by Albert Ducrocq to radio journalist Jacques Ourévitch.

First edition.
Half purple cloth binding, smooth discoloured spine decorated with blind fillets, two tears on spine, top headcap worn away, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, corners slightly bumped.
Handsome interior condition.

First edition.
Handsome copy.
Precious signed autograph inscription from Bernard Fonty, gynecologist-obstetrician surgeon, to Gisèle Halimi.

Second edition, with some parts in first edition as revised and augmented.
Half caramel sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with black fleurons as well as quadruple gilt fillets, gilt frieze at foot, red morocco title-label, upper headcap missing, one joint cracked and re-adhered at foot, marbled paper boards, speckled endpapers and pastedowns.
Some light foxing.
Rare.

First edition.
Half red shagreen binding, spine slightly faded with four raised bands and decorated with blind-tooled compartments, rubbing to spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Some light foxing.

First edition.
Half bronze sheep binding, spine slightly faded with four raised bands set with black fillets, head of spine rubbed and worn, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Each monthly fascicle is decorated with one or two plates of 8 dye samples, in all 15 plates for the year 1898.
The September plate is detached.
The journal is also illustrated with text figures.

First edition of the French translation by André Juliard.
Half brown sheep binding, smooth spine slightly faded decorated with quadruple gilt fillets, rubbing traces on the spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Some scratches on the boards, chemistry library stamp on the title page.
Work illustrated with 41 figures in the text.
Rare.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Important first edition.
Half havana sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, two light dampstains on spine which also shows some scuffs, marbled paper boards, contemporary binding.
Some foxing, one dampstain in margins of final leaves not touching text.
Rare autograph inscription signed by Etienne Jean Georget: "L'auteur à son confrère le Dr Moulin. Georget." ["The author to his colleague Dr. Moulin. Georget."]

First edition, published without the author's name, and illustrated with a frontispiece by Guérard and 26 folding plates by the same artist. The second work is also in its first edition and is illustrated with a frontispiece and 4 plates by Guérard.
Contemporary full brown calf binding. Richly decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title-label. Headcaps worn. Upper joint cracked at head and foot. Lower joint cracked at head. Corners bumped and trimmed. Overall rubbed.
A great classic on bridge construction and regulation. The second work is a technical analysis of bridge construction and the knowledge and calculations necessary for their realization. It includes measurement tables.

First edition of the complete collection of these texts, most of which had only appeared in journals. These works were assembled and published by his nephew P. Malatret and Antoine Augustin Parmentier. 2 tables at end of volume 1.
Contemporary half blonde sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with 4 small fleurons and roulettes. Red morocco title-label, volume numbering in wax, faded on volume 1. Head of volume 1 cut down, that of volume 2 with slight lack. A lack on the foot of both volumes. Upper joint of volume 2 split and open at foot for 15 cm, the lower joint narrowly cracked in part. Upper joint of volume 1 split at head and foot, lower joint narrowly cracked at foot. Foxing on endpapers, pale scattered foxing in upper margin.
Among the texts and articles, the Researches on tin occupy the major part of the second volume. We should also distinguish the Analysis of the waters of Luchon, which occupies more than 200 pages. Through his experiments and his texts, Pierre Bayen, apothecary and chemist, remained the great opponent of the phlogistic theory whose validity he doubted, a theory almost sovereign in chemistry in this late eighteenth century. In the dedication, Malatret thanks Parmentier for having given him the idea of assembling the works of Payen.

First edition under the reissue label of Armand Rosière in Paris.
Illustrated catalogue with 140 figures.
One scratch and a small paper loss at the head of the first cover, otherwise a handsome copy.

New edition.
Covers marginally sunned with small lacks.
Rare libertarian and Malthusian pamphlet.

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.

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 contained in the second volume.

First edition.
Half black shagreen binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets and wide black fillets, minor rubbing to headcaps, black paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns,
Scattered foxing.

First edition illustrated with 54 figures in the text and 8 tables at the end of the volume.
Unlettered spine.
Rare and handsome copy.

First edition illustrated with 25 figures in the text and a large folding map at the beginning of the volume.
Unlettered spine.
Rare and handsome copy.

First edition illustrated with 8 figures in the text.
Unlettered spine.
Rare and handsome copy.

First edition illustrated with 55 figures in the text and one plate.
Unlettered spine.
Rare and handsome copy.