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Photo SALVAGE, Jean-Galibert. 

SALVAGE, Jean-Galibert. 

Anatomie du gladiateur combattant, applicable aux beaux-arts, ou traité des os, des muscles, du mécanisme des mouvemens, des proportions et des caractères du corps humains. 

Paris, Chez l'auteur, 1812.
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2200 €

First Edition.
Beautifully book illustrated with twenty-two large plates.

"The 'Planche d'introduction' and the fifteen plates immediately following it are struck off from two plates so as to bring out the bones in black and the body contours and muscles in red." (Choulant-Frank).

"The effect is striking and the text, engraved along with the plates, was printed in the same manner." (Heirs).

Photo MAURRAS, Charles || JOSSO, Camille-Paul. 

MAURRAS, Charles || JOSSO, Camille-Paul. 

Anthinéa, d'Athènes à Florence. 

Paris, Aux dépens de l'artiste (presses Daragnès), 1955.
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250 €

First edition of illustrations.
Book printed on Daragnès presses in 200 copies decorated with 29 chisel engravings by Camille Paul Josso (1902-1986) orientalist painter, two of which are double-paged.
Unnumbered copy printed for the playwright Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon.

Accompanied by the presentation folder of the edition with a sample of the text and engravings.

Photo PARKER, K.T. || MATHEY, Jacques. 

PARKER, K.T. || MATHEY, Jacques. 

Antoine Watteau. Catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné. 

Paris, F. de Nobele, 1957-1959.
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300 €

First edition of this reference work comprising a catalogue raisonné of 934 drawings from Watteau. of the Camille Pissarro works.
Copy n.874 of 1000.

We add the n°LXX of July 1936 of the "la revue de l'art" devoted to Watteau. Disbound.

Photo BENOIT, Pierre. 

BENOIT, Pierre. 

Axelle. 

Paris, Editions Mornay, 1932.
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150 €

Edition illustrated by Lucien Boucher.

One of the 50 copies on Japan paper, ours n°23.

Editions Mornay was a French publishing house founded in 1919 by Georges and Antoinette Mornay. The company was particularly known for its exquisitely designed and illustrated books, which featured the work of some of the leading illustrators of the time.

Photo BERTALL. 

BERTALL. 

Cahier des charges des chemins de fer. Pamphlet illustré. 

Paris, J. Hetzel, 1847.
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50 €

Second edition.
Frontispiece and numerous drawings in the text by Bertall.

Photo PISSARRO, Ludovic Rodo || VENTURI, Lionello. 

PISSARRO, Ludovic Rodo || VENTURI, Lionello. 

Camille Pissarro, son art, ses oeuvres. 

Paris, Paul Rosenberg, 1939.
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250 €

First edition of the first Catalogue raisonné of the Camille Pissarro works.
Copy n.874 of 1000.

We add the n°IV 11 of April 1936 of the "revue de l'art" devoted to Pissaro.

Photo DICKENS, Charles || DORE, Gustave. 

DICKENS, Charles || DORE, Gustave. 

Cantiques de Noël. 

Paris, Editions Textes Prétextes, 1946.
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100 €

Very beautiful illustration of this classic of ancient literature by Gustave Doré

Copy n°1 printed on pure Auvergne rag by hand, accompanied by a suite in black of illustrations on pure vellum and an original watercolor, first paper printed in 21 copies.

Photo ROBAUT, Alfred || DUTILLEUX, Constant. 

ROBAUT, Alfred || DUTILLEUX, Constant. 

Carnet de dessins. 

s.l., s.n., [v.1840-1900].
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4500 €

Drawing album bellonging to Alfred Robaut, with his blind-stamped monogram on the upper cover.

A draftsman and lithographer, Robaut is best known as the author of the first catalog of works by Eugène Delacroix and Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, painters for whom he greatly admired.

He learned to paint from his father, Felix Robaut, who taught embroidery design at the Douai Academy. In 1853, he married the eldest daughter of the painter Constant Dutilleux, through whom he came into contact with Delacroix and Corot.

This album contains numerous drawings by Alfred Robault's close friends and artists from the North (Alfred Robaut, Felix Robaut, and some of his students, as well as Constant Dutilleux).
We thus find about twenty drawings by Constant Dutillleux (3 are signed, the others attributed in the margin) by his father, 10 are attributed to Félix Robaut, 18 to Alfred Robaut, others to northern artists or former students of Felix Robaut. (2 drawings signed HP attributed to Henry Pluchard, 1 sketch by Henri Regnault with the stamp of the sale of his studio, 1 signed by De La Rochenoire, 1 signed by Célestin Lepollart, 2 drawings attributed to Caullet, 1 attributed to Abel de Pujol, 1 signed by Ambroise Détrez, 3 attributed to Pierre Billet, ...).

Photo PETITJEAN, Charles || WICKERT, Charles. 

PETITJEAN, Charles || WICKERT, Charles. 

Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé de Robert Nanteuil. 

Paris, Loys Delteil et Maurice Le Garres, 1925.
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220 €

First edition.
Copy with a few handwritten annotations by Maurice Gobin and several loose sheets of his notes.

Photo RAMUZ, Charles Ferdinand || BROSSHARD, R.Th. 

RAMUZ, Charles Ferdinand || BROSSHARD, R.Th. 

Chant des Pays du Rhône. 

Paris, Les Bibliophiles Régionaux, 1929.
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230 €

Edition limited to 226 copies.
With 33 lithography from Gaston Proust drawned by R.Th Bosshard.

Photo LA COMBE, Joseph-Félix. 

LA COMBE, Joseph-Félix. 

Charlet Sa Vie, Ses Lettres suivi d'une Description Raisonnee de Son oeuvre Lithographique. 

Paris, Paulin et le Chevalier, 1856.
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60 €

First edition.
Reference bibliography on the life and work of Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet (1792-1845) French painter and lithographer.

Photo CONSTANTIN-WEYER, Maurice || FALKE, Pierre. 

CONSTANTIN-WEYER, Maurice || FALKE, Pierre. 

Clairière. 

Paris, Editions Mornay, 1929.
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250 €

Edition illustrated by George Barbier.
One of the 35 copies on Japan paper, ours n°10.

Editions Mornay was a French publishing house founded in 1919 by Georges and Antoinette Mornay. The company was particularly known for its exquisitely designed and illustrated books, which featured the work of some of the leading illustrators of the time.

Photo MERIMEE, Prosper || TRAYNIER, Jean. 

MERIMEE, Prosper || TRAYNIER, Jean. 

Colomba. 

Paris, La Tradition, 1942.
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400 €

First edition of the illustrations.

One of the 24 copies with double set of plates and 1 copper matrix, ours n°13.

Photo VERTES, Marcel. 

VERTES, Marcel. 

Complexes. 

Monte-Carlo, André Sauret, 1948.
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250 €

One of the 40 copies with an original drawing from Vertes.

Photo BUYSSE, Cyriel || CASSIERS, Henri. 

BUYSSE, Cyriel || CASSIERS, Henri. 

Contes des Pays-Bas. 

Paris, H. Piazza, 1910.
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400 €

First edition.
Very beautiful illustrations by Henri Cassiers (1858-1944), belgian painter.

Presentation copy.

Photo LA FONTAINE, Jean || BECAT, Paul Emile. 

LA FONTAINE, Jean || BECAT, Paul Emile. 

Contes. 

Paris, Georges Briffaut, 1928-1929.
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200 €

Edition given by Louis Perceau and illustrated with out-of-text color compositions by Paul-Emile BECAT.

Photo MOREAU-NELATON, Etienne. 

MOREAU-NELATON, Etienne. 

Corot raconté par lui-même. 

Paris, Henri Laurens, 1924.
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200 €

First edition.
Copy with a few handwritten annotations by Maurice Gobin and several loose sheets of his notes.

We enclose the catalog of Maurice Gobin's 1938 Corot exhibition and the n°11 of February 1936 of the "revue de l'art" devoted to Corot.

Photo LONGUS || TOUCHAGES, Louis. 

LONGUS || TOUCHAGES, Louis. 

Daphnis et Chloé. 

Paris, Editions du Bélier, 1945.
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600 €

Very beautiful illustration of this classic of ancient literature by Louis Touchages.

Copy n°1 printed on pure Auvergne rag by hand, accompanied by a suite in black of illustrations on pure vellum and an original watercolor, first paper printed in 21 copies.

Photo CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène. 

CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène. 

De la Loi du Contraste simultané des Couleurs et de l’Assortiment des Objets colorés, considéré d’après cette Loi dans ses Rapports avec la Peinture, les Tapisseries des Gobelins, les Tapisseries de Beauvais pour Meubles, les Tapis, la Mosaïque, les Vitraux colorés, l’Impression des Étoffes, l’Imprimerie, l’Enluminure, la Décoration des Édifices, l’Habillement et l’Horticulture. 

Paris, Pitois-Levrault, 1839.
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9000 €

First edition.
One of the most influential books on art in the 19th century.
Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889) is known to chemists for his research on fatty substances (1810–1823) and on immediate organic analysis (1824), but it is as a color theorist that his name achieved lasting fame.
De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs introduced a scientific understanding of color that had a profound and lasting impact on the painters of his time.
His “law” describes how the perception of a hue is altered by the surrounding colors, each color projecting its complementary onto its immediate environment (thus, a red object tends to cast a greenish glow on nearby surfaces, a yellow one a purplish tint, and so on). This principle is clearly illustrated in plate 7 of the Atlas, where colored dots on a white background seem to emit halos of their complementary hues.

Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), a central figure of Romanticism, paid close attention to Chevreul’s research. According to the painter Paul Signac, Delacroix even sought to meet the chemist and acquired notes from his lectures in order to better grasp the law of simultaneous contrast. Several of his paintings feature harmonies built around complementary color pairs. For instance, The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople (1840) deliberately juxtaposes yellow/purple, blue/orange, and red/green to dramatize the scene—so effectively that art historian Lee Johnson called it an ideal “illustration” of Chevreul’s treatise.

But it was arguably within the Impressionist movement that Chevreul’s theories reached their highest artistic fulfillment. Claude Monet (1840–1926), in particular, used simultaneous contrast to heighten luminosity in his landscapes. He avoided black and earth tones, preferring instead to render shadows in color: purples and blues for shaded areas at sunset, accented with yellow-orange highlights in full light. This technique appears as early as Impression, Sunrise, the foundational work of the movement. One might also recall the poppy fields, a favorite motif of the Impressionists (Van Gogh, Monet, Pissarro…), where red flowers vibrantly stand out against green backgrounds.

A book heralding one of the greatest revolutions in painting.

Our copy is complete with all the color plates, most of them signed by Chevreul himself.

Photo GRAPPE, Georges || [DEGAS]. 

GRAPPE, Georges || [DEGAS]. 

Degas. 

Paris, Librairie artistique internationale, [1909].
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200 €

First edition.
Deluxe edition limited to 200 copies (no. 26), signed by the author.

Photo CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène. 

CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène. 

Des couleurs et de leurs applications aux arts industriels à l’aide des cercles chromatiques. Avec XXVII planches gravées sur acier et imprimées en couleurs par René Digeon. 

Paris, J.B. Baillière et Fils, 1864.
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5500 €

First edition of the rarest of Chevreul's publications on color.

Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889) is known to chemists for his research on fatty acids, saponification, and the discovery of stearin, but it is as a color theorist that his name will go down in history. Chevreul was appointed director of the Manufacture des Gobelins in 1824. Responsible for overseeing the production of dyes, he supported the work of dyers with his research on color perception. Thus, in 1839, he proposed a scientific approach to color complementarity and subsequently developed "color circles." A true "Pantone" color chart, a hundred years ahead of its time, Chevreul's color circles had the dual benefit of systematizing the production of hues (each with its own name) and making it easier to understand the concept of color complementarity. Thus, complementary colors are found on the same diameter of the color wheel, Red No. 2 corresponds to Green No. 2. "I believe I can affirm that it is possible to subject colors to a reasoned nomenclature, by relating them to types classified according to a simple method, accessible to the intelligence of all those who deal with colors" (extract from the preface). The standardization of color production was to interest first and foremost the industry then in full development, but it is undoubtedly in the Impressionist movement that Chevreul's theories found their finest accomplishment. Very early on, painters were inspired by Chevreul's work in their paintings, starting with Delacroix and then Monet. We will thus remember the fields of poppies dear to the Impressionists (Van Gogh, Monet, Pissaro...) where the red dots of the flowers burst out on complementary green backgrounds. The 27 spectacular plates were printed by René-Henri Digeon using chromochalcography, the process and difficulties of which are discussed in a paragraph in the book. Digeon appears to have presented a first edition of these plates at the 1855 World's Fair, for which he received a patent from the Empress. Several of the plates in our copy appear to be from this first edition and contain errors that have been corrected in other later copies that we have been able to consult.

Photo SOULAGES, Gabriel || CARLEGLE (ill.). 

SOULAGES, Gabriel || CARLEGLE (ill.). 

Des riens. 

Paris, Editions Mornay, 1926.
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450 €

Edition illustrated by Carlègle.
Gabriel Soulages is a French author of novels, stories and light collections. In his romantic work, inspired by a pleasant eroticism, he demonstrated an in-depth Greek and Latin culture.

One of 37 copies on Japon, ours n°18 accompanied by two original watercolors signed by Carlègle.

Editions Mornay was a French publishing house founded in 1919 by Georges and Antoinette Mornay. The company was particularly known for its exquisitely designed and illustrated books, which featured the work of some of the leading illustrators of the time.

Photo CARCO, Francis || DIGNIMONT, André. 

CARCO, Francis || DIGNIMONT, André. 

Dignimont. 

Monte Carlo, André Sauret, 1946.
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250 €

First edition.
Monograph devoted by Francis Carco to the work of his friend André Dignimont.

One of the 385 numbered copies on Vélin de Rives, ours n° 331 containing in frontispiece a lithograph signed and numbered by the artist and theset of the 41 reproductions drawing from the work of Dignimont.

Photo GUÉRIN, Marcel. 

GUÉRIN, Marcel. 

Dix-neuf portraits de Degas par lui-même Précédés de deux portraits de Degas Enfant. 

Paris, Marcel Guérin, 1931.
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500 €

First edition limited to 125 copies. Copy n.56 signed by Guérin.
Contrary to what the title suggests, there are in our copy 20 portraits of Degas by himself preceded by two portraits of Degas as a child.

Photo GUITRY, Sacha. 

GUITRY, Sacha. 

Elles et Toi. 

Monte-Carlo, Raoul Solar, 1946.
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450 €

First edition.
One of the 300 first copies, signed by the author.
Presentation copy to Marc Gilbert Sauvageon, French playwright, screenwriter and director.

Photo MAC ORLAN, Pierre || [BOFA, Gus]. 

MAC ORLAN, Pierre || [BOFA, Gus]. 

Eloge de Gus Bofa. 

Paris, Manuel Bruker, 1949.
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850 €

First edition.
One of the 20 first copy with the additional set of engravings.

Photo WELTER, Gustave. 

WELTER, Gustave. 

Eloge de la Danse. 

Paris, Editions Mornay, 1925.
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250 €

Edition illustrated by Charles-Auguste Edelmann.

One of the 25 copies on Japan paper, ours n°20

Editions Mornay was a French publishing house founded in 1919 by Georges and Antoinette Mornay. The company was particularly known for its exquisitely designed and illustrated books, which featured the work of some of the leading illustrators of the time.

Photo CARTON, Jean || MONTHERLANT, Henry de. 

CARTON, Jean || MONTHERLANT, Henry de. 

Encore un instant de bonheur. 

Paris, Société du Livre d'Art, 1955.
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500 €

Limited edition (150 copies).
Our one the only 20 with the additionnal two suite of the engravings.
With an original drawing from Jean Carton.

Photo [ÉLOGES et PORTRAITS (Collection Bruker)]. 

[ÉLOGES et PORTRAITS (Collection Bruker)]. 

Ensemble de 46 ouvrages illustrés par Dufy, Marquet, Bofa, Utrillo, Hasegawa. 

Monte-Carlo, André Sauret, 1948.
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10000 €

Manuel Bruker, was born in 1891 in Radaut, Romania. He was three years old when his family arrived in France and settled in Paris around 1894.

After studying medicine and receiving his doctorate in 1917, he became an ear, nose and throat specialist.

Dr. Manuel Bruker was, in the words of Pierre Mac Orlan, a "book lover" with a real passion for art.

In 1926, at the age of thirty-five, he created his own publishing house on the advice of his friend Dr. Lucien-Graux, "the prince of bibliophiles".

Between 1931 and 1963, Bruker devoted himself to what was to be the most original and personal part of his work as a publisher: the creation of Praise and Portraits of Artists. He chose among his contemporaries those whose work he particularly esteemed; collaborating with them, he commissioned prints to illustrate the texts, which were written by writers or art critics often close to the artist. During these three decades Manuel Bruker publishes forty-six Praises and Portraits.
These works, which testify to the publisher's aspirations in the field of illustrated books - Manuel Bruker considered this field to be "a production in which France has been able to take the lead" - have rarely been brought together. They have been the subject of three exhibitions, the first at the municipal library of Toulouse in 1958, more recently at the Meguro Museum of Tokyo in the fall of 2003, and then at the Museum of Fine Arts of Bordeaux in 2005, from whom we borrow this introduction.

A very rare and complete collection of the 34 "Praises" and 12 "Portraits" published by Manuel Bruker.

If most of these works are easy to find, some are rare, such as the portrait of Hasegawa

Most of them are printed at 200 copies, some at 150 or 250 copies.

The "Eloges" :
Eloge de Raoul Dufy par Fernand Fleuret. Paris, 1932.
Eloge de J.-E Laboureur par le Dr Lucien-Graux. Paris, 1938.
Eloge de H. de Waroquier par A.- H Martinie. Paris, 1945.
Eloge de Pierre Bonnard par Léon Werth. Paris, 1946.
Eloge de Bernard Naudin par Claude Roger-Marx. Paris, 1947.
Eloge de Albert Marquet par Léon Werth. Paris, 1948.
Eloge de Gus Bofa par Pierre Mac Orlan. Paris, 1949.
Eloge de Jean Frélaut par Jacques de Laprade. Paris, 1950.
Eloge de Lucien Mainssieux par Manuel Bruker. Paris, 1950.
Eloge de Marcel Vertès par Georges Huisman. Paris, 1951.
Eloge de Louise Hervieu par Claude Roger-Marx. Paris, 1953.
Eloge de Henri Manguin par Charles Terrasse. Paris, 1954.
Eloge de Jacques Villon par Jacques Lassaigne. Paris, 1955.
Eloge de Maurice Brianchon par Claude Roger-Marx. Paris, 1955.
Eloge de Yves Brayer par Jean Bouret. Paris, 1955.
Eloge de Maurice Utrillo par Renée Willy. Paris, 1956.
Eloge de J.-G. Daragnès par Pierre Mac Orlan. Paris, 1956.
Eloge de Charles Camoin par Charles Vildrac. Paris, 1956.
Eloge de Van Dongen par Paul Guth. Paris, 1957.
Eloge de François Desnoyer par Jean Bouret. Paris, 1958.
Eloge de Clavé par Pierre Osenat. Paris, 1958.
Eloge de Gromaire par Guy Dornand. Paris, 1958.
Eloge de Cavaillès par Jean Cassou. 1958.
Eloge de Derain par Marc Sandoz. 1958.
Eloge de Roland Oudot par Claude Roger-Marx. Paris, 1958.
Eloge de Maurice Asselin par Marc Sandoz. Paris,1959.
Eloge de André Lhote par Guy Dornand. Paris,1960.
Eloge de Louis Neillot par Jean Bouret. Paris, 1962.
Eloge de Jean Lurçat par Robert Mallet. Paris, 1962.
Eloge de Robert Humblot par Claude Roger-Marx. Paris, 1962.
Eloge de Georges Oudot par Guy Dornand. Paris, 1962.
Eloge de Emile Bernard par Louis Hautecoeur. Paris, 1962.
Eloge de Michel Rodde par Gérard Mourgue. Paris, 1963.
Eloge de Dunoyer de Segonzac par Maurice Loncle. Paris, 1963


The "Portraits" :
Portrait de J.-L. Soulas par Jacques de Laprade. Paris, 1950.
Portrait d’A. Jacquemin par Louis Cheronnet. 1951.
Portrait d’Albert Decaris par lui-même. Paris, 1953.
Portrait de D. Galanis par André Beucler. Paris, 1954.
Portrait de Robert Lotiron par Claude Roger-Marx. Paris, 1955.
Portrait d’Abram Krol par Maurice Toesca. Paris, 1957.
Portrait de Jacob Balgley par Claude Roger-Marx. 1959.
Portrait de Monique Jörgensen par elle-même. Paris, 1959.
Portrait de Germaine de Coster par Raymond Cogniat. Paris, 1960.
Portrait de Ilya Bechkov par Bogomil Raino. 1960.
Portrait de Kiyoshi Hasegawa par Robert Rey. Paris, 1963.
Portrait de Hélène Marre par Jean-Luc Michaud. Paris, 1963.

Photo GASZTOLD, Carmen Bernos de. 

GASZTOLD, Carmen Bernos de. 

Eparses. 

Paris, Chez l'illustrateur, 1946.
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250 €

First edition.
One of 180 numbered exemplar on Rives, our n°LX
First collection of poems published by Carmen Bernos de Gasztold (1919-1995), illustrated by her brother Pierre de Gasztold.
Nice drawing signed with dedication by Pierre de Gasztold.

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