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Photo SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine (de). 

SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine (de). 

Lettre à un Otage. 

New York, Brentano's, 1946.
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950 €

Very beautiful binding executed by Jean Paul Miguet (1925-2019) one of the greatest French bookbinders of the 20th century.

Photo BERNARDIN DE SAINT PIERRE, Jacques-Henri. 

BERNARDIN DE SAINT PIERRE, Jacques-Henri. 

Paul et Virginie. 

Paris, Isidore Liseux, 1874.
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950 €

Edition illustrated by Lalauze with 6 lates and 2 vignettes.

One of 15 copies on China with additional suites of engravings on Chine paper(black, sepia and bistre) and Japan paper (black, sepia and bistre), ours n°1.

Desirable copy in signed binding.

Photo LA BRUYERE, Jean de. 

LA BRUYERE, Jean de. 

Les Caractères de Théophraste traduits du grec : avec les Caractères ou les Mœurs de ce siècle. 

Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1694.
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950 €

Eighth original edition.
"Les Caractères ou les Moeurs de ce siècle" by the French moralist Jean de la Bruyère (1645 - 1696) is one of the major works of French literature.
The first edition dates from 1688, the following nine editions from 1688 to 1696 are increased with each publication of new texts.
This edition contains 46 characters that had not yet been published (Cydias, Clitophon, Antagoras, etc.), as well as the Reception Speech at the Académie française which is attached for the first time to the Characters.

Photo POILLE, Jacques. 

POILLE, Jacques. 

Les œuvres. Divisées en onze livres. Rome en sept livre, La Grèce en un livre. Les Barbares, Les Grands Roy, Les Grands Seigneurs, Les Derniers Hérésiarques en un livre. L'Icare Français en deux livres. 

Paris, Thomas Blaise, 1623.
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950 €

First edition.
A collection of 919 sonnets describing famous men, from the Greeks and Romans to barbarians, kings, and heretics, ending with a portrait, in 105 sonnets, of the French Icarus, who was none other than Marshal Biron, a close friend of Henry IV, and executed as a traitor at the Bastille on July 31, 1602. The dedication to Louis XIII occupies no fewer than 54 sonnets.

Copy in a fine morocco binding from Hardy.

Photo [LAMY, François]. 

[LAMY, François]. 

Le nouvel athéisme renversé, ou réfutation du sistême de Spinosa tirée pour la plupart de la conoissance de la nature de l'homme. 

Paris, Jean de Nully, 1696.
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900 €

Rare first edition in a morocco bilding with gilt arms on covers.

Photo VERLAINE, Paul. 

VERLAINE, Paul. 

Choix de Poésies. 

Paris, Fasquelle, 1928.
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800 €

Beautiful copy of this famous industrial binding produced between 1933 and 1955 by Joseph Taupin, under the pseudonym Jotau. The boards and the back are molded in a mass-dyed resin, close to bakelite, pollopas. Flats and backs are articulated by a rod. This particularly brittle resin was quickly abandoned and few copies reach us without damage, as is the case with the book we are offering.

Photo RABELAIS, François || BARTA, Lazlo. 

RABELAIS, François || BARTA, Lazlo. 

Gargantua. 

Paris, Aux éditions de la Cigogne, 1934.
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800 €

Exceptionnelle reliure conçue par l'artiste Laslo Barta pour notre exemplaire (le certificat de l'artiste est joint à l'ouvrage)

Barta, artiste né en Hongrie en 1902 et mort en 1961 en France, s'est essayé à plusieurs discipline: peinture, décoration, mosaïque. Ce gout éclectique se retrouve sur notre livre dans lequel le texte est illustré de 40 eaux fortes, les gardes illustrées à la gouache et les plats conçues en haut relief de cuir repoussé.

One of 160 copies on Vélin de Rives, ours n° 59.

Photo AILHAUD, Jean Gaspard. 

AILHAUD, Jean Gaspard. 

L’Ami des malades, ou Discours historique & apologétique sur la poudre purgative. 

Paris, Méquignon Le Jeune, 1774.
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750 €

The famous purgative powder of Ailhaud true "universal medicine" is a preparation of scammony that cured all diseases.
Its success was enormous and made the richness of its inventor.
This book is a defense of this remedy against the growing criticism of the physicians of the time.

Photo ADET, Pierre-Auguste. 

ADET, Pierre-Auguste. 

Leçons élémentaires de chimie à l'usage des lycées. 

Paris, Dentu, An XIII - 1804.
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750 €

First edition.
Binding with empire gilt arms on covers.

Photo LE GLAY, Maurice. 

LE GLAY, Maurice. 

Les Pasteurs, Ichou et Itto, enfants berbères. 

Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1929.
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750 €

First edition.
Maurice Édouard Le Glay (1868-1936) was a French colonial soldier and writer. A defender of Berber culture, he was one of the main instigators of the Berber Dahir of May 16, 1930, which aimed to preserve the traditional autonomy of the Berber tribes of Morocco. Moroccan nationalist circles criticized him for having inspired a policy of division, pitting the Berbers against the Arabs.
One of the 500 copies on Hollande Van Gelder vellum, ours No. 332.

A very fine copy in an Arabist binding, possibly of Omani manufacture.

Photo CERVANTES, Miguel. 

CERVANTES, Miguel. 

El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, compuesto por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Edición en miniatura enteramente conforme á la última corregida y publicada por la Real Academia Española. 

Paris, Jules Didot, 1827.
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600 €

First miscroscopic edition by Didot.
Performance by the printer Didot who fit the entire text of Cervantes into a single tiny volume. As Brunet remarks, it is not easy to read, and Didot printed a more convenient two-volume edition a few years later. The work was commissioned by Joachim Maria de Ferrer, a Spanish statesman, who said Rius, had this edition distributed to his friends.
Most of the copies encountered are covered in a romantic binding by Simier (various variants).

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Les plaisirs de Saint-Germain en Laye, et de la Cour, et le tableau de la vie humaine, ou le solitaire. 

Paris, Gabriel Quinet, 1665.
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600 €

Unique edition.

Photo LONGUS || AMYOT, Jacques. 

LONGUS || AMYOT, Jacques. 

Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé. 

Londres, s.n., 1779.
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600 €

Rare copy bound in morocco illustrated by the engravings suit called Régent, very complete with the 29th engraving "aux petits pieds".

Photo FROMENTIN, Eugène. 

FROMENTIN, Eugène. 

Sahara et Sahel.
I - Un été dans le Sahara.
II - Une année dans le Sahel. 

Paris, Plon, 1879.
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600 €

First illustrated edition.
One of the 100 copy on papier vélin.
The 12 etchings are in our copy in four state (definitive, before the letter, before the letter and bistre and before the letter on china paper.

Photo HAUKSBEE, Francis. 

HAUKSBEE, Francis. 

Experiences physico-mechaniques sur différens sujets, et principalement sur la lumiere et l'electricité, produites par le frottement des corps. 

Paris, Veuve Cavelier, 1754.
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600 €

First french edition.
Binding with gilt arms of de La Rochefoucauld on the top of the spines.

Translation by Brémont and prefaced by Desmarets of the experiments of Francis Hauksbee (1660-1713) English physicist who worked in particular on static electricity.
He is one of the pioneers of electroluminescence and the majority of the work is devoted to his experiences of light production by the friction of various materials (including various phosphorus) on his static electricity production machine.

Photo PRESSAVIN, Jean Baptiste. 

PRESSAVIN, Jean Baptiste. 

Nouveau traité des vapeurs, ou traité des maladies des nerfs. 

Lyon, V. Reguilliay, 1771.
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600 €

Second edition.
The "vapors" mental disorder popularized by Pierre Pomme, foreshadows what will be discussed under the term Hysteria in the 19th century.

"Contrary to Pomme, Pressavin does not condemn passions without restriction [...] vapors would correspond to a dysfunction of the relational system which binds living beings to the outside world; vapors can just as easily be passionate, in the grip of an overexcited sensitivity , that an indifferent, vegetating in a state of torpor. " Paul Hoffmann, "The Woman in the Thought of Lights", Slatkine, 1995

Beautiful copy in contemporary morocco.

Photo LE SAGE, Alain René. 

LE SAGE, Alain René. 

Oeuvres de Le Sage. Avec notices et notes par A. P. - Malassis. 

Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1877-1877.
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600 €
Photo FLORUS, Lucius Annaeus et alii. 

FLORUS, Lucius Annaeus et alii. 

Historiae Romanae epitome. 

Amsterdam, Guibel Lanss Caesius, 1625.
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500 €

Selections from Roman Historians.

Rare binding with the arms of François-Auguste de Thou (1604-1642), his coat of arms on the covers, flies on the boxes. Eldest son of Jacques-Auguste de Thou, François-Auguste succeeded his father as Grand Master of the King's Library in 1617. take an active part in it himself; he was however condemned to death in Lyon and beheaded on September 12, 1642 on the Place des Terreaux. He had inherited his father's library, which he kept carefully and which passed after his death to his younger brother, Jacques-Auguste. He had the volumes struck, the paternal collection of which he augmented with the simple arms of the de Thou.

Photo [AUX ARMES ROYALES]. 

[AUX ARMES ROYALES]. 

Office de la semaine sainte. 

Paris, Herissant, [1745].
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500 €

Good copy in contemporary morocco whose covers are gilded with the arms of Mesdames de France.
The daughters of Louis XV indeed shared the same arms for their bindings, they were distinguished only by the color of the morocco. Red morocco was reserved for Adelaide of France (1732-1800).

Photo SCOTT, Walter. 

SCOTT, Walter. 

Le Monastère et L'Abbé. 

Paris, Dauthereau, 1829.
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450 €

Bindings from Gruel.

Photo [MAROQUIN DOUBLE]. 

[MAROQUIN DOUBLE]. 

Les Pseaumes de David traduits en François selon l'Hébreu de la Vulgate. 

Paris, Helie Josset, [1689].
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450 €

Rare copy covered with a contemporary Jansenist binding in morocco.
This very well executed binding work is in the style of Luc-Antoine Boyet who practiced at that time.

Photo GRANIER, Camille. 

GRANIER, Camille. 

Le Contrôle des services pénitentiaires [suivi de] Le Marché des services pénitentiaires [suivi de] Les Commissions de surveillance. 

Paris, Berger-Levrault et Cie, 1894-1895.
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450 €

First editions.
Suite of three texts by Camille Granier then inspector general of prisons.

Photo BOCCACE. 

BOCCACE. 

Les Dix Journées de Jean Boccace. 

Paris, Librairie des bibliophiles Joaust, 1873.
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450 €

Beautiful edition by Jouaust of the work of Boccace.
Paul Lacroix signs the introduction and Flameng who gives eleven very beautiful etchings.

Photo DESHOULIERES, Antoinette. 

DESHOULIERES, Antoinette. 

Poësies de Madame Deshoulières. 

Paris, veuve de Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1688.
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450 €

First Edition.
A French woman of letters and little-known writer, Antoinette Deshoulières frequented the salon of Mademoiselle de Scudéry.
She was nicknamed the "Tenth Muse" by her contemporaries.
She was the first French woman to be a member of the Academy. So, of course, we're not talking about the Académie Française (which nevertheless read one of her poems in a session in 1690), but the Académie des Ricovrat.
This copy is bound in fine Jansenist full morocco by Chambolle-Duru.

Copy in a morocco binding from Chambolle-Duru.

Photo HUME, David. 

HUME, David. 

Histoire de la maison de Plantagenet sur le trône d'Angleterre, depuis l'invasion de Jules César, jusqu'à l'avènement de Henri VII. 

Amsterdam, s.n., 1765.
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450 €

First edition in french.

Photo FLORIAN, J.-P. Claris de. 

FLORIAN, J.-P. Claris de. 

Fables de Florian Préface par M. Anatole de Montaiglon. Compositions inédites de Moreau gravées par Martial. 

Leide, P. Rouquette, 1882.
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450 €
Photo TOUDOUZE, Gustave. 

TOUDOUZE, Gustave. 

La Vengeance des Peaux-de-Bique. 

Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1896.
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First edition.
100 luxury copies have been published on China paper.
Our copy is one of the first 50 copies (n°28), with all the engravings expected (n°28).

The illustrations of this book were realized by Julien Le Blant (1851-1936), who was a French painter specialized on the War in the Vendée, in France, at the end of the eighteenth century.

Fine copy.

Photo LEBESCHU DE LA BASTAY. 

LEBESCHU DE LA BASTAY. 

Révolution de la médecine ou régénération de l'Art de Guérir. 

Paris, Méquignon, An VII [1799].
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350 €

Rare first edition.

Photo GALTIER-BOISSIERE, Jean || DIGNIMONT, André. 

GALTIER-BOISSIERE, Jean || DIGNIMONT, André. 

La bonne vie. 

Paris, Henri Jonquières et Cie, 1928.
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350 €

575 copies, this one on "Vélin de Montgolfier" paper.

Photo TREUVE, Simon Michel. 

TREUVE, Simon Michel. 

Le Directeur spirituel pour ceux qui n'en ont point. 

Paris, Elise Josset, 1695.
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350 €

Third edition.
Treuvé was one of the great apostles of Jansenist spirituality in the 18th century.
His Spiritual Director was a European success and had more than a hundred editions.
Rare copy in full red morocco of the time, without ornamentation, austere binding that one would easily qualify as Jansenist.

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