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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 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).

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 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.

FINE COPY IN A CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO BINDING.

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 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 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 EUDEL, Paul. 

EUDEL, Paul. 

Théatre. 

Paris, Librairie Molière, 1903.
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900 €

First edition.
Collector and art critic, Eudel presents us with a collection of plays through which he makes a brief foray into the theater.
Unique copy, the only one printed in Japan.
Splendid personal copy of the author linked to his arms.

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 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 [ROBERT, procureur au Châtelet]. 

[ROBERT, procureur au Châtelet]. 

Observations sur la culture des arbres fruitiers. 

Paris, Jacques Collombat, 1718.
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950 €

Scarce first edition of this works on fruit trees.

Good copy, binding with arms of la Rochefoucauld on covers.

Photo COUTAN. 

COUTAN. 

Le Grand Oeuvre dévoilé en faveur des enfans de la Lumière. 

Paris, Delalin, 1775.
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950 €

III. Scarce first edition of the "Grand oeuvre dévoilée".

First are bound two other works :
I. LE CHOYSELAT, Prudent. Discours oeconomique, non moins utile que recreatif, monstrant comme de cinq cens livres pour une foys employées, l'on peult tirer par an quatre mil cinq cens livres de proffict honneste, qui est le moyen de faire profier son argent. Rouen: Martin le Menestrier, 1612 [but c. 1745].
II. LE BRETON. Divers Objets d'économie rurale et domestique. Chez l'Auteur. Paris [1788].

Photo COMMINES, Philippe de. 

COMMINES, Philippe de. 

Les Mémoires De Messire Philippe De Commines, Sr. D'Argenton. 

Leide, les Elzeviers, 1648.
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950 €
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 [MONTFAUCON DE VILLARS , Abbé]. 

[MONTFAUCON DE VILLARS , Abbé]. 

Nouveaux entretiens sur les sciences secrètes, ou le Comte de Gabalis. Nouvelle édition augmentée d'une lettre sur le sujet. 

Cologne, Paul de la Tenaille, 1693.
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950 €
Photo SUETONE. 

SUETONE. 

Caius Suetonius Tranquillus. [La vie des douze césars]. 

Paris, e typographia regia, 1644.
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1200 €

Latin edition of the Lives of the Twelve Caesars given by the Imprimerie royale, created at the Louvre by Richelieu four years earlier in order to "give the public the works of good authors in characters worthy of their work".
Edition illustrated with an engraved title, and 12 portraits in the text engraved by Abraham Bosse.
These portraits representing the 12 Caesars are placed at the head of each of the chapters devoted to them.
A fine copy in morocco binding.

Photo RAMEL, Abraham Louis. 

RAMEL, Abraham Louis. 

Système métrique, ou Instruction abrégée sur les nouvelles mesures, avec des calculs qui leur sont relatifs, et des tables de comparaison pour réduire les nouvelles mesures en anciennes et les anciennes en nouvelles; suivis d'une instruction sur les nouvelles monnaies de France, ainsi que d'une description abrégée des poids et mesures de Berne et de Lausanne. 

Neuchatel, Mme Fauche Née Borel, 1808.
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1200 €

First edition.
Book promoting the use of the metric system in Switzerland. If Switzerland received in 1801 a copy of the standard meter deposited in Paris, the metric system took several decades to be adopted in all the cantons of the confederation.

"Besides the description that my book gives of the new and old measures of Paris, it can also be considered as a complete treatise of three kinds of measures; namely, those of Neuchâtel, Bern and Lausanne: these neighboring countries will doubtless also adopt under little this system, which has simplicity as its basis" (excerpt from the preface)

Beautiful copy in contemporary morocco.

Photo FERRI DE SAINT CONSTANT, Giovanni. 

FERRI DE SAINT CONSTANT, Giovanni. 

Rudimens de la traduction, ou l'art de traduire le latin en français. 

Paris, Auguste Delalain, 1811.
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1200 €

Second edition.
Precious copy with the arms of Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Siciles Duchess of Berry (1798-1870). Romantic heroine of the Legitimists, Marie-Caroline, daughter of the King of the Two Sicilies Francis I Xavier and Marie-Clementine of Austria, married in 1816 the Duke of Berry Charles-Ferdinand (1778-1820), son of Charles she had a son, the Duke of Bordeaux. Exiled during the revolution of July 1830, she returned to France in April 1832 and tried without success to raise the people in Vendée and Brittany with the aim of a legitimist restoration: arrested in Nantes in November 1832, she was imprisoned in Blaye. It was released in 1833.

Beautiful binding signed by Simier binder of the king.

Photo [PONCE, Nicolas] || LAVATER. 

[PONCE, Nicolas] || LAVATER. 

Le Lavater historique des femmes célèbres, des temps anciens et modernes; orné de douze portraits et de douze figures d'expressions, gravés en taille douce, d'après le meilleurs originaux. Par M. P. 

Paris, F. Louis, 1809.
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1200 €

First edition, scarce first issue.
A second issue, with the same title page has and additionnal chapter with 4 more plates and a different table of contant page.
Rare with the plates colored.

Photo CHAPONE, Hester. 

CHAPONE, Hester. 

Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Young Lady. 

London, John Mourray, 1807.
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1250 €

The 'Letters on the Improvement of the Mind' aim to cultivate a rational understanding in young women through the study of the Bible, history, and literature.
Girls are also encouraged to pursue subjects such as accounting, household management, botany, geology, and astronomy.
Binding with the coat of arms of Marie Caroline of Bourbon-Sicily, the Duchess of Berry, this book came from her extensive library at Château de Rosny.\newline Known for her refined taste, she collected a wide range of books, especially in the arts, history, and literature, including many in English.
The library also contained numerous works suitable for educating her children, Louise d'Artois and Henri Dieudonné.

Photo HUET, Pierre Daniel. 

HUET, Pierre Daniel. 

Traitté de la Situation du Paradis Terrestre. 

Paris, Jean Anisson, 1691.
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1500 €

First edition.
Curious work in which Huet try to find the location of Paradise.
Rare in morocco binding (not in Caillet, Dorbon as only the 1701 edition).

Photo LONGUS. 

LONGUS. 

Les amours pastorales Daphnis et Chloé. 

[Paris], [Coustelier], [1731].
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1500 €

Edition normally illustrated with a frontispiece and 8 figures by Scotin, and 4 unsigned vignettes.
In this copy, the illustrations from Scotin have been replaced by the famous suite "de Regenté, including a frontispiece by Coypel (replacing the title page dated 1731) and 28 superb figures including 13 doubles, engraved by Benoît Audran after the drawings of the regent Philippe d'Orléans.
The engraving "Petits pieds", engraved in 1728 and attributed to the Comte de Caylus has been, as often, added.

Photo MAUPERTUIS, Pierre Louis Moreau de. 

MAUPERTUIS, Pierre Louis Moreau de. 

La Figure de la Terre, déterminée par les observations de messieurs De Maupertuis, Clairaut, Camus, Le Monnier, de l'Académie royale des sciences et de M. L'Abbé Outhier, correspondant de la même académie, accompagnés de M. Celsius, professeur d'astronomie à Upsal, faites par ordre du Roy au cercle polaire. 

Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1738.
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1500 €

First edition.
Results of Maupertuis' expedition to Lapland to measure the Earth's median and experimentally confirm Newton's hypothesis that the Earth is flattened at the poles.

Photo BEVERWYCK, Jan van. 

BEVERWYCK, Jan van. 

De calculo renum & vesicae liber singularis. Cum epistolis & consultationibus magnorum virorum. 

Leyden, Elzevier, 1638.
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First edition of this famous work in urology, one of the earliest medical books to accept William Harvey's account of the circulation of the blood.

Bound after, two rare books on the plague :
- PAAW, Pierre. Tractatus de Peste. Leyde, Abraham Commelini, 1636
- Theodore de BEZE. De Pestis Contagio et Fuga. 1636

RARE COPY WITH THE ARMS OF FRANÇOIS-AUGUSTE DE THOU.

Photo JODELLE, Étienne. 

JODELLE, Étienne. 

Les Œuvres et Meslanges poetiques. Reveuës & augmentees en ceste derniere edition. 

Lyon, Benoist Rigaud, 1597.
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Third edition.
Rare.

Photo [BAILLET, Pierre], DESCARTES. 

[BAILLET, Pierre], DESCARTES. 

La vie de Monsieur Descartes. 

Paris, Daniel Horthemels, 1691.
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2000 €

First edition. The best biography of Descartes, written by one of his contemporaries.

Rare in its contemporary morocco with arms on covers.

Photo RANTZAU, Henrik. 

RANTZAU, Henrik. 

Traité astrologique des jugemens des thèmes genetliaques pour tous les accidens qui arrivent à l’homme après sa naissance. 

Paris, Pierre Ménard, 1657.
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2000 €

Very rare first french edition of one of the most comprehensive and esteemed treaties of astrology.
Our copy contains the eight pages "de la façon de construire la figure céleste" which are often missing.

Photo SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine (de). 

SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine (de). 

Lettres de Jeunesse (1923-1931). 

Paris, NRF Gallimard, 1953.
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2000 €

First edition.
One of the 60 copies on paper Hollande Pannekoek, ours n°X. Second paper after 21 on "japon".

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

From 1923 to 1931, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote many particularly touching letters to Renée de Saussine known as "Rinette". Three years his senior, Renée de Saussine was introduced to him by her brother Bertrand, a classmate of Antoine at the Lycée Saint-Louis. An affectionate friendship binds Antoine to Renée and spans the years. Sometimes, when he is far from her, he phones her. Finding her only rarely, he writes her many letters.

Photo MICHAËLIS, P.F. Sébastien. 

MICHAËLIS, P.F. Sébastien. 

Histoire admirable de la possession et conversion d'une pénitente, séduite par un magicien, la faisant sorcière & princesse des sorciers au païs de Provence, conduite à la Scte Baume pour y estre exorcizée l'an M. DC. X. au mois de Nouembre
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Discours des esprits en tant qu'il est de besoin, pour entendre & résoudre la matière difficile des Sorciers. 

Lyon, Charles Chastellain, 1613.
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2000 €

The "Histoire admirable de la possession et conversion d'une pénitente, " is a rare work of sorcery which traces the history of Louis Gaufridy, burnt alive as a sorcerer, by a decree of the Parliament of Aix of April 30, 1611, and which contains the record of the exorcisms practiced from 27 November 1610 to 23 April 1611 on two Ursulines of Aix, Magdaleine of Demandouls and Louyse Capeau

Bound after is the "Discours des esprits", a rare Treaty of demonology, one of the most complete (Dorbon).
The first edition was published in 1587 under the title "Pneumalogie ou discours des esprits".
This work is on the devil, witches, incubi and succubi, ...
A very good copy.

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