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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 [MEUNG, Jean de]. 

[MEUNG, Jean de]. 

Le plaisant jeu du dodechedron de fortune, non moins récréatif, que subtil & ingénieux. 

Paris, Nicolas Bonfons, 1577.
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1800 €

The Dodechedron of Fortune, named after the twelve-sided die used to cast oracles and the medieval goddess of Fortune, was a divinatory game, now called “The Magic Mirror of Jehan de Meung.”
This game consisted of choosing questions about the future and finding their answers using a special die, whose twelve faces correspond to the twelve houses of the sky and offer a number that refers to a horoscope or advice.

The two fold-out tables, each 12 by 12 squares, show the signs of the zodiac on the abscissa and the planets on the ordinate, each corresponding to a number on the die. Each square refers to an oracle in the book.

Copy in a fine morocco binding from Chambolle-Duru.

Photo GRASSET, Eugène || GILLOT, Charles. 

GRASSET, Eugène || GILLOT, Charles. 

Histoire des quatre fils Aymon - très nobles et très vaillans chevaliers. Illustrée de compositions en couleurs par Eugène Grasset. Gravure et impression par Charles Gillot. Introduction et Notes par Charles Marcilly. 

Paris, H. Launette, 1883.
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2000 €

The story of the four Aymon sons is a legendary tale, which was originally a gesture song from the French Carolingian era. The four heroes, sons of Duke Aymon, are introduced to the emperor Charlemagne and will live many adventures accompanied by an enchanter and a magical horse.
Their adventures are finely illustrated by Eugène Grasset (1845-1917), one of the representatives of Art Nouveau. It combines, with delicacy and simplicity, iconography inspired by the Middle Ages and the Knighthood with Art Nouveau style (with stylized forms and characteristic ornamental motifs such as flowers).

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.

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 GROLLIER DE SERVIÈRE, Gaspard. 

GROLLIER DE SERVIÈRE, Gaspard. 

Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique, ou description du cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière avec des figures en taille douce. 

Lyon, David Forey, 1719.
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2200 €

First edition.
Among the mechanical inventions depicted in Grollier de Serviere's Cabinet are those for propelling ships, making elevations, various kinds of clocks, lamps, mechanical figures, mills, optical contrivances and geometrical instruments.

Photo MARAT, Jean-Paul. 

MARAT, Jean-Paul. 

Découvertes de M. Marat sur la lumière constatées par une suite d'expériences nouvelles qui ont été faites un très-grand nombre de fois sous les yeux de MM. les Commissaires de l'Académie des Sciences. 

Londres et Paris, Jombert, 1780.
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3000 €

First edition of this rare work by Marat on light.
In fact, the french revolutionary published several scientific works in his youth.
In this treatise on light, Marat discusses Newton's doctrine on the decomposition of sunlight by the prism.

Photo LORRIS, Guillaume de || MEUNG, Jean de. 

LORRIS, Guillaume de || MEUNG, Jean de. 

Le Roman de la Rose. Edition faite sur celle de Lenglet Dufresnoy, corrigée avec soin, et enrichie de la dissertation sur les auteurs de l'ouvrage, de l'analyse, des variantes et du glossaire publiés en 1737 par J.-B. Lantin de Damerey. 

Paris, Fournier et Fils F. Didot, An VII (1799).
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4500 €

One of the 90 copies on large vellum paper wih portrait and engravings in two states.

Fine binding from Bradel l'Aîné.

Photo BOCCACE, Jean. 

BOCCACE, Jean. 

Le décaméron. 

Londres [Paris], s.n. [Prault], 1757-1761.
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5500 €

Rare when bound in contemporary morocco.
Very good copy.

Photo [HOET, Gérard] || [PICART, Bernard] || [HONDT, Pieter de] || [SAURIN, Pierre] ||. 

[HOET, Gérard] || [PICART, Bernard] || [HONDT, Pieter de] || [SAURIN, Pierre] ||. 

Figures de la Bible. Taferelen der voornaamste Geschiedenissen van het oude en nieuwe testament. 

La Haye, Pieter de Hondt, 1728.
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6000 €

First edition.
One of the most beautiful illustrations of the Bible in the eighteenth century.
This remarkable iconograph of the Bible in which Gérard Hoet and Bernard Picart mainly participated includes 214 full-page plates (29 double-page), the legend of which is written in Hebrew, English, German, Latin, French and Dutch.
The two frontispieces are captioned in French, the rest of the text is written in Dutch. Each chapter ends with a beautiful engraved cul-de-lampe.
This set of prints was first started by Picart in 1720 with the assistance of the Dutch painter Gérard Hoet, for what would undoubtedly become the pinnacle of the "Figures of the Bible". The Figures of the Bible are collections of engravings, which represent or signify Scripture through cycles of prints covering the entire Bible, a single Testament, or even a single biblical book. It is a genre that became popular with printing in the sixteenth century.
Pierre de Hondt, recovers the engravings of Picart, who with his multilingual legends already had a desire for European distribution, to accompany texts by Pierre Saurin (cf. Brunet). Everything is newly decorated with typographic ornaments.

Beautiful copy of Talleyrand at Chateau de Valençay with his ex libris in each volume.

Photo [LIVRE DE FETES]. 

[LIVRE DE FETES]. 

Description des festes données par la ville de Paris à l'occasion du mariage de Madame Louise-Elisabeth de France, et de Dom Philippe, Infant & Grand amiral d'Espagne, les vingt-neuvième & trentième août mil sept cent trente. 

Paris, Le Mercier, 1740.
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6000 €

First edition.
One of the most beautiful festival books published in the 18th century to commemorate the festivities held in Paris for the wedding of Madame Première, Louise-Élisabeth de Bourbon, eldest daughter of Louis XV, to Philippe de Bourbon.

Beautiful copperplate engraving with 13 plates outside the text, including 8 double-page spreads, by Jacques-François Blondel based on his own drawings and those of the architects Jacques-Ange Gabriel and Giovanni.
There are also two vignettes in the text, one by Pierre Soubeyran after Edmé Bouchardon (coat of arms of the city of Paris), the other by Jacques Rigaud (nautical jousting scene).

Photo PASSALACQUA, Joseph. 

PASSALACQUA, Joseph. 

Catalogue raisonné et historique des antiquités découvertes en Egypte. 

Paris, Galerie d'Antiquites Egyptiennes, 1826.
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6000 €

First edition.

Catalogue of the private collection of Joseph Passalacqua, which he assembled through private excavations in Egypt between 1822 and 1825 and exhibited in Paris at 12 Rue des Filles-Saint-Thomas. He tried to sell this collection of antiquities to France, but it was eventually bought by the King of Prussia. The ensemble formed the core of the Berlin Museum's Egyptian collections.

Presentation copy to the Duc D'Augoulème with it's gilt arms on covers.
Binding from Simier, "Relieur du Roi".

Photo DRUMMOND DE MELFORT, Louis Hector. 

DRUMMOND DE MELFORT, Louis Hector. 

Traite sur la Cavalerie. 

Paris, Imprimerie de Guillaume Desprez, 1776.
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7500 €

First edition of this famous treatise on cavalry, one of the most spectacular ever published.

The treatise itself, adorned with a beautiful frontispiece by Pierre Charles Ingouf, depicting Louis XVI reviewing the mounted troops, a title vignette by Macret, and four headings and three tailpieces engraved by various artists after Van Blaremberghe, is illustrated with 11 copper-engraved tactical plates, seven of which are double-page spreads and one folded.

This copy bears the coat of arms of the Duke of Condé, second in the list of 69 subscribers to the work, after the Duke of Chartres, who was the author's godfather.

Text volume only. The atlas, bearing the coat of arms of the Prince of Condé, was sold at the 1988 Biennale des Antiquaires, Librairie Léonce Laget, Paris, and then at Christie's in 2016.

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