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VEUILLOT, Louis.

Jésus-Christ.

Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1876.

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120 €

Third edition.
Beautiful copy.

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.

VAUBERT, Luc.

La Dévotion à Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ dans l'Eucharistie.

Paris, Gabriel Charles Berton, 1752.

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180 €

Good copy in contemporary morocco bindings.

VALLES, Jules.

Le Bachelier.

Paris, Mornay, 1921.

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100 €

Illustrations by Barthelémy.

Fine binding signed by Yseux.

Louis Yseux is one of the most talented bookbinders of the early 20th century, bringing to life a tradition of French binding and gilding dating back to the 18th century, it is indeed he who takes over the workshop of his master Thierry himself. heir to Simier and Petit. All his bindings bear his signature Yseux successor Thierry-Simier.

TOUDOUZE, Gustave.

La Vengeance des Peaux-de-Bique.

Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1896.

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400 €

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.

TINAN, Jean de.

Aimienne ou le détournement de mineure.

Paris, Editions du Sagittaire, 1922.

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150 €

Fine binding signed by Yseux.

Louis Yseux is one of the most talented bookbinders of the early 20th century, bringing to life a tradition of French binding and gilding dating back to the 18th century, it is indeed he who takes over the workshop of his master Thierry himself. heir to Simier and Petit. All his bindings bear his signature Yseux successor Thierry-Simier.

TESSIERES-BOISBERTRAND, Etienne de.

De l'Administration financière telle qu'elle est sous l'influence des préjugés qui en arrêtent le développement, et telle qu'elle pourrait être sous l'empire de la science positive.

Paris, Cherruliez, 1836.

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200 €

First edition.
Étienne de Tessières, Count of Boisbertrand, was a deputy under the Restoration and the July Monarchy.
He writes here a reflection on public finances (tax, debt...) in the light of new positive science.

SCOTT, Walter.

Le Monastère et L'Abbé.

Paris, Dauthereau, 1829.

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450 €

Bindings from Gruel.

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.

SAINT DISDIER, Alexandre-Toussaint Limojon de.

Histoire des Négotiations de Nimègue.

Paris [Hollande], Claude Barbin, 1680.

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300 €

Counterfeit edition of the title à la sphere (probably Dutch), taken from the Barbin edition in Paris.

The peace of Nijmegen marks the end of the Dutch war, it places France at the forefront of European geopolitics. On this occasion, France annexed Franche-Comté. It is the triumph of Louis XIV as a warrior king.

Beautiful copy in morocco.

[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.

[RELIURE MAROQUIN].

Missel Romain.

Limoges, Dalpayrat et Depelley, 1892.

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200 €

Copy print with colors on japan paper.

[RELIURE MAROQUIN].

Diurnal ou office complet pour les laïques, latin et français à l'usage du diocès de Bayeux.

Caen, s.n., [v.1800].

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100 €

[RELIURE MAROQUIN].

Petit Eucologe, ou livre d'Eglise, à l'usage des fidèles du Diocèse d'Auxerre.

Auxerre, François Fournie, 1746.

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150 €

Pleasant copy in morocco from the period of this Auxerre printing.

[RELIURE A FERMOIRS].

Missel Romain.

Limoges, Eugène Ardant, [v.1900].

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200 €

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.

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.

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.

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.

PORCHE, François.

Le Poème de la Délivrance précédé des images de guerre.

Paris, Emile Paul Frères, 1919.

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60 €

Fine binding signed by Yseux.

Louis Yseux is one of the most talented bookbinders of the early 20th century, bringing to life a tradition of French binding and gilding dating back to the 18th century, it is indeed he who takes over the workshop of his master Thierry himself. heir to Simier and Petit. All his bindings bear his signature Yseux successor Thierry-Simier.

[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.

PHILIPPE, Charles Louis.

Marie Donadieu.

Paris, Mornay, 1921.

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90 €

Illustrations by Daragnès.

Fine binding signed by Yseux.

Louis Yseux is one of the most talented bookbinders of the early 20th century, bringing to life a tradition of French binding and gilding dating back to the 18th century, it is indeed he who takes over the workshop of his master Thierry himself. heir to Simier and Petit. All his bindings bear his signature Yseux successor Thierry-Simier.

[PERNETY, Jacques || BOUGEANT, Guillaume-Hyacinthe ].

Lettres philosophiques sur les Physionomies.

La Haye, Neaulme, 1746.

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250 €

First edition.

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".

MONTFORT, Eugène.

Un Coeur vierge.

Paris, Mornay, 1926.

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100 €

Fine binding signed by Yseux.

Louis Yseux is one of the most talented bookbinders of the early 20th century, bringing to life a tradition of French binding and gilding dating back to the 18th century, it is indeed he who takes over the workshop of his master Thierry himself. heir to Simier and Petit. All his bindings bear his signature Yseux successor Thierry-Simier.

[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 €

MIRBEAU, Octave.

Le Calvaire.

Paris, Mornay, 1928.

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150 €

Illustrations by Hermann Paul.

Fine binding signed by Yseux.

Louis Yseux is one of the most talented bookbinders of the early 20th century, bringing to life a tradition of French binding and gilding dating back to the 18th century, it is indeed he who takes over the workshop of his master Thierry himself. heir to Simier and Petit. All his bindings bear his signature Yseux successor Thierry-Simier.

MIRBEAU, Octave.

Sébastien ROCH.

Paris, Mornay, 1926.

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150 €

Illustrations by Barbier.

Fine binding signed by Yseux.

Louis Yseux is one of the most talented bookbinders of the early 20th century, bringing to life a tradition of French binding and gilding dating back to the 18th century, it is indeed he who takes over the workshop of his master Thierry himself. heir to Simier and Petit. All his bindings bear his signature Yseux successor Thierry-Simier.

MIRBEAU, Octave.

L'Abbé Jules.

Paris, Mornay, 1925.

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120 €

Illustrations by Siméon.

Fine binding signed by Yseux.

Louis Yseux is one of the most talented bookbinders of the early 20th century, bringing to life a tradition of French binding and gilding dating back to the 18th century, it is indeed he who takes over the workshop of his master Thierry himself. heir to Simier and Petit. All his bindings bear his signature Yseux successor Thierry-Simier.

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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Fine Bindings

VEUILLOT, Louis.

Jésus-Christ.

Third edition.Beautiful copy.

VERLAINE, Paul.

Choix de Poésies.

VAUBERT, Luc.

La Dévotion à Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ dans l'Eucharistie.

Good copy in contemporary morocco bindings.

VALLES, Jules.

Le Bachelier.

TOUDOUZE, Gustave.

La Vengeance des Peaux-de-Bique.

TINAN, Jean de.

Aimienne ou le détournement de mineure.

TESSIERES-BOISBERTRAND, Etienne de.

De l'Administration financière telle qu'elle est sous l'influence des préjugés qui en arrêtent le développement, et telle qu'elle pourrait être sous l'empire de la science positive.

First edition.Étienne de Tessières, Count of Boisbertrand, was a deputy under the Restoration and the July Monarchy. He writes here a reflection on public finances (tax, debt...) in the light of new positive science.

SCOTT, Walter.

Le Monastère et L'Abbé.

Bindings from Gruel.

SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine (de).

Lettre à un Otage.

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

SAINT DISDIER, Alexandre-Toussaint Limojon de.

Histoire des Négotiations de Nimègue.

[ROBERT, procureur au Châtelet].

Observations sur la culture des arbres fruitiers.

Scarce first edition of this works on fruit trees. Good copy, binding with arms of la Rochefoucauld on covers.

[RELIURE MAROQUIN].

Missel Romain.

Copy print with colors on japan paper.

[RELIURE MAROQUIN].

Diurnal ou office complet pour les laïques, latin et français à l'usage du diocès de Bayeux.

[RELIURE MAROQUIN].

Petit Eucologe, ou livre d'Eglise, à l'usage des fidèles du Diocèse d'Auxerre.

Pleasant copy in morocco from the period of this Auxerre printing.

[RELIURE A FERMOIRS].

Missel Romain.

RANTZAU, Henrik.

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

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.

RAMEL, Abraham Louis.

RABELAIS, François || BARTA, Lazlo.

Gargantua.

PRESSAVIN, Jean Baptiste.

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

PORCHE, François.

Le Poème de la Délivrance précédé des images de guerre.

[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.

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.

PHILIPPE, Charles Louis.

Marie Donadieu.

[PERNETY, Jacques || BOUGEANT, Guillaume-Hyacinthe ].

Lettres philosophiques sur les Physionomies.

First edition.

PASSALACQUA, Joseph.

Catalogue raisonné et historique des antiquités découvertes en Egypte.

MONTFORT, Eugène.

Un Coeur vierge.

[MONTFAUCON DE VILLARS , Abbé].

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

MIRBEAU, Octave.

Le Calvaire.

MIRBEAU, Octave.

Sébastien ROCH.

MIRBEAU, Octave.

L'Abbé Jules.

MICHAËLIS, P.F. Sébastien.

Third edition.
Beautiful copy.

First edition.
Étienne de Tessières, Count of Boisbertrand, was a deputy under the Restoration and the July Monarchy.
He writes here a reflection on public finances (tax, debt...) in the light of new positive science.

Scarce first edition of this works on fruit trees.

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

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.

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.