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CERVANTES, Miguel de.

Les principales avantures de l'admirable Don Quichotte représentées en figures par Coypel, Picart le Romain, et autres habiles maîtres avec les explications des XXXI planches de cette magnifique collection tirées de l'original espagnol de Miguel de Cervantes.

La Haye, Pierre de Hondt, 1746.

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4500 €

Engravings in first state without numbers.

Rare in contemporary morocco binding.

[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.

JODELLE, Étienne.

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

Lyon, Benoist Rigaud, 1597.

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Third edition.
Rare.

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.

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.

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.

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

Lettres philosophiques sur les Physionomies.

La Haye, Neaulme, 1746.

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250 €

First edition.

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.

MAUPASSANT, Guy de.

Mademoiselle Fifi.

Paris, Louis Conard, 1908.

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Fine binding signed by Canape.

AUGIER, Emile.

Maitre Guérin.

Paris, Michel Levy, 1865.

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80 €

First edition.
Comedy.

[MAROQUIN].

Manuel du Chrétien.

Cologne, Aux dépens de la compagnie, 1740.

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150 €

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.

[RELIURE A FERMOIRS].

Missel Romain.

Limoges, Eugène Ardant, [v.1900].

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200 €

[RELIURE MAROQUIN].

Missel Romain.

Limoges, Dalpayrat et Depelley, 1892.

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200 €

Copy print with colors on japan paper.

HERMANT, Abel.

Monsieur de Courpière marié.

Paris, Ernest Flammarion, [1906].

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250 €

Second edition.

One of 10 copies on Holland paper, ours n°9.

Presentation copy to Henri de Baubigny.

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.

[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 €

[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.

MASSILLON, Jean-Baptiste.

Oeuvres choisies de Massillon.

Paris, Delestre-Boulage, 1823-1825.

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300 €

Beautiful copy for this edition bringing together Massillon's sermons.
Jean-Baptiste Massillon (1663-1742) was bishop of Clermont and academician, he is often compared to Bourdaloue and Bossuet.

Voltaire, who had Le Petit Carême read to him during his meals, said of him: “The preacher who knew the world best; more flowery than Bourdaloue, more pleasant, and whose eloquence smacks of the man of the court, the academician, and the man of wit; moreover, a moderate and tolerant philosopher. ».

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 €

[RELIURE MAROQUIN].

Office de la quinzaine de Pâque, en latin et en françois.

Paris, Libraires associés, 1777.

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200 €

Beautiful 18th century red morocco binding.

Office de la Semaine Sainte à l'Usage de Rome.

Paris, Jean-Thomas Hérissant, 1762.

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100 €

[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).

[GRUEL].

Paroissien romain d'après les imprimés français du XVème siècle.

Paris, Gruel Engelmann, 1858.

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300 €

Good copy.

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.

[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.

FISCHER, Ernst Gottfried.

Physique Mécanique avec des notes et un appendice sur les anneaux colorés, la double réfraction, la polarisation de la lumière et le magnétisme tant en repos qu'en mouvement par M. Biot.

Paris, Mme Ve Courcier, 1819.

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300 €

Third enlarged edition, sought for Biot's notes on the polarization of light.
Biot is known for having studied and established the laws of rotation of the plane of polarization of the light passing through a liquid solution just before this edition, in 1815.

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.

HIPPOCRATE.

Pronostics et prorrhétiques d'Hippocrate.

Paris, Méquignon-Marvis, 1817.

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250 €

New translation by Etienne Pariset.

Nice copy.

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.

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Fine Bindings

CERVANTES, Miguel de.

Les principales avantures de l'admirable Don Quichotte représentées en figures par Coypel, Picart le Romain, et autres habiles maîtres avec les explications des XXXI planches de cette magnifique collection tirées de l'original espagnol de Miguel de Cervantes.

Engravings in first state without numbers. Rare in contemporary morocco binding.

[MAROQUIN DOUBLE].

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

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.

JODELLE, Étienne.

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

Third edition. Rare.

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.

CHAPONE, Hester.

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

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.

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

Lettres philosophiques sur les Physionomies.

First edition.

AILHAUD, Jean Gaspard.

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

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.

MAUPASSANT, Guy de.

Mademoiselle Fifi.

Fine binding signed by Canape.

AUGIER, Emile.

Maitre Guérin.

First edition.Comedy.

[MAROQUIN].

Manuel du Chrétien.

PHILIPPE, Charles Louis.

Marie Donadieu.

[RELIURE A FERMOIRS].

Missel Romain.

[RELIURE MAROQUIN].

Missel Romain.

Copy print with colors on japan paper.

HERMANT, Abel.

Monsieur de Courpière marié.

Second edition.One of 10 copies on Holland paper, ours n°9.Presentation copy to Henri de Baubigny.

PRESSAVIN, Jean Baptiste.

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

[MONTFAUCON DE VILLARS , Abbé].

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

[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.

MASSILLON, Jean-Baptiste.

Oeuvres choisies de Massillon.

LE SAGE, Alain René.

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

[RELIURE MAROQUIN].

Office de la quinzaine de Pâque, en latin et en françois.

Beautiful 18th century red morocco binding.

Office de la Semaine Sainte à l'Usage de Rome.

[AUX ARMES ROYALES].

Office de la semaine sainte.

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).

[GRUEL].

Paroissien romain d'après les imprimés français du XVème siècle.

Good copy.

BERNARDIN DE SAINT PIERRE, Jacques-Henri.

Paul et Virginie.

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.

[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.

FISCHER, Ernst Gottfried.

Physique Mécanique avec des notes et un appendice sur les anneaux colorés, la double réfraction, la polarisation de la lumière et le magnétisme tant en repos qu'en mouvement par M. Biot.

Third enlarged edition, sought for Biot's notes on the polarization of light. Biot is known for having studied and established the laws of rotation of the plane of polarization of the light passing through a liquid solution just before this edition, in 1815.

DESHOULIERES, Antoinette.

Poësies de Madame Deshoulières.

HIPPOCRATE.

Pronostics et prorrhétiques d'Hippocrate.

New translation by Etienne Pariset.Nice copy.

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.

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.

Engravings in first state without numbers.

Rare in contemporary morocco binding.

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.

Third edition.
Rare.

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.

First edition.
Comedy.

Second edition.

One of 10 copies on Holland paper, ours n°9.

Presentation copy to Henri de Baubigny.

Scarce first edition of this works on fruit trees.

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

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).

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.

Third enlarged edition, sought for Biot's notes on the polarization of light.
Biot is known for having studied and established the laws of rotation of the plane of polarization of the light passing through a liquid solution just before this edition, in 1815.

New translation by Etienne Pariset.

Nice copy.

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.