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GUIMBAUD, Louis.

Victor Hugo et Juliette Drouet d'après les lettres inédites de Juliette Drouet à Victor Hugo et avec un choix de ces lettres.

Paris, Auguste Blaizot, 1914.

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250 €

First edition.
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.

JAMMES, Francis.

Une Vierge.

Paris, Edouard Joseph, 1919.

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200 €

First edition.
One of the 100 copies printed on blue paper.

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.

GAUTIER, Théophile.

Une Nuit de Cléopatre.

Paris, A. Ferroud, 1894.

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250 €

Illustrated edition of 21 compositions by Paul Avril.
"Crossing the Nile on her royal cange to go to her summer palace, Cleopatra "is horribly bored." Meïamoun, in love with the queen, is caught spying on her in her bath. Having the whim of To be merciful, Cleopatra grants him an orgiastic night. When morning arrives, the men enter the room. Meïamoun then drinks the poisoned glass and dies."

One of the 250 copies on Arches, ours n°354.

Good copy in signed binding.
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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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

FRANCE, Anatole.

Sur La Pierre Blanche.

Paris, La Connaissance, 1924.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

HIPPOCRATE.

Pronostics et prorrhétiques d'Hippocrate.

Paris, Méquignon-Marvis, 1817.

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250 €

New translation by Etienne Pariset.

Nice copy.

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.

[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.

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.

[GRUEL].

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

Paris, Gruel Engelmann, 1858.

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300 €

Good copy.

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

Paris, Jean-Thomas Hérissant, 1762.

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100 €

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 €

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. ».

[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.

[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 €

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.

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.

[RELIURE MAROQUIN].

Missel Romain.

Limoges, Dalpayrat et Depelley, 1892.

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200 €

Copy print with colors on japan paper.

[RELIURE A FERMOIRS].

Missel Romain.

Limoges, Eugène Ardant, [v.1900].

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200 €

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.

[MAROQUIN].

Manuel du Chrétien.

Cologne, Aux dépens de la compagnie, 1740.

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150 €

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Fine Bindings

GUIMBAUD, Louis.

Victor Hugo et Juliette Drouet d'après les lettres inédites de Juliette Drouet à Victor Hugo et avec un choix de ces lettres.

JAMMES, Francis.

Une Vierge.

GAUTIER, Théophile.

Une Nuit de Cléopatre.

MONTFORT, Eugène.

Un Coeur vierge.

HUET, Pierre Daniel.

Traitté de la Situation du Paradis Terrestre.

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).

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.

EUDEL, Paul.

Théatre.

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.

RAMEL, Abraham Louis.

FRANCE, Anatole.

Sur La Pierre Blanche.

MIRBEAU, Octave.

Sébastien ROCH.

FROMENTIN, Eugène.

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

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.

FERRI DE SAINT CONSTANT, Giovanni.

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

LEBESCHU DE LA BASTAY.

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

Rare first edition.

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.

HIPPOCRATE.

Pronostics et prorrhétiques d'Hippocrate.

New translation by Etienne Pariset.Nice copy.

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.

[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.

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.

[GRUEL].

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

Good copy.

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

LE SAGE, Alain René.

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

MASSILLON, Jean-Baptiste.

Oeuvres choisies de Massillon.

[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.

[MONTFAUCON DE VILLARS , Abbé].

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

PRESSAVIN, Jean Baptiste.

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

HERMANT, Abel.

Monsieur de Courpière marié.

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

[RELIURE MAROQUIN].

Missel Romain.

Copy print with colors on japan paper.

[RELIURE A FERMOIRS].

Missel Romain.

PHILIPPE, Charles Louis.

Marie Donadieu.

[MAROQUIN].

Manuel du Chrétien.

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).

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.
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.

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

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.

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.

New translation by Etienne Pariset.

Nice copy.

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.

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.

Scarce first edition of this works on fruit trees.

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

Second edition.

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

Presentation copy to Henri de Baubigny.