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

Paris, Jean-Thomas Hérissant, 1762.

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100 €

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.

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.

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.

ARENE, Paul.

Jean-Des-Figues.

Lyon, Lardanchet, 1921.

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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.

AUGIER, Emile.

Maitre Guérin.

Paris, Michel Levy, 1865.

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80 €

First edition.
Comedy.

[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).

BAC, Ferdinand.

La Volupté romaine.

Paris, Louis Conard, 1922.

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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.

[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.

BAUMANN, Emile.

La Fosse aux Lions.

Paris, G. Crès & Cie, 1925.

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80 €

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.

BERANGER, Pierre-Jean.

Chansons de P-J de Béranger.

Paris, Perrotin, 1831.

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300 €

Set containing the two volumes of Songs, as well as the "New and Last Songs...dedicated to Lucien Bonaparte" (1833, Perrotin) and the Supplement (Brussels, 1830) which contains political songs and saucy songs. It is certainly this supplement that pushed a collector of the time to hide these licenses from prying eyes behind a cathedral binding bearing the title "Parishioner".

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.

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.

BOCCACE.

Les Dix Journées de Jean Boccace.

Paris, Librairie des bibliophiles Joaust, 1873.

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450 €

Beautiful edition by Jouaust of the work of Boccace.
Paul Lacroix signs the introduction and Flameng who gives eleven very beautiful etchings.

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.

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).

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.

CHAMPFLEURY.

Grandeur et Décadence d'une Serinette.

Paris, Edmond Blanchard, 1857.

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125 €

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.

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.

CHATEAUBRIAND, François-René De.

Atala, René, Les Aventures Du Dernier Abencerage.

Paris, Ladvocat, 1827.

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Beautiful edition on vellum paper of three short stories by Chateaubriand.
This is the second edition for Les Aventures Du Dernier Abencerage.
Deluxe copy carefully bound by Petit.

CHATEAUBRIAND, François-René || VUILLIER, Gaston.

Les Aventures du dernier Abencérage.

Paris, A. Ferroud, 1912.

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250 €

Beautiful copy in morocco signed by Gruel.
Text by Chateaubriand illustrated with etchings by Gaston Vuillier.

One of the copies on Arches tinted vellum, ours n°412.

CHEVIGNE, Louis, Comte de.

Les Contes Rémois.

Paris, Librairie des bibliophiles Jouaust, 1877.

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300 €

Beautiful edition at Jouaust illustrated by Jules Worms.
One of the numbered copies on Holland paper (n ° 131).

COMMINES, Philippe de.

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

Leide, les Elzeviers, 1648.

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950 €

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].

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.

DESMAZES, Charles.

Le Bailliage du Palais Royal de Paris.

Paris, Willem et Daffis, 1875.

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1500 €

One of the three copies printed on vellum.

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.

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.

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.

FLORIAN, J.-P. Claris de.

Fables de Florian Préface par M. Anatole de Montaiglon. Compositions inédites de Moreau gravées par Martial.

Leide, P. Rouquette, 1882.

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450 €

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Fine Bindings

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

Les plaisirs de Saint-Germain en Laye, et de la Cour, et le tableau de la vie humaine, ou le solitaire.

Unique edition.

ADET, Pierre-Auguste.

Leçons élémentaires de chimie à l'usage des lycées.

First edition. Binding with empire gilt arms on covers.

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.

ARENE, Paul.

Jean-Des-Figues.

AUGIER, Emile.

Maitre Guérin.

First edition.Comedy.

[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).

BAC, Ferdinand.

La Volupté romaine.

[BAILLET, Pierre], DESCARTES.

La vie de Monsieur Descartes.

First edition. The best biography of Descartes, written by one of his contemporaries. Rare in its contemporary morocco with arms on covers.

BAUMANN, Emile.

La Fosse aux Lions.

BERANGER, Pierre-Jean.

Chansons de P-J de Béranger.

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.

BEVERWYCK, Jan van.

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

BOCCACE.

Les Dix Journées de Jean Boccace.

Beautiful edition by Jouaust of the work of Boccace.Paul Lacroix signs the introduction and Flameng who gives eleven very beautiful etchings.

BOCCACE, Jean.

Le décaméron.

Rare when bound in contemporary morocco. Very good copy.

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.

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.

CHAMPFLEURY.

Grandeur et Décadence d'une Serinette.

CHAPONE, Hester.

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

CHATEAUBRIAND, François-René De.

Atala, René, Les Aventures Du Dernier Abencerage.

Beautiful edition on vellum paper of three short stories by Chateaubriand.This is the second edition for Les Aventures Du Dernier Abencerage.Deluxe copy carefully bound by Petit.

CHATEAUBRIAND, François-René || VUILLIER, Gaston.

Les Aventures du dernier Abencérage.

Beautiful copy in morocco signed by Gruel.Text by Chateaubriand illustrated with etchings by Gaston Vuillier. One of the copies on Arches tinted vellum, ours n°412.

CHEVIGNE, Louis, Comte de.

Les Contes Rémois.

Beautiful edition at Jouaust illustrated by Jules Worms. One of the numbered copies on Holland paper (n ° 131).

COMMINES, Philippe de.

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

COUTAN.

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

DESHOULIERES, Antoinette.

Poësies de Madame Deshoulières.

DESMAZES, Charles.

Le Bailliage du Palais Royal de Paris.

One of the three copies printed on vellum.

DRUMMOND DE MELFORT, Louis Hector.

Traite sur la Cavalerie.

FERRI DE SAINT CONSTANT, Giovanni.

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

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.

FLORIAN, J.-P. Claris de.

Fables de Florian Préface par M. Anatole de Montaiglon. Compositions inédites de Moreau gravées par Martial.

First edition.
Binding with empire gilt arms on covers.

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.

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).

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

Rare in its contemporary morocco with arms on covers.

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.

Beautiful edition by Jouaust of the work of Boccace.
Paul Lacroix signs the introduction and Flameng who gives eleven very beautiful etchings.

Rare when bound in contemporary morocco.
Very good copy.

Engravings in first state without numbers.

Rare in contemporary morocco binding.

Beautiful edition on vellum paper of three short stories by Chateaubriand.
This is the second edition for Les Aventures Du Dernier Abencerage.
Deluxe copy carefully bound by Petit.

Beautiful copy in morocco signed by Gruel.
Text by Chateaubriand illustrated with etchings by Gaston Vuillier.

One of the copies on Arches tinted vellum, ours n°412.

Beautiful edition at Jouaust illustrated by Jules Worms.
One of the numbered copies on Holland paper (n ° 131).

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.