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GALLAND, Antoine.

Les Mille et une nuits, contes arabes.

Paris, Compagnie des libraires, 1774.

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900 €

Between 1704 and 1717, Antoine Galland translated three Arabic manuscripts from Aleppo, creating the first European translation of One Thousand and One Nights. He thus brought the Orient into Western popular culture through the characters of Ali Baba, Scheherazade, Sinbad the Sailor, and more.

DALI, Salvador.

La Vie secrète de Salvador Dali.

Paris, La Table Ronde, 1952.

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900 €

First french edition.

Signed by Dali to Pierre Lhoste (1913-1984) radio journalist and great autograph collector.

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.

MAC ORLAN, Pierre || [BOFA, Gus].

Eloge de Gus Bofa.

Paris, Manuel Bruker, 1949.

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850 €

First edition.
One of the 20 first copy with the additional set of engravings.

COCTEAU, Jean.

La Crucifixion.

Paris, Paul Morihien, 1946.

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850 €

First edition.
One of the 25 on Chine paper.

VOLTAIRE (François-Marie Arouet).

Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire.

Paris, Antoine-Augustin Renouard, 1819-1825.

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850 €

Complete works from Voltaire
Weight : 45/50 kg : Extra shipping cost (on request) outside France.

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.

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.

GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von || COLLOT, André.

Faust - Le Second Faust. Illustré par A. Collot.

Paris, La tradition, [1937-1938].

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800 €

On of the 34 copies on Japon Impérial paper, with an additionnal suite and an original drawing. Our copy contain an second additional drawing.

Translation by Gérard de Nerval, with illustrations by André Collot.

André Collot (1897-1976) was a French illustrator, engraver and painter known for his many illustrations of erotic books. However, by working on the illustration of Goethe's "Faust", he revealed a darker part of his work and succeeded in transcribing all the tragedy of the work of the famous German writer.

GARCIA LORCA, Federico || ELUARD, Paul.

Ode à Salvador Dali.

Paris, GLM, 1927.

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800 €

First french edition.
Presentation copy signed by Paul Eluard and Louis Parrot.

TOUCHAGUES, Louis || ARNOUX, Alexandre.

Nus. Vingt cuivres gravés par Touchagues.

Paris, Edition du Tertre, [ca. 1945].

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750 €

Copy printed for Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon (1909-1985).

ELUARD, Paul.

Léda.

Lausanne, H.L. Mermod, 1949.

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750 €

First edition.
One of the 30 copy on Chineese paper, first paper.
Beautiful edition illustrated by Gericault's drawings printed in bicolor.

[TENCIN, Claudine-Alexandrine Guérin; Marquise de].

Mémoires du Comte de Comminge.

La Haye, J.Neaulme, 1735.

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750 €

Very good and fresh copy.

BAUDELAIRE, Charles.

Les fleurs du mal avec une étude sur la vie et les œuvres de Baudelaire par Camille Vergniol. Illustrations de Tony Georges-Roux, gravées par Ch. Clément.

Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1917.

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750 €

Only 100 copies printed on "papier de Chine".

COCTEAU, Jean.

Poèsies. 1946-1947.

Paris, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1947.

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750 €

First edition limited to only 50 copies.
One of the 7 on Japon paper.

PROUST, Marcel.

Jean Santeuil.

Paris, Gallimard NRF, 1952.

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750 €

First edition.
One of the 110 copies reimposed in quarto tellière on "vergé pur fil" paper, ours n° LIV.
Novel unfinished by Marcel Proust and published posthumously.

STENDHAL.

Le Rouge et le Noir.

Paris, Henri Creuzevault, 1945.

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750 €

Artist's copy signed by illustrator Sylvain Sauvage, is one of 25 copies reserved for collaborators among the 50 including the suite of prints off-print and an original sketch signed by the artist.

Very nice illustration of this classic by Stendhal.

ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques.

Les confessions.

Paris, Jouaust - Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1881.

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750 €

Limited edition of 220 copies on large paper, ours is one of 20 on Whatman paper, numbered 31.

This copy belonged to Cortlandt Field Bishop (1870-1935), a great collector of rare books and who owned one of the most important libraries in the interwar period.
This edition of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions is illustrated with thirteen etchings in four or five states (only 2 states required).

LE GLAY, Maurice.

Les Pasteurs, Ichou et Itto, enfants berbères.

Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1929.

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750 €

First edition.
Maurice Édouard Le Glay (1868-1936) was a French colonial soldier and writer. A defender of Berber culture, he was one of the main instigators of the Berber Dahir of May 16, 1930, which aimed to preserve the traditional autonomy of the Berber tribes of Morocco. Moroccan nationalist circles criticized him for having inspired a policy of division, pitting the Berbers against the Arabs.
One of the 500 copies on Hollande Van Gelder vellum, ours No. 332.

A very fine copy in an Arabist binding, possibly of Omani manufacture.

RETIF DE LA BRETONNE, Nicolas-Edme.

La Dernière Avanture d'un Homme de Quarantecinq-ans ; Nouvelle utile à plus d'un Lecteur.

Genève, Paris, Regnault, 1783.

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750 €

First edittion.

[VOLTAIRE].

Vie de Molière avec des jugemens sur ses ouvrages.

Paris, Prault fils, 1739.

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700 €

First edition.
This Life of Molière was commissioned from Voltaire to complete the 4to edition illustrated by Boucher published in 1734 by Prault. But the bookshop censor refused Voltaire's text and published a biographical work of La Serre instead.

[CAILLEAU].

Les Misères de ce monde ou Complaintes facétieuses sur les apprentissages de différens arts et métiers de la ville et fauxbourgs de Paris.

Londres et Paris, Cailleau, 1783.

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650 €

First edition.
Very curious collection of texts on the miseries of apprentices.
Published by the bookseller Cailleau, the work brings together the History of the good man Misère, a popular tale from the 17th century, and nine pieces in burlesque verse describing the living conditions of apprentices and servants. It thus includes: the Mirror of patience or the misery of the attorney's clerks, the Misery of the surgeons' boys, the Patira or complaint of a attorney's clerk on his miserable apprenticeship, the Misery of the apprentice printers, applied in detail to each function of this noble Art, the Misery of the apprentice papermakers-gluers, bookbinders and book gilders, the Misery of the bakers' boys of the city and suburbs of Paris, The State of servitude or the misery of the servants, the Misery of the husbands and the Misery of the bailiffs' clerks.

MAUPASSANT, Guy de.

Mlle FIFI.

Paris, Paul Ollendorff, 1893.

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600 €

New revised edition.
One of the only five copy printed on japon paper.

AUGIER, Emile.

L'Aventurière.

Paris, Hetzel, 1848.

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600 €

First edition.

Presentation copy to Regnier, François-Joseph-Philoclès Regnier (1807-1885) actor who played the role of Annibal during the creation of the play in 1848.

Attached to the book are two autograph letters signed by Emile Augier, probably addressed to Regnier, one of which indicates modifications to the text.

Bound in the middle of Act III, a handwritten sheet taking up the beginning of scene 8 of Augier's text to improvise a poem (unidentified signature).

LONGUS || TOUCHAGES, Louis.

Daphnis et Chloé.

Paris, Editions du Bélier, 1945.

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600 €

Very beautiful illustration of this classic of ancient literature by Louis Touchages.

Copy n°1 printed on pure Auvergne rag by hand, accompanied by a suite in black of illustrations on pure vellum and an original watercolor, first paper printed in 21 copies.

ZOLA, Emile.

Contes à Ninon.

Paris, J. Hetzel et A. Lacroix (imprimerie Poupart-Davyl), [1864].

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600 €

First edition.
This collection of tales is the first book published by the young Zola.

A Ninon - Simplice - Le Carnet de Danse - Celle qui m'aime - La Fée Amoureuse - Le Sang - Les Voleurs et l'Ane - Soeur-des-Pauvres - Aventures du Grand Sidoine et du Petit Médéric.

MONTESQUIOU, Robert de.

Le Chancelier de Fleurs.

Chateaudun, La Maison du livre, 1907.

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First edition.
Robert de Montesquiou (1855-1921), is a French man of letters, poet, dandy and art and literature critic. This book was written in memory of his friend (secretary and companion), Gabriel de Yturri.
One of the hundred numbered copies printed exclusively for the author, ours n°10

Handwritten dedication from the author to Jean Richepin (1849-1926), poet and writer who had just been elected to the Académie française (March 1908).

We enclose an empty, postmarked envelope, addressed by Montesquiou to Marcel Le Roy-Dupré.

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).

CENDRARS, Blaise.

Le Plan de l'Aiguille.

Paris, Au sans pareil, 1929.

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600 €

First edition.
One of the 56 on "Holllande" paper, second paper.

MARDRUS, Dr. Joseph Charles || BOURDELLE, Antoine.

Le Marié Magique.

Paris, Société des Bibliophiles Franco-Suisses, 1930.

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600 €

Limited edition, only 125 copies.
COPY NUMBER 1.

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Litterature

GALLAND, Antoine.

Les Mille et une nuits, contes arabes.

Between 1704 and 1717, Antoine Galland translated three Arabic manuscripts from Aleppo, creating the first European translation of One Thousand and One Nights. He thus brought the Orient into Western popular culture through the characters of Ali Baba, Scheherazade, Sinbad the Sailor, and more.

DALI, Salvador.

La Vie secrète de Salvador Dali.

First french edition.Signed by Dali to Pierre Lhoste (1913-1984) radio journalist and great autograph collector.

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.

MAC ORLAN, Pierre || [BOFA, Gus].

Eloge de Gus Bofa.

First edition. One of the 20 first copy with the additional set of engravings.

COCTEAU, Jean.

La Crucifixion.

First edition.One of the 25 on Chine paper.

VOLTAIRE (François-Marie Arouet).

Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire.

Complete works from VoltaireWeight : 45/50 kg : Extra shipping cost (on request) outside France.

RABELAIS, François || BARTA, Lazlo.

Gargantua.

VERLAINE, Paul.

Choix de Poésies.

GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von || COLLOT, André.

Faust - Le Second Faust. Illustré par A. Collot.

GARCIA LORCA, Federico || ELUARD, Paul.

Ode à Salvador Dali.

First french edition.Presentation copy signed by Paul Eluard and Louis Parrot.

TOUCHAGUES, Louis || ARNOUX, Alexandre.

Nus. Vingt cuivres gravés par Touchagues.

Copy printed for Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon (1909-1985).

ELUARD, Paul.

Léda.

First edition.One of the 30 copy on Chineese paper, first paper.Beautiful edition illustrated by Gericault's drawings printed in bicolor.

[TENCIN, Claudine-Alexandrine Guérin; Marquise de].

Mémoires du Comte de Comminge.

Very good and fresh copy.

BAUDELAIRE, Charles.

Les fleurs du mal avec une étude sur la vie et les œuvres de Baudelaire par Camille Vergniol. Illustrations de Tony Georges-Roux, gravées par Ch. Clément.

Only 100 copies printed on "papier de Chine".

COCTEAU, Jean.

Poèsies. 1946-1947.

First edition limited to only 50 copies.One of the 7 on Japon paper.

PROUST, Marcel.

Jean Santeuil.

First edition.One of the 110 copies reimposed in quarto tellière on "vergé pur fil" paper, ours n° LIV.Novel unfinished by Marcel Proust and published posthumously.

STENDHAL.

Le Rouge et le Noir.

Artist's copy signed by illustrator Sylvain Sauvage, is one of 25 copies reserved for collaborators among the 50 including the suite of prints off-print and an original sketch signed by the artist.Very nice illustration of this classic by Stendhal.

ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques.

Les confessions.

LE GLAY, Maurice.

Les Pasteurs, Ichou et Itto, enfants berbères.

RETIF DE LA BRETONNE, Nicolas-Edme.

La Dernière Avanture d'un Homme de Quarantecinq-ans ; Nouvelle utile à plus d'un Lecteur.

First edittion.

[VOLTAIRE].

Vie de Molière avec des jugemens sur ses ouvrages.

First edition.This Life of Molière was commissioned from Voltaire to complete the 4to edition illustrated by Boucher published in 1734 by Prault. But the bookshop censor refused Voltaire's text and published a biographical work of La Serre instead.

[CAILLEAU].

Les Misères de ce monde ou Complaintes facétieuses sur les apprentissages de différens arts et métiers de la ville et fauxbourgs de Paris.

MAUPASSANT, Guy de.

Mlle FIFI.

New revised edition. One of the only five copy printed on japon paper.

AUGIER, Emile.

L'Aventurière.

LONGUS || TOUCHAGES, Louis.

Daphnis et Chloé.

Very beautiful illustration of this classic of ancient literature by Louis Touchages. Copy n°1 printed on pure Auvergne rag by hand, accompanied by a suite in black of illustrations on pure vellum and an original watercolor, first paper printed in 21 copies.

ZOLA, Emile.

Contes à Ninon.

First edition.This collection of tales is the first book published by the young Zola.A Ninon - Simplice - Le Carnet de Danse - Celle qui m'aime - La Fée Amoureuse - Le Sang - Les Voleurs et l'Ane - Soeur-des-Pauvres - Aventures du Grand Sidoine et du Petit Médéric.

MONTESQUIOU, Robert de.

Le Chancelier de Fleurs.

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.

CENDRARS, Blaise.

Le Plan de l'Aiguille.

First edition. One of the 56 on "Holllande" paper, second paper.

MARDRUS, Dr. Joseph Charles || BOURDELLE, Antoine.

First french edition.

Signed by Dali to Pierre Lhoste (1913-1984) radio journalist and great autograph collector.

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.

First edition.
One of the 20 first copy with the additional set of engravings.

First edition.
One of the 25 on Chine paper.

Complete works from Voltaire
Weight : 45/50 kg : Extra shipping cost (on request) outside France.

First french edition.
Presentation copy signed by Paul Eluard and Louis Parrot.

First edition.
One of the 30 copy on Chineese paper, first paper.
Beautiful edition illustrated by Gericault's drawings printed in bicolor.

First edition limited to only 50 copies.
One of the 7 on Japon paper.

First edition.
One of the 110 copies reimposed in quarto tellière on "vergé pur fil" paper, ours n° LIV.
Novel unfinished by Marcel Proust and published posthumously.

Artist's copy signed by illustrator Sylvain Sauvage, is one of 25 copies reserved for collaborators among the 50 including the suite of prints off-print and an original sketch signed by the artist.

Very nice illustration of this classic by Stendhal.

First edition.
This Life of Molière was commissioned from Voltaire to complete the 4to edition illustrated by Boucher published in 1734 by Prault. But the bookshop censor refused Voltaire's text and published a biographical work of La Serre instead.

New revised edition.
One of the only five copy printed on japon paper.

Very beautiful illustration of this classic of ancient literature by Louis Touchages.

Copy n°1 printed on pure Auvergne rag by hand, accompanied by a suite in black of illustrations on pure vellum and an original watercolor, first paper printed in 21 copies.

First edition.
This collection of tales is the first book published by the young Zola.

A Ninon - Simplice - Le Carnet de Danse - Celle qui m'aime - La Fée Amoureuse - Le Sang - Les Voleurs et l'Ane - Soeur-des-Pauvres - Aventures du Grand Sidoine et du Petit Médéric.

First edition.
One of the 56 on "Holllande" paper, second paper.

Limited edition, only 125 copies.
COPY NUMBER 1.