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GALLAND, Antoine.

Les Milles et une Nuits.

Paris, Furne et Cie, 1837.

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180 €

Good copy.

HENUSSE, Théo.

Une pièce de Molière inconnue.

Bruxelles, Editions Biblis, 1954.

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180 €

First publication with critical notes of this piece of 402 verses that Théo Hénusse attributes to Molière (he will be the only one to defend this provenance).

One of the 75 copies printed on Japan paper, ours n°32.

VERNE, Jules.

Seconde patrie.

Paris, J. Hetzel et Cie, [1900].

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180 €

First illustrated edition.

DESTOUCHES, Philippe Néricault.

Oeuvres dramatiques.

Maestricht, Durand, 1758.

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180 €

Very good copy.

COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor || LHOTE, André.

Le dit de l'ancien marinier en sept parties.

Paris, Emile-Paul frères, 1920.

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180 €

766 copies, this one number xv, one of the 27 on "papier bis du Mittineague-mill" with a suite of the illustrations.

FONTENELLE, Bernard Le Bouyer de.

Oeuvres Diverses de M. de Fontenelle.

Paris, Michel Brunet, 1724.

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175 €

Edition by Brunet which contains the Praises, The Oracles, The Dialogues of the Dead (and of the Moderns), The Plurality of Worlds.

BITAUBE, Paul Jérémie || HOMERE.

Oeuvres d'Homère, avec des remarques; précédées de réflexions sur Homère et sur la traduction des poètes.

Paris, L. Tenré, 1822.

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175 €

The French translation of the Homeric epics by Bitaubé became the reference text in the 18th and 19th centuries.

DUHAMEL, Georges.

Journal de Salavin.

Paris, Albert Guillot, 1949.

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175 €

With 37 original compositions from Andres Segovia.
Copy printed for the author, Georges Duhamel, and inscribed by the author.

SALMON, André.

Archives du Club des onze.

Paris, Editions Mornay, 1923.

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170 €

Edition illustrated by a frontispiece by André Derain.
A small aesthetic manifesto, there is the same aesthetic of surprise, the same taste for a story without tail or head, the same construction based on a profound heterogeneity of the chapters. Several chapters are in fact dialogues in verse (Council, Second Council, Congress), others are made up of letters (Correspondence, Recoil).

One of 30 copies on Japon, ours n°20.

Editions Mornay was a French publishing house founded in 1919 by Georges and Antoinette Mornay. The company was particularly known for its exquisitely designed and illustrated books, which featured the work of some of the leading illustrators of the time.

REGNIER, Henri (de).

Les Rencontres de Monsieur de Bréot.

Paris, Editions Mornay, 1930.

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170 €

Edition illustrated by George Barbier.
One of the 66 copies on Japan paper, ours n°62.

Editions Mornay was a French publishing house founded in 1919 by Georges and Antoinette Mornay. The company was particularly known for its exquisitely designed and illustrated books, which featured the work of some of the leading illustrators of the time.

CREVEL, René.

Temps mêlés.

Verviers, Temps mêlés, 1954.

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150 €

First edition.
Numbered copy (n°32).

LE ROY, Eugène.

Jacquou le Croquant.

Paris, Editions Mornay, 1925.

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150 €

Edition illustrated by Louis-Joseph Soulas.

One of the 65 copies on Japan paper, ours n°44.

Editions Mornay was a French publishing house founded in 1919 by Georges and Antoinette Mornay. The company was particularly known for its exquisitely designed and illustrated books, which featured the work of some of the leading illustrators of the time.

BENOIT, Pierre.

Axelle.

Paris, Editions Mornay, 1932.

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150 €

Edition illustrated by Lucien Boucher.

One of the 50 copies on Japan paper, ours n°23.

Editions Mornay was a French publishing house founded in 1919 by Georges and Antoinette Mornay. The company was particularly known for its exquisitely designed and illustrated books, which featured the work of some of the leading illustrators of the time.

BERAUD, Henri.

Le Vitriol de lune.

Paris, Editions Mornay, 1931.

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150 €

Edition illustrated by Guy Arnoux.

One of the 60 copies on Japan paper, ours n°12.

Editions Mornay was a French publishing house founded in 1919 by Georges and Antoinette Mornay. The company was particularly known for its exquisitely designed and illustrated books, which featured the work of some of the leading illustrators of the time.

VERNE, Jules.

Les Indes noires (Le Chancellor / Martin Paz).

Paris, Hetzel, [1877-1878].

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150 €

Adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1877. It tells the story of a group of men who find themselves stranded in a coal mine in Scotland.

VERNE, Jules.

Le Pays des Fourrures.

Paris, Hetzel, [1875-1878].

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Adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1873. It tells the story of a group of English explorers who find themselves stranded on a floating ice island in the Canadian Far North.

VERNE, Jules.

Aventures de Trois Russes et de Trois Anglais dans l'Afrique Australe.

Paris, J. Hetzel et Cie, [1894].

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150 €

MIRABEAU, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti.

Nouvelles de Jean Boccace.

Paris, L. Duprat, 1802.

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150 €

First edition of this free translation of Boccaccio's Decameron .
The title page mentions Mirabeau but this translation is probably apocryphal.
The book highlights the borrowings that La Fontaine made from Boccaccio for his tales.

ROCHER, Edmond.

Le Roman de la fleur.

Paris, Maurice Dormann, 1912.

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150 €

First edition.
Beautiful print on good quality glossy wove paper.

Edmond Rocher is a painter and poster designer whose work is typical of the art nouveau of the Belle Epoque, he exhibited in particular at the Salon des cent.
He offers here an "Illustrated Floral Monograph" his favorite theme. The cover announces 60 pen and ink compositions in the text to which is added the portrait of the artist and 1 lithograph out of text. Our copy peppered with a second lithograph (cropped signature).
Large handwritten dedication from Edmond Rocher to the photographer Chabrier.

[THEATRE].

13 Pièces de théatre.

s.l., s.n., 1752-1819.

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150 €

- JOUY, Bélisaire, Paris, Correard, 1818. (8)-xxxi-87 pages.
- PIGAULT-LE BRUN, Les Rivaux d'eux-mêmes, Paris, André, 1810. 33 pages.
- PATRAS||BRUNY, Toberne ou le pêcheur suédois, Paris, Maradan, An V. 39 pages.
- QUINAULT|| GLUCK, Armide, Paris, Delalain, 1780. 23 pages.
- VOLTAIRE, La Mort de Caton, Avignon, Berenguier, 1819. 32 pages.
- DIDEROT, Le Père de Famille, Avignon, Berenguier, 1818. 53 pages.
- VILLER||GOUFFE, Cange ou le commissionnaire bienfaisant, trait historique en un acte, Paris, Plassan, 1793. 21 pages.
- DESFONTAINES, L'Aveugle de Palmyre, Paris, Delalain, 1774. 32 pages.
- PLANTERRE|| GAVAUX, La Famille indigente, fait historique, Avignon, Mouriès, An II. 21 pages.
- PIGAULT-LE BRUN, L'Orphelin, Paris, Vente, An II. 40 pages.
- RADET, Le Canonnier convalescent, Paris, Vaudeville, An III. 29 pages;
- DUVAL, Le Chanoine de Milan ou le souper imprévu, Paris, Barba, AnVIII. 32 pages.
- MORLIERE, Le Gouverneur, Paris, Quillaut, 1752. 66 pages.

FAGAN, Barthélemy-Christophe.

Théatre de M. Fagan, et autres oeuvres du mesme auteur.

Paris, Duchesne, 1760.

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150 €

First collective edition.

CLEMENT, Jean Marie Bernard.

De la Tragédie pour servir de suite aux Lettres à Voltaire.

Paris, Moutard, 1784.

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150 €

First edition.
Literary critic Clément's favorite target was Voltaire, whom he attacked with great virulence, waging a war that lasted nearly ten years. Voltaire nicknamed him "the inclement" and overwhelmed him with insults.

HORACE.

Oeuvres complètes d'Horace traduites en vers par P. Daru.

Paris, Janet et Cotelle, 1816.

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New corrected edition of the translation of the works of Horace by Pierre Daru. Side by side edition, text in Latin on the left, in French on the right.

DESTOUCHES, Philippe Néricault.

Oeuvres de Monsieur Destouches. Nouvelle édition augmentée de pièces nouvelles nouvelles, et mise en meilleur ordre.

La Haye, Benjamin Gibert, 1752.

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150 €

[GRANET, Abbé François].

Recueil de dissertations sur plusieurs tragédies de Corneille et de Racine, avec des réflexions pour & contre la critique des ouvrages d'esprit, et des jugemens sur ces dissertations.

Paris, Gissey, 1740.

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150 €

Book which revives the quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns through the critical study of the tragedies of Corneille and Racine.

[PALISSOT DE MONTENOY, Charles ].

La Dunciade.

Londres, sn, 1773.

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150 €

New edition, revised, corrected and augmented.
Satirical poem offering portraits of famous men of his time and in particular the philosophers of the Lumières.

MOLE, François-René || DAZINCOURT || FLEURY.

Observations pour les comédiens français sur la pétition adressée par les auteurs dramatiques à l'Assemblée nationale.

Paris, Imprimerie Prault, 1790.

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150 €

First edition.
Continuation of a debate initiated by Beaumarchais in 1777, opposing the interests of authors to those of the Comédie Française. This resulted in the laws of 18 and 19 January 1791 and 19 and 24 July 1793 establishing authors' rights.

GOURMONT, Remy de.

La Patience de Griseledis.

Paris, Editions du Sagittaire, 1920.

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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.

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.

MAUPASSANT, Guy de.

Mademoiselle Fifi.

Paris, Louis Conard, 1908.

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Fine binding signed by Canape.

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Litterature

GALLAND, Antoine.

Les Milles et une Nuits.

Good copy.

HENUSSE, Théo.

Une pièce de Molière inconnue.

First publication with critical notes of this piece of 402 verses that Théo Hénusse attributes to Molière (he will be the only one to defend this provenance).One of the 75 copies printed on Japan paper, ours n°32.

VERNE, Jules.

Seconde patrie.

First illustrated edition.

DESTOUCHES, Philippe Néricault.

Oeuvres dramatiques.

Very good copy.

COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor || LHOTE, André.

Le dit de l'ancien marinier en sept parties.

766 copies, this one number xv, one of the 27 on "papier bis du Mittineague-mill" with a suite of the illustrations.

FONTENELLE, Bernard Le Bouyer de.

Oeuvres Diverses de M. de Fontenelle.

Edition by Brunet which contains the Praises, The Oracles, The Dialogues of the Dead (and of the Moderns), The Plurality of Worlds.

BITAUBE, Paul Jérémie || HOMERE.

Oeuvres d'Homère, avec des remarques; précédées de réflexions sur Homère et sur la traduction des poètes.

The French translation of the Homeric epics by Bitaubé became the reference text in the 18th and 19th centuries.

DUHAMEL, Georges.

Journal de Salavin.

With 37 original compositions from Andres Segovia. Copy printed for the author, Georges Duhamel, and inscribed by the author.

SALMON, André.

Archives du Club des onze.

REGNIER, Henri (de).

Les Rencontres de Monsieur de Bréot.

CREVEL, René.

Temps mêlés.

First edition.Numbered copy (n°32).

LE ROY, Eugène.

Jacquou le Croquant.

BENOIT, Pierre.

Axelle.

BERAUD, Henri.

Le Vitriol de lune.

VERNE, Jules.

Les Indes noires (Le Chancellor / Martin Paz).

Adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1877. It tells the story of a group of men who find themselves stranded in a coal mine in Scotland.

VERNE, Jules.

Le Pays des Fourrures.

Adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1873. It tells the story of a group of English explorers who find themselves stranded on a floating ice island in the Canadian Far North.

VERNE, Jules.

Aventures de Trois Russes et de Trois Anglais dans l'Afrique Australe.

MIRABEAU, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti.

Nouvelles de Jean Boccace.

First edition of this free translation of Boccaccio's Decameron .The title page mentions Mirabeau but this translation is probably apocryphal. The book highlights the borrowings that La Fontaine made from Boccaccio for his tales.

ROCHER, Edmond.

Le Roman de la fleur.

[THEATRE].

13 Pièces de théatre.

FAGAN, Barthélemy-Christophe.

Théatre de M. Fagan, et autres oeuvres du mesme auteur.

First collective edition.

CLEMENT, Jean Marie Bernard.

De la Tragédie pour servir de suite aux Lettres à Voltaire.

First edition.Literary critic Clément's favorite target was Voltaire, whom he attacked with great virulence, waging a war that lasted nearly ten years. Voltaire nicknamed him "the inclement" and overwhelmed him with insults.

HORACE.

Oeuvres complètes d'Horace traduites en vers par P. Daru.

New corrected edition of the translation of the works of Horace by Pierre Daru. Side by side edition, text in Latin on the left, in French on the right.

DESTOUCHES, Philippe Néricault.

Oeuvres de Monsieur Destouches. Nouvelle édition augmentée de pièces nouvelles nouvelles, et mise en meilleur ordre.

[GRANET, Abbé François].

Recueil de dissertations sur plusieurs tragédies de Corneille et de Racine, avec des réflexions pour & contre la critique des ouvrages d'esprit, et des jugemens sur ces dissertations.

Book which revives the quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns through the critical study of the tragedies of Corneille and Racine.

[PALISSOT DE MONTENOY, Charles ].

La Dunciade.

New edition, revised, corrected and augmented. Satirical poem offering portraits of famous men of his time and in particular the philosophers of the Lumières.

MOLE, François-René || DAZINCOURT || FLEURY.

Observations pour les comédiens français sur la pétition adressée par les auteurs dramatiques à l'Assemblée nationale.

First edition.Continuation of a debate initiated by Beaumarchais in 1777, opposing the interests of authors to those of the Comédie Française. This resulted in the laws of 18 and 19 January 1791 and 19 and 24 July 1793 establishing authors' rights.

GOURMONT, Remy de.

La Patience de Griseledis.

TINAN, Jean de.

Aimienne ou le détournement de mineure.

MAUPASSANT, Guy de.

Mademoiselle Fifi.

Fine binding signed by Canape.

First publication with critical notes of this piece of 402 verses that Théo Hénusse attributes to Molière (he will be the only one to defend this provenance).

One of the 75 copies printed on Japan paper, ours n°32.

With 37 original compositions from Andres Segovia.
Copy printed for the author, Georges Duhamel, and inscribed by the author.

First edition.
Numbered copy (n°32).

First edition of this free translation of Boccaccio's Decameron .
The title page mentions Mirabeau but this translation is probably apocryphal.
The book highlights the borrowings that La Fontaine made from Boccaccio for his tales.

First edition.
Literary critic Clément's favorite target was Voltaire, whom he attacked with great virulence, waging a war that lasted nearly ten years. Voltaire nicknamed him "the inclement" and overwhelmed him with insults.

New edition, revised, corrected and augmented.
Satirical poem offering portraits of famous men of his time and in particular the philosophers of the Lumières.

First edition.
Continuation of a debate initiated by Beaumarchais in 1777, opposing the interests of authors to those of the Comédie Française. This resulted in the laws of 18 and 19 January 1791 and 19 and 24 July 1793 establishing authors' rights.