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Photo [BEAUMONT, L. de] || ROBIDA, Albert. 

[BEAUMONT, L. de] || ROBIDA, Albert. 

Le cas du vidame, par l'Académicien d'estampes. 

Paris, A la librairie illustrée, [ca. 1889].
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550 €

Copy on Japan paper.
Presentation copy to Monsieur Achille by Albert Robida, with a fine drawing by the artist (Profile of a woman wearing a nice hat).

Robida (1848-1926) illustrates here, with his characteristic style full of life, the funny story of a mismatched wedding, which begins with a disastrous wedding night.

Photo CERVANTES, Miguel. 

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).

Photo TERENCE. 

TERENCE. 

P. Terentii Comoediae , tum ex Donati commentariis, tum ex optimorum, praesertim veterum, exemplarium collatione. 

Paris, Robert Estienne, 1541.
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600 €

Edition given by Robert Estienne.
The comedies of Terence offer an insight into daily life and Roman society at the time. They will have had a significant influence on later European comic literature from the Renaissance. Terence's Comedies held the role for Comedy that Aristotle's Poetics held for other works of fiction. Its patterns of structure and characterization have been studied and adapted by many playwrights and authors, helping to shape the theatrical tradition.

Photo LONGUS || TOUCHAGES, Louis. 

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.

Photo SOREL, Charles. 

SOREL, Charles. 

De la connoissance des bons livres, ou examen de plusieurs autheurs. 

Amsterdam, Henry et Theodore Boom, 1672.
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First Elzévirienne edition published one year after the original.
Sorel was the first in France to attempt a critical presentation of contemporary literature of the period.

Photo ESTIENNE, Henri. 

ESTIENNE, Henri. 

Epigrammata Graeca selecta ex Anthologia. 

[Genève], Henri Estienne, 1570.
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600 €

Printed by Henri Estienne, this collection is composed of the anthology formed of 260 Greek epigrams already published by him in 1566 but here enriched by his own translations into Latin prose, as well as by original translations in verse by himself and by Paulus Melissus.
This publication caused the imprisonment of Henri Estienne, who had not previously requested permission to publish from the Council of Geneva.

Photo AUGIER, Emile. 

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).

Photo VERNE, Jules. 

VERNE, Jules. 

Le Volcan d'or. 

Paris, Collection Hetzel, [1906].
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600 €

First illustrated 8vo edition.
The Golden Volcano, a posthumous novel, takes place during the Klondike Gold Rush.

Photo GHERARDI, Evariste. 

GHERARDI, Evariste. 

Le Théâtre Italien de Gherardi, ou Le Recueil Général de toutes le Comédies and Scènes Françoises jouées par les Comédiens Italiens du Roy. 

Paris, Pierre Witte, 1717.
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600 €

The Italian Comedy or Italian Theater was the competing theater troupe of the French Comedy (born from the merger of Molière's troupe and that of the Hotel de Bourgogne) at the end of the 17th century.
His repertoire, assembled here by Evariste Gherardi, was inspired by both characters from the Commedia dell'arte and French authors. I
t was dissolved in 1697 following the announcement of the False Prude (who attacked Maintenon) then returned to Paris under the Regency in 1716.

Photo ZOLA, Emile. 

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.

Photo [THORILLON, Antoine Joseph] MINEAU DE LA MISTRINGUE, Thomas. 

[THORILLON, Antoine Joseph] MINEAU DE LA MISTRINGUE, Thomas. 

Morali-Philoso-Physico-logie des buveurs d'eaux minérales, aux nouvelles sources de Passy, en mai 1787.
Où l'on trouve l'Histoire merveilleuse de la plus merveilleuse prise de tabac; les Amours récompensés & la perfidie de quelques Buveurs punie. 

Paris, Belin, 1787.
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600 €

First edition.
Book attributed to the politician Antoine-Joseph Thorillon (1742-?) Who, under the pseudonym of Tho. Mineau de La Mistringue self-proclaimed perpetual secretary of drinkers of Passy waters, leaves us with a singular book recounting real or fantasized episodes taking place around the fountains of mineral waters.
It is classified by Edmond de Goncourt in "The House of an artist" among the writers with the wild imagination: "Macedonia bizarre, where it is in turn question of the fairy Bellie, of the development of the memory thanks to the internal sense of the ashy substance, the game of crow, the advantages of celibacy, a passage of a convoy of galley slaves singing litanies of the Virgin, the distribution of the territorial tax ".
Book which we would have liked to prove that it inspired the Buveurs d'eau and Hydropathes of literary Boheme.

Photo [MEUSNIER de QUERLON, Anne-Gabriel]. 

[MEUSNIER de QUERLON, Anne-Gabriel]. 

Les soupers de Daphné et Les dortoirs de Lacedemone. 

[Paris], s.n., 1740.
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600 €

Rare first edition.
A key of the understanding is given by Barbier is hand-written on the last extra leaf of the volume.

This book is a pretty sharp satire about the dinners given at Marly.
Some anecdotes, mostly sexual, were gathering by Monnet.
We can notice that a part of the texte is a clear allusion to freemasonry, its rituals and its symbols.

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

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.

Photo CENDRARS, Blaise. 

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.

Photo LE SAGE, Alain René. 

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 €
Photo MAUPASSANT, Guy de. 

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.

Photo MONTESQUIOU, Robert de. 

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.

Photo LONGUS || AMYOT, Jacques. 

LONGUS || AMYOT, Jacques. 

Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé. 

Londres, s.n., 1779.
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600 €

Rare copy bound in morocco illustrated by the engravings suit called Régent, very complete with the 29th engraving "aux petits pieds".

Photo [CAILLEAU]. 

[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.

Photo [VOLTAIRE]. 

[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.

Photo TOUCHAGUES, Louis || ARNOUX, Alexandre. 

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).

Photo COCTEAU, Jean. 

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.

Photo PROUST, Marcel. 

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.

Photo STENDHAL. 

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.

Photo ELUARD, Paul. 

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.

Photo ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. 

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).

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

[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.

Photo BAUDELAIRE, Charles. 

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".

Photo RETIF DE LA BRETONNE, Nicolas-Edme. 

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.

Photo LE GLAY, Maurice. 

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.

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