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PREVOST, Antoine François (Abbé).

Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du chevalier des grieux.

Paris, Jouaust librairie des bibliophiles, 1874.

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80 €

The works of Abbé Prevost are preceded by a study by Arsène Houssaye.
The illustrations etched by Hédouin.

[STENDHAL (Henry Beyle, dit)].

Histoire de la peinture en Italie. Par M. B. A. A.

Paris, Didot l'Aîné, 1817.

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2500 €

First edition.
A full margin copy, untrimmed.

NISARD, Désiré.

Histoire de la littérature française.

Paris, Librairie Firmin Didot et Cie, 1879.

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75 €

Histoire de la littérature qui début avec les chroniqueurs moyen age et Joinville, et se finit avec Lammenais et Joseph de Maistre.

TAINE, Hippolyte.

Histoire de la littérature anglaise, tome cinquième et complémentaire : les Contemporains.

Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1906.

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30 €

CHAMPFLEURY, Jules.

Histoire de la caricature sous la Réforme et la Ligue.

Paris, Dentu, [v. 1880].

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60 €

First edition.
The many illustrations are included in the pagination.

LE SAGE Alain-René.

Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane.

Paris, Dabo, 1820.

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30 €

DAUDET, Alphonse.

Histoire d'un enfant : Le Petit Chose.

Paris, Hetzel, [v. 1890].

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50 €

Le Petit chose was the first novel published by Alphonse Daudet. This edition at Hetzel is illustrated by Philippoteaux.

[RELIURES SIGNEES KIEFFER] FRANCE, Anatole.

Histoire contemporaine.

Paris, Aux éditions du Sagittaire, 1922-1924.

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450 €

First illustrated edition.
Complete series of the Contemporary History collection comprising four novels by Anatole France illustrated with watercolors by Serge Beaune.
Our copies are identical in the same binding signed by Kieffer and printed on the second paper: Imperial Japan with a series of line drawings on China, numbered n°24
The titles published in this collection are as follows:
- L'Orme du Mail
- Le Mannequin d'Osier
- L'Anneau d'Améthyste
- Mr Bergeret à Paris.

MUSEE.

Héro et Léandre.

Paris, A. Quantin, 1879.

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50 €

In the beautiful collection in-32 published by Quantin of Ancient Masterpieces translated with some notes by Pons.

[LETTRISME].

Halte au gang des escrocs et des cuistres nécrophages de Dada et pillards du Lettrisme !.

Paris, Front de la jeunesse lettrisme, 1967.

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120 €

First edition.

Rare leaflet of the Lettrist movement containing extracts from Maurice Lemaitre's book "Le Lettrisme devant Dada".

LESAGE, Alain René.

Guzman d'Alfarache.

Paris, Ménard et Desenne, 1825.

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[SCUDERY, Georges de].

Guerre comique dédiée à Madame de Lyonne.

Paris, Claude Barbin, 1668.

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250 €

First edition.
Burlesque poem imitated from Homer's "Batrachomyomachia" (Battle of frogs and rats).

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.

CONRAD, Joseph.

Gaspar Ruiz (A set of Six). Traduit de l'anglais par Philippe Neel.

Paris, Gallimard, 1927.

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50 €

First edition in French. 1104 copies.
This (n° 603) one of the 995 for the "amis de l'édition originale".

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.

SAINTE BEUVE, Charles Augustin.

Galerie des grands écrivains français tirée des causeries du lundi et des portraits littéraires.

Paris, Garnier frères, 1878.

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50 €

Beautiful edition decorated with portraits of the authors engraved with a burin.

SILVESTRE, Armand.

Floréal.

Paris, Masson et Cie, 1912.

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150 €

First edition.
Very nice edition enriched with illustrations by Georges Cain printed in several colors. Each chapter is adorned with an inset engraving and an engraved headband and end-engraving which frames the text.

Massenet sets the heroes of this spring of 1799 to music and leaves us the music sheets.
Jules Clarétie who writes the preface tells us: "[...] Among these books, I do not know, I repeat it, of more original than this one. It seems that all the arts wanted to fraternize in these pages and find themselves, under the same cover, like the heroes of Floréal under the same spring sky. ".

VERLAINE, Paul.

Femmes.

[Londres], [C. Hirsch], [v. 1895].

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200 €

Second edition.
On of the 480 copies on Van Gelder paper, ours no. 130.

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.

RICCOBONI, Marie Jeanne.

Fanny Butlerd.

Paris, Ledentu, 1836.

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30 €

LA FONTAINE, Jean.

Fables de La Fontaine.

Paris, Jouaust librairie des bibliophiles, 1892.

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200 €

Beautiful edition of Fables with a preface by Paul Lacroix.

FLORIAN, Jean Pierre Claris.

Fables de J-P Claris de Florian.

Paris, Jouaust librairie des bibliophiles, 1886.

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50 €

Beautiful print illustrated by 7 etchings engraved by Le Rat after Emile Adan.
The text is prefaced by Honoré Bonhomme.

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 €

LA FONTAINE, Jean.

Fables choisies, mises en vers par Monsieur de la Fontaine et par lui revues, corrigées & augmentées de nouveau.

Lyon, François Sarrazin, 1696.

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400 €

This edition appeared only a year after the death of La Fontaine, the permission granted to François Sarrazin also mentions that La Fontaine lost the privilege on his fables in 1692.

Fables chosen by La Fontaine divided into nine books, we find the fables that made the author famous: The cicada and the ant, the wolf and the lamb, the hare and the tortoise.

VALDES, André.

Et Patati et Patata.

Paris, Librairie Mondaine, [1887].

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150 €

Rare first edition.
An editor's tag "Librairie Alcide Picard et Kaan" is sticked on the title page.

The author Charles Boeswillwald uses a pen name, which is "André Valdès", in order to write this book.

COCTEAU, Jean.

Essai de critique indirecte.

Paris, Grasset, 1932.

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120 €

First collective edition, partly original, illustrated on the frontispiece with a black reproduction of a de Chirico painting from the author's collection.
Edition reimposed on paper in-4 Teillère, one of 72 copies on vellum paper, ours n°55.

COCTEAU, Jean || LHOTE, André.

Escales.

Paris, Éditions de la Sirène, 1920.

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3000 €

440 copies.
This (n° xviii) one of the 25 on Hollande paper, with an additionnal text 'Musée Secret' containing 5 erotical drawing in black from Lhote that is not in the normal paper.

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.

GASZTOLD, Carmen Bernos de.

Eparses.

Paris, Chez l'illustrateur, 1946.

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250 €

First edition.
One of 180 numbered exemplar on Rives, our n°LX
First collection of poems published by Carmen Bernos de Gasztold (1919-1995), illustrated by her brother Pierre de Gasztold.
Nice drawing signed with dedication by Pierre de Gasztold.

MALEBRANCHE, Nicolas.

Entretiens sur la Metaphysique & sur la Religion.

Rotterdam, Reiner Leers, 1688.

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300 €

First edition.
The Entretiens sur la métaphysique et sur la religion are the most accomplished of all Malebranche's works. A true literary work, demonstrating a magnificent mastery of the art of dialogue, these fourteen conversations are a model of pedagogy.

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Litterature

PREVOST, Antoine François (Abbé).

Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du chevalier des grieux.

The works of Abbé Prevost are preceded by a study by Arsène Houssaye.The illustrations etched by Hédouin.

[STENDHAL (Henry Beyle, dit)].

Histoire de la peinture en Italie. Par M. B. A. A.

First edition. A full margin copy, untrimmed.

NISARD, Désiré.

Histoire de la littérature française.

Histoire de la littérature qui début avec les chroniqueurs moyen age et Joinville, et se finit avec Lammenais et Joseph de Maistre.

TAINE, Hippolyte.

Histoire de la littérature anglaise, tome cinquième et complémentaire : les Contemporains.

CHAMPFLEURY, Jules.

Histoire de la caricature sous la Réforme et la Ligue.

First edition.The many illustrations are included in the pagination.

LE SAGE Alain-René.

Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane.

DAUDET, Alphonse.

Histoire d'un enfant : Le Petit Chose.

Le Petit chose was the first novel published by Alphonse Daudet. This edition at Hetzel is illustrated by Philippoteaux.

[RELIURES SIGNEES KIEFFER] FRANCE, Anatole.

Histoire contemporaine.

MUSEE.

Héro et Léandre.

In the beautiful collection in-32 published by Quantin of Ancient Masterpieces translated with some notes by Pons.

[LETTRISME].

Halte au gang des escrocs et des cuistres nécrophages de Dada et pillards du Lettrisme !.

First edition. Rare leaflet of the Lettrist movement containing extracts from Maurice Lemaitre's book "Le Lettrisme devant Dada".

LESAGE, Alain René.

Guzman d'Alfarache.

[SCUDERY, Georges de].

Guerre comique dédiée à Madame de Lyonne.

First edition.Burlesque poem imitated from Homer's "Batrachomyomachia" (Battle of frogs and rats).

CHAMPFLEURY.

Grandeur et Décadence d'une Serinette.

CONRAD, Joseph.

Gaspar Ruiz (A set of Six). Traduit de l'anglais par Philippe Neel.

First edition in French. 1104 copies. This (n° 603) one of the 995 for the "amis de l'édition originale".

RABELAIS, François || BARTA, Lazlo.

Gargantua.

SAINTE BEUVE, Charles Augustin.

Galerie des grands écrivains français tirée des causeries du lundi et des portraits littéraires.

Beautiful edition decorated with portraits of the authors engraved with a burin.

SILVESTRE, Armand.

Floréal.

VERLAINE, Paul.

Femmes.

Second edition. On of the 480 copies on Van Gelder paper, ours no. 130.

GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von || COLLOT, André.

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

RICCOBONI, Marie Jeanne.

Fanny Butlerd.

LA FONTAINE, Jean.

Fables de La Fontaine.

Beautiful edition of Fables with a preface by Paul Lacroix.

FLORIAN, Jean Pierre Claris.

Fables de J-P Claris de Florian.

Beautiful print illustrated by 7 etchings engraved by Le Rat after Emile Adan.The text is prefaced by Honoré Bonhomme.

FLORIAN, J.-P. Claris de.

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

LA FONTAINE, Jean.

Fables choisies, mises en vers par Monsieur de la Fontaine et par lui revues, corrigées & augmentées de nouveau.

VALDES, André.

Et Patati et Patata.

Rare first edition. An editor's tag "Librairie Alcide Picard et Kaan" is sticked on the title page. The author Charles Boeswillwald uses a pen name, which is "André Valdès", in order to write this book.

COCTEAU, Jean.

Essai de critique indirecte.

First collective edition, partly original, illustrated on the frontispiece with a black reproduction of a de Chirico painting from the author's collection.Edition reimposed on paper in-4 Teillère, one of 72 copies on vellum paper, ours n°55.

COCTEAU, Jean || LHOTE, André.

Escales.

440 copies. This (n° xviii) one of the 25 on Hollande paper, with an additionnal text 'Musée Secret' containing 5 erotical drawing in black from Lhote that is not in the normal paper.

ESTIENNE, Henri.

Epigrammata Graeca selecta ex Anthologia.

GASZTOLD, Carmen Bernos de.

Eparses.

First edition.One of 180 numbered exemplar on Rives, our n°LXFirst collection of poems published by Carmen Bernos de Gasztold (1919-1995), illustrated by her brother Pierre de Gasztold. Nice drawing signed with dedication by Pierre de Gasztold.

MALEBRANCHE, Nicolas.

Entretiens sur la Metaphysique & sur la Religion.

First edition.The Entretiens sur la métaphysique et sur la religion are the most accomplished of all Malebranche's works. A true literary work, demonstrating a magnificent mastery of the art of dialogue, these fourteen conversations are a model of pedagogy.

The works of Abbé Prevost are preceded by a study by Arsène Houssaye.
The illustrations etched by Hédouin.

First edition.
A full margin copy, untrimmed.

First edition.
The many illustrations are included in the pagination.

First edition.

Rare leaflet of the Lettrist movement containing extracts from Maurice Lemaitre's book "Le Lettrisme devant Dada".

First edition.
Burlesque poem imitated from Homer's "Batrachomyomachia" (Battle of frogs and rats).

First edition in French. 1104 copies.
This (n° 603) one of the 995 for the "amis de l'édition originale".

Second edition.
On of the 480 copies on Van Gelder paper, ours no. 130.

Beautiful print illustrated by 7 etchings engraved by Le Rat after Emile Adan.
The text is prefaced by Honoré Bonhomme.

Rare first edition.
An editor's tag "Librairie Alcide Picard et Kaan" is sticked on the title page.

The author Charles Boeswillwald uses a pen name, which is "André Valdès", in order to write this book.

First collective edition, partly original, illustrated on the frontispiece with a black reproduction of a de Chirico painting from the author's collection.
Edition reimposed on paper in-4 Teillère, one of 72 copies on vellum paper, ours n°55.

440 copies.
This (n° xviii) one of the 25 on Hollande paper, with an additionnal text 'Musée Secret' containing 5 erotical drawing in black from Lhote that is not in the normal paper.

First edition.
One of 180 numbered exemplar on Rives, our n°LX
First collection of poems published by Carmen Bernos de Gasztold (1919-1995), illustrated by her brother Pierre de Gasztold.
Nice drawing signed with dedication by Pierre de Gasztold.

First edition.
The Entretiens sur la métaphysique et sur la religion are the most accomplished of all Malebranche's works. A true literary work, demonstrating a magnificent mastery of the art of dialogue, these fourteen conversations are a model of pedagogy.