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SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine (de).

Lettres de Jeunesse (1923-1931).

Paris, NRF Gallimard, 1953.

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2000 €

First edition.
One of the 60 copies on paper Hollande Pannekoek, ours n°X. Second paper after 21 on "japon".

Very beautiful binding executed by Jean Paul Miguet (1925-2019) one of the greatest French bookbinders of the 20th century.

From 1923 to 1931, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote many particularly touching letters to Renée de Saussine known as "Rinette". Three years his senior, Renée de Saussine was introduced to him by her brother Bertrand, a classmate of Antoine at the Lycée Saint-Louis. An affectionate friendship binds Antoine to Renée and spans the years. Sometimes, when he is far from her, he phones her. Finding her only rarely, he writes her many letters.

RUPHY, Jean-François.

Lettres champenoises ou observations critiques sur quelques tragédies et comédies modernes.

Paris, Colnet, 1809.

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50 €

First edition.
Literary critique of two plays of the time: Les Templiers by Raynouard and La mort de Henri IV by Legouvé. Two other critiques will appear in a second volume.

APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume.

Lettres à sa marraine (1915-1918).

Paris, Pour les Fils de Roi [Jacques Haumont], 1948.

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100 €

First edition.
With an introduction and notes by Marcel Adema.
Copy on yellow paper.

MOUSTIER, Charles-Albert de, dit Demoustier.

Lettres à Emilie sur la mythologie.

Avignon, Joly, 1811.

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75 €

[BIEVRE, Georges François, (Mareschal de)].

Lettre écrite à Madame la Comtesse Tation, par le Sieur de Bois-Flotté, étudiant en droit-fil.

Amsterdam, Aux dépens de la compagnie de Perdreaux, 1770.

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300 €

First edition.
A prolix punsmith, the Marquis de Bièvre briefly shone at Court and in the salons of the end of the 18th century. Encouraged by the success, he published several works centered on this type of play on words.

SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine (de).

Lettre à un Otage.

New York, Brentano's, 1946.

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950 €

Very beautiful binding executed by Jean Paul Miguet (1925-2019) one of the greatest French bookbinders of the 20th century.

COCTEAU, Jean || MARITAIN, Jacques.

Lettre à Jacques Maritain - Réponse à Jean Cocteau.

Paris, Stock, 1926.

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100 €

First edition.
One of the pur fil Lafuma (n° 507 for both volumes).

POILLE, Jacques.

Les œuvres. Divisées en onze livres. Rome en sept livre, La Grèce en un livre. Les Barbares, Les Grands Roy, Les Grands Seigneurs, Les Derniers Hérésiarques en un livre. L'Icare Français en deux livres.

Paris, Thomas Blaise, 1623.

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950 €

First edition.
A collection of 919 sonnets describing famous men, from the Greeks and Romans to barbarians, kings, and heretics, ending with a portrait, in 105 sonnets, of the French Icarus, who was none other than Marshal Biron, a close friend of Henry IV, and executed as a traitor at the Bastille on July 31, 1602. The dedication to Louis XIII occupies no fewer than 54 sonnets.

Copy in a fine morocco binding from Hardy.

JODELLE, Étienne.

Les Œuvres et Meslanges poetiques. Reveuës & augmentees en ceste derniere edition.

Lyon, Benoist Rigaud, 1597.

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Third edition.
Rare.

LANNES, Roger.

Les Voyageurs étrangers.

Paris, GLM, 1937.

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110 €

First edition.
Numbered copy on Hollande Pannekoek (n°9/30) first luxury paper.

SABATIER DE CASTRES, Antoine (Abbé).

Les Trois Siecles De La Litterature Francoise, Ou Tableau De L'Esprit De Nos Ecrivains, Depuis Francois I, jusqu'en 1781.

Paris, Moutard, 1781.

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160 €

Second edition.
Antoine Sabatier, known as Abbé Sabatier de Castres (1742-1817), was a French man of letters and journalist.

MOINAUX, Jules.

Les Tribunaux comiques.

Paris, A. Chevalier-Marescq, 1881.

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100 €

First edition.
Judicial chronicles illustrated with small satirical drawings.
Autograph dedication of the author to Madame Colombier (sister-in-law of Damase Jouaust.

[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.

[CURIOSA] ARETIN, Pierre.

Les Sonnets luxurieux.

Paris, [Jacques Haumont], 1624 [v. 1947].

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50 €

Copy on Arches paper unnumbered.

KARR, Alphonse.

Les Soirées de Sainte-Adresse.

Paris, Michel Levy, 1858.

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30 €

Collection of short stories, the first of which is addressed to Gérard de Nerval.

HUYSMANS, Joris-Karl.

Les soeurs Vatard.

Paris, Charpentier, 1879.

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250 €

First edition.

MAUPASSANT, Guy de.

Les Soeurs Rondoli.

Paris, Paul Ollendorff, 1884.

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First edition.
First edition copy as described by Vicaire, the back of the title page bears the mention of 10 copies on Hollande paper. The number will be increased to 50 during printing.

BRANTOME, Pierre de Bourdeilles.

Les Sept discours touchant les Dames galantes du sieur de Brantome.

Paris, Jouaust librairie des bibliophiles, 1882.

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100 €

Beautiful print published on the manuscripts of the national library by Henri Bouchot.
The illustrations are engraved by Boilvin from drawings by Edouard de Beaumont.

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.

[RECUEIL].

Les Récréations de la toilette. Histoires, anecdotes, avantures amusantes & intéressantes, pour servir d'amusemens aux jeunes dames.

Paris, s.n., 1775.

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250 €

First edition.
Collection of short stories which is part of the crucible of the sentimental novel, identified by Clapp as such in his short bibliography of the novel in the eighteenth century.

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.

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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6000 €

Scarce in Folio format of this edition of the Don Quichotte, usually found in-4to.
Engravings in first state without numbers.

JACOB, Max.

Les Pénitents en maillots roses.

Paris, Editions du Sagittaire, 1925.

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50 €

First edition.
Numbered copy on vélin de Rives (n°732).

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.

FRANCE, Anatole.

Les Opinions de Monsieur Jérome Coignard.

Paris, Editions Mornay, 1924.

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200 €

Edition illustrated by Sylvain Sauvage.

One of the 67 copies on Japan paper, ours n°31

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.

VIRGILE.

Les Oeuvres de Virgile en Latin et en Français.

Lyon, Savy, 1812.

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75 €

[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.

GALLAND, Antoine.

Les Milles et une Nuits.

Paris, Furne et Cie, 1837.

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180 €

Good copy.

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.

[NOUGARET, Pierre Jean-Baptiste].

Les mille et une folies, contes français.

Paris, Chez la veuve Duchesne, 1771.

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350 €

First edition.

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Litterature

SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine (de).

Lettres de Jeunesse (1923-1931).

RUPHY, Jean-François.

Lettres champenoises ou observations critiques sur quelques tragédies et comédies modernes.

First edition.Literary critique of two plays of the time: Les Templiers by Raynouard and La mort de Henri IV by Legouvé. Two other critiques will appear in a second volume.

APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume.

Lettres à sa marraine (1915-1918).

First edition.With an introduction and notes by Marcel Adema.Copy on yellow paper.

MOUSTIER, Charles-Albert de, dit Demoustier.

Lettres à Emilie sur la mythologie.

[BIEVRE, Georges François, (Mareschal de)].

Lettre écrite à Madame la Comtesse Tation, par le Sieur de Bois-Flotté, étudiant en droit-fil.

First edition.A prolix punsmith, the Marquis de Bièvre briefly shone at Court and in the salons of the end of the 18th century. Encouraged by the success, he published several works centered on this type of play on words.

SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine (de).

Lettre à un Otage.

Very beautiful binding executed by Jean Paul Miguet (1925-2019) one of the greatest French bookbinders of the 20th century.

COCTEAU, Jean || MARITAIN, Jacques.

Lettre à Jacques Maritain - Réponse à Jean Cocteau.

First edition. One of the pur fil Lafuma (n° 507 for both volumes).

POILLE, Jacques.

Les œuvres. Divisées en onze livres. Rome en sept livre, La Grèce en un livre. Les Barbares, Les Grands Roy, Les Grands Seigneurs, Les Derniers Hérésiarques en un livre. L'Icare Français en deux livres.

JODELLE, Étienne.

Les Œuvres et Meslanges poetiques. Reveuës & augmentees en ceste derniere edition.

Third edition. Rare.

LANNES, Roger.

Les Voyageurs étrangers.

First edition.Numbered copy on Hollande Pannekoek (n°9/30) first luxury paper.

SABATIER DE CASTRES, Antoine (Abbé).

Les Trois Siecles De La Litterature Francoise, Ou Tableau De L'Esprit De Nos Ecrivains, Depuis Francois I, jusqu'en 1781.

Second edition.Antoine Sabatier, known as Abbé Sabatier de Castres (1742-1817), was a French man of letters and journalist.

MOINAUX, Jules.

Les Tribunaux comiques.

First edition.Judicial chronicles illustrated with small satirical drawings.Autograph dedication of the author to Madame Colombier (sister-in-law of Damase Jouaust.

[MEUSNIER de QUERLON, Anne-Gabriel].

Les soupers de Daphné et Les dortoirs de Lacedemone.

[CURIOSA] ARETIN, Pierre.

Les Sonnets luxurieux.

Copy on Arches paper unnumbered.

KARR, Alphonse.

Les Soirées de Sainte-Adresse.

Collection of short stories, the first of which is addressed to Gérard de Nerval.

HUYSMANS, Joris-Karl.

Les soeurs Vatard.

First edition.

MAUPASSANT, Guy de.

Les Soeurs Rondoli.

First edition.First edition copy as described by Vicaire, the back of the title page bears the mention of 10 copies on Hollande paper. The number will be increased to 50 during printing.

BRANTOME, Pierre de Bourdeilles.

Les Sept discours touchant les Dames galantes du sieur de Brantome.

Beautiful print published on the manuscripts of the national library by Henri Bouchot.The illustrations are engraved by Boilvin from drawings by Edouard de Beaumont.

REGNIER, Henri (de).

Les Rencontres de Monsieur de Bréot.

[RECUEIL].

Les Récréations de la toilette. Histoires, anecdotes, avantures amusantes & intéressantes, pour servir d'amusemens aux jeunes dames.

First edition.Collection of short stories which is part of the crucible of the sentimental novel, identified by Clapp as such in his short bibliography of the novel in the eighteenth century.

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.

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.

Scarce in Folio format of this edition of the Don Quichotte, usually found in-4to. Engravings in first state without numbers.

JACOB, Max.

Les Pénitents en maillots roses.

First edition.Numbered copy on vélin de Rives (n°732).

LE GLAY, Maurice.

Les Pasteurs, Ichou et Itto, enfants berbères.

FRANCE, Anatole.

Les Opinions de Monsieur Jérome Coignard.

VIRGILE.

Les Oeuvres de Virgile en Latin et en Français.

[CAILLEAU].

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

GALLAND, Antoine.

Les Milles et une Nuits.

Good copy.

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.

[NOUGARET, Pierre Jean-Baptiste].

First edition.
Literary critique of two plays of the time: Les Templiers by Raynouard and La mort de Henri IV by Legouvé. Two other critiques will appear in a second volume.

First edition.
With an introduction and notes by Marcel Adema.
Copy on yellow paper.

First edition.
A prolix punsmith, the Marquis de Bièvre briefly shone at Court and in the salons of the end of the 18th century. Encouraged by the success, he published several works centered on this type of play on words.

First edition.
One of the pur fil Lafuma (n° 507 for both volumes).

Third edition.
Rare.

First edition.
Numbered copy on Hollande Pannekoek (n°9/30) first luxury paper.

Second edition.
Antoine Sabatier, known as Abbé Sabatier de Castres (1742-1817), was a French man of letters and journalist.

First edition.
Judicial chronicles illustrated with small satirical drawings.
Autograph dedication of the author to Madame Colombier (sister-in-law of Damase Jouaust.

First edition.
First edition copy as described by Vicaire, the back of the title page bears the mention of 10 copies on Hollande paper. The number will be increased to 50 during printing.

Beautiful print published on the manuscripts of the national library by Henri Bouchot.
The illustrations are engraved by Boilvin from drawings by Edouard de Beaumont.

First edition.
Collection of short stories which is part of the crucible of the sentimental novel, identified by Clapp as such in his short bibliography of the novel in the eighteenth century.

Engravings in first state without numbers.

Rare in contemporary morocco binding.

Scarce in Folio format of this edition of the Don Quichotte, usually found in-4to.
Engravings in first state without numbers.

First edition.
Numbered copy on vélin de Rives (n°732).