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[GROS, Jean].

Moi, Poupée.

s.l., A l'enseigne "des petites vertus", [1930].

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750 €

First edition.
Clandestine publication for this erotic novel attributed to Jean Gros with 9 pornographic lithographs.

Copy printed on laid paper (unjustified) with the plates printed on Japanese paper.

[GOUJON, Abel].

Promenade historique et pittoresque à Saint-Germain-En-Laye; précédée d'un itinéraire descriptif de la route de Paris à cette ville.

S.-Germain, Chez tous les libraires, 1833.

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750 €

[COLLECTIF].

Chants et Chansons populaires de la France.

Paris, Delloye, 1843.

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750 €

First edition.
Complete copy of all the deliveries published in 1843. Each of the deliveries is devoted to a song from the popular
repertoire and includes: a notice, the lyrics illustrated with framing engravings, the scores. These deliveries forming three volumes.
Bound identically has been attached:
CHAMPFLEURY, Popular songs of the Provinces of France, Paris, New library, 1860
Published as the fourth volume of the previous set.

MARTINI, Jean Paul Egide.

Mélopée moderne ou l'Art du chant réduit en principes composé et dédié à Monsieur Lenormant d'Etioles.

Paris, Naderman, [ca. 1791].

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750 €

First edition.
Entirely engraved book, composed mainly of scores. Martini, is a composer of German origin. In 1788 he was appointed Superintendent of the King's Music and responsible for religious music. At the same time, he directed the biggest Parisian stages.

Title page signed by the publisher.

HOWARD, John.

État des prisons, des hôpitaux et des maisons de force.

Paris, Lagrange, 1788.

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700 €

First french edition of Howard's pioneering work on prisons and penal reform.

GRIGORIEFF, Boris.

Visages de Russie.

Paris, Paul Ollendorf, 1923.

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700 €

First edition.
Edition limited to 500 copies, ours unnumbered.
Boris Grigorieff is a Russian avant-garde painter specializing in portraits. He will create in 1929 a fresco for the society of nations "Faces of the world".

[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.

LARRAMENDI, Manuel (de).

Discurso histórico sobre la antigua famosa Cantabria : Question Decidida Si Las Provincias De Bizcaya, Guipuzcoa, Y Alava, Estuvieron Comprehendidas En La Antigua Cantabria.

Madrid, Juan de Zuniga, 1736.

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600 €

First edition.
Promoter of Basque identity and unity, Larramendi here discusses the history of Cantabria to find out if the Basque provinces (Biscay, Álava, Guipuzcoa) were once part of Cantabria.

[CURIOSA].

Les Véritez inconnues sur la dissolution et le luxe des femmes et des hommes de Paris.

Lyon, s.n., 1611 [v. 1870].

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600 €

Amusing brochure reproducing the unique copy from the Sainte Geneviève library.

Copy on laid paper (unnumbered)

With the following text :
Traicté de Mariage entre Julian Peoger et Jacqueline Patinet, sa future espouse, et de La Lubricité de Clépoatre.

STEIN, Elias.

Nouvel essai sur le jeu des échecs, avec des réflexions militaires relatives à ce jeu.

La Haye, Aux dépens de l'auteur, 1789.

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600 €

First edition.
Work which appeared at the expense of the author on subscription.
Elias Stein (1748-1812) was a strong Dutch master, chess teacher and author.
After the analyses in this book the Dutch Defence was called [Lindörfer].

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.

Les plaisirs de Saint-Germain en Laye, et de la Cour, et le tableau de la vie humaine, ou le solitaire.

Paris, Gabriel Quinet, 1665.

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600 €

Unique edition.

[BUSSY-RABUTIN, Roger Comte de ].

Amours des dames illustres de notre siècle
[suivi de]
Le passe-temps royal, ou les amours de mademoiselle de Fontage.

Cologne, Jean Le Blanc, 1682.

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550 €

Third edition.

This book is one of the most famous satyrico-historical novels of the 17th century.

LEMERY, Louis.

Traité des alimens.

Paris, Durand, 1755.

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500 €

Third greatly enlarged edition of this famous book on food, which became the leading book on the chemistry of dietetics.

[MARTIN, Alexandre] Dardanus.

Traité médico-gastronomique sur les indigestions.

Paris, Audot, 1828.

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500 €

Scarce first edition.
The author "feu dardanus, former apothecary" is represented in color on the frontispiece.
Book attributed to Alexandre Martin dedicated "to the gourmands of all countries" for "the useful and fun library".

MICHAÉLIS, Johann David.

Recueil de questions, proposées à une société de savants, qui par ordre de Sa Majesté Danoise font le voyage de l'Arabie.

Utrecht, S.J. Baalde, 1774.

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500 €

Johann David Michaélis (1717-1791) is a German scholar and professor, renowned for his work and research at the University of Halle.
His specialties are Eastern civilizations and languages, Hebrew civilization, Philosophy, History, Literature, Geography and Natural Sciences. In particular, he was associated with the great German spirits of his time as Auguste Schlegel (scholar and forerunner of the Romantic movement).
With this collection of articles devoted to the Arab civilization, he exposes a diversity of knowledge and interests on a multitude of domains such as Architecture, Linguistics, Morals, etc ...

Very good second edition in French. This book retraces a brief state of knowledge on the Arab world, presented to the court of the King of Denmark.

[DEZALLIER-ARGENVILLE].

Abrégé De La Vie Des Plus Fameux Peintres, Avec Leurs Portraits Gravés en Taille-douce, Les Indications De Leurs Principaux Ouvrages, Quelques Réflexions sur leurs caractères, Et La Manière De Connoitre Les Desseins Et Les Tableaux Des Grands Maitres.

Paris, De Bure l'ainé, 1762.

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500 €

Second edition.
A veritable biographical dictionary of great painters, most biographies are adorned with a portrait outside the text.
It is thus one frontispice and 254 portraits that adorn the text.

[SCATOLOGIE].

Le Dieu des vents ou les aventures d'Eole métamorphosé en P-t, ou le simplement le Dieu Pet.

La Haye, s.n., 1776.

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500 €

First edition.
Badinage in free verse and twenty-seven little songs.
An unusual work whose author will remain in the shadows, under the scatological aspect it seems to have been written as a snub to Marmontel's "Poetics". Marmontel, as our petomane recalls, declared that it is not necessary for a thing to be beautiful in nature for it to be beautiful in poetry and that coarseness or finesse lies in the treatment of the subject rather than in the subject itself. Marmontel, by instituting the "moral tale" and rejecting the comic, had given rise to a wave of "immoral tales" in which this God of the winds participates.

[Société des gens de lettres].

Création et Statuts de la Société des gens de lettres.

Paris, Imp. Belin, 1838.

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500 €

First edition.
Rare document on the creation of the Société des gens de lettres.
He reports on the first meeting with a notary of the provisional commission led by Villemain and Desnoyers, which legally establishes the creation of this association.
Following the reasons for creation we find the statutes of the association governing by 64 articles the functioning of the Company.
The Société des gens de lettres, an association still active more than 180 years later, aims to defend authors' rights.

ROBIDA, Albert.

Carte de correspondance pour la librairie Dorbon-ainé.

s.l., s.n., [v. 1910].

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500 €

Very beautiful engraving on an original drawing by Robida for the Dorbon-Ainé bookstore (especially specialized in ancient occult books). We can see imps presenting their books to a delighted bibliophile. Very rare.

DIGBY, Kenelm.

Nouveaux secrets experimentez pour conserver la beauté des Dames et pour guérir plusieurs sortes de maladie.

La Haye, Jean Van Vlaenderen, 1715.

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450 €

Receipt and the curious treatise on the powder of sympathy of Digby.

BARRAUD, Pierre-Constant.

Recherches sur les coqs des églises.

Paris, Derache, 1850.

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450 €

First edition.
Pierre-Constant Barraud (1801-1874) is an archaeologist and titular canon of the diocese of Beauvais. He signed several studies on church furniture. In this booklet he recalls that the symbol of the rooster has been used since primitive Christianity.

[Pascal Pia, André Malraux].

La Quintessence satyrique du XXe siècle, composée de poèmes de quelques-uns des meilleurs esprits de ce temps qui ne figurent point dans leurs œuvres : Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, L.Tailhade, Tristan Bernard, Alfred Jarry, L.M. [Louis Marsolleau], A. Birot, Jean Cocteau, Raymond Radiguet, Guillaume Apollinaire, Pascal Pia, etc., etc.

[Paris], [Les Artisans Imprimeurs], [1926].

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450 €

First edition published in 1926 of this collection of erotic poems Only Only 150 copies.
Rare complete with the two erotic engravings.

FORT, Paul || JOETS, Jules.

Plages & Ports Flamands.

Paris, Aux deux amis, [1942].

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450 €

First edition of the illustrations.
Six poems by Paul Fort illustrated by lithographs by Jules Joëts.
One of 40 copies signed by the artist, ours n° 36
Each of the lithographs are signed and numbered by Jules Joëts (1884-1954) painter and lithographer from St Omer.

[POLYTECHNIQUE].

Chansons des Ombres.

s.l., s.n., 1898.

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450 €

Songbook for the Ombres a Polytechnique evening in 1898

"Les Ombres" is a traditional performance by the École Polytechnique, the first edition of which was given in 1818. It involved the projection of satirical chineese shadows onto scenes from the life of the school and its teachers. Each projection was accompanied by a song, most often irreverent, written and sung by the students.
Uncommon document, witness to the traditions and jargon of this prestigious school.

PILES, Roger de.

Dialogue sur le coloris.

Paris, Nicolas Langlois, 1699.

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450 €

Second edition.
"The discourse on art was born in France during the reign of Louis XIV thanks to two antagonistic figures: Félibien (1619-1709) and Roger de Piles (1635-1709). The latter became the major theoretician of color in the quarrel which opposed Rubenists and Poussinists during the last three decades of the 17th century." (trad. from Bernard Teyssèdre, "Roger de Piles and The debate on color, 1957)

De Piles supports Rubens by arguing that color is the major subject of painting and must come before drawing.

CLARMORGAN, Jean.

La Chasse du Loup nécessaire à la maison rustique.

Rouen, Jean Baptiste Besongne, 1685.

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450 €

The Wolf Hunt by Jean Carlmorgan was appended to the editions of the Rustic House of Liebaut. Our edition has its own title page and includes the 14 mid-page woodcuts from the sixteenth century editions. A highly sought-after work in the 19th century, it represented the "dark ages" of the French countryside.

Following it we find "La Fabrique de la Gauge ou Diapason" in (10) sheets, (last sheet truncated). Another typical annex of the Rustic House.

Le NOSTRADAMUS MODERNE. Almanach national et patriotique, avec des changemens notables dans le Calendrier et des Prédictions pour chaque mois.

Liege, s.n., 1790.

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450 €

Rare Almanach.

MONNIER, Henri.

Les Bas-Fonds de la société.

Paris, Jules Claye, 1862.

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400 €

First édition.

Copy n°19 of the only 200 that were printed.
The printing on beautiful Holland paper is very neat.

[MANNOURY d'ECTOT Marquise de] [curiosa].

Le Roman de Violette. Oeuvre Posthume d'une célébrité Masquée.

Lisbonne, Chez Antonio Da Boa-Vista, 1870.

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400 €

First edition of this Sapphic-inspired novel.

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Miscellany

[GROS, Jean].

Moi, Poupée.

First edition.Clandestine publication for this erotic novel attributed to Jean Gros with 9 pornographic lithographs.Copy printed on laid paper (unjustified) with the plates printed on Japanese paper.

[GOUJON, Abel].

Promenade historique et pittoresque à Saint-Germain-En-Laye; précédée d'un itinéraire descriptif de la route de Paris à cette ville.

[COLLECTIF].

Chants et Chansons populaires de la France.

MARTINI, Jean Paul Egide.

Mélopée moderne ou l'Art du chant réduit en principes composé et dédié à Monsieur Lenormant d'Etioles.

First edition.Entirely engraved book, composed mainly of scores. Martini, is a composer of German origin. In 1788 he was appointed Superintendent of the King's Music and responsible for religious music. At the same time, he directed the biggest Parisian stages.Title page signed by the publisher.

HOWARD, John.

État des prisons, des hôpitaux et des maisons de force.

First french edition of Howard's pioneering work on prisons and penal reform.

GRIGORIEFF, Boris.

Visages de Russie.

First edition.Edition limited to 500 copies, ours unnumbered. Boris Grigorieff is a Russian avant-garde painter specializing in portraits. He will create in 1929 a fresco for the society of nations "Faces of the world".

[CAILLEAU].

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

LARRAMENDI, Manuel (de).

Discurso histórico sobre la antigua famosa Cantabria : Question Decidida Si Las Provincias De Bizcaya, Guipuzcoa, Y Alava, Estuvieron Comprehendidas En La Antigua Cantabria.

First edition.Promoter of Basque identity and unity, Larramendi here discusses the history of Cantabria to find out if the Basque provinces (Biscay, Álava, Guipuzcoa) were once part of Cantabria.

[CURIOSA].

Les Véritez inconnues sur la dissolution et le luxe des femmes et des hommes de Paris.

Amusing brochure reproducing the unique copy from the Sainte Geneviève library.Copy on laid paper (unnumbered)With the following text :Traicté de Mariage entre Julian Peoger et Jacqueline Patinet, sa future espouse, et de La Lubricité de Clépoatre.

STEIN, Elias.

Nouvel essai sur le jeu des échecs, avec des réflexions militaires relatives à ce jeu.

First edition.Work which appeared at the expense of the author on subscription.Elias Stein (1748-1812) was a strong Dutch master, chess teacher and author. After the analyses in this book the Dutch Defence was called [Lindörfer].

MONTESQUIOU, Robert de.

Le Chancelier de Fleurs.

Les plaisirs de Saint-Germain en Laye, et de la Cour, et le tableau de la vie humaine, ou le solitaire.

Unique edition.

[BUSSY-RABUTIN, Roger Comte de ].

Amours des dames illustres de notre siècle [suivi de] Le passe-temps royal, ou les amours de mademoiselle de Fontage.

Third edition. This book is one of the most famous satyrico-historical novels of the 17th century.

LEMERY, Louis.

Traité des alimens.

Third greatly enlarged edition of this famous book on food, which became the leading book on the chemistry of dietetics.

[MARTIN, Alexandre] Dardanus.

Traité médico-gastronomique sur les indigestions.

Scarce first edition.The author "feu dardanus, former apothecary" is represented in color on the frontispiece.Book attributed to Alexandre Martin dedicated "to the gourmands of all countries" for "the useful and fun library".

MICHAÉLIS, Johann David.

Recueil de questions, proposées à une société de savants, qui par ordre de Sa Majesté Danoise font le voyage de l'Arabie.

[DEZALLIER-ARGENVILLE].

Abrégé De La Vie Des Plus Fameux Peintres, Avec Leurs Portraits Gravés en Taille-douce, Les Indications De Leurs Principaux Ouvrages, Quelques Réflexions sur leurs caractères, Et La Manière De Connoitre Les Desseins Et Les Tableaux Des Grands Maitres.

Second edition.A veritable biographical dictionary of great painters, most biographies are adorned with a portrait outside the text.It is thus one frontispice and 254 portraits that adorn the text.

[SCATOLOGIE].

Le Dieu des vents ou les aventures d'Eole métamorphosé en P-t, ou le simplement le Dieu Pet.

[Société des gens de lettres].

Création et Statuts de la Société des gens de lettres.

ROBIDA, Albert.

Carte de correspondance pour la librairie Dorbon-ainé.

Very beautiful engraving on an original drawing by Robida for the Dorbon-Ainé bookstore (especially specialized in ancient occult books). We can see imps presenting their books to a delighted bibliophile. Very rare.

DIGBY, Kenelm.

Nouveaux secrets experimentez pour conserver la beauté des Dames et pour guérir plusieurs sortes de maladie.

Receipt and the curious treatise on the powder of sympathy of Digby.

BARRAUD, Pierre-Constant.

Recherches sur les coqs des églises.

First edition.Pierre-Constant Barraud (1801-1874) is an archaeologist and titular canon of the diocese of Beauvais. He signed several studies on church furniture. In this booklet he recalls that the symbol of the rooster has been used since primitive Christianity.

[Pascal Pia, André Malraux].

First edition published in 1926 of this collection of erotic poems Only Only 150 copies. Rare complete with the two erotic engravings.

FORT, Paul || JOETS, Jules.

Plages & Ports Flamands.

First edition of the illustrations.Six poems by Paul Fort illustrated by lithographs by Jules Joëts. One of 40 copies signed by the artist, ours n° 36Each of the lithographs are signed and numbered by Jules Joëts (1884-1954) painter and lithographer from St Omer.

[POLYTECHNIQUE].

Chansons des Ombres.

PILES, Roger de.

Dialogue sur le coloris.

CLARMORGAN, Jean.

La Chasse du Loup nécessaire à la maison rustique.

Le NOSTRADAMUS MODERNE. Almanach national et patriotique, avec des changemens notables dans le Calendrier et des Prédictions pour chaque mois.

Rare Almanach.

MONNIER, Henri.

Les Bas-Fonds de la société.

First édition.Copy n°19 of the only 200 that were printed. The printing on beautiful Holland paper is very neat.

[MANNOURY d'ECTOT Marquise de] [curiosa].

Le Roman de Violette. Oeuvre Posthume d'une célébrité Masquée.

First edition of this Sapphic-inspired novel.

First edition.
Clandestine publication for this erotic novel attributed to Jean Gros with 9 pornographic lithographs.

Copy printed on laid paper (unjustified) with the plates printed on Japanese paper.

First edition.
Entirely engraved book, composed mainly of scores. Martini, is a composer of German origin. In 1788 he was appointed Superintendent of the King's Music and responsible for religious music. At the same time, he directed the biggest Parisian stages.

Title page signed by the publisher.

First edition.
Edition limited to 500 copies, ours unnumbered.
Boris Grigorieff is a Russian avant-garde painter specializing in portraits. He will create in 1929 a fresco for the society of nations "Faces of the world".

First edition.
Promoter of Basque identity and unity, Larramendi here discusses the history of Cantabria to find out if the Basque provinces (Biscay, Álava, Guipuzcoa) were once part of Cantabria.

Amusing brochure reproducing the unique copy from the Sainte Geneviève library.

Copy on laid paper (unnumbered)

With the following text :
Traicté de Mariage entre Julian Peoger et Jacqueline Patinet, sa future espouse, et de La Lubricité de Clépoatre.

First edition.
Work which appeared at the expense of the author on subscription.
Elias Stein (1748-1812) was a strong Dutch master, chess teacher and author.
After the analyses in this book the Dutch Defence was called [Lindörfer].

Amours des dames illustres de notre siècle
[suivi de]
Le passe-temps royal, ou les amours de mademoiselle de Fontage.

Third edition.

This book is one of the most famous satyrico-historical novels of the 17th century.

Scarce first edition.
The author "feu dardanus, former apothecary" is represented in color on the frontispiece.
Book attributed to Alexandre Martin dedicated "to the gourmands of all countries" for "the useful and fun library".

Second edition.
A veritable biographical dictionary of great painters, most biographies are adorned with a portrait outside the text.
It is thus one frontispice and 254 portraits that adorn the text.

First edition.
Pierre-Constant Barraud (1801-1874) is an archaeologist and titular canon of the diocese of Beauvais. He signed several studies on church furniture. In this booklet he recalls that the symbol of the rooster has been used since primitive Christianity.

First edition published in 1926 of this collection of erotic poems Only Only 150 copies.
Rare complete with the two erotic engravings.

First edition of the illustrations.
Six poems by Paul Fort illustrated by lithographs by Jules Joëts.
One of 40 copies signed by the artist, ours n° 36
Each of the lithographs are signed and numbered by Jules Joëts (1884-1954) painter and lithographer from St Omer.

First édition.

Copy n°19 of the only 200 that were printed.
The printing on beautiful Holland paper is very neat.