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TISSANDIER, Gaston.

Les récréations scientifiques ou l'enseignement par les jeux.

Paris, G. Masson, [1888].

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100 €

Fifth edition.
Book rewarded by the French Academy since its first publication.

FAVRE, Emile de.

Les Quatre heures de la toilette des dames.

Paris, J. Lemonnyer, 1883.

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200 €

Reprint of the 1779 edition of this erotic poem in four cantos which was dedicated to the Princess of Lamballe.
Very beautiful engravings by Leclerc.

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.

MÉNAGE, Gilles.

Les origines de la langue françoise.

Paris, Augustin Courbé, 1650.

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3000 €

First edition of the first French etymological dictionary.
Bindig with gilt arms of Jacques Cadeau d'Acy, advisor to the Paris parliament.

CICERON, Marcus Tullius || BARRETT, Jean-Jacques de.

Les Offices de Cicéron.

Paris, Barbou, 1768.

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Second edition revised by Mr. de Barrett, in Latin and French.

Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) is one of the best-known authors of Roman antiquity and renowned for his intelligence and eloquence. Lawyer and statesman, he has written many political and philiosophic books as this treatise on ethics.
It is divided into three parts whose subjects are: Duty and Honest, Useful, and the comparison between both subjects. It was dedicated to the new generation of citizens destined to rule and perpetuate the Roman Republic.

[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.

GUILMARD, Désiré.

Les Maîtres Ornemanistes. dessinateurs, peintres, architectes, sculpteurs et graveurs. Écoles Française, - Italienne, - Allemande et des Pays-Bas (Flamande & Hollandaise).

Paris, E. Plon et Cie, 1880-1881.

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400 €

First edition.
This book is an important bibliography about ornaments from the16th century to the 18th century, It deals with artists from France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The text is illustrated by the second volume of 180 plates Its consists in ornaments for vases, book illustrations, jewelry, and furniture designs.

DOMAT, Jean.

Les Loix civiles dans leur ordre naturel le droit public, et legum delectus.

Paris, Veuve Savoye, 1767.

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250 €

"Civil laws in their natural order" is considered a monument of French civil law and is one of the sources that will lead to the Napoleonic Civil Code
. The 1767 folio edition is one of the best editions of the "Domat" in the 18th century.
The title of the book will inspire in Montesquieu his "De l'Esprit des lois".

LE ROUX, Hugues || GARNIER, Jules.

Les Jeux Du Cirque Et La Vie Foraine.

Paris, E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie, 1889.

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150 €

First edition.

Presentation copy.

VALERIAN Jean-Pierre.

Les Hiéroglyphiques. Autrement Commentaires des lettres et figures sacrées des Aegyptiens & autres nations.

Lyon, Paul Frellon, 1615.

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900 €

First edition of the translation in French by Jean de Montlyard

One of the most famous emblem books from the end of the 16th century.

Pierio Valeriano (1477-1558) was inspired by the works left by Horapollo, the only ancient source on Egyptian hieroglyphics, to compose a book of allegorical emblems where the hieroglyphs mingle with biblical references and memories of classical antiquity.
Several hundred woodcuts illustrate the text.

BERANGER de, Pierre-Jean [curiosa].

Les Gaietés de Béranger. Quarante-quatre-chansons érotiques de ce poète suivies de chansons politiques et satiriques non recueillies dans ses œuvres prétendues complètes.‎.

Amsterdam [i.e. Bruxelles], aux dépens de la Compagnie [Poulet-Malassis], 1864.

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250 €

First edtion with two additional plates which are "Les Consolations" et "L'Accouchement" and the frontispiece engraved by Félicien Rops.
This book is composed of a collection of songs such as: "La romance de Mademoiselle Justine. Le Grand Marcheur. Le Lavement. La Petite Ouvrière. Les Consolations. L’Abbesse d’un couvent comme il y en a encore beaucoup. Madame Barbe-Bleue ou l’Ogresse. Les
Culottes. Ariane et Bacchus. L’Hermaphrodite. La Relique de Saint Nicolas. L’Oratoire d’une dévote.".

LAURENT || PERROT.

Les Femmes de l'Asie ou description de leurs physionomie, moeurs, usages et costumes.

Paris, Le Fuel, [1830].

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750 €

First edition.
A beautiful copy whose engravings were finely enhanced with watercolors and erased at the time. Traditional costumes of Asian women from Turks to Japanese.

ALEXANDRE, Arsène || MÉTIVET, Lucien.

Les Fées en train de plaisir.

Paris, Ancienne librairie Furne, [1898].

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100 €

First edition.

This book is illustrated by 107 engravings in the text and 8 large compositions by Lucien Métivet (1863-1932, a French poster artist, cartoonist, illustrator, and author who achieved notoriety during the "Belle Époque").

Fine copy.

ROMAN, Jean Joseph Thérèse (Abbé).

Les Echecs, Poëme en quatre chants.

Paris, Leopold Collin, 1807.

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80 €

First edition.

MATTHIS, Charles-Émile.

Les deux Gaspards.

Paris, Jouvet et Cie, 1887.

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50 €

First edition, text and drawings by the author.

Charles-Émile Matthis (1838-1893) is a French painter, engraver and illustrator, especially for childhood and youth literature.

Fine copy.

FINEBOUCHE, Marie-Claude.

Les coudes sur la table.

Paris, Eugène Rey, 1932.

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50 €

First edition.

ROBIDA, Albert.

Les Belles Villes Gauloises d'entre Rhin et Moselle, Thann.

Paris, E. Baudelot, 1915.

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50 €

First edition, searched for its large lithography (a view on Thann), in fine quality, realized by Albert Robida (1848-1926).

ROBIDA, Albert.

Les Belles Villes Gauloises d'entre Rhin et Moselle, Strasbourg.

Paris, E. Baudelot, 1915.

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50 €

First edition, searched for its large lithography (a view on Strasbourg), in fine quality, realized by Albert Robida (1848-1926).

ROBIDA, Albert.

Les Belles Villes Gauloises d'entre Rhin et Moselle, Schlestadt.

Paris, E. Baudelot, 1915.

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50 €

First edition, searched for its large lithography (a view on Schlestadt), in fine quality, realized by Albert Robida (1848-1926).

ROBIDA, Albert.

Les Belles Villes Gauloises d'entre Rhin et Moselle, Colmar.

Paris, E. Baudelot, 1915.

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50 €

First edition, searched for its large lithography (a view on Colmar), in fine quality, realized by Albert Robida (1848-1926).

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.

FOURNIER, Ortaire || ADAM, Victor.

Les animaux historiques.

Paris, Garnier Frères, [1861].

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30 €

Book for children on animals, some historical such as Napoleon's horse or Richelieu's famous cats and others such as mythological animals.

ROBIDA, Albert.

Les Amoureuses de la Tour Eiffel.

s.l., Lemercier, [v. 1890].

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200 €

Lithograph (365x280 mm) depicting elegant women admiring the Eiffel Tower. The lithograph is signed in the board and off the plank in pencil by Robida.

VERLAINE.

Les amies. Femmes.

s.l., Au dépens de deux cent cinquante disciples d'Hippocrate, [1942].

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400 €

Limited edition to 250 copy.
Our, one the the first one hundred (n° 65) with twenty-five original compositions including twelve lithographic plate and in addition a suite of twelve original lithographs in color.

BIENSTOCK, J.W. || CURNONSKY.

Le Wagon des fumeurs. Petites histoires de tous et de personne.

Paris, G.Crès et Cie, 1925.

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75 €

First edition. Rare luxe edition (only 150 copies) with an additionnal chapter ("Le Fourgon").

VALLEE, Henri.

Le Tir au Pistolet.

Paris, impr. J. Oller, [1874].

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190 €

First edition.
History of the pistol, shooting companies, famous shooters...
Note the last chapter dedicated to pistol duels with the prescriptions for the conduct of the event.

BRUNEL, Georges.

Le timbre-poste français. Étude historique et anecdotique de la poste et du timbre en France et dans les colonies françaises.

Paris, Ch. Delagrave, 1896.

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100 €

[GRAVURE].

LE SUEUR.

s.l., s.n., [1840].

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15 €

Portrait of Le Sueur engraved by Delaistre after Guilleminot
Steel engraving enhanced with colors for the French Plutarch (published around 1840).

[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.

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.

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Miscellany

TISSANDIER, Gaston.

Les récréations scientifiques ou l'enseignement par les jeux.

Fifth edition. Book rewarded by the French Academy since its first publication.

FAVRE, Emile de.

Les Quatre heures de la toilette des dames.

Reprint of the 1779 edition of this erotic poem in four cantos which was dedicated to the Princess of Lamballe. Very beautiful engravings by Leclerc.

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

Unique edition.

MÉNAGE, Gilles.

Les origines de la langue françoise.

First edition of the first French etymological dictionary.Bindig with gilt arms of Jacques Cadeau d'Acy, advisor to the Paris parliament.

CICERON, Marcus Tullius || BARRETT, Jean-Jacques de.

Les Offices de Cicéron.

[CAILLEAU].

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

GUILMARD, Désiré.

Les Maîtres Ornemanistes. dessinateurs, peintres, architectes, sculpteurs et graveurs. Écoles Française, - Italienne, - Allemande et des Pays-Bas (Flamande & Hollandaise).

DOMAT, Jean.

Les Loix civiles dans leur ordre naturel le droit public, et legum delectus.

LE ROUX, Hugues || GARNIER, Jules.

Les Jeux Du Cirque Et La Vie Foraine.

First edition.Presentation copy.

VALERIAN Jean-Pierre.

Les Hiéroglyphiques. Autrement Commentaires des lettres et figures sacrées des Aegyptiens & autres nations.

BERANGER de, Pierre-Jean [curiosa].

Les Gaietés de Béranger. Quarante-quatre-chansons érotiques de ce poète suivies de chansons politiques et satiriques non recueillies dans ses œuvres prétendues complètes.‎.

LAURENT || PERROT.

Les Femmes de l'Asie ou description de leurs physionomie, moeurs, usages et costumes.

First edition.A beautiful copy whose engravings were finely enhanced with watercolors and erased at the time. Traditional costumes of Asian women from Turks to Japanese.

ALEXANDRE, Arsène || MÉTIVET, Lucien.

Les Fées en train de plaisir.

First edition. This book is illustrated by 107 engravings in the text and 8 large compositions by Lucien Métivet (1863-1932, a French poster artist, cartoonist, illustrator, and author who achieved notoriety during the "Belle Époque"). Fine copy.

ROMAN, Jean Joseph Thérèse (Abbé).

Les Echecs, Poëme en quatre chants.

First edition.

MATTHIS, Charles-Émile.

Les deux Gaspards.

First edition, text and drawings by the author. Charles-Émile Matthis (1838-1893) is a French painter, engraver and illustrator, especially for childhood and youth literature. Fine copy.

FINEBOUCHE, Marie-Claude.

Les coudes sur la table.

First edition.

ROBIDA, Albert.

Les Belles Villes Gauloises d'entre Rhin et Moselle, Thann.

First edition, searched for its large lithography (a view on Thann), in fine quality, realized by Albert Robida (1848-1926).

ROBIDA, Albert.

Les Belles Villes Gauloises d'entre Rhin et Moselle, Strasbourg.

First edition, searched for its large lithography (a view on Strasbourg), in fine quality, realized by Albert Robida (1848-1926).

ROBIDA, Albert.

Les Belles Villes Gauloises d'entre Rhin et Moselle, Schlestadt.

First edition, searched for its large lithography (a view on Schlestadt), in fine quality, realized by Albert Robida (1848-1926).

ROBIDA, Albert.

Les Belles Villes Gauloises d'entre Rhin et Moselle, Colmar.

First edition, searched for its large lithography (a view on Colmar), in fine quality, realized by Albert Robida (1848-1926).

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.

FOURNIER, Ortaire || ADAM, Victor.

Les animaux historiques.

Book for children on animals, some historical such as Napoleon's horse or Richelieu's famous cats and others such as mythological animals.

ROBIDA, Albert.

Les Amoureuses de la Tour Eiffel.

Lithograph (365x280 mm) depicting elegant women admiring the Eiffel Tower. The lithograph is signed in the board and off the plank in pencil by Robida.

VERLAINE.

Les amies. Femmes.

Limited edition to 250 copy. Our, one the the first one hundred (n° 65) with twenty-five original compositions including twelve lithographic plate and in addition a suite of twelve original lithographs in color.

BIENSTOCK, J.W. || CURNONSKY.

Le Wagon des fumeurs. Petites histoires de tous et de personne.

First edition. Rare luxe edition (only 150 copies) with an additionnal chapter ("Le Fourgon").

VALLEE, Henri.

Le Tir au Pistolet.

First edition.History of the pistol, shooting companies, famous shooters... Note the last chapter dedicated to pistol duels with the prescriptions for the conduct of the event.

BRUNEL, Georges.

Le timbre-poste français. Étude historique et anecdotique de la poste et du timbre en France et dans les colonies françaises.

[GRAVURE].

LE SUEUR.

Portrait of Le Sueur engraved by Delaistre after Guilleminot Steel engraving enhanced with colors for the French Plutarch (published around 1840).

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

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

First edition of this Sapphic-inspired novel.

Fifth edition.
Book rewarded by the French Academy since its first publication.

Reprint of the 1779 edition of this erotic poem in four cantos which was dedicated to the Princess of Lamballe.
Very beautiful engravings by Leclerc.

First edition of the first French etymological dictionary.
Bindig with gilt arms of Jacques Cadeau d'Acy, advisor to the Paris parliament.

First edition.

Presentation copy.

First edition.
A beautiful copy whose engravings were finely enhanced with watercolors and erased at the time. Traditional costumes of Asian women from Turks to Japanese.

First edition.

This book is illustrated by 107 engravings in the text and 8 large compositions by Lucien Métivet (1863-1932, a French poster artist, cartoonist, illustrator, and author who achieved notoriety during the "Belle Époque").

Fine copy.

First edition, text and drawings by the author.

Charles-Émile Matthis (1838-1893) is a French painter, engraver and illustrator, especially for childhood and youth literature.

Fine copy.

First édition.

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

Limited edition to 250 copy.
Our, one the the first one hundred (n° 65) with twenty-five original compositions including twelve lithographic plate and in addition a suite of twelve original lithographs in color.

First edition.
History of the pistol, shooting companies, famous shooters...
Note the last chapter dedicated to pistol duels with the prescriptions for the conduct of the event.

Portrait of Le Sueur engraved by Delaistre after Guilleminot
Steel engraving enhanced with colors for the French Plutarch (published around 1840).