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Photo [LA BARRE de BEAUMARCHAIS, Antoine de]. 

[LA BARRE de BEAUMARCHAIS, Antoine de]. 

Le Temple des muses, orné de LX. Tableaux Où sont représentés les Evenemens les plus remarquables de l’Antiquité fabuleuse ; Dessinés & gravés par B. Picart le Romain, & autres habiles Maitres ; et accompagnés d’explications et de remarques, Qui découvrent le vrai sens des Fables, & le fondement qu’elles ont dans l’Histoire. 

Amsterdam, Zacharie Chatelain, 1742.
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1400 €

Second edition of this mythology, illustrated by Bernard Picart, with an engraved title page, two vignettes, and 60 beautiful plates outside the text, drawn and engraved by him.
These plates, first printed in 1733, are inspired by those Diepenbeck had executed for Michel de Marolles's work of the same name, published in 1655.
They are decorated with rich frames and accompanied by captions in French, English, German, and Dutch.

Photo [GRAVURE]. 

[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).

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

[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.

Photo [MEUNG, Jean de]. 

[MEUNG, Jean de]. 

Le plaisant jeu du dodechedron de fortune, non moins récréatif, que subtil & ingénieux. 

Paris, Nicolas Bonfons, 1577.
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1800 €

The Dodechedron of Fortune, named after the twelve-sided die used to cast oracles and the medieval goddess of Fortune, was a divinatory game, now called “The Magic Mirror of Jehan de Meung.”
This game consisted of choosing questions about the future and finding their answers using a special die, whose twelve faces correspond to the twelve houses of the sky and offer a number that refers to a horoscope or advice.

The two fold-out tables, each 12 by 12 squares, show the signs of the zodiac on the abscissa and the planets on the ordinate, each corresponding to a number on the die. Each square refers to an oracle in the book.

Copy in a fine morocco binding from Chambolle-Duru.

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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.

Photo DE VENERONI, Giovanni. 

DE VENERONI, Giovanni. 

Le Maitre italien dans sa dernière perfection. 

Lyon, Andre Laurens, 1695.
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150 €

Giovanni Veneroni was the king's interpreter, his methods for learning Italian were references for a long time.

Photo [ENFANTINA]. 

[ENFANTINA]. 

Le Livre des Jeunes Braves, ou Etrennes militaires, recueil d'anecdotes remarquables, de beaux-faits d'armes, de traits généreux, etc. 

paris, Rapilly, 1823.
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950 €

Fine copy containing twelve hand-colored plates.
A reworking in octavo format of the work "Les délassements des braves" published the previous year by the same publisher, containing only the 11 announced plates. Our copy additionally contains the plate of Marshal Ney.

One of the rare copies with the plates in color.

Photo [ENFANTINA]. 

[ENFANTINA]. 

Le Journal des petits ligueurs n°1 à 9. 

Paris, Ligue fraternelle des enfants de France, [v. 1897].
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50 €

The Journal des Petits Ligueurs was the supplement intended for children (over the period 1897-1903) of the Journal of the Fraternal League of Children of France.
Charitable association founded by Lucie Faure-Goyau.

Photo TRICTRAC || JEU. 

TRICTRAC || JEU. 

Le jeu du Trictrac, enrichi de figures avec les jeux du Revertier, du Toute-table, du Tourne-case, des Dames rabatues, du Plain, et du Toc. 

Paris, Henry Charpentier, 1715.
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150 €

Third edition, corrected and increased.

This book deals with the rules of several unknown games today including the famous Trictrac.
Trictrac is a two-player reasoned game that is played with dice on a deck similar to backgammon. It belongs to the family of table games.
It was very popular in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, at the court of Versailles and in aristocratic circles. It experienced a renaissance during the Restoration before almost disappearing in the late nineteenth century. It is part of reasoned games of chance such as backgammon which was known in France under the name all tables or backgammon.

Photo BOSTOCK, Franck C. 

BOSTOCK, Franck C. 

Le Dressage des Fauves. 

Paris, Hachette, 1904.
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90 €

with 34 plates.
Rare.

Photo HACHETTE. 

HACHETTE. 

Le Dix-neuvième Siècle. Les moeurs, les arts, les idées. 

Paris, Hachette, 1901.
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250 €

First edition.
One of 15 copy on "chine" paper.

Photo [SCATOLOGIE]. 

[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.

Photo [GRAVURE]. 

[GRAVURE]. 

Le Cordonnier. 

s.l., s.n., s.d.>
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30 €

Craft scene, probably a shoemaker at work.
Signed "Meissonier" in the plate.

Photo HILLEMACHER, Frédéric. 

HILLEMACHER, Frédéric. 

Le Cirque Franconi. Détails historiques sur cet établissement hippique et sur ses principaux écuyers. 

Lyon, Louis Perrin & Marinet, 1875.
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950 €

Cirque Franconi known as the Olympic Circus is the oldest Parisian circus.
Rare work retracing the history of the Cirque Franconi, illustrated with 8 portraits of Franconi by Frédéric Hillemacher.
Limited edition of 200 copies. This copy, No. 1 on chinese papier.

Photo [MIRABEAU, Honoré Gabriel Riquetti comte de]. 

[MIRABEAU, Honoré Gabriel Riquetti comte de]. 

Le chien après les moines. 

Genève, J.Gay et fils, 1869.
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280 €

Edition limited to 100 copy.

Photo MORET, Louis. 

MORET, Louis. 

Le Chemin de Fer de Saint-Germain.
Premier chemin de Fer de Paris. 1837. 

Saint-Germain-En-Laye, s.n., 1927.
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150 €
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 NADAR. 

NADAR. 

Le Cas des cloches. 

Chambery, impr. de Ménard, [1883].
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250 €

First edition.
One of the 66 copies on Japon, first luxury paper, ours n°66.
Amusing little pamphlet written by the famous photographer Nadar to protest against the disturbance caused by the ringing of the bells.
Both driven by his republican convictions and his desire for tranquility during his stays in the Province, Nadar addressed his pamphlet to the Mayor of Aix les Bains and to the Ministry of Religious Affairs.

Presentation copy.

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Le cabinet satyrique ou recueil parfaict des vers piquants et gaillards de ce temps, tiré des secrets cabinets des sieurs de Sigones, Regnier, Motin, Berthelot, Maynard et autres des plus signalez poëtes du dix-septièmes siècle. 

Gand & Paris, Duquesnes & Claudin, 1859-1860.
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200 €

One of the 134 copy. This is one of the 116 examples on handmade paper.

Photo [GRAVURE]. 

[GRAVURE]. 

LE BRUN. 

s.l., s.n., [1840].
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15 €

Portrait of Le Brun engraved by Lefevre after Decaisne
Steel engraving enhanced with colors for the French Plutarch (published around 1840).

Photo DESMAZES, Charles. 

DESMAZES, Charles. 

Le Bailliage du Palais Royal de Paris. 

Paris, Willem et Daffis, 1875.
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1500 €

One of the three copies printed on vellum.

Photo [VISSCHER, Nicolaus]. 

[VISSCHER, Nicolaus]. 

Labyrinte de Versailles. The labyrinth of Versailles. Der Irr-Garte zu Versailles. 't Dool-hof tot Versailles. 

Amsterdam, Visscher, Nicolaus, [1682].
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1250 €

Edition in four languages: French, English, German and Dutch.
A marvel of landscape art that has now disappeared, the Labyrinth of Versailles was commissioned from Le Notre by Louis XIV.
Labyrinth of hornbeams opening onto squares decorated with fountains whose lead subjects were multicolored.
Each fountain was inspired by Aesop's Fables.
The work reveals in 41 engravings, the plan of the labyrinth and each of the fountains with for each, the verses and the morals which had inspired them.
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Photo [Pascal Pia, André Malraux]. 

[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.

Photo NICERON, Jean-François. 

NICERON, Jean-François. 

La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de : L’optique par la vision directe, la catoptrique, par la réflexion des miroirs plats, cylindriques & coniques, la dioptrique, par la réfraction des crystaux. 

Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638.
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2500 €

First edition.
This work is a treatise on optical illusions and anamorphic perspectives, written by Nicéron, a monk of the order of Minims and mathematician of the 17th century. In it, he explores the principles of geometry applied to perspective, in particular the deformations of images that are only correctly revealed from a certain angle or through a mirror.
La Perspective Curieuse is a major work in the history of visual perception and art, influencing both artists and scientists of its time.
The discussion in the fourth part is particularly famous for being the first reference to the law of refraction developed by Descartes that same year.
A title-frontispiece engraved by Daret.

Photo BOUHOURS, Dominique. 

BOUHOURS, Dominique. 

La manière de bien penser dans les ouvrages d’esprit. 

Paris, Charles-Nicolas Poirion, 1756.
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50 €
Photo CORROZET, Gilles || Le Bibliophile JACOB. 

CORROZET, Gilles || Le Bibliophile JACOB. 

La Fleur des antiquitez de la noble et triomphante ville et cité de Paris. 

Paris, Léon Willem, 1874.
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200 €

Reprint with an erudite preface by Bibliophile Jacob (Paul Lacroix) of this 1532 booklet by Gilles Corrozet.
La Fleur des Antiquités is the first work written on the annals of Paris and its citizens. It is particularly insightful on the topography of Parisian streets at the time.
One of 22 copies on China paper, ours is number 20.

Photo DE GASPARIN, Agénor. 

DE GASPARIN, Agénor. 

La Famille, ses devoir, ses joies et ses douleurs. 

Paris, Michel Levy, 1869.
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50 €

"Whether it is a question of politics, social organization, happiness, morals or religion, the family always reappears in the first row; it is she, always she, who holds the solutions in her hands." (extract from the preface).

Photo VAUBERT, Luc. 

VAUBERT, Luc. 

La Dévotion à Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ dans l'Eucharistie. 

Paris, Gabriel Charles Berton, 1752.
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180 €

Good copy in contemporary morocco bindings.

Photo LE COINTE, Jourdan. 

LE COINTE, Jourdan. 

La cuisine de santé, ou moyens faciles & économiques de préparer toutes nos Productions Alimentaires, de la manière la plus délicate & la plus salutaire, d'après les nouvelles découvertes de la Cuisine Françoise et Italienne. 

Paris, Briand, 1789-1790.
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2500 €

Scarce first edition.
Each volumes with 2 title pages, first dated 1790 and a second dated 1789, as the Bitting [278] copy.

Photo CLARMORGAN, Jean. 

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.

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