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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.

[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.

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.

[CONFRERIE DE LA BONNE MORT].

Confrérie de la Bonne Mort ; son origine, son rétablissement, ses obligations.

[Poitiers], Catineau, 1806.

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350 €

First edition.
The brotherhoods of the good death were prayer groups that spiritually accompanied the dying.
The brotherhood of Poitiers, one of the oldest in France, was active from 1380.

[CURIOSA].

Célestine ou la petite bonne.

Paris, Tiger, [1818].

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150 €

First edition.
The amorous adventures of Pierrette, a young Norman woman sent to her Parisian aunt because she had committed an offence with a young man. She will be placed as a maid under the name of Célestine.

DUVAL, Jacques.

Traite des Hermaphrodits parties genitales, accouchemens des femmes, etc.

Paris, Isidore Liseux, 1880.

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250 €

New edition by Isidore Liseux of the very rare original edition of 1612 which was condemned and seized.

Printed in 400 numbered copies on laid paper and initialed by the publisher, ours no. 22.

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.

MOMORO, Antoine-François.

Traité élémentaire de l'imprimerie, ou le Manuel de l'Imprimeur.

Paris, A.F. Momoro, 1793.

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2000 €

The scarce first edition.
Manual which will remain a reference for printers for a long time.
Momoro was very active during the French Revolution, member of the Cordeliers club, printer for Père Duchesne d'Hébert, he put his career at the service of the Revolution but died on the scaffold in 1794 with his Hébertist friends. It would be to him that we owe the motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity".
Complete copy of the 36 plates required. The error which announced 40 plates on the title page was crossed out on our copy. This notice will be modified in the second edition.

[LIVRE DE FETES].

Description des festes données par la ville de Paris à l'occasion du mariage de Madame Louise-Elisabeth de France, et de Dom Philippe, Infant & Grand amiral d'Espagne, les vingt-neuvième & trentième août mil sept cent trente.

Paris, Le Mercier, 1740.

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6000 €

First edition.
One of the most beautiful festival books published in the 18th century to commemorate the festivities held in Paris for the wedding of Madame Première, Louise-Élisabeth de Bourbon, eldest daughter of Louis XV, to Philippe de Bourbon.

Beautiful copperplate engraving with 13 plates outside the text, including 8 double-page spreads, by Jacques-François Blondel based on his own drawings and those of the architects Jacques-Ange Gabriel and Giovanni.
There are also two vignettes in the text, one by Pierre Soubeyran after Edmé Bouchardon (coat of arms of the city of Paris), the other by Jacques Rigaud (nautical jousting scene).

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.

BRINK, Louise.

Women Characters in Richard Wagner - A Study in "The Ring of the Nibelung".

New York, Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Company, 1924.

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30 €

First edition.
Presentation copy.

MONTESQUIOU, Robert de.

Le Chancelier de Fleurs.

Chateaudun, La Maison du livre, 1907.

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600 €

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.

[ALAMANACH].

Almanach dédié aux Dames.

Paris, Le Fuel, Delaunay, 1828.

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80 €

Lovely little almanac.
At the end of the book there are blank pages of "Memories" for each month of the year.

[MILITARIA].

Ordonnance Provisoire sur l'exercice et les manoeuvres de la cavalerie.

Paris, Magimel, 1810.

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220 €

Second edition.
The 1804 ordinance governs the doctrine of the use of cavalry in the Napoleonic armies, the manners of charging, the use of the sabre, etc. Our very complete copy of all the plates: musical scores, anatomy of the horse, uniforms of riders, troop movements.

BARBE-MARBOIS, François.

Journal d'un Déporté non jugé, ou déportation en violation des lois, décrétée le 18 Fructidor an V (4 Septembre 1797).

Paris, Firmin Didot, 1834.

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200 €

First edition.
Elected from Moselle to the Council of Elders under the Directory, Barbé-Marbois was overthrown during the September 1797 insurrection and then sent into exile in Guyana. Exile journal which alternates between political considerations and observations of Guyana, its inhabitants and its prison system.

JUVENAL || PERSE.

D. Junii Juvenalis, et auli Persii Flacci Satyrae.

Leide, Hackiana, 1671.

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230 €

Beautiful copy under full vellum.

PETITOT, Ennemond Alexandre.

Raisonnement sur la perspective, pour en faciliter l'usage aux artistes. Dédié aux mêmes.

Parme, Frères faure, 1758.

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800 €

First edition.
Beautiful perspective manual, written in French and Italian.

Petitot was a French architect who joined Parma in June 1753 with the title of first court architect and instructor at the newly created Academy of Fine Arts.

Copy with large margins.

[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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[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.

BULLART, Isaac.

Académie Des Sciences et des Arts.

Bruxelles, Fr. Poppens, 1682.

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950 €

First edition..
Decorated with more than 200 portraits engraved in the text.
Remarkable work for which Bullart worked for 30 years and which was published by his son. We will find, alongside humanists, navigators, scientists and inventors, printers, all the artists classified by school, Leonardo da Vinci, Magellan, Copernicus, Columbus, A. Paré, Gutenberg, etc.

[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.

BOUTMY, Emile || RIBOT, Alexandre.

Cours d'Histoire Constitutionnelle donnés à l'École libre des sciences politiques.

s.l., s.n., 1886.

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2000 €

Original manuscripts.
Rare and well-preserved set of two constitutional history courses given at Sciences Po Paris in 1886 by the founders of the school: Emile Boutmy and Alexandre Ribot.
Perfectly readable and careful manuscripts by a writer who will remain unknown who was a listener of Emile Boutmy's course on the Constitution of the United States in May-June 1886 and the course on the French Constitution since 1789 given by Alexandre Ribot in February-March 1886.
Created by Emile Boutmy in the aftermath of the 1870 defeat and the Paris Commune, the École Libre des Sciences Politiques (now known as Sciences-Po) aimed to teach political science as a positive science. She will form the elite of french politicians until today.
1886 was the last year in which Boutmy gave his course on the Constitution of the United States; we know a transcription of it in the notes left by Pierre de Coubertin who was also a listener of this course the same year. A comparison of the transcription of Coubertin's notes and our manuscript leads us to believe that our collection is more faithful (seems to be a word for word transcription) of Boutmy's teaching.

Alexandre Ribot's course on the French Constitution (second part of a more extensive course on European constitutions) leaves an important part on the birth of the Third Republic whose constitutional laws were only passed in 1875.

ROMAN, Jean Joseph Thérèse (Abbé).

Les Echecs, Poëme en quatre chants.

Paris, Leopold Collin, 1807.

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80 €

First edition.

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].

[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.

[FORMEY, Jean Henri Samuel].

Conseils pour former une bibliothèque peu nombreuse mais choisie.

Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1756.

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200 €

New edition augmented.

[GRAVESANDE, Willem Jacob].

Introduction à la philosophie, contenant la métaphysique et la logique.

Leide, Jean et Herm Verbeek, 1748.

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100 €

Willem Jacob's Gravesande (1688 – 1742) was a Dutch jurist and diplomat, known today for his scientific work: he contributed to the introduction of Newton's theories and the experimental method. Interestingly, Gravesande presents his revolutionary method of coding and decoding encrypted letters ("De l'art de déchiffrer des Lettres", p. 391-408).

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.

BERANGER, Pierre-Jean.

Chansons de P-J de Béranger.

Paris, Perrotin, 1831.

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300 €

Set containing the two volumes of Songs, as well as the "New and Last Songs...dedicated to Lucien Bonaparte" (1833, Perrotin) and the Supplement (Brussels, 1830) which contains political songs and saucy songs. It is certainly this supplement that pushed a collector of the time to hide these licenses from prying eyes behind a cathedral binding bearing the title "Parishioner".

FERRI DE SAINT CONSTANT, Giovanni.

Rudimens de la traduction, ou l'art de traduire le latin en français.

Paris, Auguste Delalain, 1811.

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1200 €

Second edition.
Precious copy with the arms of Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Siciles Duchess of Berry (1798-1870). Romantic heroine of the Legitimists, Marie-Caroline, daughter of the King of the Two Sicilies Francis I Xavier and Marie-Clementine of Austria, married in 1816 the Duke of Berry Charles-Ferdinand (1778-1820), son of Charles she had a son, the Duke of Bordeaux. Exiled during the revolution of July 1830, she returned to France in April 1832 and tried without success to raise the people in Vendée and Brittany with the aim of a legitimist restoration: arrested in Nantes in November 1832, she was imprisoned in Blaye. It was released in 1833.

Beautiful binding signed by Simier binder of the king.

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Miscellany

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.

[CAILLEAU].

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

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.

[CONFRERIE DE LA BONNE MORT].

Confrérie de la Bonne Mort ; son origine, son rétablissement, ses obligations.

First edition.The brotherhoods of the good death were prayer groups that spiritually accompanied the dying. The brotherhood of Poitiers, one of the oldest in France, was active from 1380.

[CURIOSA].

Célestine ou la petite bonne.

First edition.The amorous adventures of Pierrette, a young Norman woman sent to her Parisian aunt because she had committed an offence with a young man. She will be placed as a maid under the name of Célestine.

DUVAL, Jacques.

Traite des Hermaphrodits parties genitales, accouchemens des femmes, etc.

New edition by Isidore Liseux of the very rare original edition of 1612 which was condemned and seized. Printed in 400 numbered copies on laid paper and initialed by the publisher, ours no. 22.

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.

MOMORO, Antoine-François.

Traité élémentaire de l'imprimerie, ou le Manuel de l'Imprimeur.

[LIVRE DE FETES].

Description des festes données par la ville de Paris à l'occasion du mariage de Madame Louise-Elisabeth de France, et de Dom Philippe, Infant & Grand amiral d'Espagne, les vingt-neuvième & trentième août mil sept cent trente.

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.

BRINK, Louise.

Women Characters in Richard Wagner - A Study in "The Ring of the Nibelung".

First edition.Presentation copy.

MONTESQUIOU, Robert de.

Le Chancelier de Fleurs.

[ALAMANACH].

Almanach dédié aux Dames.

Lovely little almanac.At the end of the book there are blank pages of "Memories" for each month of the year.

[MILITARIA].

Ordonnance Provisoire sur l'exercice et les manoeuvres de la cavalerie.

Second edition.The 1804 ordinance governs the doctrine of the use of cavalry in the Napoleonic armies, the manners of charging, the use of the sabre, etc. Our very complete copy of all the plates: musical scores, anatomy of the horse, uniforms of riders, troop movements.

BARBE-MARBOIS, François.

Journal d'un Déporté non jugé, ou déportation en violation des lois, décrétée le 18 Fructidor an V (4 Septembre 1797).

JUVENAL || PERSE.

D. Junii Juvenalis, et auli Persii Flacci Satyrae.

Beautiful copy under full vellum.

PETITOT, Ennemond Alexandre.

Raisonnement sur la perspective, pour en faciliter l'usage aux artistes. Dédié aux mêmes.

First edition.Beautiful perspective manual, written in French and Italian.Petitot was a French architect who joined Parma in June 1753 with the title of first court architect and instructor at the newly created Academy of Fine Arts.Copy with large margins.

[VISSCHER, Nicolaus].

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

[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.

BULLART, Isaac.

Académie Des Sciences et des Arts.

[ENFANTINA].

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

BOUTMY, Emile || RIBOT, Alexandre.

Cours d'Histoire Constitutionnelle donnés à l'École libre des sciences politiques.

ROMAN, Jean Joseph Thérèse (Abbé).

Les Echecs, Poëme en quatre chants.

First edition.

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].

[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.

[FORMEY, Jean Henri Samuel].

Conseils pour former une bibliothèque peu nombreuse mais choisie.

New edition augmented.

[GRAVESANDE, Willem Jacob].

Introduction à la philosophie, contenant la métaphysique et la logique.

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.

BERANGER, Pierre-Jean.

Chansons de P-J de Béranger.

FERRI DE SAINT CONSTANT, Giovanni.

Rudimens de la traduction, ou l'art de traduire le latin en français.

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

First edition.
The brotherhoods of the good death were prayer groups that spiritually accompanied the dying.
The brotherhood of Poitiers, one of the oldest in France, was active from 1380.

First edition.
The amorous adventures of Pierrette, a young Norman woman sent to her Parisian aunt because she had committed an offence with a young man. She will be placed as a maid under the name of Célestine.

New edition by Isidore Liseux of the very rare original edition of 1612 which was condemned and seized.

Printed in 400 numbered copies on laid paper and initialed by the publisher, ours no. 22.

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.

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.
Presentation copy.

Lovely little almanac.
At the end of the book there are blank pages of "Memories" for each month of the year.

Second edition.
The 1804 ordinance governs the doctrine of the use of cavalry in the Napoleonic armies, the manners of charging, the use of the sabre, etc. Our very complete copy of all the plates: musical scores, anatomy of the horse, uniforms of riders, troop movements.

First edition.
Beautiful perspective manual, written in French and Italian.

Petitot was a French architect who joined Parma in June 1753 with the title of first court architect and instructor at the newly created Academy of Fine Arts.

Copy with large margins.

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].

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.
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.