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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.

[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.

[GRAVURE] SANDRART, Joachim.

Scènes mythologiques.

s.l., s.n., [v. 1680].

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200 €

Two beautiful mythological scenes engraved on the same copper by Johann Jacob von Sandrart (1655-1698) after drawings by his uncle Joachim Sandrart (1606-1688).

The first scene representing Neptune lying, surrounded by Loves players.
The second features a group of young women who have captured Cupid and his quiver. Some flogged him, pulling his hair and one stepping forward to kill him.

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.

ROBIDA, Albert.

Lettre autographe signée.

Le Vésinet, s.n., 1900.

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200 €

Robida is indignant about the poor quality of postcard prints of his color drawings for " Vieux Paris".

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.

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.

[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.

JUVENAL || PERSE.

D. Junii Juvenalis, et auli Persii Flacci Satyrae.

Leide, Hackiana, 1671.

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230 €

Beautiful copy under full vellum.

VALIN, René-Josué.

Nouveau Commentaire sur l'Ordonnance de la Marine du mois d'Août 1681.

La Rochelle, Jerôme Légier, 1766.

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250 €

Second edition.
The great naval ordinance of July 31, 1681, also called the naval code or simply royal ordinance of 1681, also known as Colbert's Ordinance, is a major French royal ordinance drawn up on July 31, 1681 under the reign of Louis XIV, which codifies comprehensively the uses in maritime transport (merchant marine). Inspired by the customs and statutes of the United Provinces (Amsterdam and Antwerp), it was established under the aegis of Colbert; its principles were adopted into positive law in 2006.

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.

DELVAU, Alfred.

Dictionnaire de la langue verte, argots parisiens comparés.

Paris, E. Dentu, 1866.

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250 €

First edition.

SABATIER DE CASTRES, Antoine.

Dictionnaire de littérature. Dans lequel on traite de tout ce qui a rapport à l'éloquence, à la poësie & aux belles-lettres, & dans lequel on enseigne la marche & les régles qu'on doit observer dans tous les ouvrages d'esprit.

Paris, Vincent, 1770.

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250 €

First edition.

DE LA BLOTTIERE, François.

Mémoire concernant les frontières de France, Savoie et Piémont.

Grenoble, A. Carre, 1891.

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250 €

François de La Blottière (1673-1739), engineer-geographer, he was commissioned by Vauban to make several reconnaissances in the Alps and took part in the campaigns of Piedmont and the Alps from 1701 to 1713.

"More than thirty memoirs of La Blottière, relating to this part of the Alps are preserved in the archives of the depot of war and of the depot of fortifications. The memoir dated 1721 that we publish here forms a complete summary of the general knowledge that the eminent collaborator of Vauban was able to collect on the ground even during his numerous travels through the mountains of Dauphiné, Savoie and Piedmont." Henry Duhamel.

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.

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".

PETIT RADEL, Louis Charles François.

Recherches sur les bibliothèques anciennes et modernes jusqu'à la fondation de la bibliothèque Mazarine, et sur les causes qui ont favorisé l'accroissement successif du nombre des livres.

Paris, Rey et Gravier, 1819.

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250 €

First edition.
First edition. Very interesting history of the Mazarine library by the one who was its curator during the Restoration.

Note the chapters on the history of medieval libraries, a subject little known at the time.

BALLET, François (Abbé).

Histoire des Temples des Payens, des Juifs et des Chrétiens.

Paris, Cailleau, 1760.

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250 €

First edition.

[GUYTON DE MORVEAU, Louis Bernard].

Discours Publics et Eloges. Auxquels on a joint une Lettre où l'Auteur développe le plan annoncé dans l'un de ses Discours, pour réformer la Jurisprudence.

Paris, P.G. Simon, 1775.

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250 €

First edition.
Coming from a family of lawyers in Dijon, Louis-Bernard Guyton-Morveau began his career as an attorney general at the Parliament of Burgundy.
He was also interested in chemistry, participated in the Encyclopedia and became one of the founders of the Ecole Polytechnique.

[POLYTECHNIQUE].

Séance des Ombres des Vieux Antiques.

Paris, A. Eymeoud, 1902.

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250 €

Songbook for the Ombres a Polytechnique evening in 1902

"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.

The Parisian group of the École Polytechnique was created in 1895 but still remains in activity today under the acronym GPX, it aims to "maintain and strengthen the bonds of camaraderie between the members of the polytechnic community. that organizing most of its events in the Paris region, the GPX welcomes all polytechnicians, regardless of their place of residence, as well as members of their family and close friends. " (site of the AX).

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The Program for the Spring meeting (May 14, 1902) of the Parisian Group of the École Polytechnique, of which the Séance des Ombres des Vieux Antiques was only the 6th part - booklet (200x125 mm), 4 pages. Adorned with a Charles Pillet medallion.

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.".

MENDES, Catulle.

Monstres parisiens.

Paris, Chez tous les libraires, 1883.

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250 €

First edition.

PRAHL, Victor || DU LOUP, Christiane.

Time for singing : twenty songs for children.

Paris, Vipra, [ca. 1932].

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250 €

Edition limited oi 500 copies. The first 100 copies bound in board covers.
Verses and music by Victor Prahl ; pictures by Christiane Du Loup.

[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.

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".

[MAGNÉ de MAROLLES, François-Gervais].

Essai sur la chasse au fusil contenant un détail de ce qui concerne la fabrication des canons soit ordinaires, tordus, à ruban ou filés: l'examen de plusieurs questions touchant leur porté, eu égard à leur longueur, à leur calibre, à la charge, &c. & quelques notions sommaires sur les autres parties du fusil de chasse, avec des règles & instructions pour parvenir à bien tirer.

Paris, Chez Théophile Barrois jeune, 1781.

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300 €

First edition.
Very interesting book on the weaponry of the hunter. With an interresting the chapter on rifled guns, which were not generalized until the nineteenth century.

PERNOT, François Alexandre.

Carnet de croquis.

s.l., s.n., 1831.

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Sketchbook with 7 original pencil drawings signed by François-Alexandre PERNOT (1793-1865) and 1 trompe l'oeil signed HAUSEN.
The six drawings by Pernot drawn directly on the album's paper are dated 1831, a seventh collated is dated 1832. According to extracts from his diary, Pernot traveled through France at that time, he spent in particular the winter 1831-1832 in Nancy.

Pernot is close to artists and romantic salons (Châteaubriand, Lamartine, V. Hugo, Delacroix ...) and was appointed in 1826, master of the drawings of the king's pages by Charles X.

ROBIDA, Albert.

St Bertrand de Comminges.

s.l., s.n., [v. 1924].

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300 €

Beautiful lithograph (310x220 mm) with note of the heart of the church of St Bertrand de Comminges. The lithograph is signed in the board and off the plank in pencil by Robida. Edition of 125 copies this one n ° 25.

DAIN, Charles || CONSIDERANT, Victor || D'IZALGUIER, Eugène.

Trois discours prononcés à l'Hôtel-de-Ville, par MM. Dain, Considerant et d'Izalguier faisant complément à la publication du Congrès historique.

Paris, P.-H. Khrabbe, 1836.

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300 €

First edition.

This book contains three speeches based on the ideas of Charles Fourier and his theory of the Utopian Socialism.
- "Quel est le but de l'Histoire", delivered at the "congrès historique", on the 15th november 1835, by Charles Dain (1812-1871, lawyer in Paris, close to the ideas of Victor Considerant, and who campaigned for the abolition of slavery).
- "Déterminer par l'Histoire si les diversités physiologiques des peuples sont entre elles comme les diversités des systèmes sociaux auxquels ces peuples appartiennent", delivered at the "congrès historique", on the 11 december 1835 by Victor Considerant (1808-1893, philosopher and economist polytechnician).
- "Loi de corrélation de la forme sociale et de la forme esthétique", delivered by Eugène D'Izalguier.

ROBIDA, Albert.

Les Villes martyres.

Paris, Baudelot, 1914.

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300 €

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Miscellany

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.

[FORMEY, Jean Henri Samuel].

Conseils pour former une bibliothèque peu nombreuse mais choisie.

New edition augmented.

[GRAVURE] SANDRART, Joachim.

Scènes mythologiques.

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.

ROBIDA, Albert.

Lettre autographe signée.

Robida is indignant about the poor quality of postcard prints of his color drawings for " Vieux Paris".

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.

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

BARBE-MARBOIS, François.

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

[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.

JUVENAL || PERSE.

D. Junii Juvenalis, et auli Persii Flacci Satyrae.

Beautiful copy under full vellum.

VALIN, René-Josué.

Nouveau Commentaire sur l'Ordonnance de la Marine du mois d'Août 1681.

NADAR.

Le Cas des cloches.

DELVAU, Alfred.

Dictionnaire de la langue verte, argots parisiens comparés.

First edition.

SABATIER DE CASTRES, Antoine.

Dictionnaire de littérature. Dans lequel on traite de tout ce qui a rapport à l'éloquence, à la poësie & aux belles-lettres, & dans lequel on enseigne la marche & les régles qu'on doit observer dans tous les ouvrages d'esprit.

First edition.

DE LA BLOTTIERE, François.

Mémoire concernant les frontières de France, Savoie et Piémont.

HACHETTE.

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

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

DOMAT, Jean.

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

PETIT RADEL, Louis Charles François.

Recherches sur les bibliothèques anciennes et modernes jusqu'à la fondation de la bibliothèque Mazarine, et sur les causes qui ont favorisé l'accroissement successif du nombre des livres.

First edition.First edition. Very interesting history of the Mazarine library by the one who was its curator during the Restoration. Note the chapters on the history of medieval libraries, a subject little known at the time.

BALLET, François (Abbé).

Histoire des Temples des Payens, des Juifs et des Chrétiens.

First edition.

[GUYTON DE MORVEAU, Louis Bernard].

Discours Publics et Eloges. Auxquels on a joint une Lettre où l'Auteur développe le plan annoncé dans l'un de ses Discours, pour réformer la Jurisprudence.

First edition.Coming from a family of lawyers in Dijon, Louis-Bernard Guyton-Morveau began his career as an attorney general at the Parliament of Burgundy.He was also interested in chemistry, participated in the Encyclopedia and became one of the founders of the Ecole Polytechnique.

[POLYTECHNIQUE].

Séance des Ombres des Vieux Antiques.

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.‎.

MENDES, Catulle.

Monstres parisiens.

First edition.

PRAHL, Victor || DU LOUP, Christiane.

Time for singing : twenty songs for children.

Edition limited oi 500 copies. The first 100 copies bound in board covers. Verses and music by Victor Prahl ; pictures by Christiane Du Loup.

[MIRABEAU, Honoré Gabriel Riquetti comte de].

Le chien après les moines.

Edition limited to 100 copy.

BERANGER, Pierre-Jean.

Chansons de P-J de Béranger.

[MAGNÉ de MAROLLES, François-Gervais].

First edition.Very interesting book on the weaponry of the hunter. With an interresting the chapter on rifled guns, which were not generalized until the nineteenth century.

PERNOT, François Alexandre.

Carnet de croquis.

ROBIDA, Albert.

St Bertrand de Comminges.

Beautiful lithograph (310x220 mm) with note of the heart of the church of St Bertrand de Comminges. The lithograph is signed in the board and off the plank in pencil by Robida. Edition of 125 copies this one n ° 25.

DAIN, Charles || CONSIDERANT, Victor || D'IZALGUIER, Eugène.

Trois discours prononcés à l'Hôtel-de-Ville, par MM. Dain, Considerant et d'Izalguier faisant complément à la publication du Congrès historique.

ROBIDA, Albert.

Les Villes martyres.

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.

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.
One of 15 copy on "chine" paper.

First edition.
First edition. Very interesting history of the Mazarine library by the one who was its curator during the Restoration.

Note the chapters on the history of medieval libraries, a subject little known at the time.

First edition.
Coming from a family of lawyers in Dijon, Louis-Bernard Guyton-Morveau began his career as an attorney general at the Parliament of Burgundy.
He was also interested in chemistry, participated in the Encyclopedia and became one of the founders of the Ecole Polytechnique.

Edition limited oi 500 copies. The first 100 copies bound in board covers.
Verses and music by Victor Prahl ; pictures by Christiane Du Loup.

First edition.
Very interesting book on the weaponry of the hunter. With an interresting the chapter on rifled guns, which were not generalized until the nineteenth century.