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Photo MAURICEAU, François. 

MAURICEAU, François. 

Des maladies des femmes grosses et accouchées avec la bonne et véritable méthode de les bien aider en leurs accouchemens naturels etc. 

Paris, Jean Henault, 1668.
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5000 €

First edition.
Illustrated with 30 gynecological and obstetric engravings in the text.
François Mauriceau (1637-1709), first midwife surgeon at the Paris Maternity Hospital, is considered the founder of French obstetrics.
Mauriceau's work on pregnancy and childbirth established obstetrics as an independent science and had, thanks to its numerous translations, a determining influence on obstetric practice in the 17th century.

Photo [SENDIVOGIUS, Michel]. 

[SENDIVOGIUS, Michel]. 

Cosmopolite ou Nouvelle lumière chymique. 

Paris, Laurent d'Houry, 1723.
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1800 €

Latest expanded edition.
Contains the following three treatises:
I - of nature in general, where Mercury is spoken of.
II - Sulfur
III - real Salt of the philosophers
as well as with separate pagination the Philosophical Letter of Antoine Duval.

At the end of the first treatise are the "Philosophical Enigma to the Sons of Truth" and the curious "Dialogue between Mercury, the Alchymist and Nature".

Sethon Alexander spent his life convinced of the reality of alchemy.
Completely disinterested, he went from town to town to convince the most incredulous by making transmutes lead into gold.
The product of its transmutations is given to the public.
His reputation was growing and he was called to the course of the Elector of Saxony, Christian II, where he made a transmutation.
Gold produced withstood all tests. Then told to give her secret. Sethon refused, he was tortured and imprisoned in vain.

He was released by Michael Sendivogius to whom he gave his supply of philosopher's stone and manuscripts. He died shortly afterwards from his injuries.
After marrying his widow, Sendivogius Sethon treaties under the name of Cosmopolitan.


Here the evidence of a transmutation performed before the scientific and Wolfgang Jacob Zwinger Deinheim (in de medicina Miberali. Argentorate. 1610)

"In 1602, writes Dr. Dienheim, when in the middle of summer I returned from Rome to Germany, I found myself next to a man singularly spiritual, small in size but big enough, a face colored of a sanguine temperament, wearing a brown beard trimmed to the fashion of France. He was wearing a black satin dress and had every sequence a single servant, that could distinguish among all by his red hair and beard the same color. The man was Alexander was born Sethonius.Il Molia, an island in the ocean. In Zurich, where the priest gave him a letter Tghlin for Dr. Zvinger, we hired a boat and we went by water to Basel. When we arrived in this city, my companion said: -

"You remember that, throughout the trip and the boat. you attacked alchemy and alchemists. You will also recall that I promised to answer, not demonstrations, but by a philosophical action. I still await someone I want to convince the same time as you. so that the opponents of alchemy cease their doubts about this art. "

It was then looking for the man in question, I knew only by sight and who did not live far from our hotel. I learned later that it was Dr Jacob Zvinger, whose family has so many famous naturalists. We went every three workers in a gold mine, with several sheets of lead that had Zvinger removed from his house, a crucible that we took a goldsmith, and sulfur that we bought in ordinary way. Sethon not touched anything. He made the fire, ordered to lead and sulfur in the crucible, place the lid and shake the ground with sticks. Meanwhile, he chatted with us. After a quarter of an hour. He says: -

"Take this little paper in the molten lead, but the middle and try that nothing falls into the fire !...»

In this paper was a pretty heavy powder, a color that seemed to lemon yellow; the rest, he must have good eyes to distinguish. Although also incredulous that St. Thomas himself, we did everything we had ordered. After the mass had been heated about a quarter of an hour, and continuously stirred with rods of iron, the goldsmith was ordered off the pot by pouring water on it, but there was the slightest trace of lead, we found the purest gold, which, in the opinion of the goldsmith, surpassed even as the fine gold of Hungary and Saudi. It weighed as much as lead, which he had taken the place. We sat stunned with astonishment was scarcely dare we believe our eyes. But Sethonius, mocking us:
- "Now, he says, where are you with your pedantry? You see the truth of the matter, and is more powerful than everything, even your sophistry. -

Then he cut a piece of gold, and gave a souvenir to Zvinger. I also kept a piece that weighed about four ducats, and I kept in mind that day. As for you, unbelievers, you will laugh perhaps what I write. But I still live, and I am a witness ready to say what I saw. Zwinger is still alive but he will not keep quiet and will testify about what I say. Sethonius still live and his servant, the latter in England and the first in Germany, as we know. I could even say exactly where he lives, if there were not too indiscreet in which research should engage to find out what happened to this great man, this saint, this half -god. "

Jacob Zwinger, including Dr. Dienheim invokes the testimony, was a physician and professor at Basel, outside of these titles, he enjoyed a high reputation for learning, and he left a highly respected name in the history of German medicine.
This impeccable witness died of the plague in 1610. But from the year 1606, it confirmed until the last detail the story of John Wolfgang Dienheim in a Latin letter Emmanuel Konig, professor at Basel, had printed in his Almanac.
The same letter tells us that before leaving Basel Sethon made a second attempt in the house of the silversmith Andrew Bletz, where he changed in several ounces of gold lead. As for the piece of gold he had given Zwinger, we read in the library of chemical Manget that the family of the doctor kept and made him long to see foreigners and curious.

One of the most significant treaty on conventional alchemy.

Photo [AUX ARMES ROYALES]. 

[AUX ARMES ROYALES]. 

Office de la semaine sainte. 

Paris, Herissant, [1745].
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Good copy in contemporary morocco whose covers are gilded with the arms of Mesdames de France.
The daughters of Louis XV indeed shared the same arms for their bindings, they were distinguished only by the color of the morocco. Red morocco was reserved for Adelaide of France (1732-1800).

Photo LEON L'AFRICAIN [Leo Africanus, Johannes (al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi).]. 

LEON L'AFRICAIN [Leo Africanus, Johannes (al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi).]. 

De Totius Africae descriptione, libri IX.
Quibus non solùm Africae regionum, insularum, & oppidorum fitus, locorum q intreualla accuratè complexus est, sed Regum familius, bellorum causas &euentus, resq. In ea memorabiles, tam à seipso diligente obseruatione indagatas, q in veris Maurorum Annalib. Memoriae traditas, copiose descripsit, recéns in Latinam linguam conuersi Ioan. Floriano Interprete. 

Anvers, Ioan. Latium, 1556.
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Rare first latin edition of this famous description of Africa.
Born Al Hassan Ibn Mahommed Al Wezaz Al Fasi probably in Granada in about 1494, the author received a great part of his education at Fez, later travelling through most of northern Africa between 1507-1520.
He undertook his most famous series of journeys across the Sahara into modern day Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Chad between 1513 and 1515.
Later he travelled to Constantinople and Egypt, and while travelling home from there in 1520 was captured by pirates and presented to Pope Leo X in Rome.
There he converted to Christianity, was baptized and adopted his Christian name.
First published in Italian in 1550, this first Latin edition was the basis for the English translation of 1600.

A complete copy, with the 2 final blank leaves often missing and in a contemporary binding.

Photo LEMNE, Levin [LEMNIUS, Levinus]. 

LEMNE, Levin [LEMNIUS, Levinus]. 

Les Secrets miracles de nature et divers enseignemens de plusieurs choses. 

Lyon, Jean Frellon, 1566.
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2500 €

First french edition.
A Dutch doctor and disciple of Gesner and Vesalius, Lemne here delivers a veritable cabinet of curiosities on the origins of living and evil beings.

Photo LESCALLIER, Daniel. 

LESCALLIER, Daniel. 

Traité pratique du gréement des vaisseaux et autres batimens de mer. 

Paris, Clousier, 1791.
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1200 €

First edition.
In addition to a busy career in the administration of the Navy, Daniel Lescallier (17443-1822) wrote several works devoted to the navy.
This practical treatise by Lescallier is abundantly illustrated with plates, some of which come from his Marine dictionary.
This work is today a reference for knowledge of the rigging of 18th century vessels.

Photo DEMIDOFF, Anatole de || DURAND, André || RAFFET, Auguste. 

DEMIDOFF, Anatole de || DURAND, André || RAFFET, Auguste. 

Excursion pittoresque et archéologique en Russie par le Havre, Hambourg, Lubeck, Saint-Pétersbourg, Moscou, Nijni-Nowgorod, Yaroslaw et Kasan, exécutée en 1839. 

Paris, Gihaut frères, [v.1842].
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Scarce first edition of this atlas of the second excursion to Russia, financed by Anatole de Demidoff and sought after for its beautiful lithographs of the greatest Russian cities and their famous landmarks.

More commonly found is the atlas of the first excursion of 1837, which accompanies the book "Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie exécutée en 1837."

The second expedition, executed in 1839, departed from Le Havre and passed through Hamburg, Lubeck, Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslaw, and Kasan.

The views published in the present second album are the most famous, since they included beautiful lithographs of the largest Russian towns and their celebrated places, such as the Winter Palace and the Alexandrine column in St. Petersburg, the banks of the Volga in Nizhniy-Novgorod, the Kremlins of Kasan and Moscow.

Photo GEOFFROY, Étienne-Louis. 

GEOFFROY, Étienne-Louis. 

Histoire abrégée des insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris; dans laquelle ces animaux sont rangés suivant un ordre méthodique. 

Paris, Durand, 1762.
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800 €

First editon.
This book was a great success in the field of Natural Sciences as soon as it was published.
Étienne-Louis Geoffroy (1725-1810, French pharmacist and entomologist) introduced a new classification of insects based on the study of wings and established six different groups (beetles, hemiptera, mealy-winged tetraptera, bare-winged tetraptera, diptera and aptera).

Photo D'AQUIN, Thomas. 

D'AQUIN, Thomas. 

Summa de veritate celeberrimi doctoris sancte Thome Aquinatis. 

Cologne, Quentell, 1508.
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2500 €

Post-incunable edition.
The most famous work of St Thomas Aquinas, which brings together 29 questions on the truth, and 253 articles of answers.
These disputed issues correspond to the first disputes led by Thomas Aquinas as master of theology at the University of Paris during the academic year 1256–1257, when Thomas Aquinas was a young professor.
In the first question, Thomas Aquinas defined truth as "the adequacy of the thing and the intellect.".

Photo MOMORO, Antoine-François. 

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.

Photo BULLIARD, Pierre. 

BULLIARD, Pierre. 

Flora Parisiensis ou descriptions et figures des plantes qui croissent aux environs de Paris avec les différens noms, classes, ordres et genres qui leur conviennent, rangés selon la méthode sexuelle de Linné. 

Paris, Didot jeune, 1776-1783.
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First and only edition of this classic herbal of plants from Paris, illustrated with 642 engraved hand-colored plates.
A complete copy with the "introduction" of 32 pages and 2 plates, the "table françoise" (52 pages xith the errate and the Linneaus system) and the "nouvelle table" of 16 pages.

"Pierre Bulliard, was another picturesque outsider whose works represented the Linnaean tradition in Paris. Bulliard was a descriptive naturalist, little given to theoretical or methodological meditations, but an industrious and skilled draftsman and floristic botanist" (Stafleu).

Photo LARREY, Dominique-Jean. 

LARREY, Dominique-Jean. 

Relation historique et chirurgicale de l'expédition de l'armée d'Orient, en Egypte et en Syrie. 

Paris, Demonville et Soeurs, 1803.
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1300 €

First edition.
Military surgeon, Larrey took part in Napoleon's campaigns in the Middle East, he developed his skills in helping the wounded and is considered the father of emergency medicine.
Two curious engravings of genital elephantiasis which the text tells us were drawn by Charles Balzac and by Pierre-Joseph Redouté (the Raphael of roses here in a completely different register).

Photo DESBOIS DE ROCHEFORT, Louis René. 

DESBOIS DE ROCHEFORT, Louis René. 

Cours élémentaire de matière médicale suivi d'un précis de l'art de formuler. 

Paris, Méquignon l'ainé, 1789.
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75 €

Louis-René Desbois de Rochefort (1750-1786) is a French doctor, "he shone as a professor, although he was not very methodical in the exposition of his doctrines, and little punished in his speech, he did not publish any work of during his lifetime. " (Medarus . org).
This posthumous work is compiled by Corvisart who also signs the praise of Desbois.

Photo VOGT, Henri Gustave. 

VOGT, Henri Gustave. 

Leçons sur la résolution algébrique des équations. 

Paris, Librairie Vuibert, [1895].
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50 €

First edition.
The book includes a preface by Jules Tannery who writes: "truly indispensable to those who must one day speak of symmetric functions, of the transformation of equations, of the resolution of third and fourth degree equations, of the equations of the division of the circle."

Our copy bears a butterfly and a stamp from the Vuibert bookstore which had to buy back the stock of the publisher Nony.

Photo SANNIÉ, Charles / GUÉRIN, D. 

SANNIÉ, Charles / GUÉRIN, D. 

Éléments de police scientifique. 

Paris, Hermann & Cie, 1938-1940.
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120 €

First edition.
Sannié and Guérin's book is contemporary with the work of Edmond Locard (1877-1966), considered one of the founding fathers of forensic science. The work is mainly devoted to what we would call today forensic identity, with the first two volumes focusing on anthropometry and the next two on fingerprint identification.

Photo BUCHAN, William. 

BUCHAN, William. 

Médecine domestique, ou traité complet des moyens de se conserver en santé, & de guérir les maladies, par le régime & les remedes simples. 

Paris, Froullé, 1789.
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150 €

William Buchan was a Scottish physician (1729-1805) and author of several works, the most famous of which is Domestic Medicine or a Complete Treatise on the Means of Maintaining Health, of Curing and Preventing Diseases by Diet and Simple Remedies. This book, written in 1769, has been translated into several languages. It is divided into two parts, one is devoted to prophylactic medicine and describes the means of maintaining health and warding off diseases; the other is devoted to the description and treatment of many diseases.

Photo MALOUIN, Paul-Jacques. 

MALOUIN, Paul-Jacques. 

l'Art du Meunier et du Boulanger. 

Neuchatel, Société Typographique, 1771.
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400 €

First 4to edition.
This is only Volume I, entirely devoted to the art of the miller and the baker: description of mills, milling techniques, flour quality, breadmaking processes, and economic aspects of the profession. This work is an exceptional primary source on 18th-century know-how for understanding how bread was made before the Revolution.

Photo [CHARLES VII]. 

[CHARLES VII]. 

Vollständiges Diarium von den merckwürdigsten Begebenheiten, die sich vor, in und nach der Höchst-beglückten Wahl und Krönung, des Allerdurchlauchtigsten, Großmächtigsten und Unüberwindlichsten Fürsten und Herrn Carls des VII. 

Frankfurt am Main, Johann David Jung, 1742-1743.
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1200 €

First edition.
A remarkable work that offers a detailed and illustrated account of the significant events that occurred before, during and after the election and coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles Albert of Bavaria, known as Charles VII. Thanks to its detailed descriptions of the ceremonies, parades and festivities, enriched by numerous iconographic documents.
A very complete copy of all the required plates: 1 frontispiece, 19 portraits, 20 plates (including numerous double plates and 2 folding plans).

Photo L’HOSPITAL, Guillaume (Marquis de). 

L’HOSPITAL, Guillaume (Marquis de). 

Traité analytique des sections coniques et de leur usage pour la résolution des équations dans les problèmes tant déterminez qu’indéterminez. 

Paris, Montalant, 1720.
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200 €

Second edition.
Treatise on conic sections, which he treats both by geometric and analytical methods (equations of the form ax2 bx2 cxy dx ey f = 0) and which was very successful. Finalized in 1699, it was not published until after his death at the request of Fontenelle, then secretary of the Royal Academy.

Photo SOREL, Charles. 

SOREL, Charles. 

De la connoissance des bons livres, ou examen de plusieurs autheurs. 

Amsterdam, Henry et Theodore Boom, 1672.
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First Elzévirienne edition published one year after the original.
Sorel was the first in France to attempt a critical presentation of contemporary literature of the period.

Photo NOSTRADAMUS, Michel. 

NOSTRADAMUS, Michel. 

Les prophéties de M. Michel Nostradamus. Dont il y en a trois cens qui n'ont jamais esté imprimées. 

Lyon, s.n., 1698.
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With a second title page for Les prophéties de M. Michel Nostradamus. Centuries VIII. IX. X. Qui n'ont encore jamais été imprimées.

Photo DRUMMOND DE MELFORT, Louis Hector. 

DRUMMOND DE MELFORT, Louis Hector. 

Traite sur la Cavalerie. 

Paris, Imprimerie de Guillaume Desprez, 1776.
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7500 €

First edition of this famous treatise on cavalry, one of the most spectacular ever published.

The treatise itself, adorned with a beautiful frontispiece by Pierre Charles Ingouf, depicting Louis XVI reviewing the mounted troops, a title vignette by Macret, and four headings and three tailpieces engraved by various artists after Van Blaremberghe, is illustrated with 11 copper-engraved tactical plates, seven of which are double-page spreads and one folded.

This copy bears the coat of arms of the Duke of Condé, second in the list of 69 subscribers to the work, after the Duke of Chartres, who was the author's godfather.

Text volume only. The atlas, bearing the coat of arms of the Prince of Condé, was sold at the 1988 Biennale des Antiquaires, Librairie Léonce Laget, Paris, and then at Christie's in 2016.

Photo LA PEROUSE, Jean-François de Galaup (Comte de). 

LA PEROUSE, Jean-François de Galaup (Comte de). 

Voyage de la Pérouse autour du Monde, publié conformément au décret du 22 Avril 1791, et rédigé par M. L.A. Milet-Mureau. 

Paris, Imprimerie De La Republique, 1797.
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First edition.
A complete copy.

Photo BOURGERY, Jean-Marc || JACOB, Nicholas Henri || DUCHAUSSOY. 

BOURGERY, Jean-Marc || JACOB, Nicholas Henri || DUCHAUSSOY. 

Traité complet de l’anatomie de l’Homme comprenant la médecine opératoire avec planches lithographiées d’après nature par N.H. Jacob.
Ouvrage divisé en quatre parties : l’anatomie descriptive, anatomie générale, anatomie chirurgicale, anatomie philosophique
[suivi de ] DUCHAUSSOY. Suppléments. Guérin. 1867-1868. 

Paris, Delaunay, 1831-54.
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6500 €

First edition.
Our copy with the rare supplement on women deseases from Duchaussoy published in 1867.

Photo [LIVRE DE FETES]. 

[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).

Photo [STENDHAL (Henry Beyle, dit)]. 

[STENDHAL (Henry Beyle, dit)]. 

Histoire de la peinture en Italie. Par M. B. A. A. 

Paris, Didot l'Aîné, 1817.
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2500 €

First edition.
A full margin copy, untrimmed.

Photo TERENCE. 

TERENCE. 

P. Terentii Comoediae , tum ex Donati commentariis, tum ex optimorum, praesertim veterum, exemplarium collatione. 

Paris, Robert Estienne, 1541.
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600 €

Edition given by Robert Estienne.
The comedies of Terence offer an insight into daily life and Roman society at the time. They will have had a significant influence on later European comic literature from the Renaissance. Terence's Comedies held the role for Comedy that Aristotle's Poetics held for other works of fiction. Its patterns of structure and characterization have been studied and adapted by many playwrights and authors, helping to shape the theatrical tradition.

Photo SCHAEFFER, Jacques Christian. 

SCHAEFFER, Jacques Christian. 

Piscium Bavarico-Ratisbonensium Pentas. Cum tabulis IV. aeri incisis icones coloribus suis distinctas exhibentibus. 

Paris, Derache, 1761.
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200 €

First edition.
Copy which has preserved the four beautiful folding plates with their period colors.

Photo FAVRE, Emile de. 

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.

Photo ROBAUT, Alfred. COROT, Camille. 

ROBAUT, Alfred. COROT, Camille. 

L'oeuvre de Corot.
Catalogue raisonné et illustré précédé de l'histoire de Corot et de ses oeuvres par Étienne Moreau-Nélaton. 

Paris, H. Floury, 1905.
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First edition printed at of only 400 copies.

One of the only five copies on old Japanese paper, the first large paper.
The reference catalogue raisonné of Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot's work preceded by an extensive biography of the artist's life and artwork by Etienne Moreau-Nelaton.
With descriptions and black-and-white reproductions of more than 3,000 of the artist's paintings, drawings, and engravings.
The fifth and final volume is devoted to the tables.

Our copy is bound with :
- in volume 1, two original photographs of Corot, the original Corot burial certificate, and finally two specimens for subscription to the book, dated 1904 (8 pages), one on vellum paper, the other on Japanese paper.
- in volume 4, p. 329, a photograph of Corot (Coll. Nadar, reproduced in 1910), three autograph letters signed by Corot with two stamped envelopes, and three sketches, attributed according to a pencil note to Robaut after Corot for the first and to Corot for the other two (without warranty for these attributions).
One of the letters is addressed to the parents of his student Emmanuel Damoye, in which Corot expresses concern that he has been drafted (in 1870).

A unique collection to which we are including, in paperback, the first supplement (ex. 18 of 600 copies) published 40 copies later in 1948.

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