First edition

Joseph Guichard DU VERNEY

Traité de l'organe de l'ouie, contenant la structure, les usages & les maladies de toutes les ...

Chez Estienne Michallet, à Paris 1683, in-12 (9x17cm), (24) 210pp., relié.

The very rare first edition with 16 unsigned folding plates.

Contemporary brown sheep, spine in compartments, headpiece and one corner repaired, wormtrack to middle of upper margin, a few insignificant wormholes. The final engraving is shaved and lacking the last lines [...]

3 000 €

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Marquis de LOUVILLE

Mémoires secrets sur l'établissement de la Maison de Bourbon en Espagne, extraits de la ...

Maradan, Paris 1818, in-8 (12x19,5cm), VIII, 384pp. et 371pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First Edition. Half Calf burgundy wedge, 1900; clever pastiche of a binding 1820. spine false nerves decorated flat wheels and nets. Back uniformly thinned without consequence. Good copy. This soldier was appointed head of the French house of Philip V of Spain, the first Bourbon king of Spain [...]

450 €

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Clive HOLLAND

Au Japon, choses vues

Vuibert & Nony, Paris 1908, 18,5x25cm, broché.

Edition originale de la traduction française.Ouvrage illustré de photographies hors-texte ainsi que de dessins in-texte.spine insolé, plats uniformément insolés et comportant des taches marginales, petites rousseurs intérieures, une claire mouillure affectant en tête certaines pages. --- [...]

50 €

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Nicolas Antoine BOULANGER

Recherches sur l'origine du despotisme oriental

Par la Compagnie des Libraires Associés, à Paris 1763, in-12 (93,5x16,3cm), xiv, 235pp. (2), relié.

New edition after the original published posthumously by D'Holbach (some attribute part of its authorship) in 1761.
The edition contains well letter to Helvetius absent from most rééditions.Plein Calf granite contemporary. Smooth back decorated. Gilding seem performed on the part of [...]

550 €

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John PERRY

Etat present de la grande Russie ou Moscovie

Chez André Cailleau, à Paris 1718, in-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (8) 76, 83 (13) 339pp., 3 parties reliées en un volume.

New French Edition, quite rare. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Peter the 1st and a large folding map. Reprint of the French original published in 1717 in John Boudot. Full Sheepskin brown time. Back tooled raised. Head cap partly threadbare. Scuffs on the boards. Friction in caps and [...]

1 000 €

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Guy de MAUPASSANT

La vie errante

Paul Ollendorff, Paris 1890, 15x19cm, relié.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Hollande paper, the only large paper copies along with 5 on Japon.
Elegant brown morocco by G. Levitzsky, spine in six compartments, gilt roulettes to head- and tail-pieces, date at foot of spine, double gilt fillets to edges of covers, pastedowns [...]

1 800 €

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(Valdo BARBEY) Claude FARRERE

De Londres à Venise par New-York

René Kieffer, Paris 1949, 25,5x32,5cm, en feuilles sous double chemise et étui.

Original, one of 70 numbered on Rives BFK "pur-fil" paper containing a series of engravings before the letter also on BFK Rives edition, leading copy with 9 other Rives and 9 Imperial Japan. Illustrated book of 18 original etchings Valdo Barbey. Very nice complete copy of the following [...]

300 €

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Lev Davidovitch Bronstein, dit Léon TROTSKY

Où va l'Angleterre?

Lib. de L'Humanité, Paris s.d. (1926), 14,5x19,5cm, broché.

First edition in French for which there were no large paper copies.
Slight stains, not serious, to upper cover.

60 €

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