ANONYME

Lille en vers burlesques. - Les embaras du jour de l'an. - Les moeurs des lillois anciens et ...

S.n., s.l. s.d. (circa 1830), 10,5x17cm, relié.

Edition confirms the first edition published in 1731 in Lille by GE Vroye.
Binding in half red calf with corners, back with four nerves set with golden dotted lines and decorated with golden fillets, framing of golden fillets on the plates of red embossed cardboard, guards and paper [...]

580 €

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First edition, Signed book

Pierre-Jean JOUVE

Lettre autographe signée d'une page et demie

S.n., Paris 1er août 1926, 14x21,5cm, une feuille.

Autograph letter dated August 1, 1926 and signed with a page and a half of Pierre Jean Jouve apologizing to his correspondent after the latter knocked on his door and Pierre Jean Jouve, then bedridden and suffering, could not open to him. Embarrassed and exhausted, he wishes to see his [...]

150 €

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First edition, Signed book

Ephraïm MIKHAEL & Bernard LAZARE

Manuscrit autographe complet La fiancée de Corinthe

S.n., s.l. 1888, 24,5x31,5cm, relié.

Complete autograph manuscript, by Ephraim Mikhael, of 28 sheets mounted on tabs and lined with flexible cardstock for some of them.
Bradel binding in half cardboard with vellum-like corners, smooth back decorated with typographic patterns at the head and at the tail, marbled paper boards, paper [...]

6 800 €

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First edition

Ephraïm MIKHAEL

Le cor fleuri

Tresse & Stock, Paris 1889, 13x18,5cm, broché.

First edition for which there is no mention of large papers.
Small gaps in the margins of some sheets, a tiny lack at the top of the first board.

450 €

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First edition

Ephraïm MIKHAEL & Bernard LAZARE

La fiancée de Corinthe

Camille Dalou, Paris 1888, 20x27,5cm, relié.

First edition, one of the rare copies on Japan.
Bradel binding in half cardboard with vellum-like corners, smooth back decorated with typographic patterns at the head and at the tail, marbled paper boards, paper guards and counterplates in the tank, golden head, preserved cover.
Beautiful [...]

2 500 €

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First edition

Joseph Mallord William TURNER, LEITCH RITCHIE

The rivers of France, from drawings by Turner

Henry G. Bohn, London 1857, Fort grd. in-8 (18,5x28cm), 336pp., relié.

First edition illustrated with a title engraved with a vignette of the chateau Gaillard and 61 inserts on steel by Turner and engraved by Higham, Brendard, Smith, Willmore ... The whole on strong vellum.
Publisher's binding in full shagreen green leather. Richly decorated false nerves back. [...]

700 €

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First edition, Signed book

Théophile GAUTIER

Le capitaine Fracasse

Charpentier, Paris 1863, 12x18cm, 2 volumes reliés.

Rare and sought after first edition, according to Clouzot, especially in contemporary binding
Bindings in half shagreen bottle green, back with four nerves adorned with golden and black nets, plates of marbled paper, guards and counterplates of paper in the tank, two slight scratches without [...]

9 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Jean LORRAIN, Antoon Van WELIE

Ellen

Pierre Douville, Paris 1906, 13x19,5cm, relié.

First edition, one of 10 numbered copies on Holland paper, only large papers.
Illustrated cover by Antoon Van Welie.
Binding in full burgundy morocco, back with five nerves set with black fillets, golden date at the tail, golden casters on the caps, guards and flaps of moiré effect paper, [...]

3 000 €

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