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Jules BAUX

Nobiliaire du département de l'Ain (XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles). Bugey et Pays de Gex

Francisque Martin-Bottier, Bourg-en-Bresse 1864, relié.

First Edition, signed by the publisher next to the title page.
Contemporary binding half maroon shagreen, back with four nerves adorned with fleurons, gilded boxes and nets, cold boxes, boards of handmade paper, guards and contreplats of stony paper, all speckled slices.
Some friction head [...]

250 €

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Claude-François MENESTRIER

Les divers caracteres des ouvrages historiques. Avec le plan d'un nouvelle histoire de la ville de ...

Chez Jean-Baptiste et Nicolas de Ville, A Lyon 1694, Fort in-12 (9,5x17cm), (16) 559pp. (2), relié.

First edition, rare, adorned with 2 folding tables. Editor's mark on the title page.

Binding in full shepherd vintage gratia. Back with nerves richly adorned. title label in red morocco. Friction. 2 blunt corners. A wormhole at the lower bit in the tail. Absence of 2 pages after the [...]

350 €

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Madame S de LANGE

Carmillit-les-Nonains, fantaisie en ut majeur sur des souvenirs de villégiature

S.A. de l'imprimerie A. Rey, Lyon 1930, 19,5x24,5cm, broché.

First edition, one of 100 copies on Holland paper, ours bearing the No. 1, only leading copies.
A small tear in the back of the back, otherwise nice copy.
Book decorated with illustrations by Gaston Magnin.

50 €

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Rodolphe TOPFFER

Nouveaux voyages en zigzag à la Grande Chartreuse, autour du Mont Blanc dans les vallées ...

Victor Lecou, Paris 1854, 17,5x27,5cm, relié.

First edition and first edition of the illustrations.
Binding half black shagreen, back with four nerves adorned with boxes decorated with cold florets, framing of cold nets on the black cardboard plates, guards and contreplats of white silk moire marginally dirty, all golden edges.
Book [...]

150 €

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William BEATTIE

Les vallées Vaudoises pittoresques ; ou vallées protestantes du Piémont, du Dauphiné, et du Ban ...

Georges Virtue & Ferrier, LondresParis 1838, In-4 (21,5x27,5cm), 216pp., relié.

Original French edition, rare, and illustrated with 70 views on steel and a title engraved (for the title page in English) by Bartlett and Brockedon, as well as a portrait in frontispiece, all on paper. English translation by De Bauclas. A folding map
Binding in half chagrin maroquin red. [...]

1 000 €

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Joanny DREVET, Jean DUFOURT

Laurette ou les amours lyonnaises

Editions Didier & Richard, Grenoble 1929, 14x22,5cm, broché.

first edition, one of the 1900 numbered copies on BFK de Rives.
Book illustrated with 18 etchings and 27 drawings by Joanny Drevet.
Two misses in the head and foot of the back which also includes small tears, pleasant interior condition.

50 €

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Henri BERAUD

La gerbe d'or

Les éditions de France, Paris 1928, 14x21cm, broché.

first edition, one of the 88 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, leading after only 39 Japan.
Small tears at the foot of the witnesses, otherwise pleasant copy at all margins.

250 €

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Paul BERRET

Au pays des brûleurs de loups. Légendes & contes du Dauphiné

Librairie Charles Delagrave, Paris s.d. (circa 1925), 17,5x27,5cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

Edition adorned with illustrations by Alfred Montader.
Binding of the editor in full percaline ocher, back smooth, beveled boards, first board illustrated, guards and contreplats blue paper, all edges gilt.
Nice copy.

60 €

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