First edition

Henri BERAUD

La bonne taverne. Mythistoire du vieux Lyon

Editions de la Houle, Lyon 1905, 16,5x25cm, agrafé.

First edition copied.
Two pale wettings at the bottom of the first board and at the head of the second board.
Autograph dedication signed by André Lahaye to a friend whom he calls Momo: "A Momo who - I know - is at the heart of sad songs from beyond the walls."

300 €

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First edition

Henri BERAUD

L'école moderne de peinture lyonnaise

E. Basset & Cie, Paris 1902, 18,5x28,5cm, broché.

Rare first edition of the first book of the author for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Back restored with tears and gaps, angular gaps on the boards, nice interior state.
Book adorned with 27 inset reproductions and many illustrations in the text.

300 €

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First edition, Signed book

Henri BERAUD

La gerbe d'or

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

First edition, one of 39 numbered copies on Japan, head print.
Small tears and shortfalls witnesses, a slight lack and a tear in the head of the first board and margins of both boards.
Copy at all margins.
Handwritten signature of Henri Béraud below the justification of the [...]

680 €

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First edition

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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First edition

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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First edition

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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First edition

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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First edition

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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