Honoré de BALZAC, Honoré DAUMIER

Oeuvres complètes

Veuve Alexandre Houssiaux, à Paris 1855, 13x21,5cm, 20 volumes reliés.

First collective edition under the title of Works as well as first illustrated edition (Clouzot), including several texts in first edition. The work was originally intended to contain only 17 volumes, but the publisher Houssiaux, following on from the previous editors, completed them with [...]

2 000 €

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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

Jacques BRANDICOURT

Humourons pour les petits oiseaux

Editions de la revue moderne, Paris 1959, 14x19,5cm, broché.

First edition.
Pleasant copy despite a small marginal tear on the first board.
Signed autograph Jacques Brandicourt to the bookseller Michel Couppé: "... who loves and sells beautiful literature ..."

30 €

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First edition, Signed book

Fernand LENNEL

Calais par l'image

Imprimerie moderne Jules Peumeury, Calais 1904-1906, 19,5x28,5cm & 34,5x25,5cm, 3 volumes reliés.

First Edition printed 250 copies numbered and signed by Fernand Lennel, ours one of 50 Japan, leading print.
Bindings in full brown chocolate morocco, back discolored with five nerves, golden dates tail, flat struck at the top left of the golden coat of arms of [...]

1 500 €

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First edition

Fernand LENNEL

Histoire de Calais

Imprimerie moderne J. Peumeury, Calais 1908, 19x28,5cm, 2 volumes reliés.

first edition, one of the few copies on Holland paper of which no mention is made.
Bindings in half black shagreen with corners, discolored and insolated back with nerves adorned with golden florets, marbled paper plates with slight scratches without gravity, guards and contreplats of paper [...]

800 €

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First edition

Honoré de BALZAC

Oeuvres complètes

chez Furne & Dubochet & Hetzel & Paulin & Houssiaux, à Paris 1842-1855, In-8 (14x23cm), 20 volumes reliés.

First collective edition under the title of Œuvres as well as first illustrated edition (Clouzot), including several texts in first edition, including the last part of Splendors and misery of courtesans, the third part of Lost Illusions, David Sechard; The museum of the department, the [...]

3 500 €

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First edition

Albert ROBIDA

Les vieilles villes des Flandres. Belgique et Flandre française

Librairie Dorbon Aîné, Paris s.d. (1908), 17,5x27,5cm, en feuillets sous chemise.

First Edition printed in 126 copies, ours one of the 100 on Holland paper Van Gelder illustrated with 155 original compositions including 25 inset. Our copy is full of its original etching, its suite on Japan 25 inset, the original cover and etching with note.
Our copy is presented under his [...]

400 €

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First edition

André POTTIER

La Normandie illustrée. Monuments, sites et costumes de la Seine-Inférieure, de l'Eure, du ...

Charpentier, Nantes 1852, In-Folio (35x47cm), relié.

First edition, copiously illustrated with a map in color, 5 frontispieces, 150 boards with a bistre bottom by F. Benoist, including 22 costumes designed and engraved by Lalaisse.
Publisher's binding in half blue shagreen to flat of percaline.

2 000 €

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