First edition

Albert ROBIDA, Georges TOUDOUZE

François Ier (Le roi chevalier)

Boivin & Cie, Paris 1909, 30x37cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

First edition and first edition of inset illustrations, full-page and in color of Albert Robida.
Publisher's binding full gray percaline, smooth back, first flat illustrated with a polychrome composition of Albert Robida, guards and contreplats blue-gray paper, golden slices.
Two blunt [...]

400 €

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First edition

ANONYME

L'homme d'estat, ou le fidelle ministre, avec une chronologie des cardinaux & autres chefs de ...

Chez Toussainct Quinet, A Paris 1633, 7p. (9) 291pp., relié.

First edition.

Binding full parchment contemporary. Smooth back with title pen (illegible). stains and creases. Freckles and scattered brownings.

250 €

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Jacques de Chastenet de PUYSEGUR

Les memoires de Messire Jacques de Chastenet, Chevalier, seigneur de Puysegur, colonel du regiment ...

Chez Charles-Ant. Jombert, A Paris 1747, In-12 (9,5x17cm), xxiv, 308pp. et (4) 365pp. (7), 2 volumes reliés.

New illustrated edition of 2 portraits on the frontispiece and 2 large plans of leaflets. Edition produced by Du Chesne, historian of the King of France, from the manuscripts of Puysegur.
Binding full brown marbled vintage calf. Back with ornate nerves. title label in red morocco, piece of [...]

400 €

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Louis-Pierre ANQUETIL

Louis XIV, sa cour et le Régent

Janet et Cotelle, Paris 1819, 13x21cm, 2 volumes reliés.

New edition partly original because revised and corrected.
Foxing.
Bindings full calf caramel, back five nerves set with golden dots and adorned with gilded florets, gold friezes heads and tails, title and black morocco coins, a lower joint of the first volume split and then glued, rollers [...]

250 €

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First edition

Alexandre DUMAS

Louis XIV et son siècle

Fellens & Dufour, Paris 1844-1845, 16,5x26,5cm, 2 volumes reliés.

First edition.
Bindings in half brown shagreen with corners, smooth backs slightly discolored adorned with romantic arabesques gilded, some light scratches without gravity on the backs, gilt nets in framing of marbled paper, guards and contreplats of pebbled paper, a lower corner of the [...]

150 €

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First edition, Signed book

Alexandre DUMAS

Manuscrit autographe signé, éloge de Corneille extrait de l'acte I du drame romantique ...

vers 1830, 30,5x23cm, une feuille.

Autograph manuscript signed by Alexandre Dumas, from an excerpt from Act III of the neoclassical drama Christine, 26 verses in ink.

3 800 €

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First edition

Michel Guillaume Saint Jean CREVECOEUR

Lettres d'un cultivateur américain, écrites à W. S. Ecuyer, depuis l'année 1770, jusqu'à 1781. ...

S.n., S.l. 1785, In-12 (10x16,5cm), (4) XXIV 422pp. et (6) 400pp., 2 volumes reliés.

Third edition of the French translation published for the first time in Paris in 1784, in-8. The first edition was published in London, in English, in 1782. The French edition was, however, recast, corrected and translated by the author himself, who added a second volume, and even allowed himself [...]

400 €

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First edition

SEDEGE

Le légat de la vache à Colas, complainte huguenote du XVIème siècle

Académie des bibliophiles, Paris 1868, 11x17cm, relié.

Reprinted with 520 numbered copies, ours one of 500 laid, this satirical song Huguenot of the end of the XVIth century directed against the clergy.
Binding half shagreen black corners, smooth back decorated with cartridges and gilded florets, date golden tail, framing gilt nets on the plates [...]

100 €

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