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ANONYME

Le Tygre, satyre sur les gestes mémorables des Guisards, 1561

Berger-Levrault, Strasbourg 1851, 15x22cm, relié.

New edition printed at 60 numbered copies, one of ours on green paper numbered 2, deluxe edition after 1 Mouton paper.
Binding half morocco tree with corners, back with four nerves faded set with double gilded nets decorated with double gilded boxes, small traces of rubbing on the covers, [...]

230 €

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First edition

Joseph-Antoine de GOURBILLON & T.W. DICKINSON

L'Angleterre et les anglais ou petit portrait d'une grande famille par; copié et retouché par ...

Le Normant, Paris 1817, 12,5x19cm, 3 volumes reliés.

first edition.
Binding half raspberry calf, back with four nerves set with gilded nets decorated with golden arabesques and romantic golden floral motifs, titles and parts of black calf volume number, golden friezes heads and tails, marbled paper plates, contreplats of guards and made paper, [...]

400 €

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First edition

Jean GIGOUX, Alain-René LESAGE

Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane

J.J. Dubochet & Cie, Paris 1838, 17x26cm, relié.

Edition illustrated with a portrait of the author on China and several woodcut vignettes by Jean Gigoux.
Bound in red half shagreen with corners, back smoothes decorated with gilded cartridges quadruple and cold decorated with golden arabesques romantic, framing a golden cartridge on the flat [...]

250 €

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Jacques-Henri BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE

Paul et Virginie

L. Curmer, Paris 1838, 16,5x26cm, relié.

Famous illustrated edition of nearly 450 labels engraved on wood, 29 boards inset on from China and 7 portraits engraved on steel by T. Johannot, Meissonier, Iasbey, P. Huet.
Bound in full morocco cherry, smooth spine slightly discolored with a gold cartridge complete with romantic golden [...]

600 €

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Jacques Joseph DUGUET & Samuel Ustazade SILVESTRE DE [...]

Choix des traités de morale chrétienne de Duguet

J. Techener, Paris 1858, 9,5x15,5cm, 2 volumes reliés.

New edition revised and preceded by a preface Sylvestre de Sacy.
Binders full marine shagreen, back with four nerves set with gilded nets decorated with double gilded boxes decorated with golden typographical motifs, golden wheels on the caps, framing gilded nets quadruple the boards enriched [...]

80 €

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First edition

Alessandro Vittorio PAPACINO d'ANTONI & Jean-Baptiste [...]

Examen de la poudre

Chez Marc Michel Rey, à Amsterdam 1773, in-8 (12x20cm), (6) 240pp., relié.

French Edition, rare, illustrated with 9 folding plates containing 22 figures.
Binding post, ca 1830, in the marine glazed calf. Back with nerves decorated beautifully to a central angle iron and iron in each box, roulette tail and head; Geometric roulette on the nerves, which are found in [...]

1 200 €

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Mathurin REGNIER & Eugène Emmanuel VIOLLET-LE-DUC

Oeuvres complètes de Mathurin Régnier avec les commentaires revus et corrigés précédées de ...

P. Jannet, Paris 1853, 9,5x16,5cm, relié.

Edition presented with comments reviewed and corrected, one of the few copies printed on China.
Open marine morocco binding, back fives nerves set with ornate golden dotted double golden boxes decorated with golden typographical reasons, golden friezes head and tail rollers on golden [...]

300 €

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First edition

André CHENIER

Oeuvres en prose de André Chénier augmentées d'un grand nombre de morceaux inédits et ...

Charles Gosselin, Paris 1840, 11x17,5cm, relié.

Edition partly original and only complete.
Full binding marine calf, back smoothes decorated with double gilded cartridges and romantic golden arabesque, very light scratches gravity years on the back, framing a golden thread and gilt spandrels typographical motifs on flat to centers which face [...]

300 €

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