Jean PASSERAT

Recueil des oeuvres poetiques. — Kalendae Januariae, & Varia quaedam Poëmatia

Chez Abel l'Angelier, Paris 1606, in-8 (11x16,5cm), (6) 464pp. (8) ; (16) 248pp. [mal chiff. 148] (6), 2 ouvrages reliés en un volume.

Posthumous editions of these works, prepared and published by John Rougevalet, nephew of the author. The Compendium is decorated with a lovely portrait of Passerat engraved on copper by Thomas de Leu. Among the various French plays in it, there are his famous hunting poems: The Deer of [...]

1 200 €

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Louis LEGER

Chants héroïques et chants populaires des Slaves de Bohême

Librairie internationale Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie, Paris & Bruxelles & Leipzig & Livourne 1866, 11,5x17,5cm, relié.

first edition.
Binding half green fir shagreen, back with five nerves decorated with gilded initials of great bibliophile Roger Cormenin repeated five times, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, sprinkled edges, slightly later binding.
Provenance: the library [...]

100 €

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Ernest RENAN

L'eau de jouvence

Calmann Lévy, Paris 1881, 14,5x22cm, relié.

first edition.
Binding half caramel calf, back smoothes decorated with gilded nets and dotted, golden tail date, title piece of chocolate morocco small traces of restoration on a bit, marbled paper plates, a slight lack of skin Length of the first flat, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, [...]

200 €

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Charles-Augustin SAINTE-BEUVE

Volupté

Charpentier, Paris 1845, 11,5x18,5cm, relié.

Third edition published anonymously, partly original as revised and corrected.
Open marine glazed calf binding, back with four nerves decorated with double gilded boxes, nets gilded head and tail, lower cap with a slight hitch, wheels on golden headdresses, triple frames nets gilded on the [...]

150 €

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Paul VALERY

La jeune parque

Nrf, Paris 1917, 19,5x24cm, broché.

First edition of 600 copy, this one numéroté on vergé d'Arches.
A fine copy, as issued.

580 €

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Alexandre MORET

Au temps des pharaons

Armand Colin, Paris 1908, 11,5x18,5cm, relié.

Edition illustrated with 16 original plates in collotype well as a fine in-folding map.
Binding sheepskin half caramel, back with four nerves set with black dotted decorated with double gilt fillets, gilt dotted head and tail, part of title and name of the author of olive cloth, marbled paper [...]

30 €

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Georges ZEVORT, Ernest RENAN

Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse

La Connaissance, Paris 1922, relié.

Edition adorned with illustrations in full page and in text Zévort and initials colorized with dolls by SOURDOT, one of 980 numbered copies on pure wire, one draw with 10 Chinese and 10 Holland.

80 €

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First edition, Signed book

Charles-Augustin SAINTE-BEUVE & Alfred de VIGNY

Lettres inédites publiées avec une introduction et des commentaires de Louis Gillet

Kra, Paris 1929, 15x20,5cm, broché.

First edition, one of 600 numbered copies on vellum, ours is not justified, the only leading copies.
beautiful autograph dedication of the author autograph signed by Louis Gillet poet Armand Godoy evoking Charles Baudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe
Frontispiece, a facsimile of an autograph [...]

50 €

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