Antoine GALLAND

Les mille et une nuits, contes arabes

Ernest Bourdin, Paris 1840 (S.d.), in-8 (18x26cm), 480pp. et 576pp. et 482pp., 3 volumes reliés.

First edition of 3 false titles, 3 frontispieces including a gold statement, and abundantly illustrated with ornaments and in-text vignettes, as well as some inserts by Andrew Best Leloir, Levilly. Edition produced from the text of 1704 corrected with a dissertation by Baron Silvestre de [...]

600 €

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Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard GRANDVILLE, Jonathan SWIFT

Voyages de Gulliver dans des contrées lointaines

Furne et Cie & H. Fournier, Paris 1838, in 8 (13x21cm), 279pp. et 319pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First edition edition of the illustration of Grandville. A frontispiece on flying china and 450 vignettes on wood in-text, and 5 out of text, the four titles of the four voyages and the literary allegory in frontispiece of the notice. New translation, biographical and literary note on Jonathan [...]

600 €

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Jules VERNE

Vingt Mille lieues sous les mers

Hetzel, Paris 1898, Grd. in-8 (18x27,5cm), 434pp., relié.

Jules VERNE
Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers
[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]
Hetzel | Paris 1898 | 8vo (18 x 27.5 cm)
| 434 pp | publisher's cloth
New edition, illustrated with 111 drawings by Neuville and Riou. Catalogue AJ for 1898-1899.
Publisher’s illustrated [...]

1 300 €

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Victor DUCANGE

Isaurine et Jean-Pohl, ou les révolutions du château de Git-au-Diable

Lecointe & Charles Gosselin, Paris 1830, 10,5x17,5cm, 2 volumes reliés en 4.

first edition.
Bindings in caramel half calf, smooth backs adorned with golden garlands as well as double cold stamped florets and nets, gold friezes in heads and tails, discreet restorations on the joints, marbled paper plates, guards and paper contreplats à la vat, marbled slices.
A [...]

500 €

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Christian August VULPIUS

Lomelli le hardi brigand, ou la caverne de la vengeance

Chez Lerouge, Paris 1823, 10,5x17,5cm, 2 volumes reliés en 4.

first edition of the French translation and published anonymously.
Bindings in caramel half calf, smooth backs adorned with golden garlands as well as double cold stamped florets and nets, gold friezes in heads and tails, discreet restorations on the joints, marbled paper plates, guards and [...]

800 €

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George MOORE

L'abbaye de Grasville

chez Maradan, Paris An VI (1798), 10x17,5cm, 3 volumes reliés.

first edition of the French translation by B. Ducos.
Illustrated book of 3 engravings in frontispieces volumes.
Bindings in full caramel calf, smooth backs adorned with fleurons, dotted lines and golden threads, pieces of red morocco title and volume, golden wheels on completely faded [...]

500 €

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Jean-Edme PACCARD

Le donjon et la forêt de Beauregard ou les victimes de la perversité

Pigoreau, Paris 1821, 10,5x17,5cm, 2 volumes reliés en 1.

first edition published anonymously.
Binding in caramel half calf, smooth back adorned with a large golden garland and gilded nets, gold friezes in heads and tails, discreet restorations on the joints, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, slices mottled.
Rare [...]

800 €

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Charlotte de Bournon, comtesse de MALARME

Les ruines d'un vieux château de la Haute-Saxe ou Gervas et Ferdinand de Mondonedo

Edme Cretté, Paris 1821, 10,5x17,5cm, 3 volumes reliés en 2.

first edition illustrated with a frontispiece engraving of the first volume.
Bindings in caramel half calf, smooth backs adorned with golden garlands as well as double cold stamped florets and nets, gold friezes in heads and tails, discreet restorations on the joints, marbled paper plates, [...]

800 €

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