Tsugouharu, Léonard FOUJITA

Légendes japonaises recueillies et illustrées par T. Foujita

Editions de l'abeille d'or, Paris 1922, 18,5x27cm, broché.

Illustrated edition in-text and 17 color plates, out-of-text, with a Buddha in frontispiece.
Preface by Claude Farrère.
A small spot without gravity on the first guard on which appears the autograph shipment, nice copy.
 

450 €

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Claude-Prosper Jolyot de CREBILLON (dit CREBILLON FILS)

L'ecumoire, Histoire japonoise. [Tansaï et Neadarné]

Chez Arkstée et Merkus, A Amsterdam 1743, In-16 (8x13,5cm), (2) XVIII (4) 208pp. ; (6) 328pp., 2 tomes en un volume relié.

Dutch counterfeiting of the illustrated edition of 1743 to Pekin, the first edition of the only text dating back to 1734. A frontispiece repeated in the 2 volumes (the Chinese emperor and his court with monkeys in trees). Title pages in red and black.
Bindings in full calfskin from the icy era. [...]

600 €

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Jules VERNE

Vingt Mille lieues sous les mers

Hetzel, Paris 1901, Grd. in-8 (18x27,5cm), 434pp., relié.

New edition, illustrated with 111 drawings by Neuville and Riou.
Publisher's cardboard box with the Golden Globe. Top plate signed Blancheland, Engel bookbinder. Beautiful upper plate with bright golds. Back well, with clean gold. Collapsed caps. Soiling in the lighthouse sticker. Beautiful [...]

1 500 €

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Jules BARBEY D'AUREVILLY

Oeuvres fantastiques

Nouvelle librairie de France, Paris 1979, 22,5x28,5cm, 3 volumes en reliures de l'éditeur.

Edition illustrated with original compositions in colors by Aimé Henry, one of 175 numbered copies on pure royal Lana.
Publisher's bindings in full black sky, back with four nerves, golden medallions and golden facsimiles of the signature of Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly on the plates, golden [...]

150 €

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First edition

Prosper MERIMEE

mosaïque, par l'auteur du théatre de Clara Gazul

H. Fournier jeune, Paris 1833, In-12 (13x20cm), 439pp., relié.

first edition.

Binding in half icy shagreen from the end of the 19th century. Smooth back decorated with repeated romantic irons, golden title and date. Golden head. Back uniformly exposed. Scattered pale freckles.
Bookplate with crowned figure, Alfred and Blanche de [...]

750 €

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First edition, Signed book

(A.V.C. BERBIGUIER) Marie MAURON

Berbiguier de Carpentras en proie aux farfadets

Le livre contemporain, Paris 1959, 13,5x21,5cm, relié.

First edition, one of 100 luxury numbered copies, ours not justified, only large papers.
Autograph shipment signed by Marie Mauron.
Rare and beautiful complete copy of his illustrated jacket which includes some tears and marginal gaps.

70 €

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François RABELAIS

Oeuvres de Maître François Rabelais avec les Remarques historiques et critiques de Mr. Le Duchat

Chez Jean Frédéric Bernard, A Amsterdam 1741, In-4 (19,5x25cm), (8) xxxvi ; 526pp. et (2) xxxiv ; 383 pp. et (14)

New edition, illustrated in the first print of 3 frontispieces, 3 title vignettes, three plans and 12 superb plates, 12 header and 12 culs-de-lumière by Bernard Picart, engraved by Folkema, Picart, and a portrait engraved by Tanjé . The first three figures of volume I represent the interior of [...]

2 000 €

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First edition

Ernst Theodor Amadeus HOFFMANN

Contes fantastiques

Jouaust, Librairie des bibliophiles, Paris 1883, In-12 (11x17,9cm), 306pp. et 308pp., 2 volumes reliés.

New edition in first print of the 11 etchings by Lalauze and a portrait on the frontispiece. Preserved covers and back. Print on Holland paper.
Binding in half cognac morocco with vintage corners. Smooth back mosaic of red flowers and green leaves and golden interlacing. Titles, volume number [...]

400 €

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