Jean-Baptiste LOUVET DE COUVRAY

Les aventures du chevalier de Faublas

J. Mallet & Cie , Paris 1842, 2 tomes en 2 Vol. in-8 (16x24cm), relié.

Illustrated edition first printing of 300 vignettes on wood in-text Nanteuil, Baron, French ... text in a frame.
Bound in blue half time to shagreen over night. Smooth back adorned with romantic long irons. Irons and nets on the boards and corners. Beautiful marbled paper. Guards green moire. [...]

500 €

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Etienne François de LANTIER

Contes en prose et en vers, suivis de Pièces fugitives, du poème d'Erminie, et de Metastase à ...

Chez F. Buisson, à Paris 1806, in-8 (12x20cm), 2 volumes reliés.

Mentioned second edition illlustrée three figures engraved by Tardieu. The first edition was published in Vol 3. in-18 the same year.
Full mottled brown sheepskin. Back tooled raised. Part of title and volume number in red morocco long grain. A hitch with missing head of the first volume. [...]

350 €

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DUJARDIN, Edmond & Jules de GONCOURT

Madame de Pompadour

Firmin-Didot, Paris 1888, 22x28,5cm, relié.

First illustrated edition and partly original as revised and enlarged letters and unpublished documents.
Bound in half morocco with red corners, back with five bands set with ornate golden dotted with golden double boxes adorned with decorative gilt, double gilt coaching boards marbled paper, [...]

250 €

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First edition

Edmond TEXIER

Voyage pittoresque sur les bords du Rhin

Mrizot, Paris 1858, Grd. in-8 (17,5x27cm), 502pp., relié.

First edition, illustrated with 24 steel engravings by Rouargue brothers, 2 wood with hand-colored.
Bound in half navy shagreen contemporary. Back with false nerves adorned with golden boxes. boards percaline aggrieved with cold nets. Gilt edges. Shimmering white guards.
Beautiful copy, a [...]

500 €

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Alain-René LESAGE

Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane

Paulin, Paris 1835, 17x25,5cm, relié.

First edition of 600 woodcut illustrations by John Gigoux by the best young artists of the moment like Lavoignat, Porret, Thompson.binding eggplant half calf, flat spine decorated with two cartouches embellished with romantic decorative golden friction on the jaw and headdresses, framing a gold [...]

350 €

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First edition

Alfred Edmund BREHM & Johannes DUMICHEN

Le Nil

A. Lévy, Paris 1882, 28x37cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

A rare copy with 24 illustrations of the Nile River with an Arabic inspired binding

2 000 €

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First edition

CHAMPAGNAC & OLIVIER

Le voyageur de la jeunesse dans les cinq parties du Monde, contenant la description géographique ...

Belin-Leprieur et Morizot, Paris 1858, Fort in 8 (17x28cm), 644pp., relié.

First edition, illustrated with 22 engravings of colored and embellished by hand with 16 suits; the other 6 are steel engravings of cityscapes; by Rouargue brothers. The engravings are fine, detailed and very beautiful the golden qualité.Cartonnage editor. Solid black calico. Special plate to the [...]

450 €

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Henri LEBRUN

Aventures et conquêtes de Fernand Cortez au Mexique

Alfred Mame & fils, Tours 1872, 10,5x18cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

Fourteenth illustrated edition of 4 etchings hors-texte. Publisher's binding in full blue cardboard, flat spine decorated with gilt arabesques and romantic cold head and tail frames of a set of nets Cold boards, first board embellished with golden jewel typographical, guards and contreplats paper [...]

80 €

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