First edition

Vue d'optique - Vue de la place et des casernes de Top-Hané à l'entrée du port de ...

Chez Basset, Paris [circa 1790], 30,5x48,5cm, une feuille.

Original etching. For enhanced optical color watercolor, depicting a view of the square and barracks Top-Hane at the entrance of the port of Constantinople.
The optical views, also called views, perspectives or "mondo nuovo" prints are very popular between the late eighteenth and early [...]

300 €

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P. J. MAIRAN

Lettres d'un missionnaire a Pekin, contenant diverses questions sur la Chine, pour servir de ...

Chez Nyon, à Paris 1782, in-8 (12x20cm), xi (1) 368pp. (1), relié.

Second edition and first edition under this title, the book was titled: Letters to Father ... Parennin on China. Illustrated boards and a calf figure.Plein granita. Smooth spine decorated. Part of title in red morocco. Torn off caps. Upper jaw and split open the tail and head. Corners bumped. [...]

450 €

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Marc CHADOURNE

Terre de Chanaan

Fayard, Paris 1938, 18,5x24cm, broché.

Edition illustrated with 34 original woodcuts by Roger Grillon.
A good copy.

30 €

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First edition

Letitia Elisabeth LANDON

Drawing room scrap - book. 1834. (Inde)

Fisher, son, & Co., London, Paris & New-York 1834, In 4 (21,5x28,5cm), relié.

First Edition, illustrated with 36 steel plates, printed on heavy paper. Text on vellum stained. Cardboard editor. Half marroquin burgundy. Back ornate two great romantic irons in frames. Date tail. boards percaline wine-stamped a large cold plate made of foliage and leaves. boards slightly [...]

450 €

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Utagawa SADAHIDE

Abe no sadato (Samuraï)

Ca 1860, 25x37, une feuille.

Original print First printing. Left part of a triptych. Rare.Une sheet. No. 2 thin pliures.Abe Sadato (1019-1062) was a samurai in the Heian contemporary of Japan; he is best known for his role in the Battle of Kawazaki.Utagawa Sadahide (1807-1873) between early as Utagawa Kunisada I student and [...]

250 €

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Francis de CROISSET & Henry de RENAUCOURT

La féerie cinghalaise. Ceylan avec les anglais

P. Montchanin, Paris 1928, 19x25cm, relié.

First printing of wood and headbands Renaucourt Henry, one of 24 Holland paper.
Binding to bradel half carton tape so vellum, smooth spine, part of title snakeskin framed nets wavy golden strips of skin cardboard snake guards and contreplats paper moiré, covers and spine preserved, golden [...]

350 €

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First edition

Utagawa SADAHIDE, Utagawa SADAHIDE & Batei SHUJIN

Nanchou Gaishi Buyuden

Sadahide, Edo 1856, 10 Vol. (14,5x23cm), cousu.

First edition, rare, with 35 engravings, many double page in black, grey, and white (several with grey and black ink wash). The title may be translated as: A History of the Braves of the Southern Court.
10 accordion-stitched volumes. Three different printed covers, the first series comprising [...]

1 200 €

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Laurence OLIPHANT

La Chine

Michel Lévy frères, Paris 1875, 18x27,5cm, relié.

New edition of the French translation, preceded by an introduction by Guizot. Publisher's binding in full red cardboard, smooth spine slightly thinned ornate typographic designs golden frame golden fillets and dotted on the first hit flat in the center of a Chinese animal decor fabulous golden [...]

200 €

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