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William COXE

Voyage en Pologne, Russie, Suède, Dannemarc, &c. & augmenté d'un voyage en Norvège par Mr. P.H. ...

Chez Barde, Manget, à Genève 1786, In-8 (12,5x20,5cm), x, 380pp. et (2) 404pp. et (6) 293pp. et (4) 303pp., 5 volumes reliés.

Original French edition published at the same time as an edition in 2 volumes in-4 at the same publisher, it is increased the trip to Norway Mallet. The first English edition was published in London in 1784. The illustration includes 12 maps and pamphlets (Poland, Russia, Caspian Sea, Dannemarc), 4 [...]

800 €

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Albert CAMUS & Fedor DOSTOIEVSKI

Les possédés

Gallimard, Paris 1959, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition of the theatrical adaptation established by Albert Camus, one of 40 numbered copies on Alfa paper reserved for the author, large print the smallest after 21 Holland paper.
We enclose Gallimard editions, the printed butterfly "on behalf of Mr. Albert Camus."
Back and flat [...]

1 000 €

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Léon TOLSTOI

La mort d'Ivan le terrible

Ernest Leroux, Paris 1879, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition of the French translation and preface established by Celeste Courrière, there is no mention of large paper.
Text put in verse and adapted to the French scene by Paul Demeny and Georges Izambard, two important characters in Arthur Rimbaud's universe since the first was the [...]

600 €

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Maxime GORKI

Notes et souvenirs

Calmann-Lévy, Paris 1926, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition of the French translation, one of 30 numbered copies on laid Rives, only leading copies.
Split back, thinned and with small tears in the head and foot.

80 €

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Ivan TOURGUENIEV (ou TOURGUENEFF)

Полное собрание сочинений И.С.Тургенева [Oeuvres complètes de ...

Типография Глазунова [imprimerie Glazunov], (Saché) 1891, 16x22cm, 10 volumes reliés.

Rare nineteenth edition of the complete works of Turgenev on quality paper, contrary to the previous editions, notament of А.Ф.Маркс. mention of third edition.
Binding full red cardboard editor.
Engraved portrait of the author in frontispiece and facsimile of his writing.
Very [...]

2 500 €

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Lev Davidovitch Bronstein, dit Léon TROTSKY

L'avènement du bolchévisme

Editions & librairie, Paris 1920, 14x20,5cm, broché.

First edition of the French translation of which it was not drawn from great papers.
Back slightly crossed and wrinkled with two small tears with tiny gaps in the head and foot.
Illustrated cover of a vignette.

60 €

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Léon TOLSTOI

Résurrection

Perrin et cie, Paris 1900, In-12 (12,5x18,7cm), 448pp. et 138pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First french edition, translated by Teodor de Wyzewa. The title pages do not bear any mention, on the other hand the covers bear a false mention of the fourteenth edition for the first volume, and the third for the second.
Binding half morocco beige contemporary. Back to Jansenist nerves. Title [...]

400 €

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Jules VERNE

Michel Strogoff - De Moscou à Irkoutsk

Hetzel, Paris 1898-1902, 18x27,5cm, 368pp., relié.

New edition. Many drawings of Férat in-text engraved by Barbant.
Publisher cartonnage said "To the golden globe" type 3, with the second flat Engel type h, back to the lighthouse.
Guards changed. Bookplate stuck on the subtitle. second board with tiny soils.
One of the most famous [...]

700 €

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