First edition

Nicolas BOILEAU DESPREAUX

Epistres nouvelles

Chez Denys Thierry, à Paris 1698, In 4 (15.5x21.5cm), 15 f. n. ch., relié.

First edition, rare. Grand finial title page. Text in italics. Great bands title, initials. Full Calf glossy blond, 1820 Back tooled raised florets 4.; roulette wheels and cold tail. Part of title and volume number in black morocco. Frieze framing on the boards. Gilt edges. Foxing on the first [...]

800 €

View more

First edition, Signed book

François-Louis SCHMIED & Louis BARTHOU

François-Louis Schmied peintre graveur et imprimeur. Catalogue des livres de F.L. Schmied exposés ...

Les presses de F.L. Schmied, Paris 1927, 24x31cm, broché.

First edition, one of 300 copies, this one of 20 numbered and justified by François-Louis Schmied, the tirage de tête.
With 42 full page plates hors texte.
Spine and covers sunned at edges, scratch to head of lower cover, occasional wormholes, internally good. %

2 000 €

View more

First edition

Gérard de NERVAL

Contes et facéties

Giraud & Dagneau, Paris 1852, 9,5x16cm, relié.

The very rare first edition, of which there were no large paper copies, this copy being from the very first issue without mention and with the correct publisher, Giraud et Dagneau.
Bradel binding in half indigo cloth over marbled paper boards, spine with a gilt floral motif, double gilt fillet [...]

1 500 €

View more

First edition

Marguerite YOURCENAR

Les songes et les sorts

Grasset, Paris 1938, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition, one of 23 numbered copies on alfa, the only large paper copies after 10 copies on pur fil paper. Nice copy.

1 200 €

View more

First edition

[Madame de LA FAYETTE ou Gatien COURTILZ DE SANDRAS

Memoires de Hollande

Chez Estienne Michallet, à Paris 1678, In 12 (10x15,5cm), (8) 456pp., relié.

First Edition, very rare, long attributed to Madame de La Fayette, published the year of The Princess of Cleves, then Courtilz de Sandras and even Pierre Daniel Huet. Full morocco late nineteenth signed Bellevallée glossy red old. Back to nerves Jansenist. Wide frieze gilded interior. Date tail. [...]

1 800 €

View more

First edition

Paul-Louis COURIER

Oeuvres complètes de Paul-Louis Courier. Nouvelle édition augmentée d'un grand nombre de ...

Paulin et Perrotin, Paris 1836, 13x21cm, 4 volumes reliés.

Publishing partly original.
Bound in half green mint shagreen back evenly past 4 nerves decorated wheels, dashed and golden threads and a stamped cold iron repeated three times, caps rubbed, some scuffs and light spots, a few corners bumped, elegant binding of time.
Portrait of the author [...]

500 €

View more

First edition

J.-B.-B. EYRIES

L'Autriche, Costumes, Moeurs et Usages des Autrichiens. Suite de gravures coloriées avec leurs ...

Librairie de Gide fils, Paris s.d. (circa 1825), relié.

First Edition Illustrated boards raised in 24 colors, hors-texte, representing chest and dressed in different costumes of the era Austrian.
Bound in half morocco Russian red, smooth spine stamped with jewels and gold as cold, flat with double frame stamped cold sets in and the net roulette, [...]

700 €

View more

First edition

Jean COCTEAU

Le grand écart

Stock, Paris 1923, 19,5x19,5cm, broché.

First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on Japon impérial paper, the tirage de tête.
A fine copy with edges preserved and in a slipcase of paper boards and chemise.

1 500 €

View more