First edition, Signed book

Michel LEIRIS

L'Afrique fantôme

Gallimard, Paris 1934, 14x23cm, broché.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers, one of the review copies service.
Back and slightly insolated boards as generally, small headaches of the first pamphlet because of the fact that the book was cut.
Illustrated book of 32 photographic plates.
Rare [...]

2 000 €

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COLLECTIF

Mission scientifique du Bourg de Bozas de la Mer Rouge à l'Atlantique à travers l'Afrique ...

F.R. de Rudeval, Paris 1906, 19x28,5cm, broché.

First edition illustrated with 172 photographic reproductions in and off-text, a photographic frontispiece and 3 in-thin flyers.
Covers and back uniformly insolated as generally, a little lack in foot of the back.
Pleasant interior state despite tiny foxing margins of some leaflets. [...]

120 €

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DOUVILLE

Voyage au Congo et dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique Equinoxiale, fait dans les années 1828, 1829 et ...

Chez Jules Renard, A Paris 1832, In-8 (12,5x20cm), (2) xxxj, 325pp. (2) et (4) 380pp. et (4) 272pp., 3 volumes reliés.

First edition, rare.

1 200 €

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Gérard de NERVAL

Voyage en Orient

G. Charpentier & Cie , Paris 1889, 12x18,5cm, 2 volumes reliés.

Edition partly original because revised, corrected and augmented by a new preface by Théophile Gautier.
Bindings half morbid orange maroquiné, smooth backs adorned with golden stylized floral motifs, small black spots on the heads of the backs, golden dates in tails, gilt fillets on marbled [...]

150 €

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Théophile GAUTIER

L'Orient

G. Charpentier & Cie , Paris 1884, 12x18,5cm, 2 volumes reliés.

New edition.
Bindings in half green morocco, smooth backs adorned with gold cartridges, a small scratch on the back of the second volume, gilt fillets on marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, gilded heads, signed binders of the time Bonleu.
Some [...]

100 €

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Constantin-François de Chasseboeuf, Comte de VOLNEY

Voyage en Syrie et en Egypte, Pendant les années 1783, 1784 et 1785

Chez Volland & Desenne, A Paris 1787, in-8 (12,5x19,3cm), xvj 383pp. et viij, 458pp. (4), 2 volumes reliés.

Second edition published the same year as the original. The illustration consists of 5 folding plates, 2 cards (Egypt, Syria), and 3 beautiful folding panoramic plates (Palmyra, Balbeec ...), all on strong paper.
Binding in full marbled brown sheepskin. Smooth back decorated, wheels in tail and [...]

700 €

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Hubert LYAUTEY

Carte de visite autographe d'Hubert Lyautey, alors général

s.d. (circa 1910), 10x6,5cm, feuillet recto.

Andre Breton's autographed printed business card on which he added his words: "With the best marks of his sympathy"






 

80 €

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Paul MORAND

Paris-Tombouctou

Flammarion, Paris 1928, 13,5x19cm, relié sous chemise et étui.

First Edition, one of 200 numbered copies on Holland paper, leading print after 75 Japan.
Havana binding, smooth back, first board decorated in the center of a palladium gray wind rose, golden head on witnesses, guards and contreplats of blue paper, covers and back preserved, case and shirt [...]

350 €

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