First edition, Signed book

Lawrence DURRELL

Carte postale autographe inédite signée de Lawrence Durrell à son amante française : "je n'aime ...

22 juillet 1970, 14,6x10,1cm, une feuille.

After many years spent in Greece, Egypt and Rhodes, travel writer Lawrence Durrell was forced to flee Cyprus following popular uprisings that led the island to independence. With only a shirt and a typewriter, but with the success of his Bitter Lemons novels, he arrived in France in 1956 and [...]

350 €

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First edition, Signed book

Lawrence DURRELL

Carte postale autographe inédite signée de Lawrence Durrell à son amante française : "avec ...

s.d. (été 1967), 14,6x10,1cm, une feuille.

Original photograph of Lawrence Durrell, signed and dated, by photographer Mark Gerson, with stamp on reverse: "Photograph by MARK GERSON, FIIP ARPS, 24 Cavendish Ave, St. John's Wood, London NW8".
After many years spent in Greece, Egypt and Rhodes, travel writer Lawrence Durrell was forced to [...]

350 €

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Edouard AUBERT

La vallée d'Aoste

Amyot, Paris 1860, 11,5x18,5cm, relié.

Amyot, Paris 1860, 11.5 x 18.5 cm, bound
First edition published the same year the Aosta Valley became part of Italy. The work is illustrated with 97 wood engravings in the text, 33 steel insert engravings, 6 chromotypographies and a map.
Bound in half red shagreen, spine decorated [...]

7 000 €

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First edition

Rodolphe TOPFFER

Nouveaux voyages en zig-zag, A la grande Chartreuse, autour du Mont Blanc, dans les vallées ...

Victor Lecou, Paris 1854, Grd. in-8 (19x27,2cm), 454pp., relié.

First Edition, illustrated
Polychrome cardboard of the editor in full marine percaline.

580 €

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First edition

B. WINKLES & R. GARLAND

French cathedrals

Charles Tilt, London 1837, In-4 (26x32cm), 169pp., relié.

First edition illustrated with a title engraved with a large vignette, and 50 boards on steel, drawn on the spot by Garland and engraved by Winkles.
Publisher's cardboard in full blue percaline.

180 €

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Maximilien MISSON

Nouveau voyage d'Italie

Chez Henry van Bulderen, à La Haye 1702, in-12 (10x16,5cm), (56) 339pp. (20) et (2) 356pp. (23) et (2) 414pp. (18), relié.

Mention fourth edition. Title pages in red and black.
Copy to arms of Armand Louis de Clerc de Juigné
Binders in full brown sheepskin contemporary.

1 200 €

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First edition

Arthur William COSTIGAN

Lettres sur le gouvernement, les moeurs et les usages en Portugal

Le Normant, Paris 1811, In-8 (12,5x20,5cm), viij, 550pp. (1), relié.

First edition. A sheet of errata in fine.
Binding half blond sheepskin contemporary. Smooth back decorated with 2 irons and 2 caissons grotesque, fat and lean fillets. Title piece in red morocco. Marbled brown paper plates. Nice copy, also very fresh.

500 €

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Edouard CHARTON & COLLECTIF

Le tour du monde. Nouveau journal des voyages. Premier semestre 1861 jusqu'au second semestre 1870, ...

Hachette & Cie, Paris 1861-1870 & 1872-1878, 22x31cm, 34 volumes reliés.

First edition.
Bindings in half tawny calf, back with five nerves adorned with gilded nets, title and year pieces of red and green morocco, plates of marbled paper, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, all gilded edges, bindings of the time.
Reds, the first volume (First half of 1861) [...]

1 700 €

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