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Photo GAUTIER, Théophile. 

GAUTIER, Théophile. 

Une Nuit de Cléopatre. 

Paris, A. Ferroud, 1894.
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250 €

Illustrated edition of 21 compositions by Paul Avril.
"Crossing the Nile on her royal cange to go to her summer palace, Cleopatra "is horribly bored." Meïamoun, in love with the queen, is caught spying on her in her bath. Having the whim of To be merciful, Cleopatra grants him an orgiastic night. When morning arrives, the men enter the room. Meïamoun then drinks the poisoned glass and dies."

One of the 250 copies on Arches, ours n°354.

Good copy in signed binding.
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Photo CHATEAUBRIAND, François-René || VUILLIER, Gaston. 

CHATEAUBRIAND, François-René || VUILLIER, Gaston. 

Les Aventures du dernier Abencérage. 

Paris, A. Ferroud, 1912.
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250 €

Beautiful copy in morocco signed by Gruel.
Text by Chateaubriand illustrated with etchings by Gaston Vuillier.

One of the copies on Arches tinted vellum, ours n°412.

Photo HERMANT, Abel. 

HERMANT, Abel. 

Monsieur de Courpière marié. 

Paris, Ernest Flammarion, [1906].
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250 €

Second edition.

One of 10 copies on Holland paper, ours n°9.

Presentation copy to Henri de Baubigny.

Photo [PERNETY, Jacques || BOUGEANT, Guillaume-Hyacinthe ]. 

[PERNETY, Jacques || BOUGEANT, Guillaume-Hyacinthe ]. 

Lettres philosophiques sur les Physionomies. 

La Haye, Neaulme, 1746.
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250 €

First edition.

Photo GUIMBAUD, Louis. 

GUIMBAUD, Louis. 

Victor Hugo et Juliette Drouet d'après les lettres inédites de Juliette Drouet à Victor Hugo et avec un choix de ces lettres. 

Paris, Auguste Blaizot, 1914.
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250 €

First edition.
Fine binding signed by Yseux.

Louis Yseux is one of the most talented bookbinders of the early 20th century, bringing to life a tradition of French binding and gilding dating back to the 18th century, it is indeed he who takes over the workshop of his master Thierry himself. heir to Simier and Petit. All his bindings bear his signature Yseux successor Thierry-Simier.

Photo HIPPOCRATE. 

HIPPOCRATE. 

Pronostics et prorrhétiques d'Hippocrate. 

Paris, Méquignon-Marvis, 1817.
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250 €

New translation by Etienne Pariset.

Nice copy.

Photo CHEVIGNE, Louis, Comte de. 

CHEVIGNE, Louis, Comte de. 

Les Contes Rémois. 

Paris, Librairie des bibliophiles Jouaust, 1877.
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300 €

Beautiful edition at Jouaust illustrated by Jules Worms.
One of the numbered copies on Holland paper (n ° 131).

Photo SAINT DISDIER, Alexandre-Toussaint Limojon de. 

SAINT DISDIER, Alexandre-Toussaint Limojon de. 

Histoire des Négotiations de Nimègue. 

Paris [Hollande], Claude Barbin, 1680.
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300 €

Counterfeit edition of the title à la sphere (probably Dutch), taken from the Barbin edition in Paris.

The peace of Nijmegen marks the end of the Dutch war, it places France at the forefront of European geopolitics. On this occasion, France annexed Franche-Comté. It is the triumph of Louis XIV as a warrior king.

Beautiful copy in morocco.

Photo FISCHER, Ernst Gottfried. 

FISCHER, Ernst Gottfried. 

Physique Mécanique avec des notes et un appendice sur les anneaux colorés, la double réfraction, la polarisation de la lumière et le magnétisme tant en repos qu'en mouvement par M. Biot. 

Paris, Mme Ve Courcier, 1819.
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300 €

Third enlarged edition, sought for Biot's notes on the polarization of light.
Biot is known for having studied and established the laws of rotation of the plane of polarization of the light passing through a liquid solution just before this edition, in 1815.

Photo [GRUEL]. 

[GRUEL]. 

Paroissien romain d'après les imprimés français du XVème siècle. 

Paris, Gruel Engelmann, 1858.
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300 €

Good copy.

Photo BERANGER, Pierre-Jean. 

BERANGER, Pierre-Jean. 

Chansons de P-J de Béranger. 

Paris, Perrotin, 1831.
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300 €

Set containing the two volumes of Songs, as well as the "New and Last Songs...dedicated to Lucien Bonaparte" (1833, Perrotin) and the Supplement (Brussels, 1830) which contains political songs and saucy songs. It is certainly this supplement that pushed a collector of the time to hide these licenses from prying eyes behind a cathedral binding bearing the title "Parishioner".

Photo [ROCHEFORT, Jean (de)]. 

[ROCHEFORT, Jean (de)]. 

Le Passe-tems agréable, ou nouveaux choix de bons-mots, de pensées ingénieuses, de rencontres plaisantes. 

Rotterdam, Jean Hofhout, 1728.
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300 €

A pleasant copy with the arms of the princes of Bourbon Condé, azure with three golden fleurs-de-lys, with a red bastion, probably having belonged to Louise-anne de Bourbon Condé, known as

Mademoiselle de Charolais. Attributed by Barbier to a lord of Rochefort.

Photo MASSILLON, Jean-Baptiste. 

MASSILLON, Jean-Baptiste. 

Oeuvres choisies de Massillon. 

Paris, Delestre-Boulage, 1823-1825.
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300 €

Beautiful copy for this edition bringing together Massillon's sermons.
Jean-Baptiste Massillon (1663-1742) was bishop of Clermont and academician, he is often compared to Bourdaloue and Bossuet.

Voltaire, who had Le Petit Carême read to him during his meals, said of him: “The preacher who knew the world best; more flowery than Bourdaloue, more pleasant, and whose eloquence smacks of the man of the court, the academician, and the man of wit; moreover, a moderate and tolerant philosopher. ».

Photo CHATEAUBRIAND, François-René De. 

CHATEAUBRIAND, François-René De. 

Atala, René, Les Aventures Du Dernier Abencerage. 

Paris, Ladvocat, 1827.
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300 €

Beautiful edition on vellum paper of three short stories by Chateaubriand.
This is the second edition for Les Aventures Du Dernier Abencerage.
Deluxe copy carefully bound by Petit.

Photo LEBESCHU DE LA BASTAY. 

LEBESCHU DE LA BASTAY. 

Révolution de la médecine ou régénération de l'Art de Guérir. 

Paris, Méquignon, An VII [1799].
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350 €

Rare first edition.

Photo GALTIER-BOISSIERE, Jean || DIGNIMONT, André. 

GALTIER-BOISSIERE, Jean || DIGNIMONT, André. 

La bonne vie. 

Paris, Henri Jonquières et Cie, 1928.
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350 €

575 copies, this one on "Vélin de Montgolfier" paper.

Photo TOUDOUZE, Gustave. 

TOUDOUZE, Gustave. 

La Vengeance des Peaux-de-Bique. 

Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1896.
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400 €

First edition.
100 luxury copies have been published on China paper.
Our copy is one of the first 50 copies (n°28), with all the engravings expected (n°28).

The illustrations of this book were realized by Julien Le Blant (1851-1936), who was a French painter specialized on the War in the Vendée, in France, at the end of the eighteenth century.

Fine copy.

Photo BOCCACE. 

BOCCACE. 

Les Dix Journées de Jean Boccace. 

Paris, Librairie des bibliophiles Joaust, 1873.
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450 €

Beautiful edition by Jouaust of the work of Boccace.
Paul Lacroix signs the introduction and Flameng who gives eleven very beautiful etchings.

Photo GRANIER, Camille. 

GRANIER, Camille. 

Le Contrôle des services pénitentiaires [suivi de] Le Marché des services pénitentiaires [suivi de] Les Commissions de surveillance. 

Paris, Berger-Levrault et Cie, 1894-1895.
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450 €

First editions.
Suite of three texts by Camille Granier then inspector general of prisons.

Photo SCOTT, Walter. 

SCOTT, Walter. 

Le Monastère et L'Abbé. 

Paris, Dauthereau, 1829.
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450 €

Bindings from Gruel.

Photo FLORIAN, J.-P. Claris de. 

FLORIAN, J.-P. Claris de. 

Fables de Florian Préface par M. Anatole de Montaiglon. Compositions inédites de Moreau gravées par Martial. 

Leide, P. Rouquette, 1882.
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450 €
Photo HUME, David. 

HUME, David. 

Histoire de la maison de Plantagenet sur le trône d'Angleterre, depuis l'invasion de Jules César, jusqu'à l'avènement de Henri VII. 

Amsterdam, s.n., 1765.
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450 €

First edition in french.

Photo FLORUS, Lucius Annaeus et alii. 

FLORUS, Lucius Annaeus et alii. 

Historiae Romanae epitome. 

Amsterdam, Guibel Lanss Caesius, 1625.
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500 €

Selections from Roman Historians.

Rare binding with the arms of François-Auguste de Thou (1604-1642), his coat of arms on the covers, flies on the boxes. Eldest son of Jacques-Auguste de Thou, François-Auguste succeeded his father as Grand Master of the King's Library in 1617. take an active part in it himself; he was however condemned to death in Lyon and beheaded on September 12, 1642 on the Place des Terreaux. He had inherited his father's library, which he kept carefully and which passed after his death to his younger brother, Jacques-Auguste. He had the volumes struck, the paternal collection of which he augmented with the simple arms of the de Thou.

Photo PRESSAVIN, Jean Baptiste. 

PRESSAVIN, Jean Baptiste. 

Nouveau traité des vapeurs, ou traité des maladies des nerfs. 

Lyon, V. Reguilliay, 1771.
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600 €

Second edition.
The "vapors" mental disorder popularized by Pierre Pomme, foreshadows what will be discussed under the term Hysteria in the 19th century.

"Contrary to Pomme, Pressavin does not condemn passions without restriction [...] vapors would correspond to a dysfunction of the relational system which binds living beings to the outside world; vapors can just as easily be passionate, in the grip of an overexcited sensitivity , that an indifferent, vegetating in a state of torpor. " Paul Hoffmann, "The Woman in the Thought of Lights", Slatkine, 1995

Beautiful copy in contemporary morocco.

Photo FROMENTIN, Eugène. 

FROMENTIN, Eugène. 

Sahara et Sahel.
I - Un été dans le Sahara.
II - Une année dans le Sahel. 

Paris, Plon, 1879.
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600 €

First illustrated edition.
One of the 100 copy on papier vélin.
The 12 etchings are in our copy in four state (definitive, before the letter, before the letter and bistre and before the letter on china paper.

Photo CERVANTES, Miguel. 

CERVANTES, Miguel. 

El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, compuesto por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Edición en miniatura enteramente conforme á la última corregida y publicada por la Real Academia Española. 

Paris, Jules Didot, 1827.
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600 €

First miscroscopic edition by Didot.
Performance by the printer Didot who fit the entire text of Cervantes into a single tiny volume. As Brunet remarks, it is not easy to read, and Didot printed a more convenient two-volume edition a few years later. The work was commissioned by Joachim Maria de Ferrer, a Spanish statesman, who said Rius, had this edition distributed to his friends.
Most of the copies encountered are covered in a romantic binding by Simier (various variants).

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Les plaisirs de Saint-Germain en Laye, et de la Cour, et le tableau de la vie humaine, ou le solitaire. 

Paris, Gabriel Quinet, 1665.
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600 €

Unique edition.

Photo LE SAGE, Alain René. 

LE SAGE, Alain René. 

Oeuvres de Le Sage. Avec notices et notes par A. P. - Malassis. 

Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1877-1877.
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600 €
Photo AILHAUD, Jean Gaspard. 

AILHAUD, Jean Gaspard. 

L’Ami des malades, ou Discours historique &
apologétique sur la poudre purgative. 

Paris, Méquignon Le Jeune, 1774.
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750 €

The famous purgative powder of Ailhaud true "universal medicine" is a preparation of scammony that cured all diseases.
Its success was enormous and made the richness of its inventor.
This book is a defense of this remedy against the growing criticism of the physicians of the time.

FINE COPY IN A CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO BINDING.

Photo ADET, Pierre-Auguste. 

ADET, Pierre-Auguste. 

Leçons élémentaires de chimie à l'usage des lycées. 

Paris, Dentu, An XIII - 1804.
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750 €

First edition.
Binding with empire gilt arms on covers.

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