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PROUST, Marcel.

Oeuvres complètes.

Paris, NRF, 1929-1936.

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1200 €

First complete edition of the works of Marcel Proust.
This edition by the NRF was an opportunity to bring together all the works of Marcel and to propose a first revision of the text with the collaboration of Robert Proust. It is also this edition which fixes the so-called "canonical" volume number of the Recherche.
The first fifteen volumes are devoted to the "A la Recherche du temps perdu", then come "Pastiches et mélanges", "Les Plaisirs et les Jours" and "Chroniques".
Numbered copies on Bruges rag paper with sheaf watermark.
Beautiful decorative set.

RENAN, Ernest.

Le Broyeur de lin.

Paris, L. Carteret et Cie, 1901.

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300 €

Edition illustrated with 27 etchings by Edmond Rudaux (1840-1908).
One of the thirty copies of the leading edition on Japan paper with the etchings in 3 states (pure etchings, before the letter and after the letter).
Our copy numbered 24.
The first part of Renan's childhood memories, the Broyeur de lin tells the love story between a girl and a priest, which has given rise to many exegeses.

D'IVOI, Paul.

Miss Mousqueterr.

Paris, Ancienne librairie Furne Boivin & Cie, [v. 1907}.

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100 €

Novel published in the Voyages excentriques collection.
Book illustrated with 95 engravings in the text, 12 large full-page compositions and 8 compositions drawn in color from the drawings of Louis Bombled.

OVIDE || BAYEUX.

Traduction des fastes d'Ovide.

Rouen, Boucher le jeune, 1783-1788.

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200 €

First edition of the translation in french by Bayeux.

BITAUBE, Paul Jérémie.

Oeuvres complètes de P.J. Bitaubé.

Paris, Dentu, 1804.

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250 €

Bitaubé (1732-1808) Calvinist pastor, writer and Prussian translator of French origin is mainly known for his translations of Homer which earned him great fame at the end of the 18th century.
These complete works are composed as follows:
-Volumes I to III: The Iliad
- Volumes IV to VI: The Odyssey
- Volume VII: Joseph
- Volume VIII: The Bataves
- Volume IX: Hermann and Dorothée, translation from Goethe.

MIRABEAU, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti.

Nouvelles de Jean Boccace.

Paris, L. Duprat, 1802.

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150 €

First edition of this free translation of Boccaccio's Decameron .
The title page mentions Mirabeau but this translation is probably apocryphal.
The book highlights the borrowings that La Fontaine made from Boccaccio for his tales.

VERNE, Jules.

Le Tour du Monde en quatre-vingts Jours.
Le Docteur Ox,
suivis de Maître Zacharius, Un hivernage dans les glaces, Un drame dans les airs et Ascension française au Mont Blanc.

Paris, Bibliothèque d'Éducation et de Récréation, J. Hetzel et Cie, [1910-1914].

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250 €

A very good copy.

ROCHER, Edmond.

Le Roman de la fleur.

Paris, Maurice Dormann, 1912.

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150 €

First edition.
Beautiful print on good quality glossy wove paper.

Edmond Rocher is a painter and poster designer whose work is typical of the art nouveau of the Belle Epoque, he exhibited in particular at the Salon des cent.
He offers here an "Illustrated Floral Monograph" his favorite theme. The cover announces 60 pen and ink compositions in the text to which is added the portrait of the artist and 1 lithograph out of text. Our copy peppered with a second lithograph (cropped signature).
Large handwritten dedication from Edmond Rocher to the photographer Chabrier.

POE, Edgar || MALLARME, Stephane || DARAGNES, Jean Gabriel.

Poèmes d'Edgar Poe.

Paris, Editions textes prétextes, 1949.

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300 €

First edition of illustrations.
Poems by Poe translated by Mallarmé and illustrated by Daragnès with 11 mezzotint engravings.
One of the 200 copies on Rives, ours n° 163.

NERVAL, Gérard de || MOREAU, Luc Albert.

Les Chimères.

Paris, Pour les Amis de Poésie, 1944.

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300 €

First edition of illustrations.
28 lithographs in black by Luc-Albert Moreau (1882-1948) painter and illustrator friend of Colette, Daragnès and Ravel.

One of the 175 copies on Vélin blanc du marais, ours n°75.

CARCO, Francis || DIGNIMONT, André.

Dignimont.

Monte Carlo, André Sauret, 1946.

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250 €

First edition.
Monograph devoted by Francis Carco to the work of his friend André Dignimont.

One of the 385 numbered copies on Vélin de Rives, ours n° 331 containing in frontispiece a lithograph signed and numbered by the artist and theset of the 41 reproductions drawing from the work of Dignimont.

MAURRAS, Charles || JOSSO, Camille-Paul.

Anthinéa, d'Athènes à Florence.

Paris, Aux dépens de l'artiste (presses Daragnès), 1955.

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250 €

First edition of illustrations.
Book printed on Daragnès presses in 200 copies decorated with 29 chisel engravings by Camille Paul Josso (1902-1986) orientalist painter, two of which are double-paged.
Unnumbered copy printed for the playwright Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon.

Accompanied by the presentation folder of the edition with a sample of the text and engravings.

FLAUBERT, Gustave || BERTHOLD MAHN.

Madame Bovary.

Paris, Editions Littéraires de France, [1948].

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250 €

First edition of illustrations.
Copy C, one of 8 copies of the deluxe edition with an original copperplate, the continuation of the 8 out of text and that of the 30 in-text. Our copy lacks the original drawing that was to accompany this print.

DOSTOIEVSKI, Fedor || GRAU SALA, Emilio.

Le Joueur.

Paris, Fernand Hazan, 1947.

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250 €

Emilio Grau Sala (1911-1975) is a remarkable colorist (oil and water paints, pastels) and illustrator, he was a member of Maurice Boitel's group.

Copy n ° 6 of the 125 printed on Vélin Johannot with the continuation of the illustrations.

LEMERCIER, Népomucène-Louis.

Cours analytique de littérature générale, tel qu'il a été professé à l'Athénée de Paris.

Paris, Nepveu, 1817.

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200 €

First edition.

PIZE, Louis || ROBERT, Maurice.

Le Rhône de Lyon à Pont-Saint-Esprit.

Grenoble, Arthaud, 1929.

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200 €

First edition.
64 engravings under tissue paper by Maurice Robert (1909-1992) Swiss painter, draftsman and watercolourist. Early work of the artist who shows here a great mastery of drawing. He will later turn to much more abstract paintings and sculptures.
One of 375 copies on large shaped Rives vellum, ours n° 92.

HENUSSE, Théo.

Une pièce de Molière inconnue.

Bruxelles, Editions Biblis, 1954.

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180 €

First publication with critical notes of this piece of 402 verses that Théo Hénusse attributes to Molière (he will be the only one to defend this provenance).

One of the 75 copies printed on Japan paper, ours n°32.

ARNOUX, Alexandre || FRELAUT, Jean.

Le Promeneur accompagné.

Paris, Textes et Prétextes, 1948.

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120 €

First edition of illustrations.
11 full-page black lithographs and 11 color text engraving. Jean Frélaut (1879-1954) is a painter illustrator member of the group of Independent Painters-engravers, founded by Jean Émile Laboureur and Raoul Dufy.
One of the 200 copies on Lana paper, ours n°163.

CARCO, Francis || DARAGNES, Jean Gabriel.

Les Jours & les Nuits.

Paris, Textes et Prétextes, 1946.

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100 €

First edition of illustrations.
21 color lithographs by Daragnès including 10 full-page.
One of the 200 copies on Lana paper, ours n°184.

COLETTE || CAILLARD, Christian.

Belles Saisons.

Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 1945.

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First edition.
Under the title Belles saisons are collected thirteen texts that appeared scattered in the press (Le Journal, Marie-Claire, Mieux-vivre, Art et médecine, La Revue des sports et du monde, Mathis, Ford) between 1935 and 1943, including twelve are unpublished (“End of the season in Provence” had already been published in Les Cahiers de Colette 4 in 1936).
Illustrated with 20 drypoints (title, 13 full-page, 6 banners) by Christian Caillard.

One of the 300 copies printed on vellum tinted with the marsh, ours n°161.

DICKENS, Charles || DORE, Gustave.

Cantiques de Noël.

Paris, Editions Textes Prétextes, 1946.

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100 €

Very beautiful illustration of this classic of ancient literature by Gustave Doré

Copy n°1 printed on pure Auvergne rag by hand, accompanied by a suite in black of illustrations on pure vellum and an original watercolor, first paper printed in 21 copies.

GOLL, Claire || CHAGALL, Marc.

Journal d'un cheval.

Paris, Editions Manuel Bruker, 1952.

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1200 €

First edition of illustrations.
Cover illustrated in color and 6 engravings by Marc Chagall.
The horse has always been at the center of Chagall's dreamlike work, it is an animal that is almost always present in the paintings of the Russian master. It is therefore natural that Manuel Bruker asked the painter to illustrate this short story by Claire Goll.
Chagall and Goll will become friends and Chagall will draw the tomb of Yvan and Claire Goll after the death of the latter in 1977.
One of the 105 copies on Vélin de Rives, ours n°138.

RABELAIS, François || BARTA, Lazlo.

Gargantua.

Paris, Aux éditions de la Cigogne, 1934.

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800 €

Exceptionnelle reliure conçue par l'artiste Laslo Barta pour notre exemplaire (le certificat de l'artiste est joint à l'ouvrage)

Barta, artiste né en Hongrie en 1902 et mort en 1961 en France, s'est essayé à plusieurs discipline: peinture, décoration, mosaïque. Ce gout éclectique se retrouve sur notre livre dans lequel le texte est illustré de 40 eaux fortes, les gardes illustrées à la gouache et les plats conçues en haut relief de cuir repoussé.

One of 160 copies on Vélin de Rives, ours n° 59.

LONGUS || TOUCHAGES, Louis.

Daphnis et Chloé.

Paris, Editions du Bélier, 1945.

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600 €

Very beautiful illustration of this classic of ancient literature by Louis Touchages.

Copy n°1 printed on pure Auvergne rag by hand, accompanied by a suite in black of illustrations on pure vellum and an original watercolor, first paper printed in 21 copies.

DARAGNES, Jean Gabriel || FARGUE, Léon Paul || COLETTE.

Rencontres.

Paris, Presses de Madame Daragnès, 1954.

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1200 €

First edition.
Book in the form of a tribute published by his friends after the death of Jean Gabriel Daragnès. Woodwinds from the artist accompanied by texts by Colette, Fargue, Segonzac...
Original gouache hand-signed by Daragnès (250x215 mm).

One of the 130 copies printed on Vélin blanc with an original painting, ours n°21.

MARTY, Marcelle || MARQUET, Albert.

Images d'une petite ville arabe.

Paris, Manuel Bruker, [1947].

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500 €

First edition of illustrations.
Friend of Matisse, Fauvist painter in his youth, Albert Marquet (1875-1947) discovered himself an insatiable traveler and he spent long periods in the Maghreb. Here among his last production of engravings, published when he was seriously ill.
One of the 200 copies on Vélin d'Arches to form by Jourde and Allard, ours n°78.

[VASSE, Cornélie-Pétronille-Bénédicte Wouters Baronne de ] || [WOUTERS, Mary].

Traduction du Théatre Anglois, depuis l'origine des spectacles, jusqu'à nos jours. Divisée en trois époques.

Paris, Veuve Ballard, 1784.

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500 €

First edition of this french translation by the Wouters sisters.

MERIMEE, Prosper || TRAYNIER, Jean.

Colomba.

Paris, La Tradition, 1942.

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400 €

First edition of the illustrations.

One of the 24 copies with double set of plates and 1 copper matrix, ours n°13.

VERNE, Jules.

Michel Strogoff.

Paris, Bibliothèque d'Éducation et de Récréation, J. Hetzel et Cie, [1876-1877].

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1200 €

"Aux deux éléphants" edition
Uncommon in blue by Engel.

[SCUDERY, Georges de].

Guerre comique dédiée à Madame de Lyonne.

Paris, Claude Barbin, 1668.

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250 €

First edition.
Burlesque poem imitated from Homer's "Batrachomyomachia" (Battle of frogs and rats).

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Litterature

PROUST, Marcel.

Oeuvres complètes.

RENAN, Ernest.

Le Broyeur de lin.

D'IVOI, Paul.

Miss Mousqueterr.

Novel published in the Voyages excentriques collection.Book illustrated with 95 engravings in the text, 12 large full-page compositions and 8 compositions drawn in color from the drawings of Louis Bombled.

OVIDE || BAYEUX.

Traduction des fastes d'Ovide.

First edition of the translation in french by Bayeux.

BITAUBE, Paul Jérémie.

Oeuvres complètes de P.J. Bitaubé.

MIRABEAU, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti.

Nouvelles de Jean Boccace.

First edition of this free translation of Boccaccio's Decameron .The title page mentions Mirabeau but this translation is probably apocryphal. The book highlights the borrowings that La Fontaine made from Boccaccio for his tales.

VERNE, Jules.

Le Tour du Monde en quatre-vingts Jours. Le Docteur Ox, suivis de Maître Zacharius, Un hivernage dans les glaces, Un drame dans les airs et Ascension française au Mont Blanc.

A very good copy.

ROCHER, Edmond.

Le Roman de la fleur.

POE, Edgar || MALLARME, Stephane || DARAGNES, Jean Gabriel.

Poèmes d'Edgar Poe.

First edition of illustrations.Poems by Poe translated by Mallarmé and illustrated by Daragnès with 11 mezzotint engravings. One of the 200 copies on Rives, ours n° 163.

NERVAL, Gérard de || MOREAU, Luc Albert.

Les Chimères.

First edition of illustrations.28 lithographs in black by Luc-Albert Moreau (1882-1948) painter and illustrator friend of Colette, Daragnès and Ravel.One of the 175 copies on Vélin blanc du marais, ours n°75.

CARCO, Francis || DIGNIMONT, André.

Dignimont.

MAURRAS, Charles || JOSSO, Camille-Paul.

Anthinéa, d'Athènes à Florence.

FLAUBERT, Gustave || BERTHOLD MAHN.

Madame Bovary.

First edition of illustrations.Copy C, one of 8 copies of the deluxe edition with an original copperplate, the continuation of the 8 out of text and that of the 30 in-text. Our copy lacks the original drawing that was to accompany this print.

DOSTOIEVSKI, Fedor || GRAU SALA, Emilio.

Le Joueur.

Emilio Grau Sala (1911-1975) is a remarkable colorist (oil and water paints, pastels) and illustrator, he was a member of Maurice Boitel's group. Copy n ° 6 of the 125 printed on Vélin Johannot with the continuation of the illustrations.

LEMERCIER, Népomucène-Louis.

Cours analytique de littérature générale, tel qu'il a été professé à l'Athénée de Paris.

First edition.

PIZE, Louis || ROBERT, Maurice.

Le Rhône de Lyon à Pont-Saint-Esprit.

HENUSSE, Théo.

Une pièce de Molière inconnue.

First publication with critical notes of this piece of 402 verses that Théo Hénusse attributes to Molière (he will be the only one to defend this provenance).One of the 75 copies printed on Japan paper, ours n°32.

ARNOUX, Alexandre || FRELAUT, Jean.

Le Promeneur accompagné.

First edition of illustrations.11 full-page black lithographs and 11 color text engraving. Jean Frélaut (1879-1954) is a painter illustrator member of the group of Independent Painters-engravers, founded by Jean Émile Laboureur and Raoul Dufy.One of the 200 copies on Lana paper, ours n°163.

CARCO, Francis || DARAGNES, Jean Gabriel.

Les Jours & les Nuits.

First edition of illustrations.21 color lithographs by Daragnès including 10 full-page.One of the 200 copies on Lana paper, ours n°184.

COLETTE || CAILLARD, Christian.

Belles Saisons.

DICKENS, Charles || DORE, Gustave.

Cantiques de Noël.

Very beautiful illustration of this classic of ancient literature by Gustave DoréCopy n°1 printed on pure Auvergne rag by hand, accompanied by a suite in black of illustrations on pure vellum and an original watercolor, first paper printed in 21 copies.

GOLL, Claire || CHAGALL, Marc.

Journal d'un cheval.

RABELAIS, François || BARTA, Lazlo.

Gargantua.

LONGUS || TOUCHAGES, Louis.

Daphnis et Chloé.

Very beautiful illustration of this classic of ancient literature by Louis Touchages. Copy n°1 printed on pure Auvergne rag by hand, accompanied by a suite in black of illustrations on pure vellum and an original watercolor, first paper printed in 21 copies.

DARAGNES, Jean Gabriel || FARGUE, Léon Paul || COLETTE.

Rencontres.

MARTY, Marcelle || MARQUET, Albert.

Images d'une petite ville arabe.

[VASSE, Cornélie-Pétronille-Bénédicte Wouters Baronne de ] || [WOUTERS, Mary].

Traduction du Théatre Anglois, depuis l'origine des spectacles, jusqu'à nos jours. Divisée en trois époques.

First edition of this french translation by the Wouters sisters.

MERIMEE, Prosper || TRAYNIER, Jean.

Colomba.

First edition of the illustrations.One of the 24 copies with double set of plates and 1 copper matrix, ours n°13.

VERNE, Jules.

Michel Strogoff.

"Aux deux éléphants" editionUncommon in blue by Engel.

[SCUDERY, Georges de].

Guerre comique dédiée à Madame de Lyonne.

First edition.Burlesque poem imitated from Homer's "Batrachomyomachia" (Battle of frogs and rats).

Novel published in the Voyages excentriques collection.
Book illustrated with 95 engravings in the text, 12 large full-page compositions and 8 compositions drawn in color from the drawings of Louis Bombled.

First edition of this free translation of Boccaccio's Decameron .
The title page mentions Mirabeau but this translation is probably apocryphal.
The book highlights the borrowings that La Fontaine made from Boccaccio for his tales.

Le Tour du Monde en quatre-vingts Jours.
Le Docteur Ox,
suivis de Maître Zacharius, Un hivernage dans les glaces, Un drame dans les airs et Ascension française au Mont Blanc.

First edition of illustrations.
Poems by Poe translated by Mallarmé and illustrated by Daragnès with 11 mezzotint engravings.
One of the 200 copies on Rives, ours n° 163.

First edition of illustrations.
28 lithographs in black by Luc-Albert Moreau (1882-1948) painter and illustrator friend of Colette, Daragnès and Ravel.

One of the 175 copies on Vélin blanc du marais, ours n°75.

First edition of illustrations.
Copy C, one of 8 copies of the deluxe edition with an original copperplate, the continuation of the 8 out of text and that of the 30 in-text. Our copy lacks the original drawing that was to accompany this print.

Emilio Grau Sala (1911-1975) is a remarkable colorist (oil and water paints, pastels) and illustrator, he was a member of Maurice Boitel's group.

Copy n ° 6 of the 125 printed on Vélin Johannot with the continuation of the illustrations.

First publication with critical notes of this piece of 402 verses that Théo Hénusse attributes to Molière (he will be the only one to defend this provenance).

One of the 75 copies printed on Japan paper, ours n°32.

First edition of illustrations.
11 full-page black lithographs and 11 color text engraving. Jean Frélaut (1879-1954) is a painter illustrator member of the group of Independent Painters-engravers, founded by Jean Émile Laboureur and Raoul Dufy.
One of the 200 copies on Lana paper, ours n°163.

First edition of illustrations.
21 color lithographs by Daragnès including 10 full-page.
One of the 200 copies on Lana paper, ours n°184.

Very beautiful illustration of this classic of ancient literature by Gustave Doré

Copy n°1 printed on pure Auvergne rag by hand, accompanied by a suite in black of illustrations on pure vellum and an original watercolor, first paper printed in 21 copies.

Very beautiful illustration of this classic of ancient literature by Louis Touchages.

Copy n°1 printed on pure Auvergne rag by hand, accompanied by a suite in black of illustrations on pure vellum and an original watercolor, first paper printed in 21 copies.

First edition of the illustrations.

One of the 24 copies with double set of plates and 1 copper matrix, ours n°13.

"Aux deux éléphants" edition
Uncommon in blue by Engel.

First edition.
Burlesque poem imitated from Homer's "Batrachomyomachia" (Battle of frogs and rats).