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ZAMACOIS, Miguel.

Seigneur Polichinelle.

Paris, Librairie Théatrale, 1926.

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150 €

Presentation copy signed by Zamacoïs with an original watercolor paint.

ROUSSEAU, Jean-Baptiste.

Oeuvres diverses de Mr. de Rousseau.

Amsterdam, François Changuion, 1729.

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150 €

Beautiful edition illustrated by Debrie, Picart, Duflos, Bernarts. The engravings printed on heavy paper are well contrasted.

RÉVAL, Gabrielle.

Le Ruban de Vénus.

Paris, C. Lévy, 1906.

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150 €

First edition.
Copy with autograph dedication of the author to Mr. Paul-Boncour.
Gabrielle Réval was the literary pseudonym of Gabrielle Logerot, French novelist.

SILVESTRE, Armand.

Floréal.

Paris, Masson et Cie, 1912.

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150 €

First edition.
Very nice edition enriched with illustrations by Georges Cain printed in several colors. Each chapter is adorned with an inset engraving and an engraved headband and end-engraving which frames the text.

Massenet sets the heroes of this spring of 1799 to music and leaves us the music sheets.
Jules Clarétie who writes the preface tells us: "[...] Among these books, I do not know, I repeat it, of more original than this one. It seems that all the arts wanted to fraternize in these pages and find themselves, under the same cover, like the heroes of Floréal under the same spring sky. ".

BERNARDIN DE SAINT PIERRE, Jacques Henri.

Paul et Virginie.

Paris, D. Jouaust, 1869.

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150 €

Very nice reissue by Jouaust of the work of Bernardin de St PIerre.

Numbered copy on large laid paper (n ° 87/300) with etchings by V. Foulquier printed on China and pasted.

CORNEILLE, Pierre.

Théatre de P. Corneille.

Paris, Jouaust librairie des bibliophiles, 1877 à 1879.

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150 €

Beautiful edition of Corneille's theater published in five volumes and preceded by a preface by Fournel.

DESTOUCHES, Philippe Néricault.

Oeuvres dramatiques.

Paris, Prault père, 1758.

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150 €

Posthumous edition of the dramatic works of Philippe Néricault Destouches (1680 -1754) collected by his son.

VALDES, André.

Et Patati et Patata.

Paris, Librairie Mondaine, [1887].

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150 €

Rare first edition.
An editor's tag "Librairie Alcide Picard et Kaan" is sticked on the title page.

The author Charles Boeswillwald uses a pen name, which is "André Valdès", in order to write this book.

GRESSET, Jean-Baptiste.

Oeuvres de Gresset.

Paris, E. Houdaille, 1839.

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150 €

First edition illustrated by Lacoste, with the text by Charles Nodier.

Very fine contemporary half green morocco.

HENNEQUIN, Maurice || DUQUESNEL, Félix.

Patachon.

Paris, Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1907.

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150 €

Rare first edition.

This play is a vaudeville written by Maurice Hennequin (1863-1926) and Félix Duquesnel (1832-1915).
This four-act comedy was performed for the first time at the Théâtre du Vaudeville, on October 23rd, 1907.
Maurice Hennequin, a well-known French playwright, has created a new and specific style of vaudeville called the "Hennequinade". Several of his plays were very successful, such as "The Ribadier System", written in collaboration with Georges Feydeau.

Presentation copy, by the two playwrights to MM. Noblet, the main actor of the play whose role was the Comtet Max du Tilloy: a notre cher ami Noblet, deux auteurs profondément reconnaissants, Maurice Hennequin, Félix Duquesnel ".

TRUC, Gonzague.

Paul Claudel - Portrait et Autographe - Document pour l'histoire de la littérature française.

Paris, La Nouvelle Revue Critique, 1925.

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150 €

First edition, one of the 5 copies on japan paper.

COLLE, Charles || GRESSET, Jean-Baptiste-Louis.

Recueil de 3 comédies du XVIIIè siècle, contenant :
Dupuis et Des Ronais, comédie en trois actes, et en vers libres de Colle;
Le Méchant Comédie en cinq Actes en vers par Gresset. 1747 et enfin,
Thimon le Misantrope. 1722.

Paris, Duchesne, 1763 pour Colle.

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150 €

FORT, Paul.

L'Arche de Noé.

Paris, Armand Jules Klein, 1934.

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150 €

First edition, one of the 200 on Vergé d'Arches.
Copy printed for Maurice Delort.
Presentation copy.

SAINT-GARNIER, Jean.

Amour et voluptés... au rythme alterné des saisons.

Paris, Collection J. Saint Garnier, [1949].

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150 €

Rare first edition.

Presentation copy.

DUHAMEL, Georges || COLIN, Paul-Émile.

La Pierre d'Horeb.

Paris, Manuel Brucker, 1927.

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150 €

First illustrated edition.
Edition limited to 416 copies.
Copy 362, one of the 300 on vélin d'Arches.
With woodcut illustrations from Paul-Émile Colin.
Presentation copy.

SALMON, André.

Archives du Club des onze.

Paris, Editions Mornay, 1923.

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170 €

Edition illustrated by a frontispiece by André Derain.
A small aesthetic manifesto, there is the same aesthetic of surprise, the same taste for a story without tail or head, the same construction based on a profound heterogeneity of the chapters. Several chapters are in fact dialogues in verse (Council, Second Council, Congress), others are made up of letters (Correspondence, Recoil).

One of 30 copies on Japon, ours n°20.

Editions Mornay was a French publishing house founded in 1919 by Georges and Antoinette Mornay. The company was particularly known for its exquisitely designed and illustrated books, which featured the work of some of the leading illustrators of the time.

REGNIER, Henri (de).

Les Rencontres de Monsieur de Bréot.

Paris, Editions Mornay, 1930.

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170 €

Edition illustrated by George Barbier.
One of the 66 copies on Japan paper, ours n°62.

Editions Mornay was a French publishing house founded in 1919 by Georges and Antoinette Mornay. The company was particularly known for its exquisitely designed and illustrated books, which featured the work of some of the leading illustrators of the time.

FONTENELLE, Bernard Le Bouyer de.

Oeuvres Diverses de M. de Fontenelle.

Paris, Michel Brunet, 1724.

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175 €

Edition by Brunet which contains the Praises, The Oracles, The Dialogues of the Dead (and of the Moderns), The Plurality of Worlds.

BITAUBE, Paul Jérémie || HOMERE.

Oeuvres d'Homère, avec des remarques; précédées de réflexions sur Homère et sur la traduction des poètes.

Paris, L. Tenré, 1822.

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175 €

The French translation of the Homeric epics by Bitaubé became the reference text in the 18th and 19th centuries.

DUHAMEL, Georges.

Journal de Salavin.

Paris, Albert Guillot, 1949.

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175 €

With 37 original compositions from Andres Segovia.
Copy printed for the author, Georges Duhamel, and inscribed by the author.

CURWOOD, James Oliver.

Nomades du Nord.

Paris, Editions Mornay, 1932.

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180 €

Edition illustrated by Henri Deluermoz.

One of the 57 copies on Japan paper, ours n°20.

Editions Mornay was a French publishing house founded in 1919 by Georges and Antoinette Mornay. The company was particularly known for its exquisitely designed and illustrated books, which featured the work of some of the leading illustrators of the time.

GALLAND, Antoine.

Les Milles et une Nuits.

Paris, Furne et Cie, 1837.

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180 €

Good copy.

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.

VERNE, Jules.

Seconde patrie.

Paris, J. Hetzel et Cie, [1900].

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180 €

First illustrated edition.

DESTOUCHES, Philippe Néricault.

Oeuvres dramatiques.

Maestricht, Durand, 1758.

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180 €

Very good copy.

COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor || LHOTE, André.

Le dit de l'ancien marinier en sept parties.

Paris, Emile-Paul frères, 1920.

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180 €

766 copies, this one number xv, one of the 27 on "papier bis du Mittineague-mill" with a suite of the illustrations.

MAYA, Tristan.

Morceaux choisis suivis des Poèmes à Ré.

Paris, Vent debout, 1948.

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200 €

First edition.
Tristan Maya is the ghost name of Jean Maton (1926-2000), French writer, poet, novelist, literary critic and bookseller in Orléans. The work is published by “Vent Debout”, a literary and artistic review published in occupied Germany, but with its headquarters in Mattaincourt (Vosges).
Presentation copy.
One of 200 numbered copies, ours n°17.

BUCAILLE, Max.

Le Scaphandrier des Rêves.

Paris, GLM, 1950.

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200 €

First edition.
Twelve collages by Max Bucaille with a preface by J. Laude
One of 465 copies on vellum paper (No. 228).

GAUTIER, Théophile.

Le Roi Candaule.

Paris, A. Ferroud, 1893.

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200 €

Illustrated edition of 21 compositions by Paul Avril.

"King Candaule has become drunk with the beauty of his wife Nyssia. He conceives the strange project of sharing his admiration as an aesthete by proposing to the young and handsome Gyges, the head of the palace guards, to come and secretly see his wife in her simple nudity. Horrified by this sacrilegious request, Gyges refuses at first but can only obey his king. Hidden in the bridal chamber, Gyges discovers the incredible beauty of Nyssia and immediately falls in love with her."

One of the 250 copies on Arches, ours n°338.

Good copy in signed binding.
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MIRBEAU, Octave.

Le Jardin des Supplices.

Paris, Editions Mornay, 1923.

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200 €

Edition illustrated by Paul de Pidoll.

One of the 60 copies on Japan paper, ours n°36.

Editions Mornay was a French publishing house founded in 1919 by Georges and Antoinette Mornay. The company was particularly known for its exquisitely designed and illustrated books, which featured the work of some of the leading illustrators of the time.

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Litterature

ZAMACOIS, Miguel.

Seigneur Polichinelle.

Presentation copy signed by Zamacoïs with an original watercolor paint.

ROUSSEAU, Jean-Baptiste.

Oeuvres diverses de Mr. de Rousseau.

Beautiful edition illustrated by Debrie, Picart, Duflos, Bernarts. The engravings printed on heavy paper are well contrasted.

RÉVAL, Gabrielle.

Le Ruban de Vénus.

First edition. Copy with autograph dedication of the author to Mr. Paul-Boncour.Gabrielle Réval was the literary pseudonym of Gabrielle Logerot, French novelist.

SILVESTRE, Armand.

Floréal.

BERNARDIN DE SAINT PIERRE, Jacques Henri.

Paul et Virginie.

Very nice reissue by Jouaust of the work of Bernardin de St PIerre.Numbered copy on large laid paper (n ° 87/300) with etchings by V. Foulquier printed on China and pasted.

CORNEILLE, Pierre.

Théatre de P. Corneille.

Beautiful edition of Corneille's theater published in five volumes and preceded by a preface by Fournel.

DESTOUCHES, Philippe Néricault.

Oeuvres dramatiques.

Posthumous edition of the dramatic works of Philippe Néricault Destouches (1680 -1754) collected by his son.

VALDES, André.

Et Patati et Patata.

Rare first edition. An editor's tag "Librairie Alcide Picard et Kaan" is sticked on the title page. The author Charles Boeswillwald uses a pen name, which is "André Valdès", in order to write this book.

GRESSET, Jean-Baptiste.

Oeuvres de Gresset.

First edition illustrated by Lacoste, with the text by Charles Nodier. Very fine contemporary half green morocco.

HENNEQUIN, Maurice || DUQUESNEL, Félix.

Patachon.

TRUC, Gonzague.

Paul Claudel - Portrait et Autographe - Document pour l'histoire de la littérature française.

First edition, one of the 5 copies on japan paper.

COLLE, Charles || GRESSET, Jean-Baptiste-Louis.

Recueil de 3 comédies du XVIIIè siècle, contenant : Dupuis et Des Ronais, comédie en trois actes, et en vers libres de Colle; Le Méchant Comédie en cinq Actes en vers par Gresset. 1747 et enfin, Thimon le Misantrope. 1722.

FORT, Paul.

L'Arche de Noé.

First edition, one of the 200 on Vergé d'Arches. Copy printed for Maurice Delort. Presentation copy.

SAINT-GARNIER, Jean.

Amour et voluptés... au rythme alterné des saisons.

Rare first edition. Presentation copy.

DUHAMEL, Georges || COLIN, Paul-Émile.

La Pierre d'Horeb.

First illustrated edition. Edition limited to 416 copies. Copy 362, one of the 300 on vélin d'Arches. With woodcut illustrations from Paul-Émile Colin. Presentation copy.

SALMON, André.

Archives du Club des onze.

REGNIER, Henri (de).

Les Rencontres de Monsieur de Bréot.

FONTENELLE, Bernard Le Bouyer de.

Oeuvres Diverses de M. de Fontenelle.

Edition by Brunet which contains the Praises, The Oracles, The Dialogues of the Dead (and of the Moderns), The Plurality of Worlds.

BITAUBE, Paul Jérémie || HOMERE.

Oeuvres d'Homère, avec des remarques; précédées de réflexions sur Homère et sur la traduction des poètes.

The French translation of the Homeric epics by Bitaubé became the reference text in the 18th and 19th centuries.

DUHAMEL, Georges.

Journal de Salavin.

With 37 original compositions from Andres Segovia. Copy printed for the author, Georges Duhamel, and inscribed by the author.

CURWOOD, James Oliver.

Nomades du Nord.

GALLAND, Antoine.

Les Milles et une Nuits.

Good copy.

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.

VERNE, Jules.

Seconde patrie.

First illustrated edition.

DESTOUCHES, Philippe Néricault.

Oeuvres dramatiques.

Very good copy.

COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor || LHOTE, André.

Le dit de l'ancien marinier en sept parties.

766 copies, this one number xv, one of the 27 on "papier bis du Mittineague-mill" with a suite of the illustrations.

MAYA, Tristan.

Morceaux choisis suivis des Poèmes à Ré.

BUCAILLE, Max.

Le Scaphandrier des Rêves.

First edition.Twelve collages by Max Bucaille with a preface by J. Laude One of 465 copies on vellum paper (No. 228).

GAUTIER, Théophile.

Le Roi Candaule.

First edition.
Copy with autograph dedication of the author to Mr. Paul-Boncour.
Gabrielle Réval was the literary pseudonym of Gabrielle Logerot, French novelist.

Very nice reissue by Jouaust of the work of Bernardin de St PIerre.

Numbered copy on large laid paper (n ° 87/300) with etchings by V. Foulquier printed on China and pasted.

Rare first edition.
An editor's tag "Librairie Alcide Picard et Kaan" is sticked on the title page.

The author Charles Boeswillwald uses a pen name, which is "André Valdès", in order to write this book.

First edition illustrated by Lacoste, with the text by Charles Nodier.

Very fine contemporary half green morocco.

Recueil de 3 comédies du XVIIIè siècle, contenant :
Dupuis et Des Ronais, comédie en trois actes, et en vers libres de Colle;
Le Méchant Comédie en cinq Actes en vers par Gresset. 1747 et enfin,
Thimon le Misantrope. 1722.

First edition, one of the 200 on Vergé d'Arches.
Copy printed for Maurice Delort.
Presentation copy.

Rare first edition.

Presentation copy.

First illustrated edition.
Edition limited to 416 copies.
Copy 362, one of the 300 on vélin d'Arches.
With woodcut illustrations from Paul-Émile Colin.
Presentation copy.

With 37 original compositions from Andres Segovia.
Copy printed for the author, Georges Duhamel, and inscribed by the author.

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.
Twelve collages by Max Bucaille with a preface by J. Laude
One of 465 copies on vellum paper (No. 228).