ANTIQUE & MODERN BOOKS
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338 lots
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149 - PARIS - ALMANACH of the Commerce of Paris, of the Departments of France, and of the principal cities of the world, by J. de La Tynna; continued and put in a better order by S. Bottin. Year 1820 Paris, at the Office of the Almanach du Commerce, 1820, strong in-8, brown basane, smooth spine decorated with gilt garlands (contemporary binding). Worn back, epidermis, damaged upper jaw.
Estimate €100 - €120 -
150 - PARIS - BÉGUILLET and LA ROCHE-TILHAC Historical description of Paris, and its most beautiful monumens, engraved in intaglio by F.-N. Martinet (...) ; to serve as an Introduction to the History of Paris & France : dedicated to the King Paris, chez les auteurs, Dijon, Frantin, 1779-1781, 3 vol. in-8, 55 engraved plates (including 3 title-frontispices and 2 frontispices), fawn half-broken, smooth spines alternately decorated with naves and golden fleurdelisé seedlings (rel. of late 19th c.). H
Estimate €300 - €500 -
151 - PARIS - BINS DE SAINT-VICTOR (Jacques) Historical and picturesque painting of Paris, from the Gauls to the present day. By Mr. **** Paris, H. Nicolle, Le Normant, de l'imprimerie des frères Mame, 1808-1811, 3 large volumes in-4, with 148 views, most of them in aquatint, 34 plans (i.e. 182 plates out of text), and 97 vignettes (headings and culs-de-lampe), all under serpents, green half-chevron with corners, smooth cloisonné and floral spines, simple gilt fillet on the covers (period binding)
Estimate €1,000 - €1,200 -
152 - PARIS - CHAMOÜIN (Claude-Hilaire) Collection of daguerreotype views of Paris. Intaglio engravings on steel S.l. Paris], n.d., (1855), in-4, title, and 25 plates engraved with serpents, long-grained red morocco, spine with false nerves decorated with dotted lines, gilt fillets, garlands and diamond-shaped fleurons, double framed with single gilt fillets and garlands with cold spandrel motifs on the plates, gilt edges, inside lace, endpapers lined with azure tabis (contemporary binding). Nice c
Estimate €1,200 - €1,500 -
153 - PARIS - DU BREUL (Jacques) The Theatre of Antiquities in Paris. Where is traced the foundation of the churches & chapels of the Cité, University, city & diocese of Paris: as well as the institution of the Parliament, foundation of the University & colleges, & other remarkable things. Divided into four books Paris, Claude de La Tour, 1612, fort vol. in-4, [8] ff. n. ch. (title, dedication to the reader, introductory poems), 1310 pp., inversion of ff. 1259-1260 and 1261-1262, [9] ff. n. ch. of
Estimate €400 - €500 -
154 - PARIS - DUBOIS (Charles) Top of the dungeon. Familiar, historical, artistic, military, etc. talk about the Bois de Vincennes and the surrounding communes. 20 etchings by Berthelon fils based on the studies of Berthelon père, Charles Dubois and some old documents. Pontoise, Imprimerie de Amédée Paris, Paris, Sausset, 1891, in-4, [4]-160 pp., with 20 plates printed in etching, 8 statistical tables and a folding map, half maroon maroon, spine ribbed with gilt fillets, gilt head, preserved cove
Estimate €100 - €150 -
155 - PARIS - DULAURE (Jacques-Antoine) Physical, civil and moral history of Paris. Sixth edition, with new notes and an appendix containing descriptive and historical details on all the monuments recently erected in the capital, by J.-L. Belin Paris, Furne, 1837-1838, 8 vols. in-8, with 412 plates (of which 16 plans or maps; and 396 views or portraits), aubergine half-shells, spines with false nerves decorated with fillets, gilt garlands and boxes, gilt edges (Hersent). Freckles The most complete
Estimate €1,200 - €1,500 -
156 - PARIS - DU PLESSIS (All Saints' Day) New annals of Paris, up to the reign of Hugues Capet. It is accompanied by Abbon's poem about the famous siege of Paris by the Normans in 885 & 886. A Paris, Chez la Veuve Lottin & Butard, 1753, in-4, IV-380 pp., marbled fawn calf, spine ribbed, decorated with golden fillets and fleurons, red slices (rel. of the period).Qqs faults on the spine.several bookpapers (Gueroult, Lameyre, Molina)
Estimate €300 - €400 -
157 - CHAMPION (Symphorien) De Monarchia / Gallorum Campi aurei: ac / triplici imperio, videlicet Romano, / Gallico, Germanico : una cum gestis heroum ac / omnium Imperatorum. / Authore Symphoriano Campegio aurato equite Lyon, Melchior et Gaspard Trechsel, 1537, in-4, [21] ff. n. ch., a blank leaf, with a large bookseller's vignette in the title and some arms in the text, soft ivory vellum, edges speckled with red (17th century binding). A short trimmed copy in the lower margin, so the signatures ha
Estimate €700 - €800 -
158 - CHAMPOLLION (Jean-François) Letters written from Egypt and Nubia, in 1828 and 1829. New edition Paris, Didier et Cie, 1868, in-8, 397 pp. 4 plates, index, red half calf, spine ribbed and decorated with fleurons and semés of gilt crosses (contemporary rel.). Past back, some brown leaves, freckles.
Estimate €100 - €150 -
159 - CHANTELOUBE (Jacques Apchon de) The Provençal Comtadin S.l., 1620, in-8, 32 pp., modest fawn chagrined canvas, smooth mute spine, title in ink on the upper plate (19th century rel.). Copy of Eugène Marcel, member of the Société des bibliophiles normands, with ex-libris pasted on the first guards
Estimate €100 - €150 -
160 - CHANTREAU (Pierre-Nicolas) Journey to the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, made in 1788 and 1789 A Paris, by Briand, 1792, 3 vols. in-8, with 3 folding maps and 6 engraved plates, marbled fawn calf, smooth spine decorated with a repeated sowing of small gilt fleurons, friezes and gilt fleurons, marbled edges (contemporary binding). Sprains on dishes and some backs
Estimate €200 - €300 -
161 - CHARLES-EMMANUEL IER DE SAVOIE Collection of manifestos & articles granted by the Serenissima Duke of Savoy, for the resolution of peace, together with the letters containing the designs that the Spaniards have against this Serenissima house & its Estat. Translated from Italian and Spanish into French, by noble Estienne Du Molar, a Savoysian gentleman. Chambéry, iouxte the copy printed in Turin, 14 May 1615, in-12, 99 pp., half calf (blond), spine ribbed, title track, gilt head (E. Bonleu).
Estimate €300 - €400 -
162 - CHARLETY (Sébastien) Critical bibliography of the history of Lyon, from the origins to 1789 Lyon, A. Rey, Paris, A. Picard, 1902, strong gr. in-8, VII-356 pp., index, half black grief, spine with nerves, cover and spine with cons. (period binder). Good copy. An essential bibliography on Lyon and the Lyonnais, published in the Annales de l'Université de Lyon. Numbered original edition, interleaved.
Estimate €80 - €100 -
163 - CHARPENTIER (Louis) Causes of the decadence of taste in the theatre, where one deals with the rights, the talents, & the faults of the authors; the duties of the actors, what society owes them, & their fatal usurpations to the dramatic arts. Amsterdam, and is in Lyon, Pierre Cellier, Paris, Dufour, 1768, 2 parts in one volume in-12, title, 233-150 pp., with a frontispiece, marbled fawn calf, smooth cloisonné spine with fleurné, title piece, simple gilt fillet on the cuts, marbled edges (cont
Estimate €150 - €200 -
164 - CHARVET (Pierre-Alexandre), Jean-Joseph-Antoine PILOT DE THOREY , Emile GUEYMARD and Albin GRAS General statistics of the department of Isère, published under the direction and administration of Mr Pellenc, Prefect of Isère (...) Grenoble, Typographie de F. Allier, 1844-1851, 5 parts in 4 vols. in-8, with 8 folding pictures out of text (all at the end of volume I), red half-basane, smooth spines decorated with golden filets and garlands, speckled edges (rel. of the end of the 19th century).
Estimate €150 - €200 -
165 - CHASSENEUZ (Barthélémy de) Consuetudines Ducatus Burgundiae, fereque totius Galliae. Commentariis D. Bartholomaei a Chassenaeo, ut amplissimis, ita doctissimis illustratae, summaque diligentia & labore recognitae. Accessit index locupletissimus, summa fide pristino nitori restitutus Lyon, Antoine Vincent, 1552, in-folio, [64] ff. n. ch. (title, to the reader, index, introductory poetry), 1528 columns, text on two columns, with 7 woodcut figures in the text (trees of inbreeding and affinity),
Estimate €400 - €500 -
166 - CHASTELLUX (François-Jean, Marquis de) Travels of the Marquis de Chastellux to North America in the 1780s, 1781 & 1782. Second Edition A Paris, by Prault, imprimeur du Roi, 1788-1791, 2 vols. in-8, 2 maps and 3 plates, half basane fauve, smooth decorated spine (revised around 1820). Qqs epid. missing from the inf. bit of the first flight
Estimate €300 - €400 -
167 - CHEVREAU (Urban) The Table of Fortune, or by the decadence of Empires and Kingdoms, by the ruin of Cities, and by various marvelous adventures, one sees the instability of all things in the world. A Paris, Chez Guillaume Loyson et Nicolas de Sercy, 1644, in-4, [2]-352 pp., stiff ivory wove vellum, red speckled edges (rel. of the period). Small wormholes in the inner margin of some leaves, brown spots on the second cover of the binding
Estimate €300 - €400 -
168 - CHOUPES Memoirs of the Marquis de Chouppes, Lieutenant General of the King's armies, followed by the Memoirs of the Duke of Navailles and Valletta (1630-1682) Paris, J. Techener, 1861, fort in-8, [4]-XXVII-233 pp., blue morocco, spine ribbed, double gilt fillet on the cups, gilt inner wheel, gilt edges (Belz-Niédrée). Small scratch on the first course. {140889} Copy on large paper of the good edition of these memoirs.
Estimate €200 - €250 -
169 - CIORANESCU (Alexander) Bibliography of seventeenth-century French literature Geneva, Slatkine, 1994, 3 vol. in-8, blue skivertex (publisher's binding)
Estimate €100 - €120 -
170 - SAVARY CODE Orders of Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre, given at Saint Germain en Laye in March 1673. Paris, chez les associez choisis par ordre de Sa Majesté, 1673, in-4, [4] ff. n. ch. (title, table of titles, privilege), 120 pp., [12] ff. n. ch. of table of contents, granite brown basane, spine ribbed with fleurdelisé boxes, speckled edges (contemporary binding). Discreet restorations to the headdresses, stained dishes, restored title pages, but good copy. First edition of the famo
Estimate €300 - €400 -
171 - CONCILE DE TRENTE - HERVET (Gentian) The Holy, Sacred, Universal, and General Council of Trent legitimately signified & assembled under our Holy Fathers Popes Paul III the year 1545-1546-1547, Julius III the years 1551 & 1552, & Pius IIII, 1562-1563. Translated from Latin into French, by Gentian Hervet, of Orleans, canon of Rheins. Augmented by several things mentioned, on page VI of this printing of the catalogue of censored books with new additions & appendices Lyon, Jean Pillehotte, 1598, f
Estimate €200 - €300 -
172 - CONDORCET (Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat de) Sketch of a historical picture of the progress of the human mind. Posthumous work. Second Edition A Paris, chez Agasse, An III, (1795), in-8, [IV]-VIII-389 pp., cartonnage papier bleu, pièce de titre (contemporary binding). Worn corners and cuts, small gaps in the title piece Resale with a new title page from the original edition
Estimate €150 - €200 -
173 - CONSTANT (Benjamin) Speech to the Chamber of Deputies Paris, Dupont and Pinard, 1827-1828, 2 vol. in-8, demi-basane tabac. Original edition published by subscription to meet the needs of Benjamin Constant CONSTANT (Benjamin). Mixing literature and politics Paris, Pichon and Didier, 1829, in-8 half sorrow, back to nerves. Restored bits. Original Editions
Estimate €150 - €200 -
174 - CONSTANT (Benjamin) From Roman Polytheism, considered in its relationship with Greek philosophy and the Christian religion; posthumous work (...); preceded by an introduction by J. Matter Paris, Béchet aîné, 1833, 2 vols. in-8, half brown basane, smooth spine decorated (contemporary binding). Freckles sometimes strong but good example. First Edition
Estimate €100 - €120 -
175 - ESCRIME - GOMARD (A.-J.-J. Posselier says) The Theory of Fencing taught by a simple method based on the observation of nature. Paris, J. Dumaine, 1845, in-8, [8]-319-[4] pp. 20 woodcut plates after Th. Guérin at the end of the volume, half green basane, spine ribbed with two crossed flowers (modern binding). First edition, "much sought-after"
Estimate €150 - €200 -
176 - ESCRIME - SAINT-ALBIN (Albert de) The Gun Rooms of Paris Paris, Glady frères, 1875, gr. in-8, [8]- 201 pp., frontispiece and 20 copper-engraved portraits by Courtry, the first seven after Carolus Duran, index finger, red half-grief bradel with corners, smooth spine, gilt title, cover and spine, in cardboard case (Stroobants). Limited edition of 550 numbered copies, this one on Van Gelder Zonen SAINT-ALBIN (Albert de). Through the weapons rooms. With a preface by Vigeant. Illustrations by Fr
Estimate €300 - €400 -
177 - ESCRIME - MÉRIGNAC (Emile) History of fencing in all times and in all countries Paris, Imprimeries Réunies, Rouquette, 1883-1886, 2 strong vol. gr. in-8, frontispiece in each vol., no. of figures in-t., 23 plates dt 13 in colour on double page, marbled brown half-basane with corners, spine ribbed with two crossed foils, restored cons. cover. (modern binding) Book with a print run of 650 copies. 1/50 copies on paper from Japan. Sending to General Boulanger, Minister of War
Estimate €400 - €500 -
178 - ESCRIME - PREVOST (Camille) and G. JOLLIVET Fencing and the Duel Paris, Hachette, 1891, in-8, [6]-257 pp., 21 plates, nbses vignettes, half-brown morocco, spine ribbed, gilt title, mottled head, cover cons. (period bindings)
Estimate €80 - €100 -
179 - FENCING - GRISIER (A.) Weapons and Dueling Work approved by His Majesty the Emperor of Russia. Anecdotal preface by Alexandre Dumas. Author's note by Roger de Beauvoir. Epistle in verse from Méry. Letter from Count Ludovic of Horburg. Drawings by E. de Beaumont A Paris, Chez Garnier Frères, 1847, gr. in-8, [6]-583 pp., portr.-front, 11 lithographed plates, half caramel grief, spine with nerves, cold-sealed and decorated with gilt filets (contemporary binding).
Estimate €100 - €150 -
180 - ESCRIME - MELOTTE (Adrien de) Fencing, weapons, duel in the country of Liège Liège, D. Cormaux, 1911, gr. in-4, XI-203 pp., 8 pl., index, publisher's cardboard, cardboard case. Sending. One of the two hundred and fifty numbered copies on paper by Hollande Van Gelder. History of fencing in Liege from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th century.
Estimate €100 - €150 -
181 - GONTIER (François-Maurice de) Decreta dioecesanae synodi Avenionensis, ab illustissimo et reverendissimo Domino D. Francisco Mauritio de Gonteriis, archiepiscopo Avenionensi, Sanctissimi Domini nostri Papae assistente, celebratae XV. Cal. Jun. MR. DCC. XII Avignon, François Mallard, Jean Delorme, Joseph-Charles Chastanier, 1713, in-4, [2] ff. n. ch. (title, pastoral letter), 148 pp., [2] ff. n. ch. de table, granite brown basane, spine ribbed, partitioned and flowered, edges speckled with re
Estimate €200 - €300 -
182 - GOURNAY (B.-C.) General almanac of commerce, merchants, traders, shipowners, &c., of France, Europe & other parts of the world (...). Year M.DCC.LXXXVIII Paris, l'auteur, s.d., (1788), in-8, half-brown basane, smooth decorated spine, red edges (contemporary rel.). Good copy.
Estimate €300 - €400 -
183 - GRAMONT (Antoine-Alfred-Agénor de) History & genealogy of the house of Gramont Paris, Schlesinger frères, 1874, in-4, [8]-486 pp., with, in fine, 6 double-page genealogical tables mounted on tabs, marbled fawn calf, spine with nerves cloisonné and decorated in imitation, red title piece, triple gilt fillet on the covers, coat of arms pushed in the center of the covers, double gilt fillet on the cups, red edges, inside garland (contemporary binding). Anecdotal freckles. Rare. Limited editi
Estimate €1,000 - €1,500 -
184 - The GREAT MACABLE DANCE of men and women, preceded by the Dict des trois mors et des trois vifz, the Débat du corps et de l'âme, and the Complaincte de l'âme dampnée. Paris, Baillieu, n.d., (1862), in-4, 67 pp., caramel half calf with corners, smooth spine, cons. cover. (posterior rel.) Copy decorated with 56 woods reproducing 15th century xylographs
Estimate €200 - €300 -
185 - GREENE (John Beasley) Excavations carried out in Thebes in 1855. Hieroglyphic texts and unpublished documents Paris, Firmin Didot, 1855, in-folio, [1]-12 pp., 11 pl., paperback. Weak back, freckles. Rare publication of the excavations carried out in Thebes by the famous photographer of Egypt and the Middle East.
Estimate €150 - €200 -
186 - GRENAN (Benin)]. Vinum Burgundum S.l. Paris], n.d., (1711), in-12, 4 pp., bound under dummy cover of 19th century comb paper. Extremely rare original Latin edition of this piece on Burgundy wine, which is itself combined with no less rare original editions of three other alcoholic elegies in response (see below). The exceptional nature of this meeting must be underlined; these small plates are already very unusual; even more so the whole quarrel. Opposed the drinkers who defended the wines
Estimate €1,000 - €1,200 -
187 - GRIVAUD DE LA VINCELLE (Claude-Madeleine) Collection of ancient monumens, most of them unpublished, and discovered in ancient Gaul, decorated with intaglio maps and plates, which may follow the collections of the Count of Caylus, and La Sauvagère; dedicated to His Royal Highness Monseigneur the Hereditary Prince of Bavaria ; Paris, chez l'auteur, Treuttel et Würtz, 1817, 3 volumes in-4, 3 off-text maps, two of them folding, index, title, and 40 copper-engraved plates, chestnut morocco, richl
Estimate €5,000 - €6,000 -
188 - GRIVAUD DE LA VINCELLE (Claude-Madeleine) Collection of ancient monumens, most of them unpublished, and discovered in ancient Gaul, decorated with intaglio maps and plates, which may follow the collections of the Count of Caylus, and La Sauvagère; dedicated to His Royal Highness Monseigneur the Hereditary Prince of Bavaria ; Paris, chez l'auteur, Treuttel et Würtz, 1817, 3 volumes in one strong vol. in-4, 3 off-text maps, two of them unfolded, index, title, and 40 copper-engraved plates, plu
Estimate €300 - €400 -
189 - GUYON (Claude-Marie) The Oracle of the New Philosophers. [-Suite from the Oracle of the New Philosophers]. To serve as a follow-up and clarification to the Works of M. de Voltaire Bern, s.n., 1760, 2 volumes in-8, marbled fawn basane, spine with ribbed partitions and fleuronnés, title pages, red edges (contemporary binding)
Estimate €100 - €150 -
190 - HAMILTON (William) Trip to the northern coast of County Antrim in Ireland, and to the island of Raghery, containing the natural history of its volcanic productions, & several observations on the antiquities & customs of this country (...). Translated from the English. To which we added the Derbyshire Octography Essay. By Mr. Ferber. Translated from the German Paris, Cuchet, 1790, in-8, VIII-240 pp., with an unfolded cover, half blond basane, smooth spine with gilt filets, yellow edges (contemp
Estimate €500 - €600 -
191 - HARTMANN and MILLARD Texas, or Historical Notice on the Field of Asylum, including everything that happened from the formation to the dissolution of this Colony, the causes that started it, and the list of all the French Colonists, with useful information for their families. Paris, Béguin, June 1819, in-8, (10)-135 pp., view of the camp folded in frontispiece, green half-basane, smooth decorated back (rel. of the time)
Estimate €1,000 - €1,500 -
192 - HÉNIN DE CUVILLERS (Etienne-Félix d') Mémoire sur la direction des aérostats, read, le 20 thermidor an 10 [8 août 1802], at the Société académique des sciences de Paris, séante au Louvre. Paris, Moreau, An X, (1802), in-8, 16 pp., with an engraved frontispiece rooted fawn basane (Desnaux)
Estimate €200 - €300 -
193 - HENRION DE PANSEY (Pierre-Paul-Nicolas) Treaty of the Fiefs of Dumoulin, analyzed and conferred with the other feudists Paris, Valade, 1773, in-4, [4] ff. n. ch. (false-title & title, dedication to Molé de Champlâtreux), iv-717 pp., [2] pp. n. ch. de privilège, old-red morocco, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt garlands and floral boxes, arms in the centre, green title piece, triple gilt fillet on the covers, double gilt fillet on the cups, gilt edges, inside lace (contemporary binding).
Estimate €1,200 - €1,500 -
194 - HERALDIQUE - MAGNY (Claude Drigon de) New historical and archaeological treatise on the true and perfect science of coats of arms. First volume [only published] Paris, Secrétariat du Collège héraldique, s.d., (1846-48), in-4, [8]-CVIII-401 pp., text in a double black frame, with numerous black illustrations in the text, and 53 beautiful plates in chromolithography, index, blue morocco, spine ribbed, double gilt fillet on the cups, gilt edges, wide inner lace (Yseux, sucr. de Simier). Very n
Estimate €400 - €500 -
195 - HERALDICAL - The HARMONY of WEAPONS Illustrated review of the Nobility. Director: Cte A. de Bizemont. Manager : V. Button Paris, Aux Bureaux du Journal, 1861-1877, 2 vol. petit in-4, red morocco, back with nerves, golden head, inside lace (Chambolle-Duru.) Nice copy
Estimate €500 - €600 -
196 - HERBERT (Cl.-J.) Essay on the general grain policy, grain prices and the effects of agriculture In Berlin, 1755, in-12, XVIII-435 pp., brown half calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red edges (contemporary binding), minor binding defects.
Estimate €150 - €200 -
197 - HEUZEY (Leon) Mount Olympus and Acarnania. Exploration of these two regions, with the study of their antiquities, their ancient and modern populations, their geography and history, accompanied by plates. Published under the auspices of the Ministry of Public Instruction and the Ministry of State Paris, Firmin Didot frères, 1860, in-8, [4]-495 pp., with 16 off-text plates, including 6 plans and 10 views, half green grief, spine ribbed with gilt filets, speckled edges (contemporary binding). Ba
Estimate €200 - €300 -
198 - HERALDIC - HOZIER (Louis-Pierre d') General Armorial of France In Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1821-1823, 2 vol. in-4, blue marbled paperboard (rel. of the period). Small shortages of paper in the cardboard but good general condition. Original edition of the only two volumes published, the third volume having only ever appeared in proofs (Saffroy).
Estimate €500 - €600
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