Ancient and modern books, manuscripts, autographs
Thursday 27 May 2021 at 14:00
9 rue de Provence, 75009 Paris
269 lots
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154 - - [GRANDVILLE] - [BOUGARRE (Léopold)]. To the law students, an epistle in verse, by a lawyer. Third edition, decorated with a vignette by J.-J. Grandville. Paris, Napoléon Béchet, 1840, in 8°, with a frontispiece on China paper, cherry half-basin, smooth mute back. Binding of the time. The first edition of this fanciful play intended for first year law students was published in 1827.
Estimate €400 - €600 -
155 - - HILLEMACHER (Frédéric). Theatre of Molière. S.l. [Lyon], s.n. Nicolas Scheuring], s.d., (1864-70), in 4°, 166 plates and vignettes in etching on China paper, pasted on strong paper, one manuscript leaf of the table of plates, in leaves in double cardboard slipcase (modern binding). A good copy. This is an amateur collection composed from prints after the letter of the suite of engravings made by Hillemacher for the edition of Molière's Theatre given in Lyon in 1864-1870. With the excep
Estimate €300 - €400 -
156 - . LOUIS XVI. HUE (François) : Dernières Années du Règne et de la Vie de Louis XVI. Paris, de l'Imp. Royale, 1814; in 8°, blond shagreened basane, spine with false-nerve decoration. Binding of the period. Portrait of the King in frontispiece. Joint : QU
Estimate €100 - €150 -
157 - VENDEE. BEAUCHAMP (Alphonse de) : Histoire de la Guerre de Vendée et des Chouans. Paris, 3rd edition, Giguet et Michaud, 1809; 3 vols. in 8°, blond basane, spines with false-nerve decoration, edges speckled. Binding of the period. Edition illustrated with three portraits in front. and a large folding map of the Vendée.
Estimate €120 - €150 -
158 - . LAMARTINE (Alphonse de): OEuvres. Paris, Charles Gosselin, Furne, 1832; four volumes in-8°, red half calf, spines decorated in full, interior roulette, gilt edges. Binding by VOGEL. Collective edition renowned for the elegance of the typography. It includes the Premières Méditations poétiques, the Nouvelle Méditations and the Harmonies poétiques et religieuses. It is decorated with a portrait of Lamartine engraved by Pelée, three figures out of text by Tony Johannot and
Estimate €150 - €200 -
159 - . BALZAC (Honoré de): Mercadet, comedy in three acts and prose. Paris, Librairie Théâtrale, 1851; in 12, half green chagrin, spine decorated, smooth edges (Binding of the time). First edition of this play, written by Balzac under the title Le Faiseur, in five acts which were reduced to three by D'Ennery. Joint: GAVARNI - HUART: Physiologie de la Grisette. Paris, s. d. ; in 12, half-b
Estimate €150 - €200 -
160 - . Set of volumes from the Collection des Chefs d'OEuvre inconnus. Set of ten vol. in 12, half mar. with corners in different colours.
Estimate €100 - €120 -
161 - . BINDING. Mes Sentimens (sic) OEuvres métaphisiqes (sic) M. Alexandre Rousselin. Paris, XVIII March MDCCCI ; two vol. in 12, full red long-grained morocco, very ornate smooth spine, Greek decoration on the boards, int. dent, gilt edges. Bound in contemporary style. A fine, well-bound copy of what was to become a calligraphic book; it has two titles, two pages on which a sonnet is written in brown ink and 305 and 307 numbered and framed pages in brown ink.
Estimate €150 - €250 -
162 - . Relation concernant les Evenemens qui sont arrivé à un Laboureur de la Beauce dans les premiers mois de 1816. Besançon, 2nd ed., Cabuchet, 1820; in 12, half basane post. Account of an apparition which occurred in Beauce, and which upset the religious and even political world of the time.
Estimate €80 - €100 -
163 - ROBIDA - HALEVY (Ludovic): September 4, 1870. Sessions of the Legislative Body and the Senate. Paris, Daragon, 1904; in 12; brown chagrin, spine ribbed, gilt edges. Full-page engraved frontispiece and numerous figures in text by ROBIDA. Ex. num.
Estimate €60 - €80 -
164 - - KEEPSAKE] - The Pleiades. Ballads, fables, short stories and legends. Homer, Veda-Vyasa, Marie de France, Burger, Hoffmann, Ludwig Tieck, Ch. Dickens, Gavarni, H. Blaze. Paris, L. Curmer, 1841-42, in-8, multiple pagination, with 11 serpents frontispieces (including one general frontispiece and one double), 10 etchings on China paper applied in the text and 56 wood-engraved vignettes also in the text, bradel purple half-maroquin with corners, spine decorated with long fillets, title-piece, gilt
Estimate €100 - €200 -
165 - - [KEEPSAKES] - Paris-London. French Keepsake. Unpublished news illustrated with twenty-six vignettes engraved in London by the best artists. I. 1837. - II. 1838 [With:] Paris Illustrations. Paris, Delloye, Desmé et Cie [and :] Pourrat frères, 1837-1838, 3 vols. in 8°, half cherry calf, smooth spines decorated with gilt fillets, gilt fillet and garlands, gilt heads. Bound in contemporary style (corners damaged).
Estimate €150 - €250 -
166 - LAUGIER (André): Cours de Chimie Générale. Paris, Pichon et Didier, 1829; three volumes in 8°, half tan basane, spines with false-nerves decorated, edges speckled. Binding of the period.
Estimate €150 - €180 -
167 - . DRUMONT (Edouard): La France Juive. Essay on contemporary history. Illustrated edition. Paris, Librairie Blériot, s.d. (1885); large in 8°, half red basane, spine with false-nerve decoration.
Estimate €80 - €120 -
168 - . LEMAOUT (Em.): Le jardin des plantes. Paris, Curmer, 1842-43; two large volumes in 8°, half green chagrin, spines smoothly decorated. Numerous figures in black in the text and off-text and finely enhanced plates in colour. A fine copy.
Estimate €150 - €200 -
169 - Together: - BERTHE (T.): Traité de l'office. An indispensable work for maitres d'hôtel, valets de chambre, cooks and cooks and useful for people of the world. Paris, Garnier Frères, 1876; in 12, half brown chagrin, spine with ornate nerves. - LECOMTE (Henri): Le Café. Culture. Manipulation. Production. Paris, Carré et Naud, 1899; in 8°, half brown chagrin, spine with ornate nerves.
Estimate €180 - €200 -
170 - . STERNE: Voyage Sentimental. New translation by Jules Janin. Illustrated by Tony Johannot and Jacques Peris. Paris, Bourdin , s. d. (1854) ; large in 8°, long-grained green morocco, boards and spine decorated with gilt and stamped fillets and interlacing, gilt edges, covers and spine preserved, case. Binding by VERMOREL. Second edition copy, enriched with the 11 H. T. figures of the 1st edition on China paper mou
Estimate €150 - €200 -
171 - Together : - Guide pittoresque et complet du Voyageur en France. Paris, Didot, 1838; in 8°, red morocco chagrin, spine ribbed and decorated, triple gilt fillet on the boards, int. dent., gilt edges. Beautiful ex. well bound at the time. - Voyage de CHAPELLE et BACHAUMONT Suivi de quelques autres Voyages dans le même genre. London, 1782; in 16, red morocco decorated of
Estimate €150 - €200 -
172 - - [LITERATURE POISSARDE] - Riche-en-gueule, or The New Vadé; containing the pleasant and entertaining adventures of Carnival; preceded by the life, loves, and death of Mardi-Gras; followed by new fishy dialogues suitable for amusement in the various meetings of masks, either at the ball or in the street; with the repartees, each sillier than the last, of Bobêche, Galimafré, Bobinot, etc.; the whole finished with comic patents, burlesque declarations of love, and saucy songs for amusement in s
Estimate €100 - €150 -
173 - - RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE (Nicolas-Edme). The work of Restif de La Bretonne. Paris, Editions du Trianon, 1930-1932, 9 vol. in-8, with 48 plates hors-texte, stapled in filled covers, uncut. One of the 25 first copies on Annam, numbered at the press (10/25), with a double suite of the hors-texte engravings (generally fixed / flying). This collective is misleading, apart from La Vie de mon père, prese
Estimate €300 - €400 -
174 - - MÉRIMÉE (Prosper). La Jaquerie, feudal scenes, followed by La Famille de Carvajal, drama. By the author of the Theatre of Clara Gazul. Paris, Brissot-Thivars [Imprimerie de H. Balzac], 1828, in-8, [4] ff. (false title, titles, preface), 422 pp. and one f. n. of table, half-brick reticulated basane, smooth spine decorated with black and gilt fillets as well as with a large romantic floral decoration in cold and long, marbled edges. Bound in contemporary style (spine unstuck, freckles).
Estimate €200 - €250 -
175 - - PARIS OU LE LIVRE DES CENT-ET-UN. Paris, chez Ladvocat, 1831-1834; 15 vols. in 8°, half blond basane, smooth spine with gilt roulettes and friezes, red morocco title and tome. Bound in contemporary style (freckles, missing false titles and titles of volumes VI to XV, minor wear to spine). First edition of this collection of literary texts dedicated to Paris. The bookseller Ladvocat, being in a critical situation, a certain numb
Estimate €500 - €700 -
176 - DELACROIX (Eugène): Journal. Paris, Plon, 1893; 3 vols.
Estimate €400 - €500 -
177 - Reports, Opinions and speeches. Paris, 1819, 20 vols. green hardback, plus one volume
Estimate €250 - €300 -
178 - Mémoires de la Maison de Condé. Paris, 1820; 2 vols. in-8°, half-basket of the time
Estimate €80 - €100 -
179 - MASSILLON: Petit Carême. Paris, 1824.
Estimate €80 - €100 -
180 - - ARNAUD (A.-F.) : Archaeological and picturesque journey in the department of Aube and in the old diocese of Troyes. Dedicated to Mr. Combe-Siéyès. Troyes, Cardon, 1837; large in-4, [6]-243-[1] pp, green morocco, spine ribbed, arms in the centre of the boards, gilt edges, double gilt fillet on the edges, inner lace with cold. Bound in contemporary style (restored tear to title page, blue ink stain in lower right corner, tear to 3 folding plates, some foxing or browning, two corners worn. On
Estimate €400 - €500 -
180-1 - LAVATER : le Lavater portatif, ou Precis de ' Art de connaitre les hommes par les traits du visage ; avec T trente-trois planches. Paris Ve Hoquart ; 1808 ; In 16 square Basin fauve Racinée decorated of the time. Ex. complete with 33 coloured ortex plates representing the fisionnomy written by Lavater
Estimate €200 - €300 -
180-2 - SEVIGNIE (MARQUISE DE) Lettres de Madame de Sevigné de sa famille et ces amis, Paris Hachette, 1862-1866; 14 vol In 8°, half red chagrin with corners, spine with nerves decorated with gilt and a mos. fleuron in green mar. repeated, gilt heads. Binding of the period. Nice copy of this edition given by Monmerqué
Estimate €300 - €400 -
181 - GAUTIER (Théophile): Poésies. Paris, Charpentier, 1845; in-12, green half-chagrin
Estimate €100 - €120 -
182 - JACOMET: Berryer au prétoire. Paris, Plon. Untrimmed copy. Beautiful sending to Jacques Fourcade. The Trial of Zola is enclosed.
Estimate €80 - €100 -
183 - BAZAINE. Trial of Marshal Bazaine
Estimate €40 - €60 -
184 - Trial of FUALDES: two flights. Trial of Mrs. LAFFARGE: one volume.
Estimate €50 - €60 -
185 - EMPIRE. Trial of Georges Moreau and others, accused of conspiracy against the person of the First Consul. Paris, 1804; two vol. in 8°, half red basane. Portrait.
Estimate €60 - €80 -
186 - DARRAS (abbé) : Histoire de l'Eglise. Paris, Vivès, 1855; four vol. in 8°, blond basane, spine with ornamented nerves, gilded fillets on the plates, red tr.
Estimate €30 - €40 -
187 - Trial of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte. Paris, Bohaire, 1840. 2 vols. enclosed : HUGO : Paris. Paris, 1867 ; in 12 br. Gold ed.
Estimate €100 - €120 -
188 - 5. VERNE (Jules): set of five volumes: - Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant. Polychrome cardboard, spine with lighthouse, top board with world map. - The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China. Purple paperback. - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Red card, spine with lighthouse, top cov
Estimate €200 - €300 -
189 - 6. ENFANTINA. - LIEVRE (Edouard): Les Aventures de Petit Houillon. Paris, circa 1860; in 8° oblong, green percaline, upper cover with rich gilt decoration. Collection of 20 lithographed plates in colour. - ROBIDA - SWIFT: Gulliver's Travels. Paris, H. Laurens, s. d. ; in 8°, green percaline very ornate of the publisher (rare foxing).
Estimate €80 - €100 -
190 - 7. ROUARGUE: Album des Bords de la Loire Tours, Lecesne, s. d. (ca. 1850); in 8°, publisher's ornate brown percaline. Edition comprising 50 beautiful views engraved on steel.
Estimate €100 - €120 -
191 - - MAISTRE (Joseph de) : Letters to a Russian Gentleman, on the Spanish Inquisition. Paris, Méquignon Fils, 1822; in 8° paperback, waiting paper. First edition of this famous essay in defense of the Inquisition. (Querard, V, 452).
Estimate €100 - €120 -
193 - - DUMAS (Alexandre) : Napoleon. With twelve full-length portraits, engraved on steel by the best artists, after the paintings and drawings of Horace Vernet, Tony Johannot, Isabey, Jules Boilly, etc. Paris, Au Plutarque Francais, 1840; in 8°, 411 pp. Bound in contemporary style. Beautiful copy, free from foxing.
Estimate €120 - €150 -
194 - - PICHOT (Amédée): Gallery of Shakspeare's Characters (sic) reproduced in the principal scenes of his plays, with a brief Analysis of each of Shakespeare's plays, and the reproduction in English and French of the scenes to which the eighty engravings in this work relate. Preceded by a biographical sketch of Shakspeare by Old Nick. Paris, Baudry, Libraire Européenne, 1844; large in 8°, navy half-chagrin, spine decorated, gilt edges. First edition with 80 hors-texte engravings, each piece illu
Estimate €80 - €100 -
195 - BOISSONADE (Jean-François), 1774-1857 : hellenist and litterateur : Literary criticism under the First Empire. Paris, didier et Cie, 1863; 2 vols. in-8°, blue half-maroquin, spine ribbed with gilt fillets and a repeated crowned monogram, gilt heads. Nice copy of the marquis de Laborde, with his crowned monogram
Estimate €80 - €100 -
196 - - FRANCE (Anatole). La Révolte des anges. Illustrated with etchings by Pierre Watrin. Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1946, 2 parts in one vol. in-4, 30 etchings in double state [album], in sheets under filled covers, in double cardboard slipcase. Limited edition of 400 copies numbered at the press. This one, one of the 60 on vellum (54/70), with a suite of etchings in double state.
Estimate €150 - €200 -
197 - GUITRY (Sacha) : Vers de Bohême. Ed. Solar, 1947; in-4° in sheets under folder and double slipcase. Five handwritten leaves and disk
Estimate €300 - €400 -
198 - SUARES (André) : On the death of my brother. Paris, Emile-Paul, 1917, n. ed. ; in-12. One of fifty copies on Hollande.
Estimate €100 - €120 -
199 - GIRAUDOUX (Jean) : Combat avec l'Ange. In-12, red half-chagrin with corners
Estimate €60 - €80 -
200 - MAURRAS (Charles): Le Voyage d'Athènes. Paris, Plon, 1939; in-4° paperback. La Musique intérieure. Numbered copy, in-12, red half-margin.
Estimate €150 - €180 -
201 - CARCO (Francis): The Hunted Man. Ill. by DIGNIMONT, Paris, 1925.
Estimate €120 - €150 -
202 - SUARES (André): England. Paris, 1916. and : Ceux de Verdun. Paris, 1916; two vol. in-8°, half leather decorated
Estimate €100 - €120
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