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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203 - DORGELES (Roland): Partir. Paris, Albin Michel, 1926; in-12, brown half-marble with corners. First edition
Estimate €60 - €80 -
204 - BARRES (Maurice): A Garden on the Orontes. Two volumes of Greco and Their Figures are attached.
Estimate €60 - €80 -
205 - MONTHERLANT (Henri de): Notebooks. 4 vols. different editions.
Estimate €40 - €60 -
206 - Speech by General Weygand. Paris, 1932; in-8°, black half-chagrin. Untrimmed copy.
Estimate €50 - €60 -
207 - BERNANOS (Georges) : La Grande Peur des Bien-Pensants. Paris, Grasset, 1931; in 12, green half-percaline. First edition. Ex. num. on Alfa
Estimate €60 - €80 -
209 - 119/1. BARBIER (George): LA GUIRLANDE DES MOIS. Chez Meynial, Paris, 1919 - 1920 - 1921; three volumes in-24 bound in decorated silk, gilt edges, printed folders decorated with a character surrounded by small flowers in the corners on each plate. Very nice almanac entirely decorated by George Barbier : covers, slipcases, six off-text colour compositions and numerous black bands.
Estimate €800 - €1,000 -
210 - . THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS, 3 vols.
Estimate €20 - €30 -
211 - REAGE (Pauline) - FINI (Leonor) : Histoire d'O. Paris, Cercle du Livre Précieux, 1962; large in 4° sheets, printed cover, publisher's black velvet slipcase. First illustrated edition, with an introduction by Jean Paulhan and 25 compositions by Leonor Fini, including 16 hors-texte in color (and not 12 as announced in the justification of the edition), 4 headpieces, 4 headbands and a cul-de-lampe in black. Limited edition of 352 numbered copies. One of 314 copies on Arches vel
Estimate €200 - €300 -
212 - Les Estampes Erotiques Japonaises. Paris, Au Cercle du Livre Précieux, 1961; large in folio, 45 pp. of text and 60 plates H.T. under matting, in leaves in publisher's blue silk slipcase, ivory plate with Japanese ideograms mounted on the upper cover, 3 bone clasps. Limited edition of 600 numbered copies on Arches vellum; this is one of the nominative copies, it bears the n° 44.
Estimate €150 - €200 -
213 - . COURTELINE (Georges): Ensemble de neuf volumes des OEuvres. Paris, Librairie de France, 1930-1931; nine (out of ten) volumes in 8° paperback. Each volume is illustrated by an artist: DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC, P. FALKE, GUS BOFA, DIGNIMONT etc. Prefaces by COLETTE, Ed. HERRIOT, Pierre MAC ORLAN, Marcel SCHWOB Numerical copies on pure Lorraine thread from Papeteries d'Arches.
Estimate €200 - €300 -
214 - . Set: - POE (Edgar) - DUBOUT: La Chute de la Maison Usher. Monte Carlo, Ed. du Livre, 1948; in 8° paperback in double slipcase. Ex. num. - COURTELINE (Georges) - DUBOUT: Le Train de 8h 47. Monte Carlo, Ed. du Livre, 1951; in 8° paperback with double cover. Ex. num. - ALAIN-FOURNIER - BEAUREPAIRE (André): Le Grand Meaulnes. Paris,
Estimate €200 - €300 -
215 - - VERLAINE (Paul) - BONNARD (Pierre) : Parallel. - VIRGILE - MAILLOL (Aristide): The Eglogues. - FLAUBERT (Gustave) - DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC (André): The Sentimental Education. - LOUYS (Pierre) - VERTES: The Adventures of King Pausole. - MOLIERE (Georges): Les Fâcheux.
Estimate €200 - €300 -
216 - MODERN BOOKS. FMR; SEREBRIAKOFF; Devises et Autographes; Quatre Discourses pronounced at the Académie Française; SUTHERLAND - APOLLINAIRE; BOSSUET: Oraisons Funèbres; CHATEAUBRIAND: Les Manuscrits des Mémoires d'Outre-tombe. Paris, Club de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 2000; in folio in ff in folder and case; FOURSKY - AMBROGIANI: Ma Destinée s'achève à l'aube. Marseille, 1947; in folio on ff in folder and double slipcase. Ex. num.
Estimate €100 - €150 -
217 - LAGET (Denis) - DARIEN (Georges): The Thief. Ex. num. HUYGUE: Douze Poètes, Douze Peintres. Paris, 1950; ex. num. Transpoétique, 1957. Brasil, 1949. EHRMANN (Gilles): Le Grand Cérémonial. Collection of ten photos, all signed, folder and case. The Oracle, Sophist Dictionary. Brussels, Bibl. Wittockiana, 1994, in plano in ff in case
Estimate €100 - €150 -
218 - FRANCE (Anatole): OEuvres complètes. Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1929; 22 vols. (of 25) in-4° paperback. Ex. num.
Estimate €50 - €60 -
219 - CLAIR (Jean): La Barbarie ordinaire. Paris, NRF, 2001. DELAY (Claude): Le Hammam. Paris, NRF, 1985. RHEIMS (Nathalie): Les Fleurs du Silence. Paris, Flammarion, 2001. CHANCEL ( Jacques): L'Inachevé. Biarritz, 1989. Set of 4 vols. with beautiful dispatches. Attached are 3 miscellaneous volumes.
Estimate €80 - €120 -
220 - DECORATIVE ARTS: RAPIN (Henri): Decorative Sculpture at the 1925 International Exhibition of Decorative Arts. Paris, Moreau, 2nd series, 1925; ornate black cloth portfolio. Collection of 32 plates. (small old spotting).
Estimate €50 - €60 -
221 - CERVANTES : Don Quixote de la Mancha. Ill. by Giffey. Paris, Delagrave, 1925; in 4°, red percaline well decorated (F. of the false title folded). Attached : MAETERLINCK (Maurice) : L'Intelligence des Fleurs. Monte Carlo, Editions du Livre, s. d. ; in 8° paperback, in double slipcase. Numbered copy on laid paper.
Estimate €50 - €60 -
222 - Les Spectacles à travers les Ages. Paris, Editions du Cygne, 1931-1932; three volumes in-4°, half brown basane decorated. 366, 366 and 366 pages, numerous illustrations, 48 plates, 3 of which are stencilled. - I. Theatre, circus, music hall, café-concert, artistic cabarets. - II. Music, dance. - III. The cinema from its origins to our days. One of 100 numbered copies on Lafuma
Estimate €60 - €80 -
223 - COLETTE: - BERTHOMME SAINT-ANDRE: La Vagabonde. - JORDAN (André): The Life of a Simple Man. - LECONTE (Pierre): Le Pain Quotidien. Paris, Editions Nationales, 1945; 3 vol. in 4°, in folders and double slipcases. Numbered copies on vellum, with suites
Estimate €60 - €80 -
224 - NERCIAT (Andrea de) - BECAT (Paul-Emile): Le Doctorat impromptu. Paris, Editions Eryx, 1946; in 4°, in sheets with folder and double slipcase. Numbered copy on Renage vellum.
Estimate €50 - €60 -
225 - - CASANOVA (Giacomo) - LEROUX (Auguste) : Memoirs. Paris, Javal et Bourdeaux, 1931-1932; 10 volumes in 4°, stapled under covers with flaps, cases. Very fine edition including 200 plates hors-texte in colours, vignettes, friezes and cul-de-lampe. One of the 225 numbered copies, with two suites in each volume.
Estimate €250 - €300 -
226 - ANDREWS (William): The Punishments of old. A History of Torture and Corporal Punishment in England. Paris, Carrington, 1902; in-8° paperback. Numerous engraved figures. Numerous engraved figures. (brown spots).
Estimate €80 - €100 -
228 - - BEYLIÉ (Léon de): Publications of the French Society of Archaeological Excavations. Prome and Samara. Archaeological journey in Burma and Mesopotamia. Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1907; large in 8°, [4]-146 pp. with 100 illustrations in the text, and 14 plates out of the text, paperback. The work is one of the many scientific publications that General Léon-Marie-Eugène de Beylié (1849-1910), who had distinguished himself in the Madagascar expedition, gave on his return from a great private a
Estimate €100 - €200 -
229 - - L'ERE ATOMIQUE. Geneva, Ed. Kister, 1947; 10 vols. in 4°, unbleached cloth, title stamped on spines and bottom of upper boards. Complete collection in 10 vols. of this collective work; it is illustrated with numerous black photographs in the text or on full page (spotting on the bindings of two volumes).
Estimate €80 - €100 -
230 - - SISS (William): Deauville 1946 by Siss. Foreword by André de Fouquières. Paris, Edition P.A. Chavane & Cie, 1947; in 4° sheets in printed folder. Edition including 24 lithographic plates in black, representing the life in Deauville. It has been printed at 400 copies, this one is number 167.
Estimate €120 - €150 -
231 - - HECHT (Joseph): Quelques Aventures de Maître Renart. Paris, La Jeune Gravure Contemporaine, Ed. Michel de Romilly, 1950; in folio in printed folder and double cover. Edition printed at 265 copies, it is illustrated with 14 original burin engravings by Joseph HECHT, including the title vignette and a vignette of the justification. This is the first copy of the 14 copies printed on Montval, it bears the number 1
Estimate €300 - €400 -
232 - - EROTICA. SADE (marquis de ) - SCHEM : Justine ou les Infortunes de la Vertu. Paris, Pierre Larrivé, 1949 ; in 4° in ff, in folder and double cover. Ex. H.C. reserved for the artist (damaged case). - LAWRENCE - COLLOT (André): Lady Chatterley. Paris, Deux-Rives, 1946; in 4° sheets in a folder and double slipcase. Numbered copy on Velouté Libris vellum.
Estimate €100 - €120 -
233 - - SAGAN (Françoise): Dans un mois Dans un An. Paris, Julliard, 1957. 8° paperback, in rhodoïd case. First edition of this third novel by Françoise Sagan. One of the copies on Alfa Navarre foam, second large paper after 90 Hollande.
Estimate €120 - €150 -
234 - - BEAUX-ARTS. LORENZTTI (Giulio): The Tiepolo Drawing Book in the Correr Museum in Venice. Venice, Daria, Guarnati Serie Brunetto Fanello, 1946; in folio, publisher's binding. Copy with 87 full-page reproductions.
Estimate €60 - €80 -
235 - - THARAUD (Jérôme et Jean) : Fez ou les Bourgeois de l'Islam. Paris, Plon, 1930; in 12, red half-maroquin with corners, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt head, covers and spine kept. First edition of this novel; one of the 48 numbered copies on Chine, of the first edition.
Estimate €100 - €120 -
236 - - BIBLIOGRAPHY. THE LIBRARY OF PIERRE BERGE. First sale: 11 December 2015 (lots 1 188); Second sale: 8 and 9 November 2016 (lots 189 564); Third sale 28 June 2017 (lots 565 824); Fourth sale 14 December 2018 (lots 825 954). Paris, Pierre Bergé et Associes, in association with Sotheby's, on the dates; together 4 vols. in 4°, printed cloths, different colors. Reference catalogues, abundantly illustrated.
Estimate €100 - €120 -
237 - - ART DECO. Set of 5 documents: No. 29 of the magazine Les Echos des Industries d'Art, Dec. 1927; brochure of the Imprimeris DRAEGER; advertising leaflet for chestnuts; No. 2 of the magazine Saisons, published by AUDIN, the famous printer from Lyon in 1937. Attached: - the commemorative album of "The Royal Tour of the Commonwealth", carried out by Queen Elizabeth and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, between November 1953 and May 1954; in folio, spiral bound, red cover printed. 62bis - A beaut
Estimate €80 - €100 -
238 - - PROUST (Marcel) : Jean Santeuil. Paris, Gallimard, 1952; three volumes in-12, paperback. First edition. Copy on pure Lafuma thread, it bears the n° 789. Also by the same author: Les Plaisirs et Les Jours. Paris, Gallimard, NRF, 1924; in 12 paperback. Copy on Lafuma vellum.
Estimate €100 - €150 -
239 - - KITCHEN. set of 5 volumes devoted to cooking, cleaning, preserving.
Estimate €20 - €40 -
240 - - MASSENET]. Le Théâtre. from n° 19, July 1899, to n° 36, June 1900; in 4°, red half-chagrin. It is in this magazine that an excellent review appeared with numerous photos of the artists and a drawing representing Massenet at the piano.
Estimate €60 - €80 -
241 - - MILITARIA. LEGION OF HONOR. RENAULT (Jules) : The Legion of Honour. Paris, Les Editions d'Art, 1934; in 4°, very ornate red half-chagrin. Abundant and beautiful illustration often, including color plates H.T. Joint : Le Petit Journal Militaire. Years 1905, 1906 and 1907; 3 vols in 4°, half-bottom.
Estimate €60 - €80 -
242 - - MONTAUSIER (baron de) - SCUDERY (Georges)] : La Guirlande de Julie. Paris, Aux Editions de la Main-Tierce, 1947; in 4° in sheets, folder and double cover. Beautiful edition, printed at 200 copies, illustrated with woodcuts by CLEMENT-SERVEAU. One of the 9 numbered copies, enriched with a suite of engravings and an original drawing signed by the artis
Estimate €80 - €100 -
243 - - LA FAYETTE (Madame de): The Princess of Cleves. Paris, A. Vial; in 4°, blue chagrin, slipcase. Numbered copy on Rives.
Estimate €80 - €100 -
244 - - HOFFMANN: Fantastic Tales. Ill. by G. L'Héritier. Paris, A. Vial, black chagrin, slipcase.
Estimate €120 - €140 -
245 - - MORETTI: Masada. Patis, 1982; in plano, orange cloth. Collection of 16 lithographs.
Estimate €150 - €200 -
246 - - HILAIRE - MALLET-JORIS (Fr.): The Circus. Galerie Mozart, Robert Mouret éditeur 1974; in folio in ff, in two orange cloth folders, gilt title on the cover, one for the text of 47 pages, the second containing containing 10 lithographs signed by Camille Hilaire. In a portfolio (identically bound in orange cloth and tied with laces) in plano format, the 5 other lithographs signed and printed on japon.
Estimate €400 - €500 -
247 - - Moretti illustrates Jacques Brel. Paris, Ed. Israël, 1985-1986; three volumes in folio, in white illustrated cardboard in white embossed hardback, and green velvet-covered slipcase with brown titles and designs on half-moon on half-moon spine and first board (with colours for volume II). Copy numbered and signed by the publisher.
Estimate €200 - €250 -
248 - BREL (Jacques) - MORETTI: The Man of La Mancha. 2 vols, copy number 4
Estimate €80 - €100 -
248-1 - BREL (Jacques): Souvenirs. 2 volumes, copy no. 3089
Estimate €80 - €100 -
249 - BIBLIOGRAPHY. CARTERET (Léopold): Le Trésor du Bibliophile. Romantic period; modern illustrated books 1875 to 1945. 6 vols. the first title in half-binding, the other five in paperback.
Estimate €100 - €120 -
250 - MAZADE (Fernand): Anthology of French Poets. Paris, Librairie de France, 1928; 4 vol. in-4° paperback
Estimate €50 - €60 -
251 - - RIMBAUD - PIGNON: Regards. P., 1986; in folio, in ff in slipcase. Numbered copy with the lith. signed by the artist by the artist and the certificate.
Estimate €100 - €120 -
252 - - VIALAR - HOBI: La Grande Meute. Paris, A. Vial, 1971; in folio in ff, in orange folder and slipcase. Ex. num. on Lana vellum, with the original drawing signed.
Estimate €100 - €150 -
253 - - VERLAINE: Free Works of Girls. Ill. by Jacques Pecnard. Paris, 1973; in folio on ff in folder and slipcase. Ex. num. 190.
Estimate €100 - €120
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