VENTE MOBILIER OBJETS D ART

Friday 20 May 2022 at 13:30

Salle 2 - Hôtel Drouot, 9, rue Drouot, 75009 Paris

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Lots (349) Information

349 lots

1 - - MANUSCRIT. Book written with a pen called (sic) Collection of Christian Prayers, useful to my piety and devotion. Made in Dour by Antoine Capouillez who professed to instruct the youth of the place 51 years ago, the 21st of May 1788, made for my use. In 12, title, 168 pp. and 3 pp. of table, bound in brown calf, spine ribbed, brass clasps, worn period binding. Very beautiful handwritten collection of a beautiful calligraphy.

Estimate €200 - €300
2 - - MANUSCRIT. AGRICULTURE. Very important herbarium realized by the School of Agriculture of Grange neuve in Fribourg (Switzerland), realized at the beginning of XXth century. Includes 10 folders with about 300 plates, corresponding to different species of plants glued on paper sheets. Set of format in folio and gathered in a folder of strong cardboard, of which Cyperaceae, 27 plates, Grasses, 55 plates, Caryophylae, 20 plates

Estimate €600 - €800
3 - - MANUSCRIT. NOBLESSE. Elemens du Blason Vraye Origine de la Noblesse, 1745; in 12, basane fauve jaspée, spine with ornamented faux-nerves, red morocco title-piece, red edges. period binding (dull caps and corners). Very interesting manuscript collection of 117 pages, written in brown ink on laid paper. It is composed of 22 different chapters such as: "Origin of nobility, Origin of coats of arms, Artificial figures, Heraldic figures, Honorable figures, Monstrous figures". At the end of the volu

Estimate €200 - €300
4 - LA PLEIADE. Set of 65 volumes of the Pléiade, French and foreign authors: HOMERE, RABELAIS, MALHERBE, CORNEILLE, MOLIERE, RACINE, LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, BALZAC, HUGO, NERVAL, GOGOL, DOSTOIEVSKI, PIRANDELLO, authors and tales of the Middle Ages, History and Chronology of the Middle Ages, etc. (some dust jackets and cases are missing)

Estimate €400 - €600
5 - LA PLEIADE. Set of 23 Albums from the Pléiade: Théâtre Classique, SAND, RIMBAUD, MAUPASSANT, BAUDELAIRE, SAINT-SIMON, DOSTOIEVSKI, PASCAL, STENDHAL, CELINE, MALRAUX, COLETTE, etc. (some jackets and cases are missing)

Estimate €400 - €500
6 - - LA PLEIADE. Set of five Albums of the Pleiade: SAINT-SIMON, ROUSSEAU, DOSTOIEVSKI, MONTHERLANT, CELINE.

Estimate €80 - €120
7 - - TOSCANY. MINI (Paolo): Discorso della Nobilta de Firenze, E de Fiorentini. Firenze, Domenico Manzani, 1593; in 12, old red posterior cardboard. VERY RARE EDITION. Mini was a Florentine humanist physician who lived through the transformation of the Florentine republic into a monarchy by the Medici.

Estimate €300 - €500
8 - - CHAMBRAY (marquis de): L'Art de cultiver les pommiers, les poiriers, et de faire des cidres Selon l'usage de la Normandie. Paris, Ganeau, 1765; in 12, half-basin of the XIXth century. VERY RARE EDITION, rarely found complete (title creased). Two volumes of the Bibliothèque physico-économique instructive et amusante, years 1782 and 1783, are enclosed. Paris, nouv. edition, 1784; two vol. in 12, calf with contemporary ornamental case hardback. Each volume includes respectively 2 and 3 plates

Estimate €200 - €300
9 - - BINDING WITH ARMS. PALISSOT DE MONTENOY. Les Philosophes, comedy in three acts, in verse. Paris, Duchesne, 1760. (4)-91 pp. Catalog des Théâtres nouveaux ou nouvellement réimpriés en 1760. Paris, Duchesne, 1760. 4 pp. Bound with: [COYER (Gabriel-François)]. Discours sur la satyre [sic] contre les Philosophes, Représentée par une Troupe qu'un Poëte Philosophe fait vivre, & approuvé par un Académicien qui a des Philosophes pour Collègues. Athènes (Paris), Chez le Libraire anti-Philos

Estimate €300 - €400
10 - - SORBIERE (Samuel): Relation d'un Voyage en Angleterre, Où sont touchées plusieurs choses, qui regardent l'Estat des Sciences, & de la Religion Paris, Thomas Jolly, 1664; in 12, granite brown calf, ornate ribbed spine, double fillet on boards, tr. mouchetées. Binding of the period. Extremely rare ORIGINAL EDITION of this account by Sorbière, a Protestant philosopher, who in the course of this account gives a broad analysis of Hobbes' thought (small tear with missing foot of spine).

Estimate €200 - €300
10-1 - DU VAIR (Guillaume). Recueil des harangues et traictez du Sr Du Vair, selon l'ordre contenu en la page suyvante. Paris, Abel Langelier, 1606; large vol. in 8°, [8] ff. n. ch., title in a beautiful engraved frame, five ff. of the Notice to the reader, table, privilege, two blank ff., 546 pp. one blank f., full red morocco, smooth spine and boards framed with a double gilt fillet, gilt edges. binding of the period, of a great quality. First edition of this work. Guillaume Du Vair (1556-1621), pre
11 - - GRACIAN (Baltazar): The Man of Court. Translated and commented by Sieur Amelot de La Houssaye. Paris, 4th edition, Martin-Boudot et Martin, 1687; in 12, 32 ff, 373 pp, 1 p. and 1 f., red morocco, very ornate smooth spine, large gilt lace around the boards, speckled edges. Binding of the XVIIIth century (remboitage). Beautiful engraved frontispiece. It is in this sought-after work that Gracian, a Spanish Jesuit moralist of the Spanish Golden Age, develops his famous maxim "to be vulgar in nothi

Estimate €200 - €300
12 - - SAINT-EVREMOND (Charles de) : OEuvres Meslées de Mr de Saint-Evremond. Paris, chez Claude Barbin, 1690-1692; two volumes in 4°, brown speckled calf, very ornate ribbed spine, spotted red edges. Beautiful copy of this edition realized by Barbib at the request of some of the poet's friends, while he was still living in London, where he remained until his death in 1703. Brunet considers it the true first edition. From the bibl. Kuhnholtz-Lordat (ex libris). Brunet, V, 38; Cioranescu 60795-60796

Estimate €300 - €400
13 - - BOSSUET (Jacques-Bénigne) : Maximes et Réflexions sur la Comédie. Paris, Jean Anisson, 1694; in-12, porphyry calf, spine decorated, spotted red edges. First edition of this work by Bossuet, in response to the preface of Father Caffaro, in the work of Boursault, who according to the famous preacher, sinned by indulgence; one finds reflections on the works of Molière, Quinault, Lully, Racine, Corneille.

Estimate €100 - €200
14 - - LA BRUYÈRE (Jean de): Les Caractères de Théophraste traduits du grec avec les Caractères ou Moeurs de ce siècle. Paris, Michallet, 1694; in 12, red morocco, gilt fillet, spine decorated with gilt fillet caissons, gilt edges. Pastiche binding. Eighth edition containing for the first time the Discours de réception à l'Académie française, 46 new characters and 3 old ones increased. Second edition with new remarks indicated by a hand in the margin; under the first one (p. 75), one can rea

Estimate €300 - €400
15 - - ORDER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. Statutes of the Order of the Holy Spirit (Les), estably par Henri IIIème du nom, Roy de France et de Pologne au mois de décembre 1703 ; in 4° maroquin rouge, fleurdelysée lace framing the covers, large gilt corner fleurons enclosing the radiant dove of the Holy Spirit, arms stamped in gold in the center of the covers, spine decorated with a fleur-de-lys and flames, small gilt inner lace, gilt edges. Binding of the period. Engraved title, five vignettes, four lamp-

Estimate €800 - €1,200
16 - - GRACIAN. SILHOUETTE (Etienne) : Political reflections of Baltasar Gracian on the greatest princes and particularly on Ferdinand the Catholic. S. l., s. n., 1730; in 4°, brown speckled calf, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt on marbling. Binding of the time (small defects). ORIGINAL EDITION of Silhouette's translation, with commentaries, of this early work by Father Gracian. It is the deluxe edition in the format in 4°.

Estimate €200 - €300
17 - - Set: - CATALOGUE. Very interesting volume entitled Catalogue on the spine; it is a composition volume, left to a pupil by his master in the 18th century. Composed of blank ff., it includes the fable of the Master and his pupil decorated with two engravings, and several engraved title vignettes. Vol. in 12, blond calf, smooth spine decorated, gilt edges. Binding of the time. - BOSSUET (Jacques-Bénigne) : Maximes et Réflexions sur la Comédie. Paris, Delusseux, 1728; in 12, fawn calf, spine ve

Estimate €200 - €300
18 - - HISTORY. RIBAUD DE LA CHAPELLE : Dissertations sur l'Origine des Francs ; sur l'Etablissement et les Premiers Progrès de la Monarchie Française dans les Gaules avec une Histoire abrégée des Rois de France en vers. Paris, Chaubert, 1748; in 12, old vellum, smooth spine, spotted red edges. 2 ff. n. figures, 194 pp. Uncommon first edition; this copy is complete with the folding engraved plate at the end of the volume, representing various monarchic attributes.

Estimate €200 - €300
19 - - HELVETIUS (Claude Adrien)]: De l'Esprit. Paris chez Durand, 1758; in 4°, fawn-colored calf, spine with ornamented nerves, title-piece in vanilla, red edges, contemporary binding. A fine copy of the third state of the first edition of this famous work, which was condemned as soon as it appeared.

Estimate €200 - €300
20 - - CONSTANT D'ORVILLE]: Les Fastes de la Pologne et de la Russie. Paris, Costard, 1769-1770; two volumes in 12, blond basane, spines with ornate faux-nerves, red morocco titles. Binding of the period. FIRST EDITION. The history of Poland is the subject of the first part, the history of Russia, of the second part.

Estimate €200 - €300
21 - - LE FRANCQ DE BERKHEY : Histoire géographique, physique, naturelle et civile de la Hollande. Bouillon, Aux dépens de la Société Typographique, 1782; four volumes in 12, basane fauve jaspée, spines with decorated faux-nerfs, red edges. Binding of the time. Edition decorated with a frontispiece in vol. I (in fact one of the figures in vol. III), an engraved folding map in color, seven folding tables and 11 hors-texte figures, including four folding engravings. A pleasant copy, despite some

Estimate €250 - €350
22 - - HERODOTE: Histoire d'Herodote, traduite du Grec, avec des Remarques Historiques & Critiques par M. Larcher. Paris, Musier et Nyon, 1786; seven volumes in 8°, blond basane, spine ribbed and decorated, title and greeen marbled, red edges. Binding of the period. Attached : FUSTEL DE COULANGES : La Cité Antique. Paris, Hachette, 1876; in 12, half tan basane with corners, spine decorated, gilt head.

Estimate €250 - €300
23 - BOSSUET : Sermons. Paris, Boudet, 1772; 9 vol. in-12, decorated calf,

Estimate €200 - €300
24 - Memoirs of Beaumarchais. In-4°, marbled basane of the time. Documents of the trials, which took place between 1770 and 1773

Estimate €150 - €200
25 - D'AUBIGNE (Aggripa): Les Aventures du baron de Foeneste. Amst., 1731; 2 vols FONTANES (de): Le Verger. Paris, Prault, 1788; in-8°, blond calf

Estimate €150 - €250
26 - - HARRIS (Jacques) Hermès, ou Recherches philosophiques sur la Grammaire universelle, work translated from English, by Jacques Harris, by François Thurot. Paris, de l'Imprimerie de la république messidor, an IV (1796); in 8°, red morocco, very ornate spine, triple gilt fillet on the boards, inner lace, gilt edges. Fine binding of the period. Rare ORIGINAL EDITION of this famous and sought-after work, in which the author develops the theory of the universality of language and thus of human re

Estimate €300 - €400
27 - - COUNTER-REVOLUTION. ARMEE DE CONDE. - MURET (Théodore) : History of the Army of Condé. Paris, Au Bureau de la Mode, 1844; two volumes in 8°, green half calf, spines decorated. Binding of the time. A good copy, complete with the front cover representing the engraved portraits of the three princes of Condé, the facsimile, the folding map of the battles and the five engraved figures in color representing soldiers and officers of this royal army. - BOUTETIERE (comte de La): L'Armée de Condé

Estimate €150 - €250
28 - - COUNTER-REVOLUTION. - FIEVEE (Joseph) : Des Opinions et des intérêts pendant la révolution. Paris, Le Normant et Michaud, 1809; in 8°, VIII and 264 pp, modern unbleached cloth. A good copy of this essay by Fievee, who reflects on the causes of this upheaval, by studying the history of France. Monglond, VIII, 27 Correspondance générale des Emigrés, ou les Emigrés peints par eux-mêmes. Paris, Lyon, Marseille and London, 1793; two parts in one vol. in 8° paperback, pink paper of waiting

Estimate €300 - €400
29 - - REVOLUTION. Very important collection of pamphlets gathered in a strong volume in 8°, red half-chagrin, with corners, spine with ornamented nerves. Later binding. - MANUEL (Louis-Pierre)]: Les Lettres du P. Manuel, l'un des administrateurs de 1789, sur la révolution, recueillies par un Ami de la Constitution. Paris, Garnery, the third year of Liberty. 239 pp.

Estimate €300 - €500
30 - - REVOLUTION. LEFRANC (abbé): Le Voile levé pour les Curieux, ou le Secret de la révolution révélé à l'aide de la franc-maçonnerie. Second edition, Paris, Lepetit et Guillemard 1792; in 8°, blue half-basin with corners, faux-title, title and 172 pages (misnumbered 171). The author published the first edition in 1791, and was assassinated during the massacres of September 1792 in Paris, at the Carmelite convent.

Estimate €200 - €300
31 - - RIVAROL (Antoine de)] DANTE ALIGHIERI: The Inferno. Poem by Dante. New translation. London and Paris, Mérigot et Barrois, 1783; in 8°, XLVII, 503 pp. 1 p. errata, half brown basane, smooth spine decorated. Binding of the period. Rivarol worked five years on this translation from an Italian edition; on the eve of its printing, he took it back to adapt it to the taste of the time, more frivolous than rigorous. A fine copy of this rare edition.

Estimate €300 - €400
32 - - RIVAROL (Antoine de): Preliminary speech of the new Dictionary of the French Language. Paris, Cocheris, 1797; in 4°, half basane, smooth spine decorated. Binding of the time. First part, the only one published, which was forbidden to be sold in France. Following: De l'Universalité de la Langue Française. Subject proposed to the Academy of Berlin in 1783 by A. C. de Rivarol. Ibidem, idem, 1797.

Estimate €200 - €300
33 - - RIVAROL (Antoine de) : OEuvres complètes de Rivarol, précédées d'une notice sur sa vie. Paris, Léopold Collin, 1808; five volumes in 8°, half blond basane decorated. Binding of the time. Uncommon collective first edition of the Works of the famous polemicist. Copy complete with the portrait of Rivarol in frontispiece.

Estimate €200 - €250
34 - - RESTORATION. [FRENILLY (baron de)] Considérations sur une année de l'Histoire de France. London, Juigné, 1815; in 8°, half Russian coral leather. Binding of the time. The author studies the causes of Napoleon's collapse by comparing them to the English crisis of the XVIIth century and to Cromwell's reign. Very interesting study written in the first months of the Restoration. Attached : - [PONCELET DE BERMOND] : La Garde Royale pendant les évènements du 26 juillet au 5 août 1830. Sec

Estimate €250 - €300
35 - - BONALD (Louis de): Législation primitive, considérée dans les premiers temps par les seules lumières de la raison, suivie de plusieurs traités ou discours politiques. Paris, Le Clere, year XI, 1802; three vol. in 8°, fawn shagreened calf, smooth spine decorated, red or green morocco title and gilt fillets and scrolls, speckled edges. ORIGINAL EDITION very rare of this work BONALD who asserts himself as one of the most important writers of the counter-revolution. He takes up and develops

Estimate €250 - €350
36 - - REVOLUTION. BARRUEL (Reverend Father Auguste): Abrégé des Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire du Jacobinisme. Paris, Adrien Le Clere, 1817; two volumes in 12, basane racinée, smooth green tinted spine very ornate, edges speckled. Binding of the period. XL, 364; IV, 448 pp. and a large folding table. New, revised, corrected and considerably enlarged edition of this text, established by Abbé Jaquemin and containing the essential of the original work concerning Freemasonry and Illuminism at

Estimate €150 - €200
37 - - DELISLE DE SALES (Jean-Baptiste), 1741-1816 : Memoirs in favor of God. Paris, Fuchs, 1802; in 8°, shagreened calf, spine ribbed and decorated, lace on the boards, speckled edges. Binding of the period. Engraved portrait in frontispiece.

Estimate €100 - €200
38 - - LAVATER : Le Lavater portatif. Paris, Vve Hocquart, 1808; in 16, basane jaspée, smooth spine well decorated, fine lace on the boards, gilt edges. Binding of the period. Nice copy of this "pocket" edition of Lavater's famous work. This edition includes 33 plates engraved in color out of the text.

Estimate €150 - €200
39 - - MAISTRE (Joseph de): Les soirées de Saint Pétersbourg, ou Entretiens sur le Gouvernement temporel de la Providence, suivie d'un Traité sur les sacrifices. Paris, Librairie grecque, latine et française, 1821; two volumes in 8°, blue half-calf, spine with ornate nerves. Binding of the time. Beautiful copy of this very rare first edition. Disciple of Saint-Martin and friend of Willermoz, Joseph de Maistre was a dignitary of the rectified Christian masonry. It is in chapters

Estimate €250 - €350
40 - - SAINT-CYR (Guy de)] Mémoire pour servir à l'Histoire des Cacouacs, suivi d'un Supplément à l'Histoire des Cacouacs jusqu'à nos jours. Followed by : Catechisme et Décisions de Cas de Conscience à l'usage des Cacouacs Paris, Société Catholique des Bons Livres, 1828; in 12, brown basane, smooth spine highly decorated throughout. Binding of the time. Uncommon.

Estimate €100 - €150
41 - - HUGO (Victor) : Les Contemplations. Paris, Michel Lévy et Pagnerre, 1856; two volumes in 8°, green half-chagrin, spine with decorated nerves. Binding of the time. FIRST EDITION. The collection includes 158 poems, written as early as 1930 but mainly between 1840 and 1856.

Estimate €400 - €600
42 - - SAINT-SIMON (Louis de Rouvroy, duc de) : Mémoires complets et authentiques du duc de Saint-Simon précédées d'une notice par M. Sainte-Beuve. Paris, Hachette, 1856-1858; 20 volumes in 8°, red half-chagrin, spine ribbed and decorated with stamped fillets, speckled edges. Binding of the period. Engraved portrait of the memorialist in frontispiece. A fine copy of the most complete edition of the Memoirs, with the remarkable notes and comments of Sainte-Beuve.

Estimate €300 - €400
43 - - BIBLIOGRAPHY. JANIN (Jules): Le Livre. Paris, Plon, 1870; in 8°, green half-chagrin, spine ribbed, gilt head, covers kept. Beautiful copy of this remarkable and not out of fashion study devoted to the book and its history, tool of knowledge and reflection...

Estimate €150 - €200
44 - - GOBINEAU (Arthur, count of): Les Pléiades. Stockholm, Müller, and Paris, Plon, 1874; in 12 paperback, printed yellow cover. First edition of which no large paper was printed. It is rare to find a paperback copy in such a perfect condition, all the more rare as it was a complete bookstore failure, whereas it is undoubtedly Gobineau's greatest book.

Estimate €100 - €200
45 - - COLART (the abbot): Histoire de France, méthodique et comparée, with text, synoptic tables and 77 engravings. Paris, new edition, Hachette, s. d. (1875); in 8° oblong, half red basane, printed green cardboard boards, case. Binding of the time (restored). There was a time when one learned the history of France with the help of tables and engravings of beautiful quality.

Estimate €120 - €150
46 - - PARIS IN ETCHING. New series. Paris, L'Echo de la Sorbonne, 1879; large in 4°, brown half-maroquin with corners, smooth spine with mosaic decoration in long, gilt head. Binding of the time. Bound with Eaux-Fortes Parisiennes. Two parts with numbered pagination. The set includes 50 hors-texte etchings after drawings by BONNAT, Félicien ROPS, Louise ABBEMA, WATTEAU, Léon LHERMITTE, GUERARD, LAURENS (in two states), etc. A well-bound copy (a few stai

Estimate €300 - €400
47 - - CALONNE (Alphonse de)]. Noblesse de contrebande par Toison d'or. Paris, chez les Marchands de Livres Curieux, 1883 : in 8°, 338 pp. and 1 f., brown half-chagrin, spine ribbed, title stamped, gilt head, covers and spine preserved. Only 500 copies of this work. Beautiful copy in a binding signed G. Guétant. Attached : - Le Réveil de la Noblesse. S. l. n. d. ; in 8°, 1 title page, 6 pp. in green half-calf with corners, smo

Estimate €200 - €400
48 - - DUMAS (Alexandre): The Drama of Ninety-Three. Paris, Michel Lévy, s. d. (1867); three volumes in 12, green half-chagrin, spine with ornate nerves. Nice copy.

Estimate €150 - €250

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