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VENTE TABLEAUX, MOBILIER OBJETS D'ART

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Lots (338) Information

338 lots

1 - FENELON : The Avantures of Telemachus son of Ulysses. By late Messire François de Salignac, de la Mothe Fénelon. New Edition, Conforming to the Original Manuscript, And Enriched with Engraved Figures. Amsterdam, J. Wetstein & G. Smith, Rotterdam, Jean Hofhout, 1734; in 4° of (2) ff., X, XVII, (1), 424 pp. in porphyry calf, spine decorated, red edges (period binding). The illustration by Bernard PICART and his workshop includes a portrait of the author engraved by Pierre Drevet after Josep

Estimate €300 - €500
2 - - FONTENELLE (Bernard BOUVIER de) : Nouveaux Dialogues des Morts. Paris, Brunet, 1700; two volumes in 12, brown speckled calf, spine decorated with a repeated iron figuring a winged cherub and gilt fillets and scrolls, boards decorated with a double fillet and the same iron in the corners, arms stamped in the center of the boards, speckled red edges. Binding of the period. Copy of the fifth edition of these Dialogues, very well bound with the arms of Bernard Chérin, native of Champagne, 1718-17

Estimate €300 - €400
3 - - ROGISSART (Alexandre de). Les Délices de l'Italie, Contenant une description exacte du Païs, des principales Villes, de toutes des antiquitez, & de toutes de raretez qui y trouvent. Work enriched with a very large number of figures in intaglio. Paris, La Compagnie des Libraires, 1707; four volumes small in 8°, brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red morocco title and giblets, spotted red edges. Binding of the period. A fine copy of the second edition; it includes the four illustrate

Estimate €300 - €400
4 - LONGUS : Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé. S.l.n.d., 1745; in 12, red morocco, spine with ornate faux-nerves, triple fillet and gilt corner finials on the boards, gilt edges. Binding of the period. Beautiful edition, illustrated with a frontispiece after COYPEL and figures drawn by the Regent. The figure of the small feet is missing (freckles).

Estimate €150 - €200
5 - - VAUVENARGUES (Luc de Clapiers de). Introduction to the Knowledge of the Human Spirit, followed by Reflections and Maxims. Paris, Antoine-Claude Briasson, 1746; in 12, speckled fawn calf, arms in the center, spine decorated with a crowned figure at the foot, spotted red edges. Binding of the period. First edition, very rare in this condition. Copy complete of the errata leaf. Enclosed : [FENELON (François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon)] Abrégé des Vies des Anciens Philo

Estimate €400 - €500
6 - - vau (Jean de) : Contes et Nouvelles en vers. London, Nourse, 1769; two volumes in 16, fawn calf, spines decorated, red edges. Binding of the time. Beautiful edition, often given for a Cazin edition; it includes the engraved portrait of La Fontaine, in frontispiece, the titles in beautiful frames (the title of vol. 2 bears the name of the publisher and the date, 17 engraved figures in vol. 1 and 14 in vol. 2, often enhanced with watercolor. A fine copy.

Estimate €200 - €300
7 - MARSEILLE. Almanach historique de Marseille, Contenant les Ephémérides, calculées par son Méridien, et l'Etat raisonné de l'Eglise, du Gouvernement Civil et Militaire, de la Marine, Des Tribunaux...Pour l'Année de Grâce 1773. Marseille, Jean Mossy, 1773; in 16, olive green morocco, very ornate spine, gilt lace on the edge of the boards, gilt edges. Binding of the period. A very nice copy.

Estimate €200 - €300
8 - - SAINT-LAMBERT (Jean-François de): The Seasons. Poem. [followed by] Contes, Poésies fugitives et Fables orientales. Amsterdam, seventh edition, 1775; large in 8°, faux-title, frontispiece, title, 467 pp. 6 engraved plates, f. of errata, full red morocco, spine very wavy, boards decorated with a triple gilt fillet, inner lace, gilt edges. Binding by R. PETIT. Very fine edition illustrated with a frontispiece and six hors-texte figures by Moreau le Jeune, engraved by Delaunay, Duclos, Prévos

Estimate €300 - €400
9 - - [Ermenonville]. [GUYOT (Laurent)]. Picturesque Views, Plans, &c. Of the Principal English Gardens in France. Ermenonville. S. l. n. d., (Paris, Villeneuve, 1785); in 4° oblong, full red morocco, spine ribbed and decorated, triple gilt fillet on covers, inner lace, gilt edges. Binding of the period. A very fine first edition copy of this very beautiful suite of twelve views and a folding plan of the park of Ermenonville, engraved and printed in colors, extremely rare in a fine contemporary

Estimate €800 - €1,000
10 - BINDING. FLORIAN (Jean Pierre Claris de) : Théâtre Italien. Paris, Didot 1784-1786; three volumes in 16, full emerald green morocco, spines with ornate faux-nerves, triple gilt fillet on the boards, fine lace on the edges, rich inner lace, gilt edges. Fine binding by DEROME with its label. This beautiful edition by Didot, includes a frontispiece engraved after drawings by FLOUEST or QUEVERDO in each volume, and 252 pp., 211 pp. and XII pp. and 234 pp. A very fine copy.

Estimate €300 - €500
11 - - Memoirs of Princes. Recueil de huit pièces relatives au Mémoire présenté au Roi par Monseigneur Comte d'Artois, M. le Prince de Condé, M. le Duc de Bourbon, M . le Duc d'Enghien, & M. le Prince de Condé. S. l., 1788-1789; in 8°, half tan basane, olive morocco title-pieces. Binding of the time. Rare copy; it includes the memoirs of the princes of the blood, but also the answers to these memoirs, by authors like Morellet, Brizard...

Estimate €200 - €300
12 - GRIMM (baron de) : Mémoires politiques et anecdotiques, inédits, de la Cour de France, pendant les règnes de Louis XV et de Louis XVI, contenant des f aits curieux et des anecdotes piquantes depuis l'année 1743 jusqu'en 1789. Paris, Lerouge-Wolff, 1830; two vol. in 8°, red half-basin, spines with decorated faux-nerfs, edges speckled. Binding slightly post. A fine copy.

Estimate €150 - €250
13 - -TRESSAN (Louis-Elisabeth de La Vergne, comte de): History of the Little Jehan of Saintré and the Lady of the Beautiful Cousins. Extracted from the old chronicle of this name. Paris, Impr. de Didot Jeune, 1791; small in 16, red morocco, smooth spine decorated with a repeated iron figuring a covered urn and gilt fillets, plates decorated with two rows of gilt fillets, gilt edges, green moire endpapers. Binding of the time. Edition decorated with a frontispiece and three engraved figures, after d

Estimate €200 - €300
14 - BINDING WITH ARMS. FLECHIER (Esprit), 1632-1710 : Oraisons funèbres. Paris, Dezallier, 1691; two volumes in 12, blond calf, spines highly ornamented, red morocco title and greefs, arms stamped in the center of the boards, spotted red edges. Binding of the period. First collective edition complete with the eight famous orations. Beautiful title vignette, repeated, by Mariette. Copy with the arms of Armand-Jean de Vignerot du Plessis, duke of Richelieu, General of the royal galleys, nephew of the

Estimate €300 - €400
15 - [POUGET (François-Aimé). Instructions on the principal Duties of the Knights of Malta, drawn up by the Author of the Catechism of Montpellier, on the Memoirs of a Knight of Malta; for the use of the Knights, their confessors, and all those who wish to enter or have their children enter this Order. Where one will find important verities for all kinds of states. Paris, Nicolas Simart, 1712; in 12, spotted fawn calf, spine with nerves, spotted red edges. Binding of the period. The author, a pries

Estimate €100 - €150
16 - LA FONTAINE (Jean de): Selected Fables put into verse by Monsieur De La Fontaine. With a New Commentary by M. Coste. Paris, 1745; two parts in one volume in 12, fawn-colored calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red edges. Binding of the period. A pleasant and uncommon edition: it is decorated with a beautiful frontispiece, in vol. I, after Picart, and, in vol. II, with a portrait of the duchess of Montpensier. It also includes a table of contents.

Estimate €200 - €300
17 - SENAC DE MEILHAN (Gabriel): Considérations sur l'esprit et les moeurs. London, et se trouve à Paris, Chez les Marchands des Nouveautés, 1787; in 8°, basane fauve jaspée, spine with false-nerve ornamented, red morocco title-piece, red edges. Binding of the period. Edition published the same year as the original. It is in this book that Sénac de Meilhan strongly opposes Necker's financial theories, putting forward the importance to be given to the population, th

Estimate €250 - €300
18 - BOSSUT (Abbot): Traité élémentaire d'Algèbre. Paris, Chez Claude-Antoine Jombert, 1773; in 8°, XXXV, 450 pages, basane fauve jaspée, spine ribbed and decorated, red edges. Binding of the period.

Estimate €60 - €80
19 - REVOLUTION. Examen politique sur les Emigrés, où l'on prouve que leur proscription est injuste ; qu'une paix solide ne peut se faire sans une amnistie en leur faveur ; que leur rentrée est politique... By P. F. L. Paris, Cottin, an VIII (1800) ; in 8°, XII, 60 pp. half tan leather, spine with ornamented faux-nerfs. Modern binding. Attached : - BARRUEL (l'abbé): Decisive question on the pow

Estimate €150 - €200
20 - REVOLUTION. [MARCHANT (François), 1761-1793] La Jacobinéide, poëme héroi-comique... Paris, au bureau des sabats jacobites, 1792; in 8°, decorated blond basane, blue edges. Pastiche binding (small tears on the spine). Rare first edition of this satyric pamphlet divided into twelve songs; each one is decorated with an engraved plate H. T. Tourneux, II, 1426. Attached : MOUNIER (Joseph) : Appel au Tribunal de l'opinion publique

Estimate €250 - €300
21 - VOLTAIRE [SABATIER DE CASTRES (abbé)] : Tableau philosophique de l'esprit de M. de Voltaire, pour servir de suite à ses Ouvrages, & de Mémoires à l'histoire de sa Vie. Geneva, Chez les Frères Crammer, 1771; in 8°, XII, 380 pp. half blond calf, spine decorated with faux-nerves, coral calf title-piece. Binding of the period. Nice copy of this rare first edition. The author takes pleasure in listing all the authors against whom Voltaire, with his legendary benevolence, was relentless, suc

Estimate €200 - €300
22 - SAVARY (Claude-Etienne, 1750-1788): Letters on Egypt. Paris, Bleuet jeune, year VII (1798); three volumes in 8°, half-basecloth, smooth spine ornamented, red mar. title and tomaison. Binding of the time. New edition of this first literary voyage to Egypt, increased by an alphabetical table of contents; it includes three folding maps and the folding plan of the great pyramid out of text (old restorations to two maps).

Estimate €200 - €300
23 - MAISTRE (Joseph de). Les Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg, ou Entretiens sur le gouvernement temporel de la Providence : suivi d'un Traité sur les sacrifices. Paris, Librairie Grecque, Latine et Française, 1821; two volumes in 8°, fawn colored calf, spines with very ornate faux-nerves, red or green morocco title and tomes, speckled edges (period binding). A fine copy of the first editio

Estimate €200 - €300
24 - SAINT-SIMON duke of) : Unpublished papers of the duke of Saint-Simon. Letters and Dispatches on the Spanish Embassy. Tableau de la Cour d'Espagne en 1721. Paris, A. Quantin, 1880 ; in 8°, half calf, spine ribbed with gilt fillet decoration, title page in red or green morocco. Binding of the period. FIRST EDITION. The long and interesting preface is written by Ed. DRUMONT. A nice copy.

Estimate €80 - €100
25 - - AGAINST REVOLUTION. - FERRAUD (Antoine comte): Considerations on the social revolution. London, 1794; 263 pp. including 6 pp. of table and one f. of errata. Bound with: - MAISTRE (Joseph de): Considérations sur la France. London, 1797; VIII, 9-191 pp. including 2 ff. of table. Rare counterfeit of the original edition published the same year, probably printed in France. - Considérations sur les révolutions

Estimate €200 - €300
26 - MILITARIA. Collection of plates from the Encyclopedia, 18th century edition. - The harquebusier, 3 pages, six plates, the first one is folding. - Military Art, 7 pages, five plates of costumes, then fifteen plates of tactics, seventeen plates of fortifications. - Artificer, 2 pages, seven plates. The whole is preserved in a vol. in folio, half unbleached cloth, red chagrin title page. Binding of the XIXth century.

Estimate €300 - €400
27 - - SENAC DE MEILHAN (Gabriel): Du Gouvernement, des Moeurs, et des Conditions en France avant la Révolution, avec le Caractère des principaux personnages du Règne de Louis XVI. Hambourg, Benjamin Gottlob Hoffmann, 1795; in 8°, blond calf, spine very ornate in long. Binding of the period. A very fine copy of the first edition of this essay on institutions. (two corners rubbed).

Estimate €250 - €350
28 - - GILBERT (Nicolas): Complete works with the author's corrections and variants accompanied by literary and historical notes. Paris, Dalibon, 1823; in 8°, [4]-XVI-371pp, blond speckled calf, spine with decorated faux-nerves, red morocco title-piece, floral lace on the boards. Binding of the period. First complete edition of Gilbert's works. This poet was put forward fro

Estimate €100 - €200
29 - - GOLDSMITH (Lewis): Secret History of the Cabinet of Napoleon Buonaparte and the Court of Saint-Cloud. Paris, 2nd edition, 1814; two volumes bound in 8°, half tan calf, smooth spine, green calf title-piece. Binding of the period. A nice copy.

Estimate €100 - €200
30 - MAISTRE (Joseph de): Les Soirées de Saint Petersbourg, Entretiens sur le Gouvernement temporel de la Providence; Suivis d'un Traité sur les Sacrifices. Paris, Librairie Grecque, Latine et Française, 1821, two vol. in 8°, half blond basane, spine with decorated false rings, marbled edges. Binding of the time. Posthumous first edition; it is decorated with a portrait of the author, lithographed in black. At its publication, this book was a great success and influenced many authors (some foxing

Estimate €300 - €400
31 - - LAPENE (Edouard): Twenty-six months in Bougie, or Collection of memoirs on its Conquest; its occupation and its future. Historical, moral, political and military notice on Kabailes. Paris, Anselin et Gaultier-Laguionie, and Toulouse, Hénault et Martegoute, n. d. (around 1830-1835); in 8°, green jaspered cardboard of the time (cancelled stamp).

Estimate €100 - €150
32 - MERIMEE (Prosper): La Double Méprise by the author of Théâtre de Clara Gazul. Brussels, Méline, 1833; small in 12, blond half-calf decorated. Binding of the time worn. Attached : PLINO THE YOUNG : Panegyric of Trajan. Paris, Aumont, 1772; in 16, blond basane, smooth spine decorated, tr. Red. Binding of the time. Supra libros of a school.

Estimate €100 - €150
33 - MUSSET (Alfred de): Poésies Complètes. Comedies and Proverbs. Paris, Charpentier, 1840; two volumes in 12, green half-maroquin, spines decorated, case. Bound in contemporary style (the case is later). A fine copy of the first collective edition of Musset's works. Each volume is well completed with the f. of the publications of the Bibl. Charpentier.

Estimate €150 - €250
34 - - OLD NICK (Emile FORGUES, said) - GRANDVILLE (Jean Isidore GIRARD, said) : Small miseries of the human life. Paris, Fournier, 1843; large in 8°, VIII and 391 pp. half green basane, spine ornamented in long. Binding of the time. First printing of the illustrations of this work which will be often republished. "Charming illustration, one of the most witty of Grandville" (Carteret), which consists of 200 vignettes, including 2 frontispieces and 48 woodcut plates after Grandville. Carteret, III, 4

Estimate €150 - €250
35 - ENFANTINA. - GERARD (Jules): Le Tueur de lions. Paris, Hachette, s. d.; ill in color. - LETURQUE (Henri): Cartahut le Matelot. Paris, Combet et Cie, s.d. (acc.) - MONTEIL (Edgar): Jeanne la Patrie. Paris, Martin, s.d. - VOOGT (Gos. De): Les Animaux domestiques. Paris, Flammarion, n.d. Set o

Estimate €150 - €200
36 - - ORNITHOLOGY. LE MAOUT (Emmanuel): Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux suivant la classification de M. Isidore Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire ... Paris, L. Curmer, 1855; large in 8°, green half-chagrin, spine with ornate nerves, gilt fillets on the boards. Binding of the period. A fine copy of the second edition, complete with 35 plates out of the text, fourteen of which are in color and numerous vignettes.

Estimate €150 - €250
37 - - LE PLAY (Frédéric): La Réforme Sociale en France. Paris, Dentu, third edition, 1867; three vol. in 12, eggplant half-chagrin, spine ribbed and decorated. Binding of the period. One of the rare copies enriched with a letter from the author, this one to the abbé Laverrière. Le Play is still considered today as the father of sociology in France, and as one of the great social reformers.

Estimate €100 - €200
38 - Set: - Imagerie Artistique. Paris, anc. Maison Quantin, Librairies-Imprimeries Réunies, s.d. Collection of 20 color plates, bound in one vol. in folio, black half-chagrin with stripes (upper cover damaged). - THE AUTOGRAPH. Events of 1870-1871. Introduction by Mr. Jules Janin. Paris, 1871; in 4° oblong, half red basane decorated of the time. Collection of 225 pages.

Estimate €50 - €100
39 - - HOUSSAYE (Arsène): Le Roi Voltaire. Paris, Dentu, 1878; in 12, XXIV- 249 pp, red morocco, spine ribbed and decorated, triple gilt fillet on the boards, gilt edges, covers and spine preserved, untrimmed. Binding by SMEERS. A very fine copy, one of the 100 on Hollande containing the Coronation of Voltaire by Léopold Flameng and the Guillermie by Moreau le Jeune in double state, it bears the number 47.

Estimate €100 - €200
40 - YRIARTE (Charles): Venice. Histoire... Paris, Rothschild, 1878; in folio, red percaline very ornate of the publisher. Rich iconography. YRIARTE (Charles): Florence. L'Histoire... Paris, Rothschild, 1881; in folio, publisher's highly decorated beige percaline. Rich iconography.

Estimate €200 - €300
41 - - BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE: Paul and Virginie. Illustrations by LALAUZE. Paris, Liseux, 1879; in 12, blue morocco, richly decorated ribbed spine, boards decorated with a triple fillet and crossed palmettes in the corners, interior lace, gilt edges. Binding by CANAPE. Numbered copy on Hollande (hinges slightly rubbed).

Estimate €100 - €200
42 - Presidential Travels of Mr. Carnot in the South and Corsica. Paris, Van Bosch Photography (Paul Boyer, Successor°, 189; in 4°, publisher's binding in red perc. decorated. Prize book offered to a student of 5th grade, from the College of Parthenay. It is illustrated with numerous photographs, including the beautiful folding view of the Toulon roadstead, during the launching of the battleship Magenta (ex. slightly unstuck).

Estimate €50 - €60
43 - ENFANTINA. Important set of 27 volumes of Bibliothèque Rose, ed. Hachette, including seven titles of the Countess of Segur Ten miscellaneous volumes are attached.

Estimate €100 - €200
44 - LEAUTAUD (Paul): Le Petit Ami. Paris, Mercure de France, 1903; in 12 paperback, later folder and slipcase. Rare first edition; one of the first copies in first printing on edition paper, with the cover and the title with the address of the rue de L'Echaudé-Saint-Germain and the red cocotte at the justification, characteristic of the author's copies.

Estimate €400 - €600
45 - - PROUST (Marcel): - Les Plaisirs et les Jours. Paris, NRF, 1924; in 12, 277 pp, paperback, original printed cover. Reprint of the edition published in 1896 and including the preface by Anatole France. One of 350 numbered copies on Lafuma-Navarre vellum paper. - Jean Santeuil. Paris, Gallimard, 1952; three volumes in 8° stapled, 336 pp, 342 pp, 336 p

Estimate €200 - €300
46 - - PARIS. DABIT (Eugene): L'Hôtel du Nord. Paris, Denoël, 1929; in 8° paperback, printed cover. First edition, one of the few unnumbered copies on Alfa reserved for the writer. Handwritten letter from the author, dated in Paris on December 5, 1929. Copy enriched opposite the title, with a very beautiful drawing in black ink signed by Eugène Dabit, representing Madame Raymonde lying on her bed, a character of the novel, whose incarnation in

Estimate €300 - €400
48 - CITROEN. The Yellow Cruise. Citroën Central Asia expedition. Third mission. Georges-Marie HAARDT louis AUDOUIN-DUBREUIL. 1931-1932. By Georges LE FEVRE. Paris, plon 1933; large volume in 4°, full lemon morocco, five ribbed spine, title stamped on the spine, ideogram in red on black morocco background in the center of the upper board, gilt head, inner lace, slipcase. A very nice copy of the edition of this legendary mission, entrusted by André CITRÖEN to HAARDT and AUDOUIN-DUBREUIL. It is ill

Estimate €600 - €800
49 - - VOLLARD (Ambroise): Souvenirs d'un Marchand de tableaux. Paris, revised and enlarged edition, Albin Michel, 1937; in 8°, half tan basane, spine ribbed and decorated with bold and light colored fillets, upper cover decorated with a drawing by Picasso, preserved. Copy, enriched with a beautiful sending from Vollard. Attached : JARRY (Alfred): Ubu Roi. Paris, Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1922; in 12, green half-basane.

Estimate €100 - €150
50 - - BERNANOS (Georges): - Le Crépuscule des Vieux. Paris ; Gallimard, NRF, 1956 ; in 12, havane cloth decorated in three colors according to the model of Paul Bonet, rhodoïd, case. First edition printed at 550 copies on vellum labeur. - Monsieur Ouine. Frontispiece by André COLLOT. Paris, Plon, 1946; in 12, half red chagrin, spine ribbed, gilt head, covers preserved. Numbered copy on Johannot. Attached : - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules): Letters to Léon Bloy. Paris, Mercure de France, 1902, ; in 1

Estimate €100 - €150

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