FURNITURE & OBJETS D'ART
Wednesday 15 November 2023 at 13:30
Salle 11 - Hôtel Drouot, 9, rue Drouot, 75009 Paris
378 lots
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37 - FENELON (François de Salignac de la Mothe-): Les Aventures de Télémaque, suivies des Aventures d'Aristonoüs. Edition given by Mathilde Guesde, with steel engravings by Victor Adam. Augmented by a Vocabulary of all the terms of History, Mythology and ancient Geography, used in these two works. Paris, Alphonse Henriot, 1837; in 8°, cherry half calf, spine decorated with rich gilt decoration, speckled edges. Contemporary binding. A fine copy, despite some unavoidable foxing on paper of the per
Estimate €80 - €100 -
38 - GOETHE, Mémoires de Goethe, translated and preceded by an introduction by Henri Richelot. Paris, Charpentier, 1844; in 12, half plum chagrin, ornate ribbed spine. Contemporary binding. A fine copy of the first French edition. Joint: MAISTRE (Joseph de): Examen de la philosophie de Bacon. Lyon et Paris, Pélagaud et Cie, 1855, 3 editions; two volumes in one, in 8°, half red calf decorated (spine slightly faded).
Estimate €100 - €150 -
39 - RAVIGNAN (R.P. de): Clément XIII et Clément XIV. Paris, Julien, Lalinier et Compani, 1854; 2 vol. in 8°, full blond calf, edges speckled. Very interesting biography of these two popes, and their relations with the various states of Europe until the suppression of the Society of Jesus. Ex of Guillaume Gabriel PAVEE de VENDEUVRE, French politician, with his coat of arms stamped on the boards.
Estimate €80 - €100 -
40 - CANDOLLE (Alphonse de): Histoire des sciences et des savants depuis deux siècles. Genève et Bâle, Georg, 1885, 2 ed. in 8°, modern half-grain. Important treatise in which the author devotes substantial chapters to heredity and selection.
Estimate €100 - €200 -
41 - L'Image. Revue artistique et littéraire ornée de figures sur bois, published monthly. Paris, Floury, 1896-1897; twelve issues bound in one volume in 4°, red half-maroquin, spine decorated with rich mosaic decoration featuring a burin and two pencils framed by gilded laurel scrolls, gilt head, issue covers retained at end of volume, general cover and spine retained, untrimmed. Bound by VERMOREL. Complete collection of this important magazine founded by the Corporation of Wood Engravers. Litera
Estimate €500 - €600 -
42 - BLOY (Léon): Le Mendiant Ingrat. Journal de l'auteur, 1892-1895. Bruxelles, Edmond Deman, 1898; in 8° paperback, copy of the second edition, signed by the writer, personalized dispatch from Bloy to Raoul Le Meland. Also by the same author: - Le Sang du Pauvre. Paris, Mercure de France, 1912. in 12 broché, ex num. - Le Vieux de la Montagne. 1907-1910. Paris, Mercure de France, 1911.in 12 broché, original ed; ex.num. complete with frontispiece. - Pèlerin de l'Absolue, 1910-1912. Paris, Mercur
Estimate €200 - €300 -
43 - SET: - GAUTIER (Théophile): Jettatura. Illustrations by François Courboin. Paris, Romagnol, 1904; in 8° paperback. - DANRIT (Le Capitaine, Commandant Driant): L'Alerte. Paris, Flammarion; in 8°, red percaline, ornate spine, generously illustrated upper cover, gilt edges. - PELLAT ( Solange) : Histoire d'une Famille de Cerfs. Paris, Delagrave, s.d; in 8°, gray percaline, ornate spine, fine decoration on upper cover. - Catalog for the Cordesse 1985-1986 exhibition, in 4° paperback, complete
Estimate €100 - €200 -
44 - PELADAN (Josephin): L'Art Idéaliste et Mystique, précédé de la Réfutation esthétique de Taine. Paris, Sansot, 1911; in 12 paperback, printed yellow cover, new ed. of this great classqiue. HANDWRITTEN LETTER TO TANCREDE DE VISAN. Joint: - PERET (Benjamin): De Derrière les Fagots. Paris, Ed surréalistes, José Corti; 1934. in 12 paperback; blue printed cover, first edition; ex. num. sur velin. -RETTE (Adolphe) : Le Règne de la Bête. Paris, 1908; in 12 broché, printed cover. original ed
Estimate €100 - €200 -
45 - BALZAC (Honoré de): D'ung Paouvre qui avoyt nom le Vieulx-par-Chemins. Handwritten text and polychrome vignettes and figures by Joseph HEMARD. Paris, Crès, 1914; large in 8°, full parchment, spine and boards with polychrome painted decoration, gilt-edged head, covers preserved, jaspé paper dust jacket. Fine edition, one of 500 numbered copies on vellum.
Estimate €150 - €200 -
46 - ROLLAND (Romain) : Voyage musicale au Pays du Passé. Paris, Edouard-Joseph, 1919; in 12 paperback, untrimmed. First edition illustrated with out-of-text engraved figures by GALANIS. One of 120 copies on Hollande, complete with the suite of woodcuts by Galanis. Joint: - LOUYS (Pierre) : Un chapitre érotique inédit d'Aphrodite. Alexandrie (Paris), 1991; in 8° on ff, in ill. folder, ex num. - DORGELES (Roland) : Partir ... Paris, Albin Michel, 1926; in 12, half brown mar. with corners, ribbed s
Estimate €200 - €250 -
47 - LABORDE (Guy): Les Pendus au réverbère. Preface by Pierre Mac Orlan, color illustrations by Chas Laborde. Paris, Edition Henry-Parville, 1926; in 4° paperback. First edition, one of 100 copies on Arche. Joint: - ZWEIG (Stephan): Souvenir et Rencontres. Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1951; in 12 paperback. Original edition, 1 of 40 copies on Alpha. - SUARES (André): Sur la Mort de mon Frère. Paris, Emile-Paul, 1917; in 12, half plum chagrin, cover and spine preserved, gilt head. 1 of 50 ex num on H
Estimate €200 - €300 -
48 - AUDOUX ( Marguerite) - BELOT (Gabriel): Marie-Claire. Paris, Les Eclectiques du Livre, 1932; In 4°, on ff in chemise and double embattage. Ex. Num complete with the black suite and the color suite of all the illustrations in a separate volume, and the menu for Marie-Claire's Dinner, enriched with an original signed drawing.
Estimate €200 - €300 -
49 - ENSEMBLE of five volumes, in 12, editions de la NRF, bound in hardback from designs by Paul Bonet for the first two and Mario Prassinos for the last three: - GIDE (André) : Les Nourritures terrestres, 1935. One of 30 ex H.C. - GIDE (André) : Les Caves du Vatican, 1950. ex nul sur velin labeur. - SUPERVIELLE (Jules): Robinson, 1948. ex num on Alpha. - KAFKA (Franz): La Colonie Pénitencière, 1948. ex num on Alpha. - COCTEAU (Jean): Poèmes, 1948. ex num on Alpha
Estimate €200 - €250 -
50 - CELINE (Louis Ferdinand): Ecole des Cadavres. Paris, Denoël, 1938; in 8° paperback. First edition; 1 of 75 ex num on pur fil Lafuma. Joint : - CELINE (Louis Ferdinand) : Les Beaux Draps and Guignol's Band. Paris, 1941, 2 vols. - DRUMONT (Edouard) Le Secret de Fourmies. Paris, 1892, 2 vols, in 12, half cloth.
Estimate €200 - €300 -
51 - LACLOS (Pierre Choderlos de): Les Liaisons dangereuses, Lettres recueillies dans une société et publiées pour l'instruction de quelques autres. London (Paris), 1820; two volumes in 12, lemon half-maroquin with corners, highly ornate ribbed spines with mosaic decoration, gilt edges. Bound by POUGET, bookbinder in Paris. Beautifully printed edition illustrated with six fine hors-texte engravings after drawings by Achille DEVERIA, by Tardieu, Touzé, Frilley, Lefèvre and Caron. A very pleasant
Estimate €200 - €300 -
52 - SCHILLER: Sammtliche Werke in zwolf Baden. Stuttgart, Tubingen, 1838; 12 vols in 12; half anthracite chagrin with corners, ornate spine. Fine edition; portrait of the poet on frontispiece of volume 1. Freckles
Estimate €100 - €200 -
53 - Fêtes et courtisanes de la Grèce; Supplément aux voyages d'Anacharsis et d'Entenor... Paris, Buisson l'an VIIII, 1801; 4 vol in 8°; half lavender blue calf, blue calf title-pieces, marbled edges. Contemporary binding
Estimate €150 - €200 -
54 - CONDILLAC (Etienne Bonnot de): OEuvres, Paris, Chouel, An VI, 1798; 23 vol in 8° half lavender blue calf, blue calf title-pieces, marbled edges. Contemporary binding. A fine copy, complete with 23 volumes.
Estimate €300 - €500 -
55 - FARRERE (Clauder): La Bataille. Paris, Auguste Blaizot, 1925; in 4° paperback, illustrated cover. A fine copy of this edition, illustrated with color illustrations and black figures in the text by Charles Fouqueray. Numbered copy on velin d'Arche. Handwritten letter from Claude Ferrère.
Estimate €300 - €400 -
56 - HANSI: l'Histoire d'Alsace racontée! par l'oncle Hansi. Paris, Floury, 1912; in 4°publisher's blue boards - HANSI: le Paradis Tricolore. Paris, 1918; in 8° publisher's decorated cloth - HANSI: Mon village. Ceux qui n'oublient pas. Paris Floury. In 8 Oblong polychrome blue card by Engel Relieur. One volume enclosed.
Estimate €150 - €200 -
57 - Non-revenue
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58 - GREAT WAR. "France! How your name caresses my ear". In-folio manuscript collection written in October 1914 in Holland by a young French officer born in Paris, comprising 5 pp. He declaims his love for France: "France! how your name caresses my ear, sweet and bewitching as the voice of the nightingale enchants the nights of May... For centuries you have been the Chosen One, the alma mater, supreme guide of world taste. Listen no longer to the deranged words of those who judge you to be behind the
Estimate €150 - €200 -
59 - DU VAL (Pierre):La Géographie Françoise contenant les descriptions, les cartes, et le blason des provinces de France. Paris, Chez l'auteur, 1677; small in-12 (140 x 80 mm), 2 f. o.b., 258 pp. 1 f. o.b., jansenist plum morocco, ribbed spine. 19th century binding. Handsome little portable atlas of the French provinces. Illustrated with a double-page engraved color title and table, 34 double
Estimate €250 - €300 -
60 - [F. P.] Indiculus universalis, rerum fere omnium quae in Mundo sunt... L'univers en abrégé ou sont contenus en diverses listes, presque tous les noms des ouvrages de la nature, de toutes les sciences & de tous les arts, avec leurs principaux termes. Rouen, Vve de Jacques Lucas, 1682; in 12, old vellum. The author is R.P. François POMEY, originally from Comtadin, who was Prefect of Studies at the Collège de la Trinité in Lyon, an institution of the Jesuit Fathers. The work is arranged by
Estimate €100 - €150 -
61 - BUAT-NANCAY (Louis-Gabriel, Comte) 1732-1787, historian and political writer: Les Origines ou l'Ancien gouvernement de la France, de l'Allemagne et de l'Italie - Ouvrage historique, Où l'on voit, dans leur origine, la Roïauté et ses attributs, la Nation et ses différentes Classes, les Fiefs & le Vasselage, les Dignités, la Hiérarchie, les Immunités Ecclésiastiques & les Domaines ; la Milice et la Chevalerie ; la Justice distributive ; la compétence des Tribunaux, leur forme ; le
Estimate €100 - €150 -
62 - MILITARIA. Collection of plates from the Encyclopedia, 18th century edition. - L'arquebusier, 3 pages, six plates, the first folding; Art Militaire, 7 pages, five plates of costumes, then fifteen plates of tactics, seventeen plates of fortifications; Artificier, 2 pages, seven plates. The whole set is preserved in a folio volume, half unbleached cloth, red chagrin title page. 19th century binding
Estimate €300 - €400 -
63 - REVOLUTION. Dictionnaire des Grands Hommes du jour ; Par une Société de très-petits Individus. Paris, chez les Marchands de Nouveautés, Floréal an VIII, 1800, 231 pp. in 8°, half-brown basane. Bound with: - L'Alchymiste Littéraire ou Décomposition des Grands Hommes du jour. Paris, Meslant et Roux, 1801, 120 pp. - Almanach historique et critique des députés. Coblentz, de l'Imprimerie des Princes... s.d., 158 pp. Engraved frontispiece.
Estimate €100 - €200 -
64 - GOLDSMITH (Lewis): Histoire secrète du Cabinet de Napoléon Buonaparte et de la Cour de Saint-Cloud. Paris, 2nd edition, 1814; two volumes bound into one in 8°, half fawn calf, smooth spine, green calf title-piece. Contemporary binding. A fine copy.
Estimate €100 - €200 -
65 - LAPENE (Edouard): Vingt-six mois à Bougie, ou Collection de mémoires sur sa Conquête; son occupation et son avenir. Notice historique, morale, politique et militaire sur la Kabaïles. Paris, Anselin et Gaultier-Laguionie, and Toulouse, Hénault et Martegoute, s. d. (circa 1830-1835); in 8°, contemporary green jaspered boards (stamp cancelled).
Estimate €100 - €120 -
66 - MERIMEE (Prosper): La Double Méprise by the author of Théâtre de Clara Gazul. Bruxelles, Méline,1833; small in 12, ornate blond half-calf. Worn contemporary binding. Enclosed: PLINE LE JEUNE: Panégyrique de Trajan. Paris, Aumont, 1772; in 16, basane blonde jaspée, smooth spine decorated, tr. red. Contemporary binding. Supra libros d'une école; Joint: LAMARTINE
Estimate €150 - €200 -
67 - CAYLUS (Marie-Marguerite de Mursay, 1671-1729) : Souvenirs of Madame de Caylus. New edition with an introduction and notes by M. Charles Asselineau. Paris, Techener, 1860; in 8°, ultramarine blue morocco, highly ornate ribbed spine, triple gilt fillet framing the covers, gilt edges, illustrated covers preserved. Bound by CAPE. A fine copy, well bound by Capé, with the portrait and the four hors-texte engraved figures in two states, with and without frames.
Estimate €120 - €150 -
68 - BALZAC (Honoré de) Mercadet, comedy in three acts and prose. Paris, Librairie Théâtrale, 1851; in 12, half green chagrin, ornate spine, smooth edges (Contemporary binding). Rare first edition of this play, written by Balzac under the title Le Faiseur, in five acts which were reduced to three by D'Ennery.
Estimate €100 - €120 -
69 - GOURMONT (Rémy de): Le Vieux Roi. Paris, Mercure de France, 1897; paperback, printed cover. One of 285 copies on esparto, forming the original edition, this one numbered 243, signed by the poet. Signed letter to Belgian poet Charles Van Leberghe, 1861-1907: "M. Van Lerberghe, hommage. Rémy de Gourmont".
Estimate €200 - €250 -
70 - MAILLARD (Firmin): Le Salon de la Vieille Dame de bois. Paris, J. Olivier Affolter, 1899; in 8° paperback. Numbered copy, one of 200 on vellum. Perfect condition for this violent satire of Action Française circles. Joint : - CHATEAUBRIANT (Alphonse de) : La Meute. Paris, Grasset, 1935; in 12 paperback. First edition, ex. num. on Alfa. - CHATEAUBRIANT (Alphonse de): Lettre à la Chrétienté mourante. Paris, Grasset, 1951; in 12 paperback. First edition
Estimate €200 - €250 -
71 - THARAUD (Jérôme and Jean): La Palestine. Paris, Alpina, 1930; in 4°, pale green half-chagrin with corners, illustrated cover preserved, palladium head. Fine num. copy on Alfa. Edition illustrated with a rich photographic iconography.
Estimate €80 - €100 -
72 - VILLON (Jacques): OEuvre gravé. Paris, Galerie Louis Carré, 1954; in 4° paperback, illustrated cover. Exhibition catalog, with a handsome handwritten letter from the artist, dated and signed
Estimate €80 - €100 -
73 - BAZIN (Hervé): La Mort du Petit Cheval. Paris, Grasset, 1950; in 12, paperback, printed cover. First edition. One of 75 numbered copies on Montval vellum, forming the first edition, number 3. Untrimmed, in excellent condition.
Estimate €120 - €150 -
74 - PONTUS HULTEN (Karl Gunnar) :THE MACHINE. As seen at the end of the mechanical age. New York, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), 1968; in 4° square, embossed metal binding, boards mounted on hinges, top cover decorated with a color composition designed by Anders OSTERLIN, based on a photograph by the famous photographer Alicia LEGG. This is the only edition of the catalog of this famous exhibition, featuring works by numerous artists, including BUGATTI, DELAUNAY, DUCHAMP, Max ERNST, CALDER, MAN RAY,
Estimate €200 - €300 -
75 - GOBINEAU (Comte de): Nouvelles asiatiques. Paris, Les Bibliolâtres de France, 1957; large in 4°, brown calf, ribbed spine decorated with a repeated fleuron, gilt head, slipcase. A fine, pure copy of this reprint of Nouvelles asiatiques. It is illustrated with black woodcuts above and below the text. The woodcut title vignette is in red and black. Edition of 1,200 copies, all numbered, on BFK de Rives vellum, this one numb
Estimate €120 - €150 -
76 - DROZ (Gustave): Autour d'une source. Paris, Hetzel, s. d. ; in 12, brown half-maroquin with corners, ribbed spine, gilt head. First edition. Handwritten letter from the author. GAVARNI: Album Pittoresque. 1st and 2nd series. Paris, 1849; two vol. in 8°, contemporary half cloth.
Estimate €100 - €200 -
77 - EPARVIER (Jean): A paris sous la botte des nazis. Paris, Ed. Schall, 1944; in 4°, illustrated cover. Fine copy, despite a very slight crack at the top of the spine.
Estimate €100 - €200 -
78 - BUFFET(Bernard). La Revue d'Art, February (19)55, n°1. First issue of the magazine "PARENTHESE". Created by Pierre Berger. Numerous photographic reproductions. Joint: SIMENON (Georges): - BOURET (Jean): Bernard Buffet. Paris, 1958. Exhibition catalog. Worn cover. - Poster for the revival of Jean Cocteau's L'Aigle à Deux Têtes, at the Théâtre de l'Athénée-Louis Jouvet. Directed by Jean-Pierre Dusséaux, sets and costumes by Yves Saint-Laurent.
Estimate €100 - €150 -
79 - ENFANTINA. SET OF ALBUMS: Bicot Magician, Bicot Fire Captain, Bicot Angling, Bicot and his half-dog. 4 volumes Joint: Mickey and the Colonel, Mickey the Whale Hunter, Mickey the Boxer, Mickey in the Movies, Mickey in the Wild West, Mickey and the Magic Star, Mickey with the Pirates, Mickey and the Three Thieves. set of 8 volumes. Félix au pays de l'ogre, Félix au travail (wet). Set of 2 volumes
Estimate €200 - €300 -
80 - ENFANTINA Bécassine Au Bains de Mer, l'Automaubile de Bécassine, Bécassine voyage, l'Enfance de Bécassine, Les Bonnes Idées de Bécassine, Bécassine en Apprentissage, Bécassine au Pensionnat, Bécassine prend des pensionnaires. Set of 8 volumes
Estimate €500 - €700 -
81 - LOT OF OLD DICTIONARIES: 1-Dictionnaire de l'Académie Françoise revu, corrigé et augmenté par l'Académie elle-même, 5th edition, à Paris, 1813 (2 vol. complete). 2-Sobrino aumentado o Nuevo diccionario de las lenguas espanola, francesa y latina por J.B. DELAMOLLIERE, in Leon de Francia, 1791 (3 vol. complete). 3-Nouveau dictionnaire espagnol et françois (français), avec l'interprétation latine de chaque mot, à Lyon chez Bruyset Frères, 1790 (2 vol. complete). 4-Principes généraux e
Estimate €200 - €300 -
82 - LOT of approximately 28 ANCIENT & MODERN BOOKS including "La leçon d'Amour dans un parc", Paris, Ed. de la Revue blanche (binding by the Louis Gonard bookshop); "Les Robinsons basques", by Francis Jammes, in Paris with Mercure de France, 1925; "Le théâtre d'Amour au XVIIIè", in Paris, Bib. des curieux, 1910; "Les logis d'Amour au XVIIIè", Hervé-Piraux, Paris, H. Daragon, 1912; "Mémoires de Joseph Prudhomme", Henri Monnier, Paris, Librairie nouvelle, 1857 (2 vol.); "Londres, comme je l
Estimate €200 - €300 -
83 - LOT of approx. 32 ANCIENT BOOKS including: "Les aventures de Télémaque", Leiden, 1783 - "Bélisaire", by M. Marmontel, Mulin, 1768. - Amours de Daphnos et Chloé", Amsterdam, 1749. - Lettres d'Octavie Jeune pensionnaire", Paris, 1806. - "Gramatica francesa", Barcelona, 1861. - "Campagnes philosophiques ou Mémoires de Montcal", Amsterdam, 1784. - "Eloge de Mr de Maupertuis", Berlin, 1761. - "El deroto de la Virgen Maria", Gerona, 1753. - Les aventures de M. Robert Chevalier dit de Beauchênes"
Estimate €200 - €300 -
84 - LOT OF ANCIENT BOOKS: 1-Le Comte de Valmont", Nancy, 1837 (3 vols.). 2-Histoire de Tom Jones, in London, 1751 (4 vol.). 3-Histoire du Ciel, à Paris, 1739 (2 vol.) 4-Lettres Persanes, à Cologne, 1754 (1 vol.) 5-OEuvres philisophiques de M. de la Mettrie, à Berlin, 1775 (2 vol.) 6-Jérusalem délivrée, Paris, 1811 (2 vol.) 7- Oeuvres de Nivelle de la Chaussée, Paris, 1777 (5 vol.) 8-Les petits émigrés, Hamburg, 1798 (4 vol.) 9-De la manière d'enseigner et d'étudier les belles lettres, Par
Estimate €200 - €300 -
85 - TURKEY - "Viage a Constantinopla en el ano de 1784, escrito de orden superior", in Madrid, 1790. In-4. Preface by Joseph Moreno, illustrated title page, 24 hors-texte plates (including 1 double), 360 pages + 33-page Appendix. Imprimerie Real de Madrid, under D. Lazaro Gavguer. Text in Spanish. First edition. Bound with titled spine. 29.5 x 21 cm. Book recounting the voyage of D. Gabriel de Aristizabal's flotilla to Constantinople with the motif of the company of the peace treaty between the Otto
Estimate €1,000 - €1,200 -
86 - LOT of engravings & framed illustrations: 1-Alberto Eduardo, Principe de Gales, 19th, lithographed by J. Vallejo (30x21cm). 2-Trovadores cantando las glorias de la cruzadas (Troubadours singing the glories of the Crusades), 19th. Woodcut after Gustave Doré. (36x27cm). 3-Mlle de Sombreuil, lithographed by Belliard. (38x32cm). 4-Vue de la grande Parade par l'Empereur dans la cour du Palais des Thuilleries, after Henri Nodet (45x59cm). 5-Alcove, gr. in color (39x34cm). 6-Son Em. Cardinal de Cl
Estimate €30 - €50
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