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BAUDELAIRE. Les Fleurs du mal. Paris, Poulet-Malassis, 1861. In-8, lemon half-maroquin with corners, spine with ornate nerves, very rubbed, gilt head (Rel. lég. post.). Second edition, enlarged by 35 poems. Missing, as usual, the portrait-frontispiece of Charles Baudelaire, drawn and engraved by Bracquemond and printed by Delâtre. Enriched copy with 4 other portraits of the author, printed by Salmon, including 2 painted and engraved by Manet, 1862 and 1865; and 2 engraved by Bracquemond after Courbet, 1848 and after Émile de Roy, 1844. Heavy scuffing and foxing, paper creased and folded.

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BAUDELAIRE. Les Fleurs du mal. Paris, Poulet-Malassis, 1861. In-8, lemon half-maroquin with corners, spine with ornate nerves, very rubbed, gilt head (Rel. lég. post.). Second edition, enlarged by 35 poems. Missing, as usual, the portrait-frontispiece of Charles Baudelaire, drawn and engraved by Bracquemond and printed by Delâtre. Enriched copy with 4 other portraits of the author, printed by Salmon, including 2 painted and engraved by Manet, 1862 and 1865; and 2 engraved by Bracquemond after Courbet, 1848 and after Émile de Roy, 1844. Heavy scuffing and foxing, paper creased and folded.

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BAUDELAIRE, Charles Les Fleurs du mal [...]. Seconde édition augmentée de trente-cinq poëmes nouveaux et ornée d'un portrait de l'auteur dessiné et gravé par Bracquemond. Paris Poulet-Malassis et De Broise (impr. Simon Raçon et comp.) 1861 In-12 : [6]-319 pp. (some very slight spotting). Jansenist midnight-blue Cape morocco signed Alix, gilt titled spine, wide gilt int. lace, gilt tr. on witnesses, cover boards cons. In bordered slipcase. Superb copy, very fresh inside. Partly original second edition, extensively revised and enriched with 35 new poems, the last to be published during the author's lifetime (and approved by him), and consequently much more accomplished than the 1857 original. Edition of 1500 unjustified copies, this one on wove paper, complete with the etched portrait of Baudelaire by Félix Bracquemond on chine appliqué, often missing, here in first state, before the mention "L'Artiste" above the portrait. Title printed in black and red. A first-edition copy, as evidenced e.g. by the misprints on pp. 20 (missing initial on l. 9) and 49 (idem on last l.). Ref. Carteret I:124. - Vicaire I:343. - Oberlé, Poulet-Malassis, 216.

Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

ASSELINEAU (Charles). Notice sur Lazare Bruandet, peintre de l'école française (1753-1803). Paris, Dumoulin [at the end: Alençon, Poulet-Malassis et De Broise], 1855. Booklet, 20 pages, in-8, eggplant half-chagrin, smooth spine decorated and titled throughout (period binding). Very rare first edition of one of the first books by Asselineau, Baudelaire's friend and bibliographer of Romanticism. One of Poulet-Malassis's first impressions, it was missing from Oberlé's bibliography devoted to the Alençon printer. Edition of 100 copies. A pleasant copy, well bound in the period.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

CHAMPFLEURY. Monsieur de Boisdhiver. Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1861. In-12, brown half-maroquin with corners, fillet, decorated spine, gilt head, cover and spine (Stroobants). First edition, illustrated with 4 original etchings by Amand Gautier. A very fine copy.

Estim. 300 - 500 EUR

POULET-MALASSIS. - Set of 13 books, various bindings and conditions. Including: Banville, Paris et le nouveau Louvre (1857); La Grange-Chancel, Les Philippiques (1858); Weill, Histoire de la grande guerre des paysans (1860); Gérard Oberlé's bibliography, the catalog of the A. Poulet-Malassis exhibition at the Alençon library in October 1957 to mark the hundredth anniversary of the publication of Baudelaire's Fleurs du mal, the catalog of the Malassis (XVIIe-XIXe) exhibition held at the Archives de l'orne in July 1935 (2 copies, one on japon).

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