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Kiliagono: polygon of a thousand languages
1992
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MISCELLANEOUS AUTHORS Kiliagono: polygon of a thousand languages 1992 Periodical, no. 0, December 1992 23.5 x 34 cm Vanni Scheiwiller Pages 90 Defects

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MISCELLANEOUS AUTHORS Kiliagono: polygon of a thousand languages 1992 Periodical, no. 0, December 1992 23.5 x 34 cm Vanni Scheiwiller Pages 90 Defects

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Estim. 180 - 350 EUR

Set of 6 books on Chad and Sudan: 1. REIBELL (General Emile): Le commandant Lamy d'après sa correspondance et ses souvenirs de campagne (1858-1900). Algeria - Tunisia - Tonkin - Sahara - Congo - Madagascar - Sudan. With a heliogravure portrait and eleven maps accompanying the text. Second edition. Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1903. One volume. 15.5 by 24 cm. (6)-XVII-(1)-576-(3) pages + 11 folding maps h.t. Modern full cloth, basane title-piece on spine, inside front cover (soiled). False title stained. Otherwise a good copy. Portrait missing. 2. BARATIER (Colonel Albert-Ernest-Augustin): A travers l'Afrique. Crowned work by the Académie française. Illustrated after drawings by Gaston de Burggraff, photographs, maps and sketches by the author. Paris, Arthème Fayard & Cie, s.d. [ca 1910]. One volume. 18 by 27 cm. 1 portrait-206-(1) pages. Contemporary red half cloth with corners. Wear to edges, endpaper trimmed to remove old ownership. Two leaves slightly damaged at corner tip, small stain on one page-lower margin of 2 ff. slightly damaged (lower corner tip) but not missing, small blue ink stain on p. 179, very small wetness in upper margin of last 20 leaves. In-text illustrations, including 21 full-page illustrations and 6 maps. First edition. Numa Broc, Les explorateurs français. Afrique, p. 15. In June 1895, the author took part in the "Congo-Nil" expedition, commanded by Captain Marchand, with whom he had befriended. 3. LENFANT (Commandant Eugène): La grande route du Tchad. Mission de la Société de géographie. Preface by M. Le Myre de Vilers. Introduction by Maurice Albert. Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1905. One volume. 16 by 25 cm. 1 portrait-(6)-XIV-(2)-287-(1) pp. + 1 folding map h.t. in color. Contemporary red half-basane with corners, 5-rib spine, gilt head. Small tear on one nerve, otherwise very good condition. In-text illustrations, including 27 plates and a map. N. Broc, Dict. illustré des explorateurs français du XIXe siècle. Afrique, pp. 199-201. "In 1902, Lenfant was entrusted with a new mission [...]. The aim of the expedition was to find an easier, faster and more economical route to Chad than the Ubangi and Congo routes". (N. Broc). Richly illustrated with reproductions of photographs. 4. CASATI (Gaetano): Ten years in Equatoria. The return of Emin Pacha and the Stanley expedition. Translated with the author's permission by Louis de Hessem and enriched with 170 engravings and 4 maps. Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1892. One volume. 17.5 by 27 cm. 1 portrait-XI-(1)-498 pp. + 4 maps h.t. (3 on double page) + 66 plates. Contemporary red half-chagrin with corners, 5-rib spine, gilt head. Worn edges, otherwise very good condition. In-text illustrations. First edition in French. Italian explorer whose work, "a mine of information of the highest value, corroborates, explains or invalidates on various points the famous works of Stanley and Mounteney Jephson". (A. de Claparède, Le Globe, revue genevoise de géographie 1902, vol. 41). 5. KLOBB (Colonel Jean-François-Arsène): Dernier cahier de route. French Sudan. Official report by Governor Bergès on the end of the Klobb mission. Preface by Jules Lemaitre. Paris, Ernest Flammarion, s.d. [1905]. One volume. 10.5 by 17.5 cm. (4)-VIII-292-(1) pages. Contemporary red bradel percaline. References in blue pencil and pen on title page, otherwise very good condition. First edition. Paule Brasseur, Bio-bibliographie générale du Mali, n° 3305. Lieutenant-Colonel Klobb stayed in Timbuktu, then was sent in search of the Voulet-Chanoine expedition, famous for the cruelty of the massacres it perpetrated. Voulet and Chanoine, joined by Klobb, opened fire and Klobb was killed. 6. PÉROZ (Etienne): Au Soudan français. Souvenirs de guerre et de mission. Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1889. One volume. 13 by 21 cm. (6)-467 pp. + 3 maps on 1 folding f. h.t. Contemporary half-chagrin, 5-rib spine nicely decorated, ex. de prix de la Ville de Paris. Scattered brown spots, endpaper missing. First edition. Paule Brasseur, Bibliog. générale du Mali 3191. "Account of the mission led by Captain Péroz in 1886-87, which led to the treaty signed with Samori at Bissandougou. Historical reminder of the 3 previous campaigns, particularly when Péroz commanded Niagassola." (P. Brasseur).

Estim. 500 - 750 EUR

Hasselblad 503 CX, construction year 1992, No.11EH21082, lens Carl Zeiss S-Planar 1:5.6 120mm, accessories: compendium, Polaroid magazine, 120 magazine, film magazine 70 with matching prism finder, reflex finder, sports finder and various accessories; orig. instruction manual, case; traces of usage, shutter should be examined

Estim. 20 - 40 EUR

Set of 6 booklets on Balzac: Célébrités européennes, chapter devoted to Balzac. Docteur Moreau Defarges, Autour de Balzac et de George Sand - conference speech. With a letter from the author. 1930. P Hartmann, A walk by Balzac. 1909. Lhomer, Balzac dans l'intimité. 1904. Théophile Gautier, Honoré de Balzac. 1850 (extract from the Houssiaux edition). Lovenjoul, Notules sur Balzac. 1896. Together in half-percaline. Hard-to-find set of plates and offprints. Set of 3 plates on Balzac: Charles Léger, Le dernier Portrait de Balzac - Balzac sur son lit de mort. 1912. Revue La Contemporaine, n°12, August 25, 1901, extract containing only Henri Bouchot's article, l'Iconographie de Balzac. Marcel Bouteron, Une année de vie de Balzac 1835. 1923. Edition of 100 copies, this one on hollande. Bound in half-percaline, except for the Bouteron in half-chagrin with corners. 3 books on Balzac: Octave Mirbeau, La mort de Balzac. Paris, éditions du félin, 1999. JM Bernicat, De Balssa à Balzac ou le génie créateur du Tarn à Passy. 1992, for the 150th anniversary of La Comédie humaine. Marie-Thérèse Humbert, Balzac, Saché, ou le nid de coucou. La Simarre, Pirot, 1991. Copy enriched with a letter from the author thanking him for his praise. Set of 3 biographical works on Balzac. Louis de Royaumont, Balzac et la société des gens de lettres. Paris, Dorbon ainé, sd. Paperback, author's letter to Maurice Gabolde. Jules Bertaut, La vie privée de Balzac. Paris, Hachette, 1950. Half-chagrin, spine faded. Spoelberch de Lovenjoul, Un roman d'amour. Slatkine reprint, full percaline. Set of 8 biographical works on Balzac. René Bouvier, Balzac homme d'affaires. Paris, Champion, 1930. In-8, 164p, paperback, filled cover, author's mailing. Eugen Skasa-Weiss, Les hommes célèbres et leur mère. Paris, Laffond, 1068. In-8, 379p. Paperback [Balzac: p.219 à 245]. Guy Breton, Autoportraits. Paris, Presses de la cité, 1968. In-8, 286p. Bound in skivertex. Henri de Lestant, Louis Balssa, oncle d'Honoré de Balzac, fut-il un assassin? Éditions Occitania, 1934. In-8, 103p, paperback. Georges Simenon, Portrait-souvenir de Balzac. Paris, Bourgois, 1991. In-8, 268p. Paperback. Stefan Sweig, Balzac, le roman de sa vie. Paris, Albin Michel, 1950. In-8, 470p. Paperback, 7 plates. Charles Gorham, Wine of Life - a novel about Balzac. New York, The Dial press, 1958. In-8, 598p. Publisher's binding, illustrated dust jacket. André Jeannot, Honoré de Balzac, le forçat de la gloire. Paris, Geigy, 1986. In-8, 387p. Illustrated.

Estim. 20 - 40 EUR

[Bibliography] Set of 4 volumes: (Photocopies, A4 format in red cloth and Skivertex bindings) William Hobart Royce, Writings relative to the Life and Works of Honoré de Balzac. The University of Chicago Press, Kraus Reprint Co. 1969. Otto Klapp, Bibliographie d'Histoire littéraire française. Frankfurt,Vittorio Klostermann. Contains all "Balzac" entries in Volumes I to XXVIII, from 1956 to 1990. Otto Klapp, Bibliographie d'Histoire littéraire française. Frankfurt,Vittorio Klostermann. Volumes XXIX and XXX (1991-1992). L. Carteret, Le Trésor du bibliophile romantique et moderne, 1801-1875. Carteret, 1927 (Pages 41 to 92 on Balzac). Le Courrier Balzacien. Paris, 1948-1949, In-8. Set of the first 6 issues, December 1948 to December 1949, deluxe edition of 120 copies on vellum pur fil from Papeteries Johannot (N° XXII), N°6 is one of 10 H. C. copies (N°9). In sheets, printed cover, first cover with portraits of Balzac at different periods of his life on volumes 1 to 5. Good condition. Courrier Balzacien: Lot of approx. 120 issues from 1980 to 2022, some duplicates, series missing, some older issues photocopied. Anonymous [Harel, Alhoy and Jal], Dictionnaire théâtral ou douze cent trente-trois vérités sur les directeurs, Régisseurs, acteurs (etc.) des divers théâtres. 2nd edition with a supplement. Paris, Barba, 1825, in-12, 318p. The original edition is dated 1824. As a man of the theater, Harel can claim to have an inside view of the theatrical scene. At the time of publication of his dictionary, whose preface to the second edition testifies to its tumultuous reception, he was not yet director of the Odéon, and he had enlisted the help of two other authors, experienced in major publishing ventures but not at all theatrical specialists: Maurice Alhoy, a successful author, and Auguste Jal, a specialist in maritime literature. Salvador H." bookplate on title page. Bound in red half-basane, smooth spine with 5 false nerves of 3 gilt fillets, 3 cold fleurons and 2 gilt fleurons between the nerves, head and tail castors, spine slightly faded; marbled edges. A good copy.

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