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Fri 24 May

FRANCIS JOURDAIN (1876-1958) Circles, dots and crescents on a trellis background, the model designed around [1920]. Rare and important covered pot; the base is circular, the lid has ears. Polychrome enameled ceramic proof; the lid with white and rust treated title decoration on a blue background, the base with blue enamel. Circa 1920. Two small chips on the inside of the lid (not visible with the pot closed), enamel chips on part (approx. 3cm) of the lid edge. Monogrammed F. J., numbered 80 and located France under the base. Height: 7.5cm - Length: 26.5cm Public collections: Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Saint-Denis - A color variant is kept in the collections of this institution under inventory number 94.01.01. Exhibition: Francis Jourdain, un parcours moderne 1876-1958 - Travelling exhibition organized at the Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi (March 25 - June 4, 2000) - at the Musée-bibliothèque Pierre André Benoît, Alès (June 24 - September 3) - at the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Saint-Denis (September 22 - December 18, 2000) and at the Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Roubaix (January - April 2001). A color variant was presented at these events. Bibliography: Collectif - Francis Jourdain, un parcours moderne 1876-1958 - Catalogue of the traveling exhibition organized at the Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi (March 25 - June 4, 2000) - at the Musée-bibliothèque Pierre André Benoît, Alès (June 24 - September 3) - at the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Saint-Denis (September 22 - December 18, 2000) and at the Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Roubaix (January - April 2001), Éditions Somogy, Paris, 2000. One color variant reproduced on page 110.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 500 EUR

Wed 15 May

GUÉRIN (Maurice de) - Reliquiae. Published by G. S. Trebutien. Avec une étude biographique et littéraire par M. Sainte-Beuve. Paris, Didier, 1861. 2 volumes, small square in-12, long-grained green morocco, thin twisted gilt fillet, Bibliothèque de Laurent Evrard supra-libris in the center of a gilt medallion, spines decorated with gilt fillets, edge-to-edge lining in the same morocco, inner frame decorated with a set of seven gilt fillets, brown moire endpapers, gilt edges (Chambolle-Duru). First edition, published by Trebutien, who along with Barbey was co-executor of Maurice de Guérin's will. Autograph letter from Trebutien to the artist William Haussoulier: Hommage de l'éditeur à Monsieur William Haussoulier. William Haussoulier (1815-1892) was a friend of Eugénie de Guérin, who introduced him to the author of Les Diaboliques: The ideal artist, of whom Eugénie speaks, is Mr. William Haussoulier [...], a painter, an Ingriste, with whom I was very close, at a certain period, and who had such a lively admiration for Guérin that this admiration was the decisive cause of our friendship. [...] As a painter [...], he made color bark, squeak and howl. Certainly, if he had seen him only once, Haussoulier would have given us some fine portrait of Guérin in the black manner, and what a boon to put at the head of his works! In the somewhat bygone days of his great affair with me, William did a very neat charcoal portrait of me, which is now probably in the Diable's bric-a-brac (Barbey d'Aurevilly, letter to Trebutien, April 2, 1855, in Correspondance générale, IV, p. 195). The portrait of Barbey in the Musée de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, reproduced at the head of the 1989 Paris exhibition catalog, is attributed to him. Copy on Hollande paper, bound in doubled morocco by Chambolle-Duru for Laurent Evrard, pseudonym of the Countess de La Baume-Pluvinel (1858-1911), novelist and woman of letters. It was included in the exhibition organized for the centenary of the writer's death at the Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris in 1989 (cf. cat. Barbey d'Aurevilly, no. 64). Some browning, halo pp. 160-163 in volume I and angular wetness to 3 leaves in volume II. Upper hinge of Volume I a little rubbed.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Wed 15 May

MISCELLANEOUS. - BERRIAT-SAINT-PRIX. Remarques sur les anciens jeux des mystères, faites à l'occasion de deux délibérations inédites prises par le Conseil de Ville de Grenoble, en 1535, relativement à l'un de ces jeux. Paris, J. Smith, 1823. In-8, blue jansenist morocco, double cold-stamped fillets, ribbed spine, gilt head, gilt int. roulette (Ottman Duplanil). From the libraries of Paul Couturier de Royas and Henri Lambert, with bookplates. Bound with blank leaves in fine. Also included: - BERRIAT SAINT-PRIX. Cours de droit criminel fait à la faculté de droit de Grenoble. Grenoble, imprimerie Vve Peyronard; Paris, Nève, October 1817. In-8, bradel, 19th c. red half-percaline. From the library of Paul Couturier de Royas (1853-1954), with his bookplate. Rousseurs. Spotting. - Recherche sur la législation criminelle et la législation de police, en Dauphiné, au Moyen- ge. Paris, Paul Renouard, 1836. In-8, bradel 19th c. gray paper boards. From the library of Paul Couturier de Royas (1853-1954), with his bookplate. Some foxing. Spotting. - GIRAUD (Emile). Entrée de François Ier à Romans en 1533. Valence, Chenevier & Chavet, 1872. In-8, red half-maroquin with corners, ornate ribbed spine, gilt head (later binding). - Merveilles et histoire patriotique du ci-devant Dauphiné. By a Dauphinois living in Paris. Paris, Firmin Didot frère, December 1830. In-8, bradel red modern boards, smooth spine, covers cons. - LAURENS (Charles). Le procès de Tailles, 1537-1639, Claude Brosses - Anthoine Rambaud. Grenoble, Maisonville, 1867. In-8, green half-percaline bradel, blue title page, gilt head, cons. cover. Letter a. s. from the author. Ex-libris Paul Couturier de Royas. Expert : Ségolène Beauchamp

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Wed 15 May

BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - A History Without a Name. Fifth edition. Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1882. In-12, red morocco, triple filet gras et maigre, smooth spine decorated with gilt motifs, triple filet inside, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine (L. Genet). First edition, with a new title bearing a fictitious mention of a fifth edition. This is the only one of Barbey's novels not set in either Normandy or Paris. Une Histoire sans nom is based on memories of the writer's trip to Bourg-Argental, in the Cévennes. It was in a way his "madeleine-Proust", for it was apparently here, while he was writing his Vieille maîtresse at the inn, that all his childhood memories came back to him, and these are included in the second "Norman" part of the novel (cf. cat. Barbey d'Aurevilly, 1989, n°124). Spiritual autograph letter from the author, in red ink and accompanied by two crossed sagittarius arrows highlighted in silver, on the back cover: to Madame Louise Laure, He who, for the first time, would have regretted not having been Petrarch. Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly. Judging by the tone of this beautiful letter, Barbey seems as enchanted as Petrarch was with his muse Laure de Noves. The mailing is noted by Bonnefon, Les Dédicaces à la main de M. J. Barbey d'Aurevilly, p. 82. There are 2 handwritten corrections in Barbey's hand (pp. 66 and 208). From the libraries of Roger-Pierre Monmélien, one of Barbey d'Aurevilly's great posthumous admirers, and Gaston Maury. Two quires slightly foxed.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Wed 15 May

LONGUS - Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et de Chloé, translation from Greek by Amyot. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné, An VIII - 1800. Large in-4, red morocco, double framed with three gilded fillets, one bordered with a rich gilded decoration in small irons forming large spandrels, blue quatrefoil charged with a gilded flowerette in the corners, large iron with a bouquet of roses gilded and mosaicked in the center, ornate spine, boxes decorated in small irons with the same blue quatrefoil repeated, interior lace, double marbled paper endpapers, gilded edges (Petit succr de Simier). Edition illustrated with 9 very fine out-of-text figures by Prud'hon and Gérard, finely engraved on copper by Godefroy, Roger, Massard and Marais. Copy with figures before the letter and captions on tissue paper, to which has been added a medallion portrait of Pierre Didot engraved by Wedgood, 4 figures by Prud'hon lithographed by J. Boilly, 5 figures by Lebarbier engraved by Roger and Hulk, and a figure by Duvivier engraved by Villerey. Remarkable binding signed by Charles Petit, mosaiced and gilded in small irons, with a highly elegant decoration. The beautiful iron with rose bouquet on the boards is the same as that used on the magnificent copy bound by Duplanil in 1834 of Les Roses de Redouté (1828 edition) in the Descamps-Scrive library (II, 1925, no. 372, reproduction) and Raphaël Esmerian (IV, 1973, no. 100); this iron, originally engraved after a drawing by Redouté, was also used by Petit on a copy of an edition of Le Roman de la Rose (cf. cat. vente Berès, V, 2006, n°639). In addition, a copy of the same book, bound by Petit with the same iron, from the Adolphe Bordes library, is preserved at the BnF. From the Genard (1882, n°520) and Earl of Birkenhead libraries, with their bookplates. Spine and corners rubbed, marks on second board.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Wed 15 May

BARGINET (A.). Le Roi des montagnes ou Les compagnons du chêne, tradition dauphinoise du temps de Charles VIII. Paris, Mame et Delaunay-Vallée, 1828. 5 volumes in-12, brown half calf, small vellum corners, smooth spine decorated, yellow edges (Rel. ép.). Rare first edition of this Dauphin novel by Alexandre-Pierre Barginet (1797-1843), a prolific writer from Grenoble. Some brown spots. Also included: - GUIGUES (Emile). Séchot et Poulard, alpine fantasy. Grenoble, Emile Baratier, 1886. In-4, green half-maroquin, spine ribbed and decorated (B.D.). Charming illustrations by the author. One of 25 copies on japon (after 5 first copies). Ex-libris G. Spach. - GENEST (Casimir). Histoire véridique les aventures extraordinaires du maire de Valence, Aimé David. Valence, imprimerie valentinoise, 1904. In-folio, red half-maroquin with corners, smooth spine decorated, gilt head, cover and spine cons. (Rel. moderne). First edition, illustrated with 176 cartoons by Henriot. Edition of 650 copies, one of 150 on hollande signed by the author, addressed to M. Louis Chanu. - BERNARD (Jean-Marc). Sub Tegmine Fagi. Amours, bergeries et jeux. Paris, Édition du Temps présent, 1913. In-8, half-fauve morocco, spine ribbed, full margins, covers and softshell (Ep. binding). First edition of this collection of poems by Dauphinois Jean-Marc Bernard (1881-1915). Edition of 40 numbered copies on hollande. Includes 2 LAS from the author to a poet, dated 1910 (2 ff. in-12). Hinges split. - FORTIA D'URBAN (Marquis de)]. Dissertation on Anibal's crossing of the Rhône and the Alps in 218 BC. Third edition. Paris, Lebègue, November 1821. In-8, green half calf, smooth spine decorated (Ep. binding). One folding map. Curious work containing several other historical corrections including "new observations on the two campaigns of Louis XIV, and a dissertation on the marriage of the famous Molière." From the libraries of "A. de St-Ferriol", and "Bibliothèque dauphinoise, Docteur Comte", with bookplates. Expert : Ségolène Beauchamp

Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

Wed 22 May

LE CARON (Louis). - La Poésie. Paris, Pour Vincent Sertenas, 1554. In-8, midnight-blue morocco, gilt foliage medallion at center, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Trautz-Bauzonnet). Partly first edition of this poetic collection, published ten months after La Claire (see previous lot). Of its 143 pieces, 94 are unpublished and 49 are taken from La Claire, often with changes in verse. Among them is a long poem in decasyllables, entitled Le Démon d'amour (ff. 28v°-38). Almost a year after the publication of La Claire, Le Caron decided to publish all the verses written for his friend in a collection entitled La Poésie. [...] far from being a literary tomb dedicated to mourning the departed, [the work] sang of a young woman still alive, a tenderly loved friend [...]. In the end, the poet decided to publish his poems as if he had presented them to the girl while she was still alive (N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., pp. 174 and 177). La Claire and La Poésie are the only two poetic works published by Le Caron, who then turned exclusively to law and philosophy: they are both rare. Handwritten bookplate faded at the bottom of the title. Old handwritten note in the margin of folio 67 v°, almost faded. A very fine copy, from the libraries of Chaponay (1863, no. 309), Édouard Turquety (1868, no. 137), Bancel (1882, no. 273) and Édouard Moura (1923, no. 259). J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, no. 33. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°458.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Wed 22 May

LOYS (Jean et Jacques). - Les Œuvres poétiques de Jean Loys, Douysien, licentié és droicts. - Les Œuvres poétiques de Jacques Loys, docteur és droits et poete lauré. Douai, De l'Imprimerie de Pierre Auroy, 1612. Together 2 volumes small in-8, brick morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (J. Prat). Posthumous collective first edition of the works of Jean and Jacques Loys, father and son, little-known jurisconsults and poets from Douai. The works of these two poets, who died in 1610 and 1611 respectively, contain mainly royal songs and ballads on pious subjects. The most interesting pieces are occasional epitaphs, sonnets and other verses, addressed to friends or important figures on the occasion of remarkable events. Among the works by father and son, we note the Honneurs de Jean & Jacques Loys, an acrostic Sonnet by the late Jean Bellegambe, an excellent painter in his day, the Épitaphe d'un hermaprodite (sic) qui par eau, par fer & croix... meure, / Masle femelle, & tous deux à mesme heure, un Discours sur la ruine advenue sur la ville de Hesdin par horrible tempeste le 25 juillet 1589, ainsi que ces deux pièces : Aux haineurs des muses et Aux thraistres. From the libraries of Baron de Warenghien, Joseph Renard (1881, no. 652) and Denis du Péage. Small restoration in the blank of the introductory leaf *3. Spine faded. Copy with short lateral margins. Duthilloeul, Galerie douaisienne, pp. 260-263. - Viollet-le-Duc, I, pp. 356-357. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°493-494.

Estim. 2 500 - 3 000 EUR

Mon 27 May

Joseph Vaissete (French, 1685-1756) & Claude de Vic (French, 1670-1734) General history of Languedoc avec des notes et les pièces justificatives : composée sur les auteurs et les titres originaux, et enrichie de divers monumens. Par deux Religieux Benedictins de la Congregation de S. Maur. Paris, Jacques Vincent. 1730-1745. Five volumes in folio. Full tan calf. Triple framed with straight fillets. Large coat of arms of Madame de Pompadour on covers. Six-ribbed spine, decorated with "thistle" irons in the centre-ribs. Red morocco title-piece, brown morocco end-piece. A fine copy of this fundamental work on the history of Languedoc, the last volume of which ends with the death of Louis XIII. It features four folding maps in contemporary colors and 35 black plates, most of them folding. Volume I bears the Padeloup label at the bottom of the title and, on the flyleaf, the bookplate of Abel François Poisson de Vandières (1727-1781), Marquis de Marigny, brother of Madame de Pompadour, who inherited the Marquise's Château de Ménars in 1764. Provenance: after-death sale of the Bibliothèque de Madame de Pompadour, 1765, no. 3040, described as follows: "5 vol. in-fol, fig. v.f.". (5 volumes in-folio, figures, calf). France, 1730-1745. A 5-volume series on the history of Languedoc compiled by two Benedictine monks. From the book collection of Madame de Pompadour, official mistress of French King Louis XV. Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour and Duchesse de Ménars (1721-1764), was a bibliophile. She showed a keen interest in books from an early age, and was scarcely more than twenty when she began to build up a library that she never ceased to enrich, "buying regularly from booksellers" (E. Lever) and at the public sales that proliferated in the mid-18th century. In 1745 - she was 24 at the time - Voltaire wrote: "She has read more at her age than any old lady in the country where she will reign" (Letter from Voltaire to President Hénault, dated 1745, quoted by Evelyne Lever, "Madame de Pompadour", p. 58). The "Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feue Madame la Marquise de Pompadour, Dame du Palais de la Reine" (Hérissant, 1765) contains no fewer than 3,525 numbers, not counting musical scores and prints. In this rich library, books on history formed an important part; reading these works completed the Marquise's education and enabled her, at Court or in front of ministers, to speak confidently about politics.

Estim. 15 000 - 25 000 EUR

Wed 15 May

André Charles Boulle, Umkreis - Museal pair of "guéridons porte-luminaire" Softwood (lime?), carved, with gilding over red bolus and chalk ground. Sculpturally carved bases for candelabra. Elaborately articulated baluster shafts on trefoil bases with volute feet. Decorated with floral pendants in relief, C-sweeps and acanthus, a gadrooned nodus, three fully sculpted griffin heads and three busts above small C-consoles. Round plate engraved with a grid pattern, an acanthus relief around the rim. H 88, top diameter 24 cm. France, around 1700, circle of André Charles Boulle. The two spectacular chandelier tables are based on motifs that can also be found on the chandelier in Sanssouci Palace. Jean Nerée Ronfort writes that King Frederick II acquired this magnificent ceiling crown in gilded and chased bronze in Paris in 1748 for 550 thalers. André Charles Boulle produced a series of these chandeliers with various decorative applications, including for the Duc d'Antin and the Bibliothèque Mazarine. It is obvious that the two carved "porte-luminaires" were inspired by the structure of his baluster shafts, in some cases adopting his exact motifs. Provenance Acquired from the previous owner on June 15, 1971 at the Galerie Jacques Perrin. Literature Cf. Wilson (ed.), Baroque and Régence. Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection, Los Angeles 2008, cat. No. 31, the two monumental carved candlestick bases known as "torchères" from the Régence period, c. 1725, the ménuisier also unknown. Cf. Ronfort (ed.), André Charles Boulle 1642 - 1732: A New Style for Europe, Paris 2009, cat. No. 33.

Estim. 8 000 - 10 000 EUR

Wed 15 May

BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - Les Bas-bleus. Paris, Victor Palmé; Bruxelles, G. Lebrocquy, 1878. In-12, midnight-blue, Jansenist morocco, gilt title on spine, interior lace, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine in slipcase (Ed. Klein). First edition of this violent critique of women of letters, referred to in the 19th century as bas-bleus. Striking autograph letter from Barbey d'Aurevilly, in the form of a quatrain, on the title page: À Saint-Maur Here! Take... No! Don't take all those bas- -bleus, without buttocks, who make a literary cuckold of this century. And make fun, my dear Saint-Maur, of these drôlesses, believing themselves to be geniuses and having no cu. J. B. d'A. It was Flavie de Glatigny, his relative, who introduced the poet Hector de Saint-Maur (1808-1879) to Barbey: the two men became fast friends and kept up an extensive correspondence. Barbey, who painted a portrait of his friend in Les Poètes (1893, pp. 288-305), described him as the truest of poets as he was the truest of men. The dispatch is not recorded by Bonnefon, Les Dédicaces à la main de M. J. Barbey d'Aurevilly. Barbey's quatrain is quoted in Les oeuvres romanesques (La Pléiade edition, II, 1964, p. 1599). It has been transcribed and corrected by a foreign hand on a leaflet mounted at the head of the volume. Attached to the copy is an autograph letter signed by Barbey d'Aurevilly to M. Léopold Frinzine, bibliothèque des Deux-Mondes, Paris (one page in-12, envelope preserved); Barbey recommends to his correspondent: M. Victor Lalotte, un de mes amis. He is the one who bought my Bas-Bleus, part of the five volumes sold to Amyot. He knows all about my business. Unite your two wisdoms and draw the consequences of my folly. In 1885, the publisher Frinzine resumed the interrupted publication of Les oeuvres et les Hommes. From the libraries of Jules Le Roy, J. S. Marchand (1936, no. 70), and comte de Hanot d'Octeville (Maurice d'Hartoy).

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Wed 15 May

BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - Le Chevalier des Touches. Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1879. In-12, lemon chagrin, gilt fillets framing the boards, large fleur-de-lis at the corners, in the center of the first midnight-blue morocco mosaic shield charged with three fleurs-de-lis and surmounted by a crown, ornate spine, midnight-blue title-piece, the caissons decorated with small fleurs-de-lis and a gilt mosaic umbilicus, interior lace, gilt edges and painted with black lines (Gayler-Hirou). A precious copy bound for Barbey d'Aurevilly by Gayler-Hirou, his favorite bookbinder, with the royal coat of arms evoking his hero's commitment, and decorated edges (here, two-tone). We know that the writer had copies of his books bound as he wished, as gifts for his friends and family, as he himself pointed out in a letter to Madame de Bouglon dated February 15, 1882: Je lui répondrai quand j'envoierai mon Prêtre marié (relié à ma fantaisie) à sa femme. We're working on it at the bookbinder's [...] I'm not sending you the Prêtre marié, because you already have one (Correspondance générale, IX, 1882/8, p. 16). The copy bears this autograph letter signed by Barbey, in green, violet and red inks, with a Sagittarius arrow and dusted with gold: à Mademoiselle Mathilde Biéli, son respectueux Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly. The copy was included in the exhibition organized for the centenary of the writer's death at the Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris in 1989 (cf. cat. Barbey d'Aurevilly, n°115; error in the name and surname of the addressee). There are 3 handwritten corrections in the text, probably in Barbey's hand (pp. 25, 53 and 208). Bookplate bearing the initials J and M undetermined. Upper hinge fragile.

Estim. 3 000 - 5 000 EUR

Fri 31 May

PARIS - PÉRAU (Gabriel-Louis). Description historique de l'hôtel royal des Invalides... avec les plans, coupes, élévations géométrales de cet édifice, & les peintures & sculptures de l'église... Paris, Guillaume Desprez, 1756. In-folio, 28 x 44 cm, 2 folios, XII + 104 pp. 108 plates, 19th-century binding in marbled fawn calf, wide gilt roulette framing the boards, spine decorated with faux-nerfs and gilt motifs, gilt edges. First edition. Prior at the Sorbonne, Gabriel-Louis Pérau (1700-1767) is known for having continued d'Auvigny's Vies des hommes illustres de la France. Illustrated with a frontispiece engraved by C. N. Cochin after Cazes, 2 vignettes by Dulin engraved by the same artist, 2 lettrines and 107 plates, 31 of which on double page. The plates were engraved by Cochin, Lucas and Herisset after drawings by Mansart, Cotte, Maler, Coypel, La Fosse and Jouvenet. From the libraries of the 2nd Duke of Coigny (1737-1821), Marshal of France, Governor of the Hôtel Royal des Invalides (name in gilt letters on the upper cover), Jean-Baptiste Labé de Morambert (1770-1847), general treasurer of the endowment for the invalids of war and the royal and military order of Saint-Louis (ex-dono from the Duc de Coigny dated 1820) and Cardinal Dubois (1856-1929), archbishop of Paris in 1920 (heraldic ex-libris). Scattered foxing and margins occasionally browned. Plates 55 and 98 uniformly browned. Binding skilfully restored (corners, spine and top board). Millard I, 132. An 18th-century print is included: "Élévation du portail de l'église des Invalides" (Elevation of the portal of the Invalides church).

Estim. 800 - 1 000 EUR

Wed 22 May

TABOUROT (Étienne). - Les Touches. Premier [- Cinquiesme] livre. Paris, Jean Richer, 1585-1588. Together 3 volumes in-12, preserved in a red half-maroquin banded box, compartmentalized, and case (P.-L. Martin). Complete collection of all five books, in first edition, of this famous collection of verse epigrams. Extremely difficult to form. Étienne Tabourot (1549-1590) occupies an important place in the literary history of the 16th century. A lawyer at the parliament of his native Dijon, and a convinced ligueur, he is best known for his facetious works signed with his pen name: le Seigneur des Accordz. He was a friend of Pontus de Tyard, whose Douze fables de fleuves ou fontaines he published in 1585, and to whom he dedicated the first book of Les Touches. Divided into five books, Les Touches forms a kind of poetic joust through which, by means of touches and counter touches, the poet paints a truculent picture of his times. It is in this work that Tabourot best reveals his satirical verve. The first volume, containing books I to III, is in Bauzonnet-Trautz red morocco, from the libraries of the Comte de Lurde and Baron de Ruble (1899, no. 206), and P. Grandsire. The second volume is in mid-nineteenth-century red morocco; the last, in jansenist blue morocco signed by Cuzin, bears the Grandsire bookplate. These extremely rare volumes are presented in a three-compartment box lined with red nubuck by Pierre-Lucien Martin. The bottom of the title of the second volume has been redone (date and privilege in facsimile) and the binding shows some scuffing. Paper of the last volume slightly and evenly foxed, and restoration in the margin and at the corner of a few leaves at the end. Tchemerzine, t. V, pp. 834-835. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°821, 824 and 825.

Estim. 4 000 - 5 000 EUR

Wed 29 May

(1516). MANTUAN (Baptiste). AD MORTALIUM OBLECTATIONEM AUCTORIS EFFIGIEM HUIC DIVINO OPERI. ULTIMA PARS OPERIS. Lyon, impressa solertia Stephani de Basignana, in officina Bernard Lescuyer, June 1516. In-8 of 126 leaves, light calf, boards decorated with multiple gilt and cold fillets with a frame decorated with a chain of linked tassels with repeated gilt "eternal knot" motifs in the center, double hot and cold framing, gilt and chased edges, modern slipcase (period binding). RARISSIVE PRODUCTION BY ETIENNE DE BASIGNANA, a Carmelite monk and remarkable typographer who printed only 2 books: a book of hours and, for Bernard Lescuyer, the works of Mantuan, general of his order. Spagnioli's works, made up of 2 parts that subdivide themselves, could be sold separately, as Brunet indicates. This copy includes the "De Sacris Diebus", which is in its original edition. The printing of this volume rivals that of the greatest typographers. The title, printed in red and black, is adorned with the effigy of Baptiste Mantuan. "This is one of the earliest examples of the use of portraiture in book illustration" (Brun). The last leaf is decorated with the arms of Cardinal de Gonzague. Title browned, wormholes repaired, small well-executed repairs to a few leaves, second board almost detached, endpapers replaced, quire d, and q8 slightly wormed and almost unbound. Interesting Italian binding whose combination of the 2 binding motifs seems very unusual according to Goldschmidt (Gothic and Renaissance Bookbindings, 1928, I, p. 226). From the libraries of Carolus Hippolitus Tedeschius (contemporary signature on blank q7). and Michel Wittock with his bookplate. (Baudrier II, 3-10) (USTC 155285) (Brunet III, 1375) (Brun, p. 253).

Estim. 800 - 1 000 EUR

Sat 25 May

Voyage d'Henry d'Allemagne au Turkestan, 1898-1899. - 19 boîtes titrées sur les couvercles contenant environ 298 plaques de verre positives et négatives gélatino-argentiques. - Henry of Germany's trip to Turkestan, 1898-1899. Tiflis. Baku. Ashgabat. Khiva. Khiva to Kasar-Haspe. Kasar-Haspe to Petroalexandrovsk via the Amou-Daria. Samarkand. Khorassan. Maschhad. Tehran. Isfahan. 19 boxes titled on the lids, containing approx. 298 negative glass plates, some with positive prints, and reproductions for 8.5 x 10 projection plates. Sizes: 6.5 x 9 to 12 x 9 cm Bibiolgraphy: Henry-René d'Allemagne, Du Khorassan au Pays des Backhtiaris. Trois mois de voyage en Perse, Paris, Hachette, 1911. "Henry d'Allemagne, archivist and paleographer at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, took advantage of his annual leave to travel to Persia (September 1899) and Russian Turkestan at the request of the French Ministry of Education, which financed the trip. The itinerary of this scientific mission took in Kiev, Odessa, Vladikavkaz, Tiflis, Baku, Krasnovodsk and beyond, following the traditional route of the railroad linking Ashkhabad to Boukara and Samarkand (...) This expedition enabled the gathering of numerous ethnographic and artistic collections, and fifty-five kilos of ceramic "architectural decoration" - the contents of eight boxes and five bales - which were sent to the Ministry of Public Education." Svetlana Gorshenina, La route de Samarcande: l'Asie centrale dans l'objectif des voyageurs d'autrefois, Geneva, ; Editions Olizane, 2000, p. 165

Estim. 6 000 - 8 000 EUR

Wed 15 May

BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Léon) - MOMUS NORMAND (Le), literary collection. Caen, Chalopin, 1832-1833. Together 17 (of 18) in-8 issues, stapled, in two modern dark green half-chagrin folders and slipcase. Almost complete collection of the Momus normand, comprising 17 of the 18 issues published from January 1832 to June 1833 (Frère, Manuel du bibliographe normand, I, p. 55 - Vicaire, I, col. 309). Founded by Alexandre-Auguste de Berruyer and Léon Barbey d'Aurevilly, younger brother of the Connétable des lettres, this literary collection brings together various pieces in verse and prose, as well as songs. Because it attacked the July government and its "juste milieu" policy with bloody irony, the journal won the material and moral support of the young director's father. The son of a Chouan, and regretting not having been able to "chouan" at the first "chouannerie", Mr. Barbey paid part of the printing costs of the militant journal, which was beginning a campaign against the regime he detested. In the absence of bullets, he made do with Gutenberg's molten lead. And he applauded the energetic efforts of the two young polemicists (Lavalley, Catalogue des ouvrages normands..., pp. 366-368). Several texts by Léon Barbey d'Aurevilly were published in this collection: Ode à un enfant, Iambes en réponse à ceux de M. Auguste Barbier, Le Coin du feu, Le Carnaval politique, Une Petite police, Le Bonheur de la prison, La Neige tombe, etc. Missing issue no. 10 of 1832. Fascicule n°3 of 1832, almost unbound, seems incomplete from the end (pp. 120-128) and lacks its cover. Some foxing. Extensive dampstaining and wine-red stains on issue no. 8. Missing half the covers of issues no. 2 and 5 of 1833. Very rare: of the 2 copies we were able to find in Norman libraries (Caen and Alençon), only the one in Alençon is listed as complete. Enclosed: 18 et 19 mai 1833, ou Procès de M. Léon d'Aurevilly, rédacteur en chef du Momus Normand; et Compte rendu du banquet qui lui a été offert par les jeunes gens de la ville de Caen. Caen, Chalopin, 1833. In-8, 46 pp. (with page skip without missing from p. 14 to 17), paperback. First edition. Booklet relating to the lawsuit brought against Léon Barbey d'Aurevilly, following publication of his ode protesting the arrest of the Duchess of Berry, for which he was acquitted.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Wed 22 May

LA NOUE (Odet de). - Paradoxe, que les adversités sont plus nécessaires que les prosperites: et qu'entre toutes, l'estat d'une estroitte prison est le plus doux et le plus proffitable. By the Seigneur de Teligny. S.l. [Genève], Par Jean de Tournes, Imp. du Roy, à Lyon, 1588. In-8, brown jansenist morocco, interior lace, gilt edges (Trautz-Bauzonnet). Very rare first edition of this long poem of 1200 alexandrines. An edition was also published the same year in La Rochelle, by Haultin. An astonishing apology for prison, written by the soldier-poet Odet de La Noue during his captivity at Tournai Castle. The poem is dedicated to his father, François de La Noue, a famous captain nicknamed the Huguenot Bayard or Bras-de-Fer. Odet, who remained imprisoned in Flanders for four or five years under the Spanish yoke, endeavors to demonstrate that the good Christian can paradoxically live with the deprivation of freedom; this ascetic life has some advantages, according to him, in particular that of keeping oneself away from all forms of temptation, thus avoiding molding in laziness in the midst of delights or "rotting" from the filth of vice: On estime aujourd'huy le comble de misère / Une estroitte prison. I maintain the opposite. [...] Puis que, quoy que des maux, dont on a tant de crainte, / La prison soit celuy dont on fait plus de plainte, / C'est neantmoins l'estat plus comblé de plaisir, / Et plus utile encor que lon puisse choisir. The title is framed in arabesques and bears the typographical mark of Jean de Tournes, who used civil type to print part of the title and the two dedication pages. From the libraries of Comte de Lignerolles (1894, n°996), Édouard Moura (1923, n°298) and Albert-Louis Natural (1987, n°87). J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, n°7. - Cartier, no. 677. - GLN-3323 (10 examples listed, including this one, the others in institutions). - Picot, Rothschild, n°3276. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°425.

Estim. 2 000 - 2 500 EUR

Tue 21 May

MICHAELIS (S.): Histoire admirable de la possession et conversion d'une pénitente séduit par un magicien, la faisant sorcière et princesse des sorciers au Pays de Provence...Paris, Chastellain, 1613. 3 parts in one small in-8 volume, full contemporary gilt vellum, smooth ornate spine, arms on covers with crowned numerals in corners, gilt edges (2 cuts to hinges, tears with missing paper and a few letters on title page, light foxing and slight dampening, small marginal worm work at upper hinge). 3 blank ff, 16 ff. 352 pp. 124 pp. 196 pp. 14 ff table, 3 blank ff. Extremely rare edition of this curious treatise on demonology. The work relates how, in the city of Marseille, Louys Gaufridy, a priest and magician for fourteen years, sold his body, soul and works to the Devil, in exchange for the gift of being followed by all the women he would love (cf. Caillet, t. III, n°7505). The second part, in separate pagination and with a separate title, is entitled Discours des esprits entant qu'il est de besoin, pour entendre resoudre la matiere difficile des Sorciers. There are two different editions of this work: ours, perfectly in keeping with the digitized copy in the Bibliothèque de Lyon, is probably a first edition; the Gallica digitization, probably a second edition, shows clear differences in layout and typography, and several introductory leaves have been added. Dorbon [3073: "Un des traités de démonologie les plus complets"], Dorbon [3074: "livre très rare et fort curieux"], Caillet [III, 7507], Guaita [717: "Ouvrage de démonologie des plus curieux et fort rare"]. A very rare and precious copy bearing the arms and figures of Marie de Médicis (1575-1642), a highly sought-after provenance (Olivier, plate 2504, irons 2 and 4).

Estim. 5 000 - 6 000 EUR

Fri 31 May

BRETEZ (Louis). La perspective pratique de l'architecture, contenant... une manière nouvelle, courte et aisée pour représenter en perspective les ordonnances d'architecture & les places fortifiées... Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1751. In-folio, 26 x 38.5 cm, 2 + 2 ff. frontispiece and 52 + 5 plates, contemporary binding in speckled fawn calf, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt motifs. Second edition, enlarged by 5 plates, of this unusual treatise on perspective and fortification published in 1706, comprising 60 engraved plates. A professor of perspective, Bretez (c. 1706-1739) drew Turgot's famous plan of Paris in 1739. A good copy. Marginal brown staining to last 12 plates. Bound at the head: [QUINZA (Francesco)]. Relazione della statua equestre di Carlo Magno eretta nel portico del Tempio Vaticano... Sienne, chez l'auteur, 1725. 2 ff. 46 pp. 1 f. First edition illustrated with engraved bands, vignettes and initials. A good copy. Some leaves uniformly browned. SAXE (Christoph Gottlieb). Diptychon Magni consulis... The Hague, Pierre de Hondt, 1762 ; 54 pp., 1 folded plate. First edition of this study of the Magnus consular diptych, based on its Carolingian whalebone copy (9th or 10th century), preserved in 1750 in the collection of the Count of Wassenaer in The Hague and acquired in the 19th century by the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris. Illustrated with an engraved plate depicting the Carolingian diptych. A good copy. Small marginal stain.

Estim. 350 - 400 EUR

Sat 25 May

Addison Thomas MILLAR (Warren 1860 - Philadelphie 1913) - Rue Orientale Oil on panel 22 x 17 cm Signed lower left Addison T. Millar, imprint on reverse On the back, handwritten annotations T.A.M An Oriental Street Born in the United States, Addison Millar was soon recognized as a prodigy of drawing and painting. Artistic emulation at the end of the 19th century was lively in Europe: the Impressionist painters had made their revolution, and art had never been so representative of a source of novelty. This is why Addison Millar decided to start traveling in 1894. He was then 34 and had already reached a certain level of maturity in his painting. He went first to Paris, to the Académie Julian, where he studied with Benjamin Constant and Giovanni Boldini, then to Spain and Algeria in 1895. It was then that he produced his best Orientalist works. It was in the midst of these shopping streets and mosque entrances that his painting reached its peak. He conveys the prevailing atmosphere with a vivid, precise brushstroke. Millar probably spent little time in Algeria. He focused on specific scenes and architecture, reproducing them with variations. Many of his works are still preserved in the USA, where he died accidentally in 1913. Millar used to sign some of his paintings with his thumbprint, as he has done on the present work. In addition to the Smithsonian Institution, the New York Public Library, the Boston Museum of Fine Art and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, his work has been shown at the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Library of Congress and the Rhode Island School of Design.

Estim. 5 000 - 6 000 EUR

Thu 23 May

[NOVEL LITERATURE] Lot of 19 books including: - LE SAGE (Alain René), Histoire de de Gil Blas. Paris, A. Everat (accident to binding, tears to pages). - Rudyard KIPLING, Kim, Paris, Delagrave. Illustrations by Ch. Fouqueray. Large and strong in-4 ½ blond marbled calf, smooth spine decorated, gilt title (wear to binding, insolate, very light scattered foxing). - Remy de GOURMONT, Sixtine. Paris, Albert savine, 1890. 1 volume. - Ferdinand OSSENDOWSKI, Bêtes hommes et Dieux. Paris, Plon, 1924. - Sophie GAY, Le Moqueur Amoureux. Paris Michel Lévy, 1863. - J. L. de la Marsonnière, Un drame au logis de la Lycorne. Paris, H. Oudin, 1883. Ex-Libris De Martignac. - Claude Farrère, Mademoiselle Dax, jeune fille. Paris, Henri Jonquières et cie, 1922. Edition illustrated with fourteen compositions by L. Schulz. - J. Fenimore COOPER, The pathfinder or, the inland Sea. Paris, Baudry's european library, 1840. in English. - Edmond JALOUX,Fumées dans la campagne. Paris, La renaissance du livre. - Charles DICKENS, Les temps difficiles. Paris, Hachette, 1859. - Alfred DE VIGNY, Stello, théâtre, servitude et grandeur militaires. Paris, Bibliothèque Larousse. - A. De Vigny, servitude et grandeurs militaires. Paris, Alphonse Lemerre. - A. De Vigny, Cinq-mars ou une conjuration sous Louis XIII. Paris, Alphonse Lemerre. - Marquis de Foudras, Le bonhomme Maurevert. Paris, E. Noury. - Ch. De Brosses, Lettres familières. Paris, Librairie académique, p. Didier et cie, 1869. - A.Maurois, Les discours du docteur O'Grady. Paris, Grasset, 1922. Edition on vellum ragpaper numbered 609. - Pol NEVEUX, La douce enfance de Thierry Seneuse. Lyon, Lardanchet, 1925. - Le seigneur de BRANTOME, Vies des dames galantes. Paris, Garnier Frères, 1857. - WILLY,Suzette veut me lâcher, illustrations by Supparo. Paris, Albin Michel. (not collated, wear)

Estim. 40 - 60 EUR

Wed 22 May

GODARD (Jean). - Les Œuvres, divided into two volumes. Plus les Trophées du Roy composez & adioutez depuis l'impression des présentes œuvres. Lyon, [Jean Tholosan pour] Pierre Landry, 1594. 2 volumes in one in-8, red jansenist morocco, interior lace, gilt edges, slipcase (H. Alix). First collective edition of Jean Godard's works, partly original, containing over 500 pieces. Dedicated to Henri IV, whose woodcut medallion portrait adorns the verso of both title pages, it includes La Flore ou les premières amours, La Lucresse ou les secondes amours, the tragedy La Franciade, the comedy Les Desguisés, the three books of La Fonteine de Gentilly, the three others of La Fonteine de Saint-Font, and the Trophées de Henri IV, a series of 34 sonnets in which the poet sings in a thousand ways of the exploits of the King of Navarre. We should also mention a series of 45 chansons, various sonnets and other poems, including La Perdrix, La Pauvreté, Les Goguettes, Le Flascon, and L'Amitié, a long poem addressed to his long-time friend the lawyer Jean Heudon (see nos. 57 and 58). Apart from Amours de Flore and Trophées, already published, the rest are unpublished. A poet born in Paris in the 1560s and dying around 1630, Jean Godard was lieutenant in the bailliage of Ribemont in Picardy, then lived in Bordeaux, Clermont in Auvergne, and Villeneuve in Beaujolais. A first-rate copy, extensively described by J. P. Barbier-Mueller in his Bibliothèque poétique. From the Edmée Maus library (bookplate). Volume I, small restored tear on edge of folio N1, not missing. Volume II, repaired tear on folio Bb1, and paper loss at the corner of folio Cc1 (restored, advertisement copied in pen). J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-2, n°48. - Baudrier, V, pp. 341-342. - Picot, Rothschild, n°760 - Soleinne, I, n°852. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°376.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Thu 23 May

Pierre SOULAGES (1919 - 2022) Etching III, 1956 Etching on Rives wove paper signed in the plate, countersigned and dedicated in pencil "A Jean Cayrol, en sympathie" lower right. Proof coming with its folding catalog "Pierre Soulages" at the Galerie de France in 1956, from an edition of 400 proofs, here copy 275. Lacourières Paris imprimeur, Galerie de France éditeur Plate dimensions : 26.7 x 19.5 cm Flat catalog dimensions : 26.7 x 37.5 cm Reference: Pierre Encrevé, Soulages l'œuvre imprimé, Bibliothèque Nationale de France -BNF, Paris, 2003 French writer Jean Cayrol was born in Bordeaux on June 6, 1911. After studying law and literature, he became a librarian to get closer to poetry, an art form that had always attracted him. He soon became involved with the Surrealist movement, composing poems on his own. But then war broke out. Jean Cayrol soon joined the Resistance as a member of the Rémy network. He was denounced and deported to the Mauthausen camp in 1942. He was liberated in 1945. After a difficult return to Bordeaux, he moved to Paris, where he befriended Jean Marcenac, Louis Aragon and Paul Éluard through the Comité national des écrivains, with whom he kept up a lifelong correspondence. He went on to write Poèmes de la nuit et du brouillard (1946), in which he addresses the horror of the camps and the sad, poetic reality of the human condition. In 1955, the author wrote the accompanying text for Alain Resnais's film Nuit et brouillard. In the following years, he became fully involved in Parisian life as a talent scout, poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter and film director. From 1973, he was a member of the Académie Goncourt, and took pleasure in surrounding himself with numerous objets d'art. After these heady years, he gradually retired to Bordeaux. He was awarded the Grand Prix National des Lettres in 1984. He died in 2005.

Estim. 1 500 - 3 000 EUR

Fri 17 May

Cornelis Dusart - Cornelis Dusart (1660 - Haarlem - 1704) - Lounging man smoking a pipe. Black and yellowish-brown chalk with red chalk, partly heightened with white, on blue laid paper with watermark "Nebenmarke Initialen LO". 21.5 x 18.3 cm. With a framing line in brown pen. Dusart was influenced by his teacher Adriaen van Ostade and later by Jan Steen, whose more comedic style he adopted. Dusart probably inherited Ostade's entire workshop estate, completed the stored paintings and added artistic washes to some of his drawings to make them more attractive for sale. Dusart's figure drawings, including the present study of a resting, puffing man on blue-ground paper "aux deux crayons", can be regarded as works of art in their own right. According to a notebook by Dusart, these partly pictorial and often colored drawings were sold separately to collectors (see Peter Schatborn: Dutch Figure Drawings from the seventeenth century, exhib. cat. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, and Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1981-82, pp. 110-112). With white laid paper strips along the margins verso. - Barely noticeable brown stains. Verso in upper corners with adhesive residue from former mounting, this faintly showing through to recto. In good condition. Literature: Jeroen Giltaij, exhib. cat. Le Cabinet d'un Amateur: Dessins flamands et hollandais des XVIe et XVIIe siècles d'une collection privée d'Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Paris, Fondation Custodia, and Brussels, Bibliothèque Albert 1er, 1976/77, cat. no. 47, plate 92. Provenance: Karl Eduard von Liphart (1808-1891), Dorpat, Bonn and Florence, stamped on verso (Lugt 1687); inherited by his grandson Baron Reinhold von Liphart (2nd half of the 19th century), "Ratshof" near Dorpat, with the stamp (Lugt 1758) on the verso; whose auction at C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, auction, 26.4.1898, lot 296; Hertzberger, Amsterdam, auction, 23.5.1940, lot 64, with illus; Jan Frederik Bianchi (1878-1963), Amsterdam, with the stamp (Lugt 3761) on the verso; his sale at Paul Brandt, Amsterdam, auction, 23-27.11.1964, lot 167; Iohan Quirijn van Regteren Altena (1899-1980), Amsterdam, verso with the stamp (Lugt 4617); Christie's, Amsterdam, auction "The I.Q. van Regteren Altena Collection, Part IV: Dutch & Flemish Drawings from 1500 to 1900, 13.5.2015, lot 219; Private collection, Munich, acquired in the above auction. Taxation: differential taxation (VAT: Margin Scheme)

Estim. 5 000 - 7 000 EUR

Wed 15 May

VOLTAIRE (1694 - 1778) L.A.S. "V", Potsdam October 3, 1752, to Marc-Pierre de Voyer comte d'ARGENSON; 3 pages in-4. Beautiful letter accompanying the delivery of the manuscript of the Histoire de la guerre de 1741. [This manuscript, entitled Histoire de la guerre dernière, is kept at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal (Ms-4773). The text was published, according to another copy, in 1755, without the consent of Voltaire, who did not want to see it published during his lifetime]. "Monsieur Le Baillif, my comrade with the royalty and not with the royalty of Prussia, will give you my lord the tribute I owe you. The history of the last war belongs to you. Most of it was written in your offices and by your orders. It is your property that I return to you. I have added letters from the King of Prussia and Cardinal de Fleuri, which are perhaps unknown to you and which may please you. You can imagine that I have been able to learn some singularities. Jen ai fait usage avec la sobrieté convenable, et la fidélité d'un historien qui n'est plus historiografe. If you have any spare time, you may wish to have some of this work read to you. I have put the titles of the main events in the margins, so that you can choose. You will honor this manuscript with a place in your library, and I flatter myself that you will regard it as a monument to your glory and that of the nation, while waiting for the time which must let all truths die to allow the publication one day of those which I present to you today. Who would have thought, when we were together in the black alley, that one day I would be your historian, and that I would be so far away! I realize that in your present position, your old friendship could never show itself in the crowd of your occupations and dependents; that you would have very few moments to give me; but I regret these moments and I swear to you that you have caused me more remorse than anyone else. It is not perhaps a tribute to be despised that the remorse of a man who lives philosophically beside a very great king, who is showered with goods and honors to which he would not have dared to aspire, and whose soul enjoys unbounded freedom. But we love a country like ours, and a man like you, in spite of having them. I flatter myself that you take care of your health porro unum est necessarium. You need regime. You must love life. Be sure that there is a happy patient in the Potsdam Potsdam who makes continual wishes for your preservation. It's not that we're praying to God for you here. But the oldest of all your servants is interested in you, your glory, your happiness and your health with the most respectful and lively tenderness." Correspondance (Pléiade), t. III, n° 3318

Estim. 3 000 - 4 000 EUR

Fri 31 May

LEPAUTRE (Antoine). Les œuvres d'architecture... Paris, Jombert, circa 1700. In-folio, 25.5 x 38 cm, 36 pp. (miscalculated 38), 62 plates (miscalculated 60) including 38 doubles, contemporary binding in speckled fawn calf, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt motifs. Third and most complete edition of the suite of Desseins de plusieurs palais... A complete copy of the plates and text. The suite comprises 62 plates (two plates numbered 30 and two plates numbered 31) and an explanatory text attributed to Charles d'Aviler. The last plate (a siege scene, with the arms of the Prince de Conti), in a spirit quite different from the rest of the plates but numbered in the suite (no. 60), is etched by Jean Lepautre (Préaud. Inventaire du fonds français. 17th-century engravers. Tome 11; no. 232, p. 134, 2nd state). As Maxime Préaud clearly states in the very first line of his very rigorous description: "The whole of this suite poses a problem". We therefore refer you to his detailed description: Inventaire du fonds français. Graveurs du XVIIe siècle. Tome 11. Antoine Lepautre, Jean Lepautre and Jacques Lepautre (first part); nos. 3-61, pp. 14-34. Antoine Lepautre (1621-1679) was one of the great architects of the court of Louis XIV and a member of the Académie d'architecture from its creation in 1671. A very good copy. A 19th-century handwritten note in pencil reads "Provenant de la bibliothèque Destailleur. Mai 1891". The plates are mounted on re-used printed tabs. A text leaf from the second edition (pp. 17-18) has been added. Restoration to plate 11. Old staining to plates 12 & 54. Binding skilfully restored. Millard I, 96 (copy appears incomplete of 2nd plate 30 and 2nd plate 31).

Estim. 1 800 - 2 000 EUR

Fri 31 May

Traité des fortifications. De l'art de fortifier les... places où l'on explique les differens sistemes qui ont été mises en usage jusqu'à ce jour et les différens dehors qui ont été pratiquez pour éloigner les aproches. Circa 1750. 23-line folio manuscript (24.5 x 38 cm), calligraphed in brown ink and ruled in red ink on laid paper, 1 blank page, 282 pp. (numbered 280, 2 of which are blank), VII + XVIII pl. (numbered XXII) + IV pl. (numbered IV) + III pl. (numbered IV), all folded, 20th-century brown shagreen binding, triple gilt framing on boards, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt motifs. Important, elegant manuscript illustrated with 32 large, finely colored plates detailing typical fortification systems and plans. The manuscript is divided into four parts: "De la simple enceinte", "De la fortification moderne", "Des dehors et des citadeles" and "Des fortifications irrégulières". It details Vauban's various systems, as well as those of Errard de Bar-le-Duc, Antoine de Ville, Pagan and Baron de Coëhorn. An in-folio manuscript from 1720, preserved at the Bibliothèque nationale, with the same title and just 68 pages, is marked "dessinez par... le marquis de Charleval ; expliqué par le sieur d'Armancourt" (drawn by... the Marquis de Charleval; explained by the Sieur d'Armancourt). Another (French 9164), dated 1714, bears the later indication "Par mr le mal de Vauban". Finally, nine other virtually identical manuscripts, some without plates, others with 31 or 36 plates, preserved at the Service historique de la défense in Vincennes, are attributed to Joseph Sauveur (1653-1716), professor of mathematics at the Collège de France, who was elected to the Académie des sciences in 1696, where Vauban joined him in 1699. A very fine, fresh copy. Significant wash stains in the margins of some plates.

Estim. 6 000 - 8 000 EUR

Fri 31 May

KING OF NORWAY KING OF NORWAY - Set of 2 menus relating to the visit of King HAAKON VII of Norway and Queen Maud (daughter of King Edward VII of England) to France: - Menu for the dinner offered by President Armand FALLIÈRES to the King and Queen of Norway, May 27, 1907 at the Palais de l'Élysée, 4 pp. in-4 under a BELLE COUV. ILLUTRÉE in color by Albert Maignan featuring a young woman in traditional costume draped in a Norwegian flag in a fjord setting with the royal coat of arms embellished in gold and the emblem of the Republic, menu with program opposite engraved by Devambez and held in place by a red cord tied with bangs, laminated on card (the second plate illustrated with flags remains visible). In his Livre des menus, Auguste ESCOFFIER used this 16-course meal as an example of a grand presidential reception. - Menu for the luncheon offered to the King and Queen on May 29, 1907 at the Château de VERSAILLES, 4 pp. in-8, menu and program facing each other in frames with cherubs in corners, engraved by Devambez, trace of folding, qqs very slight stains. Also included: - Menu d'un déjeuner de 6 plats daté du 27 mai 1907 [Ministères des Affaires étrangères ?], 1 f. in-8 avec encadrement, engraved by Stern, small marginal hole. - Menu d'un déjeuner de 6 plats daté du 28 mai 1907 [Ministères des Affaires étrangères ?], 1 f. in-8 avec encadrement, engraved by Stern. - An artistic program dated May 29, 1907, 1 f. in-4 with frame, engraved by Devambez. Freshly independent since its separation from Sweden (1905), Norway was a major geostrategic issue in the European diplomatic ballet of pre-1914. France was particularly concerned about its neutrality in the face of Wilhelm II's German appetites. During a visit to the park of Versailles after the meal served in the Galerie des Batailles, the carriage carrying the Queen of Norway and the wife of the French President had an accident, resulting in the death of a horse (Bibliothèque municipale de Dijon).

Estim. 250 - 300 EUR

Mon 27 May

Alfred Jarry (French, 1873-1907) "L'Amour absolu", February 20, 1899 Autograph manuscript signed and dated. In-8 (Height 205 Width 158mm - not including tabs). Collation: 115 autograph pages by Alfred Jarry, in black ink, folioed 1-115. Contemporary binding: probably made for Victor Lemasle. Black chagrin spine, marbled paper boards (hinges slightly rubbed). Provenance: - Victor Lemasle (1876-1932), autograph dealer and publisher, notably of Alfred Jarry's last book, Albert Samain (Souvenirs), in 1907; he sold some of the Jarry manuscripts he owned to - Louis Libaude, pseud. Louis Lormel (1869-1922), art dealer; by descent ; - private collection. Exhibition of this manuscript: - "Expojarrysition", Galerie Jean Loize, Paris (18 palotin to 8 gidouille 80), May 7 to June 20, 1953, no. 419; - Alfred Jarry 1873-1917", Graphisches Kabinett, Kunsthaus Zürich, December 14, 1984 to March 10, 1985, no. 91. Alfred Jarry, Feb. 20, 1899. An autograph manuscript entitled "L'amour absolu". Signed and dated. Bibliography: - Œuvres complètes (dir. Henri Béhar), III, Paris, 2013, pp. 467 ff (notice by Paul Edwards); - Œuvres complètes (pléiade) I, Paris, 1972, p. 917 ff, p. 1257 ff ; - Patrick Besnier, Alfred Jarry, Paris, 2005, p. 395 ff. Webography: Jarry manuscripts known today: http://alfredjarry.fr/amisjarry/fichiers_ea/etoile_absinthe_132_133.pdf (p. 24 ff., with an error confusing a facsimile held at the Bibliothèque Littéraire Jacques Doucet with a non-existent manuscript - which was confirmed by the library's curators and the Société des Amis d'Alfred Jarry. We thank them here). Remarkable autograph manuscript by Alfred Jarry: one of two known manuscripts of L'Amour absolu, the Louis Lormel manuscript "crowning" the "Expojarrysition". The manuscript is sold with its export certificate. Presentation text on rouillac.com. https://www.rouillac.com/fr/news-3747-lamour_absolu?p=655

Estim. 30 000 - 50 000 EUR
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Composed of several subsidiaries, the Drouot Group is a major player in the art market. Hôtel Drouot, located in the heart of Paris, has been the world's largest public auction center since 1852. 15 salerooms are available to more than 70 auction houses. The emulation generated by an annual offer of 230,000 artworks from 21 major specialities - from Antiquity to street art - attracts some 3,000 visitors every day. The Group's digital platform, Drouot.com, offers digital sales - Live auctions (live broadcasting and participation in auctions), Online-only auctions (dematerialised auctions) and Buy Now sales (sales of lots at fixed prices). Nearly 2 million items are offered annually by 600 auction houses. Auction news is reported every week in La Gazette Drouot, the leading weekly magazine for the art market and culture published by Auctionspress.
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