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Fri 03 May

Cook,H. und J.King. - A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken ... for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed ... in the years 1776-1780. Second edition. 3 volumes of text and plates Cartes et figures du troisième voyage , together 4 volumes. London, H. Hughs for G. Nicol and T. Cadell (plate volume: Paris, Hôtel du Thou) 1785. 31.5 : 25 cm (text volumes) and 27 : 21 cm. With 4 engraved title vignettes and 88 mostly folded plates and maps as well as 34 further plates (duplicates with English captions) in the text volumes. and 88 num. Plates (instead of the 87 of the English A.), including a multi-folded world map Carte génerale with Cook's travel routes and the depiction of his death Mort de Cook. Leather bindings of the 18th century (spines of the 3 text volumes renewed in proper style, with 2 spine labels), plate volume bound slightly differently, with floral gilt spine and 2 spine labels. Sabin 16250 and 16261 - Forbes 85 and 90 - Beddie 1552 - Cf. Howes C729a and Lada-Mocarski 37 Description of Cook's three voyages around the world. Volumes I and II were written by Cook; the account of the third voyage, on which Cook died in Hawaii in 1779, was completed by James King. Second edition, generally regarded as typographically superior to the first edition of 1784. - Cook's circumnavigations provided important and precise cartographic knowledge, especially of the Pacific region; among other things, Cook's expeditions beyond the Arctic Circle finally relegated the existence of the great southern continent Terra Australis incognita to the realm of myth. He himself regarded the discovery of the Hawaiian archipelago, which he christened the 'Sandwich Islands', as one of the most significant achievements of his voyages. - "In these three voyages Cook did more to clarify the geographical knowledge of the southern hemisphere than all his predecessors together had done. He was the first really scientific navigator" (Hill p. 123). - Text volumes renewed in proper style (with 2 spine labels), plate volume bound slightly differently, with floral gilt to spine and 2 spine labels. - Plate volume with 2 18th century stamps of the 'Bibliothèque du Château d'Eu' on the title. - Second edition, with the atlas 'Cartes et figures du troisième voyage' of the French edition Paris 1785, containing 88 numb. engr. plates (1 more than in the English ed.) and 34 duplicate engr. plates (with English captions) in the text volumes. 18th cent. calf (spines of the 3 text vols. renewed in style, binding of the smaller atlas slightly different). - Plates slightly tanned, margins partly stronger affected, the text volumes clean with occasional staining, endpapers waterstained. Bindings rubbed, outer joints of atlas partly split. - Atlas with two 18th cent. stamps of the "Bibliothèque du Château d'Eu" on title page.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 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

Sun 05 May

Lieven CRUYL (1634- before 1720). Construction of the Pont Neuf du Louvre, Paris, June 1686. Pencil, brown ink and ink wash. Signed and dated: LIVINVS CRUYL PBR PATRICIVS GANDAVENSIS FECIT / PARISIIS ANNO M.DC.L.XXXVII, MENSE JVNIO And inscribed: PROSPECTVS SVBSTRVCTIONIS PONTIS LVPARAE IN FLUMINIS ALVEO Ao M.DC.LXXXVI PARISIIS / PERFECTAE, LOCORVMQVE CIRCVMIACENTIVM. / REPRESENTATION DE LA FONDATION DU PONT DU LOUVRE ACHEVEE L'AN MDCLXXXVI. On reverse, label in pencil and brown ink: "...acour à St. Fargeau / dessin à la plume / ...d'Erection du Pont royal en 1686 / par Livinus Cruyl". H_60 cm L_85 cm Provenance : Probably commissioned by Michel Le PELETIER de SOUZY (1640-1725), Director General of Fortifications under Louis XIV. LACOUR family, Saint Fargeau, Yonne. By descent, Yvonne LACOUR and Adolphe WATTINE. Then by descent to the current owner. Bibliography : E. Mareuse, 'Trois vues de Paris de Lieven Cruyl', Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de Paris et de l'Ile de France, 1919, pp. 64-71, reproduced (a copy of the bulletin will be given to the purchaser). F. Lugt, Bibliothèque nationale. Cabinet des Estampes. Inventaire général des dessins des écoles du Nord, Paris 1936, p. 77, nos. 277 and 278; F. Lugt, Musée du Louvre. Inventaire général des dessins des écoles du Nord. Ecole flamande, Paris 1949, vol. I, p. 46, no. 549; B. Jatta, Lieven Cruyl e la sua opera grafica, Brussels/Rome, 1992, p. 145, no. 108 D, reproduced fig. 136

Estim. 10 000 - 20 000 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

Thu 09 May

Judaica - Holocaust - Taslitzky, Boris. 111 Dessins faits à Buchenwald 1944-1945. Présentés par Julien Cain. With 111 (6 portraits, 5 color) plates. Paris, Bibliothèque Francaise, 1945/46. title, printer's mark, 11 pp. (preface), 4 pp. (contents and colophon). 25 x 22 cm. Loose in original illustrated cardboard box (spine with tears, dusty, rear cover with waterstain, portfolio flaps partly missing). One of 500 (GA 3200) numbered copies on "véline pur fil du Marais". - Captions in French, English and Russian. Title page and preface in French. - Boris Taslitzky (1911-2005) began painting at the age of fifteen and attended the Académie Montparnasse and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris between 1925 and 1933. In 1933 he joined the Association of Revolutionary Writers and Artists, where he became secretary general of the painters' and sculptors' section. In 1935 he became a member of the Communist Party. In 1936, Taslitzky took part in the exhibition that brought together Picasso, Léger, Matisse, Braque, Jean Lurcat, Laurens and Pinion in the foyer of the Alhambra Theater. He was captured in June 1940, escaped in August and joined the Resistance. He was arrested again in November 1941, sentenced to two years in prison and deported to Buchenwald on July 31, 1944, where he managed to produce around two hundred drawings depicting life in the camps. "When I go to hell, I will make sketches. Besides, I have experience, I've been there and I've drawn!" he said later. - Only slightly browned or minimally altered in places. VAT: *

Estim. 500 - 750 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

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

Tue 07 May

EPSTEIN (Mark Isaevitch). KIPNIS (Itzik). Di farshterte khasene. Kinder pyese in eyn act. [Le Mariage perturbé. Play for children in one act]. [Cooperative Publishing]. Kultur-Lige. [Red Army Street, 43]. Kiev. 1924. In-12 (17.5 x 12.9 cm). 18, (1) pp. strong paper covers, the first illustrated in black with typographical compositions in Yiddish and a cubist painting depicting a bear accompanied by a goat in a shaded circle. First edition. A rare, spectacularly illustrated children's account of the flowering of Yiddish culture in Kiev in the 1920s. Cover and three original plates by sculptor, painter and theater designer Mark Isaevitch Epstein (1899-1949). Alongside Chagall, Lissitzky and Altman, he played a pioneering role in the Kutur-Lige organization in Kiev, founded in 1918 to promote Yiddish culture and language. A central figure in Ukrainian art, he illustrated most of the works published by the organization. A student in Alexandra Exter's studio, he was a founding member of the Ukrainian Artists' Union (OSMU) in 1927. Epstein illustrates the short play by writer Itzik Kipnis (1896-1974). A children's author, he was arrested in 1948 and exiled to Siberia, returning to Ukraine only after Stalin's death. His works are still in print. This is the story of the bear's wedding. "Prepare tables, bottles and fish, we're going to drink wine and honey until dawn. But insects (flies, bees, ladybugs...) arrive to steal the honey and disrupt the party. The family flees, falls: it's a mess. "Never had a bear wedding gone so wrong! A magnificent cubist illustration, playing on the different depths of black obtained by juxtaposing dots and uneven secant planes. The "reconstruction" of the plates in no way alters the touching figurative aspect. Unrestored, with a pale mauve shelf-stamp of 1948 on the second cover: Stalin's anti-Semitic purges also liquidated Jewish culture and art in libraries. Hence the extreme rarity of this work today. Minimal trace of folding on the first cover and small bottom corner missing (4 mm). Future anterior. The avant-garde and the Yiddish book (1914-1939). Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme. Paris. 2009, 95. Keywords: judaica, jew, jewish, hebrew, rabbis, jewish, torah, hebrew, hebraica, judaism, synagogue, zionism, pessah, pessach, haggada, haggadah, hagada, hagadah, passover, menora, menorah, hannuka, hannuca, hannucca, hanouccah, torah, juden, israélite, Israël, antisemitism, antisémitisme, dreyfus, meguila, sepharade, sefarad, ketouba

Estim. 2 500 - 3 500 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

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 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 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

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

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

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

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

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 22 May

RONSARD (Pierre de). - The first four books of the Odes. Ensemble son Bocage. Paris, Guillaume Cavellart [sic], 1550. In-8, fawn calf, double framed with three cold-stamped fillets, gilt fleuron in center and small fleuron at corners, ribbed spine, modern box (period binding). First edition of the first collection of poems by Ronsard (1524-1585). First state copy, without the 2 suravertissement leaves but containing the 2 errata leaves. The collection contains only unpublished poems, with the exception of three pieces. The publication of Ronsard's Odes sounded like a thunderclap in the 16th-century world of letters, turning the landscape of poetry in France upside down. Nourished by the works of Pindar and Horace, Ronsard, who makes no secret of his disdain for the old school, proudly presents himself as the first Lirique François author, and boasts that he was the first to enrich the French language with the term "ode", an old poetic genre prized by the authors of Antiquity: "Quand tu m'appelleras le premier auteur Lirique François, et celui qui a guidé les autres au chemin de si honneste labeur, lors tu me rendras ce que tu me dois [....]. I went to see foreigners, & made myself familiar with Horace, counterfeiting his naive sweetness, in the same way that Clement Marot (the only light in his years of vulgar poetry) labored in the pursuit of his Psalter, & dared, the first of our kind, to enrich my language with the name Ode. The work provoked the strongest reaction from the Marotiques: a literary battle, known as the "Querelle du Louvre", began between the Ancients and the Moderns, represented on one side by Mellin de Saint-Gelais, poet laureate at the court of Henri II, and the young Ronsard. We have bound the sequel: - L'Hymne de France. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Michel Vascosan, 1549. First edition of this poem exalting national sentiment, in 224 flat-rhymed decasyllabic verses; this is the first hymn composed by the poet, who claims the glory of being the first to celebrate France. (J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-1, n°2. - Ronsard : la trompette et la lyre, n°19). - Ode de la paix. Paris, Guillaume Cavellat, 1550. First edition, known from only 7 copies according to J. P. Barbier-Mueller. Ode belonging to the pindaric genre, in which Ronsard sings in 500 verses of the peace signed with England in 1550: France paid 400,000 gold écus and the English surrendered Boulogne. In addition, they evacuated Scotland (J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-1, no. 8). A precious volume of three early works by Ronsard, preserved in a Parisian binding strictly contemporary with the editions. From the libraries of Eugène Piot (1891, no. 482), Tobie Gustave Herpin (1903, no. 107), Robert Hoe (1912, no. 2929), William Augustus White and F. M. Weld. Light foxing, small light wetness on a few leaves. Binding restored at corners, spine redone. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-1, n°5. - N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., n°3. - Ronsard : la trompette et la lyre, n°46. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°673, 670 and 676.

Estim. 15 000 - 20 000 EUR

Tue 21 May

1895 DURUY VICTOR CATALOGUE DE BONS LIVRES ANCIENS ET MODERNES PROVENANT D' UNE GRANDE BIBLIOTHEQUE VENTE DU 11 AU 16 NOVEMBRE 1895 CH PORQUET Plaquette grand IN-8 broché, couv. Muette réparée, dos refait. 515 N°, 47 PP. PRICES + NAMES OF ACCQUEREURS INTERFOLIE 1896 LEROUX M . CATALOGUE DE BONS LIVRES ANCIENS ET MODERNES NOMBREUX CATALOGUES DE TABLEAUX ANCIENS ET MODERNES OBJETS D' ARTS ET CURIOSITES PROVENANT DE LA BIBLIOTHEQUE DE FEU M. LEROUX CH PORQUET Plaquette grand IN 8 broché, couv. réparée, dos refait. 486 N°, 47 PP., PRIX + NOM DES ACCQUEREURS INTERFOLIE 1896 PORQUET CH ( LIBRAIRE) CATALOGUE DE BONS LIVRES ANCIENS ET MODERNES CATALOGUES ILLUSTRES LIVRE EN NOMBRE VENTE DES 19 20 ET 21 OCTOBRE 1896 CH PORQUET Plaquette IN-8 broché, couv. réparée, dos refait. 310 N°, 29 PP. PRICE + NAME OF ACCQUEREURS INTERFOLIE 1897 GONCOURT CATALOGUE DE LA COLLECTION DES GONCOURT PARIS 5 volumes large in-8 stapled (defects to covers, with freckles and stains). Portraits. Bibliothèque du XVIIIe siècle (2 copies); Livres modernes (two copies); Objets d'art du XVIIIe siècle; 1897 MAS LATRIE DE Mr LE COMTE (MEMBRE DE L'INSTITUT) CATALOGUE DE BONS LIVRES ANCIENS ET MODERNES PROVENANT DE LA BIBLIOTHEQUE DE FEU M . LE COMTE DE MAS LATRIE CH PORQUET Large IN 8 paperback (cover lined, spine rebacked, ex-libris stamp of Dominique Messager on title. ) 796 N°, 70 PP. PRICE + NAMES OF ACCQUEREURS INTERFOLIE 1898 CONQUET L CATALOGUE DES LIVRES MODERNES COMPOSANT LA BIBLIOTHEQUE PARTICULIERE DE FEU M .L .CONQUET.EDITEUR LIBRAIRE DE LA SOCIETE DES AMIS DES LIVRES DUREL / LECLERC / COR IN 4 BROCHE, 113 PAGES, 447 n° Nice copy. 1898 I*** (COMTE D') BIBLIOGRAPHIE DES OUVRAGES RELATIFS A L'AMOUR AUX FEMMES ET AU MARIAGE ET DES LIVRES FACETIEUX PANTAGRUELIQUES SCATOLOGIQUES SATYRIQUES ETC... 4eme EDITION ENTIERTÉ REFONDUE AUGMENTEE ET MISE A JOURNE PAR J. LEMONNYER BECOUR STEPHANE LILLE UNIQUEMENT LES VOLUMES DES TABLES 4 FASCICULES TOME 4 FASC 1/2/3/6 brochés (défauts) 1899 LESENS EMILE (MEMBER OF DIFFERENT SOCIETES DE BIBLIOPHILES NORMANDS) CATALOGUE DE LA BIBLIOTHEQUE DE M. EMILE LESENS 1er PARTIE THEOLOGIE-HISTOIRE DU PROTESTANTISME-JURISPRUDENCE-PHILOSOPHIE-SCIENCES-LITTERATURE-HISTOIRE-ARCHEOLOGIE-GEOGRAPHIE-VOYAGES-BIOGRAPHIE-BIBLIOGRAPHIE-ALMANACH. ROUEN A.LESTRINGANT IN 8 paperback (flaws on spine, Dominique Messager bookplate on title. ) 2934 N°, 260 PP. 1900 VILLENEUVE GUYOT DE CATALOGUE DES LIVRES MANUSCRITS ET IMPRIMES 1366 OUVRAGES ANCIENS ET ROMANTIQUES DECRITS REPRODUCTION DES PLUS RICHES RELIURES EN DOUBLE PAGE 1ER et 2eme partie DAMASCENE 2 vol. grand IN 8 brochés (couv. Passées, légères rousseurs, Cachet ex-libris de Dominique Messager sur le titre. ) 155 AND 176 PP. 1902 PAILLET EUGENE CATALOGUE DE LA BIBLIOTHEQUE DE FEU M. EUGENE PAILLET PRESIDENT DE LA SOCIETE DES AMIS DES LIVRES, second part. DAMASCENE MORGANT IN 8 paperback ( Dominique Messager bookplate on title. ) 716 N°, 72 PP.

Estim. 100 - 150 EUR

Wed 22 May

LA GESSÉE (Jean de). - Les Premières œuvres françoyses. Premier volume. Anvers, De l'Imprimerie de Christofle Plantin, 1583. 4 volumes in 3 volumes in-4, havana morocco, Du Seuil decoration framing the boards, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Binding of the second half of the 19th century). First and only extremely rare collective edition of the works of Protestant poet Jean de La Gessée. It was missing from the rich poetic collections of Nodier, Viollet-le-Duc and Herpin. According to J. P. Barbier-Mueller's meticulous count, this gigantic collection of over 1,500 pages comprises a total of 1,841 pieces, most of them previously unpublished. It is divided into four parts, grouped under the titles Jeunesses, Meslanges, Amours and Discours poétiques. The first is a collection of long poems, many of which evoke writers and poets of the period (such as Postel, Du Bartas, Pierre de Brach, Robert Garnier, Baïf, Ronsard, Belleau or Jean Dorat) or are dedicated to great personalities such as the King of Navarre, Henri III, Queen Elisabeth, the Duc de Joyeuse and others. The title is printed in a large woodcut architectural frame. A fine portrait of the author at the age of 31, finely engraved on copper by Jean Wierix, adorns the work: it was reused in the 17th century as a portrait of Ronsard and reproduced as such to this day (J. P. Barbier-Mueller). Along with Houwaert's Pegasides pleyn (1582), this is the finest collection of poems printed by Plantin (cf. Anvers, ville de Plantin et de Rubens, cat. Bibliothèque nationale, 1954, no. 284). Jean de La Gessée (whose name is sometimes spelt La Jessée) was secretary to François, Duke of Anjou and Alençon, and had accompanied his master to the Netherlands in the early 1580s, where the latter had been called to become the new sovereign. It was there, in Antwerp, on the presses of Plantin-Moretus that he had his works printed, no doubt thanks to the prince's protection. The mention Premier volume on the title page suggests that a sequel was planned, but it never saw the light of day; after the failure of his reign, Prince François and the French were expelled from the country, and Jean de La Gessée was unable to continue his publishing venture: It is even probable that the people of Antwerp, in their resentment against the French prince and the gentlemen who had surrounded him, destroyed most of the copies of volume one that had remained in the Plantin warehouse, which would explain their great rarity (Picot). The Rothschild copy contained a leaf printed in civil type, inserted after the title, which is not found here, nor in the copy in the Hector de Backer library (cf. cat. I, 1926, no. 380). A superb copy, perfectly established in the 19th century. The 15 leaves of table and privilege at the end of the fourth part are here in facsimile in a separate third volume bound identically to the other two. The absence of these leaves, noted after the acquisition of the copy at a sale in Troyes in 2000, hardly prevented J. P. Barbier-Mueller from fully enjoying his new poetic-bibliophilic treasure: [...] I considered my acquisition in a less gloomy light. I now owned all the poems contained in this enormous publication. The book was incredibly rare, and no doubt a bookseller would have charged me a huge price, even with a defect that I had to accept for the pleasure of reading "all of La Gessée". There are particular cases where one must accept a Venus de Milo without arms, or a Victory of Samothrace without a head. So my joy today is (almost) unmixed! The facsimile was made from the BnF copy, at the request of the collector who wrote this autograph note in pencil on the colophon of the new volume: "The extreme rarity of the book led me to consider that the text alone counted... I could never have owned it in its entirety, and the tables are not "text". The second volume, containing volumes III and IV, has been settled. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, n°2. - N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., n°77. - Picot, Rothschild, n°750. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°418.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Tue 21 May

Reunion of 10 catalogs: 1/CATALOGUE DE LA BIBLIOTHEQUE DE M. GEORGES ANDRIEUX 1883-1945 EXPERT PRES LES DOUANES FRANCAISES PREMIERE VENTE 17.18 19 MARS 1947 HOTEL DROUOT SALLE 10. 2/DE GROLIER ERIC WITH THE COLLABORATION OF THIBAULT BERNARD. LE GUIDE DU BIBLIOPHILE ET DU LIBRAIRE: BIBLIOGRAPHIE GENERALE DE LIVRES PASSÉS EN VENTES PUBLIQUES EN 1945. 1947. 3/CHADENAT CH: ANCIEN LIBRAIRE CATALOG DE SA BIBLIOTHEQUE-VOYAGES-DE MARINE-LIVRES SUR L' ASIE L' AFRIQUE L' AMERIQUE ET OCEANIA 12 PART . 1949. 4/DE GROLIER ERIC ET DE GROLIER GEORGETTE . LE GUIDE DU BIBLIOPHILE ET DU LIBRAIRE BIBLIOGRAPHIE GENERALE DE LIVRES ET MANUSCRIPTS SOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTIONS FROM 1946 TO 1948. 1950. 5/ANDRE JACQUES. CATALOG DE SA BIBLIOTHEQUE. 1951. 6/BRIDEL MAURICE: CATALOG DE BEAUX LIVRES ET BELLES RELIURES N°12. 1952. 7/BIBLIOTHEQUE GABRIEL COGNACQ 4 FASCICULES IN 4 TOTALISING 1746 N° FROM 1952 TO 1953. 1952. 8/DE GROLIER ERIC DE-GROLIER GEORGETTE . LE GUIDE DU BIBLIOPHILE ET DU LIBRAIRE BIBLIOGRAPHIE GENERALE DE LIVRES ET MANUSCRITS PASSÉS EN VENTES PUBLIQUES DE 1949 A 1951. 1953. 9/HEILBRUN GEORGES. Catalog n°7. 1953. 10/CATALOGUE DE TRES BEAUX LIVRES ANCIENS HOTEL DROUOT SALLE N°10 10 NOVEMBRE 1954. Réunion de 8 catalogs: 1/BERNY GERARD DE: CATALOGUE DE BIBLIOTHEQUE 1er PARTIE: MANUSCRITS ENLUMINES DES XIVe ET Xve SIECLES, GOTHICAL INCUNABLES, ILLUSTRATIONS, ORIGINAL EDITIONS OF THE 16th AND 17th CENTURIES, ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE 18th CENTURY, ANCIENT AUTOGRAPHS ROMANTIC AND MODERN, PAINTERS' BOOKS. 1958. 2/ANTIQUE BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS, MAINLY FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD, FROM PROFESSOR MILLOT'S LIBRARY. MILLOT. 1958. 3/BIBLIOTHEQUE DE M. ET Mme X .... ANCIENT BOOKS HISTORY, TRAVEL, COSTUMES, ATLAS, NATURAL HISTORY, ILLUSTRATIONS ROMANTIC AND MODERN. 1958. . 4/BEAUX LIVRES ANCIENS ET MODERNES --3 VOL. Ader, 1959. 5/GUERQUIN PIERRE. BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LIVRES ANCIENS ROMANTIQUES ET MODERNES. 1959. 6/PRECIEUX MANUSCRIT A PEINTURE XII AU XVII. Ader, 1960. 7/ J.D. COLLECTION. CATALOG DE BIBLIOTHEQUE MANUSCRITS ET LIVRES PRECIEUX DU XV AU XX SIECLE. 1961. 8/SCHELER THOMAS. BOOKS SCIENTIFIC INNOVATIVE PRECURSOR. 1961. Set of 8 catalogs. 1/BIBLIOTHEQUE BEAUX LIVRES ANCIENS ET MODERNES. Lardenchet, 1976. in-8 paperback. 2/LIBRAIRIE LA ROUE A LIVRES. CATALOG N° 10 BULLETIN PERIODIQUE D'INFORMATION ET BULLETIN INFORMATIONS N°8 1976. 3/NOURRY EMILE . Library catalog. 1976. 4/BIBLIOTHEQUE ROGER PEYREFITTE: LIVRES ANCIENS, ANTIQUITES, DECORATION, NUMISMATIQUE, VOYAGES, LIVRES AUX ARMES n°1 160 N° 68 PP FRONT,ILL -CURIOSA n°2 264 N° 88 PP ILL,.N° 3 239 N° 64 PP ILL.VENTE DE 1976 A 1977. 1976. 3 vol. in-4. 5/LIVRES ANCIENS DE LA BIBLIOTHEQUE DE J H F ET APPARTENANT À DIVERS AMATEURS . 1977. 6/LIBRAIRIE DU JARDIN DE FLORE. CENT LIVRES ILLUSTRES DU XV AU XX SIECLES CATALOG N° 1. 1977. 7/BIBLIOTHEQUE D'UN AMATEUR 1977. Drouot. 8/CATALOGUE BIBLIOTHEQUE LIVRES ILLUSTRES ROMANTIQUE ET MODERNES, EXEMPLAIRES UNIQUES ORNES DE DESSINS ORIGINAUX, RELIURES DE SIMIER BOZERAIN ETC...... 1977. In-4 88 pp. and 386 no. Reunion of 10 catalogs: 1/M.D.: BIBLIOTHEQUE CLASSIQUES FRANCAIS DU XVII SIECLES. 1978. 2/LEGUELTEL: Catalogue. 1979. 3/MINISTERE DE LA CULTURE. VENICE UNE CIVILISATION DU LIVRE XV XVIII. 1979. 4/BNF: TRESORS DE LA BIBLIOTHEQUE DE L' ARSENAL. 1980. 5/BIBLIOTHEQUE DE ROGER HILD: ANTIQUE ROMANTIC AND MODERN BOOKS AND AUTOGRAPHS. 1980. ; 6/BIBLIOTHEQUE EVRARD DE ROUVRE. EACH CATALOG (2) IS PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED IN BLACK AND COLOR IN THE TEXT AND FULL-PAGE REPRODUCTIONS OF BINDINGS. 1980. 2 VOLUMES IN 4 125 AND 88 PP. 7/BIBLIOTHEQUE D'UN AMATEUR BOOKS DU XVIII SIECLES. 1980. 8/BIBLIOTHEQUE D' UN AMATEUR: Manuscrits DU ROMAN DE LA ROSE; 1 ER EDITION IN FOLIO DE SHAKESPEARE. 1980. 9/DE LA BAUME PLUVINEL (MARQUIS). PRECIOUS BOOKS FROM FAMOUS LIBRARIES: GOTHIC, ILLUSTRIOUS, INCUNABULA, ROMANS DE CHEVALERIE, FIRST AND COLLECTIVE EDITIONS FROM THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES, INCLUDING THE COMPLETE WORKS OF MOLIERE; NUMEROUS ARMORIAL BOOKS, FIRST EDITIONS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY AUTHORS. 1981. 10/BIBLIOTHEQUE D' UN AMATEUR: PRECIOUS ALMANACH AND SMALL-FORMAT BOOKS. 1981. Reunion of 4 catalogs Catalogue of rare and precious books by Jacques-Charles BRUNET. 1868. In-8 bound in half-maroquin with corners (spine faded). Printed on fine paper. Auction prices noted; -Catalogue de livres anciens et modernes provenant de la bibliothèque d'un amateur stéphanois. 1887. bound in post green half cloth. Auction prices noted; -Catalogue librorum Offgicinae Elzeviriannae..., 1928, in-8 paperback (defects); -Comte de Lagondie: Catalogues des livres imprimés par les Elsevier...composant le cabinet de...1879. In-8 paperback.

Estim. 30 - 40 EUR
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