Livres anciens et modernes

Lot 1 - BIBLIOTHÈQUE CHOISIE DE CONTES, DE FACÉTIES, ET DE BONS MOTS. Paris: Royer, 1786-1788. - 7 volumes in-8, 198 x 124: frontispiece, (2 ff.), xj, xix pp., (2 ff.), iv, 208 pp. ; frontispiece, 245 pp. ; frontispiece, 247 pp. ; 296 pp. ; 250 pp. ; (2 ff.), 231 pp. ; (1 f.), 220 pp. Red morocco, triple gilt fillet framing and gilt fleuron at corners, ornate smooth spine, interior gilt roulette, gilt edges (period binding). First edition of this precious and rare collection of tales and short stories. The complete collection should comprise 14 volumes, but it is extremely rare to find it in its entirety. We have here the first five published between 1786 and 1788, containing French as well as Greek and Latin pieces. The first volume is headed by Réflexions sur le conte by Dorat. There are also three unsigned frontispieces, the first of which is printed in red. These first five volumes are joined by two others in the same series, respectively entitled Les Folies sentimentales, ou l'égarement de l'esprit par le cœur, Recueil d'Anecdotes nouvelles, and Nouvelles folies sentimentales, ou folies par amour; précédées De la Folie par haine, avec la Bague d'Hébé, Conte érotique; pour faire suite à la Bibliothèque choisie de Contes, both dated 1786 by Royer. EXEMPLES ON VELIN PAPER IN IN-8 FORMAT, the current edition being in-18 format. Very fine set, uniformly bound in contemporary morocco. Spines very slightly faded. Small light spotting on top of frontispiece of volumes 2 and 3. The last two volumes were volumes XII and XIII; the numbers have been partly erased to leave only I and II.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 2 - [BILLARDON DE SAUVIGNY (Louis-Edme)]. Racconti orientali dell'idioma tedesco nell'italiana favella recati. Bologna: A San Tommaso d'Aquino, 1771. - In-8, 181 x 117 : iv, 127 pp. Half brown calf, spine ribbed, speckled edges (19th century binding, spine rebound). The only Italian edition of this collection of 62 oriental tales presented as the work of a certain "Amed Ben Mohamed", translated from the German by Francesco Mugliorini. In fact, this is the Italian translation of the Apologues orientaux published in Paris in 1764, written by playwright, librettist, poet and polygrapher Louis-Edme Billardon de Sauvigny (1736?-1812) under the pseudonym Amed Ben Mohamed. The edition features a handsome intaglio title vignette and initials. Minor light spotting. Restoration to the top of the title and to the edge of folio D8. Bound in suite: - La filosofia di un turco A 81. Code, A 3. Penne D'Airone A 2. Spennacchi, E A 1. Collana di Smeraldi. Constantinopoli, 1780 - 62 pp. First edition of the Italian translation of the work attributed to the Dalmatian writer and adventurer Stjepan Zanović (1751-1786) entitled in French La Poésie et la philosophie d'un turc à 81 queues, à 3 plumes de héron, à 2 aigrettes et à 1 collier d'émeraudes. It first appeared in 1779, or 1775 according to some sources, but no physical copies to that date seem to have been actually recorded. Published under the false address of "Constantinopoli", this Italian edition is said to have been printed in Florence by Giovanni Battista Stecchi or, according to other sources, in Venice (cf. Parenti, Dizionario dei luoghi di stampa, p. 70). - Amusemens à la grecque. Copenhagen: Pierre Steinmann, 1768. - (1 f.), 190 pp. and (1 f.). Complete collection of this periodical published in 24 issues from April to September 1767. Published anonymously, it is thought to have been written entirely by Nicolas-Jacques-André Yanssens Descampeaux (1732-1795), a native of Rouen who was one of Prince Frederick's teachers until 1771. Apart from 5 verse pieces, each issue includes a prose essay or story on various subjects such as sublunar eclipses, the study of languages, the coronation of kings, unjust treatment of sex, Chinese gardens, the philosopher's stone, etc. This periodical would have taken over from another entitled Amusemens littéraires. The epithet "à la grecque" refers to a fashionable hairstyle and announces the humorous tone of the publication. (cf. Dictionnaire des journaux 1600-1789, edited by Jean Sgard, Paris, Universitas, 1991: notice 92). The last issue is a second printing, with the word "Fin" printed on page 190. The rare first issue is marked "Fin de la première demie année" ("End of the first half-year"). - Lettere scritte da Donna di Senno e di spirito per ammaestramento del suo amante. Venize: Antonio Graziosi, 1764. - 71 pp. New edition of this rare book first published in 1737. It contains twelve anonymous letters sent by a lady to her lover, younger and less experienced in life. This cultured and refined lady offers us a delightful fresco of 18th-century customs. The author tells her naïve reader the most hidden secrets of the feminine world, revealing, with a hint of malice, all the tricks that women devise to deceive and trap men. Some brown spots. Copy in 19th-century binding, but with the spine rebound and modern in imitation, with a title-piece stamped "Variétés amusantes". Wormholes in the middle of the volume, mainly affecting the Amusemens à la grecque leaves, with damage to the text, and in the lower margin of the last leaves of the volume, without damage to the text.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 3 - BOUCHET (Jean). Les Genealogies, Effigies & Epitaphes des roys de France, recentement reveues & corrigees, par l'Autheur mesmes: auecq' plusieurs aultres opuscules, le tout mis de nouveau en lumiere par ledict Autheur. Poitiers: Jacques Bouchet, Jean et Enguilbert de Marnef frères, 1545. - In-folio, 298 x 195 : (6 ff.), 163 ff., (1 f.). Stiff white overlapping parchment, smooth spine including the other, title, place of edition and year in red and black ink (19th century binding). Tchémerzine, II, p. 62. New edition of this historical and poetic collection, mixing prose and verse, by Poitiers-born poet Jean Bouchet (1476-1557). It was published under a new privilege granted at Fontainebleau on January 3, 1543. The original appeared in 1527. Genealogies and epitaphs occupy the first 67 leaves, after the introductory texts. These are summaries, in prose and verse, of the main events that marked each of the kings, from Pharamond to Louis XII. Each epitaph is preceded by a wood-engraved portrait of the monarch studied, making a total of 57 portraits, most of which are set in decorative frames. The rest of the collection is taken up by poetic works, beginning with a long poem dedicated to François I, followed by epigrams and 101 epitaphs mainly "of various persons", such as Mahommet, Charles Martel, Olivier barbier du roi Louis XI, Anne de Bretagne, Scipion l'Africain, Clément Marot and others. but also animals (Epitaph of a bird called Estourneau, which can be applied in two directions - Epitaph of a small Dog) and various values (Justice, temperance, prudence, etc.). These 101 pieces are completed by Joseph Bouchet's epitaph of La Tremoille, followed by Deploration, et invective contre Tribulation, sur le deces de feu monseigneur monsieur Françoys de La Tremoille. The rest of the collection includes: - Le Chappellet (sic) des princes, formed of five ballades and fifty rondeaux, - various other ballades and rondeaux, - la Déploration de l'Église militante, sur les persécutions, laquelle deteste guerre, & incite les Roys & Princes a paix, - les Dizains moraux, sur les apophtegmes, c'est à dire subtilles réponses, des sept Sages de Grece, desquels i'ai oultre escript en prose la vie, & les mœurs, se terminant par une épître A Monseigneur, monsieur de Baïf, maistre des Requestes ordinaire du Roy, - Les angoysses & remedes d'amours. Du Traverseur, en son adolescence, - des Quatrains & cinquains donnans mémoire des temps d'aulcuns memorables faictz, - et les Patrons scelon l'ordre de A.B.C. commençant par toutes les lettres Latines elementaires, une après l'aultre, pour les filles qui veulent apprendre a secripre, & instructifz a bonnes meurs. The piece entitled Les angoysses & remedes d'amours is introduced by a false title illustrated with a fine woodcut. This is an important poetic work, one of the first composed by Jean Bouchet. Bouchet is considered the first poet to alternate masculine and feminine rhymes, and this is one of the very first pieces of poetry to do so. Copy washed and bound in 19th-century parchment. Boards and spine slightly soiled. The first two leaves and the last leaf have been skilfully restored and rebacked. Early annotations have been faded by washing, rendering them virtually illegible.

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 4 - COMAZZI (Giovanni Battista). Morale des princes, translated from the Italian by Count J. B. Comazzi. The Hague: Neaulm, 1754. - 4 volumes in-12, 160 x 92: (2 ff.), 36, 164 pp., (1 f.); (2 ff.), 209 pp., (1 f.); (2 ff.), 236 pp., (1 f.); (2 ff.), 238 pp., (1 f.). Red morocco, gilt roulette with floral and bird motifs framing the boards, ornate ribbed spine, inner gilt roulette, gilt edges over marbling (period binding). First edition of the French translation by Jean-Baptiste Dupuy-Demportes (17..-1770), of this work by Italian historian, poet and political theorist Giovanni Battista Comazzi (1654-1711). In the Nouvelles littéraires of July 20, 1754, we find this chapter dedicated to this work: "The author wanted to establish his system of morality on historical facts, and to do this he follows the history of the Roman emperors, from Caesar to Constantine Chlore; he takes the main features of the life of each prince, he looks for the views and causes, and judges, according to the principles, if they were right or wrong, and why; thus each historical fact gives occasion to a moral maxim [...] The Chevalier Comazzi's work [...] deserves [...] much credit; there are ideas, views, precision and nerve in the expression, traits of force, true things, said with boldness and with more boldness than one would expect from an Italian" (Nouvelle littéraire, July 20, 1754, in : Correspondance littéraire, philosophique et critique by Grimm, Diderot, Raynal, Meister, Etc., Garnier frères, 1877, II, pp. 166-167). At the head of the first volume appear, with a special pagination, "quelques pensées détachées du même Auteur sur les Ministres". A fine and rare copy in contemporary red morocco. The head of the last volume is missing, there are a few small wormholes in the binding, and one corner is dull. The leaves of booklet A in the first volume and booklet G in the third are bound out of order. Light staining on top edge of leaves in third and fourth volumes.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 5 - DEPOT GENERAL DE LA MARINE. Collection of 211 hydrographic charts. Paris, 1780-1849. Very good overall condition. All charts are on strong paper, sometimes slightly yellowed, slight foxing, some ink transfer on double plates. The maps are in broadsheet format. Double maps (with margins) average 69 x 102 cm, single maps 51 x 70 cm. Some maps are in folio format. Important collection of hydrographic charts published by the Dépôt général de la Marine in the 19th century. These charts were used to illustrate the great circumnavigation voyages carried out by French navigators (1787-1839), such as Louis Freycinet's voyage and those of Dumont d'Urville, as well as hydrographic missions carried out in all regions of the world. The Dépôt général de la Marine or Dépôt des cartes et plans de la marine, created on November 19, 1720, is the oldest official hydrographic service in the world. This important collection of 211 hydrographic charts retraces 50 years of French exploration in all parts of the world, in North and South America, Africa and Reunion, Asia, the Pacific and Australia. Les Grands Voyages is illustrated by Vincendon-Dumoulin's maps for Dumont-D'Urville's "Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie", as well as maps for the voyages of Lapérouse, Freycinet, Duperrey, Dupetit-Thouars and others. The maps are dated between 1780 and 1849, and despite their large format, are in very good condition. List of maps on request. Lot appraised by Mrs. Béatrice Loeb-Larocque.

Estim. 5 000 - 7 000 EUR

Lot 6 - DONATI (Vitaliano). Della storia naturale marina dell' Adriatico. Venice: Francesco Storti, 1750 - In-4, 276 x 197 : (4 ff.), LXXXI pp. 10 plates. Speckled calf, cold fillet framing the boards, ornate ribbed spine, red speckled edges (period binding). First edition of the most important work by Italian physician, archaeologist and botanist Vitaliano Donati (1717-1862). "It contains general considerations on marine biology, original observations on the hydrography and geology of the eastern Adriatic coast, descriptions of some fossils, and above all a detailed presentation of the many species that live in this sea. Donati's work influenced European biological thought by demonstrating the essentially animal nature of coral reproduction and growth. The book's scientific success earned him international renown." (Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, XLI, p. 62-63.) Donati's study is followed by a letter to Donati from Italian physician and botanist Leonard Sesler, in which he describes a new species of terrestrial plant that he named Vitaliana to honor Vitaliano Donati. The edition is illustrated with 10 plates, the last of which depicts the Vitaliana described by Sesler. EXEMPLAIRE OF THE FAMOUS BOTANIST ANTOINE-LAURENT DE JUSSIEU (1748-1836), director of the Paris Museum of Natural History, author of Genera Plantarum, one of the most important botanical works in history. Binding skilfully restored, some wear and tear. Provenance: Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu (cat. 1857, no. 419, and Livres et documents provenant des bibliothèques d'Antoine, Bernard, Antoine-Laurent et Adrien de Jussieu, 1997, no. 91).

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 7 - EULER (Leonhard). Theoria motuum planetarum et cometarum. Continens methodum facilem ex aliquot observationibus orbitas cum planetarum tum cometarum determinandi. Una cum calculo, quo cometæ, qui annis 1680 et 1681 itemque ejus, qui nuper est visus, motus verus investigatur. Berlin: Ambroise Haude, [1744]. - In-4, 230 x 195: 187 pp. 4 plates. Half white parchment à la Bradel, smooth mute spine, red edges (modern binding). Houzeau et Lancaster, I, 11948. - Poggendorff, I, 689. - La Lande, 422. First edition of the first work by the famous scientist Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), published in Berlin at the invitation of Frederick II of Prussia. It is one of the fundamental books on calculating the orbits of planets and comets, "laying the foundations of an analytical mechanics that Lagrange was to bring to its highest degree of development" (BNF). The edition includes a fine full-page frontispiece engraving by Ferdinand Helfreich Frisch (1707-1758) showing the solar system as it was known at the time, presented on a hanging held by two angels and inscribed "Sapientissimi Opus". There are also 4 folding plates of scientific diagrams at the end. Frisch's engraving was actually printed on the A4 sheet which, as in most copies, was placed opposite the title to form a frontispiece. This sheet therefore corresponds to pages 7 and 8, hence the fact that the pagination runs from 6 to 9 without interruption in the text, as confirmed by the advertisement. A good copy in modern binding. Some foxing.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 8 - [HOLBACH (Paul Henri Dietrich, baron d'). Essai sur les préjugés, ou De l'influence des opinions sur les mœurs & sur le bonheur des Hommes. Ouvrage contenant l'apologie de la philosophie Par Mr. D. M. London, 1770. - In-8, 156 x 98 : (2 ff.), 394 pp., (1 f.). Red morocco, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, ornate smooth spine, inner gilt roulette, gilt edges (period binding). Vercruysse, 1770 A2. - Tchémerzine, III, 726. - INED, 2883. - Caillet, 5218. - De Guaita, no. 242. First edition of this very important philosophical essay against nobility and religion. It is a work by the famous philosopher Baron d'Holbach (1723-1789), falsely attributed to the late César Chesneau Du Marsais (1676-1756) due to the presence of the initials D. M. on the title. The author launches a veritable attack on priests, the military and the arrogance of princes. He "demonstrates the usefulness of philosophy for politics and morality. True to his atheistic principles, he also shows the influence of religious and political prejudices on human morals" (INED). The notes are by encyclopedist Jacques-André Naigeon (1738-1810). A very fine and rare copy in contemporary red morocco. Small nick to one corner. Minor wetness on the edges of the first 3 leaves.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 9 - [IMPRESSIONS DE DAMPIERRE]. La Vie de Marie de Hautefort, duchesse de Schomberg, dame d'atours de la reine, Anne-Marie-Mauricette, d'Autriche. By one of her friends. First printed by G. É. J. M. A. L. on a Manuscript from the Library of Monsieur Beaucousin. With a Preface and Notes by I. F. A. O. [Dampierre], An VIII (1799.) [Followed by: [ADRY (J. F.)]. Histoire de la vie et de la mort tragique de Vittoria Accorambona duchesse de Bracciano. By J.F.A.O. [Dampierre] : printed by G. É. J. M. A. L. [Guyonne Élisabeth Josèphe (de) Montmorency (d')Albert, (duchesse de) Luynes], An VIII (1800.). - 2 works in one small volume, in-4, 204 x 139: viij, 69 pp. miscalculated 77, (1f. blank); 80 pp. Basane racinée, cold fillet framing the boards, smooth spine decorated (period binding). Reunion of two extremely rare impressions of the Duchesse de Luynes at the Château de Dampierre, true bibliophilic rarities. Guyonne-Élisabeth-Josèphe de Montmorency (1755-1830) married Louis-Joseph-Charles-Amable d'Albert, sixth Duke of Luynes, in April 1768. First Dame du Palais to Queen Marie-Antoinette, then Dame d'Honneur to the Queen, she ran a literary salon and published several works. In 1792, she and her husband retired to the Château de Dampierre, where she set up a printing workshop in 1795. From 1797 onwards, only 17 publications came off her presses, each printed in a very small number of copies. She also oversaw every stage in the production of her publications; in particular, the binding of the booklets was carried out in the château salon by her friend Madame Felz. She suspended her activity following the imperial decrees of February 5 and November 18, 1810, banning private printers. The present copy includes two first-edition biographies, of Marie de Hautefort (1616-1691), honorary daughter of Marie de Médicis, and of the poetess Vittoria Accoramboni (1557-1585). The first, printed on wove paper, is prefaced by the oratorian, librarian and bibliographer Jean-Félicissime Adry (1749-1818). The second was composed by the latter and printed on laid paper. Copy in contemporary binding. 11-centimeter split at first board hinge, label stuck to top of first board, some minor spotting. Provenance: Signature "Lamballe juillet 1842" on the first white endpaper.

Estim. 3 000 - 4 000 EUR

Lot 10 - [INCUNABULUM] - NICOLAS DE LYRE. Postilla Nicolai de Lira super quattuor Evangelistas. Mantua: Paulus Butzbach, July 24, 1577. - In-folio, 270 x 195 : [243 ff. (of 244, mq the first blank)] [sig. a9 (of 10) b-g10/8 h-p8/10 q-y8 &10 x8 z8 ii8 kk8 s8 j10]. Imitation fawn calf, decorated on the boards with a cold frame composed of fillets and a large interlaced roulette as well as filigree irons in the center, spine ribbed with intersecting cold fillets (modern binding). Goff, N130. - BMC, VII, 931. - Polain, 2828. - Proctor, 6894. Rare incunabula edition of postilles or commentaries by theologian and exegete Nicolas de Lyre (c. 1270-1349) on the 4 Gospels, with additions and commentaries by Dominican Paul de Sainte-Marie (1350-1439) and replies by Franciscan Mathias Döring (1390?-1469). These replicas were intended to defend Nicolas de Lyre against the arguments of Paul de Sainte-Marie; they offer a perfect illustration of the confrontation that could exist at the time between two theological schools and two families of thought. This is one of the very first editions to contain Mathias Döring's Replicae. It comes from the presses of Paulus Butzbach in Mantua, printed in Gothic letters on two 50-line columns. This printer, active from 1472 to 1481, produced 4 further editions of Nicolas de Lyre, in the same year (Postilla super Psalterium), on April 28, 1478 (Postilla super Epistolis b. Pauli), on March 30, 1480 (Postilla super Actus apostolorum Epistolas canonicales Apocalypsim cum additionibus) and on April 29, 1481 (Moralia super totam Bibliam). All editions of Nicolas de Lyre published before 1480 are very rare. Copy complete except for the first blank leaf. The latter was not signed; the signature begins on the second leaf, the first printed. The leaves signed a1, a2, a3 and a4 are therefore the second, third, fourth and fifth leaves of the first quire, a feature well mentioned in bibliographies. Quires ii, kk, s and & have been misplaced and should appear after quires i, k, s (old form) and z respectively. Copy in modern imitation binding, from the library of the American antiquarian bookseller Walter Goldwater (1908-1985). It contains old annotations, almost all of which have been erased; only a few headlines remain. Some staining and soiling to leaves. Tear and restoration to folio n9 without affecting the text. Provenance: Walter Goldwater (1908-1985), with his bookplate.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 11 - [KLÉBER]. Recueil des pièces relatives à la procédure et au jugement de Soleyman El-Hhaleby, assassin du général en chef Kléber. Au Caire : imprimerie nationale, An VIII de la République française [1800]. - Brochure small in-4, 220 x 157 : 47 pp. In sheets held together by a string. Geiss, Histoire de l'imprimerie en Égypte. One of the few publications printed in Egypt during the French occupation, this one from the Imprimerie Nationale in Cairo, run by the learned orientalist Jean-Joseph Marcel. This is the collection of supporting documents used in the trial of the Kurdish student Soleyman el-Halaby (1777-1800), tried for murdering General Jean-Baptiste Kléber (1753-1800) during the Egyptian campaign on June 14, 1800. Kléber had just succeeded Bonaparte as commander-in-chief of the French army of occupation. The book contains the minutes of el-Halaby's interrogations and those of his accomplices, as well as the court judgment. The brochure was printed separately in French, Arabic and Turkish. We have here only the French version, which, like the other two, was printed in 500 copies. Copy as issued, uncut. A few small wormholes on the first two leaves, reaching the title. Discreet wetness and rare foxing on the first leaf.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 12 - LA BARRE DE BEAUMARCHAIS (Antoine). Le Temple des muses, orné de LX. Tableaux Où sont représentés les Evenemens les plus remarquables de l'Antiquité fabuleuse ; Dessinés & gravés par B. Picart le Romain, & autres habiles Maitres ; et accompagnés d'explications et de remarques, Qui découvrent le vrai sens des Fables, & le fondement qu'elles ont dans l'Histoire. Amsterdam : Zacharie Chatelain, 1742. - In-folio, 455 x 283: frontispiece, (5 ff.), 152 pp., (2 ff.), 60 plates. Marbled calf, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, ornate ribbed spine, red edges (period binding). Cohen, I, 531-532. Second edition in French, after that of 1733, dedicated, like the first, to Prince Philippe-Charles, Archbishop of Mainz. It is adorned with a frontispiece, a title vignette, a band bearing the arms of the dedicatee and 60 plates, all engraved by or under the direction of Bernard Picart (1673-1733). These plates feature two engravings, the first depicting a scene from an ancient fable, captioned in French, English, German and Dutch, the second framing this scene. According to Cohen, these engravings are slightly modified copies by Diepenbecke, executed for the 1655 Temple des Muses, with text by Michel de Marolles. Binding skilfully restored, some spotting. Soiling to false title. Frontispiece slightly cut by binder. Missing tear and slight damage to text at top of folio Bb2. Worm damage in the inner margin of several leaves at the end of the book.

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

Lot 13 - LA DOÜESPE DE SAINT-OUEN (Louis). Poésies diverses. Nouvelle édition Revûë & Corrigée. Caen: Gabriel Briard, 1725. - In-8, 186 x 119 : (2 ff.), 69 pp. Stiff parchment, smooth spine, speckled edges (period binding). Catalog des ouvrages normands de la Bibliothèque municipale de Caen, III, 1912, p. 286. - Frère, I, p. 129. Very rare first collective edition of poems by Louis La Doüespe de Saint-Ouen (1661-1740), poet, painter and lawyer at the Normandy parliament, director of the Académie royale des belles lettres in Caen. The author was a friend of Segrais; he won several poetry prizes, notably in 1686 and 1688. He published a number of pieces separately, as well as this collective edition, whose "Nouvelle édition Revûë & Corrigée" appears to be purely fictitious. There are two states of this edition, one hardback, the other not. This copy is one of the hardback editions, i.e. without the piece entitled Le Triple esclavage, which is found on page 16 in copies with it. In fact, the entire B section has been replaced. A copy in its rare original condition, without the poetry published separately with its own pagination (7 pages), dated 1728 and logically not found in bound copies such as this at the time of the work's publication. From the library of Pierre Duputel. Born in Rouen in 1775 and died in Saint-Ouen de Thouberville in 1851, bibliophile and man of letters, member of the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen. Traces of light wetness on first few leaves. Provenance: Pierre Duputel, with bookplate.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 14 - LA FONTAINE (Jean de). The Eunuch. Comédie. Paris : Augustin Courbé, 1654. - In-4, 215 x 165 : (4 ff.), 149 pp., (1 f.). White half parchment, smooth spine (19th century binding). Riffaud, p. 243. - Rochambeau, p. 573. - Tchémerzine, III, p. 848. Very rare first edition of this 5-act comedy by Jean de La Fontaine. This is an early work and the first printed book by the celebrated fabulist, who drew inspiration for his composition from Terence. It appears never to have been performed. The edition includes Augustin Courbé's copper-engraved mark on the title and handsome woodcut headbands for each act. A copy with fine margins. Copies are often trimmed short and the last E of Eunuch is cut on the title, which is not the case here. Very fine copies are extremely difficult to find. This one is in a modest 19th-century half-binding. The first white endpaper is missing. Small tears on the bottom of the first 5 leaves and those of quires 0 to Q. Holes and wormholes in the lower margins of the leaves, with rare damage to the text.

Estim. 3 000 - 4 000 EUR

Lot 15 - LA FONTAINE (Jean de). Fables choisies. Paris: Desaint & Saillant, Durand, 1755-1759. - 4 volumes in-folio, 470 x 314: frontispiece, (2 ff.), xxx, xviij, 124 pp., 70 plates; (2 ff.), ij, 135 pp., 68 plates; (2 ff.), iv, 146 pp., 68 plates; (2 ff.), ij, 188 pp., 69 plates. Granite calf, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, ornate ribbed spine, red edges (period binding). Rochambeau, 86. - Cohen, I, 548-550. Magnificent illustrated edition by Oudry, probably the most famous and beautiful of the early illustrated editions of La Fontaine's Fables. It was undertaken by the lawyer and journalist Charles-Philippe Montenault (1696-1749), who had acquired the drawings of the painter Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755) around 1751. He entrusted Charles-Nicolas Cochin with the task of enlarging these drawings and adapting them for engraving. In the Mémoires de Trévoux, Father Berthier spoke highly of this edition: "La Fontaine and Oudry have shared, as it were, the empire of the animals. The poet gave them a voice; the painter captured their manners, their games, their attitudes. The former knew how to guess what they would say, if they had formed a society among themselves; the latter had the talent to render them as they are. La Fontaine, in his fables, let himself be led by genius; Oudry, in his drawings, was guided by observation: both have produced two masterpieces which can be found together in 4 vol. in-fol." The illustrations include a frontispiece with a bust of La Fontaine and 275 plates based on Oudry's drawings, engraved under Cochin's direction by him and a team of over 40 engravers, including Aliamet, Aubert, Aveline, Baquoy, Chedel, Chenu, Choffard, Fessart, Galimard, Lebas, Lemire, Moitte, etc. Copy in contemporary binding, including the illustration for Le Singe et le Léopard (tome III, fable CLXXII) in its original state, without the mention "Au Léopard" on the banner. From the library of Aymar Jean de Nicolaï, Marquis de Goussainville (1709-1785), First President of the Paris Chamber of Accounts. Binding skilfully restored, some wear and tear. Non-missing tear at bottom of leaf R2 in first volume. Scattered brown spots, more pronounced on the edges of some leaves, notably in the third volume.

Estim. 4 000 - 6 000 EUR

Lot 16 - LA MOTTE (Antoine Houdar de). Fables nouvelles, dédiées au roy. Avec un discours sur la fable. Paris : Grégoire Dupuis, 1719. - In-4, 281 x 209 : xlij, 358 pp, (1 f.), 1 plate. Red morocco, double cold fillet framing the boards, ribbed spine decorated with cold fillets, interior gilt lace, double endpapers, gilt edges (Petit succr de Simier). Dacier, Trésors des bibliothèques de France, 1929, tome II, p. 1-14. - Cohen, 594-595. Sought-after edition, considered by Dacier to be the true first French painter's book published in the 18th century. It includes a vignette on the title engraved by Simoneau after Vleughels, a frontispiece engraved by Tardieu after Coypel and 101 superb copper-engraved vignettes, more than half of which are based on drawings by the famous painter Claude GILLOT (1673-1722), Watteau's master, but also by Coypel, Edelinck, B. Picart and Ranc. Copy on large paper, cited by Cohen, bound by Petit and enriched with two portraits of the author at the head, one engraved by Dupin after Ranc, published by Odieuvre, the second, re-engraved to book format, engraved by Edelinck also after Ranc. It comes from two major collections: that of Emmanuel Martin, whose library was dispersed in 1877, and that of bookbinder Léon Gruel (1841-1923). Two slight tears to spine, two corners slightly dulled. Perfect condition except for a light ink stain in the margin of page 275. The frontispiece has been bound after the title. Provenance: Emmanuel Martin, with 2 different bookplates, at the beginning and end of the copy (1877, no. 218). - Léon Gruel, with bookplate.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 17 - [MAGIC BOOK]. [Magic book in French, engraved and watercolored]. S.l., ca. 1780-1790. - In-12, 185 x 140 : (12 ff.). In leaves. Attractive illusionist's "magic book", composed of 22 figures engraved and colored at the time, including 11 printed upside down. This type of work, usually heavily handled, is very difficult to find from this period. Increasingly in vogue in the 19th century, they prefigured flip books, animated books that can be brought to life by rapidly flipping through them with the thumb. Copy with the holes in the inner margin, which held the string used to hold the notebook. It was undoubtedly easier to handle the book without this string. The outer edge of the leaves is cut into interleaves, in the style of a textbook. Tears on the edges of the leaves, especially affecting the dividers. A corner of the second leaf is missing, with no damage to the engravings, and the seventh leaf has a repaired tear with no damage to the engravings.

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 18 - METASTASIO (Pietro). Poesie del signor abate Pietro Metastasio. Paris: Veuve Quillau, 1755 (volumes 1 to 9); Paris: G. C. Molini, 1769 (volume 10), 1783 (volumes 11 and 12). - 12 volumes in-8, 182 x 112: frontispiece, title, cciv, 319 pp.; title, 464 pp.; title, 463 pp.; title, 463 pp.; title, 463 pp.; title, 459 pp., (1 blank f.); title, 459 pp..., (1 blank f.); title, 460 pp. (1 blank f.); title, 468 pp. (2 blank f.); title, xxxij, 460 pp.; title, 3, 364 pp. (2 blank f.), pp. 365-534; title, 492 pp. Red morocco, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, ornate smooth spine, interior gilt roulette, gilt edges (Bradel). Fine edition of Pietro Metastasio's works, dedicated to the Marquise de Pompadour. It is illustrated with a frontispiece engraved by Sornique after Charles Eisen, an attractive unsigned vignette at the head of the epistle, and 12 handsome engraved titles. A precious copy on large paper, in in-8 format, complete with the last three volumes printed by Molini in 1769 and 1783, which are often missing. The set has been beautifully and uniformly bound by one of the members of the Bradel family. The label with his name stuck in the corner on the verso of the first endpaper of the first volume, gives the address "Rue St Jean de Latran No 9. Hôtel du Collège de France". This bookbinder was mainly active in the early 19th century. Spine very slightly lightened, a few places red-stained. A few scratches, not serious. Small cut to spine of last volume. In volume 7, restoration to the upper left-hand corner of leaf A1 and to the upper right-hand corner of leaf A4, with damage to the text. A few scattered freckles.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 19 - NEPOS (Cornelius). Liber Æmylii Probi historiographi veteris et praeclari, de uitis excellentium Graeciae Principum [et] Ducum, ad T. Pomponium Atticum, Ciceronis familiarem. Viciosissimum exemplar ex manuscripto codice quam emendatissimum redditum est per D. Gybertum Longolium... Cologne: Johann Gymnich, 1543. [Followed by]: Coriolani Cepionis Dalmatae De Petri Mocenici Imperatoris Gestis : Libri tres. Item Conradi Wengeri Brixiensis De Bello inter Sigismundum Archistrategum Austriæ & Venetos Libellus. Praeterea Michaelis Coccinij Tubingensis De Bellis Italicis Liber unus. Basel: Robert Winter, 1544. - 2 works in a small in-8 volume, 145 x 100: (128 ff.); (10 ff. 7th and 8th blank), 242 pp. (5 ff. 3rd and 4th blank). Soft parchment with flaps, blackened with lampblack, smooth spine (period binding). An unusual new edition of this collection of the lives of Greek princes and chieftains, said to be an abridgement by the historian Æmilius Probus of the original work by the Latin writer Cornelius Nepos (0100?-0025? BC). This is the first edition published by the Dutch-born Rhenish humanist Gilbert de Longueil (1507-1543). It contains 24 biographies: Agesilaus, Alcibiades, Aristides, Atticus, Cato, Chabrias, Cimon, Conon, Datamus, Dion, Epaminondas, Eumenes, Hamilcar, Hannibal, Iphicrates, Lysander, Miltiades, Pausanias, Pelopidas, Phocion, Themistocles, Thrasybulus, Timoleon and Timothy. Following this is a collection of three Latin texts, the first by Italian memoirist Coriolano Cippico (1425?-1493?), entitled De Petri Mocenici Imperatoris Gestis Libri tres, the second by Konrad Wenger (1425-1501) (De Bello inter Sigismundum Archistrategum Austriæ & Venetos Libellus) and the last by Michael Köchlin (1478-...) (de Bellis italicis liber unus). The edition opens with a dedication from publisher Johannes Basilius Herold (1514-1567) to Carl Wolfgang Rholinger. Presumed to have belonged to Jacque d'Albon, marshal of Saint-André (1510?-1562). The signature "Jd. St. André", but this is by no means the autograph signature of this important figure. It may, however, be that of a secretary, so it is not possible for us to confirm this provenance with any certainty at present. Binding missing. Some rare light dampening.

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

Lot 20 - ORTELIUS (Abraham). Parergon, sive veteris geograpiæ aliquot tabulæ. [Antwerp: Christophe Plantin, 1595]. - In-folio, 442 x 298 : (64 ff. out of 68). Covered parchment, smooth spine, speckled edges (contemporary binding). Koeman Ort 45 & Ort 44. - Adams O-340 (linked to Theatrum). Rare edition of this atlas, which is often joined to the 1595 Latin edition of Abraham Oretelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. The Parergon maps began appearing as a supplement to the Theatrum Obis Terrarum in 1579, with just 3 maps. Over the following years, more maps were produced, and the Parergon became an atlas in its own right. According to Koeman: "This atlas of ancient geography must be regarded as Ortelius' personal work. For this work, he did not, as in the "Theatrum", copy maps from others, but drew the originals himself, which were then engraved by Jan Wierix... The Parergon maps must be considered the most remarkable engravings representing the widespread interest in classical geography in the 16th century." This 1595 edition normally includes a portrait of Ortelius by Philip Galle, a title in a woodcut architectural frame, 30 double-page copper-engraved maps and 2 engraved views. There are also a few woodcut medals in the text. This copy is incomplete with the portrait, text leaves a3 and a4 and the last view entitled Daphné. The title and maps, as well as most of the medals and initials, were colored at the time. Here are the details: - Aevi Veteris, Typus Geographicus (1590). - Europa (1595). - Britannicæ insulæ (1595). - Hispania (1586). - Gallia Cæsaris (1590). - Gallia Strbonis, Ceterorumq (1594). - Belgium (1594). - Germania (1587). - Pannonia et Illyris (1590). - Italia (1594). - Italia gallica (1590). - Tuscia sive Etruria (1584). - Latium (1595). - Magna Græcia (1595). - Sicilia sive Trinacria (1584). - Græcia, sive Hellas (undated). - Thracia (1585). - Daciæ, et Mœsiæ (1595). - Pontus Euxinus (1590). - Creta. Sardinia. Corsica. Insulæ maris ionii (undated). - Cyprus. Euboea. Rhodus. Lesbos. Chios. Lemnos. Samus, Dekus, & Rhenia. Icaria. Cia (1584). - Alexandri magni Macedonis experitio (1595). - Palæstina (undated). - Judæa, et Israhel (1586). - Ægyptus (1595). - Africa propia (1590). - Peregrinatio divi Pauli (1579). - Abraham patriarchæ peregrinatio (1586). - Æneæ navigatio, ex Virgilio : additis etiam quæ ad eandem pertinebant, ex aliis (1594). - Orbis romanus, sive Romanum imperium (undated). - Tempe Thessalica (1590). A copy in contemporary binding, with all maps mounted on tabs. Between the maps of Belgium and Germany, it has been enriched with a color plan of the port of Toulon, probably from the early 17th century, signed by Agnelli. Binding soiled and stained. Body of book partly unbound. Soiling to title, marginal tears to fold of some maps, sometimes restored, except to the map of Italy where it reaches the frame and the map over 2 cm. Restored tears on the map Græcia, sive Hellas. Small wormholes generally in the margins, but one slightly reaching 3 maps (Græcia, sive Hellas, Thracia et Daciæ, and Mœsiæ). Light staining on folio f1, with a trace of a cut, but not missing, on the last plate.

Estim. 5 000 - 7 000 EUR

Lot 21 - PIRANESI (Giambattista). Descrizione e disegno dell'Emissario del lago Albano. [Roma, 1762]. - In-folio, 526 x 388: engraved title, 19 pp. 6 plates (of 9). Marbled calf, ornate spine, red edges (contemporary binding). Hind, p. 85. - Wilton-Ely, II, 613-624. - Focillon, 480-491. First edition of this fine work describing and depicting the hydraulic system installed by the ancient Romans at Lake Albano, south of Rome, in beautiful plates of technical plans and views. This copy includes a handsome engraved title, a vignette in the text, a cul-de-lampe and 6 of the 9 required plates. Missing plates V (large perspective view), VI (Tartaro dell' acqua) and IX (large interior view). The copy has been enriched with 3 plates: - Veduta della Spelonca, detta il Bergantino, presso l'imbocco d'ell Emissario del Lago Albano... [Focillon, 494]. This is the second plate of the appendix published the same year under the title Di due spelonche ornate dagli antichi alla riva del Lago Albano. - large folding plate (1100 x 360 mm) signed by Francesco CURTI (1603?-1670?), entitled Disegno, e misure dell' insigne, e famosa Torre dell' Illustrissima, e cospicua Citta' di Cremona. Bears date 1674. Tear not missing on left side, reinforcement on verso of plate. - Large folding plate by Piranesi (etching 550 x 730 mm) entitled Sepolcro Regio, o Consolare, inciso nella rupe del Monte Albano, constituting the third plate of the work Antichita d'Albano, e di Castel Gandolfo Descritte ed incise da Giovambatista Piranesi published in Rome in 1764. [Focillon, 511]. Restoration to verso. Rubbing and wear. Lower headband missing, part of the calf in the lower corner of the first cover detached.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 22 - RÖMER (Johann Jacob). Genera insectorum Linnæi et Fabricii iconibus illustrata. Vitoduri Helvetorum [Winterthur]: Henrich Steiner, 1789. - In-4, 287 x 230: VIII, 86 pp, (2 ff.), 37 plates. Basane racinée, gilt roulette around the edges of the boards, ornate smooth spine, gilt edges (early 19th century binding). Nissen, 3462. - Brunet, IV, 1352. First edition of this work by Swiss physician and entomologist Joann Jacob Römer (1763-1819), which lists the different insect genera according to the classification of the two famous entomologists Carl von Linné and Johan Christian Fabricius. This is one of the finest entomological works published in Switzerland. It is illustrated with a color title vignette, two black engravings in the text and 37 superb plates of insects and mollusks, 36 of them in color, drawn and engraved by Schellenberg. The first 32 plates are the same as those published in 1776 in Sulzer's Abgekürzte Geschichte der Insecten, also published by Henrich Steiner in Winterthur. Spine and board edges rubbed, some rare spotting, corners dulled. Scattered foxing on text leaves. Provenance: Docteur Maurice Royer, with bookplate.

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 23 - SABBATHIER (Esprit). Idealis Umbra Sapientiæ Generalis. - The Ideal Shadow of Universal Wisdom. Paris: Madame Jablier, sister of François-Marie de Paris, 1679. - 2 works in one volume in-8, 169 x 127: (4 ff.), 21 ff. ; (4 ff.), 21 ff. Brown calf, spine ribbed (period binding). Caillet, III, 9731. - Dorbon, 4274. - Stanislas de Guaita, 921. Extremely rare" (Caillet) first edition of this fully engraved mystical work. According to Caillet, it was "undoubtedly printed in the form of a six-column table with compartments, which was then cut up at will to preserve it in book form. This unusual arrangement explains the extreme rarity of surviving copies, and their singular appearance". This text of high mysticism and Christian Kabbalah was composed by the Capuchin preacher and Kabbalist Esprit Sabbathier, originally from Ivoy in Berry. According to Stanislas de Guaita, it is "scholastic Theosophy in the best sense of the word". The edition was printed at the address of "Madame Jablier, sœur du R. P. François-Marie", referring to François-Marie de Paris (1634-1714), a Capuchin preacher of the Order of Friars Minor and close friend of the author. A precious copy in contemporary binding, enriched with the edition of the French translation published under the same date and printed in the same manner as the Latin edition. "According to Stanislas de Guaita, "These two parallel French and Latin editions, both fully engraved, are rarely found together. From the library of Nancy-based orientalist and writer Auguste-Prosper-François Guerrier de Dumast (1796-1883), Knight of the Legion of Honor (1846), Knight of the Spanish Order of Charles III (1823), Knight of the Mexican Order of Our Lady of Guadalupe (1866) and 3rd Class Knight of the Austrian Order of the Iron Crown (1868). He presided 3 times over the Stanislas Academy. Binding restored. Some soiling to leaves. Provenance : Handwritten bookplate "Bibliothecae Bertlans (?) 1689" on title. - Auguste-Prosper-François Guerrier de Dumast, with bookplate.

Estim. 2 500 - 3 500 EUR

Lot 24 - SALLUSTE. C. Crispi Sallustii. De L. Sergii Catilinae coniuratione, ac Bello Iugurthino historiae. Eiusdem in M. T. Ciceronem Inuectiua. M. T. Cic. in C. Crispum Sallustium Recriminatio. Porcij Latronis Declamatio contre L. Catilinam. Fragmenta quaedam ex libris historiarum C. Crispi Sallustij. Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1554. - In-16, 119 x 72 : 271 pp. Brown calf, boards decorated with gilt interlacing and painted with wax in red, black, gray and violet, smooth spine decorated with three compartments of crossed irons delimited by four borders composed of a gilt roulette between two bands painted in red, gilt edges (period binding). New and rare Latin edition of Salluste's works, printed in italics by Sébastien Gryphe. A splendid and precious copy, fully ruled, in a period binding with richly decorated wax-painted tracery. In all likelihood, this is a Parisian binding. A few old annotations in the margins. Missing cloth ties, some light repainting, small cracks at first board hinge. Wormhole in the gutter margin, not serious, but not affecting the text. Provenance: Truchet, with signature accompanied by the date 1554 on the bottom of the title. - Jacobo Sarraceno for Joan Sarraceno, with handwritten ex-dono on verso of first endpaper. - Mr. Mainville, with signature on front flyleaf, dated 1706.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 25 - SAN PEDRO (Diego de). Carcer damore traduto dal magnefico miser Lelio de Manfredi ferrarese: de Idioma Spagnolo in lingua materna: Novamente Stãpato. [Venice: Giorgio de Rusconi, October 19, 1518]. - In-8, 145 x 97 : (48 ff.). Soft parchment, spine ribbed (period binding). Rare edition of the Italian translation by Lelio Manfredi (14..-15..) of this famous sentimental novel by the Castilian writer Diego de San Pedro (1437?-1498?). Reflecting the main issues then being debated at the Castilian court, it tells the tale of the misfortunes of the knight Leriano in love with Princess Laureole, heiress to the throne of Macedonia. The original Spanish version first appeared in Seville in 1492, and the Italian version in 1513. Fine Venetian printing on two columns. The title, printed in Gothic letters, is framed by four woodcuts. A good copy in contemporary binding. Tear with loss and damage to text at top corner of folio b1.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 26 - SERRES (Jean de). Academiae Nemausensis leges. Ad optimarum Academiarum exemplar, collatis doctissimorum virorum iudicijs, summa cura & diligentia instauratæ atq; emendatæ. Nemausi [Nîmes]: [Sébastien Jaquy], 1582. - In-4, 205 x 140 : (32 ff.). Soft parchment, smooth spine with visible stitching (period binding). Very rare first edition of the new statutes of the Collège des arts de Nîmes. This establishment was created by letters patent in 1539, at the same time as a university whose project was abandoned a few years later. Protestant pastor Jean de Serres took over the stewardship in 1579, and drafted the new statutes at a time when the Wars of Religion were raging. "These statutes deserve to be known. They tell us with great precision and clarity how the institution of youth was conducted at the time, the different stages it went through and the various studies it was required to undertake" (Léon Ménard, nemausensis.com). The book was printed by Sébastien Jaquy, the city of Nîmes' first printer. Born in mid-sixteenth-century Dauphiné, he apprenticed as a printer in Lyon and settled in Nîmes in 1578, where he printed his first work, Le questionnaire des tumeurs contre nature de Guillaumet, now impossible to find. On February 24, 1579, he was approved as "imprimeur ordinaire de la cité", under a treaty signed by Jean de Serres, intendant of the arts college. He ran his business until, on May 8, 1590, he committed murder and fled to Orange. He sought the benevolence of King Henri IV and was granted a pardon in September 1591. He resumed his activities in 1592 and died in 1612. Only 23 of his works are known (cf. Le Billet des bibliothécaires. Ville de Nîmes). Copy in contemporary binding. Stains and traces of dampening to parchment. Mottling at the top of the leaves.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 27 - SESTINI (Domenico). Viaggio di ritorno da Bassora a Costantinopoli fatta dall' Abate Domenico Sestini. [Livorno or Yverdun], 1788. - In-4, 209 x 147 : XII, 196 pp. Brown half calf with corners, smooth spine decorated (contemporary binding). Vivien de Saint-Martin, Voyages faits en Asie Mineure depuis le XIIIe siècle, no. 148. - Atabey, The Ottoman world, 1126. First edition of this account by the Florentine numismatist, archaeologist and great traveler Abbé Domenico Sestini (17..-1832), of his round trip from Basra to Constantinople from 1781 to 1782. Sestini wrote two separate accounts of this journey, the first entitled Viaggio da Constantinopoli a bassora, published in 1786, and this one, published two years later, which was much sought-after for knowledge of Asia Minor at the time. The author not only describes the voyage, but also offers his own observations on natural history, botany, agriculture, geography, antiquities, trade and the habits and customs of the peoples he visited. Binding skilfully restored. Small loss to one spine. Light spotting to binding and throughout volume, more pronounced at end.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 28 - SOMAIZE (Antoine Baudeau, sieur de). Les Prétieuses (sic) ridicules. Comédie. Performed at the Petit Bourbon. Nouvellement mises en Vers. Seconde Edition. Paris : Jean Guignard le fils, 1661. - In-12, 153 x 84 : (12 ff.), 60 pp. Mottled calf, double gilt fillet on covers, ornate smooth spine, interior gilt roulette, gilt edges (Thouvenin). Very rare second edition of this comedy written by Somaize, dedicated like the first to Marie de Manciny, whose secretary the author was. It is a verse setting that Somaize dared to make of Molière's famous play. Despite the indication on the title, this work would never have been performed. A copy bound by Thouvenin, from the library of Alexandre Martineau de Soleinne (1784?-1842), then that of the literary critic Pierre-Paul Plan (1870-1951). Hinge crack on first cover. Some wear. Provenance: Alexandre Martineau de Soleinne (I, 1340). - Pierre-Paul Plan, with signature and bookplate. Also by the same author: - Les Véritables prétieuses (sic). Comédie. Suivant la Copie imprimée à Paris : Jean Ribou [Leyde : F. Hackius], 1660 - In-12, 125 x 68 : 55 pp. Tan calf, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, smooth spine, inner gilt roulette, speckled edges (early 19th century binding). Riffaud, n°6046. Dutch counterfeit of this pale imitation of Molière's Précieuses ridicules, composed by Somaize with the aim of exploiting the play's success. Spidermoor in middle of spine. Leaves short of margins, with damage to running titles.

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

Lot 29 - [TAITBOUT]. Essai sur l'isle d'Otahiti, située dans la mer du sud; et sur l'esprit et les mœurs de ses habitans. Avignon, Paris: Froullé, 1779. - In-8, 194 x 121: frontispiece, xxiv, 125 pp. Half marbled calf, ornate smooth spine, red speckled edges (period binding). O'Reilly, Reitman, 9291. - R. du Rietz. Biblioth. Polynesia, 1271. Rare first edition attributed to Taitbout. Véronique Dorbe-Larcade, in her book Ahutoru ou l'envers du voyage de Bougainville à Tahiti, states that this is the jurist and polygrapher Jean-Baptiste Taitbout, while others (sudoc) refer to Julien Taitbout, clerk of the Hôtel de Ville de Paris. "As a fervent disciple of Montesquieu, the author seizes on the observations reported by the discoverers of Tahiti, Cook and Bougainville, observations which he summarizes in an impersonal manner, to study the true nature of man and investigate what lessons can be drawn from them to "bring about the general and much-desired revolution". The life of the natives reflects the conditions of their environment. Their regime cannot survive, and the arrival of Europeans will be fatal to them". (O'Reilly, Bibliographie de Tahiti et de la Polynésie française, 9291). The edition is illustrated with a fine frontispiece depicting a view of the island, engraved by Jean-Jacques Avril (1744-1831). Copy in contemporary binding, from the library of Charles-Pierre Claret de Fleurieu (1738-1810), naval officer, nautical theorist, member of the Institut and the Bureau des Longitudes. Originally called Eveux de Fleurieu, he took the name Claret de Fleurieu on his father's death. A naval guard in Toulon in 1755, he took part in the Seven Years' War, then received leave to pursue scientific studies. He took lessons from the watchmaker Berthoud, whose clocks he experimented with at sea in 1768-1769 on the frigate Isis. The report of this voyage, written by Fleurieu and Pingré, was published in 1773. In 1776, he became second inspector of the Navy's map and plan repository, and deputy inspector of the Académie de Marine. The following year, he was appointed director of ports and arsenals. He prepared campaign plans for the American War for the Minister of the Navy, took part in the creation of the port of Cherbourg and drafted instructions for La Pérouse's voyage. He became Minister of the Navy in 1790. To support himself, he sold his library and map collection, and directed the execution of the Neptune Americo-septentrional published by Bonne. Until his death, he worked on the Neptune des mers du Nord. Member of the Bureau des Longitudes. Appointed State Councillor in 1799, he became Senator in 1805, then Administrator of the Tuileries Palace. [Sources: Data BNF]. Binding skilfully restored. A few traces of light dampening. Provenance: Charles-Pierre Claret de Fleurieu, with bookplate (1810, no. 1296)

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 30 - VATTIER (Pierre). L'Onirocrite Mussulman (sic), ou la doctrine et interprétation des songes selon les arabes, Par Gabdorrhachaman fils de Nasar. Paris : Louis Billaine, 1664. - In-12, 142 x 76 : (18 ff.), 240 pp. Red morocco, boards decorated with a triple gilt fillet, interlaced gilt CC in the corners and gilt arms in the center, spine decorated with arms, gilt edges (period binding). Caillet, 11044. - Brunet, II, 1430. Rare first edition, the only one of this learned and curious work considered one of the best ancient books on the interpretation of dreams. Dedicated to Louis XIV. It is a translation by orientalist Pierre Vattier (1623-1667), advisor and physician to Gaston d'Orléans, of the Abrégé du discours sur l'interprétation des rêves by Syrian author ʿAbd al-Raḥmân ibn Naṣr al-Šayzarī (11..-1193), a treatise in which the latter drew inspiration from great authors including the famous onirocrite Muḥammad Ibn Sīrīn (0654-0728). This is the first time that the principles of explanation that inspired the Arabs in their keys to dreams have been set out. A precious copy from the library of Pope Alexander VII (1599-1667), with his arms and cipher on the boards. It was subsequently acquired by the famous collector Benedetto Maglione, and later by the man of letters and occult scientist René Philipon (1869-1936). This is undoubtedly one of the finest known copies of this work. Fine restoration to hinges and corners. Leaves browned. Provenance: Pope Alexander VII, with his coat of arms on the boards. - Paolo Petrucci (1865, II, no. 125). - Benedetto Maglione (1894, I, no. 90). - René Philipon, with bookplate engraved by J. de Andraca in 1917. - Jean Marchand, known as Johannes Mercator, with bookplate (1943, I, no. 15, with reproduction).

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 31 - [VERSAILLES]. [Plans, elevations and views of the Château de Versailles]. [Paris : imprimerie royale, s.d.]. - Collected folio, 532 x 385: 73 plates. Red morocco, boards decorated in the Duseuil style, with crowned royal cypher at the corners, royal coat of arms gilded in the center, spine decorated with gilded crowned royal cypher, interior gilt roulette, gilt edges (period binding). Composite collection of 73 plates from volumes of the King's Cabinet, published in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Includes: 1. [Plans, élévations et vues du château de Versailles] 12 plates from the fifth volume of the Cabinet du roi, engraved by : - Israël SILVESTRE : Plan de la Maison Royalle de Versailles (1674) - Chasteau Royal de Versailles, veu du milieu de la grande avenüe (1674) - Chasteau Royal de Versailles veu de l'avant-cour (1674) - Veüe du Chasteau de Versailles, du costé du Jardin (1674) - Veüe du Chasteau, des Jardins, et de la ville de Versailles, du costé de l'Estang (1674) - Veüe du Chasteau de Versailles, du costé de l'allée d'eau, et de la fontaine du Dragon (1676) - Plan général du Chasteau, et du petit parc de Versailles (1680) - Chasteau de Versailles veu de la grande place (1684), Chasteau de Versailles veu de l'Avant cour (1682) - Veüe du Chasteau de Versailles et des deux costé des Jardins (1682). - Jean-Baptiste NOLIN: Elevation of the Versailles orangery facade (1688). - Pierre LEPAUTRE: Elevation of one of the sides of the King's stables, on the avenues at Versailles (1689). Non-missing tears repaired with scotch tape on the third plate. Tear without damage to the engraving and light wetness to the Nolin plate. Some foxing. 2. [Grotte, labyrinthe, fontaines, bassins de Versailles] 10 plates from the sixth volume of the King's Cabinet, engraved by: - Pierre LEPAUTRE: Latone entre ses deux Enfans Apollon et Diane (1678) - Fontaine de Flore, accompagnée d'un bassin doré semé de fleurs, dans les Jardins de Versailles (1680) - Encelade de bronze, accablé sous des rochers, et poussant en l'air un gros jet d'eau (1677). - Israël SILVESTRE: Marais artificiel, entouré de Joncs d'airain, et de Jets d'eau (1680) - Veuë des trois Fontaines dans le Jardin de Versailles (1684) - Fontaine de la renommée dans le Jardin de Versailles (1682) - Le Théâtre d'eau Dans les Jardins de Versailles (1680). - Louis de CHÂTILLON: Fontaine d'Apollon, à la teste du grand canal de Versailles (1683). - Louis SIMONNEAU: Fontaine des bains d'Apollon dans le jardin de Versailles (1688), Veue principale du théâtre d'eau (1689). Some foxing to edges of plates. 3. [A single plate by Israël SILVESTRE from the thirteenth volume of the King's Cabinet, entitled: Veüe du Chasteau de Chambor, du costé de l'entrée (1678). This is the only plate in the collection that does not concern Versailles. One small tear, not missing. 4. [Grotte, labyrinthe, fontaines, bassins de Versailles] 18 other plates from the sixth volume of the King's Cabinet, engraved by : - Jean LEPAUTRE : Infant de bronze représentant le Genie de la Puissance royalle, assis sur un Aigle, qui pousse en l'air un gros jet d'eau (1677) - Infant de bronze représentant le Genie de la Valeur, assis sur un Lion devorant un Loup, qui pousse en l'air un gros jet d'eau (1676) - Infant de bronze représentant le Genie des Richesses, assis sur (sic) Cerbere, qui pousse en l'air un gros jet d'eau (1676) - Deux amours de bronze qui joüent avec une Escrevisse de mer, qui fait un Jet d'eau (1677) - Deux Amours de bronze qui tiennent une Lyre, d'ou sorti un jet d'eau (1677) - Deux Amours de bronze qui joüent avec un Cygne, which makes a jet of water (1677) - Two bronze Lovers who join with a Gryphon, which makes a jet of water (1676) - A bronze Love with his quiver, from which come out arrows of water (1676) - A bronze Love who shoots an arrow of water (1677) - Basin of 10 feet in quarré, of a single stone, and in the middle three small Dancers of gilded metal, who support a bronze basin (1672) - Basin of 10 feet in diameter, of a single stone and in the middle two young girls with a small love of gilded metal (1673) - Basin [...and in the middle three small gilded metal children (1673) - 10-foot basin [...] and in the middle three small instrument players (1673) - Basin [...] and in the middle three small Satyrs (1673) - Basin [...] and in the middle three small Tritons (1673) - Basin [...] and in the middle three small gilded metal Terms, supporting a bronze basket (1673). - Pierre LEPAUTRE: Bronze statue of Venus elevée sur un bassin de marbre blanc, faisant un des ornemens de la Fontaine appellée, la Gallerie d'eau (1679) - Bronze statue of Venus elevée sur un bassin de marbre blanc, faisant un des ornemens de la Fontaine appellée, la Gallerie d'eau (1679).

Estim. 5 000 - 7 000 EUR

Lot 32 - VIBIUS SEQUESTER. De fluminibus, fontibus, lacubus, nemoribus, paludibus, montibus, gentibus ; quorum apud poëtas mentio fit. Roterodami [Rotterdam]: Arnold Willis, 1711. - Small in-8, 159 x 96 : (30 ff.), 295 pp. Long-grained dark blue morocco, gilt fillets and roulette framing the boards, small gilt fleuron at the corners, richly decorated spine with false nerves, gilt roulette framing the inside, beige silk lining with gilt roulette framing, beige silk endpapers, followed by two laid paper endpapers and one in parchment, gilt edges (early 19th century binding). Esteemed and rare edition of this work by the 4th or 5th century Latin compiler Vibius Sequester, published and annotated by the philologist Franciscus Hesselius (1680-1746). It is a list of geographical names taken from the works of Latin poets, including Virgil, Ovid, Lucan and Horace. The names are divided into seven categories: Flumina (rivers) - Fontes (springs) - Lacus (lakes) - Nemora (forests) - Paludes (swamps) - Montes (mountains) - Gentes (peoples). A very fine copy in early 19th-century morocco in the taste of Bozérian or Lefebvre. This binding was made for the bookseller and bibliophile Antoine-Augustin Renouard (1765-1853), one of whose hallmarks was its two parchment endpapers. It was later owned by the English bibliophile Charles Butler (1821-1910) of Warren Wood, Hattfield. Slight wear to covers and corners. Old annotations on pages 14 and 15. Provenance: Antoine-Augustin Renouard (Catalogue de la bibliothèque d'un amateur, 1819, IV, p. 10). - Charles Butler, with bookplate.

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

Lot 33 - [VILLENEUVE (Daniel Jost de)]. Le Voyageur philosophe dans un pais inconnu des habitans de la Terre. By Mr. De Listonai. Amsterdam : Aux dépens de l'éditeur, 1761. - 2 volumes in-12, 166 x 97 : XXIV, 339 pp. ; VI, 384 pp. Red morocco, triple gilt fillet framing and gilt fleuron at corners, ornate smooth spine, interior gilt roulette, dark green moiré tabis linings and endpapers, gilt edges (period binding). Quérard, II, 791. - Utopie. La Quête de la Société idéale, BNF, 2000, no. 114. First edition of this lunar utopia by writer and playwright Daniel Jost de Villeneuve. "This philosophical odyssey is a dream at the end of which the traveler finds himself at the bottom of his bed. The dreamland, that of the Selenites (inhabitants of the moon), allows comparison of the social state and the natural state: in the absence of mine and yours, there is no vice, no crime, no fear of death. In Selenopolis, science has made great strides. It's the Enlightenment perfectly realized" (A. Soboul, Utopies au siècle des Lumières, Hachette, 1978). "More than in his description of the Moon and its capital, Selenopolis (a classic device for presenting the author's ideas on society), the book's interest lies in the passages in which Daniel de Villeneuve describes the principles of his aerial navigation and the inventions of the 24th century. His sail-and-oar ship is specifically designed for interplanetary navigation, and its crew includes physicist passengers whose job it is to take stock of the situation and determine the route to follow. Among the inventions of the centuries to come was 'ductile and malleable glass', used to make furniture" (Bernard Vouillot, BNF). A rare copy in contemporary morocco. Two slight tears on the spine of the second volume. Some foxing.

Estim. 2 200 - 3 200 EUR

Lot 34 - WITTICH (Johannes). Von dem ligno Guayaco, Wunderbawm, Res nova genandt, von der China, ex Occidentali India, von der Sarssa Parilla, von dem Frantzosenholtz Sassafras, und von dem Grießholtz, so man Lignum Nephriticum nennet, etc.. Welche alle zum theil fuer die Fluesse, Zipperle, wassersucht und reissenden Stein, sampt andren eingewurtzelten Kranckheiten, gantz dienstlichen, und wie dieselben, an denen Orten, do sie wachsen, zubereitet und gebraucht werden, biß daher in Druck also noch nicht kommen: Jetzo aber zu nutz und frommen allen Wundtaerzten und Balbirern, mit fleiß zusammen gezogen. Leipzig: [Michael Lantzenberger], 1592. - In-4, 193 x 148 : (22 ff.). Bradel-style speckled paper boards, smooth muted spine (modern binding). A Catalogue of Sixteenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine, 4760. Very rare second edition, the first separate, of this treatise by Johannes Wittich (1537-1596), personal physician to the Counts of Schwarzburg. It is usually found together with the second edition of the author's work on bezoar stones, published the same year and entitled Bericht Von den wunderbaren Bezoardischen Steinen... This treatise focuses in particular on the guaiac tree, a dense tropical tree much sought-after for its curative properties, but also on Sarsaparilla and Sassafras. The author would not have based his work directly on his own experience, but on the study of various writings and on the examination of objects collected by travellers and missionaries. The use of these plants, now commonplace, was relatively new at the time. A good copy in modern hardback. From the library of Élize Grendel (1899-1986), pharmacist in Gouda, member of the International Academy of the History of Pharmacy. Provenance: Élize Grendel, with bookplate.

Estim. 1 200 - 1 600 EUR

Lot 35 - [YSAMBARD DE SAINT-LÉGER?]. [La Légende des flamands] - La Legẽde des flamẽs artisiens et haynuyers. Ou autremẽt leur cronique abregee en laquelle sint contenues plusieurs hystoires de Frãce Angleterre & Allemaigne... Paris : à l'enseigne Saint Claude, [20 mai 1522]. - In-4, 220 x 163 : (6 ff.), 107 ff. ill-foliated Ci. Dark green half-maroquin with corners, smooth spine decorated (19th-century binding). Bechtel, L-113. First edition of this rare anonymous work, dedicated to Louise de Savoie. It was printed by François Regnault. "The officially-inspired text, written in the context of the conflict with the House of Austria, endeavors to support François I's territorial claims with genealogies, excerpts from widely-quoted authors (Gerson, Gaguin, Froissart, C. de Seyssel, J. Lemaire, Erasmus, etc.) and various arguments.) and various arguments, François I's territorial claims to Flanders, Artois, Burgundy and also Naples, Sicily and Milan - countries then in the power of Charles V, or which the French king would have to renounce after the defeat of Pavia. As for the Flemish, the text recalls their origins, the various revolts and claims on their territory, notably by the English (passage sur la prinse et vendition de la pucelle par sire Jehan de Luxembourg aux anglois qui la firent a Rouen). A general principle repeated throughout: the kings of France were always autonomous, particularly in relation to the Emperor of Germany" (Bechtel). Beautifully printed in Gothic script. The title is printed in red and black and features a grotesque L lettering with a face. The illustration includes 30 woodcuts, one on the verso of the title depicting Charles VIII's entry into Naples, one on the recto of folio 1, depicting the author writing, and 28 in the text, showing mainly figures but also two battle scenes, which, according to Bechtel, are "of composite provenance, some from the 15th century (Vérard, Levet)". Interesting copy including an early manuscript addition following the colophon, giving us these indications: "Compille & ordonné à l'instance & requeste de tres haulte illustre et tres clere dame Madame Louyse de Savoye duchesse d'egoumois & d'anjou & comtesse du Maine & mere du tres chrestien Roy de France Françoys premier de ce nom par Maistre Ysambard de Sainct Leger pbre prieur commendataire de la Roche Mabille en diocese du Mans Escollier & Chapellain de la de dame. " If authentic, this note would provide vital information, pointing to a certain Ysambard or Ysembert de Saint Léger as the author, or rather compiler, of this work. The latter is known for the partial translation made between 1526-1531 of the work entitled Speculum dominarum (Miroir des Dames nobles) by the Franciscan Durand de Champagne (12..-13..). This note is written in imitation of a printer's typeface. It is undoubtedly old, but would benefit from further study to determine its precise date and authenticity. Heavy rubbing to spine, corners dulled. Title leaf rebacked. Light staining throughout. Last blank leaf missing.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 36 - ZIMMERMANN (Eberhard August Wilhelm von). Specimen zoologiae geographicae, quadrupedum domicilia et migrationes sistens. Dedit, tabulamque mundi zoographicam adjunxit. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Theodorum Haak et Socios. [Dirk Haak et compagnie], 1777. - In-4, 252 x 201: XXIV, 685 pp, (1 blank f.), 1 map. Marbled calf, cold fillet framing the boards, ornate ribbed spine (period binding). Sought-after first edition of this work by German geographer and zoologist Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743-1815), professor of mathematics and natural sciences at the Collegium Carolinum in Brunswick from 1766 to 1815. This is one of the first studies devoted to the geographical distribution of mammals, making the author one of the precursors of zoogeography - along with Buffon, whose work he built on. Some of his conclusions may well have influenced Darwin. Indeed, he "put forward a curious theory based on the unity of origin of mankind. For him, primitive man was white, brown-haired and inhabited a high spot in Central Asia, where he multiplied, families descended and emigrated in several directions, forming colonies. In these new settlements, the influence of the climate gradually modified their physical characteristics: skin color, size, etc. This dissemination took place in a number of countries. (Lester, L'Anthropologie. Histoire de la science. Encyclopédie de La Pléiade). The edition is illustrated with a large fold-out map drawn by German cartographer August Wilhelm Knoch (1742-1818), which is the very first zoological map, showing the distribution of animals in the different countries of the world. It is one of the first to include the discoveries made by Captain Cook in 1770 on the east coast of Australia, known here as "Nova Hollandia", including kangaroos, opossums and more. Binding restored. Tears to map repaired. Provenance: Docteur Michel Durieux, with bookplate.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 37 - AUBARET (Gabriel). Vocabulaire français-annamite et annamite-français, précédé d'un traité des particules annamites. Bangkok: Imprimerie de la Mission Catholique, 1861. - In-8, 227 x 143: (2 ff.), XCV, 96 pp., (2 ff. first blank), 157 pp. Havana half-sheepskin, smooth mute spine (period binding). First edition of the world's first French-Vietnamese dictionary. Written by Lieutenant Gabriel Aubaret (1825-1894), French consul in Bangkok and Orientalist, it was published at the behest of the French military authorities, specifically Vice-Admiral Charner, Commander-in-Chief of the French naval forces in Indochina. Printed in Bangkok by the Catholic Mission for the Propagation of the Catholic Faith, it was primarily intended for military personnel fighting in Indochina. According to Georges Taboulet, in his 1942 book Les débuts de l'Amiral Bonard en Cochinchine, only 200 copies were printed. A copy in its modest publisher's binding, complete with the two titles at the beginning. Binding faded, hinge on first board cracked, top of spine damaged with small chips, some rubbing, corners dull, tears to paper on boards. The interior is very well preserved. Notebooks 16, 17, 18 and 19 have been bound out of order (19, 17, 18, 16).

Estim. 1 800 - 2 500 EUR

Lot 38 - AUBARET (Gabriel). Code pénal annamite (Hoant viêt luat lê.) Laws and regulations of the kingdom of Annam, translated for the first time from the original text. Tome premier. Saïgon: imprimerie impériale, 1862. - In-8, 227 x 145 : XIV, (1 f.), 395 pp. 3 tables. Black half-chagrin, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). Extremely rare first edition of the first volume, the only one published, of Gabriel Aubaret's translation of the Vietnamese penal code, which, inspired by the Chinese code, was drafted during the reign of King Gia Long (1762-1820), descendant of the Cochinchina kings and reunifier of Dai-Viet, which became Vietnam in 1804. The work appeared under the government of Vice-Admiral Bonard and was published under the ministry of Count de Chasseloup-Laubat, Minister of the Navy. It contains 3 parts: I. Preliminaries of the Code. - II. General laws. - III. Criminal laws: rebels and thieves. Homicide, injuries and quarrels. Insults. Legal complaints. Prevarication. Forgery and deceit. Adultery. Miscellaneous offences. Arrests and escapes. Offenders and prisoners. ONE OF THE FIRST BOOKS PRINTED IN VIETNAM. Indeed, it wasn't until the 19th century that letterpress printing became established in this country, with the creation of the Imperial Printing House in Saigon in 1861 by Admiral Bonard, barely a year before the publication of this book. A copy in its original binding, complete with 3 fold-out tables. Wear and tears to percaline boards and spine. Body of the book partly unbound. Scattered foxing.

Estim. 2 500 - 3 500 EUR

Lot 39 - [BARBAT (Louis)]. Evangiles des dimanches et fêtes. Illustrated by Barbat père et fils. Châlons-sur-Marne: Imprimerie lithographique Barbat, 1844. - In-4, 268 x 202: (1 f.), 148 pp., (2 ff.), pp. (149)-315, (1 f.), printed cover. Bound in marbled paper à la Bradel, painted decoration on the boards, consisting of a diamond-shaped frame painted in green, spandrels and a cross motif in the center, gold color, smooth spine decorated with the title of the book painted in green and gold, accompanied by gilt fillets and two gilt compositions, gilt edges, cover and spine preserved, case (20th century binding). Remy Bellenger, Le papier porcelaine et ses utilisations, une histoire oubliée, in: Art et métiers du livre, 2020, n° 341, pp. 55-61. ONE OF THE FIRST BOOKS TO BE COMPLETELY PRINTED IN POLYCHROME LITHOGRAPHY, and one of the finest works produced by the Barbat brothers. The text, printed in a variety of colors and sometimes in gold lettering, is set in almost always distinct frames decorated with arabesques and rocaille or architectural motifs in the Gothic style. The Passion text features an attractive series of stylized crosses. Only 55 copies of this edition were printed on porcelain paper, this one being one of 50 on double-sided white porcelain paper. "In 1827, a patent for "porcelain paper" was registered in Germany; in 1837, Godefroy Engelmann, a lithographer in Mulhouse, patented chromolithography for his Traité de lithographie, which appeared two years later and whose title page was printed in chromolithography... on porcelain paper. For a little over 45 years, porcelain paper was used throughout Europe, or almost, for a wide range of purposes - books, business cards, visiting cards, membership cards, invitations... - before gradually falling into oblivion, often replaced by another innovation: coated paper. The support - paper, card or cardboard - is covered with a white covering of ceruse, giving it an impeccable surface quality and a previously unknown whiteness, the reason for its name: porcelain paper" (Remy Bellenger, Le papier porcelaine et ses utilisations, une histoire oubliée, in: Art et métiers du livre, 2020, n° 341, p. 55). A very well preserved copy.

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 40 - BLOY (Léon). Un brelan d'excommuniés. Paris: Nouvelle librairie parisienne, Albert Savine, 1889. - In-12, 182 x 118: 128 pp, (2 ff. last blank), printed cover. Red half-percaline à la Bradel, smooth spine, cover preserved (period binding). Original edition not printed on large paper. In this book, Bloy sets out to defend the works of Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly ("L'Enfant terrible"), Ernest Hello ("Le Fou") and Paul Verlaine ("Le Lépreux"), which he believes are attacked and despised by their contemporaries and condemned by the Catholic Church. The author states in his preface: "Modern Catholics hate Art with a savage, atrocious, inexplicable hatred. Undoubtedly, this poor art is not much loved in contemporary society, and I exterminate myself repeating this. But happy exceptions, it seems, should be found in this lineage of the great incubator of intelligences, to whom the world is indebted for its most dazzling masterpieces" (p. 11). Copy by the poet Alfred Pouthier (1866-1946), including this autograph dispatch signed by the author on the first blank page: to Alfred Pouthier // Léon Bloy Pouthier became a close friend of Léon Bloy in the last years of the writer's life. This copy was probably given to him in the 1910s. Alfred Pouthier has transcribed onto the first white endpaper a letter Léon Bloy wrote on September 8, 1888 to the publisher Albert Savine about the work, in which he asked that the booklet be "enlarged": "Nothing would be easier for me than to multiply the paragraphs on the proof. I'd be able to do a lot of hunting & save at least ten pages. But above all, my work would become more readable, more artistic. He goes on to talk about his book Le Désespéré: "You're planning to have new covers printed. Why don't you have an errata & a key printed at the same time, which I'll give you?" There is a handwritten correction on page 38, and the copy is also enriched with a text by René Martineau entitled Bloy et Verlaine, taken from the November 15, 1922 issue of Les Marges. Missing tears to false title. Rousseurs. The cover is marked "Second Edition". Provenance: Alfred Pouthier, with consignment.

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

Lot 41 - BOUCHER DE PERTHES (Jacques). Celtic and antediluvian antiquities. Mémoire sur l'industrie primitive et les arts à leur origine. Paris: Treuttel et Wurtz, Derache, Dumoulin, Victor Didron, 1847-1864. - 3 volumes in-8, 233 x 149: (2 ff.), XII, 628 pp. 80 plates; (2 ff.), XVI, 511 pp. 24 plates; (2 ff.), XXIV, 178 pp. (1 f.), pp. (179)-681, 10 plates. Demi-basane, spine ribbed and decorated, speckled edges (modern binding). In French in the text, no. 266. First edition of this key text "for the history of archaeology as a discipline, but also for the history of ideas and science". In fact, as Grégoire Meylan, head of the library at the Musée d'Archéologie Nationale, points out: "Jacques Boucher de Perthes is considered today as one of the 'fathers of prehistory', his Antiquités celtiques et antédiluviennes being one of its founding works. A customs director in Abbeville, he was nevertheless a man of letters, and the author of numerous literary works, as well as President of the Société d'émulation d'Abbeville. He was neither an archaeologist nor a geologist, but was particularly interested in man's origins and evolution. To this end, he wrote and published a metaphysical essay, De la création, essai sur l'origine et la progression des êtres in 1838, in which he hypothesized that traces of "antediluvian man" would one day be found. In 1838, he presented to the Académie des Sciences the first lithic elements extracted from the sandpits of the Somme, whose stratigraphic position enabled him to assert that "antediluvian man" had indeed existed at the time of the large mammals. But for many years, he came up against the skepticism and fierce opposition of a certain intellectual elite, convinced that man's antiquity could not predate the Celtic and Gallic periods. In 1842, the discovery of a mammoth jaw associated with a flint tool in the same stratigraphic layer enabled him to demonstrate the contemporaneity of man and extinct species. This hypothesis was definitively validated in 1859 when English scholars J. Prestwich, J. Evans, J.W. Flower, R. Godwin-Austen, R.W. Hylne and C. Lyell, who attested to the authenticity of his discoveries. In these works, Boucher de Perthes presents his research and demonstrates his theory to convince even the most skeptical. Les Antiquités celtiques et antédiluviennes was published in three volumes, each one providing new answers and enabling the author to assert his position by presenting his latest discoveries and, above all, by listing the new scholars and scientists around the world who had rallied to his cause" (Source: Grégoire Meylan, in: site du Musée d'Archéologie Nationale, domaine de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Les collections, Bibliothèque, Antiquités celtiques et antédiluviennes). The edition comprises 114 plates, 80 in the first volume, 24 in the second (numbered I to XXVI), and 10 in the last (numbered III to XII, with the figures numbered I and II being full-page, and therefore included in the pagination). Together, these plates comprise more than 2,200 figures. A good copy in 20th-century binding. Spine slightly faded, a few scratches. Scattered foxing in the first volume. Provenance: Henri Millerioux, with bookplate bearing the motto "Semper transformare".

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 42 - [COLLECTIVE]. Les Minutes Parisiennes. Paris : Librairie Paul Ollendorff, 1899-1904. - 11 volumes in-16, 156 x 117. Bradel-style marbled paper boards, smooth spine, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, slipcase (Yseux sr de Thierry Simier). Beautiful, sought-after publication by wood engravers Tony Beltrand (1847-1904), his brother Jacques (1874-1977), and Eugène Dété (1848-1922). The collection comprises 11 volumes, each with a text illustrated with woodcuts, by a different author and artist almost every time. Each text focuses on a different hour of the day, successively presenting a particular aspect of life in Paris. For the publishers, this publication was a battle to defend the use of real woodcuts against the new reproduction processes that were gaining ground at the time, notably photography and photogravure. Each volume therefore contains "true and picturesque drawings, images that are frank, clear and legible, executed with the clear intention of reacting against engravings that imitate the processes" (pp. 10-11 volume 1). Twenty-four volumes were envisaged, but only these 11 saw the light of day: 1. MONTORGUEIL (Georges). Midi. Le Déjeuner des Petites Ouvrières. Illustrations by A. LEPÈRE. 1899. 2. MOUREY (Gabriel). 1 hour. La Bourse. Illustrations by Charles HUARD. 1899. 3. GEFFROY (Gustave). 2 hours. La Cité and Ile Saint-Louis. Illustrations by Auguste LEPÈRE. 1899. 4. MILLOT (Léon). 3 heures. Les Courses, le Grand Prix de Paris. Illustrations by A. GÉRARDIN. 1899. 5. VALDAGNE (Pierre). 4 heures. L'Essayage. Illustrations by BALLURIAU woodcut by Beltrand and Dété. 1901. 6. FÈVRE (Herny). 5 hours. La Rue du Croissant. Illustrations by SUNYER woodcut by Beltrand and Dété. 1901. 7. OHNET (Georges). 6 hours. La Salle d'Armes. Illustrations by Flasschœn woodcut by T.-J. Beltrand and Dété. 1902. 8. GEFFROY (Gustave). 7 hours. Belleville. Illustrations by SUNYER woodcut by T.-J. Beltrand and Dété. 1903. 9. GUILLEMOT (Maurice). 8 heures. Diners Parisiens. Illustrations by JEANNIOT woodcut by J.-T. BELTRAND and Dété. 1901. 10. COQUIOT (Gustave). 1 Heure du Matin. Les Soupeuses. Illustrations by Georges BOTTINI woodcut by T.-J. Beltrand et Dété. 1903. 11. LOUIS (Désiré). 6 Heures du Matin. La Chapelle. Illustrations by Gaston PRUNIER woodcut by J.-T. Beltrand and Dété. 1904. Each volume is one of 108 numbered copies on China paper. Very fine set bound by Yseux for the bibliophile Juan Hernandez. Some scattered foxing. Provenance: Juan Hernandez, with bookplate.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 43 - DEGRANGE (Edmond). L'Arithmétique pratique, analisée et démontrée dans tous ses développemens et dans ses différentes applications à tous les usages du commerce, de la banque, de la finance, des arts et métiers. Paris : Ve Hocquart ; Bordeaux : J. Foulquier, Filiatre frères, 1808. - 2 volumes in-8, 198 x 121: xxxiv, 320 pp. ; (2 ff.), 290 pp., (1 f. blank). Long-grained red morocco, gilt pampers border and gilt fleuron corners on boards, smoothed spine decorated with gilt roulettes, bouquet and ships, dark green morocco for title, tomaison and border at bottom of spine, gilt border inside, dark green moiré tabis linings and endpapers, gilt edges (period binding). Rare first edition of this complete course in arithmetic, including the basics of the subject and all aspects of commercial accounting. Dedicated to François-Nicolas Mollien, Minister of the Treasury, it begins with a long chapter on La Manière d'étudier l'arithmétique. Edmond Degrange (1763-1826?) was a professor of commercial accounting. A native of Bordeaux, he contributed to Marandon's Courrier de la Gironde, was a member of several revolutionary committees, and was appointed to the departmental directoire in April 1794. He was also one of the main editors of the Journal du Club National de Bordeaux with Jean-Baptiste Lacombe until Lacombe's execution in 1794. Copy on wove paper, complete with the publisher's and author's signatures on the verso of the title of the first volume. Splendid binding strictly of the period, unsigned but attributable to a bookbinder named P. Boyer, who used the ship's iron on the spine (cf. Culot, Relieurs et reliures décorées en France aux époques Directoire et Empire, no. 63). Curiously, the binder designed a different framing for the caissons of the two volumes, except for the title and tail caissons. On the first volume, the motifs in the center of the caissons are surrounded by two stars and four branches at the corners, and the title page features 8 stars; on the second volume, the same motifs are surrounded by two wavy fillets and 4 stars, and the same applies to the title page. Waxing on the boards. Inner hinge of first volume front cover weakened. The lining frames of the second volume have been partially rebound, obviously at the time. Some scattered foxing, not serious.

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

Lot 44 - FABRE D'OLIVET (Antoine). De l'état social de l'Homme; ou vues philosophiques sur l'histoire du genre humain, précédées d'une dissertation introductive sur les motifs et l'objet de cet ouvrage. Paris: J. L. J. Brière, 1822. - 2 volumes in one in-8, 202 x 129: xv, 348 pp., (2 ff.), 469 pp. Dark green half-sheepskin, smooth ornate spine, marbled edges (period binding). Caillet, 3776 - Guaita, 1362: "de la plus insigne rareté" - Dorbon, 1578 (for the second edition). First edition "of the most insignificant rarity" (Guaita) of this "remarkable work, one of the great classics of the occult which inspired Eliphas Lévi and Saint-Yves d'Alveydre in turn" (Dorbon). "Fabre d'Olivet's admirable work De l'État social de l'Homme, ou Vues philosophiques sur l'Histoire du genre humain, taken up and continued to this day by Saint-Yves, stands like an imperishable monument among the productions of the human spirit. In an introductory dissertation of 64 pp., the author sets out the metaphysical constitution of man, based entirely on the great law of the Ternary, which is found everywhere in the universe; then he defines the 3 great powers that govern this universe "Human Will, Destiny and Providence", and it is on these great principles that he bases his entire work" (Caillet). The work was republished in 1824 under the title Histoire philosophique du genre humain, ou l'Homme considéré sous ses rapports religieux et politiques dans l'état social, à toutes les époques et chez les différens peuples de la terre. Rubbing to covers, hinges and edges, corners dulled. Tear with damage to the text on one leaf of the first volume (pp. 269-270). Some rare freckling. Provenance: William Décloux of Perpignan, with bookplate.

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

Lot 45 - GAUTIER (Judith) - YAMAMOTO (Hōsui). Poëmes De la Libellule. Translated from the Japanese According to the literal version by M. Saionzi Conseiller d'État de S. M. l'Empereur du Japon. Paris : [L. Frinzine et Cie], Ch. Gillot, [1885]. - In-4, 313 x 243 : (55 ff.), 7 plates, illustrated cover. Full blue Bradel cloth, smooth spine, front cover preserved (20th century binding). First edition of this collection of Japanese poems translated into verse by Judith Gautier, with a preface by Tsoura-Youki. It is illustrated on each page with a composition by Japanese painter Hōsui YAMAMOTO (1850-1906), reproduced in chromotypography after the Gillot processes, each printed with a different color ink. In addition, there are 8 color illustrations by the same artist, including one on the title and 7 hors texte. Edition of 820 copies on Japanese imperial paper; this is ONE OF 20 VERY RARE RETOUCHED EXEMPLAIRES, justified in violet ink and bearing the letter N. This edition is unknown to Vicaire, Talvart and Place. Virtually all the illustrations were enhanced by Judith Gautier herself, who signed the cover with her first name in Japanese. A precious copy enriched with TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS SIGNED BY HÖSUI YAMAMOTO, one on silk glue, and the second on Japanese paper depicting a floral composition. It also includes an autograph poem signed by the poetess, a copy of the translation of Princess Sikisi's poem in the collection: "Sweet flowers that brush // The roof of our home, // When the hour flees // Or I see you in my tears // Don't forget me, O flowers! // Judith Gautier." The silk painting opposite seems to be an illustration of this poem. A copy in a modest 20th-century binding; a few stains on the boards. First cover only preserved. Spotting and foxing on the front cover and facing leaf. We would like to thank Mr. Frantz Fray for identifying the signatures.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 46 - HUGO (Victor). Notre-Dame de Paris. Paris: Eugène Renduel, 1836. - In-8, 205 x 128: frontispiece, (2 ff.), 631 pp. 11 plates. Havana morocco, boards richly decorated with gilt roulette on the edges, framed by a wide band of dark green morocco decorated with gilt repetition decoration of circles and lozenges linked by a fillet, cut at the corners by a gilt quatrefoil on a piece of red morocco, bordered on the outside by a small gilt fleur-de-lys at the corners, and on the inside a gilt fillet lobed at the corners with a spandrel in light green morocco adorned with gilt scrolls, the first plate also featuring a beautiful gilt rosette in the center, ribbed spine adorned on each box with a quatrefoil in dark green morocco surrounded by gilt scrolls, interior gilt roulette, gilt edges (late 19th-century binding). Bertin, no. 106. Partly original edition, the first complete, so-called "Keepsake Edition", including three previously unpublished chapters that had been lost. Printed in an edition of 2,000 copies, it went on sale as a New Year's book on December 5, 1835. Very fine first-edition illustration, comprising a frontispiece and 11 plates on China paper, steel-engraved by Edward and William Finden, Robert Staines, Gabriel-Louis Lacour-Lestudier, G. Périam, T. Philibrocon after Adolphe Rouargue, Tony and Alfred Johannot, Louis Boulanger, Camille Rogier and Auguste Raffet. The plate entitled Utilité des fenêtres qui donnent sur la rivière (Utility of windows overlooking the river) was not ready in time and, as always, is printed on wove paper. ONE OF THE VERY RARE EXAMPLES ON FINE VELIN PAPER, in a superb later mosaic binding, enriched with 5 wood-engraved vignettes after Tony Johannot, glued and mounted on strong vellum paper. Slight rubbing to nerves.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 47 - IVIĆEVIĆ (Stjepan). Vienac uzdarja narodnoga O. Andriji Kačić Miosiću na Stolietni dan preminutja. Zadar: [impr. Demarchi-Rougier], 1861. - In-4, 327 x 245: portrait, (1 f.), XVI, 244 pp. 1 plate. Dark green half-chagrin, decorated spine, gilt head, untrimmed (contemporary binding). First edition of this anthology of Dalmatian folk songs, published by writer and politician Stjepan Ivicević (1801-1871), to mark the centenary of the death of Andrija Kačić Miošić (1690-1760), the first of the Dalmatian poets to turn to folk poetry, both in content, form and language. The edition, printed in the Croatian city of Zadar, begins with a biography of Kačić Miošić by Stjepan Ivicević, which is considered the best published on this author. The illustration includes two black out-of-text lithographs, the first as a frontispiece, depicting a portrait of Kačić Miošić, and the second depicting a view of Brist, the poet's hometown. Copy in contemporary binding, from the library of Dijon bibliophile Henri Joliet (1822-1918). Hinge of first cover cracked. Some foxing. Provenance: Henri Joliet, with his CBMHI monogram bookplate and motto "Plus penser que dire" ("More thinking than saying").

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 48 - LAUTRÉAMONT. Les Chants de Maldoror (Chants I, II, III, IV, V, VI). Paris, Bruxelles: chez tous les libraires, 1874. - In-12, 184 x 118: 332 pp, (1 f.), printed cover. Havana half-maroquin with corners, spine ribbed, gilt head, untrimmed, cover preserved, case (Semet et Plumelle). First edition with cover and title dated 1874. The work had appeared in Paris with Lacroix et Verboeckhoven in 1869, but had not been marketed. The edition was bought back almost in its entirety by the Brussels bookseller Jean-Baptiste Rozez, who offered it for sale in 1874 with a reprinted false title and title and a new cover. A very fine copy bound by Semet et Plumelle.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 49 - [TURKISH MANUSCRIPT]. Proverbes de Salomon, in Turkish, copied in French characters. [Paris, July 5, 1816]. - Manuscript in-4, 243 x 184. Green half suede, smooth spine (period binding). Interesting manuscript offering a Turkish translation of Solomon's Proverbs, or Book of Proverbs. It is written in Latin characters on the right half of the pages, with a few words in Turkish characters in the left margin. It comprises 96 pages, the first 25 of which are numbered from 1 to 25. The text contains virtually no erasures. It ends with this note in French: "Fini de copier le 5 juillet 1816 vend. à 8 h. du soir à Paris aux cholets." At the end, head to tail, we find another text entitled Capitulations de la France avec la sublime Porte, which is a copy of a treaty between France and the Ottoman Empire, written on 14 pages in Turkish characters, accompanied by a glossary giving the French translation of a large number of Turkish words. Some minor damage to spine, damaged edges. Ink drawings of faces and various operations on back covers, endpapers missing.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 50 - ORLÉANS (Charles d'). Poësies de Charles d'Orléans, Père de Louis XII et Oncle de François Ier, Rois de France. Grenoble: J. L. A. Giroud, 1803. - In-12, 170 x 96 : xvj, xxxij, 370 pp. Eggplant half calf, smooth spine decorated, speckled edges (period binding, spine rebound). Largely original edition of the poems of Charles d'Orléans (1394-1465), dedicated to César-René-Marie François-Rodolphe de Briançon-Vachon-Belmont. It was published by Grenoble man of letters and journalist Pierre-Vincent Chalvet (1767-1807), based on the incomplete manuscript held by the Grenoble library. This was the edition that officially brought Charles d'Orléans' poems into the realm of French literature. Only a few pieces had previously appeared in collective collections and almanacs. A copy of the English barrister, judge and politician Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce (1791-1866), with a bookplate bearing his initials JLKB. Spine entirely rebound in imitation. Original boards preserved. Provenance: Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce, with bookplate.

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

Lot 51 - PERCHERON (Luc). Pyrrhe, tragedy by Luc Percheron du pays du Maine (1592). Paris : imprimerie de Crapelet, 1845. - In-8, 202 x 115 : xiij, 80 pp. Red morocco, boards decorated in the center with a quatrefoil surrounded by four compositions of small filigree irons, the whole set within an inner quatrefoil frame composed of three gilt fillets and marked at the corners with a filigree iron, and an outer frame of three gilt fillets, richly decorated ribbed spine, inner gilt lace, gilt edges on witnesses, modern red half-maroquin slipcase (Bauzonnet-Trautz and Ateliers Laurenchet for the slipcase). Extremely rare first edition of this five-act tragedy by Luc Percheron, published by and at the expense of Max de Clinchamp and Raoul de Montesson. It is the only known poetic work by this author, printed here from the only known manuscript preserved at the time in the Le Mans library. This edition was announced in the Bibliographie de la France of May 10, 1845 (no. 2366). Only 16 copies were printed, some in-12 on strong paper, others in-8 on chine and at least 1 on vellum. This is the ONLY KNOWN EXEMPLAIRE ON VELIN, specially printed for Max de Climchamp. It is quite possible that a second copy was printed on the same medium for Raoul de Montesson, but we have found no trace of this. A superb copy in a period binding signed "Bauzonnet-Trautz". Antoine Bauzonnet added to his name that of his son-in-law Trautz from 1840 to 1851. Cracked hinges. Provenance: Max de Climchamp, with bookplate and his name printed on the fourth leaf.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 52 - PERRAULT (Charles). Sleeping Beauty. Little Red Riding Hood. Deux contes de ma mère loye. London: Eragny press, 1899. - In-12, 193 x 125 : 38 pp, (1 f.). Bradel-style stiff parchment, smooth spine, untrimmed (contemporary binding). Fine edition dedicated to Émile Verhaeren, printed in an edition of 224 copies on laid paper. It is illustrated with a title vignette, a double-page gilded frontispiece in a handsome floral frame, a full-page figure, the publisher's mark and 37 initials, drawn by Impressionist painter Lucien Pissarro and wood-engraved by the artist and his wife Esther. The Eragny Press was an English art publishing house set up by Lucien and Esther Pissarro, which published just 32 books between 1894 and 1914. This is the second title to come from their press. A fine copy in a slightly later binding, enriched by the two subscription leaves bound at the end. A very well preserved copy.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 53 - PICARD (Edmond) - REDON (Odilon). Le Juré. Monodrama in five acts. Bruxelles: des presses de Mme Ve Monnom, 1887. - In-4, 283 x 225: frontispiece, (4 ff.), XLVII, 133 pp., (4 ff.), 2 portraits, 6 plates. White overlaid parchment, boards decorated with a double frame of 3 gilt fillets, gilt iron with symbols of justice at corners, gilt plate in center, smooth spine decorated, untrimmed (Claessens). Mellerio 75-81. Rare and highly sought-after first edition, printed in an edition of only 100 copies on special vat Hollande Van Gelder paper. The work opens with two introductory texts printed in black, namely a Lettre sur le Monodrame - in which the author defines Monodrama as a play intended to be read aloud to an audience - and a study entitled Le Fantastique réel. The Monodrama, first read by the author at the Brussels Young Bar Association conference on November 10, 1888, is printed in bistre and gothic type. This edition is sought-after because of its illustrations, made especially for the work, including 7 original lithographic interpretations by Odilon REDON (1840-1916). In addition, there is a self-portrait of the artist, reproduced using the Evely process, and a portrait of the author writing at his desk, reproduced in heliogravure after a composition by Théo Van Rysselberghe. Each plate is printed on japon and includes a captioned serpente. Copy numbered 38, specially printed for Eugène Robert. Preserved in its publisher's binding signed by Claessens. Soiling to binding, 7.5-centimeter split at first board hinge. Ink stains in the margins of pages 58-59. Non-missing tears to some serpents. Transfer of the plates despite the serpents. Provenance: Eugène Robert.

Estim. 4 000 - 6 000 EUR

Lot 54 - POE (Edgar Allan). Extraordinary stories. - New extraordinary stories. Translated by Charles Baudelaire. Paris: A. Quantin, 1884. - 2 volumes in-8, 229 x 149: portrait, XXXII, 382 pp. (1 f.), 12 plates, illustrated cover; frontispiece, (4 ff. first blank), XIX, 410 pp. (1 f.), 12 plates, illustrated cover. Brown half-maroquin with corners, gilt fillets, spine decorated with mosaic macabre decorations in frames of two gilt fillets, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (Vermorel). First illustrated edition, with 26 out-of-text compositions, 13 in each volume, by Abot, Daniel Vierge, François-Nicolas Chifflart, Wögel, Jules Férat, Herpin, Jean-Paul Laurens, Fortuné Louis Méaulle and Meyer, including 20 etchings and 6 heliogravures. One of 100 numbered copies on japon, including two states of the hors-texts, avant la lettre on japon and état terminé on papier vergé. A very fine copy in slightly later bindings with macabre decoration by Vermorel. Some wear to hinges and nerves.

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

Lot 55 - REDOUTÉ (Pierre-Joseph). Album des plus belles Roses de Redouté. Paris, [circa 1830]. - Album folio, 471 x 322: portrait, 24 plates. Unbleached moire, wide gilt and cold-rolled borders on covers, gilt album title on first cover, smooth spine, pink moire lining, white moiré paper endpapers, gilt edges, flap folder, red cloth spines (period binding). Very rare edition of this album featuring a sample of 25 plates from Redouté's Roses. Redouté's Roses appeared in 3 folio volumes between 1817 and 1824, shortly after the artist's other fine publication devoted to Liliaceae, published in 8 volumes between 1802 and 1816. These two publications made Redouté famous, and he was dubbed the "Raphael of flowers". The success of the Roses in particular was such that reprints in in-8 format were quickly conceived, as well as collections of a selection of some of the most beautiful flowers. The present collection is extremely rare, unknown to Hunt, and we have found only one other copy described in the Audenet sale of March 1841. It appears to be a completely confidential publication, intended as a gift. The album contains a total of 25 plates, including 23 of roses, printed on vellum paper in folio format. They are almost identical to those in the 1817-1824 edition, except that the roses have a number engraved in the plate in the upper right-hand corner, which does not appear on the proofs of the edition but indicates the order in which they are to appear in the work. They are clearly marked "Imprimerie de Rémond" in the lower center, with the engravers' names on the right and Redouté's ("P. J. Redouté pinx.") on the left. Here are the contents, with the number engraved in the corner in brackets: - portrait of Redouté engraved by Pradier after Gérard, dated 1811 and captioned "P. J. Redouté, Peintre de Fleurs", - rose wreath engraved by Charlin, including, gilded in the center, 5 Greek verses from Anacreon's Ode V, - Rosa centifola foliacea. Rose à cent feuilles, foliaceous, engraved by Langlois (no. 84), - Rosa Damascena. Subalba. Rose de Damas with rose-tinted petals, engraved by Chapuy (no. 20), - Rosa Indica. La Bengale bichonne, engraved by Langlois (n° 73), - Rosa Damascena aurora. Rose Aurore Poniatowska, engraved by Chardin (sic) (n° 75), - Rosa Gallica Regalus. Rose Gandeur Royale, engraved by Bessin (no. 64), - Rosa Centifolia mutabilis. Rosier Unique, engraved by Bessin (no. 43), - Rosa Centifolia crenata. Rose Centfeuilles à folioles crenélées, engraved by Chapuy (no. 87), - Rosa Gallica caerulea. Rosier de Provins with bluish leaves, engraved by Talbaux (n° 100), - Rosa Centifolia Bipinnata. Celery-leaved rose, engraved by Langlois (no. 60), - Rosa Collina Monsoniana. Ladi-Monson rose, engraved by Langlois (no. 147), - Rosa alba foliacea. La Blanche foliacée de fleury, engraved by Victor (n° 122), - Rosa Gallica latifolia. Rosier de Provins à grandes feuilles, engraved by Langlois (n° 116), - Rosa Gallica Versicolor. Rosier de France with variegated flowers, engraved by Langlois (n° 55), - Rosa Rapa. Rosier Turneps, engraved by Charlin (no. 58), - Rosa Muscosa Anemone-flora. La Mousseuse de la Flèche, engraved by Victor (no. 163), - Rosa Damascena Variegata. Rosier d'Yorck et de Lancastre, engraved by Bessin (n° 56), - Rosa Tomentosa. Rosier Cotonneux, engraved by Bessin (n° 98), - Rosa Indica vulgaris. Rosier des Indes commun, engraved by Bessin (no. 14), proof with the rose hip in the lower right, which does not appear on the proof of the 1817 edition, - Rosa Damascena Calsiana prolifera. Rosier de Cels à fleurs prolifères, engraved by Langlois (no. 120), - Rosa Centifolia Anemonoides. La Centfeuilles Anemone, engraved by Victor (n° 112), - Rosa Indica Cruenta. Bengal rose with blood-purple flowers, engraved by Langlois (n° 49), - Rosa Damascena. Rosier de Cels, engraved by Charlin (n° 81), - Rosa Multiflora platyphylla. Rosier Multiflore à grandes feuilles, engraved by Langlois (no. 89). A very fine copy in its period binding covered with unbleached moire, which could be considered a present-day binding. Slight wear to moire at spine ends, dust jacket damaged. Some foxing to portrait.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 56 - ROSTAND (Edmond). L'Aiglon. Drama in six acts, in verse. First performed at Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt, March 15, 1900. Paris: Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1900. - In-8, 211 x 140: (6 ff. first blank), 262 pp., (1 f.), printed cover. Dark blue jansenist morocco, ribbed spine, interior gilt filleting, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (H. Blanchetière). First edition of Rostand's second masterpiece, after Cyrano de Bergerac, illustrated with a portrait of Sarah Bernhardt as L'Aiglon by Louise Abbéma. One of 180 numbered copies on Japon paper, complete with the beautiful cover illustrated by René Lalique. It is enriched with a portrait of the author engraved by Desmoulins as a proof on Hollande, as well as two prospectuses also on Japon, the first for the subscription of this portrait and the second for John Grand-Carteret's work entitled L'Aiglon en images et dans la fiction poétique et dramatique. Minor rubbing to one spine. Provenance: Juan Hernandez, with bookplate.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 57 - TOLSTOÏ (Léon). The Power of Darkness. Drama in five acts and six tableaux. Paris: Tresse & Stock, 1888. - In-12, 182 x 122 : (2 ff.), 152 pp. Bradel brown half cloth with corners, smooth spine, untrimmed (contemporary binding). Precious proof copy of the first edition of the French translation by Isaac Pavlovsky and Oscar Méténier of this drama by Leo Tolstoy, first performed at the Théâtre Libre on February 10, 1888. It contains numerous handwritten corrections, some in the author's own hand and others attributed to his daughter Tatiana Lvovna (1864-1950). A copy of the playwright and translator Oscar Méténier, with his monogram OM at the bottom of the spine, enriched with the proof before the letter of the portrait of Leo Tolstoy by Théophile Bérengier dated 1886, and an autograph letter signed by Tatiana Lvovna, one page in-12, addressed to the translator Isaac Pavlovsky and dated 1887. This precious letter is quoted in the preface to Calmann-Lévy's 1894 edition, and refers directly to these proofs. Here is the translation: "Gracieux seigneurs, Mon père vous fait communiquer qu'il a reçu vos épreuves; il approuve beaucoup votre traduction et la rendre vous avec quelques petites corrections qu'il a trouvé nécessaires; il est très content de voir monter La Puissance des Ténèbres et surtout au Théâtre-Libre." Here's what Oscar Méténier had to say about this letter and these proofs in the preface to the 1894 edition: "With this letter we received our proofs corrected by Count Tolstoy, who had gone so far as to correct the typographical errors, of which there were many in these proofs! Barely twenty words had been changed in the text. And even then, most of these words were synonyms we had shied away from, finding them too Parisian and not Russian enough. In a certain passage, for example, Count Tolstoy replaced "bavarder" with "blaguer"; he substituted "Et si les femmes m'adorent" for "Et si les femmes m'adorent": Et si les femmes me courent après, etc. Anything that could be considered a bold use of language has been approved and even accentuated by the author. An important detail: the role of Akim, the stumbling block of the play, has not been the subject of a single correction, and not a single taië has not been replaced by a French equivalent that the spectator can understand. We'll be the judge. M. Antoine himself has kindly taken on this dangerous role. It is therefore not an adaptation, but a tight translation, complete in all its parts, literal, countersigned and declared exact by the author himself, that the valiant troupe of the Théâtre-Libre will present to the public" (preface by Oscar Méténier to Trois chefs-d'œuvre du théâtre russe, Calmann Lévy, 1894, p. XIV). Rubbing to title-piece on spine. Enclosed: - TOLSTOÏ (Léon). The Power of Darkness. Drama in five acts and six tableaux. Paris: Tresse & Stock, 1888. - In-12, 182 x 122: (2 ff.), 152 pp. printed cover. Paperback. Copy of the original edition of the translation, enriched with an autograph letter signed by the two translators, addressed to Lucien Descaves: A Lucien Descaves // avec une bonne poignée // de main // Pavlovsky & Oscar Méténier The cover is slightly torn and missing.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 58 - ZOLA (Émile). L'Assommoir. Paris: G. Charpentier, 1877. - In-18, 183 x 114: (2 ff.), III, 569 pp. printed cover. Jansenist brick morocco, ribbed spine, red morocco lining edged with gilt fillet, red moiré silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover preserved, edged slipcase (G. Mercier sr de son père 1923). Rare first edition of the seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart series. EXEMPLAIRE DE JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS (1848-1907), on publisher's paper, with this autograph letter signed by the author on the false title: A mon confrère et ami Huysmans // son bien dévoué / Émile Zola This is an important provenance, given the close friendship between these two great novelists at the time. They had met in the spring of 1876, and Huysmans did not hesitate to defend his friend in a series of articles, a kind of manifesto, entitled Émile Zola et L'Assommoir, which appeared in the Belgian newspaper L'Actualité in 1877. However, the author of À rebours gradually distanced himself from the naturalist movement, leading to a rift with his friend. Differences developed from 1884 onwards, and their separation became effective in 1891 with the publication of Là-bas. This copy includes a superb autograph letter signed by Zola to Huysmans, dated L'Estaque, August 3, 1877, 4 pages in-8. In it, he discusses his forthcoming novel Une page d'amour, the eighth title in the Rougon-Macquart series: "I've just finished the first part of my novel, which will have five parts. It's a little popote, a little jeanjean; but I think it will be a pleasant drink. I want to astonish the readers of L'Assommoir with a good-natured book. I'm delighted when I've written a naïve little page that looks sixteen. Yet I'm not saying that, here and there, a fart-in-the-air doesn't get me off on the wrong foot. But that's the exception. I'm inviting readers to a family party, where we'll meet some good hearts. Finally, the first part will end with a bird's-eye view of Paris, first drowned in fog, then gradually appearing under a blond spring sun, which is, I think, one of my best pages so far. That's why I'm happy, and I say it, you see, in a lyrical tone." He then turns to the theater: "I'll get to it this winter, if I finish my novel quickly. But theater continues to terrify me. I feel the need to tackle it, and I don't really know where to begin the assault. We'll have to see." He ends with a thought for his friends: "Get Céard to do some work. If you see Maupassant, shake his hand and tell him I've heard nothing from Flaubert, to whom I'm going to write, by the way. Handshakes to everyone." This letter has appeared in most editions of Zola's correspondence since the one published by Charpentier in 1908. A first-edition copy, completed at the end of 1876, with the two leaves of the preface, dated January 1, 1877, added after the fact. A very fine copy in lined binding by Georges Mercier. Spine slightly faded. Small traces of light wetness on one edge of the two leaves of the preface. Provenance: Joris-Karl Huysmans, with dispatch from the author.

Estim. 4 000 - 6 000 EUR

Lot 59 - APOLLINAIRE (Guillaume). Contemporains pittoresques. Paris: La Belle page, [1929]. - In-12, 200 x 153: portrait, (2 blank ff.), 100 pp. (6 ff. last two blank), printed cover. Paperback, lined cover. Posthumous first edition of this collection of articles by Apollinaire on some of his contemporaries: Raoul Ponchon, Alfred Jarry, Ernest La Jeunesse, Remy de Gourmont and Jean Moréas. A second part contains "Anecdotes by Willy on Catulle Mendès". The frontispiece features a portrait of Apollinaire by PICASSO. Edition of 360 copies. This is ONE OF 15 HEAD COPS ON IMPERIAL MANUFACTURING JAPON, NUMBER 1, containing 4 states of the portrait (on chine barré, on chine (x 2) and on japon). A very well preserved copy, despite the slightly faded spine.

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 60 - BLOY (Léon). The Resurrection of Villiers de L'Isle-Adam. Paris: Librairie E. Lecampion, A. Blaizot, 1906. - Booklet in-8, 243 x 159: frontispiece, (4 ff.), 32 pp. printed cover. Percaline brique à la Bradel, smooth spine, untrimmed, cover preserved (period binding). First edition of this pamphlet, intended to solicit contributions for the erection of a monument by sculptor Frédéric Brou to the memory of Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam. "La Résurrection is a glowing, eulogistic article about Villiers, but at the same time, Bloy persists in recording everything he hated about Villiers' ideas (fifteen years after his death!). In our opinion, the most heartfelt words in the text are those he dedicates to Villiers' feminine ideal. Both men had had an affair with a common woman and a very similar way of life: they were able to recreate the illusion of a being gifted with extraordinary intelligence and unheard-of beauty (a woman who would be God, or the Holy Spirit for Bloy). The passages Bloy quotes from Villiers' works clearly show that the creator of La Femme pauvre understood Villiers' dreams and obsessions" (Marta Giné Janer, Bloy et Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, in: Léon Bloy au tournant du siècle, 1992, p. 40). The edition is illustrated on the frontispiece with a heliogravure of the model of the monument sculpted by Frédéric Brou (1862-1926) (a nude beauty tearing off the planks of Villiers' coffin). A precious copy, one of the very few printed on laid paper, whose edition is not mentioned in the justification. This is the copy offered to critic and writer René Martineau (1866-1948), bearing this autograph dispatch from Bloy, signed by the author and Frédéric Brou: to René Martineau // l'Initiateur // Léon Bloy // Frédéric Brou Martineau was a close friend of Léon Bloy. In 1901, he published a book entitled Un vivant et deux morts devoted to Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Ernest Hello and Léon Bloy. According to Natacha Galpénine: "It was thanks to this publication, which included a portrait of Villiers on his deathbed, that Léon Bloy was able to see the face of his friend from which Huysmans had dismissed him in August 1889, shortly before his meeting with Jeanne" (Natacha Galpénine, Jeanne et Léon Bloy. Une écriture à quatre mains, 2017). Enriched with two corrections (pp. 20 and 24) and an addition (title) by the author, as well as two original vintage silver photographs, one 212 x 132 mm, of the monument at an angle different from that shown in the frontispiece photo, and the other a very fine portrait of the sculptor (158 x 113 mm). Spine faded and covers discolored in places. Provenance: René Martineau, with bookplate. - Bibliothèque J.C.D., Norman amateur, with bookplate (Artcurial sale, May 23, 2005, no. 179).

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

Lot 61 - BLOY (Léon). Celle qui pleure (Notre Dame de la Salette). Paris: Société du Mercure de France, 1908. - In-8, 217 x 141: frontispiece, (4 ff.), 253 pp, (3 ff.), printed cover. Blue Bradel-style cloth, smooth spine decorated with a gilt fleuron, untrimmed, cover retained (period binding). First edition, dedicated to Pierre Termier, of this deeply Catholic work devoted to the miracle at La Salette in Isère, where two young shepherds named Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud claimed to have witnessed an apparition of the Virgin Mary on September 19, 1846. "It was only in 1906, under the influence of Pierre Termier, that Bloy resumed the project of writing a book on the miracle of La Salette. After another pilgrimage to "la Sainte Montagne", he set to work, completing his work in September 1907. Termier paid the printing costs, but the Catholic publishers declined, so the book was published by the Mercure de France" (catalog of the Léon Bloy exhibition, Bibliothèque nationale, 1968, no. 59). The edition is illustrated on the frontispiece with a heliogravure of the statue of Celle qui pleure. ONE OF THE 3 FIRST COPIES ON IMPERIAL JAPON, this being the author's personal copy, numbered 2. It also includes this autograph note on one of the endpapers: mon exemplaire // Léon Bloy. Modestly bound for the author, he had it enriched with a color photograph of a view of the village of La Salette, and placed between pages 161-162 carnations picked on the mountain of La Salette, of which only one flower remains today. He also made four corrections, on pages 3, 7, 71 and 73. This is the copy that was presented at the Bibliothèque nationale during the exhibition devoted to Léon Bloy in March 1968, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of his death. It appears in the catalog under number 59. The copy was subsequently enriched by an autograph card signed by Madeleine Souberbielle-Bloy, the author's youngest daughter, dated Paris, July 16, 1969. She offers this book to a friend: "It is not I who offers you this book, but Léon Bloy himself. Please accept it as a tribute to our great and affectionate gratitude. My father had this copy bound and added the color photograph that is now in it. The carnations on page 161 were picked on the mountain of La Salette." This friend is René Lacroix-à-L'Henri, whose bookplate is affixed to the front flyleaf. He was the author of several articles on Léon Bloy, including a book entitled Léon Bloy un écrivain pour l'an 2000, published in 1977. Spine slightly browned, slight wear to covers and corners. Provenance: Léon Bloy. - Madeleine Souberbielle-Bloy. - M. and Mme Lacroix-à-L'Henri, with bookplate.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 62 - [BLOY (Léon)] - BOLLERY (Joseph). Cahiers Léon Bloy La Rochelle: [Joseph Bollery], 1924-1939. - 90 issues in 8 volumes in-8, 221 x 137. Red half-maroquin, spine ribbed, gilt head, untrimmed, covers preserved (P. L. Martin). Complete collection of the first series of Cahiers Léon Bloy, edited by Joseph Bollery, comprising 90 issues published in 76 fascicules from September 1924 to September 1939. A precious copy, ONE OF 4 ON LAFUMA REGISTER VELIN, justified by the publisher as follows: "Il a été tiré, de chaque numéro des Cahiers Léon Bloy: Quatre exemplaires sur vélin registre Lafuma." This one bears the number 2 and includes this handsome autograph letter from Bollery to Jehan Kappès-Grangé: à mon ami, Jehan Kappès-Grangé, // qui a bien voulu me demander // l'histoire des Cahiers Léon Bloy. // I beg his pardon for having done so // at such length, but this story is // that of my whole life, which, from the moment I was // born, was directed, without my knowledge // and even against my will, towards // the vocation of historian of the // "Ungrateful Beggar", // In memory of our common // expeditions in search of Cain's // "disjecta membra" // Marchenoir, // remember Vernègues, // Aix-en-Provence, Paris, Cubjac, // Taillepetit, to name but // our most prestigious stops... // La Rochelle, June 1957 // Joseph Bollery As promised in his dedication, Bollery has written on 4 flyleaves not the history of the Cahiers, but a veritable autobiography recounting the events since his childhood that led him to admire Léon Bloy and devote a publication to him. Signed and dated July 1957, here is an extract from the beginning of the publishing adventure: "I had collected enough subscriptions to cover the magazine's first year. The first issue of Cahiers Léon Bloy appeared on September 25, 1924, with a print run of 250 copies - more than enough, I thought. It quickly sold out, however, and I was obliged to arrange for a new composition and a second print run to satisfy new subscribers. The Cahiers Léon Bloy lived up to - and exceeded - my manifesto's rash promises. They appeared regularly every two months, except for a few double and triple issues that sometimes extended the periodicity to 4 or 6 months. Founder, director, editor-in-chief, editorial secretary, proofreader, office boy and errand boy, I assumed all the functions single-handedly." A beautifully bound copy by Pierre-Lucien Martin, enriched with the subscription bulletin announcing the publication of the Cahiers, as well as the supplements often printed on colored paper. It is also complete with all red covers. A very well preserved copy. Provenance: Jehan Kappès-Grangé, with consignment from the publisher.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 63 - CAMUS (Albert). La Peste. Paris : Gallimard, [1949]. - In-12, 187 x 118: 337 pp, (1 f.), printed cover. Tan basane, spine ribbed with gilt and cold-stamped fillets, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (contemporary binding). New edition published two years after the original. The title reads "294th edition". Enriched with a letter from the author to the actor André Chazel (1933-2023): à Monsieur Chazel // en cordial hommage // Albert Camus Also on the first blank page is an autograph letter from actor Jean Marais: Souvenir // de // Jean Marais This is the second copy of this 1949 edition with a double dedication by Camus and Marais. Copy in slightly later binding. Spine faded, some minor rubbing. Soiling to cover. Provenance: André Chazel, with consignments.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 64 - CÉLINE (Louis-Ferdinand). Mort à crédit. Novel. Paris : Denoël et Steele, [1936]. - In-8, 219 x 144 : 697 pp, (1 blank f.), printed cover. Paperback. First edition dedicated to Lucien Descaves. In this famous novel, Louis-Ferdinand Céline recounts with rage and vigor his childhood haunted by poverty. "The public discovers the author's childhood and adolescence, prey to human misery and pettiness, through the vicissitudes and hopeless destiny of Ferdinand Bardamu, the son of shopkeepers, testing, among other places, the passage Choiseul, renamed "des Bérésinas", asserting that for little people, life is only death on credit" (Boudrot, Bibliographie des éditions Denoël et Steele, no. 183). As stated at the beginning of the book: "At the request of the publishers, L.-F. Céline has removed several sentences from his book, but they have not been replaced. They appear as blanks in the book." Despite its public success, the novel was immediately panned by the critics. Two months later, Robert Denoël had to publish a defense of the book under the title Apologie de Mort à crédit, in which he "opposes the judgment of the elites to the good taste of readers" (Boudrot, ibidem, p. 128). One of 790 numbered copies on Alpha, this being one of only 750 sold. Small tears on the edges of the cover, otherwise a very well preserved, largely uncut copy.

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

Lot 65 - CHAR (René). Les Matinaux. Poetry. Paris : Gallimard, [1950]. - In-16, 184 x 115: 150 pp, (3 ff. last blank), printed cover. Green box, boards decorated with two geometric motifs mounted head to foot, composed of blue-green wavy fillets for one and gilded for the other, ornate smooth spine, green box framing inside, decorated with a gilded fillet, gilded edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, lined case (M. Fray). Partly first edition of this fine collection of poems by René Char. Fêtes des arbres et du chasseur was published separately by GLM in 1948, without the Abrégé. One of 28 copies on Hollande Van Gelder vellum, the second paper after 6 copies on Madagascar. A very fine copy in the original period binding by Marguerite Fray (1900-1974). Spine very slightly oiled.

Estim. 700 - 900 EUR

Lot 66 - CHOPIN (Henri). Poésie sonore internationale. Paris: Jean-Michel Place, [1979]. - In-4, 277 x 198: 309 pp, (1 f.), printed cover. Paperback, in publisher's red cloth slipcase. Very rare first edition, printed in an edition of only 60 copies on Phoenix paper from the Ruysscher paper mills. In this handsome work, artist and poet Henri Chopin (1922-2008) presents the history and evolution of sound poetry around the world, with numerous biographies of poets and composers. It is divided into 4 books: Tâtonnements avant 1950. - The Reality of sound or electronic poetry. - 1960 à 1969. - 1970. and poetry-music encounters in electro-acoustics. The study concludes with a bibliography and discography. The edition includes numerous photographic portraits reproduced in black in the text. A precious copy, one of the first 20 to include : - a collage and montage signed by Franco-Swiss painter Arthur AESCHBACHER (1923-2020), - a collage signed by André BELLEGUIE, - a typewriter poem signed by Henri CHOPIN, - an underside of a poster signed and dated 1980 by painter, poet and composer François DUFRÊNE (1930-1982), - a print signed by painter, poet and musician Brion GYSIN (1916-1986), - a magnetic collage signed and dated 30.10.79 by poet and publisher Bernard HEIDSIECK (1928-2014), - a score signed and dated October 79 by composer Pierre MARIETAN (b. 1935), - and a single-line drawing signed and dated October 14, 1979 by cartoonist, novelist and poet Michel SEUPHOR (1901-1999). NOMINATED EXEMPLAIRE, NUMBER I, SPECIAL PRINTED FOR ROBERT ALTMANN, enriched with this justification in the author's hand: Exemplaire tiré // pour Mr Robert Altman (sic) // un grand ami et soutien // de la première heure // pour cette activité // nouvelle // Hommage à vous // H. Chopin 14.1.81 Robert Altmann (1915-2017) was a banker, publisher and collector, father of the famous Lettrist artist Roberto Altmann. With his Brunidor publishing house, he published Isou's first lithograph, the start of a long series. He also published works by Henri Chopin, notably his print Le Sourire, which appeared in Portfolio VII, "Three Artists Six Images" in 1973. A very well preserved copy, complete with the two audio cassettes and a modern print of Seuphor's 1930 photograph "Russolo au Russolophone", signed on verso by the poet-photographer. Provenance: Robert Altmann.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 67 - DINET (Étienne) - IBRAHIM (Sliman Ben). Rabiâ el Kouloub ou le Printemps des Cœurs. Paris: Édition d'art H. Piazza, 1902. - In-8, 229 x 165: 175 pp, (2 ff.), illustrated cover. Dark blue morocco, boards framed with two gilded fillets and four green morocco spandrels decorated with gilded arabesques and mosaics in red and ochre morocco, ribbed spine decorated in the same spirit, framed with gilded fillets and gilded motif at corners inside, blue moiré silk lining and endpapers, double endpapers, gilded edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, bordered slipcase (Saulnier). Superb and very luxurious edition of this collection of 3 oriental tales collected by Sliman Ben Ibrahim, translated and illustrated by Étienne DINET (1861-1929). The illustrations include 50 full-page and in-text color compositions, as well as beautiful decorations, framed in black or color around the text or illustrations, or full-page in color and gold. Edition of 300 copies; this is one of 260 on vellum. A very fine copy bound by Saulnier, enriched with the publication prospectus. Spine slightly faded. A former owner has glued two index cards and an article on a flyleaf, which have slightly faded on the false title.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 68 - DINET (Étienne). Mirages. Scènes de la vie arabe... commentées par Sliman Ben Ibrahim Bamer. Paris : H. Piazza, [1906]. - In-8, 229 x 162: 222 pp, (6 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. Havana morocco, boards decorated with a rich oriental decoration in blue, red, green and ochre morocco, ribbed spine decorated in the same spirit, interior gilt filleting, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, bordered slipcase (Blanchetière-Bretault). First edition of this superb work illustrated with 54 paintings by the famous Orientalist painter Étienne DINET (1861-1929), reproduced in color in the text or full-page, and accompanied by a text by his Algerian friend Slimane Ben Brahim Bamer (1871-1953), with whom he forged a strong bond of friendship and traveled the desert as well as the Algerian, Oranese, Tunisian and Egyptian regions. Edition of 400 numbered copies, this being one of 348 on vellum, manufactured by Blanchet et Kléber. SUPERB MOSAIC COVERING OF THE EPOC, MADE BY HENRI BLANCHETIÈRE, son-in-law and successor of J. Bretault. Spine slightly faded.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 69 - HUGNET (Georges). Le Droit de Varech preceded by Le Muet ou les Secrets de la vie. Illustrated with five lithographs by Eugène Berman. Paris : Éditions de la montagne, [1930]. - In-8, 222 x 162: 234 pp, (3 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. Paperback, lined cover. First edition combining two melodramas by Georges Hugnet. One of 400 copies published on alfa without illustrations. EXEMPLAIRE ENRICHED WITH A REMARKABLE ORIGINAL OVERLAYED GOUACHE AND AQUAREL COMPOSITION BY THE AUTHOR, produced on a double page (false title and facing leaf) and dedicated to the writer René Dulsou: to my dearest friend // René Dulsou // Georges // Hugnet // 1948 Dulsou wrote under the pseudonym Sinclair. He was Max Jacob's lover from 1932 to 1935. Hugnet's original works in his own books are extremely rare. A very well preserved copy. Provenance: René Dulsou, with original autographed composition.

Estim. 700 - 900 EUR

Lot 70 - LEBLANC (Maurice). Le Prince de Jericho. Paris : Hachette, [1941]. - In-12 mounted in 1 in-4 volume, 266 x 237: 187 pp. (2 ff.), illustrated cover. Grey leather with imitation snakeskin, rectangular gilt plate depicting a sailboat in the center of the boards, smooth spine, gilt head, cover and spine preserved (René Kieffer). New edition of Maurice Leblanc's famous detective novel, first published in 1930. It is illustrated with 10 compositions by Émilien DUFOUR, including one in color on the cover, a vignette on the title and 8 full-page reproductions in black. UNIQUE EXEMPLAIRE, each sheet of which has been mounted on white vellum, glued by the inside edge of the even page, ENRICHED WITH 105 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY DUFOUR, in watercolor or black ink wash, forming sketches and sketches that served as studies for the book's illustration. Some are annotated. All have been mounted on tabs at the end. A very fine copy bound by the Kieffer workshops. Minor rubbing to hinges.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 71 - [MANUSCRIPT - ARMORIAL]. [Armorial des Consuls de Narbonne]. Narbonne, 1910. - Manuscript in-folio, 347 x 235 : (150 ff.). Marbled calf, Duseuil-style gilt decoration on boards, ornate spine, interior gilt roulette, gilt edges (imitation period binding). Remarkably accurate handwritten copy of the Armorial of the Consuls of Narbonne. The centerpiece of the manuscript holdings of the Médiathèque du Grand Narbonne, it provides an illustrated directory of the magistrates of Narbonne from 1523 to 1685, with hundreds of painted coats of arms. Produced at the end of the 17th century, this armorial "allows us to observe the families and professions that held a share of power in Narbonne during the 16th and 17th centuries. Among them are doctors of law and medicine, merchants and officers. Among them, one family reappears regularly: the De Cogomblis. A family of notables, it has nearly twenty-two mandates over the armorial period. We can therefore imagine that they had an influence as much within their social group as within the city itself. It should be noted that no consul is re-elected from one year to the next" (source: Blog Patrimonial de la Médiathèque du Grand Narbonne). As in the original, "the first illustrated coats of arms can only be seen from 1549 onwards; from 1674 to 1685, the coats of arms are no longer drawn, although a few sketches remain" (Idem). This copy was made in 1910 by Louis Duviviez for Louis Berthomieu, curator of the Musée de Narbonne, as indicated in the colophon: "I, the undersigned, certify that this copy, executed by Mr Louis Duviviez, professor of drawing at the college of the Archaeological Commission, for Mr Louis Berthomieu, curator of the Narbonne Museum, is absolutely in conformity with the original, which was part of the library of Mr Abbé Causse and is currently in the possession of Mr Bories, former notary and member of the Narbonne Archaeological Commission. Narbonne, November 12, 1910. L'Archiviste Bibliothécaire de la Ville de Narbonne". Beautiful copy bound in imitation of a 17th-century binding. Provenance: Louis Berthomieu (1870-1928).

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 72 - MICHAUX (Henri). Veille. Paris: Gwenn-Aël Bolloré, [1951]. - In-4, 285 x 200 : (20 ff. first and 17th blank), printed cover. Leaves, untrimmed, publisher's folder and slipcase. Rare first edition printed in an edition of only 65 numbered copies on pur chiffon paper handmade by Les Moulins de l'Odet. A very well preserved copy. Tears and tears to spine of dust jacket.

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

Lot 73 - MITTERRAND (François). The bee and the architect. Chronique. Paris : Flammarion, [1978]. - In-8, 212 x 155: 402 pp, (2 ff.), printed cover. Paperback. First edition of these chronicles which, without being a diary, cover the period from 1974 to 1978. The book is certainly political, but also literary, in which François Mitterrand evokes Saint-John Perse, Ségalen, Mauriac and Romain Gary. ONE OF THE 15 FIRST EXEMPLIES ON PAPIER PUR FIL DES PAPETERIES D'ARCHES, this being one of only 10 in the trade (no. 6). A very well preserved copy, despite two traces of folding on the spine and browning on the first endpaper. Provenance : JCR library, with bookplate.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 74 - MORIN (Louis). Montmartre s'en va... Paris: printed for Jean Borderel, 1908. - Large in-8, 282 x 220: frontispiece, (2 ff.), 135 pp. 10 plates, printed cover. First edition illustrated by the author with 31 original color etchings, including a frontispiece, ten hors-texts, ten chapter headings and ten culs-de-lampe. Only fifty numbered copies were printed on Arches vellum. This one was specially printed for the symbolist poet Gustave Khan (1859-1936), containing two states of the illustrations (in color and in black with remarks). A very well-preserved copy, despite a few folds to the cover and a few foxing marks to the edges of the leaves.

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

Lot 75 - VACHÉ (Jaqcues). Lettres de guerre. Paris: Au Sans Pareil, 1919. - In-12, 190 x 140: (4 ff. first blank), V pp., (1 f.), 32 pp., (4 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. Paperback. Posthumous first edition published by André Breton eight months after Jacques Vaché's death. Breton, the main recipient of these letters, also wrote the preface. The two men met in Nantes in late 1915. They corresponded between 1916 and 1918. The edition is illustrated with a full-page drawing by Jacque Vaché. One of 30 numbered copies on Hollande Van Gelder, the second paper after 10 copies on japon ancien. A very well-preserved copy, despite the lightly sunned front cover and spine.

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

Lot 76 - VALÉRY (Paul). Le Cimetière marin, poem. Paris: Émile Paul frère, 1920. - In-8, 208 x 155 : (10 ff. first and last blank), printed cover. Black morocco, cold fillet framing the boards, ribbed spine, triple gilt fillet inside, gilt head, untrimmed, cover preserved, case (L. Malcorps). First edition. Limited edition of 556 copies, this being ONE OF FORTY-NINE ON VELIN PAPER IN THE FORM OF ARCHES, the second paper after seven copies on chine. A very fine copy, entirely mounted on tabs, bound in full morocco by Belgian master bookbinder Louis Malcorps.

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 77 - ALECHINSKY (Pierre) - KENAN (Amos). À la gare. French adaptation by Christiane Rochefort. Milan: Giorgio Upiglio & C., Edizioni d'Arte Grafica Uno, [1964]. - In-4, 254 x 203: 41 pp, (3 ff. first and last blank), printed cover. In sheets, filled cover, publisher's slipcase. Edition of 125 numbered copies on Fabiano paper decorated with the publisher's watermark, illustrated with a series of 10 original full-page color etchings by Pierre ALECHINSKY (b. 1927), entitled Quelques vieilles lignes. The first, bearing the title of the series, is signed in the plate by the artist. Copy 69, signed by Alechinsky in the justification, with a double autograph letter on the cover, one in pink shorthand, probably from Christiane Rochefort, the second from the artist, who has written "même remarque" in reverse and signed it. A very well preserved copy.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 78 - BAUDIN (Georges) - GUÉRIN (Maurice de). La Bacchante. Poem in prose. Paris: imagerie de l'oiseau d'or, 1921. - In-4, 327 x 252: (4 blank ff.), XXXVIII pp. (6 first and 4 last blank ff.), printed cover. Paperback, lined cover. Edition of 221 copies, illustrated with 19 compositions drawn and woodcut by the painter, illustrator, engraver and bookbinder Georges BAUDIN (1882-1960). UNIQUE EXEMPLAIRE ON ANCIENT JAPAN PAPER, numbered 1, containing separately in an identical cover, the original sketches signed by Baudin (50 sketches on 14 loose leaves), and a suite of artist's proofs on China paper, also signed by the artist. A very well preserved copy.

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

Lot 79 - BONNARD (Pierre) - VOLLARD (Ambroise). Sainte Monique. Paris : Ambroise Vollard, 1930. - In-4, 326 x 246: frontispiece, (3 ff. first blank), IX, 222 pp, (4 ff.), XV ff., (3 ff.), 46 plates, illustrated cover. Dark brown jansenist morocco, ribbed spine, framed in the same morocco on the inside, decorated at the center of each side with a wavy gilt fillet crossing a large rectangle with inwardly curved ends, gray moiré silk lining and endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, lined slipcase (L. Lévêque). Illustrated first edition, printed in an edition of 390 copies, comprising 261 compositions in black by Pierre BONNARD (1867-1947), including 29 original lithographs hors texte, 178 woodcuts in the text, 17 original etchings hors texte, including 3 for the table of etchings and lithographs, and a suite of 37 unused woodcuts on 15 leaves. The lithographs and etchings were printed on laid paper. One of 257 numbered copies on Arches vellum. A fine copy bound by Louise Lévêque. Minor damage to two nerves. A few scattered brown spots.

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 80 - BRANGWYN (Frank) - VERHAEREN (Émile). Les Villes tentaculaires. Paris: Helleu & Sergent, 1919 [1920]. - In-4, 290 x 230: 178 pp, (3 ff.), 1 plate, illustrated cover. Cream box, first board decorated with four rectangles of brown box arranged in the center of the lower edge in the shape of a pyramid, including on the first three the title of the work in gilt lettering, quarter gilt pastille at the ends of each rectangle, the highest being surmounted by a gilt pyramidion, this composition being surmounted by two wide vertical strips of snakeskin, extending to the top edge, separated by a brown box strip, second plate decorated in the same spirit but with a brown box rectangle at the bottom, smooth spine, gilt fillet inside, with the two snakeskin strips and the brown box strip returning at the top, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, case (F. Bernard 1929). Edition of 274 copies, illustrated with 48 black compositions by British painter, draughtsman and engraver Frank BRANGWYN (1857-1966), including 1 out-of-text lithograph and 47 woodcuts, 6 of them full-page. Although dated 1919 on the title and cover, it was completed on June 15, 1920. One of 230 copies on French paper from Papeteries d'Arches. A superb copy in a period Art Deco binding by Marguerite Bernard. A pupil of Noulhac for bookbinding and Cuzin for gilding, she was active from 1922 to 1939. She won a bronze medal at the 1925 Exposition des Arts Décoratifs. Spine slightly browned. Bookmark marks on pages 72 to 77.

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 81 - BRANGWYN (Frank) - VERHAEREN (Émile). Les Campagnes hallucinées. Paris: Helleu & Sergent, 1927. - In-4, 291 x 229: 118 pp, (3 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. Beige box, boards decorated with a central vertical decoration of two black box lozenges edged with gilt fillet and decorated with wavy gilt fillets and 4 beige box lozenges, both surmounting the tip of three snakeskin lozenges edged with gilt fillet, gilt title on the first cover, smooth spine decorated in the center with a vertical band of black box edged with gilt fillet, double rasp paper endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, black box spine and overlay bands folder, lined slipcase (M. Bernard 1929). Edition of 290 copies, illustrated with 53 black compositions by the British painter, draftsman and engraver Frank BRANGWYN (1857-1966), including 7 full-page lithographs and 46 woodcuts (1 on the title, 6 full-page, 20 at the head of chapters and 19 culs-de-lampe). One of 240 copies on Arches wove paper. A superb copy in a period Art Deco binding by Marguerite Bernard. A pupil of Noulhac for bookbinding and Cuzin for gilding, she was active from 1922 to 1939. She won a bronze medal at the 1925 Exposition des Arts Décoratifs. Upper half of spine partly untucked. Spine very slightly darkened. Minor stains to a few leaves.

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 82 - BRAQUE (Georges) - SATIE (Erik). Light as an egg. [Paris]: Louis Broder, [1957]. - In-16, 165 x 135: 26 pp, (6 ff. second and last 2 blank), printed Japanese paper cover. Black morocco, boards covered with an abstract composition of black, blue, pale green and beige boxing and cold scrolls, smooth spine, gilt fillet framing inside, gray silk lining and endpapers, edges of endpapers gilt, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, slipcase (Semet et Plumelle). First edition of this work forming the first volume of the "Miroir du poète" collection. It is illustrated with an original color etching by Georges BRAQUE (1882-1963), placed in the frontispiece. Edition of 120 copies on old japon, signed by the artist at the justification, this one being one of 20 numbered in roman numerals. A fine copy bound by Semet et Plumelle. A few spots on the cover.

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 83 - BRISSAUD (Pierre) - BALZAC (Honoré de). Eugénie Grandet. New edition. Paris: A. Blaizot, René Kieffer, 1913. - In-4, 296 x 210: frontispiece, (2 ff.), 182 pp, (2 ff.), 3 plates, printed cover. Eggplant morocco, engraved steel plate inlaid on boards, smooth spine, wide eggplant morocco frame with gilt fillet, gray moiré silk lining and endpapers, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, bordered slipcase (period binding). Edition of 250 copies on Rives wove paper, illustrated with 30 color etchings by painter Pierre BRISSAUD (1885-1964), including 4 hors texte and 26 in the text. One of 30 copies with a triple suite of illustrations (in color with remarks, in black with remarks and pure etching with remarks). A very fine copy in contemporary binding, with the two steel plates used for the illustrations on pages 71 and 137, and the prospectus showing the book's publisher's binding, produced in the workshops of René Kieffer. Cracking at the hinge of the first cover.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 84 - BRULLER (Jean) - POE (Edgar Allan). Silence followed by Ombre and L'Ile de la fée. [Villiers-sur-Morin, au Petit-Mortcerf, 1942]. - In-4, 328 x 230 : (24 ff. 2 first and 2 last blank), printed cover. In sheets, filled cover, publisher's folder and slipcase. Extremely rare edition of these three tales by Edgar Allan Poe translated by Baudelaire. It was published in the "Collection des douze" by novelist and cartoonist Jean BRULLER (1902-1991). It is printed in an edition of no more than 12 numbered copies on Arches wove paper, all unique in that they are illustrated with 9 original drawings signed by the artist-publisher, pasted into the text. "This collection is a research laboratory, and as the museum of my loves illustrates texts close to my heart, I have repeated each drawing extensively, varying, correcting and modifying until I could do no better. With the best twelve of each kind, I made up the twelve copies of the present edition" (justification). Copy number 11, signed and numbered by Bruller, perfectly preserved. At the end is a drawing depicting the initials JB accompanied by an anchor and a heart-shaped blue ribbon, with this motto: "Stay true to yourself."

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 85 - CALBET (Antoine) - RÉGNIER (Henri de). La Sandale ailée. Paris: Société des Amis du Livre Moderne, 1914. - In-8, 251 x 185: frontispiece, (4 ff.), 215 pp. (6 ff. last blank), 9 plates, illustrated cover. Blue morocco, two sets of five gilt fillets framing the boards, intersecting at the corners, spine ribbed with gilt fillets, ten gilt fillets framing the inside, brocaded silk lining and endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, bordered slipcase (H. Blanchetière). Edition of 150 copies on wove paper, published under the artistic direction of Charles Meunier, illustrated with 19 color compositions by Antoine CALBET (1860-1944), including 10 hors-texts under captioned serpents and 9 chapter headings, as well as numerous ornaments (headings and culs-de-lampe) in monochrome. One of 125 copies reserved for members of the society, containing two states of the color illustrations, this one specially printed for the painter and draftsman Paul Goute (1860-1943). A very fine copy bound by Henri Blanchetière, ENRICHED WITH 4 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS IN CHINESE INK, used for the headpieces on pages 43 and 89, and for the culs-de-lampe on pages 44 and 93. A very well preserved copy. Provenance: Paul Goute, with bookplate.

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

Lot 86 - CHAGALL (Marc). Bible. Paris: Éditions de la revue Verve, 1956. - In-folio, 355 x 261. Publisher's illustrated boards. Double issue, 33-34, forming volume VIII of Verve magazine, "devoted to the complete reproduction in heliogravure of the 105 plates etched by Marc CHAGALL (1887-1985) between 1930 and 1955, for the illustration of the Bible". The artist also composed 16 color and 12 black lithographs, as well as the cover and title page, printed by Mourlot frères. A very well preserved copy.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 87 - CHAISSAC (Gaston) - VODAINE (Jean). Les Tentations des plumes de paon. [Basse-Yutz]: Vodaine, [1963]. - In-4, 269 x 210: 23 pp, (1 f.), 5 plates, illustrated cover. In sheets. Very rare first edition of this text by Gaston Chaissac, published and illustrated with five original woodcuts out of text by the poet, painter and typographer Jean VODAINE (1921-2006). Limited edition of 100 copies on Balkis de Lana. This is a passport copy, justified by the publisher, offered to Monsieur de Beauclaire (?), including a cover painted inside with a repeating decoration by Jean Vodaine and ONE ORIGINAL FULL-PAGE DRAWING IN CHINESE INK AND AQUAREL DEDICACTED AND SIGNED BY GASTON CHAISSAC (1910-1964). A very well preserved copy.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 88 - CHAISSAC (Gaston). La Leçon de gravure. [Baslieux]: Jean Vodaine, [1976]. - In-12, 191 x 140: (8 ff. first, third, fifth and last 2 blank), 12 plates, illustrated cover. In sheets, filled cover. Posthumous first edition of this collection of 12 original linocuts by Gaston CHAISSAC (1910-1964). Here is the presentation of the collection given by Vodaine at the head of the book: "When I asked Chaissac for linocuts to illustrate his Histoires d'un Vacher, which I was going to print, he replied that it was preferable to choose someone other than him to illustrate his texts. In any case, he had never engraved lino and I could take care of it. I objected that I had never engraved. I suggested he choose a young shoemaker, Luc Duvot, for his Histoires. But he too had never worked with lino. The three of us began engraving. Duvot with Histoires d'un Vacher. Vodaine with a collection of poems by Dune, and Chaissac with this posthumous edition in which I find engravings he sent me in 1952. These linocuts, now in poor condition, will be reprinted one last time, to accompany unpublished texts by Chaissac, after which they will be unusable." Limited edition of 100 copies, plus a few "hors commerce" copies for Madame Chaissac. This is ONE OF THE FIRST 30 ON PURE LANA CHIFFON, numbered and signed by Vodaine at the justification. A very well preserved copy.

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

Lot 89 - [CHAS LABORDE] - GIRAUDOUX (Jean). Rues et visages de Berlin. Paris: La Roseraie, 1930. - In-folio, 426 x 330: frontispiece, (2 ff.), 27 pp. (6 ff. last 4 blank), 17 plates. In sheets, in publisher's illustrated white parchment-backed portfolio with flaps and laces. Original edition of 155 copies, illustrated with 51 black drawings reproduced in the text and 18 original color etchings by CHAS LABORDE (1886-1941). This is the 3rd book in the Rues et Visages series, following Paris (1926) and London (1928), and preceding those devoted to Moscow (1935) and New York (1950). One of 90 copies on Arches vellum, containing the etchings in 2 states, in black and in color. Wear to dust jacket, large flap detached. Label detached from justification leaf. False title leaf browned.

Estim. 700 - 1 000 EUR

Lot 90 - CHIMOT (Édouard) - COLETTE. L'Envers du music-hall. Paris : Francis Guillot, [1937]. - In-4, 277 x 220: frontispiece, 199 pp. (2 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. Maroquin burgundy janseniste, smooth spine, burgundy morocco edge-to-edge lining, gray suede endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, burgundy morocco spine and bands folder, slipcase (Devauchelle 1947). Very fine edition illustrated with 20 full-page color compositions by Édouard CHIMOT (1880-1959), engraved by Louis Maccard. Precious hors commerce artist's copy on japon, offered to Laurent Horny, bearing this justification in the art director's hand: "Exemplaire de présent hors commerce offert à Monsieur Laurent Horny. Georges Guillot." Enriched with a black suite of illustrations, an erotic plate in two states, and this double dispatch from the artist and Colette: à monsieur Laurent Horny // avec les hommages sympathiques // de l'artiste // Chimot to Monsieur Laurent Horny // in memory of the author // Colette Also included is a reproduction of a drawing by Jean Cocteau pasted on the first leaf after the cover. A very fine copy in a lined binding by Devauchelle, produced in 1947. A very well preserved copy. Provenance : Laurent Horny.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 91 - CHIMOT (Édouard) - LOUŸS (Pierre). Les Poésies de Méléagre. Paris: Éditions d'art Devambez, 1926. - 2 volumes in-4, (4 ff.), 171 pp. and (1 f.), printed cover. Dark brown jansenist morocco, ribbed spine, framed in dark brown morocco inside, pink moiré silk lining and endpapers, double endpapers, gilt-edged head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved; and brown half morocco with wide bands, ribbed spine, gilt-edged head, untrimmed (for the suite volume), slipcase (Baudry). Edition illustrated with 15 original color etchings by Édouard CHIMOT (1880-1959), including 10 full-page. According to a note printed at the end of the book, this edition includes 29 epigrams translated here for the first time. Limited edition of 230 copies. This one, hors commerce, is one of the extra copies on Arches wove paper. It contains this autograph justification signed by Chimot: "exemplaire hors commerce // à mon amie Jacqueline Lévy Despas // avec mon affectueux souvenir // Chimot." The copy has been enriched in a separate volume with a black suite of etchings and 5 free plates in 4 or 5 states. The first of these free plates and its various states are duplicates. A fine copy. Provenance : Bibliothèque de Monsieur et Madame B. (June 4, 2021, no. 117).

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 92 - CHIMOT (Édouard) - MAGRE (Maurice). Les Soirs d'opium. Poésies. Paris: Le Livre du bibliophile "L'édition", 1921. - In-4, 318 x 248: (2 ff.), 164 pp. (2 ff. first blank), 12 plates, illustrated cover. Grey-brown morocco, gilded fillets framing the boards, spine ribbed and decorated in the same spirit, burgundy morocco lining adorned with two beautiful gilded and mosaic framings, one at the edge composed of a garland of stylized foliage in dark green and red morocco between two brown morocco listels edged with a gilded fillet, and in the center, interlaced gilded fillets forming compartments decorated with mosaic rosettes in red and dark green morocco, and small leaves in dark green morocco, set between two triple gilded fillets, double endpapers, gilded edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, lined case (Weckesser et ses fils). Edition of 514 copies, illustrated with 33 compositions by Édouard CHIMOT (1880-1959), including 21 woodcuts engraved by P-J. Sauget, and 12 color etchings outside the text under captioned serpente. One of the first 55 copies reprinted in in-4 format on various papers, including an ORIGINAL DRAWING SIGNED by the artist, 4 states of the hors-texts and states of the woodcuts. This is one of 12 on antique japon à la forme, comprising 10 woodcuts in two states and 11 in three states, including one on chine. It is enhanced by a rejected plate and the two captioned serpents intended for the wood suites. A superb copy in Weckesser's contemporary lined and mosaic binding. A few very rare brown spots. Provenance: Joseph Lafarge, with bookplate.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 93 - CLAIRIN (Pierre-Eugène) - CARCO (Francis). À voix basse. Monte-Carlo: André Sauret, éditions du livre, [1952]. - In-4, 321 x 247 : 219 pp, (3 ff.), illustrated cover. Old red morocco, stylized gilt flowers and cold filets on boards, smooth spine with long title written in green morocco block letters edged with gilt fillet, green suede lining and endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, old red morocco spine folder and flap bands, edged slipcase (Lucie Weil). Edition printed by Daragnès, illustrated with 27 original color lithographs by painter and engraver Pierre-Eugène CLAIRIN (1897-1980), including 7 full-page lithographs. Limited edition of 180 copies on Arches vellum, signed by the author and artist at the justification. This is one of the first 15, including a suite with remarks, a suite of two unused plates, numbered 13/15 and signed by the artist, and an original signed watercolor. A very fine copy bound by Lucie Weil. Some foxing.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 94 - CORTOT (Jean). Chroniques. S.l., 1965. - Large folio, 570 x 380. Leaves, filled cover, unbleached cloth folder with window revealing the engraved title of the work, publisher's slipcase. Album, apparently the only one of its kind, of 45 original monotypes by the painter Jean CORTOT (1925-2018), each in a different format and mounted on a mat of Arches wove paper, hand-captioned by the artist. A very well preserved copy, despite a tear on the cover.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 95 - CORTOT (Jean). Journal Impressionniste. October 2/3, 1982. Saint-Tropez, 1982. - In-folio, oblong, 320 x 685. 15 paintings pasted on five cardboard and linen panels, linen folder with painted title on first cover, slipcase. Unique artist's book designed by the painter Jean CORTOT (1925-2018), comprising 15 original paintings measuring 213 x 190 mm, pasted three by three on five cloth-covered cardboard panels. Each of these abstract paintings, in blue tones, represents an atmosphere at different times of day on October 2, 1982 in Saint-Tropez, from 6:40 a.m. to 4:10 a.m. the following day. The title on the front cover and the hours are handwritten in black on blue-painted paper. Some soiling and light wear to the slipcase.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 96 - COURBOULEIX (Léon). The old port of Marseille. Scènes vécues. Paris: Éditions d'art de l'Intermédiaire du bibliophile, 1927. - In-folio, 380 x 280: 6 pp., (1 f.), 12 plates, illustrated cover. Dark blue half-maroquin with corners, gilt wavy fillets, smooth spine, untrimmed, first cover retained (modern binding). Rare edition, printed in only 100 copies, of this album of 12 beautiful color etchings by Léon COURBOULEIX, depicting a few moments in the daily life of the residents of Marseille's houses of pleasure. The work is prefaced by Clément-Janin. One of 85 copies on Rives vellum with the definitive state in color. Enriched with 13 unsigned aquatints and etchings by Courbouleix on the subject of prostitution, mounted on bluish paper, as trial proofs with occasional retouching in pencil or watercolor, one of which was used to illustrate the album, in a separate volume bound identically but in a smaller format. A fine copy, very well preserved.

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

Lot 97 - [DALI (Salvador)] - DANTE. The Divine Comedy. Illustrations by Dali. Paris: Les Heures claires, 1959-1963. - 6 folio volumes, 331 x 263. Leaves, in publisher's folder and slipcase. Famous edition of the Divine Comedy in Julien Brizeux's translation, illustrated with 100 full-page color watercolors by Salvador DALI (1904-1989), reproduced by Raymond Jacquet in collaboration with Jean Taricco. Edition of 4765 copies on vélin pur chiffon de Rives; this is one of 3900 numbered from 866 to 4765. The color quality of the reproductions in this copy is remarkable. Perfectly preserved. There are only minor traces of dampening on the spine of the second volume of Le Paradis.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 98 - DAVID (Hermine) - SUARÈS (André). Cressida. Paris: Émile-Paul frères, [1926]. - In-4, 277 x 219: frontispiece, (4 ff. first 3 blank), 9 plates, printed cover. Havana morocco, boards decorated with two wide vertical bands of vat paper combed with a lattice of lines in brown tones, smooth spine, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, edged slipcase (A. Lobstein). First illustrated edition of 225 copies, with 33 copper engravings by painter and engraver Hermine DAVID (1886-1970), including 10 hors texte and 23 in the text. ONE OF 25 FIRST COPIES ON IMPERIAL JAPON, including a suite of engravings on the same paper and a rejected plate in two states. A very fine copy bound by Alain Lobstein (1927-2005).

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

Lot 99 - DELUERMOZ (Henri) - MONTHERLANT (Henry de). Les Bestiaires. Paris: Les Bibliophiles franco-suisses, 1932. - In-4, 306 x 238: (4 ff.), X pp., (1 f.), 305 pp., (3 ff.), illustrated cover. Red morocco, continuous band of black morocco on lower edge of boards and spine, topped by a gilt band, bull's head in front, drawn with gilt fillets and gilt and cold spiral motifs, smooth spine, red morocco framing inside, decorated with a black morocco band on the bottom and 3 gilded fillets, black satin lining, red silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilded edges on witnesses, cover preserved, black morocco spine folder and flap bands, lined slipcase (G. Cretté successor to Marius Michel). Edition published on the initiative and by the care of Jules Exbrayat, illustrated with 52 original lithographs by Henri DULUERMOZ (1876-1943), printed in two tones, including 10 hors texte. The lithographs on the cover and title are also gilded. Edition of 125 copies on japon; this one, number 25, was specially printed for Jules Exbrayat. Superbly bound by Georges Cretté, it has been enriched with the following items: - 2 L.A.S. from Montherlant to J. Exbrayat, concerning the work, - 6 L.A.S. and an autograph postcard from Henri Deluermoz to J. Exbrayat, constituting a very fine correspondence on the genesis of the illustration. The postcard shows a bullfighting scene, - a ticket for the show "Carmen et course deux toros" at the Bayonne bullring on August 13, 1933, - 6 original oil compositions, signed, - 7 original sketches on test layouts, - one of 2 suites of illustrations on japon pelure, - 2 proofs of the cover, - 13 test plates in black before retouching on wove paper, - dinner menu. Perfectly preserved copy. Provenance: Jules Exbrayat, with bookplate (III, 1962, no. 205). - Mlle Dousse, with bookplate (June 23, 1976, no. 40).

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 100 - DUBUFFET (Jean) - SEGHERS (Pierre). L'Homme du commun. [Paris]: Poésie 44, [1944]. - In-8, 267 x 192: 30 pp, (3 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. Revorim binding, black molded polyurethane boards, black-striped gray calf with palladium title on upper board, visible stitching, ochre suede lining, hardback cover and spine, cardboard folder and slipcase (Jean de Gonet, Antonio P. N., 1987). First edition, dedicated to Jean Paulhan, of these aphorisms by Pierre Seghers on painting. Printed by Mourlot frères. It is illustrated with 2 original lithographs by Jean DUBUFFET (1901-1985), signed on stone, including one in black on the cover and one in color on the frontispiece. This is the first book illustrated by Dubuffet. Edition of 161 copies; one of 140 on Arches paper. A very fine copy bound by Jean de Gonet and Antonio Perez Noriega in 1987. Spine of dust jacket faded.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

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