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Alexandre Landre Paris

53, rue de Bourgogne 75007, Paris

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Manuscripts, Autographs, and Books (starting October 30, 2026)

Alexandre Landre Paris

4 - SCAPULA (Jean) - *Lexicon Graeco-Latinum novum* [...] Basel, Sébastian Henricpetri, n.d. [c. 1580–1600]. Folio. Later binding. Split spine.

5 - RICARD (Jean-Marie) - Treatise on Inter Vivos and Testamentary Gifts. Paris: Guignard and Seneuze, 1685. One of two volumes. Folio, full calf, spine with raised bands and ornate panels, top missing.

6 - BUFFON (Georges Louis Leclerc, Count of) - Natural History of Birds. Paris, Royal Printing Office, 1769–1779.

9 - LA CHAUME, Sieur de

12 - [GRAMMAR]

14 - SEVE (Jacques de) 1715–1795, after

15 - SAINT-PIERRE (Bernardin de) *Vows of a Solitary*. Paris, Imprimerie de Monsieur, 1791. 12mo, paperback. Temporary binding.

17 - [GEOGRAPHY]

18 - [DEVILRY - JANSENISM]

20 - GALLAND (Antoine) - The Thousand and One Nights, Arabian Tales. New revised and corrected edition, Westein fils, 1768. 6 volumes, in-16, modern half-leather binding with corner caps. Jansenist spine with gilt title and volume numbers.

21 - [GEOGRAPHY - ITALY]

24 - [NAVY]

25 - [ANONYMOUS] - The One Hundred and One Propositions. No place, no date. 12mo, speckled sheepskin with a smooth spine, decorated with fleurons and a title label.

26 - BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX -

27 - [MEASUREMENTS - REVOLUTION]

28 - VOLTAIRE (François-Marie Arouet de) - History of Charles XII, King of Sweden. New edition, with the author’s corrections (sic). Geneva, Cramer Brothers, 1788.

29 - [SLAVERY]

30 - [PHARMACOPOEIA] - [NOBLEVILLE (Arnault de)] - The Manual for the Ladies of Charity, or Formulas for Medicines Easy to Prepare, Compiled for Charitable Individuals Who Distribute Remedies to the Poor […]. And a Brief Treatise on Bloodletting. Paris, Debure, 1761.

31 - [ANONYMOUS] - *Le Désespoir amoureux*, with the new visions of Don Quixote, a Spanish tale. Amsterdam, Published by the Company, 1747. 2 in-12° volumes in one volume, bound, with an ornate ribbed spine and title label. Red edges. Spines, heads, tails, and corners worn.

32 - ROLLIN (Charles) - On the Method of Teaching and Studying the Liberal Arts. Paris: Frères Estienne, 1765.

34 - [GUELETTE (Thomas-Simon)] - *The Thousand and One-Quarter Hours: Tartar Tales*. New edition. Paris: Libraires associés, 1753. 3 volumes in-12°, bound in fawn calfskin, covers framed with a triple border, flat spine decorated with a wave pattern, volume number and title label, gilt edges.

35 - [DUCKETT (William)] - Dictionary of Conversation and Reading. Paris: Belin-Mandar, Publisher, 1835. 50 volumes, in-8°, bound in half-leather with corner pieces.

36 - DRIOU (Alfred) - History of Shipwrecks, Piracy, Ramming Incidents, Famine [...] illustrated with twelve beautiful two-tone lithographs by Charles GAILDRAU. Paris, Fonteney and Peltier, n.d. 1 vol., n-8°, publisher’s cardboard binding, leather spine.

37 - CAIN (Georges) A 5-volume set on Paris

38 - ENGLISH LITERATURE. >A 11-volume set.

39 - ROMAIN (Rolland), collected works

40 - LAMARTINE (Alphonse de), 1790–1869

41 - GONCOURT (Edmond and Jules) — Women in the Eighteenth Century. New edition, revised, expanded, and illustrated with sixty-four copperplate engravings by DUJARDIN. Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1887.

42 - CORNEILLE (Pierre) - *Le Cid*. Paris: Baudelot, 1946. Copy printed on pure rag paper. No. 750, in a slipcase.

44 - DURET (Théodore) - A History of J. Mc. N. Whistler and His Work. Paris: Floury, 1904. In-4°. Paperback. Illustrations.

45 - [LITERATURE]

46 - BECKFORD (William) - *Vathek*, Paris: Au cercle des amateurs de livres, 1962. Large 8vo in loose sheets, with a blue cover, the publisher’s slipcase and dust jacket. Engravings by Edouard Goerg. One of 500 copies printed on Lana vellum; this is number 34.

47 - [MEMOIRS-HISTORY]

48 - BAZIN (Hervé) - Works. Paris: Grasset and Pierre de Tartas, 1986. 4 of 7 vols. In-4°, bound in imitation leather, in a slipcase. Illustrations by Michel Jouenne, Mac Avoy, du Jannerand, and Westel.

49 - [PLEIADES ALBUM] Set of 6 volumes.

50 - [PLEIADES]

51 - ARMANGAUD (Jean) - The Public Galleries of Europe. Rome. Paris, Typographie Lahure et Cie, 1859; folio, 434 pp., publisher’s full dark blue binding, smooth spine, gilt edges, front and back covers adorned with the papal coat of arms. Numerous black-and-white illustrations.

52 - LITTRE (Emile) - Dictionary of the French Language. Paris, Hachette, 1863–1869. 4 sturdy volumes, in-4°, half-shagreen. First edition.

53 - [ILLUSTRATED HARDCOVER CHILDREN'S BOOKS]

54 - OVID - PICASSO (Pablo) - *The Metamorphoses*. Includes original etchings. Geneva: Skira, n.d. A substantial in-4° volume in loose-leaf format, with a slipcase, case, and outer slipcase.

55 - CONDORCET (Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de) - An Outline of a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind; Followed by Reflections on the Enslavement of Black People. Paris, Masson et fils, 1822. 1 vol. in-8°, paperback, temporary cover. Untrimmed

56 - CELINE (Louis-Ferdinand) - *L'école des cadavres*. Paris, Denoël, 1942. 8vo paperback, publisher’s cover, 34th edition. Good condition.

57 - HERVIEU (Louise) VAUXCELLES (Louis) - Twenty Nudes. Paris, Librairie de France, n.d. Folio in folios. First edition of these 20 beautiful nude plates printed on heavy vellum paper. Copy No. 16 of 100, numbered and countersigned by hand. Numerous foxing spots.

58 - ALEXEIEFF (Alexandre) & GREEN (Julien). Adrienne Mesurat. Paris, Published by Société Les Exemplaires, 1929.

59 - Set of 12 black-and-white silver gelatin prints of views of Pskov

60 - Album of Stamped and Canceled Envelopes

61 - [NAVY] STROMEIER, Морскiе паровые котлы [Steam Boilers for Ships], translated from English and supplemented by D. Golov, Saint Petersburg, Published by His Imperial Majesty Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich, 1895, 501 pp., numerous illustrations.

62 - MAZON (A.). Ivan Goncharov, 1812–1891: A Master of the Russian Novel. Paris: Champion, 1914. 1 vol., bound in percaline. Portrait.

63 - BALZAC. A 12-volume set.

64 - LITERATURE. Collection of 2 titles

65 - HOFER (André) and GOETHE (Johann Wolfgang von). *Werther*. Paris: Arc en ciel, 1946. 8vo, paperback with slipcase and dust jacket. Copy on pure rag paper, 110.

66 - A set of two large-format books in a slipcase.

67 - PAGNOL (Marcel) - DUBOUT (Albert) *Topaze*. Monte Carlo, *Les Éditions du Livre*, 1952.

68 - ROY (Jules) A collection of 16 titles comprising 23 paperback volumes.

69 - BAZIN (Hervé). A collection of two titles:

70 - ROY (Jules) Set of 11 paperback titles, 10 of which include an AUTOGRAPHED DEDICATION by the author to the writer Gilbert SIGAUX

71 - HUZAR (Eugène) - The Tree of Knowledge. Paris, E. Dentu, April 1857. 8vo, gray half-calf with corner piece, decorated ribbed spine (contemporary binding). Annotated endpapers and text. A few foxing spots.

72 - NAVAL. A collection of 7 works.

73 - RYNER (Han). A collection of 6 works (paperback).

74 - BEZSONOV, Sergei Vasilievich. Arkhangelskoye: A Country Estate Near Moscow. Moscow: Publishing House of the All-Union Academy of Architecture, 1937. - 271 pp.: ill.; 26 cm. - Illustrated, hardcover edition

75 - RYNER (Han). A collection of 6 works (paperback).

76 - CLAUDEL (Paul) Set of 3 volumes.

77 - MAC ORLAN (Pierre) Set of 4 titles with an AUTOGRAPHED DEDICATION from the author to the writer Gilbert SIGAUX

78 - RENAN (Ernest), *Lettres familières 1851–1871*. Preface by Henriette Psichari. Paris: Flammarion, 1947. 12mo, paperback with cloth-bound cover. One of 2,600 copies printed on vellum, here No. 324.

79 - RENARD (Jules). Collection of 5 works.

80 - MAC ORLAN (Pierre). *Sous la lumière froide*. Paris: Edition de la Nouvelle France, 1943. Small in-4°, paperback with re-glued cover, slipcase (publisher’s binding). Untrimmed.

81 - [PLEÎADE ANTIQUITE]

82 - SAADI, *The Rose Garden*, Paris, Edition Lidis, 1981. One volume, in-4, in the publisher’s full tan leather binding, decorated in red and gold on the front cover. Gilded edges. In a slipcase. Numerous illustrations.

83 - [HUNTING] A 7-volume set.

84 - COURIER (Paul-Louis) Complete Works. First complete edition, expanded to include 21 new letters, with an introduction and notes by Mairice ALLEM. Paris, A. Combarieu, n.d. Large quarto, paperback.

85 - VERNE (Jules) - Doctor Ox. Illustrated by Bertrand, Froelich, Schuler, Bayard, and Marie. Paris, Hetzel Collection. Hachette, n.d. Publisher's hardcover.

86 - [AGRICULTURE - FORESTRY]

87 - GIONO (Jean) LEVREL (René) - *The Birth of the Odyssey*. Paris: Cercle Grolier, Les Amis Du Livre Moderne, 1959. Unnumbered, 4 sheets in a folder and slipcase. Dr. Marcel Ducortioux’s copy on large Rives vellum. One of 180 copies; this is number 43.

88 - DUTHUIT (Georges) - Les Fauves: Braque, Derain, Van Dongen, Dufy, Friesz, Manguin, Marquet, Matisse, Puy, and Vlaminck. Geneva: Éditions des Trois Collines, 1949. In-4° in loose sheets, cover illustrated from a drawing by Henri Matisse.

89 - A set of three illustrated works by Charles SAMSON (1893–1978)

93 - 4-volume set published by Editions du livre de Monte-Carlo, in a slipcase

94 - [GEOGRAPHY - TRAVEL] DEMANCHE (Georges) - In Canada and Among the Native Americans. Paris: Hachette, 1890. Half-leather binding.

95 - [SUGAR - SUGAR INDUSTRY]

4 - SCAPULA (Jean) - Lexicon Graeco-Latinum novum [...] Basel, Sébastian Henricpetri, n.d. [c. 1580–1600]. Folio. Later binding. Split spine.

15 - SAINT-PIERRE (Bernardin de) Vows of a Solitary. Paris, Imprimerie de Monsieur, 1791. 12mo, paperback. Temporary binding.

31 - [ANONYMOUS] - Le Désespoir amoureux, with the new visions of Don Quixote, a Spanish tale. Amsterdam, Published by the Company, 1747. 2 in-12° volumes in one volume, bound, with an ornate ribbed spine and title label. Red edges. Spines, heads, tails, and corners worn.

34 - [GUELETTE (Thomas-Simon)] - The Thousand and One-Quarter Hours: Tartar Tales. New edition. Paris: Libraires associés, 1753. 3 volumes in-12°, bound in fawn calfskin, covers framed with a triple border, flat spine decorated with a wave pattern, volume number and title label, gilt edges.

42 - CORNEILLE (Pierre) - Le Cid. Paris: Baudelot, 1946. Copy printed on pure rag paper. No. 750, in a slipcase.

46 - BECKFORD (William) - Vathek, Paris: Au cercle des amateurs de livres, 1962. Large 8vo in loose sheets, with a blue cover, the publisher’s slipcase and dust jacket. Engravings by Edouard Goerg. One of 500 copies printed on Lana vellum; this is number 34.

54 - OVID - PICASSO (Pablo) - The Metamorphoses. Includes original etchings. Geneva: Skira, n.d. A substantial in-4° volume in loose-leaf format, with a slipcase, case, and outer slipcase.

56 - CELINE (Louis-Ferdinand) - L'école des cadavres. Paris, Denoël, 1942. 8vo paperback, publisher’s cover, 34th edition. Good condition.

65 - HOFER (André) and GOETHE (Johann Wolfgang von). Werther. Paris: Arc en ciel, 1946. 8vo, paperback with slipcase and dust jacket. Copy on pure rag paper, 110.

67 - PAGNOL (Marcel) - DUBOUT (Albert) Topaze. Monte Carlo, Les Éditions du Livre, 1952.

78 - RENAN (Ernest), Lettres familières 1851–1871. Preface by Henriette Psichari. Paris: Flammarion, 1947. 12mo, paperback with cloth-bound cover. One of 2,600 copies printed on vellum, here No. 324.

80 - MAC ORLAN (Pierre). Sous la lumière froide. Paris: Edition de la Nouvelle France, 1943. Small in-4°, paperback with re-glued cover, slipcase (publisher’s binding). Untrimmed.

82 - SAADI, The Rose Garden, Paris, Edition Lidis, 1981. One volume, in-4, in the publisher’s full tan leather binding, decorated in red and gold on the front cover. Gilded edges. In a slipcase. Numerous illustrations.

87 - GIONO (Jean) LEVREL (René) - The Birth of the Odyssey. Paris: Cercle Grolier, Les Amis Du Livre Moderne, 1959. Unnumbered, 4 sheets in a folder and slipcase. Dr. Marcel Ducortioux’s copy on large Rives vellum. One of 180 copies; this is number 43.

96 - ROSTANT (Edmon) - DUBOUT (Jean) - Cyrano de Bergerac. Rouam, Un grand vol. 4to, in sheets, in a padded folder, with slipcase and box, color illustrations by Dubout. One of 1,500 copies printed on white Rives paper; this is copy no. 453. The slipcase is worn.