Paris: Gide fils 1820. Fine. Gide fils Paris 1820 10 x 16.50 cm relié First edition. Contemporary half tawny sheep binding with small corners smooth spine decorated with triple gilt fillets navy blue morocco title label pebbled paper boards yellow edges speckled with red. Some minor foxing bibliophile's printed stamps at head of half-title page and page 99 engraved bookplate pasted to verso of front board with library classification note in black ink that has spread onto facing page. Gide fils hardcover
Paris: S. n. 1838. Fine. S. n. Paris 1838 17 x 23.50 cm broché First edition printed in a small number of copies on laid paper of this auction catalogue listing the works comprising René-Charles Guilbert de Pixerécourt's library. Vignette depicting Pixérécourt's engraved bookplate on the title page. Spine cracked with lacks boards detached handsome interior condition. S. n. hardcover
Paris: N. DelangleLadvocatRapilly 1825. Fine. N. Delangle Ladvocat Rapilly Paris 1825-1829 10.20 x 15.50 cm 12 volumes reliés Collective edition dedicated to Duchesse de Berry issued at 500 copies one of 25 copies on hollande. Half long-grained Bradel morocco binding. Smooth spine elaborately gilt lengthwise title lettered in gilt gilt date at foot original green covers preserved except for Les Poésies de Charles Nodier bound without original covers and Poesies de madame Evelines Desormery bound with its covers without the original spine untrimmed. Elegant Romantic imitation bindings signed Carayon. A very fine set rare in this condition. Complete 8-volume collection edited and prefaced for every volume by Charles Nodier: Voyage de Chapelle et Bachaumont La Guirlande de Julie par M. de Montausier Diverses poésies du Chevalier d'Aceilly Conjuration du Comte de Fiesque par le Cardinal de Retz Oeuvres choisies de Sénécé Oeuvres choisies de Sarrasin Madrigaux de Monsieur de la Sablière Relation des campagne de Rocroi et de Fribourg par Henri de Bessé. It includes 4 additional volumes not belonging to the collection Fables de Fénelon Rapilly 1826 Poesies diverses de Charles Nodier Delangle et Ladvocat 1827 Poesies de madame Evelines Desormery Delangle 1828 Esquisses poetiques par Edouard Turquety Delangle 1829. Signed and inscribed by Charles Nodier to Alphonse de Cailleux on the half-title of his collection of poems in first edition: ""Si ce petit livre valait la peine d'être offert je l'aurais offert à mon bon ami Alphonse de Cailleux"" If this little book were ever worth offering I would offer it to my good friend Alphonse de Cailleux. A very fine set of Romantic bindings by Carayon one of the most important bookbinders of the late 19th century. N. DelangleLadvocatRapilly unknown
Paris: Magnin Blanchard & Compagnie 1859. Fine. Magnin Blanchard & Compagnie Paris 1859 19 x 28.30 cm relié New illustrated edition with 8 etchings by Tony Johannot bearing the artist's name engraved with the point on China paper mounted. These illustrations belong to the first illustrated edition of 1845 2 are artist's proofs without Johannot's name added by him. Printed on laid paper. Half old red shagreen binding with corners signed Petit at the top of the first endpaper. Spine with raised bands richly decorated with elaborately gilt compartments. Red shagreen title label. Top edge gilt. Uncut copy full-margined perfectly fresh. Spine slightly faded. Handsome copy from the sale of Jacques Crépineau's library without his bookplate but with a bookmark from L'Etude Ader reproducing the bookplate 11/10/2021. Director of the Michodière theater and theater historian he held a famous collection of Romantic books. List of tales: Trilby - Le songe d'or - Baptiste Montauban - La fée aux miettes - La combe de l'homme mort - Inès de las sierras - Smara - La neuvaine de la chandeleur - La légende de la soeur Béatrix. Magnin, Blanchard & Compagnie hardcover
Paris: J. Hetzel 1846. Fine. J. Hetzel Paris 1846 18.50 x 27.50 cm relié New edition illustrated with original etchings by Tony Johannot. Half olive shagreen binding spine with four raised bands set with cold fillets and gilt dots decorated with triple gilt compartments gilt title corners very slightly bumped. Work illustrated with original etchings hors-texte by Tony Johannot. Scattered foxing. J. Hetzel hardcover
J. Hetzel 1846. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. Tony Johannot. In French. Engravings by Tony Johannot. 3/4 leather. Covers edgeworn. J. Hetzel hardcover
Paris : Magnin Blanchard 1859-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto. Bound in publishers black cloth. Gilt spine. 4 raised bands. AEG. Good binding and cover. Wear to extremities. Scattered foxing. Paris : Magnin, Blanchard hardcover
Paris: Eugène Renduel 1835. Fine. Eugène Renduel Paris 1835 11.50 x 18 cm relié First edition reissued under new covers and relay title. This rare collection was initially published in December 1833 under the title: L'amulette. Étrennes à nos jeunes amis. Half dark green Russia morocco binding smooth spine decorated with gilt arabesques gilt date at foot gilt fillet on marbled paper boards three scratches on first cover marbled endpapers and pastedowns bookplate pasted on pastedown covers and spine preserved elegant pastiche binding signed by Pouillet. Work illustrated with a title vignette and 8 plates. Some foxing of no great consequence. Eugène Renduel hardcover
Paris: Demonville 1808. Fine. Demonville Paris 1808 12.50 x 20.50 cm relié First edition. Half brown calf binding with corners smooth spine decorated with gilt typographical motifs gilt friezes at head and foot navy blue calf title label gilt fillet on marbled paper boards speckled paper endpapers and pastedowns marbled edges contemporary binding. Handsome copy attractively bound in contemporary binding. Demonville hardcover
Demonville Paris 1808. Hardcover. Used - Very Good. Demonville Paris 1808. xlii 220 pages. 8 x 5" gold tooled leather spine label. 'Academie de Bordeaux College de Cognac Prix d'Arithmetique decerne Soleunellement le 29 Aou 1812 a M. Hyacinthe Lewy eleve de la 2e de gramre Le principal du college.' Edge wear spine chip leather separated along spine edges hinges tight text clean tight VG. Demonville, Paris hardcover
Paris: Delangle frères 1828. Fine. Delangle frères Paris 1828 13 x 21 cm relié First edition. Cntemporary marbled roan binding smooth spine with partialy faded roll-tooled and ruled gilt motifs burgundy roan title-label spine-ends restored joints restored at head and foot marbled paper pastedowns and endpapers gilt ruled leading edges upper corners bent marbled edges. Some minor foxing browned leaves printed library stamp and pencil annotations to one endpaper. Provenance: Louis Humbert library with his bookplate on front pastedown. Rare signed inscription by Charles Nodier to the royalist journalist disciple of Félicité de La Mennais staunch critic of Romanticism Pierre-Sébastien Laurentie: ""A Monsieur Laurentie son dévoué Charles Nodier."" Delangle frères unknown
Chicago: Privately Printed 1929. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Slip Case . 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very fine copy in very fine slipcase Charles Nodier Frncesco Colonna A Fanciful Tale of the Writintg of the Hypnerotomachia. Translated by Theodore Wesley Koch. In wonderful condition limited to four hundred unnumbered copies. This copy is inscribed for Richard H. Plow in beautiful writing by the author translator. Quarter black cloth binding over tangerine boards. Top of block is gilded and bottom and fore edge are untrimmed. In very fine slipcase. A fine Press book. <br/> <br/> Privately Printed hardcover