‎Collectibles‎

‎Francisco Javier GOSE‎

‎Il a été primé. Robe du soir pl.21 La Gazette du Bon ton 1914 n°3‎

‎Paris: Lucien Vogel éditeur 1914. Fine. Lucien Vogel éditeur Paris Mars 1914 19 x 24.50 cm une feuille Original color print printed on laid paper signed lower right on the plate. Original engraving created to illustrate La Gazette du bon ton one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century celebrating the talent of French creators and artists during the flourishing of Art Deco. Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920 due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great couturiers. From their publication these luxurious publications ""were addressed to bibliophiles and worldly aesthetes"" Françoise Tétart-Vittu ""La Gazette du bon ton"" in Dictionnaire de la mode 2016. Printed on fine laid paper they used a typeface specially created for the magazine by Georges Peignot the Cochin character later adopted in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints were created using the metal stencil technique heightened in colors and some emphasized with gold or palladium. The adventure began in 1912 when Lucien Vogel a man of society and fashion - he had already participated in the magazine Femina - decided to found with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff sister of Jean father of Babar the Gazette du bon ton whose subtitle was then ""Art modes et frivolités"". Georges Charensol reports the editor-in-chief's words: ""In 1910 he observed there existed no fashion journal that was truly artistic and representative of the spirit of its time. I was therefore thinking of making a luxury magazine with truly modern artists . I was certain of success because for fashion no country can rival France."" ""Un grand éditeur d'art. Lucien Vogel"" in Les Nouvelles littéraires n°133 May 1925. The magazine's success was immediate not only in France but also in the United States and South America. Originally Vogel therefore assembled a group of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt; and finally his friends from the École des beaux-arts who were George Barbier Bernard Boutet de Monvel and Charles Martin. Other talents quickly joined the team: Guy Arnoux Léon Bakst Benito Umberto Brunelleschi Chas Laborde Jean-Gabriel Domergue Raoul Dufy Édouard Halouze Alexandre Iacovleff Jean Émile Laboureur Charles Loupot Maggie Salcedo. These artists mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel called upon them would subsequently become emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. These same illustrators created the drawings for the Gazette's advertisements. The plates highlight and sublimate the dresses of seven creators of the period: Lanvin Doeuillet Paquin Poiret Worth Vionnet and Doucet. The couturiers provided exclusive models for each issue. Nevertheless some of the illustrations featured no real model but only the idea that the illustrator had of contemporary fashion. La Gazette du bon ton was a decisive step in fashion history. Combining aesthetic demands and plastic unity it brought together for the first time the great talents of the worlds of arts letters and fashion and imposed through this alchemy a completely new image of woman slender independent and audacious also carried by the new generation of couturiers Coco Chanel Jean Patou Marcel Rochas. Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast La Gazette du bon ton would largely inspire the new composition and aesthetic choices of the ""dying little journal"" that Nast had bought a few years earlier: Vogue magazine. Lucien Vogel éditeur unknown‎

Référence libraire : 84690

‎Francisco CONTRERAS‎

‎L'esprit de l'Amérique espagnole‎

‎Paris: Editions de la Nouvelle revue critique 1931. Fine. Editions de la Nouvelle revue critique Paris 1931 12 x 19 cm broché First edition despite a fanciful mention of a thousand at the top of the first cover one of 50 numbered copies on Alfa paper the only large papers. Rare autograph shipment signed by Francisco Contreras to André Lautier . Freckles mainly affecting the margins of certain pages. Editions de la Nouvelle revue critique unknown‎

Référence libraire : 70390

‎Francisco Paula DE MELLADO‎

‎Recuerdos de un viage por España. - Manola‎

‎Madrid: Establecimiento tipografico de Mellado 1851. Fine. Establecimiento tipografico de Mellado Madrid 1851 15.50 x 23 cm une feuille Original woodcut heightened with watercolor and gum arabic highlights of the period signed lower right by Clerman. Plate engraved by Pannemaker. Print created for ""Recuerdos de un viage por España"" by Francisco de Paula Mellado an account of his journey through the multiple provinces of Spain and overseas territories in which the author studies the customs legends literature history and geography of each place. This type of illustration is emblematic of Spanish Romantic aesthetics and its fashion for ""tableaux de coutumes"" ""Cuadro de costumbres"" veritable galleries of generic characters in the manner of ""Les Français peints par eux-mêmes"" of the same period. Superb watercolor whose gum arabic varnish accentuates the contrasts. Establecimiento tipografico de Mellado unknown‎

Référence libraire : 39263

‎Francisco Paula DE MELLADO‎

‎Recuerdos de un viage por España. - Jovencita en la iglesia‎

‎Madrid: Establecimiento tipografico de Mellado 1851. Fine. Establecimiento tipografico de Mellado Madrid 1851 15.50 x 23 cm une feuille Original wood engraving heightened with watercolor and gum arabic highlights of the period. Plate engraved by Pannemaker. Print created for ""Recuerdos de un viage por España"" by Francisco de Paula Mellado an account of his journey through the multiple provinces of Spain and overseas territories in which the author studies the customs legends literature history and geography of each place. This type of illustration is emblematic of Spanish Romantic aesthetics and its fashion for ""tableaux de costumbres"" ""Cuadro de costumbres"" veritable galleries of generic characters in the manner of ""Les Français peints par eux-mêmes"" of the same period. Superb watercolor whose gum arabic varnish accentuates the contrasts. Establecimiento tipografico de Mellado unknown‎

Référence libraire : 39262

‎Francisco Paula DE MELLADO‎

‎Recuerdos de un viage por España. - Cara de Sevilla‎

‎Madrid: Establecimiento tipografico de Mellado 1851. Fine. Establecimiento tipografico de Mellado Madrid 1851 15.50 x 23 cm une feuille Original wood engraving heightened with watercolor and gum arabic highlights of the period signature in the plate by Clerman at lower right. Plate engraved by Pannemaker. Print created for ""Recuerdos de un viage por España"" by Francisco de Paula Mellado an account of his journey through the multiple provinces of Spain and overseas territories in which the author studies the customs legends literature history and geography of each place. This type of illustration is emblematic of Spanish Romantic aesthetics and its fashion for ""tableaux de costumbres"" ""Cuadro de costumbres"" veritable galleries of generic characters in the manner of ""Les Français peints par eux-mêmes"" of the same period. Superb watercolor whose gum arabic varnish accentuates the contrasts. Establecimiento tipografico de Mellado unknown‎

Référence libraire : 39259

‎Francisco Paula DE MELLADO‎

‎Recuerdos de un viage por España. - Mendigo‎

‎Madrid: Establecimiento tipografico de Mellado 1851. Fine. Establecimiento tipografico de Mellado Madrid 1851 15.50 x 23 cm une feuille Original wood engraving enhanced with watercolor and gum arabic highlights from the period signature in the plate by Clerman at lower right. Plate engraved by Duverger. Print created for ""Recuerdos de un viage por España"" by Francisco de Paula Mellado an account of his journey through the multiple provinces of Spain and overseas territories in which the author studies the customs legends literature history and geography of each place. This type of illustration is emblematic of Spanish Romantic aesthetics and its fashion for ""costume studies"" ""Cuadro de costumbres"" veritable galleries of generic characters in the manner of ""Les Français peints par eux-mêmes"" from the same period. Superb watercolor whose gum arabic varnish accentuates the contrasts. Establecimiento tipografico de Mellado unknown‎

Référence libraire : 39254

‎Francisco Paula DE MELLADO‎

‎Recuerdos de un viage por España. - Majo‎

‎Madrid: Establecimiento tipografico de Mellado 1851. Fine. Establecimiento tipografico de Mellado Madrid 1851 15.50 x 23 cm une feuille Original wood engraving enhanced with watercolor and gum arabic highlights from the period. Plate engraved by Pannemaker. Print created for ""Recuerdos de un viage por España"" by Francisco de Paula Mellado an account of his journey through the multiple provinces of Spain and overseas territories in which the author studies the customs legends literature history and geography of each place. This type of illustration is emblematic of Spanish Romantic aesthetics and its fashion for ""costume studies"" ""Cuadro de costumbres"" veritable galleries of generic characters in the manner of ""Les Français peints par eux-mêmes"" from the same period. Superb watercolor whose gum arabic varnish accentuates the contrasts. Establecimiento tipografico de Mellado unknown‎

Référence libraire : 39255

‎Francisco Javier GOSE‎

‎Suis-je belle ce soir Robe pour le casino pl.63 La Gazette du Bon ton 1914 n°7‎

‎Paris: Lucien Vogel éditeur 1914. Fine. Lucien Vogel éditeur Paris Juillet 1914 18 x 24 cm une feuille Double original color print printed on vergé paper signed in the plate. An original print used to illustrate the Gazette du bon ton one of the most attractive and influential 20th century fashion magazines featuring the talents of French artists and other contributors from the burgeoning Art Deco movement. A celebrated fashion magazine established in 1912 by Lucien Vogel La Gazette du bon ton appeared until 1925 with a hiatus from 1915 to 1920 due to the war the editor-in-chief having been called up for service. It consisted of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies each and notably illustrated with 573 color plates and 148 sketches of the models of the great designers. Right from the start this sumptuous publication “was aimed at bibliophiles and fashionable society” Françoise Tétart-Vittu “La Gazette du bon ton” in Dictionnaire de la mode 2016 and was printed on fine vergé paper using a type cut specially for the magazine by Georges Peignot known as Cochin later used in 1946 by Christian Dior. The prints were made using stencils heightened in colors some highlighted in gold or palladium. The story began in 1912 when Lucien Vogel a man of the world involved in fashion he had already been part of the fashion magazine Femina decided with his wife Cosette de Brunhoff – the sister of Jean creator of Babar – to set up the Gazette du bon ton subtitled at the time: “Art fashion frivolities.” Georges Charensol noted the reasoning of the editor-in-chief: “’In 1910’ he observed ‘there was no really artistic fashion magazine nothing representative of the spirit of the time. My dream was therefore to make a luxury magazine with truly modern artists…I was assured of success because when it comes to fashion no country on earth can compete with France.’” “Un grand éditeur d’art. Lucien Vogel” in Les Nouvelles littéraires no. 133 May 1925. The magazine was immediately successful not only in France but also in the United States and Latin America. At first Vogel put together a team of seven artists: André-Édouard Marty and Pierre Brissaud followed by Georges Lepape and Dammicourt as well as eventually his friends from school and the School of Fine Arts like George Barbier Bernard Boutet de Monvel and Charles Martin. Other talented people soon came flocking to join the team: Guy Arnoux Léon Bakst Benito Boutet de Monvel Umberto Brunelleschi Chas Laborde Jean-Gabriel Domergue Raoul Dufy Édouard Halouze Alexandre Iacovleff Jean Émile Laboureur Charles Loupot Chalres Martin Maggie Salcedo. These artist mostly unknown when Lucien Vogel sought them out later became emblematic and sought-after artistic figures. It was also they who worked on the advertising drawings for the Gazette. The plates put the spotlight on and celebrate dresses by seven designers of the age: Lanvin Doeuillet Paquin Poiret Worth Vionnet and Doucet. The designers provided exclusive models for each issue. Nonetheless some of the illustrations are not based on real models but simply on the illustrator’s conception of the fashion of the day. The Gazette du bon ton was an important step in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic demands with the physical whole it brought together – for the first time – the great talents of the artistic literary and fashion worlds; and imposed through this alchemy a completely new image of women: slender independent and daring which was shared by the new generation of designers including Coco Chanel Jean Patou Marcel Rochas and so on… Taken over in 1920 by Condé Montrose Nast the Gazette du bon ton was an important influence on the new layout and aesthetics of that “little dying paper” that Nast had bought a few years earlier: Vogue. Lucien Vogel éditeur unknown‎

Référence libraire : 54686

‎Francisque SARCEY‎

‎Journal de jeunesse de Francisque Sarcey 1839-1857 recueilli et annoté par Adolphe Brisson et suivi d'un choix de chroniques fagots notes de la semaine grains de bon sens‎

‎Paris: Bibliothèque des Annales 1900. Fine. Bibliothèque des Annales Paris s. d. circa 1900 12 x 19.50 cm relié The first edition with no mention of deluxe copies. Bradel binding in half mouse-grey cloth with corners smooth spine decorated with a gilt floral motif double gilt fillet at foot marbled paper boards pink paper endpapers and pastedowns covers and spine preserved contemporary binding signed by Vermorel. Work illustrated with a photographic frontispiece. Preface by Octave Gréard. Handsome copy. Bibliothèque des Annales hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 40352

‎Francisque DURET‎

‎Lettre autographe signée au chef du secrétariat des beaux-arts : Adolphe Saint Vincent Duvivier‎

‎Paris 1860. Fine. Paris s. d. vers 1860 10.40 x 13.10 cm une feuille rempliée Autograph letter signed by sculptor Francisque Duret to Adolphe Saint Vincent Duvivier head of the secretariat of the École impériale des beaux-arts. ""J'ai retenu Paul Armand modèle arabe pour ma quinzaine à l'école et je prie Monsieur Duvivier de lui donner les instructions nécessaires et de prendre son adresse ."" ""I have retained Paul Armand Arab model for my fortnight at the school and I ask Monsieur Duvivier to give him the necessary instructions and to take his address ."" unknown‎

Référence libraire : 71523

‎Franck LE GONIDEC DE PENLAN‎

‎Gestes jeunes et cadres anciens‎

‎1948. Fine. s. d. circa 1948 17 x 21.50 cm broché First edition one of 100 numbered copies on fine laid paper the only deluxe copies after 5 on pure thread paper. Work illustrated with photogravures after a watercolor and pastels by the author. Spine and covers entirely sunned small tears to margins of covers interior in handsome condition. Rare. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 55754

‎Franck, Wm‎

‎Traite Sur Les Vins Du Medoc et Les Autres Vins Rouges et Blancs Du Departement De La Gironde‎

‎Bordeaux: P. Chaumas 1864. 5th or later Edition . Half Morocco. Fine. 55 Vues De Chateaux Folding Charts And Large Folding Color Map At Rear. 1V 364 Pp. Folding Plates Including Large Folding Map In Color. Old But Fine Quarter Morocco Wine Red Color Five Bands Gilt Title And Author 11 Gilt Fleur De Lys In Each Of Five Other Compartments Gold Rules At Edges Original Marbled Endpapers Matching Marbling On Edges Of Page Block. No Names No Marks No Bookplates Foxing To White Endpapers And Half-Title A Few Small Very Light Foxing Areas On Title Page Otherwise Contents Clean Square Crisp A Superior Example. <br/> <br/> P. Chaumas unknown‎

Référence libraire : 023433

‎Franco CHAGAS‎

‎Les gloires et les beautés du Portugal‎

‎Paris & Rennes: Edition de la sté de propagande du PortugalLes imprimeries réunies 1923. Fine. Edition de la sté de propagande du Portugal Les imprimeries réunies Paris • & Rennes 1923 16 x 24 cm broché First edition. A light scratching to the spine a good and rare copy softcover. Edition de la sté de propagande du PortugalLes imprimeries réunies paperback‎

Référence libraire : 38004

‎Francois ARAGO - Felix-Auguste DUVERT‎

‎27 28 et 29 Juillet tableau épisodique des trois journées‎

‎Paris: J.N. Barba 1830. Fine. J.N. Barba Paris 1830 14 x 21.50 cm broché First edition of the theatrical adaptation of this major 19th-century event. Light marginal lacks not affecting the text on some pages two small stains on the final endpaper. Rare. J.N. Barba unknown‎

Référence libraire : 18601

‎Francois ALBERICH-CHABROL‎

‎La maison des dames‎

‎Paris: Paul Ollendorff 1912. Fine. Paul Ollendorff Paris 1912 13 x 19 cm relié First edition one of 5 numbered copies on Holland paper the only deluxe copies. Half brown morocco with corners smooth spine decorated with a gilt cartouche embellished with blind typographical motifs and a brown morocco mosaic band gilt fillets framing the marbled paper boards black discoloration stains on the margins of the boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns top edge gilt retaining its deckled edges original wrappers and spine preserved contemporary binding signed by Capelle. Some foxing mainly affecting the margins of certain leaves. Rare. Paul Ollendorff hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 59620

‎Francois AUGIERAS - (inscribed to Luc ESTANG)‎

‎Le Voyage des morts‎

‎Paris: La nef de Paris 1959. Fine. La nef de Paris Paris 1959 14 x 19 cm broché Definitive edition on ordinary paper of this work published under the pseudonym Abdallah Chaamba with ""Service de Presse"" printed at foot of back cover. Some foxing spots to margin of front cover. Very rare signed autograph inscription from François Augiéras to Luc Estang. La nef de Paris unknown‎

Référence libraire : 78867

‎Francois AUGIERAS‎

‎Une adolescence au temps du Maréchal et de multiples aventures‎

‎Paris: Christian Bourgois 1968. Fine. Christian Bourgois Paris 1968 12.50 x 20 cm relié sous étui The first edition of which there were no deluxe copies. Bradel binding in full wood-effect paper smooth spine author's name and title lettered in orange and vertically in the center of the front board inlaid a photographic portrait covers and spine preserved slipcase bordered with the same wood-effect paper brown paper boards original contemporary binding signed Leroux. Handsome copy pleasantly executed by one of the last great masters of French twentieth-century bookbinding.  Christian Bourgois hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 75465

‎Francois Baculard D'ARNAUD‎

‎Epreuves du sentiment‎

‎à Paris: Chez Le JayDelalain 1774. Fine. Chez Le Jay Delalain à Paris 1774-1778 14.50 x 22 cm 5 volumes reliés First collected edition of this collection of novellas whose 5 volumes appeared from 1774 to 1778. 1774 for the first two volumes 1775 for the third volume 1777 for the fourth and 1778 for the fifth volume volumes to come are announced at the end of published volumes. Due to the extended publication period it is rare to encounter a homogeneous set with all the correct edition dates. Each novella is separated by a half-title with an edition statement. Each novella contains a figure a half-page title vignette and a tailpiece by Eisen or Marillier and engraved by Binet de Ghuendt de Longueil. Very beautiful and fine illustration being 48 figures and 24 tailpieces. The printing illustration and layout clearly recall the careful editions produced by Dorat. "".but as the illustrations are of the greatest beauty it is important to obtain the first editions."" Cohen. Volume I: Fanny Lucie et Mélanie Clary Julie Nancy. 5 frontispieces 5 vignettes and 5 tailpieces by Eisen. Volume II: Anne Bell Sélicourt Sidney et Volsan Adelson et Salvini Sargines. 5 frontispieces 5 vignettes and 5 tailpieces by Eisen. Volume III: Zénothémis Bazile Lorezzo Liebman Rosalie. viij pages of sheet music for Sicilian romances. 5 frontispieces 5 vignettes and 5 tailpieces by Eisen. Volume IV: Ermance D'Almanzi Pauline et Suzette Makin Germeuil. 5 frontispieces 5 vignettes and 5 tailpieces by Marillier. Volume V: Daminville Henriette et Charlot Valmiers Amelie. 4 frontispieces 4 vignettes and 4 tailpieces by Marillier and Le Barbier. Contemporary full brown scaled calf bindings. Raised band spines with ornaments roulettes at tail and head. Red morocco title labels and green morocco volume labels. Triple fillet frame on boards. Edges gilt. A small hole at head of volume I tiny lack at head of volume IV. Rubbing to first raised band of volume I. Upper joints of volumes IV and V narrowly split at head. 3 corners bumped. A 1 cm lack on lower board of volume V. Usage rubbing. Scattered irregular foxing some leaves yellowed and some yellow dampstain traces. A dampstain trace in left margin of first frontispiece of volume IV. Frontispiece of volume II backed and damaged in its left margin. Absence of half-title in volume II. Spine of fourth volume having lost gilding through rubbing. Overall handsome set in quality binding. Most of Baculard d'Arnaud's tales show an immoderate taste for true anecdotes historical or picturesque and from various countries: Italy Germany Spain and the author is perfectly representative of this literature that would give rise to the gothic and dark novel. An exacerbated brilliant sentimentalism animates the author's works with a certain complacency in depicting evil and a rather morbid pleasure in affects. Were it not for the framework that often defines the gothic novel and which is absent from D'arnaud's works except for Le comte de Comminges the author is very close to this movement in late 18th-century literature. Chez Le JayDelalain hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 52803

‎Francois BAUDUIN - [BALDUINUS]‎

‎Francisci Balduini Iuriscons. Commentarij. De legibus XII tabularum. Ensemble Ad edicta veterum principum Rom. de Christianis. Ensemble Iuris civilis Catechesis ex Fran. Balvini iuriscons. praelectionibus. • Comments by Francis Baldwin lawyer. On the Twelve Tables. Edicts by ancient Roman emperors concerning Christians. Catechism of civil law drawn from the lectures of Francis Baldwin lawyer.‎

‎Basileae Basel Bâle Basel: Per Ioannem Oporinum 1557. Fine. Per Ioannem Oporinum Basileae Basel • Bâle Basel 1557 12.50 x 18.50 cm relié Third edition first octavo published in Basel after two folios published in Paris in 1550 and 1554 for the first text. The two following texts are in first edition. Text in single column 33 lines per column. Not in Brunet. Full speckled brown calf binding 18th century. Spine with five raised bands decorated with red morocco title label gilt compartments and fleurons. All edges red. Upper board joint cracked along its entire length. Minor wormholes on first board and at foot of lower board headcap. Three corners bumped. Pale dampstains. Minimal wormhole damage on first endpaper. Both an eminent jurist and no less renowned Renaissance theologian François Baudouin animated his studies with a very particular thesis at the junction of both disciplines; he therefore set out to find the historical and true sources of law and particularly of Roman law. His work and reflections on the 12 tables of the law are placed in this perspective. In his other works Baudouin remains attached to his thesis seeking in historical and religious origins the foundations of laws and law. Per Ioannem Oporinum hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 41235

‎Francois BRUYS‎

‎Histoire des papes depuis St. Pierre jusqu'à Benoit XIII‎

‎à La Haye The Hague: Chez Henri Scheurleer 1732. Fine. Chez Henri Scheurleer à La Haye The Hague 1732 - 1734 19.50 x 23.50 cm 5 volumes reliés The rare first edition illustrated with a handsome frontispiece by Van der Laan and engraved by Bernart. Title pages printed in red and black. Attribution to Bruys is sometimes contested by bibliographers. Two letters defending the work against criticism can be found in volumes I and III. Contemporary mottled sheep binding. Richly decorated raised spine. Red morocco title labels brown morocco volume labels. Head of volume I partly lacking volumes III and IV torn away same at tail of volume IV. Worming to boards quite present on the boards of volume IV. Joints of volume IV cracked. Despite the defects spines in good appearance. The work became a constantly exploited reference on the history of the popes. The book was condemned at the time by both Catholics and Protestants. Even if according to Brunet it contains inaccuracies which is quite normal in a work of such scope we must praise today what was once severely criticized even by Brunet who considered that the book was written as a charge against Rome. The work is eminently critical and in no way seeks to make an apology for the papacy the author acting as a historian and drawing contrasted portraits noting as many faults as qualities and always relating the life of the pope to history. Chez Henri Scheurleer hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 65534

‎Francois Borgia KERI‎

‎Imperatores orientis‎

‎à Tyrnau Trnava: Imprimerie du collège académique de la Compagnie de Jésus 1744. Fine. Imprimerie du collège académique de la Compagnie de Jésus à Tyrnau Trnava 1744 21 x 33.50 cm relié First edition dedicated to Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche 1717-1780 Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary. This work was printed by the Society of Jesus whose motto can be found at the end under the initials O. A. M. D. G. ""Omnia ad majorem Dei gloriam"". A portrait for each sovereign mentioned in the form of medallions and headpieces. Title page in red and black. Full tawny calf binding spine with six raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons endpapers and pastedowns of marbled paper all edges red. Headcaps clumsily restored scuffing to boards corners slightly bumped. Light dampstain to inner margin on the first six gatherings one leaf restored without loss to the second leaf of the dedicatory epistle. François Borgia Keri 1702-1768 Hungarian Jesuit astronomer and historian taught philosophy and theology at Tyrnau Hungary. Imperatores orientis presents itself as a chronological study of Byzantine emperors from Constantine Ist the Great to Constantine XI Palaiologos. Imprimerie du collège académique de la Compagnie de Jésus hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 54932

‎Francois BLUCHE‎

‎La vie quotidienne au temps de Louis XIV‎

‎Paris: Hachette 1984. Fine. Hachette Paris 1984 13 x 20 cm broché The first edition of which there were no deluxe copies. Handsome copy. Autograph inscription signed by François Bluche to the Burgundy historian Bertrand Schnerb: ""Pour Bertrand Schnerb éminent historien de la Bourgogne en très amical hommage."" For Bertrand Schnerb eminent historian of Burgundy in very friendly tribute. Hachette unknown‎

Référence libraire : 87083

‎Francois Baculard D'ARNAUD‎

‎Nouvelles historiques‎

‎à Paris: Chez Delalain 1777. Fine. Chez Delalain à Paris 1777 14.50 x 22 cm 2 volumes reliés First illustrated edition with 3 title vignettes and 3 figures by Eisen in volume I as well as 3 pages of engraved music plus 3 tailpieces and 1 figure by Marillier 2 by Barbier and 3 title vignettes by Marillier in volume II plus 3 tailpieces. All engraved by Fessard Longueil Née Delaunay and Halbou. Very fine illustration very elegant. Contemporary full calf binding with scale pattern. Spine with raised bands decorated. Red morocco title labels and green morocco volume labels. Triple-ruled frame on boards. Edges gilt. Small lack to upper joint at head of volume I. Signs of rubbing. Pale scattered foxing. One lack to margin of p. 479. The binder has inverted the volume numbers.   Handsome copy. Volume I: Salisbury Varbeck Le Sire de Crequy. Volume II: Le Prince de Bretagne La Duchesse de Chatillon Le Comte de Strafford. Most of Baculard d'Arnaud's narratives show an immoderate taste for true anecdotes historical or picturesque and drawn from various regions: Italy Germany Spain and the author is perfectly representative of this literature that would give rise to the gothic and dark novel. An exacerbated sparkling sentimentalism animates the author's works with a certain complacency in depicting evil and a rather morbid pleasure in emotions. Were it not for the framework that often defines the gothic novel which is absent from d'Arnaud's works except for Le Comte de Comminges the author is very close to this movement in late 18th-century literature. Chez Delalain hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 57758

‎Francois BERTRAND‎

‎Ruris deliciae‎

‎Parisiis Paris Paris: Apud Barbou 1756. Fine. Apud Barbou Parisiis Paris • Paris 1756 9 x 16 cm relié First edition. Full brown marbled and glazed calf binding. Decorated smooth spine. Beige morocco title label. Speckled edges. Tear with loss to joints at foot. One corner bumped. Despite the mentioned defect handsome copy. Poetic anthology with a Latin part and a French part which can be translated as The Pleasures of the Countryside compiled and whose poems were gathered by François Bertrand. Around this theme of the countryside are thus gathered poems by Horace Virgil Houdard de la Mothe Ménage De La Farre. Apud Barbou unknown‎

Référence libraire : 52737

‎Francois BILLETDOUX‎

‎Théâtre 2 : Pour Finalie - Comment va le monde môssieu Il tourne môssieu! - Il faut passer par les nuages‎

‎Paris: La Table Ronde 1964. Fine. La Table Ronde Paris 1964 12 x 19 cm broché First edition on ordinary paper. Handsome autograph inscription from François Billetdoux to Marcel Aymé : "". très fidèlement."" La Table Ronde unknown‎

Référence libraire : 48122