‎Collectibles‎

‎Leon Jean-Baptiste SABATIER - Charles-Claude BACHELIER‎

‎Hôtel de ville Grande salle des fêtes - Paris et ses ruines Lithographie originale‎

‎Nantes Paris: Charpentier 1874. Fine. Charpentier Nantes • Paris 1874 48.80 x 33.50 cm une feuille Original lithograph in colors engraved by Charles-Claude Bachelier after a drawing by Léon Jean-Baptiste Sabatier and used as an illustration for Paris et ses ruines by Victor Fournel a work documenting the devastation of the Paris Commune. Some marginal soiling otherwise a handsome copy. Charpentier unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 79762

‎Leon Jean-Baptiste SABATIER‎

‎Ministère des Finances - Paris et ses ruines Lithographie originale‎

‎Nantes Paris: Charpentier 1874. Fine. Charpentier Nantes • Paris 1874 48.80 x 33.50 cm une feuille Original color lithograph drawn and engraved by Léon Jean-Baptiste Sabatier and used as illustration in Paris et ses ruines by Victor Fournel a work documenting the ravages of the Paris Commune. Handsome copy. Charpentier unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 79758

‎LEON L'HEBREU [Judah ABRAVANEL]‎

‎Philosophie d'amour de M. Léon Hébreu • The Dialogues of Love‎

‎Lyon: Guillaume Rouillé 1551. Fine. Guillaume Rouillé Lyon 1551 10.50 x 17.50 cm relié Juda ABRAVANEL or Leo the Hebrew Philosophie d'amour de M. Léon Hébreu The Dialogues of LoveGuillaume Rouillé Lyon 1551 small 8vo 10.5 x 17.5 cm 675 pp. 44 p. contemporary full calf First edition of the French translation of Dialoghi d'Amore by Denis Sauvage Sieur du Parc. The title page is decorated with a handsome border wood-engraved based on a composition by Pierre Vase. A very beautiful Lyon print in italic characters with ornamental initial letters and decorations. Copy entirely red ruled 28 lines per page. Contemporary binding from the city of Lyon spine repaired richly decorated with arabesques and gilt stippling the centre of the boards decorated with a large typographic gilt motif against a background of gilt stippling large arabesques and interlacing in the corner pieces all edges gilt and gauffered with vegetal arabesques. James Toovey's library ex-libris glued on the inside of the first board that of Samuel Putnam Avery produced by the English painter and engraver Charles William Sherborn glued on the first endpaper Gianni de Marco library's dry stamp on the following endpaper. Two old handwritten ex-libris on the title page. Librarian and publisher James Toovey 1813-1893 was also an influential bibliophile. He acquired the Gosford Castle library in Northern Ireland in 1878. After his death his books were sold in part at auction in 1894 while his son kept the other part which was then sold in 1899 to Mr J. Pierpont Morgan founder of the Morgan Library in New York. Samuel Putnam Avery 1822-1904 art dealer and expert was named commissioner in charge of the American art department at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. Founder and long-standing director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York he was also a great collector of prints and rare books with superb bindings. This high-quality work one of the most beautiful productions from the Lyon printing works then at its peak is emblematic of a transitional period in the history of the re-emerging French language two years after the publication of the Défense et illustration de la langue française by Joachim du Bellay. Denis Sauvage's translation dedicated to Catherine de' Medici is an historical milestone in the history of the French language. Sauvage for a time proofreader for the publisher Guillaume Rouillé converted to La Réforme and was – like Froissart and Commines – historiographer to King Henri II. Particularly sensitive to the reform of the French language he did not hesitate in this work to invent numerous neologisms. In total there are more than one hundred words that are indexed in the glossary which he writes for the attention of the reader at the end of the volume. Many of these terms have today been adopted through use: astuce bénévole dimension immédiatement contrary to médiatement moteur etc. The publisher Guillaume Rouillé trained at the Venice print works was one of the first in France to conform to the modernised spelling rules that Ronsard had just advised some months earlier. Juda Abravanel or Leo the Hebrew 1460-1521 a Cabalist Jew refusing to convert to Christianity was forced in 1492 to leave Castille for Genoa where he practised medicine. His dialogues contributed along with those of Marsilio Ficino to the diffusion of a Neoplatonism closely linked to the humanist movement in France. The poets in the Lyon art circle then those from La Pléiade welcomed the Philosophie d'amour with enthusiasm. Furthermore we find a copy amongst the 105 volumes listed in Montaigne's library that will be amused by the text's great success: “My valet made love read Leo the Hebrew and Ficino.” His influence will however carry through time a century later Spinoza will borrow his concept of God's intellectual love. Beautiful and rare copy in a luxurious Lyon Renaissance binding and notably having belonged to Samuel Putnam A Guillaume Rouillé hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 65642

‎Leon LASCOUTX‎

‎Tome VIII‎

‎Paris: C. Bosse 1937. Fine. C. Bosse Paris 1937 16.50 x 23 cm broché First edition one of 250 hors commerce copies on Rives paper numbered and signed by the publisher the only printing with 25 Japan and 125 tinted Rives. Work illustrated with 8 original etchings by J.A. Mercier. Light worming to the endpaper otherwise a handsome copy. C. Bosse unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 13573

‎Leon LAURENT-PICHAT‎

‎Libres paroles‎

‎Paris: Comptoir des imprimeurs-unis 1847. Fine. Comptoir des imprimeurs-unis Paris 1847 15 x 24 cm relié first edition printed in small numbers. Full binding shagreen midnight blue back with four nerves set with gold decorated with double black boxes threads and golden light head scrapes back framing of double gold and black nets on the boards guards and white moiré silk contreplats containing small foxing framing a set of triple gilt fillets on contreplats all edges gilt net gilded on the cuts both corners with traces of friction contemporary binding. Our copy is enriched with an autograph quatrain signed Leon Laurent-Pichat. Some minor foxing. Comptoir des imprimeurs-unis hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 49773

‎Leon LE FORT‎

‎Le service de santé dans les armées nouvelles. Observations durant la dernière guerre. Extrait de la Revue des Deux Mondes‎

‎s. l. Paris: Extrait de La Revue des deux mondes 1871. Fine. Extrait de La Revue des deux mondes s. l. • Paris 1871 15.50 x 25 cm agrafé First edition. Plain paper cover. Rare. Extrait de La Revue des deux mondes unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 18754

‎Leon LEBEGUE - Pierre LOUS‎

‎Les trois roses de Marie-Anne‎

‎Paris: A. Ferroud - F. Ferroud Successeur 1909. Fine. A. Ferroud - F. Ferroud Successeur Paris 1909 16 x 23.50 cm broché Illustrated edition with original etchings by Léon Lebègue one of 30 numbered copies on grand Japan paper deluxe issue. Our copy as stipulated in the justification page is complete with the triple state of the engravings. Handsome copy. A. Ferroud - F. Ferroud, Successeur unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 76163

‎Leon LEMENAGER‎

‎Etude sur la cession à titre onéreux des offices ministériels‎

‎Paris: A. Rousseau 1897. Fine. A. Rousseau Paris 1897 16.50 x 25.50 cm broché First edition of this thesis defended to obtain the degree of doctor of law at the University of Paris. Spine and boards marginally faded handsome interior condition. A. Rousseau hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 17835

‎Leon LHERMITTE - Andre THEURIET‎

‎La Vie rustique‎

‎Paris: Librairie artistique - H. Launette et Cie 1888. Fine. Librairie artistique - H. Launette et Cie Paris 1888 25 x 33 cm relié First edition illustrated with a frontispiece 26 plates and numerous text vignettes engraved on wood by Bellenger after Léon Lhermitte one of the great painters of peasant life. Half red shagreen binding with corners spine with five raised bands showing some scratches gilt date at foot marbled paper boards pebbled paper endpapers and pastedowns covers and spine preserved top edge gilt upper corners slightly bumped. Librairie artistique - H. Launette et Cie hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 70208

‎Leon MAC-AULIFFE‎

‎La personnalité et l'hérédité‎

‎Paris: Amédée Legrand 1932. Fine. Amédée Legrand Paris 1932 19 x 28 cm broché First edition. Autograph inscription from Léon Mac-Auliffe to his colleague René Allendy. Work illustrated with 222 figures. Lacking at foot of spine front board detached lacks at head and foot of sunned spine handsome interior condition. Amédée Legrand unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 23157

‎Leon MARY‎

‎La perruche ondulée élevage et rapport‎

‎Paris: J.-B. Baillière & fils 1877. Fine. J.-B. Baillière & fils Paris 1877 12 x 18.50 cm broché First edition. The bird its classification the aviary habits instructions cost and profit. Light lacks of no consequence to spine otherwise handsome and rare copy. J.-B. Baillière & fils unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 10146

‎Leon MOUSSINAC‎

‎Aubes clandestines‎

‎Toulouse: Comité national des écrivains Centre des intellectuels 1944. Fine. Comité national des écrivains Centre des intellectuels Toulouse 1944 10.50 x 13.50 cm agrafé First edition of which there were no large paper copies. A very good copy considering the fragility of the paper. Comité national des écrivains, Centre des intellectuels unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 44558

‎Leon MOUSSINAC - Paul VAILLANT-COUTURIER‎

‎Le père Juillet‎

‎Paris: Au sans pareil 1927. Fine. Au sans pareil Paris 1927 12.50 x 19.50 cm broché First edition one of 20 numbered copies on Montgolfier vellum deluxe issue. Small marginal tears to boards a vertical crease in margin of front board. A full-margined copy. Au sans pareil hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 73395

‎Leon POIRIER‎

‎Vingt-Quatre Images à la Seconde‎

‎s. l.: Maison Mame 1953. Fine. Maison Mame s. l. 1953 13.50 x 20.50 cm broché First edition. Iconography. Light dampstains to spine and board margins handsome interior condition. Autograph inscription signed by Léon Poirier to Madame Charles Gaumont: "". dont le souvenir est inséparable des miens."" "".whose memory is inseparable from my own."" Maison Mame unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 78005

‎Leon POUSTHOMIS - Sigmund ROMBERG‎

‎Partition pour piano ""Some smoke de la fumée One step""‎

‎Paris: Editions Francis Salabert 1913. Fine. Editions Francis Salabert Paris 1913 27.70 x 35.10 cm une feuille rempliée sous couverture First edition of this piano score first cover illustrated in colors by Léon Pousthomis. Handsome copy. Editions Francis Salabert unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 79334

‎Leon RABAIN‎

‎Jasmin sa vie ses oeuvres‎

‎Paris: Firmin-Didot frères 1867. Fine. Firmin-Didot frères Paris 1867 12 x 19 cm broché First edition. Spine slightly browned with two small tears at head without gravity. Rare. Firmin-Didot frères unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 13450

‎Leon RIFFARD‎

‎Chassé-croisé ou il ne faut pas dire : fontaine!. proverbe en vers avec prologue & épilogue‎

‎Nîmes: Imp. Edouard Baldy 1880. Fine. Imp. Edouard Baldy Nîmes 1880 12.50 x 18.50 cm broché Second edition. Rare. Imp. Edouard Baldy unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 41282

‎Leon RIOTOR‎

‎Le parabolain‎

‎Paris: Bibliothèque de La Plume 1894. Fine. Bibliothèque de La Plume Paris 1894 11.50 x 17 cm broché First edition printed in a small number of copies on laid paper. Rare and handsome copy. Autograph inscription signed at the head of the front cover by Léon Riotor to Auguste Vacquerie. Bibliothèque de La Plume unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 84018

‎Leon RIOTOR - Ernest RAYNAUD‎

‎Noce bourgeoise‎

‎Paris: Editions de la plume 1895. Fine. Editions de la plume Paris 1895 12 x 19 cm broché First edition printed in a small number of copies on laid paper. This is a theatrical work during whose first performance the authors consumed according to them: seven boxes of sardines four pounds of romsteak two garlic sausages five pounds of bread and three packets of biscuits. Spine and boards uniformly faded rare. Editions de la plume hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 12060

‎Leon SAY‎

‎Le budget devant les chambres françaises‎

‎Paris: La Revue des deux mondes 1885. Fine. La Revue des deux mondes Paris 1885 15.50 x 25 cm agrafé Extract from the Revue des deux mondes. First edition. In plain wrappers. Rare. La Revue des deux mondes unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 20097

‎Leon TOLSTOI‎

‎Carnet du soldat‎

‎Paris: P.V. Stock 1902. Fine. P.V. Stock Paris 1902 12 x 19 cm broché First edition in French on ordinary paper translated by J.W. Bienstock from a limited edition of only 5 deluxe copies on Holland paper. A slight corner lack at the foot of the back cover. Rare. P.V. Stock unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 23556

‎Leon TOLSTOI‎

‎Oeuvres inédites et posthumes 1850-1910‎

‎Paris: Paul Dupont 1947. Fine. Paul Dupont Paris 1947 12.50 x 19 cm broché First edition in French one of 25 numbered copies on superior laid paper ours being one of 5 hors commerce copies the only deluxe copies. Spine lightly sunned tiny tear at foot of front board a full-margined copy. Paul Dupont unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 73408

‎Leon TROTSKY‎

‎L'avènement du bolchévisme‎

‎Paris: Editions & librairie 1920. Fine. Editions & librairie Paris 1920 14 x 20.50 cm broché First edition of the French translation of which there were no deluxe copies. Spine slightly faded and wrinkled with two small tears with minimal lacks at head and foot. Cover illustrated with a vignette. Editions & librairie unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 68450

‎Leon TROTSKY - Victor SERGE‎

‎La Révolution trahie • The Revolution Betrayed‎

‎Paris: Grasset 1936. Fine. Grasset Paris 1936 11.50 x 18.50 cm relié First edition of the French translation by Victor Serge one of 26 numbered copies on deluxe paper the only large-paper issue. Half red morocco binding spine with five raised bands grey paper endpapers and boards original wrappers and spine preserved top edge gilt signed binding by Goy & Vilaine. Born in Belgium to anti-tsarist émigré parents Victor Serge became politically engaged from the age of fifteen militating within the ranks of the Young Socialist Guard. An antimilitarist and libertarian he took part in numerous anarchist demonstrations and was sentenced for having sheltered members of the Bonnot Gang. In 1919 he placed himself at the service of the revolution and became a member of the Russian Communist Party before strongly condemning the Stalinist degeneration of the Soviet state. Expelled from the Party and stripped of his Soviet nationality he was ultimately banished from the U.S.S.R. in 1936 a few months before the first Moscow Trial. Close to Leon Trotsky he translated several of his works before distancing himself from him judging his ideology to be overly sectarian. A rare and very fine copy of this essay written by Trotsky during his exile in Norway which would not be published in the U.S.S.R. until 1991. Grasset hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 78255

‎Leon VALLEE‎

‎Notice des documents exposés à la section des cartes‎

‎Paris: H. Champion 1912. Fine. H. Champion Paris 1912 16.50 x 25 cm broché First edition published in a small number of copies of this offprint from 'La revue des bibliothèques'. Autograph inscription by L. Vallée. A very slight dampstain affecting the spine at foot and the front cover marginally handsome interior condition. H. Champion unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 14012