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Louis, vicomte de BONALD
Mélanges littéraires politiques et philosophiques
Paris: Adrien Leclère 1819. Fine. Adrien Leclère Paris 1819 12.50 x 20.50 cm 2 volumes reliés New edition published in the author's complete works. Half navy blue sheep bindings smooth spines slightly darkened decorated with gilt arabesque gilt friezes at foot of spines which also feature two cold-stamped fleurons at head and foot marbled paper boards bookplates pasted on pastedowns speckled edges contemporary bindings. Some foxing mainly at beginning and end of volume a light water stain at head of the very first leaves of the first volume. Adrien Leclère hardcover
Bookseller reference : 86210
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Louis, vicomte de BONALD
Recherches philosophiques sur les premiers objets des connoissances morales
Paris: Adrien Le Clere 1818. Fine. Adrien Le Clere Paris 1818 12.50 x 20.50 cm 2 volumes reliés First edition published in the complete works of Viscount Louis de Bonald. Full marbled sheep bindings smooth spines decorated with gilt friezes and typographical motifs red morocco title labels olive green morocco volume labels gilt roulettes on headcaps marbled endpapers and pastedowns gilt edges to leading edges yellow and marbled edges contemporary bindings. Handsome copy free from foxing and attractively bound. Adrien Le Clere unknown
Bookseller reference : 59857
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Louis-Abel de Bonafons, abbe de FONTENAY
Dictionnaire des Artistes ou Notice historique et raisonnée des Architectes Peintres Graveurs Sculpteurs Musiciens Acteurs & Danseurs; Imprimeurs Horlogers & Méchaniciens
à Paris: Chez Vincent 1776. Fine. Chez Vincent à Paris 1776 11 x 17 cm 2 volumes reliés First edition. Contemporary bindings in full marbled brown sheep. Spines with raised bands decorated. Title labels in red morocco and volume labels in black sheep. Lacks at heads of the 2 volumes. Lack on the third raised band of volume I. One corner bumped. Spines volume labels joints and edges corners rubbed. A reasonably good copy. Excellent dictionary cataloguing artists and artisans of all periods as well as their works one of the first in the genre. The entries are detailed and clear running to several pages for the greatest artists; one will also find clockmakers and musicians singers and actors. Chez Vincent hardcover
Bookseller reference : 55905
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Louis-Abel BEFFROY DE REIGNY - COUSIN-JACQUES
Nicodeme dans la lune ou la revolution pacifique. Folie en prose mêlée d'ariettes et de vaudevilles
à Paris: Chez l'auteur 1791. Fine. Chez l'auteur à Paris 1791 13 x 20 cm broché First edition. Rare. In original wrappers. Lacking right corner of title page the letter E of ""lune"" is therefore missing and lower right corner. A satire of the French Revolution. Cousin Jacques was the pseudonym of the journalist Beffroy de Reigny to whom he owed his celebrity. He is the author of comic pieces on the French Revolution and the political and social transformations of his time. Chez l'auteur unknown
Bookseller reference : 22305
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Louis-Adrien DU PERRON DE CASTERA
Entretiens litteraires et galans avec les avantures de Don Palmerin et de Thamire
à Paris: Chez la veuve Pissot 1738. Fine. Chez la veuve Pissot à Paris 1738 9.50 x 17 cm 2 volumes reliés First edition Contemporary full speckled brown sheep bindings. Spines with raised bands decorated with 4 fleurons. Red morocco title labels and tan morocco volume labels. Large lack at foot of volume I same at head of volume II. Upper joint of volume I split at foot along half the binding. Lower joint of volume II split at head. One corner bumped. Traces of rubbing. Dampstain to lower margin on the first 90 pages of volume I. Since the end of the 17th century the type of L'Entretien had become a true literary genre working in all fields of belles-lettres: literature criticism philosophy sciences. Three characters retired to the country decide to judiciously occupy their time by forming an Academy and concluding serious discussions with gallant stories. The conversations address different subjects History geography literary criticism notably on translations and contemporary works such as the Pour et Contre of Abbé Prévost. The adventures of Don Palmerin and Thamire thus regularly punctuate the conversations of our three characters. Chez la veuve Pissot hardcover
Bookseller reference : 61935
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Louis-Adrien LE PAIGE - Christophe COUDRETTE
Histoire générale de la naissance & des progrès de la Compagnie de Jésus et Analyse de ses Constitutions & Privilèges
s. l.: S. n. 1761. Fine. S. n. s. l. 1761 9.50 x 17 cm 4 volumes reliés First edition. Armorial copy of the Dukes of Luynes at this date most certainly of Marie Charles Louis d'Albert de Luynes 5th Duke of Luynes. Armorial copies of the Luynes always bear only the heraldic device of the crowned lion on the spine in the 18th century. Full glazed and marbled brown calf binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with the heraldic device of the Dukes of Luynes with crowned lion. Red morocco title and volume labels. Small crack to lower joint at head of volume II. On the lower joint of volume 3 crack along one compartment for 2cm. In volume IV small cracks to joints at foot for a few millimeters. P.403 volume II hole with loss of one letter. A dampstain trace in the margin of the title page of volume I. Despite these minor flaws very fine copy. Bookplate of the château de Dampierre residence of the Luynes for 350 years. An 18th-century bookplate has been covered by old paper. History of the Society of Jesus from its origins violently hostile to the Jesuits. Numerous documents are analyzed therein. The work amply demonstrates the despotism of the Society and its complete corruption of the French political system its plots throughout Europe. The book reveals a critique of absolute monarchy and a parliamentary vision of the political system. In the late 1750s and early 1760s the Jesuits suffered attacks from Jansenists Gallicans and parliamentarians then from the philosophers of the Encyclopedia. The financial scandal following the bankruptcy of the Jesuit Antoine Lavalette was a good opportunity for Louis XV to prohibit the Society by royal decision and banish it from France in 1763-1764. The Jesuits had already been expelled from Portugal in 1759 and would be from Spain in 1767. Louis-Adrien Le Paige lawyer at Parliament and counselor to the Prince de Conti and Christophe Coudrette were both Jansenist abbés. Their book was therefore published in a very tense context for the Jesuits and thus presents itself as a series of revelations about their history that would justify their annihilation. S. n. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 74551
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Louis-Aime MARTIN
Lettres à Sophie sur la physique la chimie et l'histoire naturelle
Paris: Gide fils 1814. Fine. Gide fils Paris 1814 12 x 20 cm deux volumes reliés Fourth edition with some parts in first edition after the first edition published in 1810; illustrated with 5 figures. Contemporary full brown glazed marbled calf bindings. Smooth spines decorated with typographical motifs and gilt friezes. Red morocco title labels olive morocco volume labels. Gilt dotted frames and frieze on covers yellow edges. Headcaps slightly rubbed small scuffs on covers. Some light foxing of no great concern a lack not touching the text at foot of page 456 of the first volume. Drawing inspiration from the form used by Demoustier in Les Lettres sur la mythologie Martin proposes an educational work on the sciences; moreover the pedagogical model predates Demoustier and Martin demonstrates teaching without harshness elegant. Gide fils unknown
Bookseller reference : 36854
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Louis-Alexandre FOUCHER DE CAREIL
Hegel et Schopenhauer étude sur la philosophie allemande moderne depuis Kant jusqu'à nos jours
Paris: Hachette & Cie 1862. Fine. Hachette & Cie Paris 1862 14.50 x 23 cm broché First edition. Spine split with lacks small corner lacks to front cover rear cover lacking some foxing. Hachette & Cie unknown
Bookseller reference : 15342
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Louis-Ange PITOU
Analyse de mes malheurs et de mes persécutions depuis vingt-six ans
Paris: Chez l'auteurChez la Duchesse d'OrléansPelicierDelaunya 1816. Fine. Chez l'auteur Chez la Duchesse d'Orléans Pelicier Delaunya Paris 1816 15 x 22 cm broché First edition. Softcover as issued. Occasional small foxing. Rare. Chez l'auteurChez la Duchesse d'OrléansPelicierDelaunya paperback
Bookseller reference : 54127
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Louis-Antoine Marquis de CARACCIOLI
L'univers enigmatique. Ensemble Le véritable mentor ou l'éducation de la noblesse
à Francfort; Frankfurt am Main Lille: Chez Bassompierre 1761. Fine. Chez Bassompierre à Francfort; Frankfurt am Main Lille 1761 9 x 16.50 cm relié New edition of these two works by the marquis. The first of l'univers énigmatique appears to have been published in 1759 and that of le Véritable mentor also in 1759. Full marbled and glazed brown calf binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label. Damage with lacks at head. One corner severely bumped. Handsome copy. A polygraph and philosopher the marquis de Caraccioli endeavors in this work intended to illuminate certain enigmas of Christian faith to construct the foundations of a modern faith in accordance with the Enlightenment thereby strongly opposing the deists. A preface was added for the second edition of le Mentor. This treatise on education had considerable success more than all the marquis's other books; it bases educational excellence on a good tutor and accuses the era of not producing great men for want of sound education. Chez Bassompierre hardcover
Bookseller reference : 38880
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Louis-Antoine-Francois de MARCHANGY
La Gaule poétique ou l'histoire de France considérée dans ses rapports avec la Poésie l'Éloquence et les Beaux-Arts
Paris: A la librairie d'éducation et de jurisprudence d'Alexis Emery 1813. Fine. A la librairie d'éducation et de jurisprudence d'Alexis Emery Paris 1813-1817 12.50 x 20 cm huit volumes reliés First edition; the first two volumes appeared in 1813 the next two in 1815 and the last four in 1817. Contemporary half tree-calf bindings. Smooth spines decorated with blonde morocco title and volume labels small fleurons and gilt fillets. Paste-paper boards. Head of seventh volume very slightly damaged. Some very minor foxing to certain volumes. Rare first edition of this essential work reflecting the Romantic era's vision of the Middle Ages particularly in literature. A la librairie d'éducation et de jurisprudence d'Alexis Emery hardcover
Bookseller reference : 41164
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Louis-Antoine Marquis de CARACCIOLI
Lettres interessantes du Pape Clement XIV
à Paris: Chez Lottin le jeune 1776. Fine. Chez Lottin le jeune à Paris 1776 9.50 x 17 cm 2 volumes reliés Second edition after the first published in 1775. Full marbled brown sheep bindings. Smooth spines decorated. Red morocco title and volume labels. Set rubbed. 2 corners slightly bumped. Good copy. The first edition of these letters met with great success and gave rise to several piracies. The authenticity of these letters was contested from their publication in 1775 which the translator defends against in the preface of this second edition attesting to their provenance and railing against the false editions. It is however a literary hoax whose author is the Marquis de Caraccioli. The letters address very varied subjects Italy piety natural sciences solitude etc. Manuscript ownership inscription Brigueil. Chez Lottin le jeune unknown
Bookseller reference : 53399
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Louis-Antoine Marquis de CARACCIOLI
Lettres récréatives et morales sur les moeurs du temps
à Paris: Se vend chez BassompierreVan dern Berghen 1768. Fine. Se vend chez Bassompierre Van dern Berghen à Paris 1768 10 x 17 cm relié New edition. Contemporary full marbled brown sheep binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Tan morocco title and volume labels. Lacks at head of volume I. Tailcap of volume II split off. Upper joint of volume III opened at head. Upper corners very bumped and worn bare. Collection of moral letters on contemporary manners. According to the author's preface which criticizes epistolary novels these letters would be real and addressed to a certain Count. Se vend chez BassompierreVan dern Berghen hardcover
Bookseller reference : 69077
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Louis-Antoine-Leon SAINT-JUST
Rapport sur les factions de l'étranger et sur la conjuration ourdie par elles dans la République française pour détruire le Gouvernement républicain par la corruption et affamer Paris ; fait à la Convention Nationale le 23 Ventôse l'an II de la République par St. Just
s. l. Paris: Convention Nationale 1794. Fine. Convention Nationale s. l. Paris 23 Ventôse An II 13 Mars 794 11.50 x 19.50 cm broché First edition of this speech delivered at the session of March 13 1794 to the assembly of the National Convention. Small stains in the margins of the leaves a lack at the foot of the last leaf with no damage to the text. Rare copy presented in its original wrappers. Convention Nationale unknown
Bookseller reference : 83856
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Louis-Antoine-Francois de MARCHANGY
Tristan le voyageur ou la France au XIVe siècle
Paris: F.M. MauriceUrbain Canel 1825. Fine. F.M. Maurice Urbain Canel Paris 1825-1826 13 x 21 cm 6 volumes reliés First edition. Half glazed navy calf bindings smooth spines decorated with gilt compartments embellished with gilt arabesques marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns yellow and speckled edges bookplates pasted at head of pastedowns two corners slightly bumped contemporary bindings. Some foxing a repaired tear at head of a marbled endpaper of the first volume printed bibliophile stamps on title pages. F.M. MauriceUrbain Canel hardcover
Bookseller reference : 47842
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Louis-Auguste GIRARDOT
"Femme du Riff"" - Lithographie originale sur Chine - L'Estampe Moderne
Paris: Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza 1897. Fine. Imprimerie Champenois pour CH. Masson H. Piazza Paris Mai 1897 23 x 32 cm une feuille Rare original lithograph executed by Louis-Auguste Girardot for L'Estampe Moderne series number 1 published in May 1897. One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on China paper with wide margins artist's signature and date in the plate publisher's dry stamp depicting a child's profile in the lower margin mounted on a sheet of laid paper with on the verso the numbered stamp of the deluxe issue occasional marginal foxing. Magnificent French monthly publication issued between May 1897 and April 1899 L'Estampe moderne consists of original chromolithographs which unlike other magazines such as Les Maîtres de l'Affiche and as stipulated on the tissue guards were created specially by each artist for the magazine. Thus 100 prints appeared in total covering the major artistic movements of the late 19th century: Symbolism Art Nouveau Pre-Raphaelites Orientalists and Belle Époque. Each issue of four prints was printed in 2000 copies sold for 3.50F and 100 on Japan paper offered at 10F. Henri Piazza also planned a confidential very deluxe printing: 50 copies on Japan paper with wide margins and 50 in black on China paper at the considerable price of 30F. This print of handsome format is superbly printed on one of the most prestigious papers: China paper. ""Despite all its qualities China paper too inconsistent owes its reputation not to its own beauty but rather to its particular affinities with printing ink. Its texture smooth and soft at once is more apt than any other to receive a beautiful impression. This property makes China paper sought after for printing engravings."" Anatole France. French collectors' interest in artistic posters grew at the beginning of the 1890s. Octave Uzanne to describe this fever invented the term ""affichomanie."" The poster originally popular and pasted on the streets of the capital then became an art object and its ephemeral medium became precious and destined for preservation. Piazza decided to remove the poster from its advertising purpose and elevate it to the rank of a complete work of art on the same level as the deluxe illustrated book. He thus composed a prestigious collection of entirely original works by the most prominent European artists of the moment: Georges de Feure Eugène Grasset Henri Detouche Emile Berchmans Louis Rhead Gaston de Latenay Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer Gustave-Max Stevens Charles Doudelet Hans Christiansen Henri Fantin-Latour Steinlen Ibels Engels Willette Henri Meunier Evenepoël Bellery-Desfontaines Charles Léandre etc. Handsome copy in the orientalist style of the artist. Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza unknown
Bookseller reference : 73891
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Louis-Auguste GIRARDOT
"Femme du Riff"" - Lithographie originale sur Japon - L'Estampe Moderne
Paris: Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza 1897. Fine. Imprimerie Champenois pour CH. Masson H. Piazza Paris Mai 1897 23 x 32 cm une feuille Rare original color lithograph executed by Louis-Auguste Girardot for L'Estampe Moderne series number 1 published in May 1897. One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on Japan paper with full margins artist's signature and date in the plate publisher's dry stamp representing a child's profile in the lower margin numbered stamp of the deluxe issue on verso; print preceded by tissue guard. Magnificent French monthly publication issued between May 1897 and April 1899 L'Estampe moderne consists of original chromolithographs which unlike other magazines such as Les Maîtres de l'Affiche and as stipulated on the tissue guards were created specifically by each artist for the magazine. Thus 100 prints appeared in total covering the major artistic movements of the late 19th century: Symbolism Art Nouveau Pre-Raphaelites Orientalists and Belle Époque. Each delivery of four prints was issued in 2000 copies sold at 3.50F and 100 on Japan paper offered at 10F. Henri Piazza also planned a confidential deluxe issue: 50 copies on Japan paper with full margins and 50 in black on China paper at the considerable price of 30F. This print of handsome format is superbly printed in colors on the most prestigious paper: Japan. Thick silky satin and pearlescent it contributes to making each page a complete work in its own right. Its ink absorption quality and its affinity with colors also make it the ideal support for these very fine lithographs. French collectors' interest in artistic posters grew in the early 1890s. Octave Uzanne to describe this fever invented the term ""affichomanie."" The poster originally popular and displayed in the streets of the capital then became an art object and its ephemeral medium became precious and destined for conservation. Piazza decided to remove the poster from its advertising purpose and elevate it to the rank of a complete work of art on the same level as the deluxe illustrated book. He thus composed a prestigious collection of entirely original works by the most prominent European artists of the moment: Georges de Feure Eugène Grasset Henri Detouche Emile Berchmans Louis Rhead Gaston de Latenay Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer Gustave-Max Stevens. Handsome copy in the artist's orientalist style. Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza unknown
Bookseller reference : 73889
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Louis-Auguste MARTIN
Histoire de la morale : la morale chez les chinois
Paris: Lib. Bestel 1859. Fine. Lib. Bestel Paris 1859 11.50 x 18.50 cm relié First edition. Half-shagreen binding in black spine with four raised bands showing very slight traces of rubbing decorated with fleurons stippling and double gilt fillets. Gift inscription on the half-title page. Occasional light foxing a pale angular dampstain affecting the final leaves. Rare. Lib. Bestel hardcover
Bookseller reference : 14983
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Louis-Auguste BERTRAND
Mémoires d'un mormon
Paris: E. Dentu 1862. Fine. E. Dentu Paris s. d. 1862 12 x 19 cm broché First edition. Repaired tear without loss affecting the spine small corner lacks to the front cover. Rare copy. E. Dentu unknown
Bookseller reference : 4935
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Louis-Auguste BERTRAND
Mémoires d'un mormon
Paris: E. Dentu 1862. Fine. E. Dentu Paris s. d. 1862 12 x 19 cm broché First edition. A very good and rare copy. E. Dentu unknown
Bookseller reference : 3902
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Louis-Auguste PICARD
Origines de l'école de cavalerie et de ses traditions équestres
Saumur: S. Milon & fils 1890. Fine. S. Milon & fils Saumur s. d. 1890 19.50 x 28.50 cm 2 volumes reliés First edition. Modern binding in half cloth covers preserved lined and with angular lacks. Illustrated with 52 engravings hors-texte. A little light spotting. S. Milon & fils hardcover
Bookseller reference : 42977
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Louis-Benoit PICARD
Théâtre républicain posthume et inédit publié par Charles Lemesle
Paris: Mme Charles BéchetJ.N. BarbaLecointe et Pougin 1832. Fine. Mme Charles Béchet J.N. Barba Lecointe et Pougin Paris 1832 13 x 20.50 cm relié First edition. Half cherry red sheep binding smooth spine decorated with gilt arabesques double gilt fillets at head and foot light rubbing to joints without significance marbled paper boards contemporary binding. Some foxing mainly at beginning and end of volume. Mme Charles BéchetJ.N. BarbaLecointe et Pougin hardcover
Bookseller reference : 36885
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Louis-Charles LUTZ
Contribution à l'étude chimique et botanique des gommes
Lons-Le-Saunier: Imprimerie & Lith. Lucien Declume 1895. Fine. Imprimerie & Lith. Lucien Declume Lons-Le-Saunier 1895 16.50 x 25 cm broché First edition of this thesis defended to obtain the rank of first-class pharmacist. Spine cracked at head and foot with minor lacks first cover marginally soiled and spotted small corner lacks to covers Autograph inscription signed by Louis-Charles Lutz the dedicatee's name has been scraped off. Rare pamphlet complete with its three plates including 2 in color at the end of the volume. Imprimerie & Lith. Lucien Declume unknown
Bookseller reference : 37442
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Louis-Charles PELLIER
Essai élémentaire sur l'art de l'équitation. Volume de texte seul
Paris: Chez M.F. Le Franc 1858. Fine. Chez M.F. Le Franc Paris 1858 13.50 x 22 cm relié Third edition published by François Le Blanc student of the author and editor of this work. Full aubergine calf binding spine and boards marginally soiled spine with four raised bands with a lack at head joints rubbed tears on leading edges a small stain at head of second board lower corners slightly bumped cold-stamped decorative border on pastedowns marbled endpapers and pastedowns contemporary binding. Autograph inscription signed by the editor to mademoiselle Sophie Séguin on an endpaper who was his student in equestrian art. Rare and handsome copy. Our copy lacks its volume of plates. Chez M.F. Le Franc hardcover
Bookseller reference : 47243
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Louis-Charles DESNOS
Etrennes utiles et nécessaires aux commerçans et voyageurs ou Indicateur fidèle enseignant toutes les routes royales et particulières de la France et les chemins de communication qui traversent les grandes routes : les villes bourgs villages hameaux châteaux abbayes hôtelleries rivières bois et les limites de chaque province
à Paris: Chez Desnos 1785. Fine. Chez Desnos à Paris 1785 6 x 11 cm In-24 relié New edition illustrated with 2 double maps and 156 maps engraved recto-verso all heightened in colors. One frontispiece and one engraved title. Contemporary publisher's binding in full red morocco. Smooth spine decorated. Brown morocco title label. Gilt edges. One restoration at foot and one at corner. Gilding sometimes faded. Good copy. Chez Desnos unknown
Bookseller reference : 55445
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Louis-Charles ROYER
La nymphe du Gévaudan
Paris: Les éditions de Paris 1953. Fine. Les éditions de Paris Paris 1953 12 x 19 cm broché First edition one of 70 copies hors commerce numbered on cloth of annonay ours specially printed for Madame Jacqueline Zay only large paper. Signed autograph of Louis Charles Royer Jacqueline Zay below the justification of the draw "". . Hoping that this bold deceive the Naiad"" Cover art by Jean-Denis Maillant. Nice copy. Les éditions de Paris hardcover
Bookseller reference : 58471
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Louis-Charles de LAVICOMTERIE
Les crimes des papes depuis S. Pierre jusqu'à Pie VI
à Paris: Au bureau des Révolutions de Paris 1792. Fine. Au bureau des Révolutions de Paris à Paris 1792 12 x 20 cm relié First edition illustrated with a frontispiece and nine fine figures drawn and engraved by Ransonette illustrating crimes and executions. Contemporary half tawny sheep with corners smooth spine with gilt title-label and roulettes. Rubbed. Lacking at head. Corners slightly bumped. Frontispiece doubled. Title page with some stains. Extremely pamphleteer in nature the crimes of the popes trace and catalog pope by pope the abuses committed in the name of papal authority but without great historical precision. Born in 1746 Lavicomterie had begun his career as an author with strictly literary works but at the time of the Revolution his anticlericalism and anti-royalism brought him to the position of deputy where he voted for the death of Louis XVI. Besides the crimes of the popes Lavicomterie would publish other highly engaged works such as the Crimes of the German Emperors the crimes of the Turkish emperors as well as the crimes of the kings of France. Au bureau des Révolutions de Paris unknown
Bookseller reference : 33461
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Louis-Charles ROYER
Les Fiancées d'Heidelberg
Paris: Editions de Paris 1952. Fine. Editions de Paris Paris 1952 12 x 19 cm broché First edition one of 32 numbered and named copies on alfa paper. Spine creased. Autograph inscription signed by Louis-Charles Royer below the justification page. Editions de Paris unknown
Bookseller reference : 77946
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Louis-Charles DENEUX
Mémoire sur les bouts de seins ou mamelons artificiels et les biberons
Paris: Chez Just-Rouvier Libraire rue de l'école de Médecine n° 8 1833. Fine. Chez Just-Rouvier Libraire rue de l'école de Médecine n° 8 Paris 1833 14 x 21.70 cm cousu First edition. Blue printed soft cover. Cover rubbed some tears and missing spine. Very rare essay on feeding bottles by the famous obstetrician Louis-Charles Deneux. He assisted the Duchess of Berry with the birth of the duke of Bordeaux last legitimate descendant of Louis XV of France in the male line. Presented before the Paris Academy of Medicine of which he was a member of the surgical section at the sessions of 12 and 19 February 1833. Deneux was the nephew and pupil of the famous Baudelocque from whom he took courses in surgery and childbirth from 1782 to 1789. Provenance: Mr Duval penciled ex-libris on the cover; this could be François Marie Mathurin Duval surgeon elected national correspondent of the Academy of Medicine on January 2 1827. OCLC lists only two copies in America Harvard Williams College. Chez Just-Rouvier, Libraire, rue de l'école de Médecine, n° 8 paperback
Bookseller reference : 86821
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Louis-Charles-Francois PETIT-RADEL
Recherches sur les bibliothèques anciennes et modernes jusqu'à la fondation de la bibliothèque Mazarine et sur les causes qui ont favorisé l'accroissement successif du nombre de ses livres
Paris: Chez Rey et Gavier 1819. Fine. Chez Rey et Gavier Paris 1819 13.50 x 21.50 cm broché First edition. A dampstain at foot throughout the work spine split title written in black ink at head of unlettered spine. The frontispiece and two folding plans are lacking from our copy presented in temporary wrappers and in its original stitching. Chez Rey et Gavier unknown
Bookseller reference : 81059
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Louis-Elisabeth de La Vergne TRESSAN
Histoire du petit Jehan de Saintré et de la dame des Belles-Cousines
à Paris: Chez Lepetit & Guillemard 1792. Fine. Chez Lepetit & Guillemard à Paris 1792 8 x 14 cm relié New edition illustrated with a frontispiece and 3 figures by Moreau le jeune engraved by Carrée on strong paper and dated 1791. This edition was published by Didot in 1791. Copy with unidentified arms with three bars charged with three shells two shells and one shell. The arms appear to have been scraped and are without gold. Collar of the Holy Spirit and president's cap. Contemporary full bordeaux morocco binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Triple angular fillet with tools in the corners and angular fleurons arms at the centers of the covers. Upper joint cracked at head and foot. Corners slightly bumped. Adaptation by the famous late 18th-century medievalist Tressan of this medieval romance. Chez Lepetit & Guillemard hardcover
Bookseller reference : 52810
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Louis-Elisabeth de La Vergne TRESSAN
Jehan de Saintré. - Gérard de Nevers. - Regner Lodbrog. - Robert
Paris: NepveuAimé-André 1822. Fine. Nepveu Aimé-André Paris 1822 13 x 21 cm relié New edition. Full navy blue calf binding smooth spine decorated with three gilt cartouches embellished with romantic gilt arabesques gilt roulettes on headcaps triple gilt fillet frame with four gilt fleurons on boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns gilt dentelle frame on pastedowns gilt edges on leading edges all edges gilt elegant contemporary romantic binding. Work illustrated with 3 hors-texte engravings. Some foxing. Copy established in a charming contemporary romantic binding. NepveuAimé-André hardcover
Bookseller reference : 50935
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Louis-Elisabeth de La Vergne TRESSAN
Oeuvres Choisies Du Comte De Tressan avec figures
A Paris rue et hôtel Serpente: MaradanDesrayGiguet 1791. Fine. Maradan Desray Giguet A Paris rue et hôtel Serpente 1791 12 x 19.80 cm relié First collected edition illustrated with a frontispiece portrait engraved by de Launay after Bérel and 20 figures by Marillier engraved by Delvaux de Ghendt Croutelle Patas Langlois jeune de Monchy de Launay. Volumes 11 and 12 comprise the author's posthumous works and bear volume numbers 1 and 2 on the title page. A third volume of these posthumous works would appear in 1800. Contemporary full speckled calf. Smooth spine decorated with urn tools and stars; roulettes. Framing frieze on boards. Morocco title and volume labels in black. Headcaps of volumes 1 4 5 8 11 and 12 worn or partially worn. Foot caps of volumes 1 2 4 6 likewise. Title and volume labels of volume 4 largely missing. Half of the title label of volume 7 is also absent. Headcap of volume 11 partially torn. The Count of Tressan did much through his adaptations for the rehabilitation of the Middle Ages and Renaissance literature that inherited from the 15th century. It is clear that at the end of the 18th century these works would have been unreadable to the public. This interest in the Middle Ages would fully emerge with Romanticism the Empire having brought antiquity back into fashion. Here is the content of the first 10 volumes the last two being composed of various works letters essays.: vols. 1-2. Free translation of Amadis of Gaul vols. 1-2 -- vol. 3. Free translation of Amadis of Gaul vol. 3. Extract from Orlando Innamorato by Matheo-Maria Boyardo Count of Scandiano -- vols. 4-6. Orlando Furioso heroic poem by Ariosto. vols. 7-10. Body of extracts from chivalric romances: 7. Preliminary discourse. Tristan of Léonois. Artus of Brittany. Flores and Blanche-Fleur. Cléomades and Claremonde. Romance of the Rose. Pierre of Provence and beautiful Maguelone. 8. The flower of battles. Huon of Bordeaux. Guérin of Montglave. 9. Dom Ursino the Navarin. Little Jehan of Saintré. Gerard of Nevers. 10. Research on the origin of novels invented before the Christian era. History of Rigda and Regner Lodbrog. Zélie or The ingenue [ MaradanDesrayGiguet] hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30247
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Louis-Elisabeth de La Vergne TRESSAN
Oeuvres du comte de Tressan
Paris: NepveuAimé-André 1823. Fine. Nepveu Aimé-André Paris 1823 13 x 21.50 cm 10 volumes reliés The most complete first collected edition published to date illustrated with a frontispiece and 11 figures. Contemporary full olive glazed calf bindings. Smooth spines slightly faded decorated with gilt tools gilt friezes at head and foot. Red morocco title and volume labels gilt roulettes on headcaps. Gilt dentelle frame and fillet on boards. Some corners slightly bumped without consequence one headcap worn. Occasional light foxing. Handsome copy in elegant contemporary binding. The Count of Tressan died in 1783 largely contributed to the rediscovery of medieval literature through his literary adaptations especially in public taste thus preparing two major currents: Gothic literature and then Romantic literature with its inveterate taste for the Middle Ages. NepveuAimé-André hardcover
Bookseller reference : 36718
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Louis-Ferdinand CELINE
" Et puis aussi gratitudes pour tout le soin qu'elle a pris de Mme Gen Paul !. Laquelle ne donne aucune nouvelle. Quelle vacherie encore . Comme c'est amusant !"" Signed autograph letter addressed to Master Thorvald Mikkelsen
s. l. Klarskovgaard 1950. Fine. s. l. Klarskovgaard 17 novembre 1950 21 x 34 cm 2 pages sur un feuillet Autograph letter signed with the initials of Louis-Ferdinand Céline addressed to his lawyer Master Thorvald Mikkelsen. Two pages written in blue ink on a large sheet of white paper; number ""568"" in Céline's hand in red pencil at the top left. Transversal folds inherent to mailing. This letter was very partially transcribed in Année Céline 2005. Early November 1950 Gaby Paul had come to visit Céline and Lucette at Klarskovgaard: ""Oh mille mercis à Mme Christensen pour son aimable repas qui réchauffé fit nos délices ! Et puis aussi gratitudes pour tout le soin qu'elle a pris de Mme Gen Paul !. Laquelle ne donne aucune nouvelle. Quelle vacherie encore . Comme c'est amusant ! Je crois qu'elle avait des projets ""journalistiques"" mais que mon attitude l'a désenchantée. """"Oh a thousand thanks to Madame Christensen for her kind meal which reheated was our delight! And also gratitude for all the care she took of Mme Gen Paul!. Who gives no news. What nastiness again. How amusing! I believe she had 'journalistic' projects but my attitude disenchanted her."" Céline also mentions the Swedish writer Ernst Bendz one of the few to defend Céline alongside Paraz: ""Une lettre amusante de Bendz ! Bendz appartient vraiment à l'aristocratie des esprits ! La preuve ! La façon qu'il ""m'estime""!!!""""An amusing letter from Bendz! Bendz truly belongs to the aristocracy of minds! The proof! The way he 'esteems me'!!!"" In 1947 Céline pursued by French justice for his collaborationist involvement was confined in Denmark. It was in May 1948 accompanied by Lucette and Bébert that he arrived at his lawyer Master Thorvald Mikkelsen's home at Klarskovgaard. The latter owned a large property by the Baltic Sea and invited the exile to stay there. On February 21 1950 as part of the épuration the writer was definitively sentenced in absentia by the civic chamber of the Paris Court of Justice for collaboration to one year of imprisonment which he had already served in Denmark. The Swedish Consul General in Paris Raoul Nordling intervened on his behalf with Gustav Rasmussen Danish Foreign Minister and managed to delay his extradition. On April 20 1951 Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour his lawyer since 1948 obtained Céline's amnesty under the title of ""severely disabled veteran of the Great War"" by presenting his file under the name Louis-Ferdinand Destouches without any magistrate making the connection. Céline would leave Denmark the following summer after three years spent at his lawyer's home. unknown
Bookseller reference : 80910
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Louis-Ferdinand CELINE
". et les avions foncer charger fendre ces flots ! les ""forteresses"" ! aller et retour !"" A handwritten autograph sheet for Normance Féérie pour une autre fois II
Meudon 1954. Fine. Meudon 1954 20.70 x 26.80 cm une page sur un feuillet Autograph manuscript signed by Louis-Ferdinand Céline written in blue ballpoint pen on a sheet of white paper numbered 565 in the left corner. One transverse fold. Some pin holes in the upper margin evidence of the organization of Céline manuscripts in ""bundles"". « torrents de phosphore jaillir des brèches ! . et les avions foncer charger fendre ces flots ! les ""forteresses"" ! aller et retour ! et que c'est le Jules le crime » ""torrents of phosphorus gushing from the breaches! . and the planes rushing charging cleaving these waves! the ""fortresses""! back and forth! and that it's Jules who's the crime"" The passage on our sheet conforms to the published version. Published in 1954 Normance is a direct sequel to Féérie pour une autre fois which appeared two years earlier. Both parts were written during Céline's years of exile and imprisonment in Denmark. Upon his return to France in 1951 Céline undertook a work of ""polishing"" and published these two titanic texts independently originally conceived as one. ""Céline while working on it thought of this novel as a second Voyage au bout de la nuit capable twenty years later of astonishing the public as much as the 1932 novel."" Henri Godard unknown
Bookseller reference : 84046
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Louis-Ferdinand CELINE
"Il paraît qu'il est question de me poursuivre à nouveau d'après Les Beaux Draps. "" Signed autograph letter addressed to Master Thorvald Mikkelsen
s. l. Klarskovgaard 1950. Fine. s. l. Klarskovgaard 7 octobre 1950 21 x 34 cm 2 pages sur 2 feuillets Partly unpublished autograph letter signed by Louis-Ferdinand Céline addressed to his ""dear Master and defender"" Maître Thorvald Mikkelsen. Two pages written in blue ink on two large sheets of white paper; numbers ""580"" and ""581"" in Céline's hand in the upper left corner in red pencil. Transverse folds inherent to the mailing. This letter was very partially transcribed in the Année Céline 2005. Autograph letter signed by Louis-Ferdinand Céline addressed to his ""dear Master and defender"" Maître Thorvald Mikkelsen. Two pages written in blue ink on two large sheets of white paper; numbers ""580"" and ""581"" in Céline's hand in the upper left corner in red pencil. Transverse folds inherent to the mailing. Céline sends Mikkelsen an article: ""Pour intéressé que vous soyez aux choses de l'esprit je crois avoir remarqué que les turlupinades des banques changes fricoteries diverses vous amusaient aussi. Ci-donc joint article assez farceur relatant certaines galipettes de l'or et ses escrocs changeurs à Paris évidemment !"" ""However interested you may be in matters of the mind I believe I have noticed that the buffooneries of banks exchanges and various swindles also amuse you. Here therefore attached is a rather farcical article relating certain antics of gold and its swindling money-changers in Paris obviously!"" The writer attached to his letter another sheet whose numerous underlinings bear witness to the persecution he felt victim to: ""Maintenant qu'on remonte la Ligne Maginot qu'on recrée une Légion Anti Bolchéviques une armée franco-allemande il paraît qu'il est question de me poursuivre à nouveau d'après les Beaux Draps mais cette fois pour antigermanisme et sabotage de l'Europe Nouvelle et irrespect pour Hitler ! Oh je n'en mène pas large !"" ""Now that they're rebuilding the Maginot Line recreating an Anti-Bolshevik Legion a Franco-German army it seems they're planning to prosecute me again based on Les Beaux Draps but this time for anti-Germanism and sabotage of the New Europe and disrespect for Hitler! Oh I'm not feeling very confident!"" In 1947 Céline pursued by French justice for his collaborationist involvement was confined in Denmark. It was in May 1948 accompanied by Lucette and Bébert that he arrived at his lawyer Maître Thorvald Mikkelsen's home in Klarskovgaard. The latter owned a large property by the Baltic Sea and invited the exile to stay there. On February 21 1950 as part of the purge the writer was definitively condemned in absentia by the civic chamber of the Paris Court of Justice for collaboration to one year of imprisonment which he had already served in Denmark. The Swedish Consul General in Paris Raoul Nordling intervened on his behalf with Gustav Rasmussen the Danish Foreign Minister and managed to delay his extradition. On April 20 1951 Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour his lawyer since 1948 obtained Céline's amnesty as a ""severely disabled veteran of the Great War"" by presenting his file under the name of Louis-Ferdinand Destouches without any magistrate making the connection. Céline would leave Denmark the following summer after three years spent at his lawyer's home. In 1947 Céline pursued by French justice for his collaborationist involvement was confined in Denmark. It was in May 1948 accompanied by Lucette and Bébert that he arrived at his lawyer Maître Thorvald Mikkelsen's home in Klarskovgaard. The latter owned a large property by the Baltic Sea and invited the exile to stay there. On February 21 1950 as part of the purge the writer was definitively condemned in absentia by the civic chamber of the Paris Court of Justice for collaboration to one year of imprisonment which he had already served in Denmark. The Swedish Consul General in Paris Raoul Nordling intervened on his behalf with Gustav Rasmussen the Danish Foreign Minister and managed to delay his extradition. On unknown
Bookseller reference : 76186
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Louis-Ferdinand CELINE
"j'ai pas de cinéma personnel j'ai pas de bruitage j'ai pas de critiques ""rémunérés"" j'ai que l'hostilité du monde et la catastrophe !"" A handwritten autograph sheet for Normance Féérie pour une autre fois II
Meudon 1954. Fine. Meudon 1954 20.70 x 26.80 cm une page sur un feuillet Autograph manuscript signed by Louis-Ferdinand Céline written in blue and pink ballpoint pens on a white paper sheet numbered 507 in the left corner. One transverse fold. Some pin holes in the upper margin stigmata of the organization of Céline manuscripts in ""bundles"". « j'ai pas de cinéma personnel j'ai pas de bruitage j'ai pas de critiques ""rémunérés"" j'ai que l'hostilité du monde et la catastrophe ! je perds la catastrophe je suis perdu ! . chienlit ! charlatan ! barbeau mou ! Comme ça vous m'intitulez si vous me trouvez pas dans la loge en plein enragement d'éléments ! je veux pas que vous. » The passage in our sheet presents some variations from the published version. Published in 1954 Normance is a direct sequel to Féérie pour une autre fois published two years earlier. Both parts were written during Céline's years of exile and imprisonment in Denmark. Upon his return to France in 1951 Céline undertook a work of ""polishing"" and published independently these two titanic texts originally envisioned as one. ""Céline while working on it thought of this novel as a second Voyage au bout de la nuit capable twenty years later of astonishing the public as much as the 1932 novel."" Henri Godard unknown
Bookseller reference : 84027
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Louis-Ferdinand CELINE
"Je ne sais pas quels crimes j'ai commis mais pour ces fourbes canailles du 18eme Arrt. ma légende de bistrot en bistrot est devenue un Super Niebelung d'horreurs ! C'est rigolo. Au point qu'aucun n'ose me venir voir ici !"" Signed autograph letter addressed to Master Thorvald Mikkelsen
s. l. Klarskovgaard 1950. Fine. s. l. Klarskovgaard 17 novembre 1950 21 x 34 cm 1 page sur un feuillet Autograph letter signed with the paraph of Louis-Ferdinand Céline addressed to his lawyer Master Thorvald Mikkelsen. One page written in blue ink on a large sheet of white paper; number ""566"" in Céline's hand in red pencil at the top left. Transversal folds inherent to mailing. This letter was very partially transcribed in Année Céline 2005. Early November 1950 Gaby Paul had come to visit Céline and Lucette at Klarskovgaard: ""Mme Gen Paul a repris la route de Montmartre toute ravie de votre accueil ! A moi de vous remercier chaleureusement car enfin j'espère que votre généreuse réception me sera comptée ""à indulgence""."" ""Mme Gen Paul has taken the road back to Montmartre delighted with your welcome! It is for me to thank you warmly because I finally hope that your generous reception will be counted in my favor as 'indulgence'."" Through her intermediary Céline evidently received news of his former Montmartre companions: ""Je ne sais pas quels crimes j'ai commis mais pour ces fourbes canailles du 18eme Arrt. ma légende de bistrot en bistrot est devenue un Super Niebelung d'horreurs ! C'est rigolo. Au point qu'aucun n'ose me venir voir ici !"" ""I don't know what crimes I committed but for these deceitful scoundrels of the 18th district my legend from bistro to bistro has become a Super Niebelung of horrors! It's amusing. To the point that none dare come to see me here!"" In 1947 Céline pursued by French justice for his collaborationist involvement was confined in Denmark. It was in May 1948 accompanied by Lucette and Bébert that he arrived at his lawyer Master Thorvald Mikkelsen's home at Klarskovgaard. The latter owned a large property by the Baltic Sea and invited the exile to stay there. On February 21 1950 as part of the épuration the writer was definitively sentenced in absentia by the civic chamber of the Paris Court of Justice for collaboration to one year of imprisonment which he had already served in Denmark. The Swedish Consul General in Paris Raoul Nordling intervened on his behalf with Gustav Rasmussen Danish Foreign Minister and managed to delay his extradition. On April 20 1951 Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour his lawyer since 1948 obtained Céline's amnesty under the title of ""severely disabled veteran of the Great War"" by presenting his file under the name Louis-Ferdinand Destouches without any magistrate making the connection. Céline would leave Denmark the following summer after three years spent at his lawyer's home. unknown
Bookseller reference : 80911
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Louis-Ferdinand CELINE
"Je viens de perdre à l'hospice d'Angers encore une dernière parente"" Signed autograph letter addressed to Master Thorvald Mikkelsen
s. l. Klarskovgaard 1950. Fine. s. l. Klarskovgaard 8 décembre 1950 21 x 34 cm 2 pages sur un feuillet Autograph letter signed partly unpublished by Louis-Ferdinand Céline addressed to his lawyer Maître Thorvald Mikkelsen. Two pages written in blue ink on a large sheet of white paper; numbered 575 in Célines hand in red pencil at the top left corner. Fold marks from mailing. This letter was only partially transcribed in Année Céline 2005 p. 64. A moving and bitter letter by Céline who had just lost his aunt Amélie the Aunt Hélène of Death on Credit and witnesses the slow disappearance of the world he once knew. The writer finds solace in the memoirs of Élisabeth de Gramont another witness to a bygone era. From his Danish exile Céline learns with sorrow of the death of his Aunt Amélie the last surviving member of the Destouches family: Je viens de perdre à l'hospice d'Angers encore une dernière parente. Although he had not spared his alter ego in Death on Creditthe scandalous Aunt Hélène meets a shameful end trailed by suitors lovers or clientshe recalls: À Saint-Pétersbourg elle est devenue grue. . Elle est venue nous voir au Passage deux fois de suite frusquée superbe comme une princesse et heureuse et tout. Elle a terminé très tragiquement sous les balles dun officier. The real Aunt Amélie had settled in Romania married to a diplomat Zenon Zawirski. Unfortunately reality caught up with fiction: she returned to Paris in utter destitution at the age of 80. Céline arranged for her transfer from the hospice of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Breteuil to the hospital in Angers where she died in December 1950 Que la pauvre femme meure gentiment. Assez de fins tragiques dans la famille ! he had written to Dr. Camus on 11 July 1949. His secretary Marie Canavaggia met her before her arrival in Angers: elle avait par moments des gestes et des expressions qui en éclairs me rappelaient son neveu 13 July 1949. With the last of his family gone Céline reflects on his own end: si ça continue si je rentre jamais en France je foncerai directement au cimetière. Devouring the books his lawyer sent to ease the burden of exile Céline describes his current readings: Le Temps des équipages by Élisabeth de Gramont est un des livres fameux parus vers 1920 ! Lun des « Guides des Snobs » les mieux réussis de lÉpoque. It is striking to imagine Céline delighting in this aristocrats social chronicle so alien to his world: Javais un ami Carré de Rennes étudiant en droit qui lavait appris par cur ! . il sen est établi marchand de tableaux. As a young medical student Céline had indeed crossed paths with Louis Carré later a successful Parisian art dealer who exhibited Paul Klee Juan Gris Le Corbusier and Picasso: il y a fait 10 fois fortune ! Preuve que tous les livres ne sont pas déprimants ! In 1947 pursued by French justice for his collaborationist stance Céline took refuge in Denmark. In May 1948 accompanied by Lucette and Bébert he arrived at the home of his lawyer Maître Thorvald Mikkelsen in Klarskovgaard. Mikkelsen owned a large estate on the Baltic Sea and welcomed the exiled writer to stay. On 21 February 1950 as part of the post-war purge Céline was definitively sentenced in absentia by the Civic Chamber of the Paris Court of Justice to one year in prison for collaboration a sentence already served in Denmark. Raoul Nordling the Swedish consul general in Paris intervened on his behalf with Gustav Rasmussen the Danish Foreign Minister successfully delaying his extradition. On 20 April 1951 Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour his lawyer since 1948 obtained Célines amnesty as a severely disabled veteran of the Great War submitting the case under the name Louis-Ferdinand Destouches without the magistrates making the connection. Céline left Denmark that summer after three years spent in his lawyers home. unknown
Bookseller reference : 76172
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Louis-Ferdinand CELINE
"Le passeport français est moche mais il vaut mieux que rien."" Signed autograph letter addressed to Master Thorvald Mikkelsen
s. l. Klarskovgaard 1950. Fine. s. l. Klarskovgaard 12 octobre 1950 21 x 34 cm 2 pages sur un feuillet Partly unpublished autograph letter signed by Louis-Ferdinand Céline ""ami tenace et obligé"" addressed to his lawyer Maître Thorvald Mikkelsen. Two pages written in blue ink on a large sheet of white paper; number ""579"" in Céline's hand in red pencil at top left. Transverse folds inherent to posting. This letter was very partially transcribed in the Année Céline 2005. Very enigmatic letter: ""Aladin avait déjà une très jolie lampe - avec celle là vous allez voir un peu les trésors que je vais découvrir. Vous avez raison du reste - Carpe Diem ! Mais vous savez la moitié au moins du destin : c'est le PASSEPORT. Le passeport français est moche et moch. mais il vaut mieux que rien."" ""Aladdin already had a very pretty lamp - with this one you're going to see the treasures I'm going to discover. You're right besides - Carpe Diem! But you know at least half of destiny: it's the PASSPORT. The French passport is ugly and ugly. but it's better than nothing."" Note in passing the play on words with the name of Jules Moch vice-president of the council from 1949 to 1950. He informs Mikkelsen: ""J'ai aussi merde ! un cadeau à vous offrir et que vous accepterez nom de dieu ! parce que c'est un livre en Suédois ! donc scandinave ! donc divin ! donc touchable acceptable recevable non puant."" ""I also have damn! a gift to offer you and which you will accept by God! because it's a book in Swedish! therefore Scandinavian! therefore divine! therefore touchable acceptable receivable non-stinking."" In 1947 Céline pursued by French justice for his collaborationist involvement is confined in Denmark. It is in May 1948 accompanied by Lucette and Bébert that he arrives at his lawyer Maître Thorvald Mikkelsen's home in Klarskovgaard. The latter owns a large property by the Baltic Sea and invites the exile to stay there. On February 21 1950 as part of the purification process the writer is definitively sentenced in absentia by the civic chamber of the Paris Court of Justice for collaboration to one year's imprisonment which he had already served in Denmark. The Swedish consul general in Paris Raoul Nordling intervenes on his behalf with Gustav Rasmussen Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs and manages to delay his extradition. On April 20 1951 Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour his lawyer since 1948 obtains Céline's amnesty as a ""severely disabled veteran of the Great War"" by presenting his file under the name Louis-Ferdinand Destouches without any magistrate making the connection. Céline would leave Denmark the following summer after three years spent at his lawyer's home. unknown
Bookseller reference : 75963
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Louis-Ferdinand CELINE
"on passe des bachots à tout âge !"" Signed autograph letter addressed to Master Thorvald Mikkelsen
s. l. Klarskovgaard 1950. Fine. s. l. Klarskovgaard 28 octobre 1950 21 x 34 cm 1 pages sur un feuillet Partly unpublished autograph letter signed by ""your touchy LF"" Louis-Ferdinand Céline addressed to his lawyer Maître Thorvald Mikkelsen. One page written in blue ink on a large sheet of white paper; number ""563"" in Céline's hand in the upper left corner in red pencil. Transverse folds inherent to the mailing. This letter was very partially transcribed in the Année Céline 2005. Céline after days of suffering from the cold is delighted to announce to his friend that he has received heating: ""Le fourneau se pose en ce moment. Je ne sais pas si la maison y résistera l'on verra !"" ""The stove is being installed right now. I don't know if the house will withstand it we shall see!"" This letter also mentions his Swedish friend Ernst Bendz like him a doctor and writer: ""Benz sic vous cherche un La Bruyère en suédois - on passe des bachots à tout âge !"" ""Bendz is looking for a La Bruyère in Swedish for you - one takes exams at any age!"" In 1947 Céline pursued by French justice for his collaborationist involvement was confined in Denmark. It was in May 1948 accompanied by Lucette and Bébert that he arrived at his lawyer Maître Thorvald Mikkelsen's home in Klarskovgaard. The latter owned a large property by the Baltic Sea and invited the exile to stay there. On February 21 1950 as part of the purge the writer was definitively condemned in absentia by the civic chamber of the Paris Court of Justice for collaboration to one year of imprisonment which he had already served in Denmark. The Swedish Consul General in Paris Raoul Nordling intervened on his behalf with Gustav Rasmussen the Danish Foreign Minister and managed to delay his extradition. On April 20 1951 Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour his lawyer since 1948 obtained Céline's amnesty as a ""severely disabled veteran of the Great War"" by presenting his file under the name of Louis-Ferdinand Destouches without any magistrate making the connection. Céline would leave Denmark the following summer after three years spent at his lawyer's home. unknown
Bookseller reference : 76185
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Louis-Ferdinand CELINE
"Y'en a un charlatant là-haut ! et terrible ! et vous le connaissez !."" A handwritten autograph sheet for Normance Féérie pour une autre fois II
Meudon 1954. Fine. Meudon 1954 21.20 x 26.10 cm une page sur un feuillet Autograph manuscript signed by Louis-Ferdinand Céline written in blue ballpoint pen on a sheet of white paper numbered 237 in the left corner. Some stains as well as a central fold of no consequence. Some pinholes in the upper margin evidence of the organization of Céline's manuscripts in ""bundles"". ""Y'en a un charlatant là-haut ! et terrible ! et vous le connaissez !. donc de dessous là ! de dessous la table je regarde le moulin. pas loin. peut-être deux cents mètres. et dans quel air éblouissant !. eh bien je vous dis comme je l'ai vu."" ""There's a charlatan up there! and terrible! and you know him!. so from underneath there! from under the table I look at the windmill. not far. maybe two hundred meters. and in what dazzling air!. well I tell you as I saw it."" The passage from our sheet conforms to the published version. Published in 1954 Normance is a direct sequel to Féérie pour une autre fois published two years earlier. The two parts were written during Céline's years of exile and imprisonment in Denmark. Upon his return to France in 1951 Céline undertook a work of ""polishing"" and published these two titanic texts independently originally conceived as one. ""Céline while working on it thought of this novel as a second Voyage au bout de la nuit capable twenty years later of astonishing the public as much as the 1932 novel."" Henri Godard unknown
Bookseller reference : 83967
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Louis-Ferdinand CELINE
34 Feuillets autographes signés - Ensemble de manuscrits de travail pour les Entretiens avec le Professeur Y
s. l. Meudon 1954. Fine. Céline's Ars Poetica: ""I capture all the emotion on the surface! I cram it into my metro! s. l. Meudon s. d. 1954 10 x 21 cm 34 feuillets Manuscript pages from Conversations with Professor Y' n.p. Meudon n.d. 1954 various sizes from 10x21 cm to 27x21 cm 34 sheets. Autograph manuscript by Louis-Ferdinand Céline 34 sheets of various sizes written in blue and sometimes pink ballpoint pen. Some of the pages are numbered by Céline at top left. The last folio numbered 159 is signed by the writer at the bottom. Two leaves contain previously unpublished passages: the first a few lines long refers to the Professeur. The second leaf numbered 136 features another full-page text on the verso which we did not find in the Professeur Y' or in any of the published works of Céline. Céline refers in this unpublished passage to article 75 of the penal code condemning to the death penalty any French citizen found guilty of intelligence with the enemy. It also mentions a certain ""Me Johann Niels Borggensen"" no doubt a pseudonym for his lawyer Thorvald Mikkelsen: "".supposedly to protect me from police curiosity! holy cow! he was having a ball.when you've got the warrant up your arse crossed out: article 75 anyone can do what they like with you! what a joke! we can do what we like with you.it wouldn't have been Borggensen perhaps someone else would have been worse.give me article 75 and I'll put the whole of France in a Mouse hole for you! and Germany with it! and England such a nag and Europe with it! no bomb needed! H ! Y ! Z ! I'll make you fit the atom into a."" Important set of working manuscripts bearing witness to the writing of Conversations with Professor Y' Céline's true Ars poetica. Since the first part of Féerie pour une autre fois' Fable for Another Time was not as successful as expected Céline wanted to give the release of the second part - Normance - as much publicity as possible and restore his reputation after his years of exile in Germany and Denmark. Instead of writing the usual promotional note prière d'insérer he suggested to publisher Gaston Gallimard this eulogy written in the style of an imaginary interview between himself and Professor Y alias Colonel Réséda a prostatic old man. This zany ""interviouwe"" was published in several parts in the Nouvelle Revue française in 1954 and the finished work through Éditions Gallimard the following year. Céline speaks fervently of his style and his conception of literature and vehemently criticizes the world of letters and public taste. Unlike Céline's other works the genesis of this text crucial to the understanding of his oeuvre is poorly documented and its manuscripts are rare. The Pléiade edition of Celinian novels contains only a few pages of an earlier version very close to the published text. This set of pages covering every passage of the text contains both heavily crossed-out sheets and neatly rewritten notes. It bears witness to the different stages of the writer's work: drafting an initial sheet crossing out and rewriting on the same page then transcribing short passages on separate notes. The last page of the text is extensively crossed out and rewritten resulting in a slightly different version of the published version. The manuscript also contains the famous metaphor of the metro typical of the writer's emotive style compared here to the ""dry language"" of his peers: ""Did you see Have you noticed All caught up in my metro!. what do I leave on the surface. the worst rubbish in cinema!. foreign languages then!. translations!. retranslations of our worst rubbish that they use for their ""parlants"" talking pictures superb foreign languages!. in addition to the psychology! the psychological mumbo jumbo!. all the crap. . Me it's something else! me I'm much more brutal! me I capture all the emotion!. all the emotion on the surface! all at once! I decide! I stick it in the metro! my metro! all t unknown
Bookseller reference : 83743
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Louis-Ferdinand CELINE - Robert DENOEL
Apologie de Mort à crédit suivie de ""Hommage à Emile Zola"" par Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Paris: Denoël & Steele 1936. Fine. Denoël & Steele Paris 1936 13.50 x 20.50 cm agrafé First edition. A light dampstain to margins of covers having also affected all leaves at their feet three minute corner lacks to covers. Rare but in this condition. Denoël & Steele unknown
Bookseller reference : 74226
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Louis-Ferdinand CELINE - Robert DENOEL
Apologie de Mort à Crédit suivie de ""Hommage à Emile Zola"" par Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Paris: Denoël & Steele 1936. Fine. Denoël & Steele Paris 1936 13.50 x 20.50 cm agrafé Rare first edition. Spine and boards marginally sunned boards slightly soiled one transverse fold on the front board. Reading marks and pencil annotations by the dedicatee in margins of some leaves. Autograph inscription signed by Robert Denoël to the Provençal writer filmmaker and caricaturist Carlo Rim who was notably the friend of Fernandel Raimu and Marcel Pagnol but also of Max Jacob. Denoël & Steele hardcover
Bookseller reference : 80216
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Louis-Ferdinand CELINE
Bagatelles pour un massacre
Paris: Denoël 1937. Fine. Denoël Paris 1937 14.50 x 22.50 cm relié First edition one of 440 numbered copies on alfa paper. Half red morocco binding with corners spine with five raised bands set with black fillets gilt date at foot gilt fillet frame on marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns covers and spine preserved top edge gilt elegant binding signed by Maylander. Handsome copy beautifully bound. Denoël hardcover
Bookseller reference : 87003
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Louis-Ferdinand CELINE
Bagatelles pour un massacre
Paris: Denoël 1937. Fine. Denoël Paris 1937 14.50 x 22.50 cm relié First edition one of 440 numbered copies on alfa paper. Half-shagreen binding with morocco corners in red smooth spine marbled paper boards combed paper endpapers and pastedowns covers and spine preserved top edge gilt binding signed by Montécot. Some foxing mainly at the beginning of the volume. A handsomely bound copy. Denoël hardcover
Bookseller reference : 87022
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Louis-Ferdinand CELINE - Jean-Pierre DAUPHIN
Bibliographie des écrits de Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Paris: Le graphomaneB.L.F.C. 1985. Fine. Le graphomane B.L.F.C. Paris 1985 18 x 23.50 cm broché First edition printed in 800 numbered copies. Iconography. Handsome copy of this essential Céline ""bible"". Le graphomaneB.L.F.C. unknown
Bookseller reference : 86993
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Louis-Ferdinand CELINE
Cahiers Céline : collection complète
Paris: Gallimard 1976. Fine. Unpublished texts letters and articles - everything you've always wanted to know. Gallimard Paris 1976-1988 14 x 20.50 cm 8 volumes brochés First editions with no deluxe copies printed except for No. 7 for each volume. Our complete set comprises: Cahiers Céline 1: Céline et l'actualité littéraire 1932-1957. Cahiers Céline 2: Céline et l'actualité littéraire 1957-1961 Cahiers Céline 3: Semmelweis et autres écrits médicaux Cahiers Céline 4: Lettres et premiers écrits d'Afrique 1916-1917 Cahiers Céline 5: Lettres à des amies Cahiers Céline 6: Lettres à Albert Paraz 1947-1957 Cahiers Céline 7: Céline et l'actualité 1933-1961 Cahiers Céline 8: Progrès suivi de Oeuvres pour la scène et l'écran. Iconography. First endpaper of the first volume shadowed due to a press clipping. Rare complete set. Gallimard unknown
Bookseller reference : 67454
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