‎Collectibles‎

‎Pierre-Henri SIMON‎

‎La sagesse du soir‎

‎Paris: Seuil 1971. Fine. Seuil Paris 1971 14.50 x 20.50 cm broché First edition one of 105 numbered copies on vélin neige the only deluxe copies. Handsome copy. . Seuil unknown‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 62399

‎Pierre-Henri SIMON‎

‎Les hommes ne veulent pas mourir‎

‎Paris: Seuil 1953. Fine. Seuil Paris 1953 14 x 19.50 cm broché First edition one of 105 numbered copies on alfa paper the only deluxe copies. Fine copy. Seuil unknown‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 66087

‎Pierre-Henri SIMON‎

‎Les raisins verts‎

‎Paris: Seuil 1956. Fine. Seuil Paris 1956 13.50 x 19.50 cm broché First Edition one of 355 numbered copies on Alfa paper head print after 30 white vellum. Nice copy despite a small tear in the back. Signed autograph of Pierre-Henri Simon to Jean Bardet co-founder with Paul Flamand editions of Seuil. Seuil hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 63696

‎Pierre-Henri SIMON‎

‎Questions aux savants‎

‎Paris: Seuil 1969. Fine. Seuil Paris 1969 13 x 18.50 cm broché First edition for which it was not drawn large papers. Tiny bites without gravity on the boards. Signed autograph of Pierre-Henri Simon to Jean Bardet co-founder of the Seuil editions. Seuil hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 64024

‎Pierre-Jakez HELIAS‎

‎La nuit singulière‎

‎Paris: Editions de Fallois 1990. Fine. Editions de Fallois Paris 1990 15.50 x 22.50 cm broché The first edition of which there were no deluxe copies. Signed autograph inscription by Pierre Jakez Hélias to a woman named Suzy. Handsome copy retaining publisher's wraparound band. Editions de Fallois unknown‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 30427

‎Pierre-Jean de BERANGER‎

‎Chansons‎

‎Paris: PerrotinGuillaumin 1830. Fine. Perrotin Guillaumin Paris 1830 7.50 x 11.50 cm relié New edition illustrated with a vignette on the title page. Full glazed navy blue calf binding smooth spine richly decorated with gilt fillets fleurons and friezes covers framed with gilt dentelle with cold-stamped mandorla at center marbled endpapers and pastedowns gilt pointillé on leading edges yellow speckled edges corners slightly bumped contemporary Romantic binding. Some foxing certain leaves with light dampstains at head and foot. Handsome copy in contemporary Romantic binding. PerrotinGuillaumin unknown‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 62548

‎Pierre-Jean de BERANGER - Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard GRANDVILLE‎

‎Chansons de Béranger. Tome I et II. Dernières chansons de Béranger. Musique de Béranger‎

‎Paris: Garnier frères 1875. Fine. Garnier frères Paris 1875 - 4 vol. reliés Half brown shagreen binding spine with 4 raised bands decorated with gilt dots gilt title and volume number gilt tools and double gilt fillets on the panels black cloth pasted on boards triple blind-stamped frame on boards some small tears traces of rubbing fresh interiors contemporary bindings. Some leaves of the Chansons de Béranger Volume II are slightly loosened but still holding some plates are detached but present. Volumes I and II each contain 53 steel engravings after Charlet A. de Lemud Johannot Grenier Jacque Pauquet Penguilly De Rudder Raffet and Sandoz. Musique de Béranger is illustrated by Grandville numerous full-page plates in black and white. The work contains notated airs both old and modern augmented with music for posthumous songs with airs composed by Béranger Halévy Gounod and Laurent De Rille. Les Dernières chansons de Béranger from 1834 to 1851 are expanded with a letter and preface by the author. Handsome set of 4 volumes collecting the works of Béranger richly decorated with illustrations by Grandville Charlet A. De Lemud Johannot Grenier Jacque Pauquet Penguilly De Rudder Raffet and Sandoz plates in black and white. Garnier frères hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 37050

‎Pierre-Jean JOUVE - COLLECTIF‎

‎Les cahiers idéalistes français. N° 25 - Février 1919.‎

‎Paris: Les Cahiers idéalistes français 1919. Fine. Les Cahiers idéalistes français Paris 1919 15 x 20 cm broché First edition of this French idealist and internationalist journal published in a small number of copies. Copy uniformly foxed at margins. Contributions by A. J What is a nation based on a lecture by Ernest Renan; A. Dauzat Romain Rolland: Colas Breugnon; P. Brulat; L. Werth Clavel soldat; P.-J. Jouve Eight poems of solitude. Handsome interior condition. Les Cahiers idéalistes français unknown‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 31305

‎Pierre-Jean DE SMET‎

‎Missions de l'Orégon et voyages dans les Montagnes Rocheuses en 1845 et 1846‎

‎Paris: Pussielgue-Rusand 1848. Fine. Pussielgue-Rusand Paris 1848 11 x 18.3 cm relié Missions de l'Orégon et voyages dans les Montagnes Rocheuses en 1845 et 1846 First edition in French translated by Bourlez. Smet’s father also produced a translation in an edition published in Ghent also in 1848. Two-tone lithographed frontispiece and frontispiece-title on China paper. 12 two-tone lithographic plates on thick paper showing the lives of Native Americans. Half dark brown sheep. Spine with mock-bands with three Romantic blindtools and gilt roulettes. Upper joint cracked at head and foot and rubbed. Leather tail-piece worn away revealing cardboard. Leaves 251 and 253 detached. Scattered spotting. Covers and edges rubbed. The work is the account of a journey by Smet a missionary Jesuit priest along the Colombia river which runs from Canada to the United States. Smet undertook this voyage to the Athabasca river arriving at Fort Augusta on the 1st January 1846. On another trip he went back to Fort Vancouver. He finally left again in July and stopped at the mission of Saint Marie before travelling down the Missouri. The work contains a deal of information on the area of Oregon and on Native Americans including their costumes habits and beliefs. NB : This work can be viewed at the bookshop with 48 hours’ advance notice. Pussielgue-Rusand hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 59606

‎Pierre-Jean-Claude MAUDUYT‎

‎Mémoire sur les différentes manières d'administrer l'électricité et observations sur les effets qu'elles ont produits‎

‎à Paris: Imprimerie Nationale 1784. Fine. Imprimerie Nationale à Paris 1784 12 x 19.70 cm relié First edition illustrated with 2 folding plates on strong paper. The separately paginated section Précis de journaux bears the date 1786 in its colophon. Full marbled and glazed brown calf binding. Decorated raised spine. Red morocco title label. 2 corners slightly bumped. From page 96 to the end pale yellow dampstains to margins and on the first pages of the separately paginated section affecting the entire page but without real consequence. Good copy. This surprising memoir traces all the curative applications of electricity on man: rheumatism deafness toothache ophthalmia paralysis epilepsy. Case descriptions and practical applications. The author additionally provides a most interesting bibliography on the subject. The second part presents the journals of patients who were electrified during the year 1785. This memoir was originally read to the Academy of Sciences in 1783 and published in the Academy's journal. Imprimerie Nationale unknown‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 44419

‎Pierre-Jean de BERANGER - Tony JOHANNOT - Auguste RAFFET‎

‎Oeuvres complètes‎

‎Paris: Perrotin 1847. Fine. Perrotin Paris 1847 14.50 x 24 cm 2 volumes reliés New edition and first issue of the beautiful romantic illustrations. Half-aubergine shagreen bindings smooth spines set with gilt wavy fillets and decorated with gilt fleurons gilt friezes at head and foot of spines some rubbing to spines aubergine paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns contemporary bindings. Work illustrated with 52 beautiful steel engravings by Charlet Lemud Johannot Daubigny Pauquet Jacques Penguilly Rudder Raffet Sandoz. Scattered foxing. Perrotin hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 85788

‎Pierre-Jean de BERANGER‎

‎Oeuvres complètes de P.J. de Béranger édition unique revue par l'auteur ornée de vignettes en taille-douce dessinées par les peintres les plus célèbres‎

‎Paris: Perrotin 1834. Fine. Perrotin Paris 1834 13.50 x 21.50 cm 5 volumes reliés Edition with some parts in first edition illustrated with 104 vignettes after drawings by Daubigny Johannot Charlet Raffet Scheffer Devéria. Half cherry red calf bindings spines with four raised bands decorated with gilt and blind fillets as well as blind typographical motifs and gilt romantic arabesques gilt friezes at head and foot black shagreen title and volume labels marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns marbled edges contemporary romantic bindings. The illustrations are distributed as follows: Volume 1: 1 frontispiece and 25 figures Volume 2: 33 figures Volume 3: 40 figures Volume 4: 6 including 1 portrait plus 1 facsimile. Our set is complete with the fifth volume consisting of the music for Béranger's songs. Handsome set almost entirely free of foxing and bound in charming contemporary romantic binding. Perrotin hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 48838

‎Pierre-Jean de BERANGER‎

‎Oeuvres complètes‎

‎Paris: Perrotin 1856. Fine. Perrotin Paris 1856 6.50 x 11 cm relié Elzevirian edition with some parts of the text in first edition. Full black paper boards binding spine in four compartments decorated with gilt compartments and gilt fillets two small tears without loss to joints boards with blind frames top and edges gilt. Handsome copy almost free from foxing. Perrotin hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 8090

‎Pierre-Joseph-Marie PROUDHON‎

‎Avertissement aux propriétaires ou lettre à M. Considérant rédacteur de la Phalange sur une défense de la propriété - Résumé de la question sociale banque d'échange - Organisation du crédit et de la circulation et solution du problème social - De la célébration du dimanche considérée sous les rapports de l'hygiène publique de la morale de relations de famille et de cité‎

‎Paris: Garnier frères 1848. Fine. Garnier frères Paris 1848 & 1849 & 1850 11 x 18.50 cm 4 volumes reliés en 1 First edition for the second and fourth texts; second and third editions for the other two. Some foxing. Half bronze sheep binding smooth spine decorated with gilt cartouche and gilt fleurons headcap worn rubbing to joints and spine black shagreen title-label marbled paper boards combed paper endpapers and pastedowns marbled edges upper corners slightly bumped. Garnier frères hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 82231

‎Pierre-Joseph MACQUER‎

‎Elemens de chymie theorique‎

‎à Paris: Chez Jean-Thomas Herissant 1749. Fine. Chez Jean-Thomas Herissant à Paris 1749 10 x 17 cm relié First illustrated edition with 4 folding plates at the end instruments and tables of different elements. Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands decorated. Red morocco title-label. One lack at head. Spine very rubbed overall. 2 corners slightly bumped. Gilt dulled on spine. Engraved esoteric bookplate of AuG. Gilbert. The first work published by the chemist and pharmacist Pierre Joseph Macquer before composing his dictionary of chemistry in 1766 which made him famous. Working alongside Sigaud de la Fond then Lavoisier he was one of the protagonists of modern chemistry and the abandonment of the Aristotelian system of 4 elements air water earth and fire. In his work he attempts like other chemists of his era to unveil substances similar to all elements. Following this first volume Macquer would compose the Elements of Practical Chemistry. Chez Jean-Thomas Herissant hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 67427

‎Pierre-Joseph d' ORLEANS‎

‎Histoire des revolutions d'Espagne‎

‎à Paris: Chez Rollin fils 1734. Fine. Chez Rollin fils à Paris 1734 19 x 26.20 cm 3 volumes reliés First edition. Folding map of Spain at the beginning of volume I. Contemporary brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands richly decorated with compartmented fan-shaped tools. Title labels. Brown morocco volume labels decorated. Headcaps of volumes 1 and 2 split. A lack at the tail of volume 2. Lack along the upper joint at the head of volume 1. Some lacks to the upper board of volume 2 from worming. The boards have suffered alteration from the acid used to create the marbling. In volume 1 slight dampstain to upper margin on some preliminary leaves and the map as well as to upper margin on the last index leaves; in volume 3 to inner margin on the first 4 leaves and pp. 497 to 500 to upper margin. Paper relatively fresh despite this. Manuscript ownership inscription Amédée Bergier on title pages and some endpapers. This detailed history of Spain begins with the end of the Gothic domination and the invasion of the Moors in 711 and continues until the death of Ferdinand V in 1516 and the union of Spain into a single monarchy by the reunion of Castile and the kingdom of Aragon. The author did not complete the nine books projected and the last two are from the hands of Pierre Joseph Arthuys and Pierre Brumoy. Following a model proven by historians of the period the history follows a chronological course. The works of Joseph d'Orléans on revolutions are classics of ancient history. Chez Rollin fils hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 76716

‎Pierre-Joseph-Marie PROUDHON‎

‎La fédération et l'unité en Italie‎

‎Paris: E. Dentu 1862. Fine. E. Dentu Paris 1862 12 x 19 cm broché First edition. An important lack to head of spine internal foxing. E. Dentu unknown‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 7318

‎Pierre-Joseph-Marie PROUDHON‎

‎La révolution sociale démontrée par le coup d'état du 2 Décembre‎

‎Paris: Garnier frères 1852. Fine. Garnier frères Paris 1852 12 x 19 cm relié Second edition. Foxing. Bradel binding in red half cloth smooth spine slightly faded decorated with central gilt fleuron double gilt fillet at tail brown shagreen title label with scratches marbled paper boards upper corners bumped. Garnier frères hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 81819

‎Pierre-Joseph-Marie PROUDHON‎

‎Les démocrates assermentés et les réfractaires‎

‎Paris: Dentu 1863. Fine. Dentu Paris 1863 12 x 18.50 cm relié New edition. Bradel binding in half dark green cloth smooth spine decorated with gilt fleuron and double gilt fillet at tail shagreen title-label with some light rubbing original wrappers preserved contemporary binding. Dentu hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 17810

‎Pierre-Joseph-Marie PROUDHON‎

‎Lettre autographe signée de 4 pages rédigée depuis la prison de Sainte-Pélagie • Signed handwritten 4-page letter written from the Sainte-Pelagie prison‎

‎Paris Prison de Sainte-Pélagie Paris 1851. Fine. ""I still appear to many people as only the pure and simple negation of what is."" Paris Prison de Sainte-Pélagie Paris 12 Novembre 1851 13 x 20.50 cm une feuille Autograph letter signed on four pages dated 12 November 1851. 124 lines in black ink. This letter is presented in a chemise and slipcase with paper boards decorated with abstract motifs green morocco spine green suede doublure slipcase with morocco spine and matching paper boards signed by Thomas Boichot. Unpublished autograph letter on progress signed by Pierre-Joseph-Marie Proudhon major figure in French social thought and  “the father of anarchy”. The philosopher imprisoned since 1849 develops his socialist convictions in a virulent and combative style condemning the absolutisms of his time.   Extraordinary declaration of philosophical political and social faith from a marginal thinker who influenced Karl Marx Emile Durkheim and Benjamin Tucker. This unpublished and densely written letter is a passionate reflection close to an essay entitled De l’idée de progrès written around ten days later that Proudhon published with another “De la Certitude et de son criterium” in the work Philosophie du progrès. This set of texts was composed only two weeks before the coup of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte which he immediately opposed. Once released from prison in 1852 Proudhon published the two letters at Lebègue in Brussels in order to escape censorship which had prohibited the sale of the booklet on French territory. Already having been detained for two years in the jails of the future French emperor Proudhon writes to Romain-Cornut from Sainte-Pélagie prison. Journalist Romain-Cornut had just finished a series of articles on Auguste Comte’s positivism Études critiques sur le socialisme October-November 1851. This letter must be viewed as an admirable four-page plea or more a confession of his socialist vision of progress a “social positivism” which is based on the reconsideration of the ancient order: “we withdraw in the face of an intellectual negation which is the sine qua non condition of further progress.” During the course of the letter he establishes a balance between his polemical soul and his desire for legitimacy striving to be no longer viewed as a mere agitator but as a true philosopher. We are indeed reminded of his famous saying “Property is theft!” his sympathy for the 1848 uprisings as well as his acerbic pamphlets in Le Peuple that consecrated his radical reputation: “I have been until this day so foolishly judged even by the socialists . Because I led the criticism of the old principles as far as it could go . I still appear to many people as only the pure and simple negation of what is.” Proudhon however maintains his intention to leave the shields of criticism “leaving the argument of circumstance for the moment in my new studies” and thus implies the writing of a new deeper work published under the title La Philosophie du progrès 1853 dedicated to the same Romain-Cornut. Proudhon an anarchist in favour of the abolition of the State and the government violently criticizes the “system” which is by definition anti-progressive: “Yet it is unquestionable from this progressive point of view that our society as a whole monarchists democrats Catholics philosophers is still absolutist: what everyone wants is a charter a constitution a system a fixed and definitive legislation finally.” In addition to political systems Proudhon picks up this same idealism in the philosophical thinking of his elders and does not refrain from giving a violent condemnation: “Like Pascal like the Germans we want the absolute! . Spinoza Malebranche Leibnitz etc. all of whom operating on the categories of substance causality eternity unity plurality etc. have arrived at politically and intellectually immobile systems at the absolute.” He noted the harmful effects of the political regimes and of the ph hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 68629

‎Pierre-Joseph MACQUER - Henri-Gabriel DUCHESNE‎

‎Manuel du naturaliste. Ouvrage utile aux voyageurs et à ceux qui visitent les cabinets d'histoire naturelle et de curiosités‎

‎à Paris: Chez Rémont 1797. Fine. Chez Rémont à Paris 1797 An V 12 x 20 cm 4 volumes reliés Stated the second edition but actually the third enlarged with three volumes and eight plates of constellations; rare. The first edition appeared in 1770 in a single volume a second being added in 1771. Contemporary spotted sheep spine with four tools and roulettes to head and foot red morocco title- and black morocco volume- labels roulette frame to covers. Spines uniformly and slightly faded lack to first blind-ruled compartment of spine of volume one. A good copy. The work in the form of an alphabetical dictionary provides an overview of contemporary knowledge of natural history mineralogy botany zoology entomology astronomy and so on. Each article includes a curious or remarkable aspect of its subject medical uses strange properties characteristics etc. Several useful tables at end. Handsome. Chez Rémont unknown‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 46203

‎Pierre-Joseph-Marie PROUDHON‎

‎Si les traités de 1815 ont cessé d'exister‎

‎Paris: E. Dentu 1863. Fine. E. Dentu Paris 1863 12 x 19 cm broché New edition. Some slight foxing otherwise a very good copy. E. Dentu unknown‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 6887

‎Pierre-Louis Moreau de MAUPERTUIS - Nicolas LEMERY‎

‎Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1727‎

‎A Amsterdam: Chez Pierre Mortier 1732. Fine. Chez Pierre Mortier A Amsterdam 1732 10 x 17 cm 2 volumes reliés Illustrated edition with 5 plates for volume 1 18 for volume 2 most folding totaling 23 plates. Title pages in red and black. An allegorical frontispiece in volume 1. Contemporary full marbled brown calf binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title labels and black wax volume labels. A lack at head of volume 2. Rubbing. Lacking the first leaf of the epistle. Handsome copy. Notable among the articles mentioned in each section are the following remarkable pieces: Research on the proper motion of fixed stars through observations of Arcturus by M. Delislede la Croère. Observations and experiments on one of the species of salamander by M. de Maupertuis. General rules or laws of oblique fluid impacts against a plane surface by M. Pitot. General idea of the different ways porcelain can be made and what are the true methods of China by M. de Réaumur. Remarks on regular inscribed and circumscribed polygons by M. Du Fay. New method of developing curves by M. de Maupertuis. Explanation of the tables of Jupiter's first satellite by M. Maraldi. Chez Pierre Mortier hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 61412

‎Pierre-Louis ROEDERER‎

‎Mémoire pour servir à une nouvelle histoire de Louis XII le père du peuple‎

‎Paris: Imprimerie de Firmin Didot 1819. Fine. Imprimerie de Firmin Didot Paris 1819 13.50 x 21 cm broché First edition in original wrappers. Library stamp on title page foxing. Copy presented under blue temporary covers title label pasted at head of spine small lacks and corner tears to boards. Provenance: from the library of Count de Montalembert with his manuscript ownership inscription at head of half-title page. Imprimerie de Firmin Didot hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 82996

‎Pierre-Louis HANET-CLERY‎

‎Mémoires anecdotiques souvenirs et mélanges sur la Révolution française le Directoire le Consulat l'Empire et la Restauration.‎

‎Paris: S. n. 1832. Fine. S. n. Paris 1832 14 x 21 cm 2 vols.reliés Second edition on laid paper of these Memoirs of the valet de chambre to Madame Royale published in 1825 under a slightly different title. Contemporary half wine-red calf bindings spines with four raised bands decorated with gilt fillets date at foot. Some minimal rubbing to the uniformly faded spines otherwise very fine copies. S. n. hardcover‎

書籍販売業者の参照番号 : 28170