BOOKS - STAMPS - CPA

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[ARCHEOLOGY]. Important lot of modern works including Mars in the West, Art and Civilisations of the Hellenised Orient, La peinture murale en Gaule Romaine, l'Armée romaine à Lyon, Objets d'Egypte, L'âge du fer dans la boucle de la Loire, Etudes celtiques and miscellaneous. Approximately 35 vols. (4 cartons).

[MISCELLANEOUS]. Lot of modern books Esprit Nomade, La Création, Trésors vivants, Le planétoscope, Drouot 1985-1986, Le Robert Micro, Encyclopédie de la littérature and miscellaneous. 2 boxes.

[LITERATURE]. Lot of books including Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 5 vols. in-4°, Corine by Mme de Staël, Histoire by Fénélon, François Villon, Sandford and Merton by Berquin and various. Half bindings of the ep. mainly. Some volumes mismatched. One box.

[LITERATURE]. Lot of books including Herredia's Les Trophées, Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, Winsor's Amber, Racine's Théatre, Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène 1823 (lacking vol. 1). Mainly half bindings. Some vols. mismatched

[BEAUX-ARTS]. Lot of books including Du Moyen-Age à Louis XIV, Styles, Meubles, Décors, Dictionnaire des Petits Maitres de la Peinture and others.

DUBOUT. Les contes drolatiques colligez ez abbayes de Touraine et mis en lumière par le sieur de Balzac pour l'esbattement des pantagruelistes et non aultres en couleurs de Dubout. Paris, Gibert Jeune Librairie d'amateurs, 1940. In-4° paperback, one of 3000 copies (here No. 485). Some wear to cover.

[CURIOSA]. GEORGES (Noé) AND MEROVE (Marie). Tire la chevillette. Angkor, editions du chat qui pêche, sd (c.1935). In-4° in ff, printed cover, in folder and slipcase. 17 compositions (of 18) drawn and etched. One of 400 copies (here No. 213). Some foxing, wear to slipcase.

L'ARETIN. The Ragionamenti. Illust. by Paul-Emile Becat. Ed. de la Nef d'Argent (s.l.), 1944. 2 vols. in-8° half blue chagrin with corners. One of 3000 copies, here with definitive state of engravings n°1064. Some foxing but inside fresh.

LOUYS Pierre. Byblis. Illust. by Kuhn-Regnier. Ed. Kra, Paris, 1930. 4 vols. in-12° half blue morocco with corners. One of 3300 copies on vélin du Marais (here n°280). Some foxing and wear.

WILLY and Colette WILLY. Claudine en ménage - Claudine s'en va - Claudine à l'école - Claudine à Paris. Illust. by Georges Lepape. Paris, Albin Michezl, s.d. (1931). 4 vols. in-12° half red morocco with corners. Scattered foxing, rubbing, traces of damp on the bindings.

POTHIER. Traité du contrat de vente. A Paris chez Debure Père & Orléans chez la Vve Rouzaut-Montaut, 1768. 2 volumes in one vol. In-12° full contemporary basane with nerves. Minor binding defects including headband.

LEBEAU. Abrégé de l'Histoire du Bas-Empire. Paris, Augustin Delalain, 1821. 2 vols. in-120 basane raciné of the ep. with the arms of the Collège Royal d'Orléans. Some foxing, rubbing and wear to boards.

DAVID. Histoire générale de tous les siècles de la nouvelle loy[...]. Paris, Raffle & Guignard, 1683. 6 vols. in-12° full contemporary basane ribbed spine. Some wear and rubbing, fairly fresh inside.

NECKER. De l'administration des finances de la France. s.l., 1784. 3 vols. in-8° full contemporary basane with smooth spine, frontispiece and folding table in volume 1. Wear, defects to bindings.

[BORDEAUX]. DARNAL (Jean). INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CONSERVATION OF CERTAIN RIGHTS BELONGING TO THE TOWN AND CITY OF BOURDEAUX, contested by certain persons. Colligées par le Sieur d'Arnal Escuyer, Advocat en la Cour, à présent l'un des Jurats de ladicte Ville. Adressées au Sieur le Clerc Escuyer Bourdeaux, Simon Millanges, 1620. 8° half calf with corners, smooth spine. Collection of several "Instructions": Du Droict des Tavernes; Du Droict des Vaccans; De la Police des Appoticaires, Ciergiers et Grosiers; De l'Admirauté; Chapitre des poids et Mesures; Des Entreprises sur la Baronie de Veyrines. Traces of wetness.

LACROIX Paul. Adventures of the Abbé de Choisy disguised as a woman. Paris, chez tous les libraires, 1870. In-12°, half brown morocco with corners. Frontispiece. Some foxing.

[BORDEAUX]. Historical overview - Soil, population, industry, commerce, administration. Published by the municipality of Bordeaux. Paris, Hachette & Bordeaux Feret et Fils. 1892. 3 vols. in-4° deùi chagrin rouge, spines decorated, red percaline boards with depigmentation, sextuple gilt fillet framing the boards with large fleurons in spandrels, gilt arms of the city of Bordeaux in the centres of the boards, gilt edges. Some wear and rubbing. The atlas is missing.

THE HOLY BIBLE. Illust. by Dali. Ed. Denoël. 1955. In-4° in slipcase.

BARTHELEMY (Abbot). Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce. Paris, De Bure, 1799. 7 vols. in-8° full contemporary basane, spine ribbed. Some foxing, wear and rubbing to bindings, defects to headpieces.

CALMET Augustin. Histoire de l'ancien et du Nouveau Testament et des Juifs [...]. Paris, Emery-Saugrain & Martin, 1725. 7 vols. in-12°, full contemporary basane, spine ribbed, 6 figures and 4 folded plates. Wear, damage to bindings, wormholes in some vols.

GASPARIN M. de. Contagious diseases of woollen animals [...]. Paris, Huzard, 1821. In-8° full rooted basane, smooth spine, scattered foxing, small defaults to bindings. Attached is 1 vol. in-8° Cours de botanique Bound and marked École Royale Vétérinaire de Toulouse 1836.

MALEZIEUX. Manuel de la fille de basse-cour. Paris, Huzard, 1822. In-16° anonymous binding, some wear.

[MISCELLANEOUS]. Important lot of 18th and 19th century books on various subjects including History, literature and religion: Nouveau Dictionnaire Vosgien 1831, La vie du Pape Clément XIV, La mort d'Abel, Contes de Bocace, and miscellaneous. In-12° mainly in contemporary binding As is

VIART. The royal cook. 18th edition. Paris, Barba, 1842. In-8°demi modest binding. Wear and defects

BRISSOT de WARVILLE. Nouveau Voyage dans les États-Unis de l'Amérique Septentrionale, fait en 1788. Paris, Buisson, 1791. 3 vols. in-8° bound in half basane, smooth spines. O.E. a folding table in volume 2. Wear and blemishes to bindings, traces of wetness in first two vols.

[LUXURY]. LOT of sales catalogues/documentations Luxury watches and jewellery mainly including A.Lange & Sohne, Blancpain, Boucheron, Chanel, Vuitton, Caran d'ache, Smythson, Damiani, Breguet, Parmigiani, Cartier, Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet, Tudor, Omega and others. 2 boxes.

[MISCELLANEOUS]. Manette of half-bound books including Feuillet, Augier, Coppée, Rousseau, Zola, Houssaye, Beauchesne, Taine, Hugo and others. As is. Some vols. mismatched. Approximately 40 vols.

[MISCELLANEOUS]. Manette of half-bound books including Milton, Taine, Roosevelt, Spencer, Lamartine, Gosset, Dupeyrat, Pierre, Raspail, Aubry, Peyré, Scott and others. As is. Some vols. mismatched. 40 vols. approx.

ZOLA Emile. A page of love. Preceded by a letter-preface. Drawings by Edouard Dantan. Paris, Librairie des bibliophiles, 1884. 2 vols in 8 paperbacks. 1 frontispiece portrait and figures. Some wear and tear. Some quires unstuck.

[MISCELLANEOUS]. Manette of half-bound books including Shakespeare, Droz, Bossuet, Reynolds, Vertot, Bouvet, Taine and others. As is. Some vols. mismatched. 40 vols. approx.

FRANCE Anatole. Jocaste et le chat maigre. Paris Editions de la Banderole 1921. Gr. in-8, ½ binding with corners, spine ribbed. Edition illustrated with 31 delightful drypoints by Chas Laborde. Publisher's copy enriched with the suite of illustrations on Japon.

VERLAINE. Complete works. Paris, Messein, 1919. 3 vols. in-12° half blue morocco with corners, smooth spines decorated. Some wear.

VIGNY Alfred de. Theatre - Servitude and military greatness - Poetry. Paris, Delagrave, s.d. (circa 1900). 4 vols. in-12° half green chagrin, spine ribbed. Some wear.

SHAKÊSPEARE. Complete works. Translation by M. Guizot. Paris, Didier et Cie, 1862. 8 vols. in-8° half brown calf with corners. Some spotting and scattered foxing, minor wear to bindings.

[NAPOLEON]. Unpublished letters of Napoleon I, published by Léon Lecestre. Paris, Plon, 1897. 2 vols. in-8° half brown chagrin. Some foxing and wear. Ex-libris Le Brun.

BALZAC Honoré de. Les Contes drolatiques. Illustrations by Raymond de Laverrerie, Les bibliophiles de la Basoche, sd. In-8° full illustrated vellum. One of 1000 copies on tinted vellum (here n°665).

BALZAC Honoré de. Le péché véniel. contre drôlatique. Illustrated by J. Hamman. Paris, Kieffer, 1922. In-8° half blue banded chagrin, spine ribbed (unstained). Some minor wear.

FRANCE Anatole. Bee. Wood by Louis Jou. Paris, Coq, 1923. In-4° half black banded chagrin. Some rare soiling inside, minor wear to binding.

GERALDY Paul. Toi et moi. Paris, Stock, 1947. Illust. by Edouard Vuillard. In-12° full calf with gilt fillets, smooth spine (unstained). Ex. on Rives vellum. Wear and rubbing to binding.

LOTI Pierre. La mort de Philae. Illustrated with 20 etchings by Géo Colucci. Paris, Kieffer, 1924. In-4° full purple chagrin with gilt fillets, spine ribbed (unstained). Binding signed J.Gravereaux. Some rare wear.

COURTELINE. 4 volumes of the Complete Works: Théâtre, La philosophie, Le train de 8h47. 4 vols. in-8° half red chagrin with corners. Some wear and rubbing.

STENDHAL. On love. Illustrated by Grau-Sala. Paris, Ed. Vial, 1952. 2 vols. in-8° full red chagrin with gilt fillets, spine ribbed and decorated. In slipcase. One of 1386 copies on vélin des Marais, here n°1144. Some wear.

ROLIN Dominique. Les Marais. Illust. by the author. Paris, Denoël, 1943. In-4° half red morocco with corners, spine ribbed and decorated. With an original drawing by the author. Some wear

THARAUD Jérôme and Jean. La maitresse servante. Illustrated with etchings by Balande, Paris, Ed. Lapina, 1924. In-4° full chagrin, spine ribbed. Binding signed C.M. Wiart. One of 300 copies on Hollande Pur Chiffon laid paper (here n°280).

BERNARDIN de SAINT-PIERRE. Paul et Virginie. Illustrations by E.Othon Friesz. Ed. de la Maison Française, s.l. 1947. In-4° chagrin and parchment in slipcase. One of 800 copies on Corvol L'Orgueilleux pur chiffon, here No. 39.

BAUDELAIRE Charles. The painter of Modern life Constantin Guys. Illustrated. Constantin Guys. Paris, Kieffer, 1923. In-folio full red and grey chagrin, some foxing.

KIPLING Rudyard. Contes. Illust. by Deluermoz. Paris, Delagrave, s.d. (circa 1922). In-4° full chagrin with papyrus (? ) covered boards. Some rare wear.

DANTE ALIGHIERI. The Inferno. Original etchings by Edouard Goerg. Paris, Jean Porson, s.d. [1950]. 2 vols. In-folio on ff. in folder and slipcase. One of 190 copies on tinted vellum, without sequels or drawings. Some wear.