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ORLEANS: Histoire des révolutions d'Angleterre, depuis le commencement de la Monarchie. Nouvelle édition, corrigée et ornée de figures ; A Paris, chez la veuve Ganeau, 1737 ; 4 vol in 12, full calf binding, spine ribbed and decorated, red edges, gilt fillet on the edges, 36 portraits HT and 1 folding map of Scotland (three corners very slightly dulled, one upper jaw very slightly split, a few small brown spots and a small very pale ring at the beginning of the 1st vol).

DUPIN : Défense de la monarchie de Sicile contre les entreprises de la Cour de Rome ; Sa., sn., 1716 (EO) ; 2 parts in one volume in 12, full brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated, speckled edges (2 small leather losses at the head of the spine and two small losses at the foot, two corners slightly worn, brown stains on the title page, scattered brown spots).

Michel de L'HOSPITAL: Michaelis Hospitalii, Galliarum Cancellarii, Carmina. Editio a prioribus diversa et auctior. Amstelaedami, apud Balthasarem Lakeman, 1732 ;1 vol in 8, full cream vellum binding, cold filleting on the boards, double cold fleurons at the corners and cold medallions in the centre of the boards, smooth spine, title in ink, 1 frontispiece, bookplate (scattered foxing, small brown spots on the spine, creases to several leaves at the end of the work).

Ornatus latinae linguae seu ratio nitide ornatéque scribendi. Opera et studio vnius è Societate Iesu ; Parisiis, Apud viduam Nicolai Buon, 1633 (EO) ; 1 small volume in-8, bound in full blond calf in the style of Du Seuil with gilt vases in the corners of the central frame and 4 fleur-de-lys arranged in a diamond shape and a gilt star in the centre, spine decorated with gilt caissons and fleur-de-lys (wear to corners, visible restoration to headpieces, small hole at foot of spine, white endpaper renewed, a few freckles, a few small brown spots).

Histoire de Jehan de Paris, roi de France ; Orléans, Letourmy, 1793 ; 1 vol in 12, 1/21 basane fauve XIXème, dos lisse

( ANONYMOUS) La Torréïde ou les fêtes foraines ; Plaisance, 1768 (EO) ; 1 vol in-8, bound in full 19th century percaline, (brown stain in the upper margins of the pages, very pale border in the lower margins, a few brown spots).

(HELOISE AND ABELARD). GERVAISE: La Vie de Pierre Abeillard, Abbé de S. Gildas de Ruis, ordre de S. Benoist; et celle d'Héloïse son épouse, première Abbesse du Paraclet; Paris, Barois, 1728; 2 vol in-12, full brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated (two corners slightly dulled, a few small brown spots).

DE MAUPAS : Mémoires sur le Second Empire ; Paris, Dentu, 1884 ; 2 vol in 8, 1/2 blue percale bradel, spines decorated, covers preserved.

(BARRAS) Mémoires de Barras, membre du Directoire ; Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1895 ; 4 vol in 8, 1/2 brown chagrin ép, spines with nerfs decorated with cold, 4 frontispices, covers preserved (top of spines faded).

Mgr BELLEY : La première partie de l'Alexis ; Paris, Chappelet, 1622-23 ; 6 vol in 12, bound in full marbled basane, decorated smooth spines, triple fillet framing the covers.

Les coustumes du pays et duché de Normandie, anciens ressorts et enclaves d'iceluy ; Rouen, Raphael du Petit Val, 1599 ; 1 vol in 8, bound in 18th century full marbled basane, handwritten bookplate on title page (headbands restored, later title page, some old handwritten notes in ink in the margins).

Thérèse LE PRAT : Le masque et l'humain ; La colombe, 1959 ; 1 vol in folio, cloth binding in dust jacket, numerous photographs in black, 1 of the copies of the EO with the justification left blank, letter from the author on the flyleaf.

Thérèse LE PRAT : Un seul visage et ses métamorphoses ; Plon, 1964 ; 1 vol in folio, 1/2 cloth ed in rodhoid , nb photographs in black, letter from the author on the flyleaf (small rubs)

GAVARNI : Le diable à Paris ; Paris, Hetzel, 1845-46 ; 2 vol in 8, 1/2 black chagrin ép, spine à nerfs, ill de Gavarni (2ème mors du tome 1 fendu en partie inf, qq coins émoussés, qq rares rousseurs)

DAMOREAU : Traité des négociations de banque, et des monnoyes étrangères ; Paris, Cavelier et Pissot, 1727 ; 1 vol in 8, full calf binding, spine ribbed and decorated, 1 title-frontispice and 33 plates HT (small tear in the upper cap, a few small internal defects and brown leaves).

CLERMONT : La géométrie pratique de l'ingénieur, ou l'art de mesurer : ouvrage également nécessaire aux ingénieurs, aux toiseurs & aux arpenteurs ; Paris, Jombert, 1775 ; 1 vol in 8, rel pleine basane racinée ép, dos lisse orné, 27 pl dépliantes (relée usée avec 1er mors fendu)

Carte des environs de Paris, divisés en départements, préfectures et sous préfectures ; Paris, Jean, 1813 ; 1 folded map with light watercolour enhancement, contained in an orange hardback binding with label "Nouveau environs de Paris 1813" on the 1st plate

TISSANDIER: Histoire des ballons et des aéronautes célèbres; Paris, Launette & Cie, 1887; 1 vol in 8, paperback, il in T et HT (qq rousseurs)

DEVAUX : La verte Hélène ; Editions littéraires de France, 1947 ; 1 vol in 8, in sheets in a filled folder, case and slipcase, etchings by Devaux, 1 of 13 ex n° on malacca, with a suite on malacca, 1 original drawing not reproduced in the book and 2 handwritten pages.

PLINE ; GUEROULT : Morceaux extraits de l'Histoire naturelle de Pline ; Paris, Brocas, 1785 ; 1 vol in-8, bound in full marbled calf, spine ribbed and decorated, ex de présent with the arms of the University of Paris, otherwise known as the Sorbonne (two corners worn, upper headpiece missing, upper jaw of the first cover split, very small leather loss on the upper part of the second cover, lower jaw very slightly split, paper cut in the centre of the title page at the edge, some brown spots).

VILLIER: De l'amitié poëme satirique contre les faux amis. Seconde éd ; Paris, Jacques Collombat, 1697 ; 1 vol petit in-8 , rel plein veau brun ép, dos à nerfs orné (2 coins légèrement us, qq rousseurs)

CORNEILLE: L'imitation de Jesus-Christ. Traduit en vers françois par P. C. Enrichie de Figures en Taille-douce sur chaque chapitre ; Rouen, L. Maurry, 1653 ; un titre frontispice et 37 figures en tête de chaque chapitre, la plupart signées de du Clos, David et Dudot Relié à la suite : CORNEILLE : L'Imitation de Jesus-Christ. Translated into French verse by P. C. Enrichie de Figures de Taille douce sur chaque chapitre. Livre Troisème ; Paris, Ballard, 1654 ; 1 title frontispiece and 30 figures at the head of each chapter, all signed by the engraver H. David; 2 texts bound in a vol. in-12, 19th century full black chagrin binding, smooth spine decorated (minor wear and scratches to boards and spine, small red stain in upper margin of several pages, scattered brown spots).

MANZINI ; SCUDERY : Les Harangues ou discours académiques ; Rouen, Begonnes, 1662 ; 1 vol in-12, full vellum binding, smooth spine (a few small stains and soiling, scattered brown spots).

Abbé RAYNAL : Histoire du Stadhouderat depuis son origine jusqu'a présent ; A La Haye, sn., 1749 ; 1vol small in 8, full spotted calf, spine ribbed and decorated, boards with the arms of Balthazar de Jarente, marquis de Sénas et d'Orgeval (small leather damage at the foot of the spine, boards warped, brown stain in the upper margin of the whole work, more important towards the end).

GIRAC : Réplique de Monsieur de Girac à Monsieur Costar, où sont examinées les béveues et les invectives du livre intitulé Suite de la défense de M. de Voiture, etc ; Imprimé à Leyden, sn, 1660 (EO) ; 1 vol petit in 8, rel plein vélin à recouvrement ép, dos lisse, titre à l'encre au dos (qq taches au vélin, petite mouillure claire dans les marges inf. de plusieurs pages).

[GERMON ] : Questions importantes à l'occasion de la nouvelle Histoire des congrégations De Auxiliis ; Liège, Guillaume Henry Streel, s.d. [1701] (EO); 1 small volume in-8, full calf binding, spine ribbed and decorated (two corners worn, small leather loss on the lower edge of one cover, small brown spots, handwritten indications on the white endpapers).

DE MUSSET : Trois comédies ; Brie-Comte-Robert, 1953 ; 1 vol in 8, in sheets with folder, case and box, wood by Cami, ex n° on BFK pure rag paper from the papeteries de Rives, ex nominative.

(LE CLERE): L'art du dessin démontré d'une manière claire et précise par Jean Cousin, peintre français; Paris, chez Jean, sd; 1 vol in folio, in paperback containing text leaves and 24 plates (handled set with some wear in the margins of certain leaves).

BOSCO : Sylvius ; Les pharmaciens bibliophiles, 1983 ; 1 vol in folio, in leaves under jacket, case and box entoilé, lithograghies originals of Liliane Marco, edition to 175 ex n°, 1 of 150 for the members of the society, ex nominative

JOFFO: Un sac de billes ; Manoir du MAD, 1975; 1 vol. in-folio in leaves, jacket and slipcase covered with cloth, lithographs by Lucien Philippe Moretti, 1 of 160 copies on Arches vellum (tear on the cover at the level of the 1st plate).

FLAUBERT: Un coeur simple; Paris, Ferroud, 1913; 1 vol in 12, 1/2 violet calf with corners, smooth spine decorated, colour illustrations by Leroux, 1 of 812 copies on tinted vellum, cover preserved (slight rubbing on the spines).

L'apocalypse, translated from the Greek by Guillermou; Paris, 1947-50; 4 vols in 4, in sheets in filled folders, cases and boxes, illus. by Pogédaïeff, 1 of the non-commercial copies reserved for contributors and nominative, with a suite of illus.

BRANT: Das narrenschiff (la nef des fous); Souffelweyersheim, aux dépens de l'artiste, 1977; 3 volumes in 2 vols in 4 (2 vols,1 illustrated and in French, the other in German + 1 other reproducing the 1512 edition), leaves in cloth-covered jackets and slipcases, illus. by Beltz, edition of 150 copies on Arches vellum or Rives vellum pur fil (small traces of damp at the top of one slipcase).

Jules VERNE: La Jangada - 800 lieues sur l'Amazone ; Paris, Hetzel, sd ; 1 vol in 8, binding percale ed by Engel of the type with 1 elephant and title in a cartel, polychrome spine with lighthouse, illus by Benett, gilt edges (spine faded, stains on 2nd plate, 1st plate unstuck)

BERNARDIN DE SAINT PIERRE : Paul et Virginie ; Paris, Curmer, 1838 ; 1 vol in 8, midnight blue cloth, spine smoothly decorated, boards decorated with foliate volutes forming a rectangle, nb ill in T and HT, ex of the 1st edition of the EO (beautiful ex without foxing, small wear of the percale on the spines at the seams)

BERNARDIN DE SAINT PIERRE : Paul et Virginie ; Paris, Lemerre, 1868 ; 1 vol in 4, ½ percale bleu ciel ép à coins et à la bradel, dos lisse ornés, nb ills in T et HT de La Charlerie (rousseurs)

JANIN : Voyage en Italie ; Paris, Bourdin et Cie, 1839 ; 1 vol in 8, ½ red calf ép, smooth spine orné, pl HT (rousseurs sur les tranches)

DRANER : Souvenirs du siège de Paris, les défenseurs de la capitale ; Paris, au bureau de l'éclipse, sd (circa 1871) ; 1 vol in 4, ½ blue chagrin ép à coins, spine lisse orné, title page and 31 plates all enhanced with watercolours (qq rousseurs, coiffes frottées)

CAHU - LELOIR : Richelieu ; Paris, Combet & Cie, 1904 ; 1 vol in 4, polychrome percale binding, smooth spine, colour illustrations by Leloir (weakness to inner hinges).

GRANDVILLE : Les métamorphoses du jour ; Paris, Garnier frères, sd (1869) ; 1 vol in 8, 1/2 basane brune post, spine with nerves, nb ill in T and 70 pl HT in colours, cover preserved, ex-libris (spine faded with scratches in sup part, qq freckles, the last 4 sheets with 1 angular wetness)

ISTRATI : Les chardons du Baragan ; Les pharmaciens bibliophiles, 1981 ; 1 vol in folio, in leaves in a jacket, slipcase and cloth-covered slipcase, etchings by Vasile Pintea, printed in 180 copies on Arches vellum, ex nominative.

(DALI) : 100 aquarelles pour la Divine Comédie de Dante Alighieri par Salvador Dali ; Paris, musée Galliera, 1960 ; 1 vol in 4 (exhibition catalogue), paperback, ill in black

LOISEL : Peter Pan ; Editions Vents d'ouest, 1991 ; 400 copies numbered and signed by Loisel, 1 of 300 for France.

BALZAC : Les contes drolatiques ; Paris, Librairie Garnier, 1926 ; 1 vol in 8, ½ basane fauve à coins, dors à nerfs orné, ill de Gustave Doré, 1 des ex n° sur vélin pur fil Lafuma, couverture conservée

FRANCE (2 vols) : Le lys rouge ; Paris, Kra, 1926 ; 1 vol in 8, ½ maroquin bordeaux à coins ép, dos à nerfs orné, ill HT en couleurs de Bouchery, 1 des 750 ex n° sur vélin de Rives, couverture et dos conservés (dos passé, qq rousseurs sur les pages de garde et couverture) - La rotisserie de la reine Pédauque ; Paris, Kra, 1925 ; 1 vol in 8, ½ maroquin vert à coins ép de Flammarion, dos à nerfs orné, ill en couleurs de Montabel, 1 des 750 ex n° sur vélin de Rives (dos passé, qq rousseurs sur les pages de garde)

BALZAC: Les contes drolatiques; Paris, Tallandier, sd (early 20th century); 2 volumes in 8, ½ brown chagrin, ribbed spine, numerous illustrations by Robida, covers preserved (spines a little faded).

ROBIDA : Les vieilles villes du Rhin ; Paris, Librairie Dorbon Ainé, sd (early XXth) ; 1 vol in 8, ½ basane racinée à coins légèrement post, spine with ornate nerves, nb ills in T and HT by Robida, cover preserved in 1 folded piece at the beginning of the work (spine a little faded)