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SCIENCE MATTIOLI , Original engraved wood , 16 th century...... 2 VALVERDE , Anatomia del corpo humano , 1560 ...... 4 BESSON , Théâtre des intruments , 1578 ...... 5 PAAW , Succenturiatus anatomicus , 1616 ...... 8 NEANDER , Tabacologia , 1626 ...... 9 BIANCHINI , Hesperi et Phosphori , 1728...... 19 FAUJAS DE SAINT -FOND , Descriptions des experiences , 1783 ...... 28 HAÜY , Essai sur l’éducation des aveugles , 1786 ...... 29 MENDELEÏEV , O barometricheskom nivelirovanii , 1876 ...... 48

HISTORY GOERGIEVITZ , De Turcarum Ritu , 1544 ...... 3 ARREST DE LA COUR DU PARLEMENT , 1595 ...... 7 NAUDE , De Antiquitate , 1628 ...... 10 LAET , Notae ad dissertationem é, 1643...... 13 FRANKLIN , Affaires de l’Angleterre et de l’Amérique, 1778 ...... 26 LE NORMAND , Ode sur la conquete de l’Amerique , 1786 ...... 30 GORKI , O zionism, o bund , 1906 ...... 51

LITERATURE BERNARDEZ , Varias Rimas , 1594...... 6 CERVANTES , Novelas exemplares , 1631...... 11 VOLTAIRE , Candide , 1759 ...... 23 RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE , La découverte austral , 1781 ...... 27 CHATEAUBRIAND , Les Martyrs , 1809 ...... 36 DUMAS , Impressions de voyage , 1835 ...... 39 LERMONTOV , Demon , 1853 (on request) ...... 43 BALZAC , Les Paysans , 1855 ...... 44 VERLAINE , Choix de poésie , 1891 ...... 49 PASTERNAK , Kogda Razguliaetsia , 1959 ...... 53 BOULGAKOV , Cœur de chien , 1969 ...... 54 ELUARD , Voir , 20 th century ...... 57

DISTANT PRINTINGS

VETANCURT , Arte de la lengua mexicana , 1673 ...... 15 NANKI JOSUIKEN , Gei Shi , 1794 ...... 33 AKSON EUROPA , 1838 ...... 41 LERMONTOV , Demon, 1853 ...... 43 MENDELEÏEV , O barometricheskom nivelirovanii , 1876 ...... 48 GORKI , O sionizme, o bunde, 1906 ...... 51 OUSPENSKI , Tertium organum , 1911 ...... 52 BOULGAKOV , Cœur de chien , 1969 ...... 54

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TRAVELS GOERGIEVITZ , De Turcarum Ritu , 1544 ...... 3 NEANDER , Tabacologia , 1626 ...... 9 RAGUENEAU , Relation de la Mission aux Huron , 1650 ...... 14 VETANCURT , Arte de la lengua mexicana , 1673 ...... 15 MAYERBERG , Voyage en Moscovie , 1688 ...... 16 SAINT VALLIER , Estat présent de l’Eglise , 1688 ...... 17 LECLERCQ , Nouvelle relation de la Gaspesie , 1691 ...... 18 MARCHAND / FLEURIEU , Voyage autour du monde , 1798-1800 ...... 34 POUQUEVILLE , Voyage en Morée , 1805 ...... 35 HARTMANN , Album martiniquais , 1860 ...... 45 PARIS , Souvenirs de Jérusalem , 1862 ...... 46

ILLUSTRATED BOOKS MATTIOLI , Original engraved wood , 16 th century...... 2 VALVERDE , Anatomia del corpo humano , 1560 ...... 4 BESSON , Théâtre des intruments , 1578 ...... 5 NEANDER , Tabacologia , 1626 ...... 9 COPPOLA , Le Nozze , 1637 ...... 12 ZOCCHI , Vedute de Firenze , 1744 ...... 21 RABELAIS , Dessins de Songes drolatiques , 1745 ...... 22 PIRANESE , Diverse maniere d’adornare , 1769 ...... 24 RAPHAEL , Delle loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano , 1772-76 ...... 25 HOLBEIN , Recueil de XII costumes suisses , 1790 ...... 32 NANKI JOSUIKEN , Gei Shi , 1794 ...... 33 LA SILHOUETTE , 1830 ...... 37 CRAPELET , Les demandes faites par le roi Charles VI , 1833 ...... 38 BURY , London railway , 1837 ...... 40 CATALOGUE OF INVENTORY OF TOOLS , 1850 ...... 42 HARTMANN , Album martiniquais , 1860 ...... 45 PARIS , Souvenirs de Jérusalem , 1862 ...... 46 FOUCQUET , Œuvre de Jehan Foucquet , 1866-1867 ...... 47 PANNIER , Catalogue de meubles , 1870-1924 ...... 50 MIRO , L’émancipation de la queue du chat , 1978 ...... 55 MAETERLINCK / LEPAPE , L’Oiseau bleu , 1925-1927 ...... 56 ELUARD , Voir, 1948...... 57

BINDINGS CHAINED BINDING , 1471 ...... 1 OVID , Opera , 1735 ...... 20 ZOCCHI , Vedute de Firenze , 1744 ...... 21 ELLIS , Specimens of the Early English Poets , 1790 ...... 31 MAETERLINCK / LEPAPE , L’Oiseau bleu , 1925-1927 ...... 56

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1. [CHAINED BINDING ]. ALBERTUS MAGNUS . Postilla in Evangelium Johannis . Cologne, 1471. $27,000 Folio [Size of the binding: 308 x 215 mm] of 361 ll. (incomplete). Bound in blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, original chain composed of nine links attached on the back cover, skin clasps ended with brass, spine ribbed with the title and the date at the top. Contemporary German binding. VERY BEAUTIFUL SPECIMEN OF CHAINED BINDING FROM THE 15 TH CENTURY PRESERVED WITH ITS ORIGINAL CHAIN . THIS KIND OF 15 TH CENTURY CHAINED BINDING HAS BECOME VERY RARE ON THE MARKET . AN EXCEPTIONAL EXAMPLE OF UNRESTORED CHAINED BINDING FROM THE 15 TH CENTURY .

2. MATTIOLI , Pier Andrea. ORIGINAL ENGRAVED WOOD. [Prague, before 1563]. $17,500

Original block used for the printing of Mattioli’s Works. It is pear-tree wood. A few tiny wormholes that don’t affect the image (common to the other Mattioli’s woodblocks). Paper label bearing a handwritten note by Duhamel du Monceau at the back. 22 x 15,5 cm / Thickness : 1,5 cm. EXCEPTIONAL ORIGINAL BLOCK FOR MAKING WOODCUTS , WORK OF GIORGIO LIBERALE AND CONRAD MEYERPECK , THAT WAS USED FOR THE ILLUSTRATION OF MATTIOLI ’S WORKS PUBLISHED IN PRAGUE IN 1563 . (Hunt, I, 90). The set of blocks engraved in Prague, including this one, was reused by the editor Vincent Valgrisi in order to illustrate the Italian edition of Mattioli that he published in Venice in 1565. THIS FAMOUS SET MARKS THE PEAK OF WOOD ENGRAVING IN BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE 16 TH CENTURY . This engraved block depicts an Achillea Ptarmica , commonly called sneezewort, as the handwritten note indicates at the back of the block. “Woodblocks of this high quality are rare in private collections, and particularly so outside Europe… But, for the technique of woodcut book illustration in its greatest century, no single group of blocks could be more instructive than this group from Mattioli’s herbal ” (A. Hyatt Mayor, Curator of Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, quoted in Hunt, 90). “Whereas in the work of Brunfels and Fuchs, the beautiful line of a single stalk is often the keynote of the whole drawing, in the work of Mattioli, the eye most frequently finds its satisfaction in the rich massing of foliage, fruits and flowers, suggestive of southern luxuriance. Many of his figures would require little modification to form the basis of a tapestry pattern ” (Arber, Herbals, their origin and evolution , pp. 223-4). In the middle of the 18th century, the French botanist Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782) purchased this set of botanic blocks and uses 154 of them to illustrate his Traité des Arbres et Arbustes , in 1755. These 154 blocks don’t seem to have survived the printing process, but the blocks that were not used by Duhamel du Monceau remained in the castle of the French botanist until 1956, date at which they were scattered: 5 of them were purchased by the Hunt Institute , 3 others by the Graphic Arts Department of Harvard. AN EXCEPTIONAL ORIGINAL ENGRAVED BLOCK USED TO ILLUSTRATE MATTIOLI ’S WORKS IN THE 16 TH CENTURY , IN A VERY GOOD STATE OF PRESERVATION . Provenance: Duhamel du Monceau (label with his signature at the back).

3. GEORGIEVITZ , Barthélemy. De Turcarum ritu et Ceremoniis . Antwerp, apud Gregorium Bontium sub scuto Basiliensi, 1544. $16,000

12mo [153 x 95 mm] of (1) bl.l., (20) ll. and (1) bl.l. Large mark of the author wood engraved on the last leaf. Bound in full overlapping vellum, flat spine with handwritten title, remains of ties. Tiny loss at the bottom of the back cover. Contemporary binding . FIRST EDITION OF THIS RARE OPUSCULE DEDICATED TO THE FUNERAL CUSTOMS OF THE TURKS . (Brunet, II, 1541).

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« Barthélémy Georgievitz, a Hungarian traveler, born at the beginning of the 16 th century, was kidnapped by the Turks who had invaded his country in 1528. Then sold various times as a slave, he was used for the most laborious works. After thirteen years of captivity, he managed to run away. He passed through Asia Minor, and went to find shelter in Palestine from where he was able to go back to Europe and his homeland. » (Biographie générale, 20; 138) THE PRESENT TREATISE CONTAINS AN INTERESTING TURKISH VOCABULARY IN 9 PAGES . « This relation is brief and accurate. A vocabulary of Turkish works explained with Latin precedes a dialogue in the same languages; it is followed by grammatical rules and by names of numbers of the Turkish language. » (Biographie universelle, 164) BEAUTIFUL COPY PRESERVED IN ITS PURE CONTEMPORARY BINDING IN OVERLAPPING VELLUM. No copy of this rare first edition has been recorded by ABPC since 1975.

4. VALVERDE DI HAMUSCO , Giovanni. Anatomia del corpo humano composta per M. Giovan Valverde di Hamusco, & da luy con molte figure di rame, et eruditi discorsi in luce mandata. Rome, Ant. Salamanca et Antonio Lafrery, 1560. $32,000

Folio [297 x 207 mm] of : (18) ll. including the frontispiece and the tables, 154 ll. and 42 full-page engraved plates in the text. A few plates formerly coloured, few browned leaves. Bound in limp overlapping vellum, flat spine. Tiny tear at the top of the spine. Contemporary binding. FIRST ITALIAN EDITION , WITH A RENEWED TITLE DATED 1560. Dezeimeris, IV, 307; Crehange, 46; Brunet, V, 1067; Harvard/Mortimer, Italian , 513. Giovanni Valverde di Hamusco (1525-1587), a Spanish anatomist and doctor studied in Rome and Padua. Very impressed by the discoveries of the most renowned anatomist of his century, he decided to take his inspiration from Vesalius’ brilliant work to write an illustrated treatise in Spanish. THIS VERY FINE ITALIAN EDITION PARTLY PRINTED IN ITALIC CHARACTERS AND DECORATED WITH ILLUMINATED INITIALS IS DIVIDED INTO 7 BOOKS : bones, muscles, digestive system, vital limbs, motion limbs, veins and arteries, nerves. THE MAIN INTEREST OF THIS BOOK LIES IN THE 42 SPLENDID FULL -PAGE PLATES THAT ILLUSTRATE EACH OF THE 7 BOOKS . This work was meant as a work instrument for surgeons and students in the second half of the 16 th century. A PARTICULARLY BEAUTIFUL COPY OF AN ANATOMICAL TREATISE WITH A VERY ATTRACTIVE ICONOGRAPHY , PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY LIMP OVERLAPPING VELLUM .

5. BESSON , Jacques. Théâtre des instrumens Mathématiques & Mechaniques de Jaques Besson Dauphinois, docte Mathematicien. Avec l’interpretation des Figures d’iceluy, par François Beroald. Lyon, Barthélémy Vincent, 1578. $19,000

Folio [394 x 280 mm] (1) bl. l., (80) ll., (1) bl. l., waterstain on the top corner of several ll., little tear in plate 15 without loss, 1 leaf loose. Contemporary full limp vellum. ONE OF THE EARLIEST IMPORTANT ILLUSTRATED TREATISES ABOUT MECHANICS AND TECHNOLOGY . (Adams B 840 ; Brunet I-829 ; Brun p. 122. Harvard, French Books , 57 and 58 for the two other editions of 1578. Not in Fairfax-Murray). In this work, published under another title in 1569, JACQUES BESSON WANTS TO MAKE AN INVENTORY OF ALL THE MACHINES , INSTRUMENTS AND INVENTIONS INTENDED TO REVOLUTIONIZE THE RENAISSANCE WORLD OF TECHNOLOGIES : machines to turn wood on a lathe, to cut marble, to saw boles, trolleys and coaches, liquid coolers, machines removing stones from the ground, building piles, different kinds of mills, music instruments, ploughs, system on casters for transportation of loads, wheel or pulley systems, system to raise pylons, fire engine, system to raise water, etc. Bibliographers can’t establish with certainty the chronology of the 3 editions that were published simultaneously in Lyons by B. Vincent in 1578: one with the French text, the other with the Latin text, the third one with mixed languages; the present edition would be one of the 2 earliest editions.

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THE EDITION IS ILLUSTRATED WITH A VERY BEAUTIFUL TITLE AND WITH 60 OUTSTANDING COPPER -ENGRAVINGS AFTER ANDROUET DU CERCEAU ’S DRAWINGS . The Latin text written by François Béroalde de Verville , who will work later on the « Hypnérotomachie », appears here for the first time. A VERY CHARMING COPY OF A REMARKABLY ILLUSTRATED SCIENTIFIC WORK IN GENUINE CONDITION .

6. BERNARDEZ , Diogo. Varias rimas ao bom Iesus, e a Virgem Gloriosa sua May, e a sanctos particulares. Com outras mais de honesta & proueitosa liçao. Dirigidas ao mesmo Iesus, senhor e salva. Dor nosso. Por Dioguo Bernardez. Lisbon, Simao Lopez, 1594. $20,000

4to [190 x 127 mm], (4) ff., 108. Small restoration on the title-page. Bound in full green straight- grained morocco, triple gilt fillet on covers, spine ribbed and decorated, edges gilt. Lortic Fils . EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF DIEGO BERNARDEZ ’ EARLIEST COLLECTION OF POEMS . Brunet, I, 795 ; Libros antiguos Portuguezes , n°235. “Diogo Bernardes (1530-1596) was a native of Ponte de Lima, and is called by Machado THE PRINCE OF PASTORAL POETRY . M. Southey also has named him as ONE OF THE BEST OF THE PORTUGUESE POETS ”. (Bibliotheca Lusitana, 82). The “ Varias rimas ” contain sonnets, elegies, epigrams, stanzas, eclogues, odes, songs, some of which are written in Spanish (pp.15 to 22). The poet composed these verses between 1578 and 1581, while he was kept prisoner in North Africa. Indeed, since the death of the King Sebastian of Portugal, the poet is imprisoned in Morocco. In the “Varias rimas”, he remembers his Portuguese homeland; he remembers he left everything to go to war. This poet is part of the most important Portuguese mannerists. He lived and wrote in two literary languages, Portuguese and Castilian. A FINE COPY OF THIS VERY RARE 16 TH CENTURY COLLECTION OF POEMS , NICELY BOUND BY LORTIC FILS IN STRAIGHT -GRAINED GREEN MOROCCO. The B.n.F. only owns a later edition of this work. This first edition isn’t present in any French Library. We couldn’t locate a copy of this original edition in any International Libraries through OCLC. Provenance: Vicente Salva (catalogue, n°462), Ricardo Heredia (Paris, 1892, n°2186 : « Edition originale de toute rareté de ces poésies portugaises ; on y rencontre en outre quelques pièces en espagnol. Diego Bernardez est un des poètes portugais les plus estimés, et l’Académie de Lisbonne le cite pour l’élégance de son style ») ; Jeronimo Ferreira Das Neves (ex libris).

7. ARREST DE LA COUR DE PARLEMENT CONTRE JEAN CHASTEL escholier estudiant au College des Jesuistes, pour le parricide par luy attenté sur la personne du Roy. Paris, Frederic Morel, 1595. $6,500

Booklet 8vo [169 x 100 mm] of 8 pp. Preserved in later wrappers of marbled paper. FIRST EDITION OF THE JUDGEMENT DELIVERED BY THE PARLIAMENT OF PARIS AGAINST JEAN CHÂTEL AFTER HIS MURDER ATTEMPT ON KING HENRI IV. Bulletin de la Librairie Morgand et Fatout 10767; Rosenthal 4254; Catalogue Peignot 2521. JEAN CHÂTEL WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH ON DECEMBER 29 TH , 1594 AND QUARTERED ON THE GRÈVE SQUARE . ON THE SAME DAY , THE PARLIAMENT ACCUSED THE JESUITS OF BEING BEHIND THE MURDER , AND BY THE SAME JUDGMENT THAT CONDEMNED CHATEL TO BE QUARTERED BY FOUR HORSES , THE JESUITS WERE EXPELED FROM FRANCE . THIS HISTORICAL PIECE PRESENTS THE JUDGMENT OF THE PARLIAMENT DELIVERED AGAINST JEAN CHÂTEL JUST BEFORE HIS EXECUTION , ON THURSDAY 29 TH DECEMBER 1594. A RARE BOOKLET RECORDING A MAJOR EVENT IN THE HISTORY OF FRANCE AND THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS IN THE 16 TH CENTURY .

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8. PAAW, Petrus. Succenturiatus anatomicus. Continens commentaria in Hippocratem, de capitis Vulneribus. Additae in aliquot Capita libri VIII.C.Celsi Explicationes . [Et :] A. Cornelii Celsi De re Medica liber octavus . Lugduni Batavorum [Leyde], Iodocum a Colster, 1616. $22,000

2 parts bound in 1 volume 4to [200 x 140 mm] of: I/ (12) ll., 270 pp., 1 folding frontispiece and 34 engravings in the text; II/ (1) title, 128 pp., 2 folding plates and 25 engravings in the text. Small wormhole in pp. 9 to 55 of the second text, 2 handwritten ex libris on the title-page, old handwritten note in the margin of p. 177. Bound in contemporary full limp overlapping vellum, remains of leather ties, flat spine with handwritten title. Contemporary binding. RARE ORIGINAL EDITION OF PAAW’S COMMENTS ON HIPPOCRATES AND CELSIUS ’ WORKS CONCERNING THE HEAD WOUNDS . (Graesse, Trésor de livres rares , V, p. 99). The first text is written in Greek and Latin. THE WORK IS RICHLY ILLUSTRATED WITH 59 COPPER ENGRAVINGS IN THE TEXT VERY FINELY EXECUTED , REPRESENTING THE SKULL ANATOMY (with the teeth), trepannings and SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS . BESIDES THE ILLUSTRATION CONTAINS A PORTRAIT OF THE AUTOR AND 2 FOLDING PLATES SHOWING AN ENTIRE HUMAN SKELETON AND A SKULL . BUT THE PRESENT WORK IS FAMOUS ABOVE ALL FOR ITS FOLDING FRONTISPIECE engraved by Andries Jacobsz Stock after Jacob de Gheyn (1565-1629) and THAT REPRESENTS THE WELL - KNOWN SCENE OF THE DISSECTION LESSON PROVIDED BY PAAW IN THE LECTURE HALL OF LEIDEN THAT HE GOT TO BE BUILT . A VERY ATTRACTIVE COPY OF THIS RARE ORIGINAL EDITION, PURE AND WIDE -MARGINED , PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY LIMP OVERLAPPING VELLUM , COMPLETE WITH THE FOLDING FRONTISPIECE THAT IS OFTEN MISSING. Provenance: from the Bibliotheca Celeberrimae Cadomensis Academiae with engraved ex libris ; copy of the famous Hellenist Jean-François Boissonade de Fontarabie (1774-1857). Only 1 copy is recorded on the public market since 1975, the copy bound in « rebacked » vellum sold by Sotheby’s London on April 2 nd 1985 for £ 1,150 (lot 396).

9. NEANDER , Johann. Tabacologia : Hoc est Tabaci, seu Nicotianae Descriptio Medico- Chirurgico-Pharmaceutica. Lugduni Batavorum, Isaac Elzevier, 1626. $11,000

4to [217 x 164 mm] of 1 frontispiece, 1 portrait of the author, (18) ll., 256 pp., (4), 9 full-page plates in the text. Small loss in the white margin of p. 207. Contemporary binding. SECOND EDITION , THE MOST COMPLETE , OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT WORKS RELATED TO TOBACCO . Arents, II, n°148; Willems, Les Elzevier , 257; Bibliotheca Osleriana, 3490; Leclerc, Bibliotheca Americana , 3399; Sabin 52173; Bragge, Bibliotheca Nicotiana, 27. The present edition is the most accomplished, it is this one that figured in the famous Candolle collection ( Catalogue des ouvrages prélinnéens de la bibliothèque des Conservatoire et Jardin botanique de la ville de Genève , n° 135). Neander, a German doctor who paid particular attention to the research of plants characteristics, recommends the use of long pipes, like the ones of Indians, in order to permit the cooling of the smoke. However, if he recommends the use of tobacco in the preparation of medicines, he is against an entertaining use of tobacco. “The text is preceded by a list of varieties of tobacco, and is followed by letters to Neander from W. van der Meer, J. Raphelengius and Adrianus van Valkenburg… There are many editions of this ‘Tabacologia’, the first being an Elzevir, 1622, of which this is a good reprint… The number of diseases for which tobacco was used is remarkable .” (Bibliotheca Osleriana, 3490) “The little that is new in this treatise is of very definite value in the history of tobacco, and that little is rendered more impressive by the novel and accurate illustrations which decorate the work. Among them are the earliest representations known to us of American natives engaged in cultivating and curing tobacco, of curious pipes, and of the kalian of Persia. ” (Arents)

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THE PRESENT WORK IS ILLUSTRATED WITH A FINE ENGRAVED TITLE , A PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR AND 9 BEAUTIFUL FULL -PAGE COPPERPLATES showing tobacco plantations, harvesting scenes… The engraved frontispiece and Neander’s portrait are here in first state. THESE ENGRAVINGS ARE OF THE UTMOST INTEREST SINCE THEY ARE THE FIRST KNOWN REPRESENTATIONS OF AMERINDIANS GROWING AND SMOKING TOBACCO . A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS TREATISE ON TABACOLOGY ILLUSTRATED WITH HIGHLY INTERESTING ENGRAVINGS , PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY OVERLAPPING VELLUM .

10. NAUDE , Gabriel. De Antiquitate et dignitate Scholae medicae Parisiensis Panegyris. Cum orationibus encomiasticis ad IX. Iatrogonistas laurea Medica donandos. Lutetiae Paris., Jean Moreau, 1628. $14,000

Small 8vo [171 x 109 mm] of (12) pp., 150, (1). Old handwritten ex libris in ink crossed out on the title-page. Small owner’s stamp on the title-page. Bound in contemporary full limp vellum, flat spine with handwritten title. FIRST EDITION OF THIS « RARE VOLUME ». (Brunet, Supp. II, 10). Gabriel Naudé (1600-1653), is a famous French bibliographer and one of the most educated men of his time. After finishing with success his philosophy studies, he started to study medicine. “His father’s death recalled him to Paris, and in 1628 the Faculty of Medicine chose him to deliver the closing speech of the exams and the eulogy of the new graduates. This speech, in which the age and the glory of the Faculty were developed with a real oratory, drew the attention to his author. The scholar Pierre Dupuy put him in touch with the cardinal Bagni, who took him to Rome, and entrusted him with his book collection. » (Nouvelle biographie générale, 37, col. 513) Naudé delivered this eulogy full of erudition in 1628, on the occasion of the closing of the exams at the Faculty of Medicine of Paris. « In one of these ceremonial speeches, so frequent at the time that we are going to study, Gabriel Naudé (‘De Antiquitate et dignitate Scholae medicinae Parisiensis’) describes throughout it with a peculiar kindness the columns, the statues, the pilasters, the festoons, the astragals, that the Faculty doesn’t have, but could. On the other hand, the picture he gives of the premises occupied by the Faculty depicts it generously and comfortably equipped. A large courtyard, a vast room for the solemn debates, others for the daily lessons, a nice chapel, a rich furniture, a library full of the most precious books, a laboratory for the drugs preparation, accommodations for all the employees, a botanical garden with all the plants used in medicine… » (M. Raynaud, Les médecins au temps de Molière , p. 6) AN ATTRACTIVE AND PURE COPY OF THIS RARE WORK , PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY LIMP VELLUM . No copy of the present work has appeared on the market in the past thirty years. ABPC doesn’t list any copy of it.

11. CERVANTES , Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Novelas exemplares. Dirigido a Don Pedro Fernandez de Castro. En Barcelona, por Esteban Liberos, 1631. $17,500

8vo [150 x 98 mm] of (8) ll. and 360 ll. Small loss of paper on the title-page and at the bottom corner of the second leaf not affecting the text, handwritten ex libris on the title, a few handwritten corrections in the table. Bound in full contemporary vellum, flat spine with the handwritten title, mottled edges. Contemporary binding. RARE EDITION OF CERVANTES ’ SHORT NOVELS , THE FIRST PRINTED IN BARCELONA . J. M. L. Goya, Bibliographie critique de la littérature espagnole en France au XVIIe siècle , p. 247. “Written between the first and the second part of ‘Don Quixote, the ‘Exemplary Novels’ represent the most achieved monument of Cervantes’ narrative work .” (Dictionnaire des Œuvres, IV, p.790) THE COLLECTION IS COMPOSED OF 12 SHORT STORIES : “La jitanilla”, “El amante liberal”, “Rinconete y Cortadillo”, “La espagnola inglesa”, “El licenciado Vidriera”, “La fuerza de la sangre”, “El celoso extremeno”, “La ilustre fregona”, “Las dos doncellas”, “La senora Cornelia”, “El casamiento enganoso”, “Coloquio de los perros ”.

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All those short novels or moral tales paint a broad achieved picture of the Spanish society like a savoir-vivre handbook. AN ATTRACTIVE COPY OF THIS RARE SPANISH EDITION , PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY VELLUM . The B.n.F . doesn’t own this rare edition. In France only 3 Institutions own it: the Libraries of Dijon, La Rochelle and Lyons . OCLC records only 4 copies in the world: British Library , University of State of Hamburg , National Library of Denmark and Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid .

12. COPPOLA , Giovanni Carlo. Le Nozze degli dei favola […] Rappresentata in Musica in Firenze nelle reali Nozze De Serenis. Gran Duchi di Toschana Ferdinando II e Vittoria Principessa d’Urbino. Firenze, Amadore Massi et Lorenzo Landi, 1637. [With :] - Relazione delle nozze degli dei favola dell abate Gio : Carlo Coppola […]. Firenze, Amadore Massi et Lorenzo Landi, 1637. Booklet of the show. $23,500

4to [231 x 164 mm]: I/ (1) bl. l., (4) ll. including 1 engraved frontispiece, 104 pp. and 7 engraved plates on double page; II/ 50 pp., (1) l., (2) bl. ll. Restorations on the title-page and 3 other ll. Bound in 18 th century light-brown calf, restored spine ribbed, red morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Corners restored. RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS VERY BEAUTIFUL ITALIAN FESTIVAL BOOK WRITTEN BY COPPOLA ON THE OCCASION OF THE GREAT DUKE FERDINAND II AND THE PRINCESS OF URBINO ’S WEDDING , COMPLETE WITH THE RARE BOOKLET OF THE SHOW. A.M. Nagler, Theater Festivals of the Medici , pp. 162-174; Vinet 612; Vesme & Massar, Della Bella , 918-925; Cicognara 1445; Vinciana 209; Berlin Kat. 4116; BL 17th-Century Italian I, p. 259; Brunet II, 262; Ruggieri 795; Lipperheide 2746. THE SUPERB ILLUSTRATION CONSISTS OF 1 FRONTISPIECE DEPICTING THE OPENING OF THE THEATRE AND 7 DOUBLE -PAGE PLATES engraved by Stefano della Bella after Alfonso Parigi . Those Della Bella ’s engravings (the first important work he undertook for the Medici court) are the only testimony left about the sceneries created by Parigi for this remarkable celebration. “Rare book comprising 8 large figures including the first title engraved by Steph. Della Bella. ” (Ruggieri) « The eight engravings that illustrate this famous stage performance have been engraved by Etienne della Bella, after Alphonse Parigi, the inventor of the decorations and machines reproduced on these plates. Countryside with Florence in the background, - Diana’s forest; - Venus’ gardens; - the sea and heaven, hell; - Vulcan’s forges etc. here is what Della Bella’s light point shows us. The frontispiece (precious information) shows the theatre and the audience before the curtain rising, in the great courtyard of the Pitti Palace. » (Vinet) A GOOD COPY OF THIS RARE ITALIAN FESTIVAL BOOK ILLUSTRATED BY STEFANO DELLA BELLA . Schaefer ’s copy, bound in modern morocco, was sold for more than $19 000 at the Sotheby’s NY sale on December 8 th 1994 (lot 64, knocked down for $17 000), that is to say more than 100 000 fr. 16 years ago. Provenance : ex libris John Ord and Harvard College Library (« released »).

13. LAET , Jean de. Notae ad dissertationem Hugonis Grotti De Origine Gentium Americanorum : et Observationes aliquot ad meliorem indaginem difficillimaeillius Quaestionis. Paris, veuve de G. Pelé, 1643. $11,000

16mo [170 x 106 mm] of (1) bl. l., 223 pp., (1) bl. p. Printed ex libris on title-page. Bound in contemporary limp full vellum, flat spine with the handwritten title. Contemporary binding. FIRST EDITION OF THIS REFUTATION BY JEAN DE LAET OF GROTIUS ’ THEORIES ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF PRIMITIVE POPULATIONS OF AMERICA .

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Field, An Essay towards an Indian Bibliography , 846; Sabin 38561; Willems 997 (for the Amsterdam issue). “Notes on the Dissertation of Hugo Grotius on the Origin of the American Indians and other Observations to facilitate the Understanding of some difficult Questions upon them.” (Field) “This is Laet’s first refutation of Grotius. It contains, pp. 139-151, comparative vocabularies of the Irish, Gaelic, Icelandish, Huron, Souriquois, and Mexican languages. Some copies have the imprint, Amstelodami, Apud Ludovicum Elzivirium.” (Sabin) « Grotius had published in Paris in 1642 an essay, in which he was trying to prove that primitive populations from America owed their origins to people arrived from Norway, Ethiopia, and China. This opuscule was entitled: ‘Hug. Grotii de origine gentium Americanarum dissertatio’, 1642. Laet reprinted it with a very judicious commentary, in which he emphasized the inanity of the arguments put forward in support of this peculiar thesis. This refutation offended Grotius’ self-respect who immediately wrote a ‘Dissertatio altera de origine gentium Americanarum, adversus obtrectatorem, opaca quem bonum facit barba’, 1643. The words ‘opaca quem bonum facit barba’ are borrowed from Catullus and refer to J. de Laet’s beard, which was apparently very long. » (Willems) THE WORK CONTAINS GROTIUS ’ DISSERTATION AND ALSO A LEXICON OF THE MAIN TERMS OF THE VARIOUS PROTO AMERICAN LANGUAGES . It turns out to be a very interesting source for the history of linguistics. A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS WORK DEALING WITH THE ORIGIN OF THE PRIMITIVE POPULATIONS OF AMERICA , PRESERVED IN ITS ORIGINAL LIMP VELLUM BINDING .

14. RAGUENEAU , Paul. Relation de ce qui s’est passé en la Mission des Pères de la Compagnie de Jesus aux Hurons, pays de la Nouvelle France, és années 1648 & 1649. Envoyée au R. P. Hierosme Lalemant, Supérieur des Missions de la Compagnie de Jesus, en la Nouvelle France… Paris, Sébastien Cramoisy et Gabriel Cramoisy, 1650. $34,000

8vo [169 x 105 mm], (4) pp., 116. Full contemporary limp vellum, handwritten title on spine. SECOND ENLARGED EDITION OF THIS RARE JESUIT RELATION DESCRIBING THE MASSACRE OF THE HURONS BY THE IROQUOIS . Streit 2577; Sabin 67492; Church 506; Harrisse 91; Brunet, Supp. II, 455. Ragueneau (1608-1680) is one of the main authors of the “ Jesuit Relations ” relating the story of the Canadian martyrs. He went to the Huron country in 1637 in order to try to convert the people. Five of the missionaries who worked with him were martyred: Antoine Daniel was killed on the 4th of July 1648, Jean de Brébeuf and Gabriel Lalemant were tortured and killed in March 1649. Ragueneau became the Father Superior of the mission in 1645. « The ‘Relation’ furnishes an interesting account of the state of the mission in the years 1648, and 1649, and gives a thrilling sketch of the horrors attending the destruction of the Christian villages of St. Joseph and of St. Ingnatius, by incursions of the Iroquois, the most deadly enemies of the Hurons, and of the Christian name”. (The Catholic Cabinet, p. 22). THE PRESENT EDITION IS OF THE UTMOST INTEREST AS IT COMPRISES A PASSAGE OF 13 PAGES PRINTED AT THE END OF THE VOLUME THAT APPEARS HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME . IT CONTAINS INTERESTING NEW INFORMATION ABOUT THE MISSIONS TO CANADA . A FRESH AND CRISP COPY OF THIS SOUGHT AFTER RELATION, PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY VELLUM . ABPC doesn’t list any copy of the first edition of this text. Only one copy of this edition has appeared at auction since 1975: the Lionel Robinson’s copy, sold by Sotheby’s London on the 26th of June 1986 to Lake . That same copy was sold again by Sotheby’s NY at the Frank T. Siebert sale on the 21st of May 1999 for $ 16 000 (about € 15 000). It was described in those terms in the auction catalogue: “bottom margin on title-page expertly extended, later stiff vellum ”.

15. VETANCURT , Père Augustin de. Arte de lengua mexicana, dispuesto Por orden, y mandato de N. Rmo P. Fr. Francisco Trevino, Predicador Theologo, Padre de la Santa Provincia de Burgos, y Comissario General de todas las de la Nueva-Espana […]. Mexico, Francisco Rodriguez Lupercio, 1673. $28,000

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Small 4to [199 x 137 mm], (1) bl.l, (6) ff., 50 ff. misnumbered 49, (8) ff. Woodcut vignette on title-page. Bound in original limp vellum, flat spine. FIRST EDITION , PRINTED IN MEXICO CITY , OF ONE OF THE RAREST AND THE MOST VALUABLE MEXICAN GRAMMARS . (Streit, Bibliotheca Missionum , 2326 ; Leclerc, Bibliotheca Americana , 2337 ; Sabin 99384 ; Graff 4475 ; Palau 361209 ; Brunet, supp. II, 874 ; Chadenat, 4698). Father Augustin de Vetancurt was born in Mexico City in 1620. He quickly took holy orders and spent almost all his life with the Indians. He knew the Mexican language very well. ALL THE BIBLIOGRAPHERS EMPHASIZE THAT THIS WORK IS OF HIGH QUALITY AND VERY RARE . A VERY FINE COPY PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY LIMP VELLUM . Only one copy of this original edition preserved in a contemporary binding has appeared at auction in the last thirty years.

16. MAYERBERG , Augustin, baron de. Voyage en Moscovie d’un Ambassadeur, Conseiller de la Chambre Impériale, Envoyé par l’Empereur Leopold au czar Alexis Mihalowics,… Leiden, Friderik Harring, 1688. $9,500

12mo [152 x 86 mm] of (1) bl. l., (1) l. of title, 381 pp., (2) bl. ll. A few foxing. Bound in light brown calf, gilt arms stamped in the center of covers, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt monograms in the panels, red morocco lettering-piece, mottled edges. Contemporary binding. FIRST EDITION OF THE FRENCH TRANSLATION OF THIS ACCOUNT OF A TRAVEL TO RUSSIA IN 1661. (Barbier, IV, 1085; Querard, I, 296; Brunet, III, 1557; Graesse, IV, 456). « This account of an embassy carried out in 1661 is very peculiar; it brings to light the poor level of civilization that Russia had reached at that time . » (Querard). The first edition was published in Latin (« Iter in Moschoviam », folio), towards 1670. «A rare work .» (Brunet) « Mayerberg is a German diplomat who lived in the second half of the seventeenth century. He was sent on a mission by Leopold I to the tsar Alexis Michaelowitz, in order to restore peace between Poland and Russia. He left Vienna on February 16 th , 1661; he crossed, with his colleague Calvucci, Prussia and Courland, obtained after many difficulties the permission to enter Moscovia, and arrived in the capital on May 25 th . After a year of stay, during which he couldn’t have any communication with foreign countries, he was allowed to go back to Vienna, where he returned on March 19 th , 1663. He published the account of his travel. This rare and peculiar work brings to light the customs of seventeenth century Russia and the strange way foreigners were treated there. » (Biographie générale, 34, 543). A FINE COPY CONTEMPORARY BOUND IN LIGHT BROWN CALF WITH ARMS AND MONOGRAMS OF JÉRÔME II BIGNON (1627-1697). Jérôme Bignon, 2 nd man of that name, son of Jérôme I st , was born in Paris in November 1627, obtained the title of prosecutor in survival in February 1652 and succeeded his father to the title of great master of the King’s library and to the one of prosecutor on April 7 th , 1656, he resigned office in 1673, was received as State councilor in 1678 and Chief of the council for the record of armorial bearings in 1696. He died in Paris on January 15 th , 1697. (Olivier, pl. 868).

17. [SAINT -VALLIER (Jean Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de)]. Estat present de l’Eglise et de la colonie françoise dans la Nouvelle France, par m. l’Evêque de Québec. Paris, chez Robert Pepie, 1688. $9,500

8vo [185 x 117 mm], (1) l., title, 267 pp., (1) l. Bound in contemporary granite-like calf, spine ribbed and decorated, with the letter “P” stamped in the lower compartment, mottled edges. Two old manuscript ex libris on title-page. RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS GREAT DESCRIPTION OF THE INDIAN TRIBES FROM CANADA AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH FRENCH COLONISTS . Brunet, supp., II, 567; Church 707 ; Harrisse, 159 ; Leclerc, p. 331, 1358 ; Chadenat, 4947.

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Jean de Saint-Vallier was appointed bishop of Quebec and decided to visit his diocese from May 1685 to January 1687. The following year, on his return to France, he published the account of his impressions in the form of a long letter addressed to one of his friends. The trip to Acadia occupies a large part of the work, and then the author describes the Hurons and other people. This very rare first edition was also published the same year under a different title ( Relation des missions de la Nouvelle France ), and it was reissued in 1856. VERY FRESH AND WIDE -MARGINED COPY PRESERVED IN ITS ORIGINAL CALF BINDING .

18. LECLERCQ , Chrétien. Nouvelle relation de la Gaspésie, qui contient Les Mœurs & la Religion des Sauvages Gaspesiens Porte-Croix, adorateurs du Soleil, & d’autres Peuples de l’Amerique Septentrionale, dite le Canada. Paris, chez Amable Auroy, 1691. $14,500

12mo [165 x 89 mm] of (14) ll., 572 pp., (4) pp. of table (that are missing in most copies). Bound in contemporary full brown granite-like calf, spine ribbed decorated with gilt fleurons, light-brown morocco lettering-piece, mottled edges. FIRST EDITION OF THIS OUTSTANDING RELATION OF THE FIRST MISSION OF THE RECOLLECT FATHERS TO CANADA AND NEW BRUNSWICK , ONE OF THE MOST AUTHENTIC STUDIES ABOUT THE MI’KMAQ INDIANS LIFE . (Chadenat 3272 et 6037 ; Brunet, III, 916 ; Harrisse 170 ; Church 717 ; Sabin 39649 ; Leclerc, Bibliotheca Americana , 868). The account of Father Leclercq provides precious information about those Indians from the Gaspé Peninsula, about their origins, manners, religion, language, laws, traditions, customs and way of life, before the arrival and settlement of Europeans, and also about the origins of the religious history of Canada. The examples he gives of the Mi’kmaq language are also of high interest. Therefore, his relation can be considered as ONE OF THE MOST RELIABLE GUIDES ABOUT INDIAN LIFE AND AS ONE OF THE BEST WRITTEN INFORMATION SOURCES ABOUT THE YEARS OF FORMATION OF THE NOUVELLE FRANCE . « Very sought-after work and of the utmost scarcity » (Chadenat) « Father Le Clercq has left a remarkable record of the labors of his brethren the Recollects, in converting the Pagan tribe of Gaspesian Indians. He not only recorded the results of his own missionary life among the savages inhabiting the shores of the St. Lawrence, but he has left us what has always been considered, an authentic account of their peculiar traits of character, religious rites, and mode of life, before these had been modified by contact with civilization .” (Field). A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST RECOLLECT FATHERS MISSION TO CANADA , PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY BROWN GRANITE -LIKE CALF BINDING AND COMPLETE WITH THE VERY RARE TABLE OF CHAPTERS . Only one complete copy with the table of chapters and in a contemporary binding is recorded in ABPC since over 15 years.

19. BIANCHINI , Francesco. Hesperi et Phosphori nova phaenomena sive observationes circa Planetam Veneris. Rome, Giovanni Maria Salvioni, 1728. $17,500

Folio [380 x 250 mm] of 1 frontispiece, viii pp., 92 pp., 10 plates out of pagination including 4 folded, 3 engravings in the text. A tear without loss of text in the margin of p. 29. Bound in recent light-brown mottled half-roan, spine ribbed, red morocco lettering piece, mottled edges. RARE FIRST EDITION RELATING FOR THE FIRST TIME THE PRESENCE OF DARK SPOTS ON VENUS . IT IS THE FIRST ATLAS OF THIS PLANET , IN WHICH BIANCHINI DETERMINES ITS AXIS OF ROTATION . (Riccardi, I, 132; Graesse, I, 437). « It is in this work that Bianchini recorded his observations of the dark spots of the planet Venus. He determined the rotating movement of this planet. He had his book printed splendidly, dedicated it to the King of Portugal John V, to whom he offered at the same time a machine representing the

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system of this planet, decorated with gilt silver figures. The king sent in return to the author, in addition to an important sum of money, a new telescope made in London…» BESIDES THE PRESENT WORK IS AN IMPORTANT EXAMPLE OF ILLUSTRATION IN ITALIAN BOOKS FROM THE 18 TH CENTURY . It is illustrated with A FRONTISPIECE engraved by Rocco Pozzi after Stefano Pozzi , 3 ENGRAVINGS in the text and 10 PLATES out of pagination dedicated to Bianchini’s discoveries. One of the engravings illustrating the second chapter represents the lunar crater Platon and 2 of the full-page plates show contemporary telescopes. William Ashworth noted in the catalogue oh his exhibition entitled The Face of the Moon that : « This small engraving, which appears in the text as part of the introductory chapter, shows the crater Plato at the right, with Aristotle and Eudoxus at left, and the mountain range of the alps cut by the dramatic slash of the Alpine Valley. Bianchini noted with surprise that the valley did not appear on the great Cassini map, and he was right; Bianchini was the first to see and to portray this most impressive of lunar valleys ” (p. 11). A GOOD COPY OF THIS RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE UTMOST INTEREST WITH REGARD TO ASTRONOMY .

20. OVID . [Opera]. Publii Ovidii Nasonis Operum. Amsterdam, Janssonio Waesbergios, 1735. $20,000

3 volumes 16mo [120 x 62 mm] bound in contemporary red morocco, medallions with shell-like designs repeated on the covers, decorated with peacocks, squirrels and birds, flat spines finely decorated, olive green morocco lettering pieces, gilt edges. Contemporary binding by Dubuisson . THE WORKS OF OVID WONDERFULLY CONTEMPORARY BOUND IN RED MOROCCO DECORATED BY DUBUISSON . A PRECIOUS AND SPLENDID COPY COVERED WITH A BINDING ESPECIALLY EXECUTED BY DUBUISSON , DECORATED WTH A GILT MEDALLION WITH ANIMAL TOOLS OF GREAT DELICACY . We can see on the covers of the volumes various species of birds, but also squirrel or peacocks. WONDERFUL VOLUMES SHOWING THE SUMPTUOUSNESS OF FRENCH ART IN THE 18 TH CENTURY . Provenance : H. Le Fuel with ex libris.

21. ZOCCHI , Giuseppe. SCELTA di XXIV Vedute delle principali Contrade, Piazze, Chiese e Palazzi della Citta di Firenze. Florence, 1744. $125,000

Folio [590 x 405 mm] of 1 engraved title, (1) l. of engraved dedication, and 24 plates on double- page. Bound in contemporary red full morocco, large gilt borders on covers with gilt fleurons at corners, large gilt arms stamped in the center, spine ribbed and richly decorated, gilt edges. Contemporary binding. FIRST EDITION OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVED BOOK ABOUT FLORENCE , ILLUSTRATED WITH A SPLENDID ALLEGORICAL TITLE ON DOUBLE -PAGE AFTER GIUSEPPE MAGNI AND WITH 24 ENGRAVINGS ON DOUBLE -PAGE AFTER ZOCCHI . (Berlin Katalog, 2700). « Giuseppe Zocchi was employed for decorations in the palaces of Florence and its surroundings especially in the palaces of Serristori, Rimuceini and Gerini. The Gerinis were his patrons, during his travels he drew the most remarkable places of the regions he was crossing and these drawings were, later on, engraved and gathered in interesting typographical series… » E. Bénezit The 24 engravings (680 x 500 mm) represent a general view of Florence, the Reale Palazzo of Pitti, the city seen from Porta Alla Croce, another view drawn della Porta S. Niccolo, the bridge St Trinita, Chiesa and Piazza d’Ognissanti, Palazzo Strozzi, Chiesa di S. Michele, Palazzi Corsi and Viviani, della Piazza della Nunziata, Piazza di S. Maria Nuova, Chiesa e Piazza di S. Pier Maggiore, el Palazzo del Potesta, Chiesa di S. Giovannino e de Palazzi dei SSri. Marchese Riccardi e Panciatichi, Veduta degli Ufizi, Veduta della Metropolitana Fiorentina e del Battistero, la Chiesa e Piazza di S. Maria Novela, El Palazzo Vecchio, la Chiesa e Piazza di S. Croce …

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ONE OF THE VERY FEW COPIES PRINTED ON LARGE VELLUM PAPER AND CONTEMPORARY BOUND WITH A SPLENDID BINDING IN RED FULL MOROCCO WITH THE LARGE ARMS OF THE GRAND DUKE OF TUSCANY FRANCIS II (1737-1765). In 1737 in Tuscany, after the death of Jean Gaston and the extinction of the Medici line in Florence, another dynasty arrived: the “ Habsburg Lorraine Tuscany ”. Francis (1708-1765), 1 st Habsburg, became Grand Duke of Tuscany under the name of Francis II. Son of Leopold Duke of Lorraine, Francis also became Duke of Lorraine under the name of Francis III. Since he married Maria Theresa of Austria in 1736, he gave his duchy to France, in pursuance of the treaty of Vienna signed on November 1738, so that the King of France Louis XV accepts Maria Theresa as an heir to her father the Emperor of Austria. Louis XV was happy to get back this territory of Lorraine in order to install his father-in-law Stanislas, dethroned king of Poland. Francis III of Lorraine becomes in 1738 Grand Duke of Tuscany under the name of Francis II and when his father-in-law the Emperor of Austria dies, in 1745, he is elected Emperor and becomes Francis I. Maria Theresa governs because it is the « Kaiserin » that has the power. The imperial couple had sixteen children of which six died during infancy.

22. RABELAIS , François. AN EXCEPTIONAL SET OF 116 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS in sanguine executed towards 1745, interpreting Les Songes drolatiques de Pantagruel after Richard Breton’s edition, 1565. « Les Songes drolatiques de Pantagruel ou sont contenues plusieurs/ figures de linvention de maistre francois Rabelais & derniere œuvre diceluy pour la recreation des bons esprits. /a paris. par Richard Breton, rue S : Jaques, à L’escrevisse d’argent. MDLXV » (f°1), « au lecteur salut. La grande familiarité que jay eue avec feu francois Rabelais… », 116 quires 4to [116 leaves of 225 x 170 mm], (1, 2, 4) bl. ll., the drawings numbered from 1 to 120 show in approximately twice the original size, drawn in sanguine, the set of drawings engraved on wood published in 1565 by Richard Breton. 4 drawings (out of 120) are lacking: the 27, 28, 66 and 68, an old gap that was already indicated by bookmarks at the end of the 19th century. We find in our copy one inscription on the 1 st leaf of the 5 th drawing « a creppy ce 17 avril 1760 » in a different and probably later writing than the one of the foreword and the drawings, probably the writing of the first owner of this work. $36,500

IT IS NOT FOR US TO LOOK INTO THE ORIGIN OF THE FIGURES OF THIS FAMOUS LITERARY HOAX ATTRIBUTED BY ITS EDITOR TO RABELAIS , BUT WHOSE DRAWER WE CONSIDER TO BE ACTUALLY FRANÇOIS DESPREZ , author of another sketchbook, the « Recueil de la diversité des habits qui sont de Present en usage », published by the same Richard Breton in 1564 (these two collections figure together in the same work preserved at the Municipal Library of Tours). « The spirit that animates this collection of grotesque drawings comes close to the one of the Flemish masters, Hieronymus Bosch and Brueghel in first. If we exclude an Augsburg reissue from 1590, we will have to wait for more than two centuries so that this work emerges from obscurity again, partly, with a new publication of 60 plates in 1797, and in its entirety in 1823. » THIS COMPLETE OBLIVION OF A COLLECTION OF DRAWINGS THOUGH ATTRIBUTED TO A VERY APPRECIATED AUTHOR WHICH EDITIONS WILL NOT STOP BEING PUBLISHED , AND EVEN ILLUSTRATED , DURING ALL THE ANCIEN RÉGIME , MAKES EVEN MORE RARE AND PRECIOUS THIS UNKNOWN HANDWRITTEN COLLECTION , DISCOVERED WITHIN A COLLECTION FROM VIEUX CHINON , DRAWN , IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 18 TH CENTURY , BY A TALENTED HAND THAT POINTS TO THE PROFESSIONAL AND OF WHICH WE CAN REASONABLY THINK THAT IT WAS INTENDED FOR PUBLISHING . We can assume that the author of those sketches was a member of a workshop of a certain size since he had at his disposal an important stock of paper. Indeed we note as the work progresses, about ten different successive watermarks which can be dated from the end of the 17 th century to the end of the 1 st third of the 18 th century revealing successive purchases to various stationers of the centre of France. IF WE CONSIDER THAT THE PAPER MAY HAVE BEEN USED A FEW YEARS AFTER ITS PURCHASE AND THAT THE DRAWINGS WERE MADE BEFORE THE DATE OF 1760 WRITTEN BY ONE OF THEIR FIRST OWNERS , THEIR CREATION MUST BE AROUND THE YEARS 1745. BESIDES , WE HAVE TO NOTE THAT OUR DRAWER IS NOT AN ORDINARY COPIER DEVOID OF PERSONALITY .

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PARTICULARLY ATTRACTIVE , THIS SET OF NEO -RABELAISIAN DRAWINGS REVEAL THE PHILOSOPHICAL SPIRIT OF THE TIME , AND WOULD DESERVE AN ELABORATE STUDY , AND PROBABLY A PUBLICATION both because of the period during which they revive this work from the oblivion, and for their own aesthetic. ITS STATE OF PRESERVATION IS EXCELLENT and only the first quire, since he got a full page of writings in ink, has foxing and browning that don’t damage in anyway its integrity. The original collection was published in 1565. THESE DRAWINGS ARE VERY PECULIAR AND CORRESPOND SO WELL TO THE RABELAISIAN IMAGINATION , THAT , SO TO SPEAK , THEY TOOK PLACE IN RABELAIS ’ WORK . Brunet, and many other bibliographers including, nowadays, P. P. Plan, described the 1565 collection; PEOPLE WANTED TO SEE ALLUSIONS TO GREAT NAMES OF THAT PERIOD AND RESEMBLANCES HIDDEN BEHIND THE PECULIAR AND THE GROTESQUE . AN ABSOLUTELY UNIQUE COLLECTION EXECUTED UNDER THE REIGN OF LOUIS XV.

23. VOLTAIRE . Candide ou L’optimisme. Traduit de l’allemand de Mr. le docteur Ralph. N.p. (Geneva, Cramer), 1759. [Followed by]: - RICCOBONI , Marie-Jeanne Laboras de Mézières. Lettres de Milady Juliette Catesby, à Milady Henriette Campley, son amie . Seconde édition . Amsterdam, 1759. $50,000

12mo [164 x 95 mm] of (1) bl.l., 299 pp., (1) bl.l., (1) l. of title, (250) pp., (1) bl.l. Contemporary marbled light-brown calf, flat spine decorated with gilt fleurons, red morocco lettering piece, red edges. Mark of water on the front cover, small scuff on the back cover. Contemporary binding. TRUE FIRST EDITION OF CANDIDE , « VERY RARE AND MUCH SOUGHT -AFTER ». « There are eight different editions of Candide, published in 1759 without name of town or editor, all published in the same size, and all having an identical title. Among those 8 editions, this one is the first one . » (Bengesco. B.N.F., En Français dans le texte ). THIS FIRST EDITION OF CANDIDE IS VERY RARE . THE TEXT FOLLOWING CANDIDE IS THE SECOND EDITION OF A WORK BY MRS . RICCOBONI WHICH HAD A GREAT SUCCESS IN THE 18 TH CENTURY . « This work would be enough to ensure the author a distinguished place among the best novelists from the 18th century » (Quérard, La France littéraire, VIII, 18). A FINE COPY GATHERING THOSE TWO NOVELS FROM THE 18 TH CENTURY , PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY MARBLED CALF BINDING .

24. PIRANESE , Giovanni Battista. Diverse maniere d’adornare i cammini… / Divers manners of ornamenting chimneys…/ Différentes manières d’orner les cheminées. Rome, 1769. $36,000

Folio [524 x 400 mm] of (1) l. of title, 1 engraved title on double-page, (1) l. of dedication, pp. 1 to 30, (1) l. of index, pp. 31 to 35, (1) p., (1) l. of notice, 70 plates. Text in Italian, English and French. Bound in contemporary green half-morocco, flat spine decorated with gilt filets. FIRST EDITION , FIRST ISSUE OF THIS WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF ORNAMENTS DRAWN AND ENGRAVED BY PIRANESI . (Guilmard, Les maîtres ornemanistes , Ecole italienne, n°31; Brunet, IV, 672; Cohen, Guide de l’amateur de livres à gravures , 804; Berlin Katalog, n°3820; Hind 86). ILLUSTRATED WITH A SPLENDID TITLE ENTIRELY ENGRAVED ON DOUBLE -PAGE , THIS SUITE IS COMPOSED OF 70 BEAUTIFUL LARGE PLATES (400 x 250 mm). THE ARTIST DEPICTS 62 VERY SURPRISING CHIMNEY MODELS , including 46 on full-page, inspired by the Egyptian world as well as Greece or Roma. This same trend is visible in the 16 LARGE ENGRAVINGS in which Piranesi produces without any difficulty and with a great skill and a great elegance patterns in the antique style in order to create FURNITURE AND INNOVATIVE DECORATIVE OBJECTS : commodes, clocks, consoles, seats, candelabra, sedan chairs, vases… THIS SUITE OF ENGRAVINGS OF ORNAMENTS BY PIRANESI IS VERY RARE AND DIFFICULT TO FIND COMPLETE . Moreover bibliographers are not unanimous as for its description. This

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contemporary bound collection seems more complete than most of them. It corresponds to the collation given as complete by Cohen for a suite of 70 plates. Brunet indicates a maximum of 69 pieces for this collection. A VERY WIDE -MARGINED COPY COMPOSED OF WONDERFUL PROOFS OF A VERY RARE SUITE OF ORNAMENTATION BY ONE OF THE GREATEST ARTISTS FROM THE 18 TH CENTURY .

25. RAPHAËL . Raphaël sanzio d’Urbino. Delle Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano. Rome, 1772-1777. $40,000

2 parts in 1 large oblong folio volume (tiny restoration in the margins). I/ Delle logie di Rafaele nel Vaticano : frontispiece, 16 plates by Ottaviani after C. Savorelli and P. Camporesi and global view of the Gallery in 3 plates ; II/ 12 plates by J. Volpato after L. Teseo. Modern red morocco decorated with a large gilt rocaille border. A SUMPTUOUS COLLECTION OF RAPHAEL ’S WORK . (Brunet IV, 1110). Jules II’s favourite painter, Raphael (1483-1520) was going to see his fortune and his fame increase with the accession of Pope Leo X to the pontifical throne in March 1513. THE POPE APPOINTED RAPHAEL HIS COUNSELLOR, THE ORGANIZER OF HIS CELEBRATIONS AND GAVE HIM BRAMANTE ’S SUCCESSION TO THE MANAGEMENT OF THE WORKS OF ST PETER . Promoted architect of the Pope in 1514, the artist received the order to continue the galleries named the Loggia, barely started at that time. It is for the vaults of the portico of the second floor that he composed in 1519 the famous series of 52 drawings on biblical subjects. THIS COLLECTION DEDICATED TO RAPHAEL ’S CREATIONS IS A TESTIMONY OF AN OBVIOUS ARTISTIC INTEREST OF THE HARMONY AND OF THE EXTRAORDINARY IMAGINATIVE VIVIDNESS OF THE ARTIST IN THE DECORATION OF STUCCO , CEILINGS AND VAULTS OF THE VATICAN ’S GALLERY . THE FIRST SERIES comprises a global view of the gallery in frontispiece and another view in 3 plates representing the set of decorative elements, of 1.64 m. 16 WONDERFUL PLATES (100 x 43.5 cm or 77 x 43.5 cm) are then dedicated to doors, vault borders, ceilings, with a multitude of arabesques of an incredible diversity, a multitude of animal patterns, birds, flowers, fruit… THE SECOND SET develops in 12 large plates (106 x 46.5 cm) all the paintings of 12 EMBRASURES , depicting the tumultuous world of antique gods and demigods and decorated with really fine friezes . A PRECIOUS COPY , IN WHICH THE SERIES OF 31 PLATES HAS BEEN WONDERFULLY CONTEMPORARY WATERCOLORED. With vibrant shades, those highlights of watercolour made with the precision of a miniaturist are excellent to emphasize the incredible decorative details coming from the artist’s creative imagination. THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY DECORATIVE ILLUMINATED SERIES IN THE 18 TH CENTURY .

26. [FRANKLIN , Benjamin / LA ROCHEFOUCAULD , le duc de / COURT DE GEBELIN , Antoine / ROBINET , Jean-Baptiste-René / GENET , Edme-Jacques / BANCROFT , Edward / ADAMS , John, etc.]. Affaires de l’Angleterre et de l’Amérique . [G UERRE D ’INDEPENDANCE DES AMERIQUES ]. Antwerp [Paris, Pissot], 1777-1778 [1779]. $22,000

Only 6 parts 8vo [218 x 140 mm] (out of 82 published) numbered XVIII to XXI and LVIII – LIX. Our copy is composed of: Vol. 1: quire XVIII: pp. 57 to 88 and cxxxiii to clxxvi; vol. 2: quire XIX: pp. 89 to 120 and clxxvii to ccxviii, (1) bl.l., 11 pp. of table and index ; vol. 3: quire XX: pp. 121 to 160 and ccxix to ccliv; vol. 4: quire XXI: 32 pp., lii pp. ; vol. 5: quire LVIII: pp. clxi to ccxlviii; vol. 6: quire LIX: pp. 257 to 288, pp. ccxlix to ccliv, pp. cclv to cclxiv are missing, pp. cclxv to ccxc, (1) l. of notice. Preserved in the original blue printed wrappers (at the printer’s address of Pissot), some wears on the covers. Untrimmed. Contemporary bindings .

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SCARCE COLLECTION OF SIX ISSUES OF THIS PUBLICATION DEDICATED TO THE DEFENCE OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF AMERICANS , WITNESS OF THE INDEPENDENCE WAR OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND SIGN THAT FRENCH REVOLUTION IS ON ITS WAY . Leclerc, Bibliotheca Americana , 2464 ; Barbier, Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes , I, 76. « A most important collection for the period of the revolution of the United-States. It was written by Franklin, Court de Gébelin, Robinet, etc., during the years 1776-1779. The publication was made by quires; after a certain number of issues, titles and tables were printed for each volume. » (Leclerc) « Harvard College Library possesses a copy of this scarce work » (O. Rich, Bibliotheca Americana nova , n°102). The main contributors to this publication are Antoine Court de Gébelin , La Rochefoucauld d’Anville , Edward Bancroft and Jean-Baptiste Robinet . The American documentation was notably provided by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams , who also took part in the translation and the writing. « It is a chronological collection of facts and discussions to be used for the political History of England and its colonies . » « In 1776 there was commenced at Paris, though with the imprint of “Anvers” a periodical called “Affaires de l’Angleterre et de l’Amérique”, which was published for about 4 years and was, according to Barbier, edited by Benjamin Franklin, Antoine Court de Gébelin, Jean Baptiste René Robinet…As its title indicates, it was devoted to the history of the American Revolution. The plan of the work was to print in diary form a narrative of events, to reprint from newspapers and pamphlets matter of especial interest and to give the inside political history and parliamentary proceedings of Great Britain. The work is one of singular value for the history of the period covered; (…) it was clearly intended to (...) give the French people accurate information concerning the causes and progresses of the war and encourage them with their sympathy for the American cause.” (P. L. Ford , The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 13, n° 2 (Jul., 1889), pp. 222-226). Each issue contains a letter signed by a "Banquier de Londres" (London banker), since identified as the duke of La Rochefoucauld d'Anville. A PRECIOUS COPY OF THIS SCARCE POLITICAL PUBLICATION PRESERVED IN THE MOST ENVIABLE CONDITION , IN WRAPPERS , UNCUT , WITH THE BLUE EDITOR ’S COVERS . TOUCHING PROVENANCE OF A “F OUNDING FATHER ” OF THE UNITED STATED OF NORTH AMERICA : handwritten note « Henry Drayton, membre député de la Caroline, auprès des États- Unis d'Amérique » on the covers of the two quires dated 1778. William Henry Drayton (1742 –1779) was at the same time a farmer and a lawyer in Charleston, in South Carolina. He worked as a delegate representing South Carolina at the Continental Congress in 1778 and 1779. Only 4 French public Institutions own this rare publication: B.n.F ., Libraries of Aix-en-Provence, Grenoble and Clermont-Ferrand . The copy of the B.n.F. did not preserve the editor’s covers with the address of Pissot.

27. RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE . La Découverte australe par un Homme-volant ou le Dédale français ; Nouvelle très-philosophique : Suivie de la Lettre d’un Singe. Leipsick, 1781. $14,000

4 volumes 12mo [163 x 98 mm] of: I/ 1 frontispiece, 240 pp., 3 plates, small imperfection on pp. 93 and 117; II/ 1 frontispiece, pp. 241 to 436, 15 plates; III/ 1 frontispiece, pp. 437 to 624 and pp. 1 to 92, 1 plate; IV/ 1 frontispiece on double-page, pp. 93 to 334, small wormhole in the margin of pp. 225 to 245 not touching the text. Bound in contemporary quarter calf, blue marbled paper boards, decorated flat spines, red morocco lettering pieces, yellow edges. Contemporary binding. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF « ONE OF RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE ’S RAREST WORKS ». (Rahir) Rahir, Bib. de l’amateur , 895; Cohen, Guide de l’amateur de livres à gravures , 877; Sander 1693; P.L. Jacob, Bibliographie des ouvrages de Restif de la Bretonne, 198 à 207; Rives-Child, XXIII, pp. 278-281. Censored copy, bound at the time of publication without the leaves 337 to 422 of part IV, like almost every copy.

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« Most of the copies have suffered mutilations required by the Police. Restif had to suppress the pages 337 to 422, which is to say five of the diatribes that followed the one entitled ‘l’Homme de nuit’, the only one which found favour in the censorship eyes… As for the additional leaves of the part IV, it is Restif who made them carefully disappear, for personal reasons… This work, which is one of the rarest of the author, was only published in 1781, and probably after the slowness and the difficulties from the censorship and the police. » (P.L. Jacob) « This work is one of the most peculiar by Restif and one of the less common. The recent progress of aviation drew the attention of the inquisitive persons to this book that we believe will rapidly increase in price. » (Cohen) « This work, one of the most peculiar that Restif has written, is very sought-after, not only by the Restif lovers but also by collectors of books about utopia and aeronautics. ‘It is really noteworthy, Lacroix says, that Restif led his researches on the way to travel in the air, three years before the discovery of the brothers Montgolfier, who made the first balloon experience in the month of June 1783.’ It is still remarkable, although nobody ha pointed it out, that Restif, in this work had foreseen a vehicle able to travel without horses. In the peace interest, he proposes an association of European nations. Thing even more peculiar, Restif, anticipating the ASPCA, demands that ‘we would be fair to animals’ » (Rives Childs). THE PRESENT EDITION IS ILLUSTRATED IN THE FIRST ISSUE WITH 4 FRONTISPIECES , INCLUDING 1 ON DOUBLE -PAGE , AND WITH 19 SPLENDID IMAGINARY FIGURES which represent the flying man, but also monkey men, bear men, pig men, bull men, beaver men, horse men, lion men, etc. « Some of the figures are rather free and explain that the book was often destroyed. » (Rahir) A PRECIOUS COPY OF THIS FIRST EDITION SOUGHT -AFTER BY THE RESTIF LOVERS AND THE SCIENCE FICTION LOVERS , PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY UNIFORM BINDING .

28. FAUJAS DE SAINT -FOND , Barthélémy. Description des Expériences de la Machine Aérostatique de MM. De Montgolfier, Et de celles auxquelles cette découverte a donné lieu. [Et]- Première suite de la description des expériences aérostatiques de MM. De Montgolfier. Paris, Cuchet, 1783-1784. $11,000

2 volumes 8vo [192 x 122 mm]: XL, 299, (7) pp., 9 plates and 1 folding table ; (1) l., 366 pp., (1) l. of errata and 5 plates. Bound in contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and decorated, edges red. Heads and tails of spines damaged. FIRST EDITION OF « THE FIRST AERIAL VOYAGE » (P.M.M., 229). En Français dans le texte , 175 ; Cohen 372. «Faujas de Saint-Fond’s ‘Description of the Aerial Machine of MM. Montgolfier’ was the earliest record of this flight, written and published in the very year of its accomplishment. It is the first serious treatise on aerostation as a practical possibility ”. (PMM 229). THE ILLUSTRATION CONSISTS OF 14 FIGURES OF AEROSTATIC EXPERIMENTS , drawn by Lorimier and engraved by De Launay and Sellier . COMPLETE COPIES PRESERVED IN THEIR UNIFORM CONTEMPORARY BINDINGS ARE RARE . Provenance: G. Goury (handwritten note: “ G. Goury Ing. Des P. Et Ch. ” at the beginning of the volumes).

29. HAÜY , Valentin. Essai sur l’éducation des aveugles, ou exposé de différens moyens, vérifiés par l’expérience, pour les mettre en état de lire, à l’aide du trait, d’imprimer des Livres dans lesquels ils puissent prendre des connaissances… Paris, Imprimé par les Enfans-Aveugles, sous la direction de M. Clousier, Imprimeur du Roi, 1786. $9,500 4to [246 x 190 mm] of (1) bl.l, vii pp. 1 to 111 printed with embossed characters, pp 113 to 126, 15 pp., (1) l., (11) ll., (1) l. of observation, (3) ll. with the « Programme des exercices que les enfans- aveugles feront à Versailles » in front of the king, (3) ll., (1) bl. l. Bound in contemporary full marbled calf, spine ribbed, edges red. Binding skillfully restored.. Contemporary binding. RARE FIRST EDITION OF « THE FIRST PRINTED BOOK INTENDED TO BE READ BY THE BLIND ». GM 5833; Lende p.15; PMM 292; En Français dans le texte 242; Norman 1023.

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Valentin Haüy (1745-1822) wanted to make the blind read. In 1784 he created special characters that would produce an embossed typography. In 1786 he published the present work to expound his revolutionary method to educate the blind. The present book was printed by blind children with embossed letters. IN 1786 HAÜY PUBLISHED THE PRESENT WORK TO EXPOUND HIS REVOLUTIONARY METHOD TO EDUCATE THE BLIND . THE PRESENT BOOK WAS PRINTED BY BLIND CHILDREN WITH EMBOSSED LETTERS. The work is dedicated to Louis XVI and is presented to him during a session organized on December 26 th 1786 in Versailles by a dozen of Hauy’s pupils who indulge in convincing demonstrations. « Valentine Haüy was the first to devise type that could be read by the blind. Characters slightly different in shape from ordinary italic were embossed on heavy paper to be read with the fingers. He founded the Institut Royale des Jeunes Aveugles in 1785 and seems actually to have succeeded in teaching some of his pupils not only to read by this method but to set and print the embossed type. His ‘Essai sur l’Education des Aveugles’, 1786, is an incunable of the method ”. (PMM 292). The copy is printed on thick paper and the first 111 pages present embossed characters permitting the blind to read. A GOOD COPY OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE , A WORK THAT SYMBOLIZES THE PHILANTHROPIC OUTBURST TO THE UNDERPRIVILEGED CLASSES IN 18 TH CENTURY FRANCE .

30. LE NORMAND DE L ’O SIER . Ode sur la conquête de l’Amérique, D’après le Traité d’Alliance avec les treize Etats-Unis, Présentée au Roi, lors de son arrivée à Rouen, le 28 juin 1786. N.p.n.d. [Rouen or Le Havre, 1786]. $12,500

Large 18mo [158 x 94 mm] of: (1) l., 22 pp., (1) bl. l., (1) l. Printed on blue-tinted paper. Preserved sewed, in the original wrappers. Loss of part of the spine. Original wrappers. EXCEEDINGLY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS TEXT OF PRAISE TOWARDS THE KING LOUIS XVI AND YET FOREWARNING OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION . Frère, Manuel du bibliographe normand , II, p. 211 ; Cioranescu, Bibliographie de la littérature française du XVIIIe siècle , 39271 ; T. Lebreton, Biographie normande , III, p. 599. Lenormand de l’Osier is a Norman poet coming from Le Havre. Through l’Ode sur la conquête de l’Amérique, the poet praises the king Louis XVI and celebrates relationships between France and America. The French kingdom, despite its more than difficult financial situation, uses the American war of independence (1776-1783) to get even with Great-Britain and the “Traité de Paris” of 1763. THE PROGRESSIVE WEAKENING OF THE FRENCH STATE AND THE EMERGENCE OF A SUSTAINABLE ALTERNATIVE TO MONARCHY ARE SEEN AS THE FIRST FRUIT OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY IDEA . THIS WORK THAT CELEBRATES THE END OF THE WAR , THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE GOOD RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN FRANCE AND AMERICA mixes the names of Washington with those of the king Louis XVI and the counts of Chartres or d’Orvilliers. IN THIS TEXT PRAISING MONARCHY THE REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC SPIRIT INSPIRED BY THE IDEALS OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS ALREADY SHOWING , THAT WILL LEAD TO THE FRENCH REVOLUTION . A PRECIOUS COPY OF THIS RARE PUBLICATION , PRESERVED AS PUBLISHED IN ITS ORIGINAL WRAPPERS . Only one copy is listed among French Public Institutions. Bibliothèque de Rouen. (Rouen-0911). The B.n.F. doesn’t have it. OCLC locates only 1 copy in the world: at the John Carter Brown Library .

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31. ELLIS , George. Specimens of the Early English Poets. London, printed for Edwards, Pall-Mall, 1790. $22,000

8vo [185 x 114 mm] of (1) l. of title, v pp., (3), 323 pp., (1). Bound in citron morocco, covers and spine covered with a mosaic pattern composed of black morocco pieces which outline is traced in the oriental style with gilt filets, filled with gilt dots with a gilt disc in the center, each piece enclosed with a gilt filet forming a trellis, with a red morocco label on the intersections, black lettering-piece, inner gilt border, pink watered silk doublures and endleaves, fore-edge painting under the gilt. Contemporary English binding . FIRST EDITION OF THIS SELECTION OF THE BEST SHORT POEMS FROM THE 17 TH AND 18 TH CENTURIES , ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER ACCORDING TO THE REIGNS , which has the advantage, says the author, of drawing a panorama of English literature: Henri VIII, Elizabeth I (Shakespeare, Philipp Sydney, Daniel Fletcher, Marlow , Sir Walter, …), James I ( Witter, Ben Jonson, William Barton , …), Charles I ( Carew, Habington, Richard Lovelace, Sir Henry Wotton, Sir John Sukting, William Cartwright, Sir John Suckling ), Charles II ( Cowley , Milton, John Dryden, Edmond Waller , …). Ref. : Catalogue of the Huth Library, p. 467; Allibone, A Critical Dictionary of English Literature , p. 552; Brunet, V, 475 et II, 964; Graesse, Trésor de livres rares , p. 468. « First edition of a collection that has been successively enlarged. » (Brunet) IT HAS BEEN HANDSOMELY CONTEMPORARY BOUND , PROBABLY BY STAGGEMEIER AND WELCHER , OR MAYBE BY THE BINDER WALTERS , IN ENGLISH MOROCCO DECORATED IN MOSAIC PATTERN . Staggemeier and Welcher left Hanover to settle in London at the end of the 18 th century and created bindings highly elaborated and of a great quality in their English workshop, from 1795 to 1810. THEY WERE FAMOUS FOR THEIR BINDING OF A GREAT REFINEMENT , OFTEN DECORATED WITH GILT PATTERNS VERY ELABORATED . A binding with an identical decor figured in major Abbey’ s collection (III, 1967, n°2223) with this comment: « a binding belonging to a small group (14 are recorded today) of very luxurious bindings from the end of the 18 th century, most probably commissioned by James Edwards de Pall- Mall (which is obviously the case for this one), copied from a decor from the beginning of the century by Padeloup le jeune ». A RARE COPY PRESENTING A FORE -EDGE PAINTING UNDER THE GILT . SPLENDID EXAMPLE , VERY WELL PRESERVED , OF AN ENGLISH BINDING FROM THE END OF THE 18 TH CENTURY IN MOROCCO DECORATED WITH A HIGHLY ELABORATED MOSAIC PATTERN . Provenance : from H. Le Fuel ’s collection with ex libris.

32. HOLBEIN , Jean . Recueil de XII costumes suisses, Civils et Militaires, Hommes et Femmes, du Seizième Siècle. Gravés d’après les Dessins originaux du célèbre Jean Holbein, qui se trouvent à la Bibliothèque publique de la Ville de Basle. Basel, Chrétien de Mechel, 1790. $25,000

Folio [402 x 280 mm] with 1 engraved title and 13 full-page engraved plates in aquatint. Handwritten note in ink in the top margin of the frontispiece. Bound in 18 th century light brown half-roan, decorated flat spine, scratches on the back cover. FIRST EDITION AND FIRST STATE OF THIS COLLECTION OF SWISS COSTUMES ENGRAVED IN AQUATINT AND HAND -COLOURED , COMPLETE WITH THE 13 TH PLATE WHICH IS OFTEN MISSING . Brunet, III, 251-252; Colas I, 1462; Cohen 493; Lipperheide 899; Rahir, La Bibliothèque de l’amateur , 461; Vinet, Bibliographie méthodique et raisonnée des Beaux-Arts , 2177; Bulletin Morgand et Fatout, 7547. « The 13th added plate is often missing. This collection forms the third part of ‘l’Œuvre de Jean Holbein… published by Chrétien de Méchel’ ». (Vinet) « The 12 plates are printed in bistre or coloured » (Rahir). MOST BIBLIOGRAPHERS , SUCH AS BRUNET , RAHIR , COHEN OR COLAS , MENTION ONLY 12 PLATES FOR THIS COLLECTION . « 1 ll. (engraved title), 12 plates engraved in aquatint and coloured, numbered 1 to 6 and 1 to 6. These plates also exist in bistre; they represent male costumes (6): knight, young noble, standard bearer, soldiers; and women’s (6) women and young middle class women. This series forms the 3 rd

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part of Jean Holbein’s work published in Basel at Guillaume Haas’, from 1780 to 1792. Vinet says that there should be a 13 th plate which is often missing (?). » (Colas, I, 1462) A FINE COPY OF THE DELUXE ISSUE OF THIS COLLECTION ILLUSTRATING THE SWISS COSTUMES FROM THE 16 TH CENTURY AFTER HOLBEIN ’S DRAWINGS , WITH THE 13 PLATES ENTIRELY CONTEMPORARY HAND -COLOURED . Ex libris with arms on the endleaf: A.Brölemann .

33. NANKI JOSUIKEN (signed Kajitoriya Ziemon Josuiken). Gei Shi (= Description of whales). Osaka, Kawachiya Kibei, Kansei 6 (1794). $22,000

4to [262 x 174 mm] of (73) pp. Text in xylography in Chinese on rice paper. A few restored worm- punctures without loss of text. Preserved in its original blue wrappers sewed in the eastern manner, lettering-piece on the front cover. Two Chinese characters have been beautifully written in red ink on the front cover. A few discreet wormholes on covers. Protective case in blue cloth. Contemporary binding. EXTREMELY RARE SECOND AND LAST EDITION OF THIS MONOGRAPH DEDICATED TO WHALES. Ref.: Kerlen, Catalogue of pre-Meiji Japanese books and maps in public collections in the Netherlands , Amsterdam 1996, n°441. The first edition was published in 1759, but it is today unobtainable. THIS MONOGRAPH DESCRIBES THE 14 SPECIES OF WHALES THAT ONE COULD FIND IN JAPAN IN THE 18 TH CENTURY . THE AUTHOR TACKLES THEIR DIFFERENT SHAPES AND THEIR MEDICAL USES . THE PRESENT WORK IS ILLUSTRATED WITH 14 SUPERB WOOD -ENGRAVED REPRESENTATIONS OF WHALES , including 1 on sixfold page, 6 on triple-page and 7 on double-page. The artist did not sign these magnificent woodcuts. The text coming with the illustrations is in classical Chinese, the language of scholars. However, Japanese marks come with the Chinese text in order to make easier the reading in the Japanese manner. A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS FINE WORK ABOUT WHALES ABUNDANTLY ILLUSTRATED , PRESERVED IN ITS ORIGINAL JAPANESE WRAPPERS . Our searches only allowed us to locate 4 copies of this edition among all the Public Institutions: NYPL , University of The Hague in Netherlands, Library of Berlin , and Bibliothèque interuniversitaire des langues Orientales de Paris .

34. MARCHAND , Etienne / FLEURIEU , Charles Pierre Claret, comte de. Voyage autour du monde, pendant les années 1790, 1791, et 1792, précédé d’une introduction historique ; auquel on a joint des recherches sur les terres australes de Drake, et un examen critique du voyage de Roggeween ; avec cartes et figures. Paris, De l’imprimerie de la République, an VI (1798-1800). $23,500

4 volumes 4to [volumes 1 to 3: 255 x 195 mm / atlas: 285x 210 mm] of: I/ xii pp., cxliv, 628 pp., (2) ll. of errata, 1 folding plate; II/ xvi pp., 676 pp., (1) l. of errata; III/ xi pp. 431 pp., (1) p., (1) l. of errata; IV/ (1) l., viii pp., 158 pp., (1) l., 16 numbered maps and plates including 15 folded. Without the blank leaves at the beginning of the 1 st and 2 nd part. Half-roan, black and green paper boards, ribbed spines, edges marbled. Worn corners and joints of the 4 th volume weaken. Binding from the middle of the 19 th century. FIRST EDITION OF THE ACCOUNT OF THE SECOND FRENCH CIRCUMNAVIGATION , THE FIRST FRENCH COMMERCIAL EXPEDITION TO THE NORTHWEST OF THE PACIFIC , IN THE RARE 4TO ISSUE . Hunewell, p.53; Brunet, III, 1399; Graesse, Trésor de Livres rares et précieux ou nouveau dictionnaire bibliographique ; Chadenat, II, 5095; Hill 610; Forbes 292; Lada-Mocarski 54. THE PRESENT WORK IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR THE HISTORY OF DISCOVERIES IN THE NORTH -WEST PACIFIC . “Very important and authoritative work for the history of the north-west coast ” (Lada-Mocarski) which was simultaneously published in 2 sizes: “ simultaneously with this quarto edition there

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appeared an octavo edition with a quarto atlas. The all-quarto edition is to be preferred ” (Lada- Mocarski). « Valuable for its scientific observations, and the learned researches of the author on the early navigators. » (Sabin) . Fleurieu (1738-1810), a sailor and French statesman, is at the origin of this work that he wrote with the help of the crew’s logbooks: the one of Chanal, the first mate, and of the surgeon Roblet, since Marchand’s logbook remained unknown. The goal of the commercial expedition was to go to the north-west coast of America to by furs, especially otter skins, in order to resell with profit their cargo in China. Etienne Marchand (1755- 1793) is at the head of this enterprise. The Solide left the port of Marseille on December 14 th , 1790 and its crew will only come back twenty months later, in the middle of the Reign of Terror, without having been allowed to sell their acquisitions in China in reason of the new ban on bringing in furs. Their cargo will be confiscated by the government at their arrival to France. During this travel, Le Solide AND ITS CREW DISCOVERED A GROUP OF ISLANDS THAT WERE NOT MENTIONED ON ANY MAP . Marchand and his crew renamed each island with the name of the crew members: the first one was named Marchand Island (Ua Pou), then Chanal Island for Marchand’s first mate (Hatutu), and the North West group of islands the islands of the Revolution . THEIR EXPEDITION LED TO IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES AND TO THE LAYOUT OF NEW ISLANDS ON THE PACIFIC MAPS , AS WELL AS THE DESCRIPTION OF LITTLE -KNOWN REGIONS SUCH AS THE MARQUESAS ISLANDS , HAWAII , THE QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS OR EVEN ALASKA . “Volumes 2 and 3 include nautical and natural history observations of the explored regions, as well as a critical study of Roggeveen’s voyage undertaken in 1721-1722. The fourth volume, which contains the maps and charts, was the subject of a separate printing, and forms a special work under the title: Observations sur la division hydrographique du globe, et changements proposés dans la nomenclature générale et particulière de l’hydrographie, avec cartes ; - Application du système métrique décimal à l’hydrographie et aux calculs de la navigation ; moyens pour en faciliter l’établissement et tables à cet usage . The hydrographical section and the application of the metric system obtained the consent of two commissions of the Institute, which reports are at the beginning of this volume, containing fifteen maps that compose the atlas of the work » ( Biographie générale, 17-18, p. 911) The maps represent Alaska, the North West coast, the Marquesas Islands, Hawaii, the road followed by the Solide on the oceans … A GOOD COPY OF THE PRECIOUS 4TO ISSUE OF THE ACCOUNT OF THE SECOND FRENCH CIRCUMNAVIGATION , PRESERVED IN ITS UNIFORM BINDINGS FROM THE 19 TH CENTURY . Provenance : Franck Swannell, Victoria, Canada, 1932 (handwritten note at the beginning of each volume), a famous Canadian geometer from British Columbia (1880-1969) ; Frank S. Streeter (with ex libris), a famous collector of books dedicated to maritime explorations (1918-2006).

35. POUQUEVILLE , F.C.H.L. Voyage en Morée, à Constantinople, en Albanie, et dans plusieurs autres parties de l’empire Othoman, pendant les années 1798, 1799, 1800 et 1801. Comprenant la description de ces pays, leurs productions, les mœurs, les usages, les maladies et le commerce de leurs habitans… Paris, chez Gabon, 1805. $9,500

3 parts in 3 volumes 8vo [200 x 123 mm]: I/ (3) ff., vii pp. for the preface, 542, 1 plate, 1 folding map and 1 folding table; II/ (2) ff., 287 pp., xv pp., 1 plate and 1 folding plate, III/ (2) ff., xxi pp., 344, 1 folding plate. Bound in contemporary full calf in a design resembling tree roots, flat spines decorated with gilt urns and suns, red and green morocco lettering pieces, marbled edges. FIRST EDITION OF THIS PIONEERING BOOK ABOUT GREECE . The French Librarian of Literary guide , p. 417; Bibliothèque de M. le Baron Silvestre de Sacy 4546; Atabey 988; Blackmer 1344; Weber, I, 5. Pouqueville (1770-1838) was given the permission to take part in Bonaparte’s expedition to Egypt in 1798, as a member of the committee of sciences and arts. On his return to France, he was captured by pirates and delivered to the pasha of Tripoli, a vassal of the sultan that France was fighting. Pouqueville became a prisoner of war. The pasha of Tripoli sent him to Constantinople, where the sultan kept him shut up in the Castle with Seven Towers during 2 years. Released in 1801, Pouqueville went back to France and published his Voyage en Morée.

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HIS BOOK GIVES VERY INTERESTING ETHNOGRAPHIC INFORMATION . « The first and probably the best of all Pouqueville’s books on Greece… the work contains a great deal of information on popular customs, superstitions, songs etc. » (Blackmer). THE ILLUSTRATION CONSISTS OF A FOLDING TABLE AND 5 ENGRAVED PLATES . A FINE COPY PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY UNIFORM BINDINGS IN CALF WITH DECORATED FLAT SPINES . Atabey ’s copy, also bound in contemporary calf, was sold for £ 8 300 by Sotheby’s on the 29th of May 2002 (lot 963) (that is to say 13 000 euros).

36. CHATEAUBRIAND , F. A. de. Les Martyrs ou le triomphe de la religion chrétienne. Paris, Le Normant, 1809. $17,500

2 volumes 8vo [214 x 139 mm] of: I/ xxiv pp., 414 pp.; II/ (2) ll., 403 pp, (1) l. of errata, 10 pp. of catalogue. Few foxing, small tears in the margin of the half-title and of p. xvii of the 1 st part not affecting the text. Preserved in the blue plain editor’s wrappers, untrimmed, white paper labels with the title on the spines. Original wrappers. FIRST EDITION OF THIS MASTERPIECE . Escoffier, Catalogue d’une bibliothèque représentant le mouvement romantique , p.48 ; Clouzot, Guide du bibliophile , p.63 ; Vicaire, Manuel de l’amateur de livres du XIX e siècle , I, 184. « Sought-after and rare work in contemporary binding . » (Carteret, Le Trésor du bibliophile , I, p.162). « “ Les Martyrs ” were attacked as soon as published for political reasons; the picture of the Roman Empire seemed to be a critic of the regime, hence the hesitations of the critics […] THE SUCCESS OF THE WORK WITH THE PUBLIC WAS ENORMOUS : “Les Martyrs ” WERE NOT ONLY APPRECIATED BY THE ELITE , BUT THEY ALSO BECAME A POPULAR BOOK AND EXERTED A DURABLE INFLUENCE . It brought into light the ancient Greek civilization, still ignored from the general public, and aroused a renewal of interest in Greece and Rome; above all it is greatly to its credit that it caught the attention to the beginning of the history of France. With this, it had a decisive influence on the revival of historical studies in France. » (Dictionnaire des Œuvres, IV). The present work is complete with the errata and the catalogue at the end of the 2 nd part. A PRECIOUS COPY PRESERVED IN THE MOST ENVIABLE CONDITION , UNTRIMMED , AS PUBLISHED IN THE ORIGINAL EDITOR ’S BLUE WRAPPERS . Provenance: ex libris on the half-title of the first volume of M. de Cicé, arch. d’Aix (1735-1810) who was also appointed Minister of Justice by Louis XVI ; engraved ex libris of the famous bibliophile Louis Barthou (1862-1934).

37. LA SILHOUETTE , JOURNAL DES CARICATURES , Beaux-Arts, Dessins, Mœurs, Théâtres… Paris, rue des Fossés-Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois et rue Neuve des Petits-Champs, 1830. $28,000 4 parts in 2 volumes 4to [266 x 203 m], quarter garnet-red straight-grained morocco, flat spines finely decorated, untrimmed, top edge gilt. Binding signed by Champs-Stoobants, executed towards 1905. VERY RARE PUBLICATION PUBLISHED IN 52 PARTS . IT IS THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST NEWSPAPER DEDICATED TO CARICATURES PUBLISHED IN FRANCE BETWEEN JUNE 23 RD 1829 AND JANUARY 2ND 1831, PRINTED BY SELLIGUE ET GUIRAUDET . (Carteret, III, 563). THE EDITION OF LA SILOUHETTE IS ILLUSTRATED WITH 105 BEAUTIFUL LITHOGRAPHS . Those plates were realized by Monnier, Johannot, Deveria, Daumier, Grandville ... and printed by Ratier . Our copy is grangerized since it contains 106 plates instead of the 105 mentioned by Carteret. Indeed the 3 rd part presents the plate entitled: Un Jésuite, caricature de Charles X , in two states, in black and in colour. 46 OF THOSE ENGRAVINGS ARE PART OF THE VERY SOUGHT -AFTER COLOURED ISSUE . A COPY PRINTED ON VELLUM PAPER , WIDE -MARGINED AND ALMOST UNTRIMMED . It comes from Paul Gavault ’s collection with his ex-libris. Stamp " timbre royal " put on the pages of the volumes. 23

38. [CRAPELET , Georges-Adrien.]. Les demandes faites par le roi Charles VI, touchant son état et le gouvernement de sa personne, avec les réponses de Pierre Salmon, son secrétaire et familier ; publiées, avec des notes historiques, D’Après les Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du Roi. Paris, Crapelet, 1833. $8,800

Large 8vo [281 x 178 mm] of: (2) ll., xxii pp., (1) bl.l., 176 pp., 1 folding facsimile, 9 plates in two states. Text printed in red and black on strong vellum paper. A few foxing. Bound in quarter black shagreen, spine decorated with blind-stamped panels and gilt title. Contemporary binding . FIRST EDITION AND FIRST ISSUE OF THIS SPLENDID REPRODUCTION OF A MANUSCRIPT OF PIERRE SALMON PRESERVED IN THE KING ’S LIBRARY , ONE OF 12 PRECIOUS COPIES WITH THE PLATES PAINTED IN GOLD AND COLOURS ON VELLUM PAPER . Vicaire, II, col. 469; Graesse, Trésor de livres rares , II, 296; Bulletin Morgand et Fatout, 8117; Brunet, II, 408. This work corresponds to the eleventh and last part of the Collection des anciens monuments de l’Histoire et de la Langue française , published by Georges-Adrien Crapelet from 1826 to 1833. The editor bases his text on two manuscripts of the Dialogues by Pierre Salmon preserved in the King’s Library, one on paper and not illustrated, the other one on vellum paper and finely illustrated. THE 9 VERY BEAUTIFUL PLATES ILLUSTRATING THE PRESENT VOLUME REPRODUCE WITH PRECISION THE MINIATURES OF THE LATTER . IT IS ONE OF THE 12 PRECIOUS COPIES ILLUSTRATED WITH A SECOND STATE OF THE ENGRAVINGS , WITH THE PLATES ENTIRELY PAINTED BY HAND IN GOLD AND COLOURS ON VELLUM PAPER . « Twelve copies of these drawings, on vellum paper, were painted in gold and in colours, with such a perfection and faithfulness that we could be mistaken between the duplicate and the originals. » (Vicaire) « Very large 8vo with 10 plates. 30 fr. There are twelve copies with the plates painted in gold and in colours on vellum paper, reproducing with precision the most beautiful miniatures of the original manuscript. Price of each, 300 fr. » (Brunet) A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS SUMPTUOUS WORK OF WHICH ONLY 12 COPIES WERE PAINTED AND CONTEMPORARY ILLUMINATED .

39. DUMAS , Alexandre. Impressions de voyage. Paris, Charpentier, Dumont, 1835-1837. $29,000

5 parts in 5 volumes 8vo [205 x 129 mm] of: I/ (4) pp., 476, (1) l.; II/ (4) pp., 352, (1) l.; III/ (4) pp., 370, (1) l.; IV/ (4) pp., 338, (1) l.; V/ (4) pp., 402, (1) f. Some slight waterstaining and spotting. Bound in green half-shagreen, covers in black and green paper, flat spines decorated with gilt filets. Contemporary binding . THE RARE « IMPRESSIONS DE VOYAGE » BY ALEXANDRE DUMAS . Clouzot 95; Carteret, I, 228-229; Vicaire 342. VOLUMES 3 TO 5 ARE HERE IN FIRST EDITION , while the first 2 volumes are from the 1835 reprint. Dumas mainly dedicates these volumes to his trips to Switzerland. « This book by Alexandre Dumas father (1803-1870), published between 1835 and 1859, is not lacking of interest, neither of quality. The insatiable curiosity of the author offers us many descriptions and notes concerning a lot of countries […]. Those ‘Impressions de voyages’ are, for Dumas, a way to give free rein to his surprising ease of storyteller and strongly emphasize his talents of observer . » ( Dictionnaire des Œuvres , III, 693) This work is « rarely complete with its 5 volumes. A fine copy in contemporary bindings deserves a clear financial effort. » (Clouzot) A VERY PRECIOUS COPY OF THIS RARE LITERARY WORK , DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR TO MRS . JANIN on the title of the first volume: « Déposé aux pieds de Madame Janin comme un hommage respectueux de l’auteur. Alexandre Dumas. ». Jules Janin (1804-1874) is a French writer and critic who contributed to contemporary Parisian literary reviews such as the Revue des deux mondes and the Revue de Paris . Besides he joins the Journal des Débats in 1832 as a literary critic, where he stays until 1874. His authority brings him

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to be nicknamed « the prince of critics ». After many attempts, he will be elected at the Académie française on April 7 th 1870, taking the seat of Sainte-Beuve. Janin married Adèle Huet on October 16 th 1841. Alexandre Dumas and Jules Janin are seeing each other since 1835, date when they both started to collaborate with the Revue des deux mondes and the Revue de Paris. Besides Jules Janin will write the foreword of the Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils a few years later. A PRECIOUS COPY OF THIS LITERARY WORK OF THE UTMOST RARITY , COMPLETE WITH THE 5 VOLUMES CONTEMPORARY UNIFORMLY BOUND IN GREEN HALF -SHAGREEN AND DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR ALEXANDRE DUMAS TO THE WIFE OF THE FAMOUS LITERARY CRITIC JULES JANIN . No copy of this work is recorded in ABPC Among French public Libraries, only the Bibliothèque de Lille owns the first edition of the first two volumes. The B.n.F . only has the first 4 parts of this work, with parts 1 and 2 printed in 1835. No French Institution owns a complete copy with the 5 volumes of these Impressions de voyage .

40. BURY , Thomas Talbot. Six coloured views on the London and Birmingham railway, from drawings made on the line with the sanction of the company. London, published by Ackermann and co., 1837. $29,000

Large 4to [360 x 290 mm] with 1 title-page and six numbered plates. Preserved in the original editor’s printed wrappers. Contemporary binding. RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS SUPERB ALBUM DEPICTING THE RAILWAY LINE RUNNING FROM LONDON TO BIRMINGHAM . (Seymour de Ricci, The Book Collector’s Guide , p. 93). Thomas Talbot Bury (1811-1877) was an architect renowned for the quality of his lithographs. He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1846 and 1872. His main success was the set of drawings he made for the series of lithographs ordered by Rudolf Ackermann. The latter asked Bury to represent the impact of the development of the railways on British industrial cities. Bury was " an outstanding architectural designer " (Abbey), and his work provides a detailed report of the difficulties overcome during the railways construction. The present collection is composed of 6 plates engraved by Harris, Hunt and Fielding after drawings by Thomas Talbot Bury . THESE 6 SUPERB CONTEMPORARY HAND -COLOURED PLATES REPRESENT VIEWS DRAWN FROM LIFE BY BURY ALONG THE NEW RAILWAY LINE RUNNING FROM LONDON TO BIRMINGHAM . These plates show the Station of Euston Square , a view taken from under the Hampstead Road Bridge , the bridge that crosses the channel of Camden Town , the viaduct at Watford , the entrance of the Tunnel of Watford , the bridge crossing the channel near Kings-Langley . « Some of the most famous images depicting the impact of early railways and their associated building projects are found in Thomas Talbot Bury’s set of coloured views on the Liverpool to Manchester Railway, published by the famous London publisher and print seller, Rudolf Ackermann . » (New Perspectives in British Cultural History). The Railway line running from London to Birmingham opened in stages in the 1830s. A PRECIOUS AND PURE COPY OF THIS VERY SCARCE COLLECTION OF ENGRAVINGS PRESERVED IN THE ORIGINAL EDITOR ’S PRINTED WRAPPERS . We couldn’t locate any copy of this work among French Institutions. Only 4 copies are listed in Public Institutions around the world: 2 in Great Britain ( University of Manchester and Corporation of London Libraries ) and 2 in the United States ( Virginia Historical Society Library and University of Michigan Library ). The only copy that appeared at auction in the last 30 years was sold on the 10 th of February 1981 by Sotheby’s London for 3 500 £ (that is to say around 4 500 € thirty years ago).

41. AKSON EUROPA CHEEK TAM PHASA THAI SAMRAB DEK PHU ’NG RIEN NANGO (=European characters derived from prayers, intended for children just starting to learn how to read and write). Na : Bangkok, Sakkarat P. Christo Chao 1838. (= Bangkok, the Christian year 1838). $26,000

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12mo [155 x 98 mm], (2) ff. including the title, 56 pp. and (1) l. Engraved vignette on the title. Preserved in its original boards. Modern box. EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK EVER PRINTED BY THE CATHOLIC PRESS OF BANGKOK . THAT ’S ONE OF THE EARLIEST RECORDS OF THE EXPANSION OF PRINTING IN THAILAND . It seems difficult to precisely determine the date of the start of printing in Thailand. Gérald Duverdier, in “ La transmission de l’imprimerie en Thaïlande ”, an article published in 1980, remarks that the authors who wrote about that subject give varied dates: 1830, 1835, 1836, 1839… THE PRESENT WORK IS THE EARLIEST THAI BOOK WHICH IS NOT EXCLUSIVELY RELIGIOUS . IT WAS INTENDED FOR CATHOLIC PRIESTS TO TEACH FOREIGN CHILDREN IN SIAM (it contains a basic introduction to the Thai language). But this work is not only a children’s guide-book : ending chapters are used to teach a Thai Catholic Priest what to do during Mass. EXTREMELY RARE WORK PRESERVED IN ITS ORIGINAL BOARDS. Not in OCLC, neither at the B.n.F. Provenance: Séminaire des missions étrangères (red stamp on title).

42. CATALOGUE OF INVENTORY OF TOOLS OFFERED FOR SALE TOWARDS 1850 BY A FRENCH SHOPKEEPER . France, middle of the 19 th century. $18,000

Large oblong 8vo [243 x 171 mm] of (60) ll. and (7) smaller ll. inserted at the end. A few tears formerly restored, a few stains. Bound in full green roan, blind-stamped filet on covers, flat spine. Contemporary binding . A RARE TESTIMONY OF THE TOOL AND IMPLEMENT TRADE IN FRANCE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 19 TH CENTURY . UNIQUE COLLECTION , GATHERING MORE THAN 180 TOOLS AND IMPLEMENTS ON 67 LEAVES OF LARGE OBLONG 8VO SIZE , PRESENTING THE INVENTORY OF AVAILABLE TOOLS AT A FRENCH HARDWARE DEALER IN THE 1850 S. IT WAS USED AS A RETAIL CATALOGUE BY A SHOPKEEPER . MORE THAN 180 TOOLS , FROM THE SIMPLEST TO THE MOST SOPHISTICATED WERE HERE FINELY CONTEMPORARY DRAWN AND COLOURED BY THE SHOPKEEPER HIMSELF . These drawings offer a very clear vision of the shapes and colours of many implements proposed for sale at that time: screwdrivers, screws, saws, nuts, hammer heads, chisels, pegs, tongs, nails, gimlets, drills, augers, pliers, anvils, axes, coffee grinders, knives, trowels, padlock, files, wood scissors, cranks… Almost all the illustrations are numbered, and some objects are available in various colours like for instance the coffee grinders or even the drills. A UNIQUE COLLECTION , ENTIRELY CONTEMPORARY DRAWN AND HAND -COLOURED BY A FRENCH HARDWARE DEALER . IT IS OF THE UTMOST INTEREST NOT ONLY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNIQUES AND DO -IT -YOURSELF IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 19 TH CENTURY , BUT ALSO FOR THE CRAFT INDUSTRY . A few handwritten notes in French that were added by the shopkeeper in the margin of some illustrations (« fumé rouge », « rouge vif » …) prove the French origin of the present retail catalogue.

43. [LERMONTOV , Mikhaïl]. Manuscript copy of the Demon. N.p., 1853. P.o.r.

Complete text. Small 4to [208 x 173 mm] of (32) very readable handwritten leaves in brown ink. Title written in red ink at the top of the first leaf. Work divided into 14 chapters. Preserved in wrappers, without the back cover. EXCEEDINGLY RARE HANDWRITTEN COPY OF THE ‘D EMON ’, LERMONTOV ’S POETICAL MASTERPIECE , DATED 1853 .

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THE POEM , CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE TWO MAJOR WORKS OF 19 TH CENTURY RUSSIAN POETRY , with Eugene Onegin by Pushkin, WAS NOT PUBLISHED DURING LERMONTOV ’S LIFETIME BECAUSE OF THE CENSORSHIP . However it could circulate thanks to a few rare manuscript copies. THE COMPLETE TEXT OF THE ‘DEMON ’, FROM THE “AUTHORIZED COPY ” OF A.I. FILOSOFOV , WAS ACTUALLY PUBLISHED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 1856 IN KARLSRUHE IN A VERY LIMITED NUMBER OF COPIES (28 COPIES ). THE GOAL WAS TO DISTRIBUTE THESE BOOKLETS TO “HIGHLY PLACED PEOPLE ” IN ORDER TO CANCEL THE BANNING OF THE BOOK BY THE CENSOR . IN RUSSIA , THE COMPLETE TEXT (IN ITS LAST VERSION ) WILL ONLY BE PUBLISHED IN 1860. Lermontov worked almost all his life on this poem of which 8 different versions are known. PROFESSORS ABRAMOVICH AND ANICHKOV , THE MOST FAMOUS SPECIALISTS IN LERMONTOV ’S WORKS , AGREE TO SAY THAT WE CAN ’T LIST MORE THAN 17 MANUSCRIPTS COPIES OF THE EIGHT DIFFERENT VERSIONS . Most of these copies are located today in Russian Museums and Record Office. OUR COPY SEEMS TO BE THE ONLY ONE OUT OF THESE INSTITUTIONS . THIS 19 TH CENTURY “SAMIZDAT ” OF THE UTMOST RARITY WOULD BE THE WORK OF ONE OF THE TSAR AND EMPRESS ’ NEAREST AND DEAREST . The earliest edition of the “ Demon ” by M. Lermontov recorded in Public Libraries and Institutions worldwide is dated 1874! AN EXCEPTIONAL HANDWRITTEN SAMIZDAT OF THE ‘DEMON ’ BY LERMONTOV , THE MASTERPIECE OF 19 TH CENTURY RUSSIAN POETRY , PROBABLY THE ONLY COPY STILL IN PRIVATE HANDS .

Detailed and longer description available upon request at our booth

44. BALZAC , Honoré de. Les Paysans. Scènes de la vie de campagne, par H. de Balzac, auteur de La Famille Beauvisage, etc., etc. Paris, L. de Potter, s. d. (1855). Fontainebleau. Imp. E. Jacquin. $11,500

5 volumes 8vo [222 x 142 mm]. Parts I to V, in addition to the half-titles and titles, and to a leaf of table, respectively: 305-306-309-319-287 pages, few foxing. Original yellow printed wrappers. Contemporary binding . RARE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT NOVELS FROM « La Comédie humaine » IN WHICH IT FORMS THE MAIN PIECE OF « Scènes de la vie de campagne » WHICH ALSO COMPRISES « Le Médecin de campagne » AND « Le Curé de village ». It is one of the works on which Balzac worked the most. It is, indeed, by its social significance (we could almost say sociological), one of the fundamental works of « La Comédie humaine ». A PRECIOUS UNTRIMMED COPY , UNWASHED AND PRESERVED IN THE ORIGINAL YELLOW WRAPPERS , COMING FROM Docteur Lucien Graux’s INTERESTING COLLECTION .

45. HARTMANN , Hermann. Album martiniquais par Hartmann lithographié par Eugène Cicéri . [Paris], Imprimerie Lemercier, 57, rue de seine, [1860]. $29,000 Oblong folio [440 x 302 mm] of (1) title, 12 numbered lithographs. Preserved in the black editor’s buckram, blind-stamped decoration on covers, title stamped in gilt in the centre, flat spine. Editor’s binding . VERY RARE FIRST EDITION AND FIRST ISSUE OF THIS WONDERFUL ALBUM OF VIEWS OF MARTINIQUE . (The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection at Hamilton College , n°942. Not mentioned by Sabin, neither Chadenat). IT IS COMPOSED OF A LITHOGRAPHED TITLE AND 12 SUPERB LITHOGRAPHS by Eugène Cicéri including 11 after Hermann Hartmann ’s photographs and 1 AFTER A DRAWING by M. J. Cazabon . THIS COPY FROM THE DELUXE ISSUE , WITH ALL THE LITHOGRAPHS FINELY CONTEMPORARY HAND -COLOURED AND ENHANCED WITH GUM ARABIC . A SUPERB COPY OF THIS COLLECTION OF VIEWS OF THE UTMOST RARITY DEDICATED TO MARTINIQUE , ENTIRELY CONTEMPORARY HAND -COLOURED , PRESERVED IN THE EDITOR ’S BINDING . No copy has been recorded on the public market since the beginning of the reports, 35 years ago. 27

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46. PARIS , François-Edmond. Souvenirs de Jérusalem. Album dessiné par M. Le Comte-Amiral Pâris, lithographié par MM. Clerget, Bachelier, Jules Gaildrau et Fichot. Ouvrage publié par L’Escadre de la Méditerrannée. Album. Paris, Librairie maritime et scientifique, Arthus Bertrand, éditeur, [1862]. $14,500

Folio [643 x 490 mm] of (1) title, 4 pp. of text and 14 plates. Bound in quarter maroon buckram, flat spine, green morocco lettering-piece, green printed wrappers bound in. Contemporary binding. FIRST AND UNIQUE EDITION OF THIS SPLENDID WORK DEDICATED TO JERUSALEM . Brunet, VI, 1585 ; Revue universelle des Arts , XV, 422 ; Journal général de l’imprimerie et de la librairie , VI, n°1, 6523 ; Müldner, Bibliotheca geographico-statistica et oeconomico-politica , p 138 ; Blackmer 1255; Tobler p. 231; Weber 1181, pas dans Abbey. François-Edmond Pâris (1806-1893) joined the French navy in 1820 and participated in three great maritime expeditions, at first on board of L’Astrolabe (1826-1829) under the orders of Dumont d’Urville, then on board of La Favorite (1829-1832) and l'Artémise (1837-1840), under the command of Laplace. He was particularly noted for his qualities as a hydrographer and as an artist notably during the expedition of La Favorite in 1829 during which he participated in the writing of the hydrographic atlas and of the historical album. ». Appointed rear admiral in 1858, he received the command of the 3rd squadron of the Mediterranean. THE PRESENT ALBUM WAS PUBLISHED ON THE OCCASION OF THE VISIT OF THE REAR ADMIRAL PARIS AND HIS SQUADRON TO JERUSALEM IN 1861. THE ILLUSTRATION IS COMPOSED OF ONE COLOURED VIGNETTE ON THE TITLE REPRESENTING THE PLAN OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE AND 14 LITHOGRAPHS INCLUDING 12 IN COLOUR AND 2 TINTED . THESE SPLENDID LITHOGRAPHS WERE DRAWN by François-Edmond Pâris , AND LITHOGRAPHED BY Clerget, Bachelier, Gaildrau and Fichot . THE « Notes historiques » CONSTITUTE A RICH READING COMPLEMENT FOR THE OBSERVATION OF THE PLATES SINCE THE AUTHOR INFORMS US NOT ONLY OF HISTORICAL REFERENCES BUT ALSO OF HIS IMPRESSIONS AS A VISITOR . A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS SPLENDID ALBUM DEPICTING JERUSALEM AND ITS HOLY PLACES , THROUGH 14 WONDERFUL COLOURED LITHOGRAPHS , BOUND WITH THE GREEN PRINTED EDITOR ’S WRAPPERS PRESERVED . We could only locate two copies in France: Library of the Observatoire de Paris and B.n.F.

47. [FOUCQUET , Jehan]. Œuvre de Jehan Foucquet. Heures de Maistre Estienne Chevalier. Texte restitué par M. l’abbé Delaunay. Paris, L. Curmer, 1866-1867. $6,500

2 parts in 2 volumes 4to [286 x 208 mm] of: I/ (12) ll., 214 pp., (7), portrait of Pope Pius IX and 57 chromolithographs out of pagination; II/ x pp. of list of subscribers, viii pp. of foreword, 17 chromolithographed titles and 5 plates out of pagination, (42) ll., 24 ll., (2), (12) ll., 168 pp., 42 pp., (9) ll. Bound in full brown contemporary blind-stamped morocco, spine ribbed and blind- stamped, inner gilt border, green silk endleaves and doublures, gilt edges. Cases. David . FIRST EDITION AND FIRST ISSUE OF THIS « SPLENDID PUBLICATION REPRODUCING WITH CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY , IN GOLD AND COLOURS , THE MINIATURES OF JEHAN FOUCQUET , IN THE 15 TH CENTURY » (Brunet). (Vicaire, III, 766, Brunet, Supp. I, 513; Carteret, III, 244-245). « This publication was printed in a run of 550 copies and offered for sale at the price of 360 francs. » (Vicaire). « Etienne Chevalier was the patron of Jehan Foucquet. It is for Etienne chevalier that Jehan Foucquet created the forty miniatures of a book of hours, true masterpiece of elegance […]. The attractive scenes created for the ‘Livre d’heures’ of Etienne Chevalier were reproduced with all the desirable care (4to, Paris, 1865, L. Curmer, editor). The gouache process received so much

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improving and come to help the drawer’s pencil so well, that it is almost the work itself that is offered to us. […] ». (Revue des deux mondes, 1865, pp. 799-800). « Mr. Curmer gathered the pages of Estienne Chevalier’s book scattered in the four corners of Europe… Maistre Estienne Chevalier, who seems to have been one of Jehan Fouquet’s most serious patrons, was successively notary and king’s secretary, chief of accountings, treasurer of France, ambassador and controller-general of finances under Charles VII and Louis XI. By asking Jean Foucquet this sumptuous book in which he is naturally represented, and in which his initials and name are scattered in profusion, was he obeying a naïve and sincere admiration for the portraitist and illuminator from Touraine? […] his portrait, that Mr. Curmer made reproduced and of which we will talk later, gives us the idea of an intelligent and thoughtful mind. Besides the book was probably executed towards 1460, in the most determined period of talent of the master, after his return from Italy. This book must have taken up several years of Foucquet’s career… The work was published in parts. The simplicity of the set-up, the truthfulness of the attitudes, the intimacy of the interiors, the charm of the landscapes, the precision of the costumes, are making so many attractive compositions. The strength of the expressions and the observation of passions and of dispositions make of some of them works of first-rate... » (Gazette des beaux-arts, 1866, pp. 395- 397) THE WORK IS ILLUSTRATED IN FIRST STATE WITH 80 SPLENDID CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS OUT OF PAGINATION . A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS SPLENDID PUBLICATION , PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY BINDING IN BROWN BLIND -STAMPED MOROCCO LINED WITH GREEN SILK .

48. MENDELEEV , Dmitri Ivanovich . O barometricheskom nivelirovanii i o primenenii dlia nego vysotomera . (=About barometric levelling and about application of the altimeter). St Petersburg, Université de la ville, 1876. $33,500

Large 8vo [252 x 158 mm] of (2) ll., viii pp., 184 pp., 1 folding plate. Two stamps from the Library of west Siberia on the half-title, allowing the sale of the copy. Preserved in its original beige printed wrappers, untrimmed. Spine of the wrappers worn, small portion of the tail of the spine missing. EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS FIRST PRESENTATION OF THE BAROMETER INVENTED BY MENDELEEV . Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907) is ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SCIENTISTS IN THE HISTORY OF RUSSIA AND IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE . He discovers in 1869 the periodic law of chemical elements – one of the main laws of natural science. He created the basis of the theory of liquids, and proposed his own way of cracking division of oil, invented a type of powder without smoke, and promoted the use of fertilizers, the irrigation of dry lands. He will be one of the main founding members of the Russian Chemical Society (1868). He will remain professor of chemistry at the University of St Petersburg from 1865 to 1890. MENDELEEV IS THE INVENTOR OF WHAT HE WILL CALL A “DIFFERENTIAL BAROMETER ” OR ALTIMETER . At the beginning of the 1870’s, in application of his gas density researches, he decides to use the normal barometer before understanding that he doesn’t need to define the absolute meaning of atmospheric pressure but the exact meaning of its changes. WITH THIS AIM , HE BUILDS THE DIFFERENTIAL BAROMETER WHICH IS CONSIDERED BY ALL SPECIALISTS AS THE PRECURSOR OF THE ALTIMETER . FROM 1872 TO 1876 MENDELEEV STUDIED VERY CAREFULLY THE VARIOUS POSSIBILITIES OF CONSTRUCTION OF HIS BAROMETER AND ITS IMPROVING . THE FINAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE EQUIPMENT IS PRESENTED IN THIS WORK OF A GREAT SCARCENESS . « The centenarian of the independence of the United States was marked by an international fair in Philadelphia in June 1876. The town received various eminent personalities, famous for their contribution to the scientific or artistic fields. The local newspaper published the names of the famous people present at the exhibition. A new type of barometer, invented by the Russian chemist Mendeleev, was listed under n°241 of the catalogue of inventions and innovations exhibited . » THE PRESENT TREATISE IS ILLUSTRATED WITH A FOLDING PLATE SHOWING A VIEW AND A SIDE SECTION OF THE BAROMETER . A PRECIOUS COPY OF THIS EXTREMELY RARE SCIENTIFIC WORK , COMPLETE WITH ITS FOLDING PLATE AND PRESERVED UNTRIMMED IN ITS ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS . We couldn’t locate any copy of this work in a public institution worldwide (OCLC, COPAC, ccfr).

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49. VERLAINE , Paul. Choix de poésies. Avec un portrait de l’auteur par Eugène Carrière. Paris, Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1891. $6,500

12mo [181 x 112 mm] of (2) ll. and 360 pp. Verlaine’s portrait out of pagination. Bound in full light-brown morocco, spine ribbed and decorated with a mosaic design, almond green morocco doublures decorated with a fine pink, mauve and green mosaic border with gilt dot filets, sophisticated painted silk endpapers, double endpapers in paper Flammécoulé , gilt edges, yellow printed wrappers and spine bound in. Binding executed by G. Levitzky towards 1910. RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS COLLECTION OF POEMS BY VERLAINE , COPY N °6, ONE OF THE 10 COPIES PRINTED ON JAPANESE VELLUM . (Carteret, II, 429; Vicaire, VII, 997). « 25 copies on Dutch paper and 10 copies on Japanese vellum were printed, with the portrait printed on pinkish glossy vellum. » (Carteret) It is in 1891, the year of Rimbaud’s death, that Verlaine published his Choix de poésies . He gathers pieces from the Poèmes saturniens , the Fêtes galantes , La bonne Chanson , the Romances sans paroles , from Sagesse , Jadis et Naguère , Amour , Parallèlement , Dédicaces , Bonheur , and from a comedy, Les uns et les autres . « In June 1891, Verlaine has his first bestseller thanks to the publication of an anthology of his work. It is a volume of approximately four hundred pages that bears the title ‘Choix de poésie’ . » (P. Sabourdy, Verlaine , p. 45) A PRECIOUS COPY OF THIS COLLECTION OF POEMS BY VERLAINE , ONE OF 10 PRINTED ON JAPANESE VELLUM , BOUND WITH THE YELLOW PRINTED WRAPPERS IN MOROCCO WITH MOROCCO DOUBLURES BY LEVITSKY . Ukranian by birth, Levitsky (born in 1885) learnt the bookbinding in Odessa. Political émigré, he came and settled in France in 1907.

50. PANNIER , H. Sketchbooks of furniture and decorative items. [Paris], between 1870 and 1924. $22,000

3 volumes oblong folio [395 x 267 mm] of: I/ (4) ll., 118 pp., (4) ll.; II/ (4) ll., 137 pp.; III/ (2) ll., 51 pp., (4) ll. The sketches of furniture are drawn from 4 to 23 per page, on blank pages that are stuck on the thicker leaves of the notebooks. Each drawn object has a caption. Bound in contemporary quarter vellum, flat spines, green morocco lettering pieces, slipcases. Contemporary bindings. AN EXCEPTIONAL TESTIMONY OF THE FURNITURE AND DECORATIVE ITEMS TRADE IN PARIS AT THE END OF THE 19 TH CENTURY AND AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE 20 TH CENTURY . A UNIQUE COLLECTION , COMPLETE WITH ITS 2800 ORIGINAL PEN DRAWINGS REPRESENTING THE CREATIONS OF THE SUMPTUOUS PARISIAN FUNRITURE STORE , ‘L’E SCALIER DE CRISTAL ’. The brothers Georges (1853-1944) and Henry (? – 1935) Pannier are since 1870 at the head of the sumptuous furniture store located at the corner of the streets Scribe and Auber, the famous Escalier de Cristal . Until 1924 (the date of definitive closing of the store), the Pannier brothers will win many rewards and gold medals at national and international exhibitions and at the World Fairs. ALWAYS CONCERNED ABOUT THE QUALITY OF THE MATERIALS , AND THE REFINEMENT OF EXECUTION , THE ‘ESCALIER DE CRISTAL ’ DIRECTLY STANDS IN THE TRADITION OF THE MOST LUXURIOUS PRODUCTIONS OF PARISIAN CABINETMAKING […] The Pannier brothers extend the store activity to the furniture trade from 1870 and IT IS HENRY PANNIER WHO LOOKS AFTER THE ARTISTIC RESPONSIBILITIES WITHIN THE FRATERNAL ASSOCIATION . HE GETS INTO THE HABIT SINCE 1870 OF ESTABLISHING A SKETCH OF EACH PIECE OF FURNITURE OR EACH ITEM PRODUCED BY THE ESCALIER DE CRISTAL AND TO RECORD THESE DRAWINGS IN NOTEBOOKS . He is the author of the three sketchbooks of furniture that we present here. Each of these three sketchbooks presents a period, a style of furniture offered for sale by the firm Pannier. The first sketchbook presents the set of Louis XIV and Louis XV-style productions, the second one are Louis XVI-furniture and the last one reproduces the objects of the Empire style. HENRY PANNIER RECORDS HERE MORE THAN 2800 ITEMS OFFERED BY THE FIRM PANNIER BETWEEN 1870 AND 1924, closing date of the store. This inventory comprises many varied objects,

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such as tables and console tables, seats, screens, clocks, barometers, candelabras, wall lights and chandelier, plates, desks, beds, frames, firedog, inkwells … Henry Pannier places next to each sketch the price of the object, the name of its executants and the identity of the customers. This is how we learn how many copies of each object were realized, to whom it was created, for which price and when it was sold. THE NAMES OF THE CUSTOMERS REVEALED IN THIS BOOKS PROVE THAT ONLY A RICH ELITE COULD AFFORD THE SUMPTOUS PRODUCTIONS OF THE PANNIER BROTHERS : bankers, magistrates, lawyers, doctors and crowned heads represent the main clientele of the Escalier de Cristal. AN EXCEPTIONAL AND UNIQUE COLLECTION , ENTIRELY CONTEMPORARY DRAWN BY THE GREAT PARISIAN FURNITURE DEALER HENRY PANNIER . IT IS OF THE UTMOST INTEREST NOT ONLY FOR THE HISTORY OF FRENCH FURNITURE AND DECORATIVE ARTS FROM THE END OF THE 19 TH CENTURY AND THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE 20 CENTURY , BUT ALSO FOR THE INFORMATION IT PROVIDES ABOUT THE CONTEMPORARY RICH EUROPEAN ELITE LIFESTYLE . Provenance: Henry Pannier with his ex libris on the first volume paste-down.

51. GORKI , Maxim. O sionizme, o bunde. N.p., Pravda, 1906. $21,000

8vo [170 x 120 mm] of 24 pp.: I/ O evreiakh (= “About the Jews”); II/ O « Bunde » i o « Sionizme » (= “About the Bund and Zionism”); III/ Pogrom . Preserved in the original wrappers, as published, with the green printed wrappers. Some losses to the wrappers. Original binding . THE ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE SPEECHES DELIVERED BY MAXIM GORKI IN 1906. Maxime Gorki (1868-1936), writes his great revolutionary narrative, ‘ The Mother’ , in 1907. He leaves Russia and lives in exile until the amnesty of 1913. Although in favour of the October Revolution, he is disappointed by the Soviet Union and emigrates to Italy from 1921 to 1928. Back to Russia, he dedicates himself to the education of Soviet writers. The Jewish theme occupies a very important place in Gorki’s articles about the contemporary social and political life. His first publication on the Jewish question is dated 1896 in the newspaper « Odesskie Novosti » (News from Odessa). By expressing himself on the subject Gorki positions himself like the implacable enemy of anti-Semitism and like a convinced friend of the Jewish people. This hatred of anti-Semitism dates back to Gorki’s childhood, impressed by Nizhni Novgorod’s anti-Jewish pogroms. In 1903, Gorki openly protests against Kichinev’s pogrom. FOR GORKI , ANTI -SEMITISM THROUGH ALL ITS EXPRESSIONS IS THE HEREDITARY SIN OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE , BRED BY ITS PSYCHOLOGY AND HISTORY . In 1906, Gorki undertakes a trip to the USA. ON APRIL 25 TH , IN NEW-YORK , HE DELIVERS HIS SPEECH « O EVREIAKH » (A BOUT JEWS ). IN OTHER SPEECHES , GORKI EXPRESSED HIMSELF ON THE BUND (O « Bunde »), which is according to him the typical example of a social democratic organization. (Speech delivered in New-York at the social democrats meeting). THE TEXTS OF THESE SPEECHES BY GORKI ARE GATHERED AND PUBLISHED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE FORM OF AND INDEPENDENT BOOKLET IN 1906 BY THE “P RAVDA ” EDITIONS . THIS BOOKLET ALSO CONTAINS HIS PROFESSION OF FAITH OF LIKING FOR ZIONISM (O « Sionizme », Letter of Gorki to G.I. Gordon). THE ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THIS BOOKLET , PRESERVED IN ITS ORIGINAL GREEN WRAPPERS . This first edition, which is by the way the only one, is absent from all the world public Libraries. IT SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN PRINTED IN A VERY SMALL NUMBER OF COPIES . Only the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research owns a microfilm of a copy lent by a Russian collector.

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52. OUSPENSKY , Piotr Demianovitch. Tertium Organum . Klyuch k Zagadkam Mira (= Key to the Enigmas of the World). Izdatelstvo « Trud », St Petersburg, 1911. $22,000

4to [226 x 153 mm] of [vii] pp., (1) p., 264 pp., (1) l., 1 folding table with the 4 stages of psychic evolution. Handwritten notes on the title-page. Preserved in its original blue buckram, blind-stamped decoration on covers, flat spine decorated with gilt filets and fleurons. Contemporary binding . EXCEEDINGLY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FOUNDING WORK OF THE RUSSIAN AVANT -GARDE . Piotr Demianovitch Ouspensky (1878-1947) is a Russian thinker and philosopher. Ouspensky puts forward the « mnogomernost’ mira » or « mnogomirie » – multidimensionality of worlds, and as there is no appropriate term for this conception of the world, he names it the “4 th dimension”. The author of the theory of relativity, Einstein, uses the same term to call a much more simple substance – time. It is paradoxical that in 1911 Ouspensky already understood what Einstein will only understand in 1953. THE CONCEPT OF “4 TH DIMENSION ” IS FUNDAMENTAL FOR ITS ENTIRE SYSTEM . HE DEVELOPPS IDEAS OF A SPIRITUAL IMPROVING AND OF AN INDIVIDUAL IMMORTALITY AS A RESULT OF THE “4 TH WAY ”. In the Tertium Organum, Ouspensky also makes an analysis of the concepts of “eternal return” and of the “superman”, both linked to multidimensionality. LIKE TOLSTOY , NIETZSCHE , SOLOVIEV AND BELYÏ , OUSPENSKY WAS ONE OF THESE PERSONALITIES THAT TRIED TO OVERCOME THE INSUFFICIENCY OF MODERN CULTURE TO LAY THE INTELECTUAL AND SPIRITUAL FOUNDATIONS OF A CULTURE OF A NEW KIND . It is difficult to estimate the importance of this author in the artistic researches in Russia and in the West. In Russia, his works had an influence on Mikhaïl Matyushin , painter and theorist of futurism; Kazimir Malevitch , painter and founder of the suprematism; Alekseï Kruchenykh , futuristic poet. « The ‘Tertium Organum’ by Peter Ouspensky (1911) has been a stimulus for all the artists of the Russian avant-garde. Peter Ouspensky wanted to go beyond the ‘Organon’ of Aristotle and the ‘Novum Organum’ of Francis Bacon which logic laws were coming from the observation of the facts of the outside world such as we perceive it (in three dimensions). The ‘Tertium Organum’ describes the unlogical transmental laws of the infinite. It introduces a fourth dimension (time), a fifth dimension (the line linking the conscience above time), and a sixth dimension (the line joining all the consciences of the world, which form a whole from them). It is certain that Peter Ouspensky’s reflection of the real world, beyond the relativity and the illusory character of our perceptions has a considerable influence on the development of the transmental and transrational art, not only on the poets but also on the painters. It allowed Malevitch to leap in 1913 in nonfiguration […]. The ‘Tertium Organum’ is also a philosophical anthology which presents an important number of extracts from the universal philosophy. It is with the ‘Tertium Organum’ that Malevitch could have access to the Eleatics, Plato, Plotinus, Clement of Alexandria, Dionysius the Areopagite, Jacob Böhme, Kant, or Chinese and Hindu texts … » (A. Kroutchonykh, La Victoire sur le Soleil , pp. 84-86). THE « TERTIUM ORGANUM » AROUSED A HUGE INTEREST TO THE PAINTERS OF MOSCOW AND LENINGRAD IN THE PRE -WAR PERIOD . Malevitch’s Suprematism is born on this basis. We shall remind that at this time, the problem of space was fundamental in the worldwide avant- garde painting. The theory of the “4 th dimension”, that worried so much the Russian avant- gardistes, has been a sort of answer to the new spatial mentality. They are stimulated by the scientific discoveries and the philosophical ideas, that we name today – Russian cosmism. A PRECIOUS COPY OF THIS EXCEEDINGLY RARE FIRST EDITION , PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY UNRESTORED BINDING . Only 1 copy is recorded in the world: Toronto Public Library .

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53. PASTERNAK , Boris Leonidovitch. Kogda Razguliaetsia (= When the weather clears). Paris, Edition des amateurs de la poésie de Pasternak, 1959 . $18,000

8vo [206 x 141 mm] of 49 pp., (3) pp. and 1 loose leaf. Handwritten corrections on pp. 13, 15, 35 and 42. Preserved in original wrappers, as published, with the printed cover. Rare first edition of Pasternak’s poetical masterpiece, printed in Paris in only 100 copies, and not intended for sale. It is Pasternak’s most sought-after work. When the weather clears is Pasternak’s (1890-1960) most accomplished poetical collection. This collection of thirty poems resumes the author’s favourite themes: nature, the poet and his poetry, praise of womankind, his friends’ fate and his relation with God. Doctor Zhivago was published in November 1957, in Italy. He was awarded by the Nobel Prize committee for this work in 1958, but he was forced to decline the Prize in order to protect his circle and himself. Actually, Russian authorities considered that this reward proved that the poet and writer was “a capitalist, anticommunist and unpatriotic agent of the West”. It is in this collection that Pasternak includes the poem Nobelevskaia premiia (= The Nobel Prize), which describes his feelings following this event. This collection published in Paris by the Editions des amateurs de la poésie de Pasternak was printed in only 100 copies because it was not intended for sale. Printed under the supervision of Viktor Frank , the son of the philosopher Semen Frank , the present work was published during the author’s lifetime. It is after his death that the bookseller A. Savin who had good many of the copies, sold them to an American University, which in its turn sold them to other American Universities. The marked price of the bookseller at that time was approximately 4 000 francs (in 1975). A complete copy must contain the poem printed on a loose leaf Nobelevskaia premiia (The Nobel Prize). We couldn’t locate any copy of this rare first edition in French public Institutions. a precious copy of this rare first edition of a major poetic work by the Russian writer Boris Pasternak, preserved in its original wrappers and complete with the essential loose leaf with the poem The Nobel Prize .

54. BULGAKOV , Mikhaïl. Heart of a Dog . I/ PIRATED EDITION OF THE YMCA -PRESS PUBLICATION . 1969. II/ SAMIZDAT FROM ODESSA . $7,700 Odessa? , 1976.

2 volumes 8vo [I: 167 x 119 mm; II: 204 x 150 mm] in wrappers of: I/ 159 pp.; II/ (1) title-page, 99 pp. Each one preserved in wrappers, as published. WE OFFER A COPY OF THE PIRATED EDITION OF THE YMCA -PRESS PUBLICATION , WHICH CIRCULATED IN RUSSIA TOWARDS THE END THE YEAR 1969. AND ABOVE ALL THE EXCEEDINGLY RARE “S AMIZDAT FROM ODESSA ” OF “H EART OF A DOG ”, DATED 1976. Heart of a dog is a short novel which has as subtitle « Monstrous story », that Bulgakov wrote in January-March 1925. In March 1925, he reads Heart of a Dog during a literary meeting: it is a complete success, as well as a bad report to the services… « Obviously, Bulgakov hates and despises the entire soviet regime, denies all its results… This book will never see the light ». IN MAY 1926, BOTH TYPESCRIPTS OF « HEART OF A DOG » AND THE MANUSCRIPT OF BULGAKOV ARE CONFISCATED . Three years and a half later, and after many requests from the writer supported by M. Gorki, the works are given back to him, but Bulgakov will never try to publish Heart of a Dog again. THE TRUE REVIVAL OF « HEART OF A DOG » BEGINS 25 YEARS AFTER THE DEATH OF ITS AUTHOR . In the middle of the 1960s, the widow of the writer tries to publish most of his manuscripts, but she does not give them as Samizdat in order to avoid their distribution abroad. An exception is made for Heart of a dog since the impossibility to publish this short story with the soviet censorship of that time was obvious.

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« HEART OF A DOG » IS PUBLISHED FOR THE 1ST TIME IN LONDON , IN 1968, IN THE 9TH AND 10 TH NUMBERS OF THE « STUDENT » REVIEW. THE SAME YEAR THE EDITION OF FRANKFURT IN THE REVIEW « GRANI », N°69 IS PUBLISHED AND THE YMCA -PRESS EDITION , AT THE BEGINNING OF 1969, IN PARIS . Then the short story is translated into the majority of foreign languages. HOWEVER , IN USRR, « HEART OF A DOG » WILL ONLY EXIST IN SAMIZDAT DURING MORE THAN 20 YEARS , WHERE IT WILL OFTEN BE VIOLENTLY CONFISCATED . It is also strictly forbidden to mention it in the press. The literary critics will name it: the “3rd short novel”. IT IS ONLY WITH THE GLASNOST OF GORBACHEV THAT « HEART OF A DOG » IS PUBLISHED IN USSR, IN THE 6TH NUMBER IN THE REVIEW « ZNAMIA », IN 1987. The most widespread political interpretation of Heart of a dog directly links it to the idea of the Russian revolution, to the « awakening” of the social consciousness of the proletariat. SOME SPECIALISTS OF THE WRITER CONSIDER « HEART OF A DOG » AS A POLITICAL SATIRE OF THE SOVIET LEADERS OF THE MIDDLE OF THE 1920 S. WE OFFER A COPY OF THE PIRATED EDITION OF THE YMCA -PRESS PUBLICATION WHICH CIRCULATED IN RUSSIA TOWARDS THE END OF THE YEAR 1969. AND ABOVE ALL THE EXCEEDINGLY RARE “S AMIZDAT FROM ODESSA ” OF “H EART OF A DOG ”, DATED 1976, WHICH INDICATIONS OF PUBLICATION ARE ABSOLUTELY FACTITIOUS. The price (10 roubles) is more than excessive; the participants to the edition of this Samizdat would never have been consented to be known if they would not be the namesakes of personalities of the Party! As for the “10.000 copies”: a Russian roneo copy, in 1976, could not have made a print run of more than 1.000 copies, without making the printing far less expensive. We note it, this “Samizdat from Odessa” is, like Heart of a dog , a hoax… a parody of illusion!

55. MIRO , Joan / FRENAUD , André. Joan Miro et l’émancipation définitive de la queue du chat . Paris, 1978. $22,000 Square 4to in sheets. Preserved in the original wrappers illustrated by Miro . Yellow cloth protective box. FIRST EDITION , PRINTED IN 175 COPIES ON VELIN D ’A RCHES PAPER , THIS ONE NUMBERED 8/175 . Besides, 20 copies were printed not for sale. THE WORK IS ILLUSTRATED WITH THREE ORIGINAL ETCHINGS MADE BY MIRO , INCLUDING ONE ON THE COVER AND ON FORMING A TRIPTYCH. The author signed the colophon and the artist the triptych. A VERY BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS SOUGHT -AFTER ARTIST BOOK , EXTREMELY WELL PRESERVED IN THE ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATED WRAPPERS .

56. MAETERLINCK , Maurice / LEPAPE , Georges . L’Oiseau bleu . Décors et costumes pour l’Oiseau Bleu. Paris, Le Livre, 1925 et 1927. $22,000

2 parts in 1 large volume 8vo [235 x 160 mm] of : (5) ll., X pp., (3) ll., 212 pp., (2) ll. and 63 plates out of pagination. Printed in blue and black. Bound in ivory box calf decorated on each cover with a large figurative composition in mosaic pattern in the shades of green, blue, turquoise blue, yellow and beige, figuring a scene with its curtain and a blue bird flying away behind the open curtain, flat spine decorated with the same kind of pattern, untrimmed, top edge gilt, printed wrappers and spine bound in. Binding signed Georges Baudin . RARE SET OF THESE TWO WORKS OF MAETERLINCK ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGES LEPAPE . Monod, II, 7111; Carteret, IV, 258. Limited edition of 460 copies for the first volume (here n°326, one of the 400 copies on Arches vellum) and of 230 copies only for the second volume (here n°66, one of 200 copies on vellum). L’Oiseau Bleu is a fabulous fantasy in six acts and twelve scenes by the great Belgium author Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) which was performed for the first time in 1908, at the Moscow Art Theater.

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The author adapts the fantastic quest of two children, Tyltyl and Myltyl, who in a dream go seek the blue bird, accompanied by characters as surprising as the Light, Water, Bread, Fire, Sugar, Milk, the Cat and the Dog. THE SPLENDID ILLUSTRATION IS COMPOSED OF 63 ELEGANT WATERCOLOURS BY GEORGE LEPAPE , INCLUDING 7 ON DOUBLE -PAGE , WHICH HAVE BEEN SUMPTUOUSLY REPRODUCED WITH STENCIL BY THE ILLUMINATOR MASTER JEAN SAUDE , WITH GOLD AND SILVER HIGHLIGHTS , AND 14 WATERCOLOURS IN THE TEXT FOR THE BLUE BIRD . THEY REPRESENT THE SETS OF THE PLAY . A PRECIOUS COPY GATHERING THESE TWO INTERESTING SOUGHT -AFTER PUBLICATIONS , WONDERFULLY CONTEMPORARY BOUND IN BOX WITH MOSAIC PATTERN BY GEORGES BAUDIN . Georges Baudin is a painter, wood engraver, illustrator, decorator, and book binder born in Paris on June 26th, 1882. He exhibited at various annual fairs in Paris from 1913. He illustrated literary works, often with love character. He had an important activity in the art of bookbinding, notably in colour on parchment.

57. ELUARD , Paul. Voir. Poèmes Peintures Dessins . Paris, Genève, Editions des Trois collines, 1948. $22,000

Folio [342 x 242 mm] of (2) bl.ll., 147 pp., (1) l., (3) bl.ll., with 32 plates in colour included in the pagination, reproducing a painting from each artist. Bound in black box decorated on the spine with the name and firstname of the author as well as the title of the work repeated nine times in capital letters alternatively in metallic green and blue, separated by a red dot; grey paper doublures and endleaves, top-edge gilt, illustrated wrapper. Slipcase. Binding by Pierre-Lucien Martin, 1965 . FIRST EDITION OF PAUL ELUARD ’S 44 POÈMS dedicated to Picasso, Marc Chagall, Juan Gris, Jacques Villon, Fernand Léger, Georges Braque, Giorgio de Chirico, Paul Klee, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, Yves Tanguy, André Masson, André Beaudin, Man Ray, René Magritte, Salvador Dali, Balthus, Léonor Fini, Oscar Dominguez, Félix Labisse, Fautrier, Dubuffet, Chastel , etc., ILLUSTRATED WITH 64 REPRODUCTIONS INCLUDING 32 IN COLOURS , OF WORKS OF 32 PAINTERS . On the occasion of the publication of this book, an exhibition of the works reproduced in it was organized at the Galerie du Pont Royal. ONE OF THE 44 NUMBERED COPIES (n°XX) ON VELLUM « PUR CHIFFON » PAPER , ONLY LARGE - PAPER ISSUE , EACH COMPRISING A SIGNED AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF ONE OF THE POEMS AND A PROOF OF THE ORIGINAL COPPER -ENGRAVING BY RAOUL UBAC WHICH HAS BEEN REPRODUCED ON THE COVER . The autograph poem of the present copy is dedicated to Juan Gris (1 page and a half folio), poem that figures page 24 of the book.

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