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Poésies de Marguerite-Éléonore Clotilde de Vallon-Chalys, depuis Madame...
Paris: Nepveu, 1824. Colin. ”Nouvelle Édition.” Rare copy on PINK PAPER. On Pink Paper. A fine copy on... Read More
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Œuvres de T. Corneille.
Paris: Veuve David, jeune, 1758. Thomas Corneille (1625-1709) was the younger brother of Pierre Corneille, and wrote a number of comedies, tragedies, and opera libretti. His Timocrate, a tragicomedy (1656), was perhaps the most successful French play of the 17th century. Read More
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Corneille and His Times.
London: Richard Bentley, 1852. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED. Read More
Price: $650
Elisabeth, ou Les Exilés de Sibérie suivi de La Prise de Jéricho, Poéme...
Paris, Réimprimé à Londres: Par J. Brettell pour M. Peltier, 1806. First edition. This was translated into English in 1807. Read More
Price: $125
Autograph letter signed to his publisher “Monsieur Bossange, Libraire”.
Paris: 13 June, 1823. Requesting 10 copies of Monsieur Belcher(?)'s poems, mentioning an article he read “on our Plato” which was “exceptionally nice to all of us”, requesting an address and asking for the publisher/bookseller to send some books with his compliments to Mr. Joussier. And early letter from the philosopher..... Read More
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Eliane. A Novel. Translated by Lady Georgina Fullerton.
London: Richard Bentley, 1882. First Edition in English. Read More
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![Oeuvres de … Le Sopha. Conte Moral [bound with:] La Nuit et Le Moment [bound with:] Le Hasard du Coin du Feu. Crébillon, Claude Prosper Jolyot de.](/pictures/thumb/258606.jpg?v=1534806486)
Oeuvres de … Le Sopha. Conte Moral [bound with:] La Nuit et Le Moment [bound with:] Le Hasard du Coin...
Brussels: Libraire Universelle de J. Rozez, 1869. Each one of two copies on China paper. Three works on China paper by the 18th-century French novelist Crébillon. Read More
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A Mad World My Masters.
London: The Cresset Press, 1929. No. 47 of 530 copies. Read More
Price: $150
With 8 Erotic Plates by Johannot
Oeuvres Complètes de…Edition Unique Revue par l'Auteur.
Paris: Perrotin, Editeur, 1834. Johannot, Tony. With 8 Erotic Plates by Johannot. Inserted are 8 Erotic plates by Tony Johannot (Gay, Bibliographie de l'Armour III, p. 477). Read More
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" ... tout à fait séduisante ... "
Les Sonnettes, ou mémoires de Monsieur Le Marquis D***.
Londres [Paris]: [Cazin], 1781. Third edition. " ... tout à fait séduisante ... " A classic of galanterie, this is the first edition which contains L'HISTOIRE d'UNE COMEDIENNE, by le Comte de Caylus, with separate title page but continuous pagination. Gay cites a contemporary critic, Clément, who remarked on LES... Read More
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Les Confessions du Comte de ***.
Amsterdam: 1767. Later (Fifth?) edition. First printed in 1742, the book enjoyed some celebrity and was reprinted several times throughout the century. Voltaire, although he called it "un ouvrage qui ne laisse rien dans l'esprit et qu'on oublie comme le héros oublie ses maitresses. Cependant, je conçois que le naturel..... Read More
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Théatre d'amour. [Volume One only].
Cythère, et à Paris: Chez Cailleau, 1783. First edition. Eight short plays on the theme of love and dalliance. Read More
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![Avantures de l'Abbé de Choisy Habillé en Femme. Quatre fragments inédits, à l'exception du dernier qui a été publié sous le titire: Histoire de la Comtesse des Barres, précédés d'un avant-propos, par M. P.L. [Paul Lacroix]. Curiosa.](/pictures/thumb/34794.jpg?v=1534804224)
Memoirs of a Cross-Dressing Monk: One of 115 Copies
Avantures de l'Abbé de Choisy Habillé en Femme. Quatre fragments inédits, à l'exception du dernier qui a été publié sous...
Paris: Jules Gay, 1862. First edition, No. 74 of 115 copies. Memoirs of a Cross-Dressing Monk: One of 115 Copies. Memoirs of an eighteenth-century cross-dresser, published here for the first time (except for one fragment) from manuscript located in the library of Arsenal. Read More
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L'anti-moine. Nos numerus sumus & fruges consumere natis.
np. Verse satire directed against the monks and temporal extension of papal power. With a prose introduction and notes. References to Bayle, Locke, et al. Read More
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![Les tableaux vivants ou mes confessions aux pieds de la Duchesse. Anecdotes veridiques tirées de nos amours avec nos libertines illustres et nos fouteuses de qualité par un rédacteur de la R.D.D.M. [Revue des deux mondes?]. Curiosa.](/pictures/thumb/242732.jpg?v=1534805804)
Les tableaux vivants ou mes confessions aux pieds de la Duchesse. Anecdotes veridiques tirées de nos amours avec nos libertines...
Paris [?]: Chez tous les libraires, n.d. [ca. 1885]. "Written with care, this little work constitutes an interesting document of the mores of the time” (Pauvert, "Dictionnaire des oeuvres erotiques"). The first edition was published in Bruxelles in 1870, with an Amsterdam imrint) and the present edition has been dated... Read More
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Private Memoirs of an Officer of Dragoons.
London [but: New York]: At the sign of the Blue Nose, 1898 [i.e., ca. 1925]. Number 603 of an edition of 1050 copies. Clandestine reprint, with false date and imprint, of ‘Garrison Games’ (Paris, 1905), itself a translation of ‘Les Amours de Garnison’ (ca. 1831). Read More
Price: $275
Œuvres de Barbey D'Aurevilly. Un Prêtre Marié.
Paris: Librairie Alphonse Lemerre. Read More
Price: $300
Zélie dans le désert. Par Madame Daubenton.
Genève: Chez François Dufart Imprimeur-Libraire, 1787. First Geneva edition; and 2nd edition after the first of Paris, 1786-87. A sentimental, popular, epistolary novel in its day, showing the influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s LA NOUVELLE HELOISE and Samuel Richardson. Gove cites Servais Etienne: “Il suffit de lire Zélie … pour se..... Read More
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Contes Choisis. La Fantaisie et l'Histoire.
Paris: 1889. From "Petite Bibliothèque Charpentier" Read More
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L'Arlesienne. Piece en trois actes.
Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1872. First edition. Based on Daudet's own nouvelle (1869), this dramatic piece included music by George Bizet. The latter went on to write a successful symphony of the same title. Read More
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L'Immortel. Moeurs Parisiennes.
Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, Editeur, 1888. First edition. Read More
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Lettres de Mon Moulin.
Paris: A. Ferroud, 1920. Number 374 of 800 copies on vélin d'Arches with text plates in color. Read More
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Daudet to Claretie
Numa Roumestan. Mœurs Parisiennes.
Paris: G. Charpentier, 1881. First edition. Daudet to Claretie. A fine association copy, inscribed to Daudet’s friend, the author and critic, Jules Claretie, and with a letter of presentation tipped to the flyleaf: The inscription on the half-title reads simply: “A Jules Claretie “son ami “Alphonse Daudet “15 8bre - 81” The..... Read More
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Tartarin sur les Alpes. Nouveaux Exploits de Héros Tarasconnais.
Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1885. Edition de Figaro. Read More
Price: $200