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 about Œuvres de T. Corneille

Paris, Réimprimé à Londres: Par J. Brettell pour M. Peltier, 1806. First edition. This was translated into English in 1807. Read More about Elisabeth, ou Les Exilés de Sibérie suivi de La Prise de Jéricho, Poéme

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 about Autograph letter signed to his publisher “Monsieur Bossange, Libraire”

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 about Oeuvres de … Le Sopha. Conte Moral [bound with:] La Nuit et Le Moment [bound with:] Le Hasard...

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 about Oeuvres Complètes de…Edition Unique Revue par l'Auteur

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 about Les Sonnettes, ou mémoires de Monsieur Le Marquis D***

Cythère, et à Paris: Chez Cailleau, 1783. First edition. Eight short plays on the theme of love and dalliance. Read More about Théatre d'amour. [Volume One only

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 about L'anti-moine. Nos numerus sumus & fruges consumere natis

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 about Private Memoirs of an Officer of Dragoons

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 about Zélie dans le désert. Par Madame Daubenton

Paris: H. Piazza, 1931. One of 3200 copies on papier vélin. Read More about Contes du Lundi

Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, Editeur, 1888. First edition. Read More about L'Immortel. Moeurs 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 about Numa Roumestan. Mœurs Parisiennes