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Cousin, Victor.

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.....

Price: $175

Craven, Pauline Marie Armande Aglaé Ferron de la Ferronnays.

Eliane. A Novel. Translated by Lady Georgina Fullerton.

London: Richard Bentley, 1882. First Edition in English.

Price: $200

Crébillon, [Claude Prosper Jolyot de].

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.

Price: $900

(Cresset Press) Breton, Nicholas.

A Mad World My Masters.

London: The Cresset Press, 1929. No. 47 of 530 copies.

Price: $150

(Curiosa) Béranger, P.J. de.

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).

Price: $750

(Curiosa) [De Parnes, Roger, and Georges d'Heyli].

Gazette Anecdotique du Régne de Louis XVI.

Paris: Rouveyre, 1881.

Price: $200

(Curiosa) [Guiard de Servigné, J.-B.].

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...

Price: $500

(Curiosa) [Pinot, Charles, sieur Duclos].

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.....

Price: $250

(Curiosa) [Robineau, Alexandre-Louis-Bertrand].

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.

Price: $250

(Curiosa).

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.

Price: $450

(Curiosa).

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.

Price: $500

(Curiosa).

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...

Price: $450

(Curiosa).

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).

Price: $275

d'Aurevilly, Barbey.

Œuvres de Barbey D'Aurevilly. Un Prêtre Marié.

Paris: Librairie Alphonse Lemerre.

Price: $300

Daubenton, [Marguerite].

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.....

Price: $350

Daudet, Alphonse.

Contes Choisis. La Fantaisie et l'Histoire.

Paris: 1889. From "Petite Bibliothèque Charpentier"

Price: $75

Daudet, Alphonse.

Contes du Lundi.

Paris: H. Piazza, 1931. One of 3200 copies on papier vélin.

Price: $350

Daudet, Alphonse.

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.

Price: $350

Daudet, Alphonse.

L'Immortel. Moeurs Parisiennes.

Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, Editeur, 1888. First edition.

Price: $150

Daudet, Alphonse.

Lettres de Mon Moulin.

Paris: A. Ferroud, 1920. Number 374 of 800 copies on vélin d'Arches with text plates in color.

Price: $150

Daudet, Alphonse.

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.....

Price: $1,500