Zola in 1888
Autograph Letter, signed (“Emile Zola”), Medan 22 aout...
Medan: 22 August 1888. Zola in 1888. Excellent autograph letter, signed, from the great French novelist Emile Zola... Read More
Price: $2,250
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Shahra Sultane, ou Les sanglantes amours authentiques et mirifiques de Sultan Shah'Riar, roi de la Perse et de la Chine...
Paris: Dorbon-Aîné, [15 mai 1923]. One of 100 copies with double suite of plates, no. 60 of an edition of 550. Oriental tale exquisitely illustrated by Rassenfosse.
Price: $300
Lettres sur divers sujets concernant la religion et la métaphysique.
Paris: Chez Jacques Estienne, 1718. First edition. First edition of a classic of Christian literature, containing Fénélon's proof of the existence of God, his defense of Christianity as the one true religion, immortalityof the soul, free will, etc. etc.
Price: $500
![L'École des Mœurs du Libertinage, Drame ... par M./ de Falbaire de Quingey ... [bound with:] Le Fabricant de Londres, Drame ... par M. de Falbaire ... [bound with]: L'Humanité, ou le Tableau de l'indigence, triste drame par un aveugle tartare [ Randon de Boisset]. Charles George Fenouillot de Falbaire.](/pictures/thumb/58351.jpg?v=1534804647)
L'École des Mœurs du Libertinage, Drame ... par M./ de Falbaire de Quingey ... [bound with:] Le Fabricant de Londres...
Paris: Veuve Duchesne; Delalain; and [?], 1776; 1771; and [1761]. Gravelot. First editions. Two farces by the late 18th-century dramatist. Title page of the first book, apparently a presentation copy, is inscribed in a contemporary hand: "de la part de l'auteur", and of this title, OCLC locates only editions of...
Price: $450
The First Temptation of Saint Anthony. Translated by René Francis with an Introduction by E. B. Osborn.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1924. Bosschère, Jean de. No. 2647 of 3000 copies.
Price: $100
Madame Bovary. Translated from the French by Eleanor Marx-Aveling.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. Borzoi Classic.
Price: $200
Salammbô.
Paris: Louis Conard, 1921. From the publisher's "?uvres Complètes", reprinting the text of the last edition corrected by Flaubert of 1879.
Price: $150
The Bachelor Reclaimed or Celibacy Vanquished. From the French.
Philadelphia: Key & Biddle, 1834. First edition. Flint notes in the introduction that he had paraphrased, edited and adapted the work for the new audience.
Price: $75
Les Six Nouvelles de M. de Florian.
Paris: de l'Imprimerie de Didot L'Aîné, 1786. Troisième édition.
Price: $850
Omniana, ou Extrait des Archives de La Société Universelle des Gobes-Mouches ... par C.A. Moucheron.
Paris: Maradan, Petit, Delajonchère, 1808. First edition. Curious collection of anecdotes, jokes, and facetiae, which the British Library attributes to miscellaneous author Alphonse Toussaint Joseph André Marie Marseille, Comte (1758-1826), and Guy de Saint-Charles, with whom he collborated on a comedy LE CURIEUX PUNI (1813). RARE - NUC locates on only.....
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The Splendours of Versailles, and The Court of Louis XIV...Translated from the French.
New York: W.H. Graham, Tribune Building, 1847.
Price: $50
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, IN STIKEMAN BINDING
The Works of Anatole France.
New York: Gabriel Wells, 1924. The Autograph Edition, #292 of 1075 copies signed in volume One. SIGNED BY AUTHOR, IN STIKEMAN BINDING. Nobel Prize Winner for literature in 1921 "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace...
Price: $2,500
The Works of.
New York: Gabriel Wells, 1924. No. 934 of 1075 sets SIGNED BY FRANCE in the first volume.
Price: $750
Das Privatleben des Königs von Preußen, oder Nachrichten zum Leben des Herrn von Voltaire, von ihm selbst geschrieben...
[Leipzig]: 1784. First edition in German.
Price: $300
Bibliotheque Universelle des Romans; ouvrage Périodique, dans lequel on donne l'analyse raisonné des Romans anciens & modernes, François, ou traduits...
Paris: Au Bureau & Chez Gueffier, August and September 1781. The August issues covers “La Vie de Lazarille de Tormes; so bonne fortune & ses adversités, &c” and “Les Refus.” The September issue contains “Histoire de Mélisthene, Roi de Perse, contenant ses Aventures galantes, ses Combats & ses Victoires” and.....
Price: $100
![Conseils d'un Pere a Son Fils. La Haye: T. Johnson, 1713. [With:] Recueil de Stances Morales et Chretiennes ... Par Mr. D. R. B.**** [Daniel Rogers?]. Berlin: Robert Roger 1802; Ode au Roy, sur son Avenement a la Couronne. Np, npub, nd [half-title only]; Vers Sur la mort de Louis le Grand... Accompagnez de quelque Epitaphes de ce Prince. Cologne: Pierre le Jeune, 1715; Fables Nouvelles, par L. S. du Ruisseau. Seconde Edition. La Haye: T. Johnson, 1714. French Literature, Gideon Huet.](/pictures/thumb/54088.jpg?v=1545252319)
Conseils d'un Pere a Son Fils. La Haye: T. Johnson, 1713. [With:] Recueil de Stances Morales et Chretiennes ... Par...
vpub, vd. All these titles are scarce. The Huet, Ruisseau, and "Vers Sur la Mort de Louis le Grand" do not appear in NUC. "Recueil de Stances" does not appear in NUC either, though it does locate books by Daniel Rogers (1573-1652) under the pseudonym D.R.B. on similar subjects in.....
Price: $400
![Chefs-d'Oeuvre du Roman Contemporain. Romancists [and] Realists. French Literature.](/pictures/thumb/265969.jpg?v=1534806951)
Chefs-d'Oeuvre du Roman Contemporain. Romancists [and] Realists.
Philadelphia: Barrie. One of 1,000 sets on Japan Vellum printed for Mr. H.R. Parrish. Attractive selection of late-nineteenth century French literature, including: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (2 vols.) Bohemian Life by Henri Murger The Confession of a Child of the Century by Alfred du Musset His Excellency the Minister by Jules Claretie Monsieur de.....
Price: $950
Les Cahiers de Paris.
Paris: Les Cahiers de Paris, 1925-1926. Each booklet ONE of 1500 NUMBERED COPIES. Beautifully preserved copies, representing two years of this publisher's series, edited by Claude Aveline and Joseph Place. First series: I. Duhamel, George. DELIBERATIONS; II. Lauzanne, Stéphane.LA TABLE QUI PARLE; III. Nolhac, Pierre de. ERASME ET L'ITALIE; IV. Vaudroyer, Jean-Louis. LES PLAISIRS D'HIER; V......
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A manuscript volume of some 57 pages of poems, fables, epigrams and songs, in a few hands.
[France]: [ca. 1770-1815]. The volume commences with three full-page pencil sketches and then begins the manuscripts of verses, epigrams, etc. The first part of the volume contains several verses that are addressed to Madame Sophie Arnould, the famous actress and operatic singer. The latter portion appears to be a slightly...
Price: $400
Fables Amusantes, avec une Table Générale et Particulière des Mots et de leur Signification en Anglois ... pour en Rendre...
Baltimore: Chez A. Neal ... ,de l'imprimerie de J.D. Toy, 1823. "Second Édition, revue avec soin et la table particulière entièrement refondue et très-perfectionnée." (i.e., second Baltimore edition). For Anglo-American juveniles, Perrin's Fables in its day, was the standard French primer for more than half a century, since its first.....
Price: $150
La Cassette de Plomb. Poëmes de monsieur Georges Gabory.
Paris: Imprimerie Francois Bernouard 71, rue des Saints-Pères, [1920]. Number 59 of 125 copies sur papier vergé d'Arches à la forme, SIGNED BY DERAIN.
Price: $1,100
With a splendid ‘Carte Gastronomique de la France’
Cours Gastronomique, ou les diners de Manant-Ville, ouvrage anecdotique, philosophique, et littéraire. Seconde édition, dédiée à la Société Gastronomique du...
Paris: Imprimerie de Brasseur Ainé, Capelle & Renand, 1809. First edition. With a splendid ‘Carte Gastronomique de la France’. The Avertissement states that the Cours gastronomique is published under the heading of Second Edition, although it appears here for the first time in its entirety; earlier chapters had been published.....
Price: $1,000