Paris: E. Dentu, 1859-75. First edition. Presentation Copy, Extra-Illustrated With 2 Autograph Letters. PRESENTATION COPY of the first... Read More
Price: $9,000
Paris: Eugene Onfroy, 1781. Read More
Price: $400
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. Read More
Price: $300
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. Read More
Price: $500
Paris: Louis Duprat-Duverger, 1811. Nouvelle Édition. Read More
Price: $150
![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)
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... Read More
Price: $450
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1924. Bosschère, Jean de. No. 2647 of 3000 copies. Read More
Price: $100
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. Borzoi Classic. Read More
Price: $200
Philadelphia: Key & Biddle, 1834. First edition. Flint notes in the introduction that he had paraphrased, edited and adapted the work for the new audience. Read More
Price: $75
Paris: de l'Imprimerie de Didot L'Aîné, 1786. Troisième édition. Read More
Price: $850
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..... Read More
Price: $450
New York: W.H. Graham, Tribune Building, 1847. Read More
Price: $50
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... Read More
Price: $2,500
Paris: Calmann-Lévy, Éditeurs, [1914]. First Trade edition. Read More
Price: $150
New York: Gabriel Wells, 1924. No. 934 of 1075 sets SIGNED BY FRANCE in the first volume. Read More
Price: $750
[Leipzig]: 1784. First edition in German. Read More
Price: $300
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..... Read More
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)
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..... Read More
Price: $400
![Chefs-d'Oeuvre du Roman Contemporain. Romancists [and] Realists. French Literature.](/pictures/thumb/265969.jpg?v=1534806951)
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..... Read More
Price: $950
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...... Read More
Price: $400
[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... Read More
Price: $400
Paris: Crapelet, 1824. Read More
Price: $300
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..... Read More
Price: $150
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. Read More
Price: $1,100