Fine, fully engraved edition of La Fontaine
Fables choisies, mises en vers
Paris: chez l'auteur, 1765-1775. Fessard, Étienne. First Fessard edition, first issue. Fine, fully engraved edition of La Fontaine... Read More
Price: $7,500
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31 Devises à l'usage des grands.
s.l: s.n, 1945. One of 15 Hors Commerce copies from an edtion of 215. Thirty-one erotic illustrations each of which is accompanied by a four line poem.
Price: $250
Color Lithograph: Advertising poster for “Bradley Knit Wear / For Freedom, Health & Style.” Depicting a young man and a....
Chicago: R.R. Donnelley and Sons, ca. 1920.
Price: $600
Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs from the "De Ss. Martyrum Cruciatibus" of the Rev. Father Gallonio.
London and Paris: Limited Edition Printed for Subscribers, 1903. Now for the First Time translated and adapted.
Price: $250
Hoe copy
Emblemata anniversaria Academiae Noribergensis, quae est Altorffii ... opus philologicum.
Nuremberg: Abr. Wagenman, 1617. First edition thus. Hoe copy. Described as "Editio II," this is actually an enlarged edition of a work original published in 1597, documenting prize medals made for students of the Altdorf academy in Nuremberg. "The most remarkable example of [emblems and numismatics coming together] is the...
Price: $1,750
Meyer's Universum, oder Abbildun und Beschreibung des Sehenswertheften und Merkwürdigsten der Natur und Kunst auf der ganzen Erde. Volume 16...
Hildburghausen & New York: Bibliographischen Institut, 1854. with 48 finely engraved steel plates, most depicting American scenes: the White House; Philadelphia; Illinois; Westpoint; Fort Snelling, Minnesota; Niagra Falls; the Stone Walls, upper Missouri; New Orleans; Colorado River, etc.
Price: $750
Souvenirs d'une Cocodette écrits par Elle-même. Introduction, Essai Bibliographique par Guillaume Apollinaire.
Paris: Bibliotheque des Curieux, Edition réservée aux souscripteurs, n.d. [c. 1910]. Number 508 of 760 copies, curiously numbered 1-5, 506-1256 and 5 lettered. Part of "Le Coffret du Bibliophile" series.
Price: $150
Chryséis, Danseuse Etrusque.
[Paris]: Dépens de Quelques Bibliophiles, n.d. No. 206 of 275 copies on Vélin d’Arches.
Price: $225
With Original Drawing
La Bataille.
Paris: chez A. & G. Mornay, 1926. Arnoux, Guy. First Edition, No. 280 of a limited edition. With Original Drawing. With an original watercolour drawing on the endpaper by Arnoux and a salutation.
Price: $400
Aucassin et Nicolette. Chantefable du Douzieme Siecle. Traduite par A. Bida. Révision du Texte Original et Préface par Gaston Paris...
Paris: Librairie Hachette & Cie, 1878. Bida.
Price: $200
Powder. The Story of a Colt, A Duchess and the Circus.
New York: Harrison Smith and Rober Haas, [1933]. Printed in France "Achevé d'imprimer le 17 Janvier 1933 par Columna et Mourlot Frères à Paris." "Published simultaneously in Paris by the Domino Press (whose logo is on the back cover) , in England by Faber and Faber, and in the U.S....
Price: $150
Le Cahier d'Amour.
Paris: "Les Joies Secrètes" 1944. First edition, one of 1,000 copies from an edition of 1,053, this copy being number 200. Ilustrated throughout by De Hand.
Price: $300
A Classic of French Illustration
La Peau de Chagrin. Études sociales.
Paris: H. Delloye et Victor Lecou, Éditeurs, Rue des Filles-Saint-Thomas, 13, place de la Course, 1838. First Illustrated edition, first printing, with all first printing points as enumerated by Carteret. A Classic of French Illustration. First illustrated edition of Balzac’s renowned 1831 novel, his first major commercial success, lavishly produced...
Price: $2,250
Twenty Princesses in Verse and Drawing
Les Princesses.
Paris: F. Ferroud, 1904. First edition with these illustrations, ONE OF 400 COPIES, this unnumbered copy marked 'Réservé' and INSCRIBED BY THE PUBLISHER ("souvenir de bonne confraternité"). Twenty Princesses in Verse and Drawing. Banville's exquisite sonnet-portraits of the languid beauties are perfectly complemented by the delicate and lush eroticism of.....
Price: $750
Ou Diable l'Esprit va-t-il se Nicher?
Paris: Arnauld de Vresse [stamped imprint added below of Roe Lockwood and Son, New York, [ca. 1878]. With Baric's amusing sketches.
Price: $300
Fantasio. A Comedy in Two Acts. Translated by Maurice Baring.
Haarlem: The Pleiad, 1927. First edition thus. Number 388 of 550 copies. Designed by Frederic Warde & Printed by Jon Enschedé.
Price: $200
Djuna Barnes' Copy
Les Images d'Épinal … Préface par Maurice Barrés.
Paris: Librairie Paul Ollendorff, n.d. Nouvelle édition. Djuna Barnes' Copy. Djuna Barnes's copy, specially bound for her by her literary executor Hank O'Neal. The illustrations were an early inspiration for Barnes woodcut-style illustrations in Ladies Almanack and Ryder.
Price: $750
American Scenery; or, Land, Lake, and River Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature.
London: George Virtue, 1840. First edition, state A of volume II with Contents list numbered. Originally published in 30 parts without text, and appearing here for the first time in expanded book form, this is a beautiful series of views, showing principal cities and scenic views, engraved from drawings Bartlett...
Price: $3,500
Scott Cunningham’s Copy
Little Poems in Prose. Translated by Aleister Crowley ….
Paris: Edward W. Titus, 1928. No. 221 of 800 copies. Scott Cunningham’s Copy. Scott Cunningham (1956-1993) was the author of many books about Wicca, and is recognized as one of the most influential authors in the field of natural magic.
Price: $500
Bound by Ruban, with full-page Watercolor by De Sta
Marie ou Le Mouchoir Bleu. Notice Littéraire par Adolphe Racot.
Paris: Libraire L. Conquet, 1884. De Sta, H. First edition, Number 512 of 1200 copies. Bound by Ruban, with full-page Watercolor by De Sta.
Price: $850
Les Evenements de Pontax. Ecriture manuscrite et aquarelles originales apres Henriot.
Paris: L. Cateret, 1899. Henriot. Number 41 of a total edition of 200. Copies 26 to 200 "sur papier velin fabriqué specialement par la Papeteries du Marais"
Price: $750
Tony Johnannot Engravings on China Paper
Paul and Virginie.
Paris: L. Curmer, 1858. Tony Johnannot Engravings on China Paper.
Price: $600
Testamenti Novi. Editio Vulgata.
Lugduni: Apud Haered. Seb. Gryphi, 1558. Published by Sebastian Gryphius, a German bookseller and printer who settled in Lyon in the 1520s. Described by Febvre and Martin as the "Prince of the Lyon book trade" in the 1540s, he supported local humanist culture and used the italic type developed by...
Price: $2,500
In Contemporary Red Morocco Binding
Les Adventures de Telemaque / Avventure di Telemaco. Facing texts in French and Italian.
London: C. Clarke, 1805. Nouvelle Edition, réimprimée après celle de Didot. In Contemporary Red Morocco Binding.
Price: $750