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Beautiful and rare Book of Hours printed on vellum skin by Hardouyn

illustrated with 17 large illuminated figures.

[HEURES A L’USAGE DE ROME]. Hore divine virginis Marie secundum usum Romanum : cum aliis multis folio

se queti notatis una cum figuris Apocalipsis et destructio Hierusalem et multis figuris Biblie insertis. Paris, Germain Hardouyn, 1518.

$ 39 000

8vo [171 x 110 mm] printed on vellum skin of (84) ll. in 11 quires signed A-K

by 8 and L by 4. Roman characters, 31 lines. The mark of the Hardouins is

printed on l. A1.

17 large figures including the anatomical Man. 21 small illuminated vignettes, 4

illuminated borders. Complete.

Full brown velvet from the 18th century, signs of wear.

PRECIOUS BOOK OF HOURS PRINTED ON VELLUM SKIN DECORATED WITH 17 FULL-

PAGE ENGRAVINGS ILLUMINATED WITH GOLD AT THE TIME, WITH 21 SMALL

VIGNETTES ALSO ILLUMINATED AND WITH NUMEROUS GILT INITIALS ON A BLUE OR

RED BACKGROUND.

The calendar is dated of 1518.

Lacombe 290 ; Van Praet Catalogue p. 112, n°135 ; Brunet, Heures, n°251.

The iconography is composed, besides the printer’s mark and the anatomical

man, of 16 full-page figures all colored with shimmering colours and inserted

inside gilt framings.

PRECIOUS COPY ILLUMINATED ON VELLUM SKIN, COMING FROM THE LIBRARY OF

MONTALEMBERT with ex-libris and stamp of the Earl of Montalembert.

BRUNET UNDERLINES THE RARITY OF BOOKS OF HOURS PRINTED BY THE HARDOUINS WHEN THEY ARE RUBRICATED AND

ILLUMINATED.

First edition of the first great book of criminal procedure

illustrated with 56 large woodcuts.

DAMHOUDÈRE, Josse de. La practicque et enchiridion des causes criminelles, illustrée par plusieurs elegantes

figures, rédigée en escript par Josse de Damhoudere docteur es droictz, Conseillier & commis des demaine &

Finances de l’Empereur Charles le V… Louvain, Imprimé par Etienne Wauters & Jehan Bathen, 1554.

$ 19 000

Small 4to [196 x 144 mm] of (8) ll., 365 pp., (3) pp., 56 full-page plates. Stain

on 2 prel. ll.

Olive morocco, frame of fillets and greek roll-stamp around the covers,

decorated flat spine, gilt edges. 17th century binding.

FIRST EDITION OF THE UTMOST RARITY, GIVEN BY JOSSE DE DAMHOUDÈRE, OF

THE MOST IMPORTANT 16TH

CENTURY BOOK OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.

Brunet, II, 479; Fairfax-Murray, French, 683.

THIS IS A VERY SPECTACULAR DEPICTION OF CRIME AND ITS CONDEMNATION IN

THE 16TH

CENTURY, ILLUSTRATED WITH 56 LARGE WOODCUTS.

The author thus resumes the entirety of a criminal procedure, from the arrest to

the judgment and to the execution of the guilty parties, considering the

different stages of the investigation.

BEAUTIFUL COPY WITH WIDE MARGINS PRESERVED IN AN ELEGANT 17TH

CENTURY BINDING IN OLIVE MOROCCO.

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The famous 1572 herbarium by Bock,

illustrated with 500 engravings in contemporary colors.

Precious wide-margined copy preserved in its beautiful contemporary binding.

BOCK, Hieronymus. Kreutterbuch darin vnderscheidt Name(n) vnnd würckunng der Kreutter, Stauden, Hecken

vnd Beümen, sampt iren Früchten, so inn Teütschen Landen wachsen... auB langwiriger vnnd gewisser… Strasbourg, Josias Rihel, 1572. $ 43 000

Folio [319 x 204 mm] of (20) ll., 369 ll., (17) ll. A few foxing and browning,

a few waterstains in the margins, last l. teared up without loss. Blind-stamped

pigskin, three friezes around the covers, ties preserved. Contemporary blind-

stamped binding.

PRECIOUS AND VERY RARE EDITION PRINTED AND HAND-COLORED IN

STRASBOURG IN 1572 OF BOCK’S FAMOUS HERBARIUM, ILLUSTRATED WITH

HUNDREDS OF WELL-KNOWN WOODCUTS BY David Kandel: printer’s mark on

the title-page, portrait of the author AND MORE THAN 500 ENGRAVINGS IN THE

TEXT FULLY ENHANCED WITH COLORS AT THE TIME.

THE FIRST METHODICAL HERBARIUM FROM THE 16TH

CENTURY.

VD 16, B 6021; IA 120.597; Heilmann 193; Muller III, 519,137; Nissen, BBI

182; Stafleu/C. 575; STC 130; Pritzel 866, Jourdan, Biog. médicale, F.

Ritter, Repr. bibliog. des livres imprimés en Alsace au XVIè siècle, 1934, 219;

Arber, Herbals, 1938, 59 and 221.

SEVERAL WOODCUTS, OF NOTABLE INTEREST, ARE DEDICATED TO A PANORAMA

OF DIFFERENT CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS : blacksmith, field labour, milking

cows and making of the butter, honey beehive, salt purification, baker, wine

press, barreling of the wine in kegs, sale of eggs and farmyard, butcher,

making of the sausages, fish stall, grocer, rustic market, bourgeois meal…

"Rare first edition, very sought-after by amateurs” of the itinerary having allowed

the French fleet to kidnap the young Mary Stuart from her captors.

Copy from a prestigious provenance: collection of the Prince of Essling (cat. 1845 n°363);

La Roche Lacarelle; Thomas Brooke; Couturier de Royas; Harrisson Horblit. NICOLAY, Nicolas de, Sieur d’Arfeville & de Belair. La Navigation du Roy d’Escosse Iaques cinquiesme du

nom, autour de son Royaume, & Isles Hebrides & Orchades, soubz la conduicte d’Alexandre Lyndsay excellent

Pilote Escossois. Recueillie & … Paris, chez Gilles Beys, 1583. $ 38 700

4to [244 x 162 mm] of (6) ll., 37 ll., 1 plate out of text and 1 folding map, 2

small tears on the map including one formerly repaired. Red morocco, triple

gilt fillet around the covers, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt edges. Koehler.

RARE FIRST EDITION, CURIOUS AND VERY SOUGHT-AFTER BY AMATEURS; it is

illustrated with 6 woodcuts within the text, a plate out of text and a large map

engraved on copper, folded at the end.

This precious map « Vraye et exacte description hydrographique des costes

maritimes d’Escosse et des Isles Orchades, Hebrides servant à la

Navigation », drawn up by the author with the help of Alexander Lindsay’s

observations and calculations, is ONE OF THE FIRST KNOWN ACCURATE

REPRESENTATIONS OF THESE COASTS.

PRIME COPY WITH PRESTIGIOUS PROVENANCES, PERFECTLY BOUND IN MOROCCO

SIGNED BY KOEHLER, ONE OF ONLY TWO COPIES MENTIONED BY BRUNET.

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The earliest illustrated book on dancing and ballets to be published in folio. NEGRI, Cesare. Nuove inventioni di balli, opera vaghissima di Cesare Negri milanese detto il Trombone,

famoso e eccellente professore di ballare, nella quale si danno i giusti modi del ben portar la vita, et di

accomodarsi con ogni leggiadria di movimenti alle creanze, et gratie d’amore. Convenevoli a tutti i cavalieri et

dame, per ogni sorte di ballo, balletto, et brando d’Italia, di Spagna, et di Francia. Con figure bellissime in … Milano, Girolamo Bordone, 1604.

$ 36 500

Folio [330 x 220 mm], bound in marbled calf, decorated spine with

raised bands, red edges. Italian binding towards 1720.

THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED BOOK ON DANCING TO BE PUBLISHED IN FOLIO.

The first edition under this title.

Second edition, that reproduces the Milanese one from 1602, which is

nowadays unobtainable.

Brunet, IV, 34 et Sup. II, 13 ; Cicognara, N°1725 ; Fétis, VI, 295 ; Eitner,

VII, 166 ; Hoepli, Cento libri preziosi, etc.

NO COPY OF THE 1602 EDITION HAS APPEARED ON THE MARKET FOR MORE

THAN 30 YEARS AND ONLY 2 COPIES OF THE PRESENT EDITION ARE

RECORDED DURING THE SAME PERIOD OF TIME.

The work which is dedicated to Philip III of Spain is illustrated with the

full-page portrait of the author and 58 SUPERB FULL-PAGE ENGRAVINGS

SHOWING BALLETS AND DANCERS, drawn by Mauro Rovere and engraved

by Leon Pallavicino.

Extremely rare first edition of this book describing the festivities that surrounded the entry

of Philip III of Spain (1578-1621) to Lisbon in 1619. LAVANHA, João Baptista. Viagem da Catholica Real Magestade del Rey D. Filipepe II n.s. Ao Reyno de

Portugal, E rellacao do solenee recebimento que nelle se lhe fez, s. Magestade a mandou escreuer por Ioao

Baptista Lavanha sev coronista mayor. Madrid, Thomas Junti, 1622. (fin 1621). $ 20 000

Folio [329 x 222 mm] of (2)

bl. ll., frontispiece, (2) ll.,

78 ll. of text, 15 engraved

plates including 3 folding,

small hole l. 25.

Full red morocco, triple gilt

fillet around the covers,

spine ribbed and decorated

with fleurs de lys, inner

border, gilt edges. Lortic

fils.

EXTREMELY RARE FIRST

EDITION, MISSING FROM

Brunet, Ruggieri,

Chadenat, Deschamps ETC.

A VERY RARE FESTIVAL BOOK DESCRIBING THE CELEBRATIONS SURROUNDING THE ENTRY OF PHILIP III OF SPAIN (1578-

621) TO LISBON IN 1619. Philip, who ruled Portugal as Philip II from 1598 to his death in 1621, visited on his own

initiative and against the view of both the Council of State and that of Castile.

SUPERB VOLUME ILLUSTRATED WITH A FRONTISPIECE AND 15 PLATES engraved by Juan Schorquens, a Dutch engraver

and drawer, working in Madrid at the beginning of the 17th century (Ec. Hol.).

VERY BEAUTIFUL COPY PRESERVED IN ITS ELEGANT BINDING IN RED MOROCCO SIGNED BY LORTIC FILS.

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Precious copy of this famous work of the utmost rarity

dedicated to the costumes of the Venice carnival in the 17th

century.

BERTELLI, Francesco. Il Carnevale Italiano Mascherato que si Veggono

in Figura Varie Inventione di capritii. N.p.n.d. [1642]. $ 8 000

Folio [304 x 207 mm] album of 1 frontispiece and 22 woodcuts (out of 23,

without the plate called “Bragato”) mounted into windows on laid paper

leaves. The engravings measure 145 x 95 mm. 20th century binding in

marbled paperboard.

A VERY RARE AND WONDERFUL SERIES OF ENGRAVINGS DEVOTED

EXCLUSIVELY TO THE MASQUERADES RELATED TO THE VENETIAN CARNIVAL.

Colas 317 (23 plates); Lipperheide, 3168 (23 plates). Missing from

Cicognara, Ruggieri and Vinet.

VERY RARE: only 3 copies have appeared at auction in at least 30 years, most

recently at Christie's NY, 12th June 2009 (containing 23 plates).

Plate counts vary from copy to copy, from 23 in the Colas and Lipperheide

copies to the Correr Museum copy in Venice, which appears to be the most

complete with 28 plates.

First Latin edition of the first European work dedicated to chocolate and cocoa,

preserved in its pure contemporary overlapping vellum. I- COLMENERO DE LEDESMA, Antonio. Chocolata inda, Opusculum De qualitate & natura chocolatae.

Nuremberg, Wolfgang Ender, 1644.

[Followed by:] II- VOLCKAMER, Johann Georg. Opobalsami orientalis In Theriaces Confectionem Romae

revocati examen...

Nuremberg, Wolgang Ender, 1644.

[And by:] III- TENTZELIUS, Andrea. Medicina diastatica. hoc est singularis illa et admirabilis ad... Jehn, Johannis Birckneri, 1629. $ 7 000

3 texts bound in 1 small 12mo volume [120 x 67 mm] of : I/ 1

frontispiece on double-page, (10) ll., 73 pp., (7) pp.; II/ 1 frontispiece, (3)

ll., 224 pp., (8); III/ 1 frontispiece, (7) ll., 188 pp. The last text is

uniformly browned, some foxing, small restoration in the margin of p. 83

of the second text not touching the text. Bound in contemporary stiff

overlapping vellum, flat spine. Contemporary binding.

I/ FIRST LATIN EDITION OF THE FIRST EUROPEAN WORK DEDICATED TO

CHOCOLATE AND COCOA.

Oberlé, Les Fastes de Bacchus et de Comus, n°730, Vicaire,

Bibliographie gastronomique, n°190; Sabin, 265; Brunet, II, 159;

Catalogue des sciences médicales, I, 480; Palau 56906.

In the present work, Colmenero considers THE MEDICAL PROPERTIES OF CHOCOLATE, and it is as such that it will be

mentioned in many bibliographies and medical reviews of the 17th and 18

th centuries.

THE PRESENT TREATISE IS ILLUSTRATED WITH A VERY BEAUTIFUL FRONTISPIECE ON DOUBLE-PAGE showing Neptune

standing on a sea chariot, and an Indian woman offering him a chocolate box.

II/ COLLECTION OF ARTICLES AND CONTROVERSIES, BY VARIOUS CONTEMPORARY DOCTORS, ABOUT AN ORIENTAL BALM.

Krivatsy 12472; Poggendorff, II, 1228; Oberlé, n°730.

THE BEAUTIFUL FRONTISPIECE SHOWS AN INDIAN WITH THE PLANT AND A PHARMACY JAR.

Provenance: ex libris Christoph. Iac. Trew. M. D.

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Superb collection of 100 portraits of French monarchs and European personalities

from the 17th

century copper-engraved by Balthasar Moncornet.

Precious copy preserved in its contemporary limp vellum binding.

MONCORNET, Balthasar. Les vrais pourtraicts des Roys de France tirez de ce qui nous reste de leurs Monumens,

Sceaux, Medailles, ou autres Effigies, conservées dans les plus rares et curieux Cabinets du Royaume, depuis

Pharamond jusques a Louis 14e a present regnant.

Et se vendent à Paris, chez B. Moncornet, rue S. Jacques, n.d. [circa 1650].

- [Followed by] : Portraits, Noms et Qualitez des

Ambassadeurs assemblez tant a Munster qu’Osnabruk, pour le Traité et

Conclusion de la Paix Generalle. Et se vendent à Paris chez B. Moncornet, rue S. Jacques, n.d.

$ 6 700

2 works bound in 1 volume 4to [264 x 198 mm] of: I/ (1) title and 65

portraits, small angular repair on 1 pl. not touching the portrait, pale

waterstain on the upper part of 5 plates; II/ 1 title and 35 plates, small tear on

1 pl. not touching the engraving, small waterstain on the corner of 5 pl.

Contemporary limp vellum, flat spine, a few stains. Contemporary binding.

FIRST EDITION AND FIRST ISSUE OF THESE TWO SUPERB AND EXTREMELY

RARE SUITES OF ENGRAVED PORTRAITS OF THE KINGS OF FRANCE AND

PERSONALITIES FROM 17TH

CENTURY EUROPE.

THE PORTRAITS OF THE FIRST SUITE PRESENT THE MONARCHS THAT

SUCCEEDED ON THE THRONE from Pharamond (370-428 ?), considered the

first King of France, to Louis XIV (1643-1715).

PRECIOUS COPY WITH VERY WIDE MARGINS PRESERVED IN ITS

CONTEMPORARY LIMP VELLUM BINDING.

The precious stones, pearls, diamonds, sapphires, topaz, rubies, emeralds, etc…, their price

“dedicated to the Grande Mademoiselle, Duchess of Montpensier”.

Edition illustrated with the portrait of the Duchess of Montpensier with pearls and necklace

drawn by Larmessin in 1664.

BERQUEN, Robert de. Les Merveilles des Indes Orientales et Occidentales ou nouveau traitté des Pierres

précieuses et perles, contenant leur vray nature, dureté, couleurs et vertus : Le tiltre de l’Or et de l’Argent. Les

raisons contre les chercheurs de la Pierre Philosophale et souffleurs

d’Alquemie… du prix des Diamants, & des Perles. Paris, 1669. $ 16 500

4to [219 x 155 mm] of (4) ll., 1 portrait and 152 pp. Olive morocco, double

frame of gilt fillets on the covers decorated with and a central decor composed

of a heart pierced with an arrow encircled with small gilt tools, spine ribbed

and decorated with fleur-de-lis, mottled edges. Contemporary binding.

VERY RARE AND PRECIOUS VOLUME DEDICATED TO PRECIOUS STONES AND

JEWELRY DEALING WITH VARIOUS STONES SUCH AS DIAMOND, SAPPHIRE, TOPAZ,

RUBY, EMERALD, PEARLS, GOLD AND SILVER.

Sabin, 4957; Palau, 28.340; Penney, p.59; Goldsmith, 1921; Duveen, 71.

This second edition is more interesting than the first one of 1661 because, it is

enlarged with a “current price” for diamonds and pearls and with the chapter

"contre la fausse Pierre Philosophale et souffleurs d Alquemie" and a "Suite

du chapitre de la perle" which relates to South America (Palau II, 194).

IT IS ILLUSTRATED WITH THE DUCHESS OF MONTPENSIER’S PORTRAIT DRAWN BY LARMESSIN in 1664 with her pearls necklace.

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The Indian tribes of Canada at the end of the 17th

century.

[SAINT-VALLIER, Jean Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de]. Estat present de l’Eglise et de la colonie

françoise dans la Nouvelle France, par m. l’Evêque de Québec. Paris, chez Robert Pepie, 1688. $ 8 800

8vo [186 x 118 mm] of (1) l., title, 267 pp., (1) p. At the bottom of the last page

we can read: “A Paris, de l’Imprimerie de la veuve Denis Langlois, 1688”. Stamp

D.L.P. at the bottom of the title. Bound in contemporary brown granite-like calf,

spine ribbed and decorated, gilt over marbled edges. Contemporary binding.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE SUPERB DESCRIPTION OF THE INDIAN TRIBES OF

CANADA AND OF THEIR RELATIONS WITH THE FRENCH COLONS, PRINTED UNDER

THE REIGN OF LOUIS XIV.

Brunet, supp., II, 567; Church 707; Harrisse, 159; Leclerc, p. 331, 1358;

Chadenat, 4947; Sabin, 172.

"This small work is well written, and worthy of its author, who has governed this

church for more than forty years, and has left illustrious marks of his charity, his

piety, his disinterest and zeal”. Charlevoix.

VERY PURE COPY WITH WIDE MARGINS PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY BINDING

IN CALF.

Provenance: Dampierre with engraved ex libris.

The four cards games etched by Stefano della Bella

intended for the education of young Louis XIV.

DESMARETS DE SAINT-SORLIN, Jean / STEFANO DELLA BELLA. Jeux historiques des rois de France, reines

renommées, géographie et Métamorphose, Par feu Mr J. Desmarests Confeiller, Secretaire & Contrôlleur

General de l’Extraordinaire des Guerres. Et gravez par Do la Bella. Ces mêmes jeux sont accommodés en… Paris, Nicolas Le Clerc et Florent Le Comte, 1698. $ 22 000

2 volumes 12mo [151 x 92 mm] of: 12 pp., 2 frontispieces and 104 cards; II/ 2 frontispieces and 91 cards. Full olive green morocco, triple gilt fillet around the covers, decorated flat spines, gilt edges. Binding from the

beginning of the 18th century.

THE FOUR CARDS GAMES INVENTED IN 1644 BY J. DES MARETS, AT THE INSTIGATION

OF CARDINAL MAZARIN, FOR THE FIRST INSTRUCTION OF LOUIS XIV, ETCHED BY

STEFANO DE LA BELLA.

Reference: D’Allemagne, I, p. 218.

THE CHEERFULNESS AND WIT OF DESMARETS DE SAINT-SORLIN MADE HIM BE

PURSUED BY THE MOST BRILLIANT COMPANIES; HE ATTENDED THE MEETINGS OF THE

HOTEL DE RAMBOUILLET, and we know the pretty verses on a violet which he

composed for la Guirlande de Julie.

Cardinal Richelieu, who had declared himself his protector, encouraged him to

conduct his studies in theater.

THE GEOGRAPHY GAME (with a world map on the title) CONSTITUTES A REAL

GEOPOLITICAL PICTURE OF THE WORLD (with for example Europe, France and Spain

for the hearts, Africa, Ethiopia and Monomotapa for the diamonds, America, Peru

and Mexico for the clovers and Asia, Turkey and Persia for the spades).

BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS RARE WORK PRESERVED IN ITS ELEGANT 18TH

CENTURY

BINDINGS IN OLIVE GREEN MOROCCO.

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“The only true bible by Merian” (Wüthrich) wonderfully illuminated with

232 copper-engravings and 3 full-page titles by the German painter F. D.

BIBLE. Biblia, das ist die gantze Heilige Schrifft Alten und Neuen

Testaments verteutscht durch D. Martin Luther. Frankfurt am Main, J. Ph. Andreä für M. Merians, 1704.

$ 84 000

Folio [364 x 223 mm] of 1 handwritten illuminated leaf preceding the

title, engraved and superbly illuminated full-page title between 2 half-

titles and printed title, with 232 beautiful copper-engravings by Merian

the whole richly illuminated between 1751 and 1761. Complete with

(23) ll., 675 pp., 264 pp., 182 pp. and 328 pp.; minor foxing not

touching the illuminations, outer margin of p. 181 restored but not

touching the text.

Full contemporary blond calf with a frame of marbled calf underlined

with multiple framings and gilt borders, spine ribbed and decorated, red

morocco lettering pieces, foot of the spine restored, ties and clasps. Contemporary German binding.

THE FAMOUS BIBLE BY THE HEIRS OF MATTHAÜS MÉRIAN THE OLD (1593-1650) SUPERBLY ILLUMINATED BY THE

GERMAN PAINTER WHO SIGNED HIS WORK F. D. BETWEEN 1751 AND 1761.

Wüthrich III, S. 18 l.; Schmidt, 304 ll.; Bibelslg. Württ. LB E 1043.

ILLUSTRATED WITH THREE HANDWRITTEN TITLES AND 232 COPPER-

ENGRAVINGS coming from the archives of M. Merian, those illuminated

jewels are far more desired than the works illustrated with illuminated

woodcuts. The illumination of the copper-engraving requires indeed a

more precise and detailed effort and strongly seduces with a care for

details and a more elaborate final processing enriched with a delicate

varnish supplementing the copper-engravings with a really colorful

effect.

A MASTERPIECE OF THE COPPER-ENGRAVING ART PRESERVED IN ITS

ATTRACTIVE CONTEMPORARY BINDING.

Precious manuscript album entirely contemporary handcolored

presenting maps of battles and of the armed camps,

illustrating most of the major European offensives from the 17th

and beginning of the 18th

centuries.

RECUEIL MANUSCRIT DE PLANS DE BATAILLES. Desseins, ou Delineations des Batailles et Campements. Faites et

formez des Turcs et contre eux, de meme des Puissances Chretiennes de la plupart de l’Europe à Savoir, des

Empereurs Romains, et de leurs hauts Allier, du grand Czaar de Moscovie, des Couronnes de l’Angleterre,

Dennemarc, Suede, Pologne, Espagne et de la France gagnées ou perdües ou Seleument formez depuis l’an :

1620, jusqu’à 1716. Dresde, n.d. [c. 1716]. $ 16 500

Oblong folio [299 x 570 mm]. Handcolored manuscript with a handwritten title, an index of 8 pages and 140 battle plans

and plans of the armed camps (out of 153) illustrating the most important European battles delivered over a period of

almost a century. Each plan is inserted inside a border in

black ink. Lower margin of the title restored, some

stains. Modern red half-morocco, untrimmed.

PRECIOUS MANUSCRIPT ALBUM ENTIRELY

CONTEMPORARY HANDCOLORED OF MAPS OF BATTLES

AND OF THE ARMED CAMPS, ILLUSTRATING MOST OF

THE MAJOR EUROPEAN OFFENSIVES FROM THE 17TH

AND BEGINNING OF THE 18TH

CENTURIES.

The album deals with the Thirty Years’ War, the

Anglo-Dutch wars, the wars of the Holy Roman

Empire and the war of Venice against the Ottoman

Turks, the Spanish Succession War, etc.

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At the peak of Rocaille style in France and Germany, circa 1730.

The 84 « Men and Women dressed with their professional ustensils »

by Martin Engelbrecht in contemporary hand-coloring.

ENGELBRECHT, Martin. Assemblage nouveau des Manouvriers habilles –

Neu-eröffnete Samlung der mit ihren eigenen Arbeiten und Werckzeugen

eingekleideten Künstiern, Handwerekern und Professionen. Mart. Engelbrecht

excud. A. V. (Augustae Vindelicorum) = Augsburg, n.d. [c. 1730]. $ 72 000

84 engravings in contemporary hand-coloring, bound in two folio

volumes : I/ 40 engravings cut and pasted on a very thick paper; II/

44 plates, few small stains and creases in some margins, small

restoration in the lower corner of a plate touching the

caption. Later light-brown quarter morocco, red edges.

Dimensions of the pages : 385 x 290 mm.

Dimensions of the engravings : 310 to 375 mm high and 207

to 245 mm wide.

FIRST EDITION AND FIRST ISSUE OF THIS EXTRAORDINARY

BAROQUE COLLECTION OF 84 ENGRAVINGS IN SUPERB HAND-CONTEMPORARY COLORING

representing men and women dressed with the tools of their profession. The engravings are

signed by A. Degmeier, P. F. Engelbrecht, C. F. Hörmann, Kösler, J. F. Schmit, J. Stelzer.

PRECIOUS OUTSTANDING COLLECTION PRESERVED IN THE ORIGINAL COLORING MADE IN THE

WORKSHOP AT THE TIME OF PUBLICATION.

Don Calmet’s "Histoire des Juifs" sumptuously bound in contemporary citron morocco with dentelle borders

with the arms of Comte Henri de Calenberg (1685-1772),

one of the most famous bibliophiles of the 18th

century.

CALMET, Dom Augustin, bénédictin, Abbé de Senones (1672-1757). HISTOIRE DES JUIFS ET DU NOUVEAU

TESTAMENT (titre de départ du volume IV, précédé de : Histoire de l’Ancien et du Nouveau Testament et des

Juifs, pour servir d’introduction à l’Histoire Ecclesiastique de l’Abbé Fleury. Paris, Martin, Coignard, Mariette, Guérin, 1737.

$ 8 500

4 volumes 4to [256 x 197 mm]. Citron morocco with gilt dentelle

borders on the covers, arms gilt-stamped in the center, spines ribbed

luxuriously decorated, gilt edges. Contemporary binding with arms.

THE REFERENCE EDITION OF DON CALMET’S "HISTOIRE DES JUIFS", THE

FIRST COMPLETE AND THE ONLY ONE MENTIONED BY BRUNET IN THE 4TO

FORMAT. IT IS ILLUSTRATED WITH BEAUTIFUL FOLDING MAPS: Map of the

ancient world following

the sharing between

Noah’s children. After

their dispersion in

Babel, Map of the earthly Paradise in Chaldea and

Armenia, Map of the Israelites’ journey, Map of the Promised Land,

New Plan of the Old Jerusalem, Solomon’s Temple, The Temple rebuilt

by Herodes, Map of the Mediterranean Basin from Galileo to Sicily.

PRECIOUS AND ADMIRABLE VOLUMES BOUND IN DELICIOUS CITRON

MOROCCO FOR THE COUNT HENRI DE CALENBERG, Chamberlain of the

Emperor, General Colonel, Lord of the House of the Elector of Saxony;

born on February 10, 1685, died on April 27, 1772.

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Rare specimen of illuminated handwritten antiphonary

preserved in its contemporary binding embroidered with silver thread and emblazoned.

[EMBROIDERED AND EMBLAZONED VELVET BINDING - ANTIPHONARY]. Antiphonae, Capitula, Hymni, &

Orationes Ad Vesperas in Solemnitatibus. N.p., 1740. $ 10 000

4to [232 x 166 mm] of (60) pp. Handwritten text in Latin, in red and black.

Richly decorated and embroidered with blazons burgundy velvet binding, flat

spine with silver thread, remains of green cloth ties. Contemporary binding.

SUPERB HANDWRITTEN AND ILLUMINATED ANTIPHONARY EXECUTED IN 1740.

THE ANTIPHONARY IS PRESERVED IN ITS PRECIOUS CONTEMPORARY

EMBROIDERED BINDING decorated as follows: rich and large frame embroidered

with silver thread on the covers, monogram “CC” embroidered with silver

thread in the corners, (unidentified) coat of arms in the center in embroidered

silk, composed of one cut escutcheon with 1 silver with an eagle, with 2 azure

with two hands holding a silver ring.

RARE SPECIMEN OF ILLUMINATED HANDWRITTEN ANTIPHONARY PRESERVED IN

ITS CONTEMPORARY BINDING EMBROIDERED WITH SILVER THREAD AND

EMBLAZONED.

Precious catalog of 18

th century typography

which gives all the most elegant types melted from the previous century until 1742.

LAMESLE, Claude. Epreuves Générales des Caractères qui se trouvent chez Claude Lamesle Fondeur de

Caracteres d’Imprimerie. A Paris, Ruë Galande (au milieu) près la Place Maubert, 1742.

$ 9 500

Small 4to [219 x 160 mm] of (2) bl. ll., 1 title-page printed in red and black, 80 plates of specimens including 10 on

double-page mounted on guards.

Light brown granite-like calf, triple gilt fillet around the covers, spine ribbed and decorated with floral patterns and gilt

fillets, lettering piece in red morocco, red edges. Contemporary binding.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS PRECIOUS WORK which "presents better than any other

the production of types engravers in France in the last quarter of the 17th

century and the first half of the 18th century” (Updike).

Audin, 27; Birrell and Garnett, 35; Bigmore and Wyman 1, p. 417; Cat. Berlin,

5394 ; F. Johnson, The Type Specimen of Claude Lamesle (1927); Jammes,

Collection de specimen de caractères, n°19; D.B. Updike, I, p. 270: “This

book, both in type and ornaments, I think presents better than any other, the

output of French foundries during the last quarter of the XVIIth

and the first

half of the XVIIIth century. The collection of types is remarkably fine”.

Rare first edition of these prints of which there is a new issue published by

Nicolas Gando in 1758.

The book thus presents 72 specimens of script types and 12 of music.

The double-pages are devoted to large types and to music. The title and the

engraved music are printed in red and black.

BEAUTIFUL COPY PRESERVED IN A NICE CONTEMPORARY BINDING, AN

EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION FOR THIS KIND OF WORK.

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The Chansons de la Vénérable Confrérie des Francs-Maçons.

The dedication copy bearing the arms of Louis de Bourbon-Condé.

NAUDOT, Jean-Jacques. Chansons Notées de la très vénérable Confrérie des Francs-Maçons Précédées de

quelques Pièces de Poésie convenables au sujet, et d'une Marche. Dédiées au très respectable Grand Maître des

Loges de France, Monseigneur le Comte de Clermont, Prince du Sang. Le tout recueilli et mis en ordre par

Frère Naudot. $ 19 000 N.p., 1744.

Small 8vo [178 x 90 mm] of (1) bl.l., 1 engraved title in a nice cartouche surmounted by the arms of the count of

Clermont with masonic emblems, 40 pp. containing the Dedication by Naudot, followed by

the “Recueil de chansons nouvelles de la Maçonnerie” 51 pp., (1) p., followed by

“Chansons notées pour l'ordre de la Félicité”. Olive green morocco, wide gilt border

around the covers, garland in the corners, arms in the center, decorated flat spine, yellow

watered silk doublures and endpapers, gilt edges. Contemporary binding. Case.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS COLLECTION.

Bulletin Morgand et Fatout, 4266.

SUPERB COLLECTION ENTIRELY ENGRAVED, TEXT AND MUSIC, ON LARGE HOLLAND PAPER.

A BEAUTIFUL DEDICATION COPY BEARING THE ARMS OF LOUIS DE BOURBON, COUNT OF

CLERMONT (1709-1771), stamped in a support bearing masonic emblems. The count of

Clermont was one of the most eccentric characters under the Old Régime.

Provenance : J. Hennessy (1929, n° 196). Was listed in the catalogue Breslauer, 104, n°

85, in 1980.

Exceptional gathering of 5 original manuscripts recounting the conquest of Canada.

"The Canadian affairs during the Seven Years’ War and the Siege of Louisburg”.

[CANADA – MANUSCRIPT]. Gathering of 5 handwritten documents handwritten in black ink, sewn with an original

blue silk ribbon for three of them: - Instructions de Monseigneur le Comte Dubois de Lamotte lieutenant général des armées navales

aux capitaines de son escadre relativement à l’objet primitif de sa campagne en 1757.

- Escadres du Roy réunies en 1757 dans la Baye de Louisbourg sous les ordres de M. le Comte Du

Bois de la Motte lieutenant général des armées navales Grand Croix de l’ordre royal et militaire de St Louis.

- Précis de la campagne des escadres du roi commandées par Monsieur le Comte Dubois de Lamotte

Vice-amiral de France en 1757.

- Bulletin de Brest du 25 septembre jusqu’au 10 novembre 1757.

- Régiments venus de la vieille Angleterre pour faire le siège de Louisbourg. $ 39 000 PRECIOUS COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS REMAINING FROM THE CONQUEST OF CANADA.

PERFECTLY READABLE WRITING, COPY IN EXCELLENT

CONDITION FALLING WITHIN THE CANADIAN CONTEXT OF

THE SEVEN YEARS’ WAR.

THE LOUISBURG EXPEDITION IS A FAILED BRITISH ATTEMPT

TO CAPTURE THE LOUISBURG FORTRESS ON THE ROYAL

ISLAND (currently Cape Breton Island) DURING THE SEVEN

YEARS’ WAR AND THE CONQUEST WAR. IT IS A FRENCH

DEFENSIVE SUCCESS since an expedition as important as the

one coming from England succeeded in dissuading the

Royal Navy from attacking the place in 1757.

PRECIOUS COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPTS

falling within the "bicultural foundation of modern

Canada”.

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Charming album amicorum composed around 1840

with 40 watercolored engravings on various subjects.

ALBUM AMICORUM. N.p.n.d., probably Paris, engravings from 1760-1835. $ 9 500

Oblong folio [350 x 240 mm] of 1 frontispiece and 40 ll. Each leaf comprises an engraving pasted on. Bound in full

burgundy shagreen, spine ribbed, two

finely wrought metal clasps, gilt edges.

Binding from the middle of the 19th

century.

SUPERB ALBUM AMICORUM COMPRISING 40

PRINTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS: professions,

children's games, illustrations for Paul et

Virginie and Robinson Crusoe,

chinoiseries, scenes from the Bible…

THE 40 ENGRAVINGS GATHERED IN THIS

ALBUM WERE ALL FINELY WATERCOLORED

AT THE TIME.

A MOVING COLLECTION OF ENGRAVINGS IN

BRIGHT CONTEMPORARY COLORING,

GATHERED BY A PRINT LOVER AT THE

BEGINNING OF THE 19TH

CENTURY.

"This beautiful suite is very rare when complete" (Colas).

UNIFORMES DE L’INFANTERIE FRANÇAISE, suivant le Règlement arrêté par le Roy le 25 Avril 1767. A Paris, chez Lattré, graveur ordinaire de Monseigneur le Dauphin, n.d. [1767].

$ 16 500

Small 8vo [182 x 108 mm] of (4) ll. including 1 engraved title with the royal arms

and cyphers watercolored and 3 engraved index ll., 120 full-page plates. Red

morocco, triple gilt fillet around the covers, flat spine decorated with gilt fleurons,

green morocco lettering piece. Contemporary binding.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE.

PRECIOUS VOLUME, ENTIRELY ENGRAVED, REPRESENTING THE UNIFORMS OF THE

INFANTRY OF KING LOUIS XV’S ARMY.

THE COLLECTION CONTAINS A VERY RARE FIRST SUITE of 103 engravings representing

the French and Swiss Guards, 3 unnumbered engravings, the different regiments of

infantry, from 1 to 93 and the light troops by rank of seniority, from 94 to 101. Our

copy does not include a plate 40 but does contain 103 plates as indicated in the index

and unlike the copy described by Glasser that only mentions 99 plates.

Very rare work complete with its 103 plates.

TO THIS SUITE WERE ADDED THE SUITE OF 8 ENGRAVINGS DEDICATED TO THE FRENCH

MARINE REGIMENTS AS WELL AS THE SUITE OF 9 ENGRAVINGS DEDICATED TO THE

REGIMENTS OF THE COLONIES.

THE REFINED TITLE DECORATED WITH THE ROYAL ARMS AND CYPHERS AS WELL AS THE 120 ENGRAVINGS HAVE BEEN

WATERCOLOURED AT THE TIME.

SUPERB COPY, BOUND IN ATTRACTIVE CONTEMPORARY RED MOROCCO.

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"Interesting ‘Reflections on the War with the Indians of Northern America’

occupy the pp. 89-147: one finds there the name of the various Indian nations which

lived in North America, with the approximate number of their combatants”.

[SMITH, William]. Relation Historique de l’Expédition, contre les Indiens de l'Ohio en MDCCLXIV.

Commandée par le Chevalier Henry Bouquet, Colonel d'Infanterie, & ensuite Brigadier- Général en Amérique ;

contenant ses Transactions avec les Indiens, relativement à la délivrance des Prisonniers & aux Préliminaires

de la Paix ; avec un Récit introductoire de la Campagne précédente de l’an 1763, &

de la Bataille, de Bushy-Run... Amsterdam, chez Marc-Michel Rey, 1769. $ 14 500

8vo [200 x 120 mm] of xvi pp., 147 pp., (9), 3 plates out of text including 1 folding, 3

folding maps. Full marbled calf, blind-stamped fillet around the covers, spine ribbed and

decorated, red lettering piece, red edges. Contemporary binding.

FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, translated by the philologist Charles-Guillaume Dumas from the

edition given in London three years earlier.

VERY BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS AMERICANA ILLUSTRATED WITH 2 ENGRAVINGS BY THE

FAMOUS PAINTER BENJAMIN WEST (1738-1820), the father of the American school.

From the library of Louis-François de Monteynard (1713-1791), Secretary of State for War

from 1771 to 1774, with his engraved ex-libris with arms.

Exceptional copy with the 18 large engravings entirely hand-painted at the time.

Prestigious provenance: G. de Berny, Hyppolite Destailleur, Francis Kettaneh.

CARMONTELLE [Louis Carrogis dit Louis de] (1717-1806). Jardin de Monceau, près de Paris, appartenant à

son Altesse Sérénissime Monseigneur le duc de Chartres. Paris, Delafosse, Née et Masquelier, 1779. $ 20 000

Folio [509 x 390 mm] of 12 pp., 18

numbered plates. The volume is

accompanied by a pledged letter

signed by Carmontelle. Speckled

quarter calf, spine ribbed and

decorated with gilt fillets, lettering

piece in black morocco. Binding

from the end of the 19th century.

FIRST EDITION, ONE OF THE VERY

FEW COPIES RECORDED,

WONDERFULLY HAND-PAINTED AT

THE TIME.

It is illustrated with a general plan

and 17 engraved plates offering the

17 viewpoints where the walker

could stop. Interpreted from the

author’s drawings, they were

engraved by Bertrand, Cauche, J.

Le Roy, Deni, Michel, L’Epine, Michault, Croutelle, Colibon, etc.

EXTRAORDINARY COPY, ONE OF THE VERY FEW LISTED SUPERBLY HAND-COLORED IN 1779, OF A REMARKABLE

PROVENANCE: G. de Berny (ex-libris with arms) - Hippolyte Destailleur (ex-libris that doesn’t appear in the catalogue

of his auction) - Francis Kettaneh (ex-libris).

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The rival expedition of Kerguelen to discover the Southern Land.

France attaches its name to the exploration of the Southern oceans,

and publishes the first map of New Zealand.

CROZET, Julien et ROCHON, Abbé Alexis-Marie de. Nouveau voyage à la Mer du Sud, Commencé sous les

ordres de M. Marion, Chevalier de l’Ordre royal & militaire de S. Louis, Capitaine de brûlot ; & achevé, après

la mort de cet Officier, sous ceux de M. le Chevalier Duclesmeur, Garde de la Marine. Cette Relation a… Paris, Barrois l’aîné, 1783.

$ 16 500

8vo [189 x 120 mm] of viii pp., 290 pp., 5 plates and 2 maps out of pagination of which

one folded, (1) l.

Full marbled calf, blind-stamped fillet around the covers, flat spine decorated with gilt

fillets, red morocco lettering piece, red edges. Contemporary binding.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS VERY RARE WORK WHICH IS FUNDAMENTAL FOR THE HISTORY OF

NEW ZEALAND AND TASMANIA.

IT’S THE ACCOUNT OF ONE OF THE FIRST FRENCH EXPEDITIONS TO AUSTRALIA AND NEW

ZEALAND.

Sabin, XVII, 439 ; Davidson, A Book Collector's Notes, pp. 98-99 ; Dunmore, t. I, p. 182;

Du Rietz, Bibliotheca Polynesiana by Kroepelien, 1104 ; Hill, 401 ; Hocken, pp. 21-22 ;

Howgego, I, C222, p. 285 ; Le Nail, Explorateurs et Grands Voyageurs Bretons, p. 32.

“IT IS AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE ITEM WHICH IS SELDOM AVAILABLE.” (Davidson, A Book

Collector’s Notes, pp. 98-99).

THE ILLUSTRATION CONSISTS OF 4 BEAUTIFUL PORTRAITS OF MAORIS, A REPRESENTATION OF A CEDAR, A FOLDED MAP

REVEALING THE DISCOVERIES OF SURVILLE AND SMALLER MAPS SHOWING THE DISCOVERIES OF MARION-DUFRESNE IN

NEW ZEALAND AND IN TASMANIA.

SUPERB VERY FRESH COPY, PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY BINDING, OF THIS VERY RARE FIRST EDITION.

First edition belonging to the deluxe copies on vellum paper, very rare condition,

illustrated with 55 engravings (25 in contemporary colors - 30 in black) including 3 in triplicate,

23 in duplicate and 2 on blue paper, illustrating the monastic lives under the Revolution.

BAR, Jacques-Charles [Giacomo Carlo Rabelli]. Mascarades Monastiques et Religieuses de toutes les Nations du

Globe, Représentées par des figures coloriées dans la plus exacte vérité, avec l’abrégé historique,

chronologique et critique de chaque ordre, enrichi de notes sur l’origine de toutes ces pieuses folies ; par

Giacomo Carlo Rabelli. Dédié à la République Française, par l’Auteur. A Paris, l’An I

er de la République Française, 1792. Imprimé l’An II, 1793. $ 6 000

$ ?????

8vo [219 x 13 mm] of xxiv pp., 254 pp., 26 engravings on 55 plates (25 in colour, 30 in

black) including 23 duplicates, 3 triplicates and 2 on blue paper.

Red morocco, triple gilt fillet on the covers, flat spine decorated. 19th century binding.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS ANTICLERICAL ESSAY ILLUSTRATED WITH 26 PLATES.

Cohen 111; Brunet IV, 1070-1071.

‘Part I (the only one published): XII-254 pp., more than 26 plates drawn by Bar and

engraved by himself in ink wash painting” (Cohen, 111).

Cohen only describes one copy illustrated with 26 colored plates without specifying the

issue: “La Bedoyère, today at the B.n.F.”

OUTSTANDING COPY, UNTRIMMED, ILLUSTRATED WITH 55 ENGRAVINGS – 25 HAND-

COLORED, 30 IN BLACK, INCLUDING 3 IN TRIPLICATE, 23 IN DUPLICATE, 2 ENGRAVINGS

ARE ENGRAVED ON BLUE PAPER.

It bears the famous blue ex-libris, n212, cyphered LM.

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Rare collection of aquatints dedicated to the feats of arms of the French citizens

under the Consulate entirely contemporary hand-colored.

[GRASSET DE SAINT-SAUVEUR, Jacques.] Les Fastes du Peuple Français. [Paris, n.n., 1798-1801]. $ 3 500

4to [251 x 191 mm] composed of an engraved frontispiece, 15 numbered plates (out of 16) and (9) ll. of explanatory

text (out of 16). Full red morocco, triple gilt fillet around the covers, spine ribbed finely decorated, large inner gilt

border, untrimmed. Bound during the second half of the 19th century, signed by Riviere & Son.

RARE COLLECTION OF ENGRAVINGS DEPICTING THE

EDIFYING ACTIONS LED BY THE FRENCH PEOPLE UNDER THE

CONSULATE, COMPOSED AS A SUPPLEMENT TO THE

« FASTES DU PEUPLE FRANÇAIS » PUBLISHED TWO YEARS

EARLIER.

Cohen, Guide de l’amateur de livres à gravures du XVIIIe

siècle, 452; Colas, Bibliographie générale du Costume et

de la Mode, n°1300; Sander, Illustrierten franz ö sischen

Bücher des 18, 844.

A PRECIOUS UNTRIMMED COPY OF THIS RARE SET OF

ENGRAVING ILLUSTRATING THE HEROIC ACTIONS OF THE

FRENCH PEOPLE UNDER THE CONSULATE, COMPOSED OF 16

AQUATINTS PRINTED IN COLORS AND CONTEMPORARY

HAND-COLORED.

Provenance: ex libris of Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons. Bart. of Broomhill. Tunbridge Wells.

First French edition of the travel to the Hudson’s Bay to the North Ocean

illustrated with 5 maps and 4 engravings.

Precious copy preserved in the editor’s boards.

HEARNE, Samuel. Voyage de Samuel Hearne, du Fort du Prince de Galles dans la Baie de Hudson, à l’Océan

Nord, Entrepris par ordre de la Compagnie de la Baie de Hudson, dans les années 1769, 1770, 1771 et 1772, et

exécuté par terre, pour la découverte d’un Passage au Nord-Ouest. Traduit de l’Anglais... Paris, Imprimerie de Patris, An VII (1799). $ 6 500

2 volumes 8vo [206 x 126 mm] and 1 atlas volume 4to [258 x 195 mm] of: I/ (2) ll., lviii pp., 373 pp., small loss of paper

on the half-title; II/ (2) ll., 332 pp., xxix pp, (2) pp., pp.177-

192 and 257-288 misbound, quire 2 with shorter margins;

atlas illustrated with 9 numbered plates including 5 maps and

2 plates on double-page, with wide margins, untrimmed,

paperboard, flat spines. Very attractive original binding.

FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED WITH 5 FOLDING MAPS AND 4

PLATES OF THIS VERY SOUGHT-AFTER TRAVEL TO CANADA.

"The author will always be remembered as the first white

man that ever gazed on the dreary expanse of the Arctic or

Frozen Ocean from the northern shores of the Continent of

Arnerica." ») (Sabin).

THE STORY OF HIS EXPEDITION ACROSS THE CANADIAN FAR

NORTH SHEDS A DIFFERENT LIGHT ON THE CUSTOMS OF THE INDIANS WHO LIVED IN THESE REGIONS, RATHER FAR FROM

THE MYTH OF THE “GOOD SAVAGE”, WORTHY AND ECOLOGICAL.

VERY ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH WIDE MARGINS, PRESERVED IN ITS UNIFORM EDITOR’S BOARDS.

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Birds of America illustrated with 49 etchings

printed in color and enhanced by hand.

LEVAILLANT, François. Histoire naturelle d’une partie d’oiseaux nouveaux et rares de l’Amérique et des

Indes. Paris, Dufour, 1801. $ 33 000

Large 4to [333 x 253 mm.] of (2) ll., iv pp., 152 pp., 49 plates out of

pagination in color.

Green straight-grained half-morocco, spine ribbed decorated with gilt

fillets and fleurons, sprinkled edges. Contemporary binding.

FIRST EDITION AND FIRST ISSUE OF THE ONLY VOLUME THAT WAS

PUBLISHED ABOUT THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SOME NEW AND RARE

BIRDS OF AMERICA.

Graesse, Trésor de livres rares, IV, 188.

PRINTED ON LARGE VELLUM PAPER, IT IS ILLUSTRATED WITH 49 SUPERB

ENGRAVINGS PRINTED IN COLOR AND ENHANCED BY HAND of “non-

African birds, which have not been drawn, or which have been drawn

in a manner which rendered them unrecognizable.”

“These plates were printed by Langlois, who did almost all the

colour-printing for Levaillant. French colour-printing of this period

has never been surpassed.ˮ (Fine Bird Books).

A FINE COPY IN ATTRACTIVE ORIGINAL CONDITION.

The superb album dedicated to Egypt by Mayer, illustrated with 48 finely watercolored plates

“one of the finest landmarks of English typography and engraving”.

MAYER, Louis. Vues en Egypte, d’après les Dessins originaux

en la possession de Sir Robert Ainslie, pris durant son

Ambassade à Constantinople par Louis Mayer... avec des

observations historiques et des remarques particulières sur les

Mœurs et les Usages des habitans de ce pays. Londres, Thomas Bensley, 1802.

$ 6 500

Folio [490 x 344 mm] of (2) ll., 109 pp., 48 full-page plates out of

text. Red half-morocco, flat spine decorated with gilt fillets and

fleurons, untrimmed. Contemporary binding.

FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH LANGUAGE OF THIS SUPERB ALBUM BY

MAYER DEDICATED TO EGYPT.

Brunet, III, 1556-1557; Colas n°2019.

THE ILLUSTRATION IS COMPOSED OF 48 PLATES ENGRAVED IN

AQUATINT AND FINELY WATERCOLORED by Thomas Milton after

the compositions that Louis Mayer (1755-1803) had made on the

sight on Sir Robert Ainslie’s request, back then English

ambassador to Constantinople from 1776 to 1792.

A FINE COPY OF THIS ALBUM ABOUT EGYPT, PRESERVED WITH WIDE

MARGINS SINCE UNTRIMMED, IN ITS CONTEMPORARY RED HALF-

MOROCCO BINDING.

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Very sought after first edition of the

"best work by the gastronome" Grimod de La Reynière

"containing a Treatise on Dissection of meat at the table, the Nomenclature of

the newest Menus for each season, and elements of gourmand courtesy ".

[GRIMOD DE LA REYNIERE]. Manuel des Amphitryons ; contenant un Traité de la Dissection des viandes à

table, la Nomenclature des Menus les plus nouveaux pour chaque saison, et des Elémens de Politesse

gourmande. Ouvrage indispensable à tous ceux qui sont jaloux de faire bonne chère, et de la faire faire aux

autres... Orné d’un grand nombre de Planches gravées en taille-douce. Paris, Capelle et Renand, 1808.

$ 4 500

8vo [194 x 125 mm] of 356 pp., 17 plates. Bound as usual at the time without the second table. Roan

with a tree roots design, flat spine decorated with golden urns, pink morocco lettering piece.

Contemporary binding.

“VERY SOUGHT-AFTER FIRST EDITION”. (Gérard Oberlé, Les Fastes de Bacchus et de Comus,

135).

Vicaire 427 ; Simon 805 ; Bitting 203.

THE ILLUSTRATION CONSISTS OF 17 PLATES OUT OF PAGINATION OF THE UTMOST

INTEREST FOR THE DISSECTION OF MEAT AND FISH.

PRECIOUS COPY OF THIS VERY SOUGHT-AFTER WORK OF GASTRONOMY,

COMPLETE WITH ALL ITS PLATES, PRESERVED IN ITS ELEGANT

CONTEMPORARY BINDING IN ROAN WITH A TREE ROOTS DESIGN.

First edition of the most beautiful book on the gardens of France

under the First French Empire, illustrated with 130 copper-engravings in first issue

after the drawings of the painter Constant Bourgeois.

LABORDE, Alexandre de. Description des

nouveaux jardins de la France et de ses

anciens chateaux mêlée d’observations sur

la vie de la campagne et la composition

des jardins. Description of the modern

gardens... Paris, Delance, 1808-1815.

$ 19 000

Large folio [483 x 343 mm] of (1) half-title,

(1) title, (1) frontispiece, 226 pp., 3 maps out

of pagination, 130 engravings numbered

from 1 to 122 and from A to H, including 58

full-page and 8 with movable parts, (1) l. of

technical figures, some misnumbering of some

plates. Bound in red half-morocco, decorated

ribbed spine. Contemporary binding.

FIRST EDITION OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOK

OF THE TIME ON THE GARDENS OF FRANCE UNDER THE EMPIRE, PUBLISHED ON ALEXANDRE LABORDE’S INITIATIVE.

BAL, n° 1709 - Berlin Kat., n° 3479 ; Vicaire, IV, 745.

IT IS ILLUSTRATED IN FIRST ISSUE WITH 130 COPPER-ENGRAVINGS AFTER THE DRAWINGS OF THE PAINTER CONSTANT

BOURGEOIS INCLUDING 58 FULL-PAGE, REPRESENTING SOME OF THE LOVELY HOUSES OF THE CENTER OF FRANCE, UNDER

THE EMPIRE: Ermenonville, Malmaison, Méreville, Brunehaut, Tracy, Raincy, the Petit Trianon, Maupertuis, the

ermitage in Versailles, Rambouillet...

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One of the most beautiful albums of lithographs on Rome.

THOMAS, Jean-Baptiste. Un an à Rome et dans ses environs. Recueil de dessins lithographiés, représentant les

costumes, les usages et les cérémonies civiles et religieuses des états romains, et généralement tout ce qu’on y

voit de remarquable pendant le cours d’une année ; dessiné et publié par Thomas, ex-pensionnaire du Roi à

l’Académie de France, à Rome. Paris, Firmin Didot, 1823. $ 16 500

Folio [409 x 275 mm] of (2) ll.,

44 pp. of text, 72 numbered

plates in color protected by silky

paper, small paper repair on 1

pl., scattered foxing on 1 plate.

Red leather, rubbed corners.

Contemporary binding.

A SCARCE AND IMPORTANT

COLOURED PLATE BOOK ON THE

DAILY LIFE OF ROME TOGETHER

WITH ITS ARCHITECTURAL

GRANDEUR AT THE BEGINNING

OF THE 19TH CENTURY.

Brunet, V, 833; Colas 2872;

Lipperheide 1309.

THE ILLUSTRATION IS COMPOSED

OF 72 HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHS DRAWN BY VILLAIN AND LITHOGRAPHED BY THOMAS: “costumes, customs,

civilian and religious ceremonies of the Roman states and generally all that one sees there in the course of a year”.

PRECIOUS COPY WITH VERY WIDE MARGINS (height: 409 mm) PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY BINDING IN RED

LEATHER.

First edition of this superb collection of costumes from the Netherlands

illustrated with 20 plates in first issue finely hand-colored at the time.

GREEVEN, H. Collection des costumes des provinces septentrionales du Royaume des Pays-Bas, Dessinés

d’après nature par H. Greeven Lithographiés par Vallon de Villeneuve. Amsterdam chez François Buffa et fils, Paris chez Engelmann, 1828.

$ 6 000

Folio [340 x 250 mm] of (4) prelim. ll., 20 full-page plates protected by silky

paper, with as many explanatory ll., tear without loss on pl. 10. Purple

quarter-shagreen, flat spine decorated with gilt fillets, red morocco lettering

piece in the center of the upper cover bearing the mention of the original price

“Prix 16 Fl.”. Contemporary binding.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS SUPERB COLLECTION OF COSTUMES FROM THE

NETHERLANDS.

Colas 1311; Lipperheide 960; Vinet 2219; Hiler, p. 395.

THE ILLUSTRATION IS COMPOSED OF 20 PLATES OF COSTUMES FROM THE

NETHERLANDS engraved by Vallon de Villeneuve after the drawings of

Hendrik Greeven (1787-1854). ALL OF THEM WERE FINELY HAND-COLORED AT

THE TIME IN PARTICULARLY BRIGHT TONES.

The plates represent men, women and children of all social classes in their

traditional costumes.

PRECIOUS COPY OF A GREAT FRESHNESS PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY

BINDING.

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Remarkable first issue of Notre-Dame de Paris

in an exceptional signed contemporary cathedral binding.

HUGO, Victor. Notre-Dame de Paris. Paris, Charles Gosselin, 1831. $ 72 000

Two 8vo volumes [209 x 126 mm] of: I/ (4) ll. for the half-title, title and foreword, 404 pp.; II/ (2) ll., 536 pp. Both

titles are illustrated with Tony Johannot's woodcuts.

Edition: first issue, without mention of edition or author name on the title-page.

Flat spines in light-brown calf decorated “with a beautiful cathedral pattern” and corners in light-brown calf, covers in

marbled paper, marbled edges, upper joint of volume 2 slightly cracking at foot. Contemporary binding signed by Ledoux.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ISSUE - without fictive mention of

edition - OF “ NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS” IN A BEAUTIFUL CONTEMPORARY

BINDING.

Escoffier 870; Vicaire, Manuel de l’amateur de livres du XIXe siècle, IV,

256-257.

REMARKABLE COPY, WITH WIDE MARGINS (height: 209 mm), PRESERVED IN

ITS ELEGANT SIGNED CONTEMPORARY BINDING WITH A CATHEDRAL

PATTERN.

It comes from the library of H. Béraldi with ex-libris thus described:

“Very rare and precious copy with its contemporary binding signed

Ledoux. The spines are decorated with a cathedral pattern”. (Ref.: H.

Béraldi, III, n°214).

In 2003, 17 years ago, Pierre Berès sold a copy of the second issue

bearing the mention “deuxième tranche” for 56 000 €. (Ref. Stendhal,

Baudelaire, Pierre Berès, cat. 92, n°557, Paris 2003).

The Parisian spirit and fashionable life in 76 color engravings.

Paris, 1832.

[FASHION]. La Mode, Revue du monde élégant. Quatrième année. Paris, Janvier-Juillet 1832.

$ 4 000

4 volumes large 8vo [217 x 130 mm] gathering 76 plates in total: I/ 320 pp., 21 plates

in color: 20 plates numbered from 201 to 220 and 1 not announced, wrappers bound

in; II/ 344 pages, 20 plates numbered from 182 to 200 + plate 260, last leaves on

yellow paper, front wrapper bound in; III/ 320 pp., 17 plates numbered 221 to 237,

wrappers bound in; IV/ 332 pp., booklet 11 is missing hence a leap within the

numbering from p.253 to 276, 17 plates numbered 242 to 256, plates 238 and 254

missing, tear attaining the text p. 23, original wrappers bound in. A few waterstains.

Brown sheepskin, blind-stamped dentelle corder on the covers, flat spines with green

morocco lettering pieces, yellow edges speckled with blue. Contemporary binding.

FOURTH YEAR OF THIS IMPORTANT MAGAZINE FOUNDED BY EMILE DE GIRARDIN, WHO

FLATTERS HIMSELF FOR REPRESENTING THE PARISIAN SPIRIT AND FASHIONABLE LIFE.

In 1830, passing under the control of the legitimists, with Viscount Walsh, La Mode

will stand against the July Monarchy.

THE SUPERB ILLUSTRATION IS COMPOSED OF 76 PLATES IN COLOR.

BEAUTIFUL COPY PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY HOMOGENEOUS BINDINGS.

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First edition of one of the rarest works by Champollion about Egypt.

CHAMPOLLION LE JEUNE. Lettres écrites d'Égypte et de Nubie, en 1828 et 1829. Collection complète,

accompagnée de trois mémoires inédits et de planches. Paris, Firmin Didot, 1833.

$ 5 000

8vo [208 x 126 mm] of xv pp., (1) bl. p., 472 pp., 6 plates including 2 folding.

Eggplant half-calf, flat spine decorated with gilt fillets, marbled edges.

Contemporary binding.

RARE FIRST EDITION.

Avery Architectural Library, 185 ; Graesse, Trésor des livres rares, II, 116 ;

Brunet, I, 1780

THIS VOLUME GATHERS THE 31 LETTERS WRITTEN BY CHAMPOLLION TO HIS

BROTHER DURING HIS TRIP TO EGYPT, THE LAST 12 BEING PUBLISHED HERE FOR

THE FIRST TIME.

It is known that this trip, which enabled him to check that his hieroglyphic

system worked, eventually caused his death. Having caught tuberculosis and

schistosomiasis, he came back to France to get treated, but he died in 1832 at

41 years old.

A BEAUTIFUL COPY PARTICULARLY WIDE-MARGINED (208 mm high),

PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY BINDING.

Only 3 copies of this rare first edition in contemporary binding are recorded on

the market since 1965.

Superb description of Switzerland illustrated with 109 full-page engravings

very finely executed.

BEATTIE, William. La Suisse pittoresque, ornée de vues dessinées spécialement pour cet ouvrage par W. H

Bartlett, Esq. Accompagnée d’un texte, par William Beattle, M. D. London, Georges Virtue, 1836. $ 8 300

2 4to volumes [265 x 205 mm] of: I/ 1 frontispiece, vi pp., (1) l. of table, 192 pp., 57 full-page engravings; II/ 1

frontispiece, (2) ll., 136 pp., 49 full-page engravings and 1 folding map. Some scattered foxing. Bound in burgundy

straight-grained morocco, covers decorated with a blind-stamped floral and animal ornamentation, central medallion,

gilt fillet on the covers, decorated flat spines, gilt edges, case. Binding signed by Whestley, London.

RARE FIRST FRENCH EDITION OF THIS SUPERB ILLUSTRATED DESCRIPTION

OF SWITZERLAND.

Vicaire, I, 355, Brunet, I, 714, Graesse, Trésor de livres rares, 68.

THE RICH ILLUSTRATION IS COMPOSED OF 2 FRONTISPIECES, 106 FULL-PAGE

ENGRAVINGS VERY FINELY EXECUTED AND ONE FOLDED MAP OF

SWITZERLAND drawn by W. H. Bartlett and engraved on steel by and

under the direction of Wallis. All the plates represent towns, villages,

mountains, glaciers, landscapes, etc. of Switzerland.

SUPERB COPY PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY BINDING DECORATED BY

FRANCIS WHESTLEY.

Francis Whestley was part of the bookbinders, together with, Remmant &

Edwards and a few others, to have adopted a special and new press which

allowed a blind stamping of remarkable and unrivalled delicacy. Unlike

the usual technique, this stamping was done before the cover. Eleanore

Jamieson dedicated her book “English embossed bindings, 1825-1850” to

these particular bindings.

Provenance: Gavault and Andrée and Chantal Cazaux with engraved ex-

libris.

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60 superb full-page chromolithographs representing the twelve months of the year.

ENGLERT, D. Die zwölf Monate des Jahres, in bildlichen Darstellungen für den Anschauungs-Unterricht. Esslingen, J.F. Schreiber, 1838

. $ 20 000

Oblong folio [366 x 263 mm] of 1 title, (9) text ll., (1) l. with the table of the plates, 60 numbered plates. Bound in

contemporary dark blue half-morocco, flat spine. Minor browning, slight staining here and there, tiny creasemarks.

Contemporary binding.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS VERY RARE SET OF ENGRAVINGS

AIMING AT TEACHING THE YOUTH THE CHANGE OF

SEASONS.

Cf. Hauswedell 673, and Granier XXVI, 971 (title

slightly different: "The seasons" and only 20 plates).

THE 60 MAGNIFICENT FULL-PAGE CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS

FINELY ENGRAVED AND COLORED WITH METICULOUS

CARE REPRESENT THE TWELVE MONTHS OF THE YEAR

WITH THE VARIOUS ELEMENTS CHARACTERIZING THEM.

Each month is represented with one to 14 pages

illustrated with appropriate scenes or subjects.

EXTREMELY FINE AND RARE CHILDREN'S BOOK WITH 60

OUTSTANDING PLATES IN COLOURED LITHOGRAPH.

A very rare album of lithographs in contemporary coloring

illustrating the procession of the Gutenberg celebrations given in the city of Strasbourg in June 1840.

FETES DE GUTENBERG / CORTEGE INDUSTRIEL DE STRASBOURG. Strasbourg, E. Simon Fils, [1840-1841].

$ 4 300

Oblong folio [291 x 460 mm) of (1) l., 53

lithographed plates mounted on guards

including 5 double, numbered from 1 to 53.

Preserved in the editor’s quarter cloth, gilt title

on the upper cover: “Cortège industriel de

Strasbourg 25 Juin 1840”, flat spine decorated

with gilt fillets. Contemporary binding.

FIRST AND UNIQUE ISSUE OF THIS VERY RARE

ALBUM ILLUSTRATING THE PROCESSION WHICH

WALKED THROUGH THE STREETS OF STRASBOURG

IN JUNE 1840 TO CELEBRATE THE FOURTH

CENTENARY OF THE INVENTION OF PRINTING BY

GUTENBERG.

THIS VERY RARE ALBUM WAS PUBLISHED IN THE FORM OF 13 SUCCESSIVE PUBLICATIONS OF 4 PLATES EACH, THUS A

TOTAL OF 52 PLATES ILLUSTRATING THE PROCESSION.

3 additional plates, describing the events outside the procession were published afterwards.

It is very rare to find a copy containing all 55 plates since their publication was spread over several months. Our

research allowed us to locate only 2 within all the international libraries: one at the INHA in Paris and one in the

Bibliothèque de Strasbourg.

THE 53 LITHOGRAPHS OF THE PRESENT COPY WERE ENTIRELY ENHANCED WITH BRIGHT COLOURS BY HAND AT THE TIME.

BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS VERY RARE CELEBRATION BOOK MADE TO CELEBRATE THE FOURTH CENTENARY OF THE

INVENTION OF PRINTING, OF THE HIGHEST INTEREST FOR THE HISTORY OF TRADES AND COSTUME.

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First edition of the rarest Italian book of zoology illustrated with color plates.

GAZZADI, Domenico. Zoologia Morale esposta in cento venti

discorsi in versi o in prosa da Domenico Gazzadi di Sassuolo, già

publico professore di belle-lettere, socio di varie academie

letterarie ; e in altrettante figure d’animali, incise in rame, colle

notizie scientifiche del dottore Antonio Baschieri da Modena,

membro titolare e già …

Firenze, Vincenzo Batelli e compagni, 1843-46

$ 22 000

2 folio volumes [412 x 309 mm] of: I/ 236 pp., 42 full-page color

plates, a few foxing, stain p. 85, small waterstain in the upper corner

of a few ll., small tear in the bl. margin of p. 113, 1 pl. slightly

browned, 3 stamps on the half-title; II/ (2) ll., pp. 237 to 482, 51 full-

page color plates, small waterstain on the upper left corner of the first

ll., a few foxing including on 5 plates. A total of 93 plates. Light-

brown half-calf, covers of marbled paper, flat spines decorated

lengthwise, speckled edges. Contemporary Italian binding.

FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, PUBLISHED IN 46 PARTS BETWEEN 1843

AND 1846, OF THE RAREST ITALIAN WORK OF ZOOLOGY IN COLORS.

Bibliografica italiana, 1534 and 2837; Nissen ZBI 1492; Wood 352

(which incorrectly indicates 119 plates, relying on the number of

animals listed in the index).

THE WORK IS ILLUSTRATED WITH 93 PLATES HAND-COLORED AT THE TIME, REPRESENTING 120 ANIMAL SPECIES WITH A

LANDSCAPE BACKGROUND, PLACED in their natural habitat by J. Giarre with rivers, mountains, icebergs...

Attractive Ethiopian bible handwritten on vellum skin

and illuminated with two full-page polychrome figures.

Ethiopia, 19th

century. ETHIOPIAN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. Illustrated liturgical manuscript written in

ge’ez. Ethiopia, 19

th century. $ 3 900

8vo [179 x 110 mm] of (131) ll. on vellum skin, 2 full-page

polychrome figures protected by fabric, tear 2 leaves. Text

handwritten in black and red ink, with a few painted borders at

the head of several chapters, ruling stitching in the outer

margins. Bound in contemporary blind-stamped calf over

wooden boards, flat spine with wears. Contemporary binding.

RARE ETHIOPIAN BIBLE HANDWRITTEN ON VELLUM SKIN.

THE ILLUSTRATION CONTAINS 2 FULL-PAGE PAINTINGS IN VIVID

AND BRIGHT COLORS INCLUDING A MADONNA AND CHILD, AS

WELL AS SEVERAL PAINTED BORDERS AT THE HEAD.

PRECIOUS ETHIOPIAN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT PRESERVED IN

ITS CONTEMPORARY BINDING IN BLIND-STAMPED LEATHER OVER WOODEN BOARDS.

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Pretty tarot pack entirely hand-colored at the time,

inspired from exotic and oriental animal tarots from the 18th century.

SCHENCK, I. Tarot animalier. Nuremberg, 19th century.

$ 10 500

Pack of 78 cards (complete) with a black marbled back, preserved in

a carton box from the end of the 19th century. Black shagreen

lettering piece gilt-stamped on the box.

Dimensions of the cards: 110 x 58 mm.

PRETTY PACK VERY PLEASANTLY COLORED AT THE TIME, INSPIRED

FROM THE EXOTIC AND ORIENTAL ANIMAL TAROTS FROM THE 18TH

CENTURY.

THE 78 CARDS WERE ENGRAVED ON METAL AND STENCILED AT THE

TIME.

PRECIOUS EXAMPLE OF A TAROT PACK PRODUCED BY A GERMAN

CARD MAKER IN THE 19TH

CENTURY, COMPLETE WITH ITS 78 CARDS

STENCILED AT THE TIME, IN VERY GOOD CONDITION.

Provenance: two stamps on the ace of hearts, Deutsches Reich –

Dreissig Pf., the second unidentified.

First edition of the author’s first book,

illustrated with 48 chromolithographs enhanced with gum Arabic.

BARLA, J. B. Les champignons de la province de Nice et principalement les espèces comestibles, suspectes ou

vénéneuses dessinés d’après nature et décrits. Nice, imprimerie Canis frères, 1859.

$ 6 000

Oblong 4to [263 x 345 mm] of (1) l., lv pp.,

138 pp., (1) l., 48 plates in colors. Bound in

green buckram, flat spine decorated with gilt

fillets, mottled edges. Contemporary binding.

FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR’S FIRST WORK,

DEDICATED TO MUSHROOMS FROM HIS HOME

REGION.

Pritzel, 410 ; Jackson, 288 ; Volbracht 59 ;

Uellner 50 ; Stafleu 309 ; Nissen 77.

THE PRESENT ICONOGRAPHY IS ILLUSTRATED

WITH 48 CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS GUMMED FROM

THE AUTHOR’S DRAWINGS.

PRECIOUS COPY BEARING A HANDWRITTEN

SIGNED DEDICATION BY THE AUTHOR ON THE

HALF-TITLE: « A l’Académie Mont-Réal.

Hommage de l’Auteur. J.B. Barla »,

PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY BINDING.

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Extremely rare first edition of this beautiful hunting book

illustrated with 12 hand-colored lithographs.

PHIZ [BROWNE, Hablot Knight]. A Run with the Staghounds. London, Mess

rs Fores, 1863. $ 8 500

Large oblong folio [338 x 514 mm] of 12 hand-colored lithographs numbered and mounted on guards. Very small tear

and a few black marks on the 5th plate. Red quarter-morocco, covers decorated with gilt fillets, label in red morocco

including the title in gilt letters, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt equestrian patterns, top edge gilt, a few rubbing.

Contemporary binding.

STAGGERINGLY RARE FIRST EDITION.

Schwerdt, I, p. 84.

"Vigorous and spirited" (Hardie, p. 219).

THE ILLUSTRATION CONSISTS OF 12

HAND-COLORED LITHOGRAPHS, each

dated May 13, 1863 and inscribed

"Proof." Printed by M. & N. Hanhart.

Extremely rare, with ABPC recording

only four copies at auction since 1935.

OCLC notes only 3 copies in library

holdings worldwide, with two at

Harvard and one at the National

Sporting Library.

209 French seats from the Middle Ages to the end of the 18

th century drawn by Jules Verchère,

“a true mine of information for the art historian”.

VERCHERE, Jules. Sièges historiques anciens. Paris, J. Verchère, 1879.

$ 6 000

Small oblong folio [271 x 357 mm] of 11 pages of summary presented in the form of a booklet, 1 frontispiece, 83

plates mounted on guards comprising 209 figures in colour (from figure 161, the numbering is handwritten). Text

partly misbound with a few tears and loss of

paper, a few stains and minor tears.

Contemporary brown half-cloth, flat spine, a

few scratches.

VERY INTERESTING COLLECTION DEDICATED

BY JULES VERCHÈRE TO FRENCH SEATS AND

THEIR EVOLUTION FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO

THE END OF THE 18TH

CENTURY, “A TRUE MINE

OF INFORMATION FOR THE ART HISTORIAN”.

The album consists of 209 FIGURES OF SEATS

DRAWN BY JULES VERCHÈRE, CLASSIFIED BY

CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER AND REUNITED IN 83

PLATES.

PRECIOUS COPY OF WHICH ALL 209 SEATS

HAVE BEEN CAREFULLY AND PRECISELY

COLORED BY HAND AT THE TIME.

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Rare and luxurious sales catalog of a wholesaler of interior decoration objects

abundantly illustrated with more than 1 000 products including a few hundred in color

and enhanced with gold.

London, 1880.

TRADE CATALOGUE. Illustrated Pattern Book of English China & Earthenware; French China-Ware, Plainn &

Ornamental; English & Foreign Flint Glass, Plain, Cut & Engraved. Coloured & Decorated Glass, Chinese &

Japanese China Ware, Parian & Terra-Cotta Goods, Window & Plate Glass Plain & Silvered, Mirrors, Looking

Glasses, Mechanical Pieces, Flowers & Birds under Glass Shades, Pictures & Picture Frames, Stained Glass

Windows & Panels; Table Ornaments, &c. Lamps, Globes, Chimneys, &c. N.p.n.d. [1880]. $ 3 300

Folio [368 x 269 mm] of (3) ll. and 261 pp. including 231 full-page plates

(70 plates in color and 58 enhanced with gold), a few pages cut shorter at

the bottom touching the numbering, minor tear pl. 15, pl. 198 has been

mistakenly bound twice at the time instead of pl. 197. Brown editor’s cloth,

double gilt fillet around the upper cover with gilt title to upper cover,

rebacked preserving original spine, gilt edges, some rubbing to edges and

corners showing. Editor’s binding.

SUPERB CATALOG OF INTERIOR DECORATION OBJECTS, OF TABLEWARE,

LAMPS, MIRRORS, EARTHENWARE, GLASSES AND JUGS, FIREPLACES,

CUTLERY, SILVER… OFFERED FOR SALE BY THE LONDON HOUSE SIBER &

FLEMING IN 1880.

THE SUPERB ILLUSTRATION IS COMPOSED OF 231 FULL-PAGE PLATES EACH

PRESENTING ABOUT 2 TO NEARLY 30 OBJECTS, HENCE MORE THAN 1 000

PRODUCTS IN TOTAL, INCLUDING 70 IN COLOR AND 58 ENHANCED WITH

GOLD.

PRECIOUS COPY OF THIS RARE TESTIMONY OF THE TASTE FOR INTERIOR

DECORATION OBJECTS IN THE WORLD AT THE END OF THE 19TH

CENTURY.

A handsome set of 63 original etchings by Picasso, one of only 30 copies printed on Japanese paper.

PICASSO, Pablo/ BUFFON. Eaux fortes originales pour des texts de

Buffon. Paris, Fabiani, 1942. $ 133 000

Large 4to. Bound uncut with the original wrappers in full maroon

morocco, boards decorated with light blue and light brown morocco

onlays in the center surrounded by gilt decorations. With grey suede

endpapers. All edges gilt. With chemise and slipcase (Mad. Gras).

A superb binding by the Parisian woman book-binder Madeleine Gras

(1891-1958).

THIS WORK BY PICASSO, BY MANY CONSIDERED HIS MASTERWORK, WAS

ONLY PRINTED IN 226 COPIES AND THIS COPY IS ONE OF 30 PRINTED ON

JAPANESE PAPER WITH AN EXTRA SUITE OF ETCHINGS ON CHINA PAPER.

IT CONSISTS OF 31 ORIGINAL ETCHINGS BY PABLO PICASSO WITH A

DUPLICATE SET OF PROOF PLATES AND THE SUPPLEMENTARY ETCHING “LA

PUCE”. IN ALL IT CONTAINS 63 ORIGINAL ETCHINGS BY PICASSO.

A HANDSOME SET OF 63 ORIGINAL ETCHINGS BY PICASSO, PRESERVED IN A

SUPERB CONTEMPORARY BINDING BY MADELEINE GRAS.

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Sumptuous and rare mosaic binding by Pierre-Lucien Martin in folio format.

Paris, 1953.

VALERY, Paul. Les Bucoliques de Virgile. Lithographies Originales en couleurs de Jacques Villon.

Paris, Scripta & Picta, 1953. $ 20 000

Folio [381 x 280 mm] of (2) bl. ll., xxxi pp. including 1 frontispiece in color, 2 half-page illustrations in color, 127 pp.

including 41 lithographs in color, (5) ll. A total of 43 original compositions by Jacques Villon in color.

Black morocco, covers entirely decorated with a polychrome and mosaic like geometrical decor alternating shades of

yellow, pink, red, blue, grey, brown and black, also running on the flat spine, gilt edges, doublures in red box and

endpapers in pink box, blue wrappers and spine bound in, folder in red half-box and case. Rich binding signed by P.L.

Martin dated from 1957.

Dimensions of the binding: 390 x 293 mm.

FIRST EDITION OF THE TRANSLATION OF THE “BUCOLIQUES” BY PAUL VALÉRY AND OF HIS PREFACE, PRINTED AT 245

COPIES ON VÉLIN D’ARCHES.

This edition is illustrated with 43 ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS IN COLOUR BY JACQUES VILLON, MOST ON DOUBLE-PAGE.

SUPERB IMPRESSIVE BINDING SIGNED BY PIERRE-LUCIEN MARTIN WITH A POLYCHROME AND MOSAIC DECOR (BINDING’S

HEIGHT: 390 MM) RECALLING THE “GEOMETRICAL PROFUSION” CHARACTERISTIC OF JACQUES VILLON’S WORK.

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ALPHABETICAL INDEX

ALBUM AMICORUM. 1760-1835. 21

BAR. Mascarades Monastiques et Religieuses. 1793. 26

BARLA. Les champignons de la province

de Nice. 1859. 44

Batailles et campements… [MANUSCRIPT]. c. 1716. 14

BEATTIE. La Suisse pittoresque. 1836. 38

BERQUEN. Les Merveilles des Indes Orientales...

ou traitté des Pierres précieuses… 1669. 10

BERTELLI. Il Carnevale Italiano. [1642]. 7

BIBLIA [MERIAN]. 1704. 13

BOCK. Kreutterbuch darin vnderscheidt… 1572. 3

CALMET. Histoire des Juifs… 1737 16

[CANADA]. Manuscripts. 1757. 20

CARMONTELLE. Jardin de Monceau. 1779. 24

CHAMPOLLION. Lettres écrites d’Egypte. 1833. 37

COLMENERO DE LEDESMA. Chocolata inda. 1644. 8

CROZET / ROCHON. Nouveau voyage à la Mer

du Sud. 1783. 25

DAMHOUDÈRE. La practicque et enchiridion

des causes criminelles. 1554. 2

DESMARETS DE SAINT-SORLIN /

DELLA BELLA. Jeux historiques des rois de

France… 1698. 12

[EMBROIDERED VELVET BINDING]. 1740. 17

ENGELBRECHT. Assemblage nouveau des

Manouvriers habilles... c. 1730. 15

ENGLERT. Die zwölf Monate des Jahres. 1838. 39

ETHIOPIAN MANUSCRIPT. 19th

century. 42

Fêtes de Gutenberg. 1840-41. 40

GAZZADI. Zoologia Morale esposta… 1843-46. 41

GRASSET DE SAINT-SAUVEUR. Les Fastes du

Peuple Français. [1798-1801]. 27

GREEVEN. Collection des costumes... 1828. 34

[GRIMOD DE LA REYNIÈRE]. Manuel des

Amphitryons...1808. 31

HEARNE. Voyage du Fort du Prince de Galles

dans la Baie de de Hudson... 1799. 28

HEURES À L’USAGE DE ROME. 1518. 1

HUGO. Notre-Dame de Paris. 1831. 35

LA MODE, Revue du monde élégant. 1832. 36

LABORDE. Description des nouveaux

jardins de la France… 1808-15. 32

LAMESLE. Epreuves Générales des

Caractères… 1742. 18

LAVANHA. Viagem da Catholica Real

Magestade del Rey D. Filipepe II. 1622. 6

LEVAILLANT. Histoire naturelle d’une partie

d’oiseaux… de l’Amérique... 1801. 29

MAYER. Vues en Egypte... 1802. 30

MONCORNET. Les vrais pourtraicts des Roys de

France... [c. 1650]. 9

NAUDOT. Chansons… des Francs-Maçons. 1744. 19

NEGRI. Nuove inventioni di balli... 1604. 5

NICOLAY. La Navigation du Roy d’Escosse. 1583. 4

PHIZ. A Run with the Staghounds. 1863. 45

PICASSO. Eaux-fortes originales pour des

textes de Buffon. 1942. 48

[SAINT-VALLIER]. Estat present de l’Eglise... 1688. 11

SCHENCK. Tarot animalier. 19th century. 43

[SMITH]. Relation Historique… 1769. 23

THOMAS. Un an à Rome et dans ses environs. 1823. 33

TRADE CATALOGUE. Illustrated Pattern

Book of English China & Earthenware… [1880]. 47

UNIFORMES DE L’INFANTERIE… [1767]. 22

VALÉRY. Les Bucoliques de Virgile. 1953. 49

VERCHÈRE. Sièges historiques anciens. 1879. 46