Books & manuscripts

ELIZABETH II (1926-2023), Queen of England. - LAS addressed to Mrs. Clarke inviting her to the christening of the newly born Prince Charles - dated December 10, 1948 and on Buckingham Palace letterhead. 1 page, with envelope and a photographic postcard featuring Elizabeth, the Duke of Edinburgh and their son Charles.

Bernard BOUTET DE MONVEL, Set of 11 early drawings on paper/cardboard, circa 1893. [11 documents - various sizes, max. 23.5 x 20 cm] Set of 11 youthful drawings made around 1893-1894, when he was 11-12 years old. These drawings are studies of characters from his early literary reading. They include lackeys, a man playing the bard, musketeers on horseback or sparring, an inspired young boy at a table dreaming of horses and, finally, a watercolor drawing on cardboard of a military man with a bicorne on horseback. These were among his first artistic exercises. Some drawings are signed and/or dated, with handwritten references. (Lot sold as is)

NAPOLÉON BONAPARTE - P.A.S., s.l.n.d. [circa September 1793], 1 p., in-folio. Framed. Defects, not framed. Frame: H. 32 x W. 24 cm. "The commander of the company's squad of cannoneers [...] is ordered to leave for Lyon. He will have to sleep the same day, on Nivôse 2, "at Bosset" [probably Le Beausset, near Toulon], in Marseille on the 3rd etc., and will join Lyon with another Captain. Handsome signature of Napoleon, then General "Buonaparte". Approval countersignature of General Jacques François Coquille dit Dugommier (1738-1794) and signature of Corsican deputy Christophe Saliceti (1757-1809). Rare reunion of the three protagonists of the siege of Toulon. Lyon, in revolt after the Convention, suffered a siege by Republican armies and cannon fire for several months. Lot presented by Mathilde Lalin-Leprevost, C.N.E. expert (06 84 38 90 72).

HERGÉ, Georges Remi dit (1907-1983) - Tintin T 14, Casterman 1949, B3 album in original edition, Le temple du soleil, 2 Inca symbols on title page, good condition.

SPITZER COLLECTION. Catalog of objects of art and high curiosity, Antiques, from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance making up the important and precious Spitzer collection, which will be sold in Paris... from Monday April 17 to Friday June 16, 1893... and from June 10 to 14, 1895; 3 volumes of text and 1 of plates in folio - 4 volumes, fawn half calf, wear, rubbed. Complete set, solidly bound. The first two volumes describe ivories, goldsmiths' and silversmiths' wares, tapestries, Limoges enamels, Bernard Palissy earthenware, furniture, medals, jewelry, fabrics, clocks, etc. The third volume is devoted to arms and armor. The volume of plates (82) reproduces hundreds of objects.

[Incunabula]. [Bible. Latin. 1498]. SEXTA PARS BIBLIE cu[m] glossa ordinaria & expositio[n]e Lyre [Basel, J. Petri and J. Froben, December 1498]. In-folio, old-fashioned fawn half-basane with corners, spine with 4 nerves, cold-stamped title, red edges (flaws including cover lac. on spine and boards, worn edges; light marginal dampening, dust on title and small wormholes in margins of very first leaves). Sixth and last volume of this Latin Bible edited by Sebastian Brant, which includes the "Glossa ordinaria", the "Expositiones" by Guillelmus Brito and the "Moralia" by Nicolas de Lyre. This volume contains eleven epistles (to the Romans, Corinthians, Hebrews, etc.), the Acts of the Apostles, the epistles of James, Peter, John and Jude, and the Apocalypse. Sebastian Brant's epigram to the reader appears on the verso of the last leaf. All endpapers on this copy were painted red or blue at the time, and all text capitals highlighted in red, with running titles and paragraph headings underlined in red. Sign. a8 B6 c8 d6 etc y6 z8, A6 B8 C6 etc P6 Q8 R5 (of 6, without the last blank f.). Very good margins, h = 308 mm. Provenance: unidentified monastery of the Theatine order (engraved armorial bookplate "S. S. Adelhaidis et Caietani"). (ISTC ib00609000; Hain 3172; GW 4284; Pellechet 2351; Bibles Paris, 759).

Bernard BOUTET DE MONVEL and others, Set of paper photographs taken during the First World War, size approx. 8 x 14 cm, circa 1914-1918 [More than 50 documents] Lot composed of various photographs taken by Bernard Boutet de Monvel, and his entourage, some of which feature him. Almost all of these photographs bear a handwritten note by the artist on the back, indicating the place, date and identity of the persons. Some illustrate life on the military camp with his comrades and friends, others destruction, inhabitants of towns in Morocco where Bernard stayed during this period and photographs of meetings between officers or important personalities (Joffre, Poincaré, King of the Belgians...). There are also a few "mises au carreau" among the lot. (Lot sold as is)

FRANQUIN, Gaston, ed Dupuis -Gaffes et Gadgets, 0, 1985 -Gala dde gaffes à gogo, R1, 1973 -Le bureau des gaffes en gros, R2, 1973 -Gare aux gaffes du gars gonflé, R3, 1977 -En direct de la gaffe, R4, 1977 -Lagaffe's heavy past, R5, 1986 -Gaffes and Damage, 6, 1974 -A Gaffer Who Knows How to Gaff, 7, 1973 -Lafaffe nous gate, 8, 1970 -The Lagaffe Case, 9, 1974 -The blundering giant, 10, 1974 -Gaffes, blunders and pellets, 11, 1974 -The gang of blunderers, 12, 1976 -Lagaffe deserves to be slapped, 13, 1979 -La saga des gaffes, 14, 1982 (sold as is)

LA GAZETTE DE BARCLAY, MODES ET ÉLÉGANCES, two issues, n°9 of 1927 and n°11 of 1928 Dim. 32 x 24.8 cm The magazine was published by the couturier Barclay, and brought together various artists for the illustrations, including Bernard Boutet de Monvel, who produced the cover illustrations - his monogram "BMB" appears. (Lot sold as is)

[DORÉ (Gustave)]. - La légende du Juif errant, compositions and drawings by Gustave Doré, woodcuts by F. Rouget, O. Jahyer and J. Gauchard, printed by J. Best. Poem with prologue and epilogue by Pierre Dupont. Preface and bibliographical note by Paul Lacroix (Bibliophile Jacob). With Béranger's Ballade set to music by Ernest Doré. Paris, Michel Levy frères, 1856. Publisher's dark-green percaline boards, gilt title in center, cold-framed. [2]-18 pp, [1], [1bl.], XII plates composed and drawn by Gustave Doré, each separated by 1 blank leaf. All iconography is woodcut. First original edition of this monumental work. A very fine copy free of foxing, very rare in this condition.

[FRANÇOIS Ier]. - Ordonnances du très chrestien Roy de France François premier de ce nom réduictes par titres et articles et ordre selon les matières ordonnées estre gardées et observées en ces pays de Provence Forcalquier et terres adjacentes selon et ensuyvant la réformation par luy faicte sur le faict de la justice des dictz pays l'an mil cinq cens trente cinq. Avignon, Jehan de Channey, 1536. Followed by: "S'ensuyent les taux modérations, sallaires et emoluments [...] avecques le grand arrest doné par nostre très chrestien Roy de France, touchant la confirmation de la Justice et ordonnances [...]. Avec les villes et châteaux de Provence extraictes par maistre Anthoine Arena." Lyon, s.n., May 24, 1540. Two volumes bound in one volume, small gothic in-folio, modern vellum binding with handwritten title on spine. 105 ff. [9] ff. table ; [22] ff. (A-T 6 ; A-D, D 4, E 2), gothic type. Title page dated 1540 in a frame by Guillaume Leroy; same frame with a vignette bearing the arms of France to the title of the second part printed in Lyon. This collection contains: - Les ordonnances de Provence...; given at Compienne on the 17th day of October 1534 and the publication order at Ys sur Thille (Is sur Tille) in October 1535. - Edit de la réformation, given at Joinville on September 5, 1535. - Ordonnances sur le faict de la marine, given at Compiengne in 1534 and Ys sur Thille in 1535. - Ordonnance des bleds, given at Ys sur Thille on October 7, 1535, and cried at Lyon on October 26, 1535. - Ordinance on false notaries. - Erection of the Parlement d'Aix court. - Ordonnances sur le faict de la Gendarmerie; made in Bordeaux on July 15, 1530. - Ordonnances nouvelles sur les Légions de gens de pied. Saint Germain en Laye, July 24, 1534. - Ordinance on tolls. Paris, November 15, 1535. - Ordinance on fines. Given in Lyon on January 17, 1535. - The form of criminal trials. - Edit de réformation de la justice de Marseille; given at Crémieu in February 1535. One of the first legal treatises printed entirely in French in accordance with the Villers-Cotterêts ordinance of August 1539; the first part, Ordonnance de Provence, promulgated at Is-sur-Tille on October 10, 1535, was printed in French by order of François I. A fine copy.

LITERATURE - Manette comprising 43 volumes, mainly late 19th and early 20th century literature: Verlaine, Loti, Bourget, Mérimée, Gautier, etc. Simple bindings in good condition.

AGRIPPA (Henricus-Cornelius). - Henrici Cornelii Agrippa ab Nettesheym à consiliis et archivis inditiarii sacra Caesareae Maiestatis: De occulta philosophia libri tres. [Cologne], [Johann Soter], July 1533. In-folio, modern v2lin ; (6) ff. CCCLXII (362) pp. (1) blank f.; woodcut portrait to title; Privilege of Charles V printed in French, numerous tables, occult alphabets and woodcut drawings. First edition of the second and third books; the first book was printed in Antwerp by J. Grapheus in 1531, in-4, and simultaneously by Christianus Wechelus in Paris. Both editions are extremely rare. The three books are printed here together for the first time; this edition has four or five in-print variants, which have not been classified in any particular way. It is very rare, complete as here, including the final blank leaf (Caillet 93; Stanislas de Guaita 1100: "Original edition, very rare and much sought-after, of Agrippa's famous treatise on occult philosophy"). Born in Cologne, an alchemist and cabalistic philosopher, Cornelius Agrippa was also an important occultist; his hectic life made him a teacher and physician who criss-crossed Europe, studying at the University of Paris, then passing through Metz, Geneva, Lyon, Austria, Spain, Italy, the Low Countries, the University of Dôle, then London, and so on. Passionate, he maintained stormy relations with many priests and with the Inquisition. Secretary to Maximilian I, advisor to Charles V, physician to Louise de Savoie, he continued "the great work" all his life, and was a master of alchemy. He died in Grenoble. Autograph bookplate "Gerentes doctor medicus a Monspéliensis". Scattered light marginal foxing, spots of foxing, otherwise a very good copy.

Possibly Ottoman work, 17th-18th centuries. Embossed leather covers. Pages handwritten in ink and illuminated. With later annotations. It presents notable damage due to use and the passage of time. Cover partially lost. Some of the pages have faults, tears and stains of humidity and rust. Measurements: 16 x 4 cm. Beautiful book with verses and other Islamic texts handwritten in ink. It has a careful leather binding adorned with vegetable embossing. Some of the pages are embellished with polychrome synthesized floral motifs.

BD: Les aventures de TINTIN Hergé éd CASTERMAN: Le Lotus Bleu B1 EOC 1946 DR papier épais (Good condition, tears, traces of ink)

* Georges REMI, known as HERGÉ (1907-1983) Centenary black-and-white boxed set Casterman, 2007, numbered 1598 / 4000 14 polychrome cardboard albums, in a suitcase box, including : - Totor, Popol and Virginie in the Far West - Quick et Flupke, collection 1 - Quick et Flupke, collection 2 - Jo et Zette, Le Rayon du Mystère - Jo et Zette, Le Stratonef H.22 - Tintin, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets - Tintin, Tintin in the Congo - Tintin, Tintin in America - Tintin, The Blue Lotus - Tintin, Cigars of the Pharaoh - Tintin, The Broken Ear - Tintin, The Black Island - Tintin, The Ottokar Sceptre - Tintin, The Crab with the Golden Claws Very good condition Hergé/Tintinimaginatio 2023

POL BURY (1922-2005) - Art Abstrait. Cahier 1, 1952. Avec collaboration de R.V. Gindertael et Albert Dupuis. Burssens, Bury, Carrey, Collignon, Delahaut, Hauror, Jean Milo, Plomteux, Jan Saverys. Album with 18 prints, two per artist. All prints signed, except one by Saverys. One of 200 numb. copies, no. 101. Orig. cover.

LA PLEIADE, Maupassant "Romans" 1987

Bert Stern (1929-2013), Marilyn in Red Scarf, 1962 - Printing technique: high-quality pigment print, color photography on thick matt photo paper, Title: Marilyn in Red Scarf, Signature: Hand-signed and numbered 8/50 on the front. Bert Stern has signed the photograph again by hand on the reverse. The studio stamp is also on the reverse. Dimensions: sheet 48 x 33 cm, frame 62.5 x 52.5 cm, Comment: This beautiful photograph of Marilyn Monroe was taken in 1962, when Bert Stern was allowed to do his last photo session with the actress. photo session with the actress before she died shortly afterwards. These photographs became famous under the name 'The Last Sitting' (because they were the last shots before her death), the print dates from 2009. With accompanying certificate of authenticity, also signed, titled, dated and numbered by Bert Stern.

LA PLEIADE, "Wilde" album, 1996

PFNOR (Rodolphe). - Renaissance castles. French Renaissance. 16th century - 17th century. Monographie du Palais de Fontainebleau drawn and engraved by Rodolphe Pfnor, accompanied by a historical and descriptive text by M. Champollion-Figeac. Tomes 1er et 2e. [Followed by] Architecture et décoration des époques Louis XIV, Louis XV et Louis XVI au Palais de Fontainebleau, dessinées et gravées et accompagnées d'un texte historique et descriptif par Rodolphe Pfnor. (Tome 3e). Paris, A. Morel, 1863 (volumes 1 and 2) and Ch. Chassen, 1885 (volume 3). 3 vols. large in-folio; brown morocco, richly decorated ribbed spines, gilt title, boards decorated with a double frame of two gilt fillets and a double inner frame of two gilt fillets with large gilt fleurons at the corners, inner lace, moiré burgundy brocaded silk endpapers, double gilt fillet on the edges, gilt head (H. Prat Lyon, 1886). I. [4]), 20, [3] pp. (Table of plates), [1 bl.], 70 copper-engraved or lithographed plates, including 1 in color which counts as a double and 3 doubles. II. [4], 11, [1 bl.], [3] pp. (Table), [1 bl.], plates 71 to 150 including 4 chromolithograph plates that count as double and 2 double plates. III. [4], 20, [4] pp. (Table), 80 plates including 4 in color (2 double) chromolithographed, and 3 double, copper-engraved. A total of 230 hors-texte plates mounted on tabs, 9 of them chromolithographed, the others engraved on copper. Exceptional reunion of the three first-edition volumes of this famous work (the third being published 22 years after the first two), in a sumptuous Renaissance-style ornate morocco binding. Apart from a few rare, light foxings (larger in places), a very fine copy bound by a late 19th-century Lyon master, and complete with all engravings.

[MAGRITTE] JOUFFROY Alain. Aude à l'Antipode. Paris, Le Soleil Noir, 1966. In-8 in a blue slipcase, cut on the front with a glass, a pipe, a dove and a leaf. Illustrations by René MAGRITTE. Copy no. 22/70 (wear).

Manuscrit, Enluminure, Espagne ou Flandre, 15e/16e - Folio from a choir book. In Latin, manuscript on parchment, brown ink, liturgical Gothic script. 80 x 55cm (x2). tear.

Bert Stern (1929-2013), Marilyn in Black Dress, 1962 - Printing technique: high-quality pigment print, color photography on thick matt photo paper, Title: Marilyn in Black Dress, Signature: Hand-signed and numbered 12/62 on the front. Bert Stern has signed the back of the photograph again by hand. The studio stamp can also be found on the reverse. Dimensions: sheet 48 x 33 cm, frame 82 x 62 cm, Comment: This beautiful photograph of Marilyn Monroe was taken in 1962, when Bert Stern was allowed to take the last photo session with the actress before she died shortly afterwards. These photographs became famous under the name 'The Last Sitting' (because they were the last shots before her death), the print dates from 2010. With accompanying certificate of authenticity, also signed, titled, dated and numbered by Bert Stern.

LA PLEIADE, Saint Exupéry, "Œuvres complètes", volume 1, 1994

"Jeff KOONS à Versailles" Xavier BARRAL, 2008. Signed by the artist.

[Post-incunabula]. LUCAIN. Pharsalia cu[m] annotationibus in margine adiectis que[m] brevis co[m]mentarii vice essa possunt. Antuerpiae, apud Michaelem Hilleni, 1528. In-4, [168] f. [sign. A-Z4 Aa-Tt4], contemporary brown calf, 5-ribbed spine and mute, boards decorated with a cold frame formed by a roulette with portraits in medallions, another central roulette forming a rhombus, and a central fleuron (upper bit split, 2 boxes replaced on the spine, corners restored without finesse, cracks to the boards, renewed endpapers; qq. rare marg. flecks, worm damage in margin of quire e to end, one corner damage in margin of f. kk). A rare edition, only 4 copies have been located in the USTC. Carefully composed, it is printed on a 25-line column, with comments in the margins. The title page features a fine woodcut frame. The first 28 leaves (books I and II) show numerous careful old annotations. Old signatures on the title; handwritten mention of acquisition in 1528 and ex-dono dated 1814, on a leaf mounted on the flyleaf. (USTC 407341; Nijhoff-Kronenberg 1384).

NAPOLÉON BONAPARTE (1769-1821) - Two unpublished "Nap" L.S. to General Henri-Jacques-Guillaume Clarke (1765-1818): - 1 dated May 18, 1807: "Monsieur le General Clarke, je revois votre lettre du 13 avril ou 14. I thank you for the part you are taking in the death of poor little Napoleon. - I have given orders for the regiment of the Grand Duke of Berg (Joachim Murat) to be retrograded to Düsseldorf, where it will be formed. - The provisional 15th has very few officers and can only be considered as a depot. It is therefore becoming urgent to direct it for the army, so that it can be incorporated into the Corps without delay. With this in mind, I pray to God that he may have you in his holy care. At Finckenstein, May 18th 1807. Nap". 3/4 page in-4°. - 1 dated November 19, 1809: "Monsieur le General Clarke, I have instructed you to write to the Duke of Istria that five days more or less did nothing to make us ready. Send by an officer the last order to the Duke of Istria (Jean-Baptiste Bessières) and that before December 1st I be master of the island of Walcheren. On this I pray to God that he may have you in his holy custody. Paris, November 19th 1809. Nap - On the 19th M. de F... left with the dispatch to the Duke of Istria". 1/2 page in-4°. History Until August 1807, General Clarke was responsible for the exchange of ratifications of the peace treaty between France and the Kingdom of Saxony. It was on this occasion that he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Saint-Henri. The "death of poor little Napoleon" was that of the Emperor's nephew, son of his brother Louis, King of Holland, and considered at the time to be the future heir to the imperial throne. It was from this event that Napoleon envisaged another way of succeeding him, which would prove to be to Josephine's detriment. In 1809, Clarke was Minister of War and the Empire was under attack from all sides, in Austria, Spain and Holland; the aim here was to recapture the island of Walcheren, which secured the French stronghold of Antwerp on the North Sea.

Bert Stern (1929-2013), Bridgit Bardot, 1961 - Printing technique: high-quality pigment print, black and white photography on thick matt photo paper, Title: Bridget Bardot, Signature: Hand-signed and numbered 19/36 on the front. Bert Stern has signed the photograph again by hand on the reverse. The studio stamp is also on the reverse. Dimensions: sheet 33 x 48 cm, frame 53 x 73 cm, Comment: The beautiful photograph dates from 1961, the print is from 2012. With accompanying certificate of authenticity, also signed, titled, dated and numbered by Bert Stern.

IBN AL-DURAYHIM AL-MAWSILI. "Book of the utilities of animals". Facsimile edition. Copy 104/995. 155 folios reproducing the text illustrated with animal figures and gilt lettering. Bound in aged full leather. Accompanied by a study book. Ediciones Madrid, 1990. I. Afinsa/Kaydeda. Measurements: 26,5 x 19 x 3,5 cm. Beautiful facsimile edition of one of the most interesting Arabic codices of the Royal Library of El Escorial: The book of the utilities of animals, whose author was Ibn al-Durayhim al-Mawsili. Only one original copy of his work is known to exist, and it is the one preserved in the Royal Library of El Escorial.

Massimo Vitali - Massimo Vitali (1944) - Il Ciolo Splash, 2010 Vintage C-print mounted on dibond accompained by the volume "Natural Habitats" cm 20,5 x 25,5 (print) ; cm 29,8 x 37 x 2 (book) | 8 x 10 in. (print) ; 11.7 x 14.5 x 0.7 in. (book) Edition 48 of 100 Caption label signed and numbered in black ink on the verso An original idea by Massimo Vitali: accompanying a photograph to the volume that includes it because a true collector is not limited to acquiring images as physical objects, but is also interested in books that enhance them thanks to the critical texts and information contained therein.This lot is subject to Artists Resale Rights

[L'ENCYCLOPEDIE], DIDEROT (Denis) - D'ALEMBERT. Recueil de planches sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques avec leur explication, 6 livraisons : - Troisième livraison ou quatrième volume, Paris, chez Briasson, David et Le Berton, 1765, 298 plates (complete): Ebénisterie-marqueterie, émailleur à la lampe et peintre en émail, éperonnier, épinglier, escrime, éventailliste, fayancerie, ferblantier, fil et laine, fleuriste artificiel, forges ou art du fer, formier, fourbisseur, fourreur, gantier, manufacture des glaces, horlogerie - Quatrième livraison ou cinquième volume, Paris, Paris, chez Briasson, David, Le Breton, 1767, 248 plates (complete) :Sciences mathématiques géométrie, trigonométrie, arpentage, algèbre, sections coniques, analyse, méchanique, hydrostatique, hydrodynamique et hydraulique, optique, perspective, astronomie, géographie, gnomonique, navigation, instruments de mathématique, physique, pneumatique, fonderie des canons, fonte des cloches, fonte de l'or, de l'argent et du cuivre, gravure, layetier, lunetier, lutherie, marbreur de papier, marbrerie, papetterie - Sixième livraison ou septième volume, Paris, chez Briasson et Le Breton, 1769, 259 plates (complete): Hongroyeur, imprimerie en caractères, imprimerie en taille-douce, manège et équitation, maréchal ferrand, maréchal grossier, marine, marine, évolutions navales, forge des ancres, maroquinier, menuisier en batimens, menuisier en meubles, menuisier en voitures, musique - Huitième livraison ou neuvième volume, Paris, chez Briasson, 1771, 253 plates (complete): La Savonnerie, Sellier et carrossier, serrurerie, Piqueur de tabatière, incrusteur et brodeur, tabletier-cornetier, tabletier, taillandier, tailleur d'habits et tailleur de corps, tanner, l'art de faire des tapis de pié façon de Turquie, tapissier, tapisserie de haute lisse des Gobelins, tapisserie de basse lisse des Gobelins. - Neuvième livraison ou dixième volume, Paris, chez Briasson, 1772, 337 plates (complete): Teinture des Gobelins, teinturier en soie ou teinturier de rivière, théatres, machines de théâtre, tireur et fileur d'or, tonnelier, tourneur et tour à figure, vannier, verrerie, vitrier - Dixième et dernière livraison ou onzième et dernier volume, Paris, Briasson, 1772, 239 plates (complete) : Weaver, passementier, marl-maker, gas-maker, ribbon-maker, silk-maker The six paperback collections (foxing, folds, wetness, small edge tears, a few woodworm holes)

LABILLARDIÈRE (Jacques-Julien Hoton de). - Relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse, fait par ordre de l'Assemblée Constituante, pendant les années 1791, 1792, et pendant le 1ère et la 2de année de la République Française. Paris, H. J. Jansen, an VIII [1799]. 2 vol. in-4 of text: XVI, 442 pp. ; 332, 113, [1] pp, [1] blank f. and 1 vol. of atlas, large folio including a title page engraved by Dien and 44 plates, a large double-page folding map drawn by Barbié Du Bocage, engraved by D'Houdan; 24 plates of views, portraits and utensils drawn by Piron; 14 plates of botany after Redouté; 4 plates of birds after Audebert and a plate of spiders, engraved by Dien, Copia, Maleuvre and Perée. Half red long-grained morocco, small vellum corners, gilt title, the three volumes are uncut for the text and at full margins, as issued (period binding, in imitation for the Atlas). Complete original edition. As the three volumes have not been through the binder's knife, the edges are sometimes slightly dusty, and the atlas is slightly freckled, especially in the margins. The botanist La Billardière (1755-1834) took part in the expedition ordered by King Louis XVI and placed under the command of d'Entrecasteaux in search of La Pérouse, of whom there was no news. Scientific and humanitarian circumnavigation voyage: Tenerife (where the author climbed the famous Peak), Cape Town, Australia, Tasmania, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Java and the Ile de France. His account includes observations on the peoples he visited, their customs and tools. The linguistic section is highly developed (Malay, Tasmanian and Oceanian vocabularies). His herbarium, containing 1,500 plants unknown at the time, is preserved in Florence and Geneva. A fine copy, from the library of Pierre Bettencourt, who left a handwritten note relating the discovery of the remains of La Pérouse's ships by Dumont d'Urville in 1828 (McDonnell, no. 223; Sabin, 38420).

"Il Libro d'Ore Durazzo". Facsimile book, 2008. Limited edition, Panini. Numbered copy, 426/980. The work is accompanied by a volume of commentaries by Andrea De Marchi. Velvet binding with gilt, with silver and silver-gilt hardware and clasps on both covers, Both volumes presented in a slipcase lined in fine red velvet. Measurements: 5 x 13 x 16 cm (facsimile); 32 x 24 x 11 cm (box). The Durazzo Book of Hours is a purple and gold treasure, made at the beginning of the 16th century and preserved in the Biblioteca Civica Berio in Genoa. The Italian facsimile edition belongs to the Impossible Library project of the publisher Franco Cosimo Panini. The Durazzo Book of Hours, named after its last owner, is a small and luxurious masterpiece by the painter and miniaturist Francesco Marmitta. It is a surprising work that differs from all other devotional codices intended for private use for two peculiar characteristics: the use of purple parchment and chrysography, that is, writing with gold characters, traced in this case by a master of the art of calligraphy, Pietro Antonio Sallando, a professor at the University of Bologna. The goldsmith of the miniature page: a splendid and sumptuous artist, also gifted as a goldsmith and carver, the Parmesan Francesco Marmitta (1462/1466 - c. 1505) expressed his skills in superb works, including, in addition to the Durazzo Book of Hours, the beautiful Missal by Domenico della Rovere in the Museo Civico in Turin. In the pages of his masterpieces, in addition to displaying a delicate sensitivity and remarkable landscape skills, he also showed his predilection for gems, medals and cameos, mined with great exquisiteness. A marvelous decoration: the meditated recovery of the classical tradition, evident in the use of purple and gold lettering, is confirmed by the ornamental lexicon of panoply, medals, cameos and bucklers, while the pictorial language of the Calendar and of the Offices of the Virgin reveals an updating of the style with the latest acquisitions of the Bolognese figurative culture, denoting a particular attention to Amico Aspertini. The refined binding: the elegant and elaborate binding in chiseled and embossed silver with gilded areas on a purple velvet background dates from the same period as the codex, sharing with it a decoration of similar taste. The profusion of motifs with classical reminiscences based on palmettes, acanthus leaves, ears of corn, bunches of grapes, vases, masks, beetles and buckaroos is splendid.

OVIDE - Operum. Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1702; 2 volumes in-8 (of 3), contemporary ivory vellum with flaps, smooth spines with handwritten titles, red edges. The first two volumes of the three published. The first leaf of volume II, the title page of Métamorphoses, is missing. Numerous illustrations in Volume II, some foxing and spotting. As is

Héron de Villefosse: L'épopée bohémienne illustrated by Kisling. Illustrated with original etchings and woodcuts in monochrome. Lettered copy. Edition of 251 copies. In sheets in original slipcase

[16th century book]. HULSIUS (Levinus). XII primorum Caesarum et LXIIII ipsorum uxorum et parentum ex antiquis numismatibus, in aere incisae effigies, atque eorumdem... Vitae... Francoforti ad Moenum, typis J. Collitii, sumpt. P. Brachfeldii, 1597. In-4, [4] f., 198 p., [1] f. (index), fig, contemporary ivory vellum with covers, spine with 4 raised bands, cold roulettes, handwritten title, boards decorated with a central medallion and bordered by a cold roulette, traces of laces, edges chased and gilt (covers browned in places, one corner of flap gnawed; sporadic light spotting in margins, title a little soiled and trimmed in foot margin). First edition of this work dedicated to the emperors and empresses of Roman antiquity. The illustration, entirely engraved on copper, consists of 79 full-page vignettes featuring medallion portraits in ornamental frames, and an architectural and allegorical frame for the title page. An interesting interleaved and extensively annotated copy, comprising an extended text on 15 bound pages at the beginning of the volume, followed by careful underlining and numerous erudite Latin annotations in the text and margins. The copy passed through the library of an unidentified monastery, and in 1621 became the property of a certain Adrian Engelsdorf, of Gdansk (Poland), who affixed his signature to the title and margin of the first page. (USTC 707518; VD16, H5875).

LOT of 13 volumes from the collection "Topographia Germaniae" German provinces published by Merian. Published by Bärenreiter in facsimile. The volume of tables is included. Original hardcovers

HANSI, "L'Histoire d'Alsace racontée aux petits enfants d'Alsace par l'oncle d'Hansi" illustrated by Hansi and de Huen. Paris, Floury, 1913. In-4°, publisher's blue illustrated boards. Significant wear, as is

Chagall, Les Ames mortes, 2 volumes, artist's autograph signature, Tériade Éditeur, MCMXLVIII, Paris 1948. Missing hors-texte plates, justification page, wear to slipcase.

BASCLE de LAGREZE (Marc Flavien Antoine Gustave), Mélanges sur les Pyrénées, 1845-1864. In-8 in black half-binding, spine ribbed, Handwritten summary in ink at beginning, describing: I-Chronique de la ville et du château de Lourdes (p. 1 to 212), 1845. a lithograph frontispiece and plan of Castéra de Julos h. t. II-Monograph of l'Escale-Dieu (p. 1 to 112) III-Monograph of Saint-Savin de Lavedan (p.1 to 164) IV-Monography of Saint-Pé (p.1 to 62) V-Essai sur l'histoire monétaire et numismatique de Béarn (p.1 to 32). 2 plates h.t. VI-Essay on the language and literature of Béarn (p.1 to 86). VII-Feudalism in the Pyrenees (pp. 1 to 138) pp. 137 and end torn and missing (slight foxing and some pages browned)

LABOUREUR (Jean Émile) & GIRAUDOUX (Jean). - Promenade avec Gabrielle. Manuscript by Jean Giraudoux illustrated with sixteen color lithographs by J.-E. Laboureur. Paris, nrf, 1919 (1924 for the present illustrated edition). Small in-4 (25 x 16 cm), royal blue calf with large mosaic decoration composed of the silhouette of a couple mosaicked in dark green morocco, on a pink morocco cloud background, under a large radiant golden sun, decoration extending on the spine and second board, smooth spine, pink box lining, blue moire endpapers, blue-royal glossy cover, title label, gilt edges on witnesses, blue calf sheathed chemise and slipcase (J.E. Laboureur del. - G. Cretté succ. de Marius Michel). First edition. Jean Giraudoux's manuscript is lithographed in blue and illustrated with 16 color lithographs by Jean-Émile Laboureur. Printed by Engelmann, printer-lithographer in Paris. Edition of 170 copies on vergé d'Arches and 15 copies on chine; copy on vergé d'Arches unnumbered, with a suite of the sixteen color lithographs on fine vellum, unadvertised. The binding is one of the few designed by Laboureur, with the AQUARELLED MAQUETTE preserved at the end of the volume; "not cited by Garrigou, it is however known to Sylvain Laboureur, who indicates that his father designed another maquette for this book, which Louise Lévêque executed". Produced by Georges CRETTÉ (1893-1963), the final version, which shows minor variations from the maquette, must have been made between 1925 and 1943; probably in the late 1920s. A very fine copy, with minor defects to the slipcase. (S. Laboureur, Jean-Émile Laboureur, Livres illustrés, T.II, N°776 pp. 339-342).

GAUTIER (Théophile). - Mademoiselle de Maupin - Double amour - By Théophile Gautier, author of Les Jeunes-France. Paris, Eugène Renduel, 1835 - 1836. 2 vol. in-8, red morocco, ornate ribbed spines, gilt title and gilt roulettes, septuple gilt fillet framing the boards, double fillet on the edges, sextuple gilt fillet framing the interior, gilt edges, covers preserved and lined (Cuzin). 351 pp. with title and frontispiece; 356 pp. with title and frontispiece (2; 1-21/8; 22/6 and 2; 1-22/8). Very rare first edition; in volume I, the light-green cover with Victor Magen's name replaces the original cover, which is present in volume II. This cover with Magen's name is an enigma; we have found no trace of an edition produced by Magen around 1840, since all the titles marked "En vente" on the second cover date from 1832 to 1840, and are largely Magen editions. This work did not sell well at the time, and was reissued after 1837; if Magen was involved in this reissue, its cover is extremely rare; the second plate of the original cover of volume II bears the indication "Sous presse: la Comédie de la Mort; le Capitaine Fracasse"; this was not published until 28 years later, in 1863! Gautier received 1,500 francs for this novel. A few years later, this work, which had sold poorly, went on to sell for 1,000 and 1,500 francs, with enthusiasts snapping it up! A very fine copy in a signed binding.

ICART (Louis) & CASTEL (Thérèse). - A woman's destiny. Illustrated by Louis Icart. Paris, Editions Egix, 1945. In-4 on ff. in filled cover, publisher's folder and slipcase. 21 etched and colored compositions in stencil and brush, text framed in double red fillet, lettering and typographical ornaments in red. First edition printed in an edition of 295 copies (+ 30 H. C.), ex. n° 44 of 125 on BFK de Rives vellum. A few stains on the slipcase, otherwise a fine copy.

FABRIZIO, Girolamo [FABRICIUS ab Aquapendente, Hieronymus]. - Opera chirurgica in pentateuchum, et operationes chirurgicas distincta. Cum indice locupletissimo capitum, et rerum. Accedunt instrumentorum chirurgicorum, tan auctoris, iam recentiorum accurata dolincatio. Necnon De Abusu cucurbitularum in febribus putridis, dissertatio et museo ejusdem. Patavii (Padua), Matthaei de Condorimis, 1666. In-folio; fawn half-calf with corners, ornate ribbed spine, garnet-red title page, red tr. (early binding). (8), 364, 31 pp. 9 large engraved plates of out-of-text instruments. Born in Aquapendente (1537-1619), Fabricius came to Padua to study medicine, where he was a pupil of Falloppe, nicknamed "the Aesculapius of his time", who oriented him towards anatomy. In 1562, he succeeded his master in the chair of Anatomy. His teaching was so successful that he built, at his own expense, a Theatrum anatomicum, which attracted crowds of students from all over Europe. A renowned anatomist, embryologist and surgeon, he is credited with the discovery of vein valves, which he described with rare precision. However, he went no further, and it was his pupil, Harvey, who came to understand their role in blood circulation. He was responsible for many inventions and discoveries, such as the tracheotomy and various orthopedic devices. Small loss to title-piece and minor wear to corners and top cover, otherwise a good copy, in good condition inside and with very good printing of plates.

Bretagne - LE BORGNE (Guy). - Armorial Breton, contenant par ordre alphabétique et méthodique, les Noms, Qualitez, Armes et Blasons des Nobles, Annoblis, et tenants Terres et Fiefs nobles et eveschez de Treguier, et de Leon [...], et de plus un Abrégé de la Science du Blason. Rennes, Julien Ferré, 1667. Small in-folio on contemporary ivory vellum; (12) title, dedication, Avertissement au lecteur, extrait du Privilège, 293 pp. the second part, bound before the first, is entitled: "Instruction des termes usitez au blason des armoiries selon l'ordre alphabétique, avec le nombre des émaux, leurs significations, et représentations des Écus et pièces plus difficiles que l'on admet ordinairement en cette science héraldique, et ne pourraient estre compris d'un chacun sans les figures cy-après"; 48 pp. and (6) engraved ff. recto seul representing 99 écus with furniture. First edition of this rare armorial. The plates of coats of arms, which are very often missing, are unbound separately and show extensive light wetness and small wormholes. This armorial covers the bishoprics of Léon and Tréguier in particular, but also the whole of Brittany (some 3,000 families are listed), with genealogies and often highly interesting details of local, economic and political history. A high-quality source, it has been reprinted many times.

[GRADASSI, Jean] DUBOIS, Guillaume (cardinal). - Memoirs of Cardinal Dubois. Illustrations by Jean Gradassi. - Paris, Edmond Vairel, 1949-1950 - 4 volumes in-4; leaves, untrimmed paper covers, in publisher's cardboard slipcases and folders. As is, uncollated

PRINCESS ANNE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (b. 1950) - CASE written on behalf of herself and her brother Charles, from Buckingham Palace, addressed to Mrs. Bruce thanking her for the fudge and chocolates, dated May 3, 1960, on Royal Arms letterhead.

JEAN JANSEM Cervantés, Rinconète et Cortadillos, Les Francs Bibliophiles, Paris, 1965, in-4 sheets, illustrated cover, folder and slipcase, with 19 original original color lithographs by Jean Jansem, including one on the cover. cover, edition of 185 on Hollande Van Gelder, ex. no. 168, dedication by Jean Jansem to Maurice Garnier.

[LEMARIÉ] - LA FONTAINE (Jean de) - Contes. Illustrations by Henry Lemarié. Paris, Les Heures Claires, 1967-1970; 3 volumes in-4, folio, in illustrated covers, publisher's slipcases. All 3 volumes. A good copy on Rives vellum.