MANUSCRIPTS - ANCIENT AND MODERN BOOKS
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227 lots
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150 - DENON (Dominique Vivant). Plates of the journey in the lower and upper Egypt. Paris : printers of Didot l'aîné, An X (1802)]. - Atlas in-folio, 562 x 402 : (1 f.), 142 ff. of plates. Dark blue half-maroquin with corners, gilt fillets, smooth spine decorated, marbled edges (period binding). The only atlas of the first edition of the Voyage dans la basse et haute Égypte, pendant les campagnes du Général Bonaparte, which usually accompanies a volume of text. It consists of 143 plates spread
Result €1,500Estimate €600 - €800 -
151 - DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU (Henri Louis). Treatise on trees and shrubs grown in France in the open ground. Second Edition considerably increased. Paris: Didot aîné, Michel, Lamy, [1800-1806]. - 3 volumes in-folio, 397 x 254 : title-frontispice, (2 ff.), 4, 80 pp. pp. 77bis-80bis, pp. 77ter-78ter, pp. (81)-264, iv pp., 57 plates (out of 60) ; 244 pp., v pp., 71 plates (out of 72) ; 164 pp. (of 234), 38 plates (of 60). Dark blue half-basane, smooth spine decorated (binding circa 1830). New edition de
Result €1,750Estimate €1,500 - €2,000 -
152 - GOUDEAU (Emile) - LEPÈRE (Auguste). Parisian landscapes. Hours and seasons. Paris : printed for Henri Béraldi, 1892. - In-8, 264 x 178 : frontispiece, XV, 175 pp. 4 plates, illustrated cover. Dark green morocco, boards decorated with a mosaic frame of brown and beige morocco in the purest Art Nouveau style, spine ribbed with mosaic motifs, lining of green morocco bordered on the outside by a gilt roulette and entirely decorated with a repeating floral decoration mosaic of green and white moroc
Result €3,125Estimate €1,500 - €2,000 -
153 - HUGO (Victor). - RUTY (Marcel-Pierre). Éviradnus. Paris : Société française d'éditions d'art, L.-Henry May, [1900]. - In-8, 255 x 180 : (2 ff.), 6 plates. Paperback, filled cover. First separate edition of this epic poem from La Légende des siècles. A partial edition was apparently published around 1872 under the title La Chanson d'Éviradnus, consisting of only six pages, and printed in a single copy for Sarah Bernhardt. (Cf. cat. 92 of the Pierre Berès bookshop, no. 571.) This poem i
Estimate €500 - €600 -
154 - HUYSMANS (Joris-Karl). À rebours. Paris : G. Charpentier et Cie, 1884. - In-18, 175 x 109 : (2 ff.), 294 pp. Black half-chagrin, spine decorated with skulls surrounded by cold tears, marbled edges (period binding). First edition of this masterpiece by Huysmans, which marks the author's break with naturalism. It was seen by his contemporaries as a true breviary of decadence. A copy in a choice binding of the period, with a decoration on the spine with cold funerary attributes.
Estimate €1,000 - €1,500 -
155 - MÈGE (Jean-Baptiste). Alliance d'Hygie et de la beauté, ou l'art d'embellir, d'après les principes de la physiologie; précédé d'un discours sur les caractères physiques et moraux de la femme, ses prrogatives et ses devoirs; et sur les mœurs et les coutumes des anciens. Paris : Crochard, Delaunay, the author, 1818. - In-12, 160 x 97 : (1 f.) on 2 (mq the title), ij, 244 pp., (1 f.). Red morocco, gilt border and gilt arms in the centre of the boards, smooth spine decorated, gilt border ins
Result €1,062Estimate €500 - €600 -
156 - MILBERT (Jacques Gérard). A Picturesque Itinerary of the Hudson River and the Lateral Parts of North America. Paris : Henry Gaugain, Lambert & Cie, [1828]. - Atlas folio, 522 x 344: 52 (of 54) plates, illustrated cover. Half red morocco with corners, gilt filets, red morocco piece bearing the title in gilt letters, framed with gilt filets and fleurons, spine ribbed and decorated (Boersch et Valentin). Single atlas comprising 52 (out of 54) views of the Hudson River valley and the northeastern
Result €2,375Estimate €2,000 - €3,000 -
157 - MONNIER (Antoine). Eaux-fortes and hollow dreams. Eccentric sonnets and strange poems. Paris : Librairie Léon Willem, 1873. - In-8, 245 x 174 : (2 ff.), 84 pp., (2 ff.), 20 plates. Brown half-maroquin with corners, gilt fillets, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt head, untrimmed, case (period binding). First edition of this poetic collection by the poet and engraver Antoine Monnier, illustrated by the author with 20 original etchings outside the text, both symbolist and fantastic. Edition of 35
Estimate €400 - €500 -
158 - MONNIER (Antoine). Fables and short poems. Paris : [from the author], 1894. - In-4, 303 x 201 : (106 ff.), illustrated cover. Red half-maroquin with corners, gilt fillets, smooth spine nicely decorated, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (Pouillet). First edition of this remarkable work comprising 56 fables, 24 short poems, a long poem entitled Les Chats à travers les âges and a symbolic essay on the abstract work of the seven days. This collection was entirely composed and illu
Result €1,375Estimate €600 - €800 -
159 - MONTORGUEIL (Georges) - LEPÈRE (Auguste). Paris at random. Paris : printed for Henri Béraldi, 1895. - In-8, 229 x 150 : (4 ff.), 341 pp, (3 ff.), illustrated cover. Dark brown morocco, framed with a double gilt fillet with mosaic composition in beige morocco at the corners and repeated mosaic floral compositions in dark grey and ochre morocco breaking the inner fillet, spine decorated with mosaic floral motifs identical to those on the boards, framed in dark brown morocco inside, decorated wit
Result €2,250Estimate €1,000 - €1,500 -
160 - RICHEPIN (Jean) - LEPÈRE (Auguste). Paysages et Coins de Rues... Preface by Georges Vicaire. Paris : Librairie de la Collection des dix, 1900. - In-8, 245 x 167 : (2 ff.), XII, 157 pp., (1 f.), illustrated cover. Paperback, filled cover. A very nice book dedicated to Paris and its suburbs, printed at 250 copies and illustrated with 74 wood-engraved colour compositions by Auguste LEPÈRE (1849-1918), including 5 full-page ones. One of the 25 copies on chine, including a separate edition of the
Result €687Estimate €400 - €500 -
161 - ZOLA (Émile). Manet ed. Paris: E. Dentu, 1867. - In-8, 237 x 154 : portrait, 48 pp. 1 plate, printed cover. Green cloth binding, smooth spine, untrimmed, cover preserved (period binding). First edition of this biographical and critical study dedicated by Zola to his friend Édouard Manet, first published in the Revue du XIXe siècle on January 1, 1867. It is the first monograph devoted to the artist. More than a simple biography, it is a true defence of the man and his work, particularly the
Result €750Estimate €600 - €800 -
162 - [DEGENERATED ART - NAZISM] - Entartete Kunst. Munich, 1937. - Booklet in-8, 210 x 145 : 30 pp, (1 f.), illustrated cover. Stapled. Catalogue of the exhibition of degenerate art held by the Nazis in Munich from July 19, 1937, which was part of Hitler's propaganda efforts to try to put an end to what he called "cultural subversion" by identifying and ridiculing, as he said at the opening of the event, "the cliques of chatterboxes, dilettantes and art swindlers who support each other . This is
Result €937Estimate €400 - €500 -
163 - BANVILLE (Theodore de). Gringoire. Comedy in one act in prose. Paris : Louis Conard, 1904. - In-8, 206 x 139 : IX, 116 pp, (2 ff.), illustrated cover. Hardback parchment, boards and spine covered with original paintings by Edmond Malassis, signed and dated 1904, smooth spine, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, flap folder with floral decoration, slipcase (period binding). One of the first works illustrated by the painter and watercolorist Edmond Malassis, with 32 compositions, including one
Result €1,000Estimate €400 - €500 -
164 - BORDUAS (Paul-Émile). Refus global. Montreal] : Lithra-Mythe éditeur, 1948. - In-8, 217 x 178 : (4 ff.), 15 pp. (3 ff. first blank), (1 p.), pp. 1-11, (1 f.), 6 pp., (1 f.), 13 pp., (1 p.), pp. 1-3, (1 f.), 6 pp, (1 f.), 9 pp, (2 ff), 12 plates. In leaves, in double illustrated covers with flaps. First edition, which has become very rare today, of this artistic manifesto considered to be the most important document in the history of Canadian modernism. It was written by the painter and sculp
Result €3,500Estimate €1,000 - €1,500 -
165 - COURTHION (Pierre) - SELIGMANN (Kurt). Monsieur Ténor. Paris : G.L.M., 1936. - In-8, 248 x 188 : (12 ff. first, 9th, 10th and last blank), printed cover. Revorim binding with beige box spine and bands, boards moulded in black rim, peach box piece decorated with the names of the author and the artist in black on the first board, smooth spine with stitching on two red and grey cloth straps, cover preserved (Jean de Gonet). First edition of this text forming the eighth book of the collection "rep
Result €1,000Estimate €800 - €1,000 -
166 - CURIOSA] - BAYROS (Franz von) - SARTORI (Emil). Die Bonbonnière. Galante und artige Sammlung erotischer Phantasien]. S.l., s.d. - In-4, 342 x 290 : 32 plates. Burgundy half-chagrin with corners, smooth spine (period binding). Collection of 32 erotic aquatints and etchings by the Austrian draughtsman and painter Franz de BAYROS (1866-1924) and by Emil SARTORI (1864-1930). Twenty-eight of these plates make up the collection first published in 1907 under the title Die Bonbonnière. Galante und ar
Result €1,250Estimate €500 - €600 -
167 - GENET (Jean). Le Condamné à mort. Fresnes, September 1942. - Booklet in-8, 213 x 135 : (8 ff. last blank), printed cover. In sheets, filled cover. Very rare first edition of Jean Genet's first book, published in September 1942 while he was imprisoned in Fresnes since May 15 of the same year following his conviction for theft. It is a long poem dedicated "To the memory of Maurice Pilorge assasin (sic) of twenty years", a delinquent guillotined on February 4, 1939, who fascinated the poet and
Result €7,500Estimate €6,000 - €8,000 -
168 - KUPKA (François) - LECONTE DE LISLE (Charles-Marie). The Erinnyes. Ancient tragedy. Paris : Librairie de la collection des dix, A. Romagnol, 1908. - In-8, 280 x 190 : 89 pp, (1 blank page), 3 plates, illustrated cover. Black morocco, engraved copper plate inlaid in the first plate, spine ribbed, maroon lining bordered with a double gilt fillet, maroon silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved (Blanchetière). Edition printed at 300 copies, illustrated
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169 - MALLET-STEVENS (Rob). Boulogne : Éditions de l'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, 1934. - In-4 oblong, 154 x 243 : (28 ff.). Bound in the publisher's spiral binding, decorated on the first cover with a drawing by Mallet-Stevens. Rare and sought-after first edition of this work presenting the Villa Cavrois in Croix in the North of France, designed by the architect Robert Mallet-Stevens, which he built and fitted out between 1929 and 1932, with a preface by Jean Mistler, Minister of Public Works, it c
Result €5,000Estimate €800 - €1,000 -
170 - REVIEW] - CHALUPT (René). Le Recueil pour Ariane ou le pavillon dans un parc. Paros : Édition Romane, 1911-1914. - 10 issues in-8, paperback. Complete collection of this very rare poetic review created by René Chalupt (1885-1957) in collaboration with the printer Jean Baguenier-Desormeaux (1888-1914) and the poet and typographer Alexandre Gaspard-Michel (1892-19..). It consisted of 10 issues published quarterly between 24 September 1911 and 22 December 1913, each with a print run of less tha
Result €3,125Estimate €1,500 - €2,000 -
171 - [REVIEW]. The Three Roses. Art magazine. Grenoble, June 1918-April/May 1919. - 12 issues in 7 fascicles in-8, 246 x 160 : 191 pp. with printed or illustrated covers. Blue half cloth, smooth spine, untrimmed, covers preserved (A. F. Thiebaut). Extremely rare complete collection of this avant-garde review created by the poet Justin-Frantz Simon. It is in these terms that it is presented at the head of the first issue: "Due to circumstances the Revue is published in Grenoble; it is not for that r
Result €3,375Estimate €1,000 - €1,500 -
172 - VASARELY]. Le Mouvement. Paris : Galerie Denise René, 1955. - Folio folded in four. Rare and much sought-after booklet published on the occasion of the exhibition "Le Mouvement" which presented works by Agam, Bury, Calder, Marcel Duchamp, Jacobsen, Soto, Tinguely and Vasarely. It includes 5 texts including Vasarely's Notes for a Manifesto, also called The Yellow Manifesto. This booklet, as well as the exhibition it accompanied, marks the official beginning of the kinetic art movement. This a
Result €500Estimate €400 - €500 -
173 - ALEXEÏEFF (Alexandre) - MORAND (Paul). Living Buddha. Paris : Bernard Grasset, [1928]. - In-4, 286 x 233 : frontispiece, (2 blank ff.), 52 pp., (1 f.), pp. (53)-(120), (1 f.), pp. 121-(204), (1 f.), pp. 205-230, (2 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. Paperback, filled cover, publisher's folder and slipcase. First illustrated edition, with a frontispiece and 13 compositions in the text, one of which is repeated on the cover, etched in colour by Alexandre ALEXEÏEFF (1901-1982). Edition of only
Result €1,375Estimate €600 - €800 -
174 - BEAUDIN (André) - FRÉNAUD (André). Les Paysans. Paris : Jean Aubier, [1951]. - In-4, 280 x 226 : (12 ff., first and last blank), printed cover. In leaves, publisher's folder and slipcase. Rare first edition illustrated with two original etchings by André BEAUDIN (1895-1979), one of which is in colour in the frontispiece. Limited edition of 100 copies signed by the author, the artist and the publisher. One of the 20 head copies on Auvergne by Richard de Bas, containing the decomposition of
Result €500Estimate €400 - €500 -
175 - BERGGRUEN (Gallery). Complete collection of illustrated catalogues from the Berggruen & compagnie gallery in Paris. Paris : Galerie Berggruen, 1952-1970. - 110 volumes in-8 lengthened. Paperback. Very rare complete series, including number 40bis, of the very beautiful catalogues published by the Galerie Berggruen on the occasion of the various exhibitions it organized. This collection offers a true panorama of art from the 50s to the 90s, bringing together the greatest artists of the time suc
Result €5,000Estimate €3,000 - €4,000 -
176 - BILLY (André). Farewell to the fortifications. S.l.Société de Saint-Eloy, 1930. - In-4, 276 x 217: (5 ff. first blank), 177 pp. (2 ff. last blank), printed cover. In sheets, filled cover, publisher's folder and slipcase. First edition, illustrated with 51 original etchings, eleven of which are full-page, by Auguste BROUET, Pierre GUSMAN, Charles HALLO, Georges GOBÔ, Albert DECARIS, Eugène VÉDER, André DAUCHEZ, Paul-Adrien BOUROUX, Georges LE MEILLEUR, Henri CHEFFER, Tigrane POLAT, Edgar
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177 - BRETON (André) - DUCHAMP (Marcel). Le Surréalisme en 1947 Paris : Pierre à Feu, Maeght, [1947]. - In-4, 230 x 202 : frontispiece, 8, II pp, pp. 9-12, pp. III-VI, pp. 13-16, pp. VII-VIII, pp. 17-32, pp. IX-X, pp. 33-36, pp. XI-XIV, pp. 37-40, pp. XV-XVI, pp. 41-56, pp. XVII-XVIII, pp. 57-60, pp. XIX-XXII, pp. 61-64, pp. XXIII-XXIV, pp. 65-80, pp. XXV-XXVI, pp. 81-84, pp. XXVII-XXX, pp. 85-88, pp. XXXI-XXXII, pp. 89-104, pp. XXXIII-XXXIV, pp. 105-108, pp. XXXV-XXXVIII, pp. 109-112, pp. XXXIX-XL
Estimate €1,500 - €2,000 -
178 - BRUNELLESCHI (Umberto) - DORSENNE (Jean). It was the evening of the Gods. Paris : Éditions Mornay, 1926. - In-8, 207 x 160 : (2 ff.), 232 pp., (2 ff.), 12 plates, illustrated cover. Green morocco, listel and abstract composition representing a landscape, mosaicked in maroquins in yellow and orange tones on the first cover, small listel and semi-circle representing a sunset, mosaicked in orange tones in the centre of the second cover, smooth spine, multicoloured paper lining and endpapers, untri
Result €437Estimate €400 - €500 -
179 - BUFFET (Bernard). Les Oiseaux. Paris] : Art et Style 54, [1960]. - Album in-4 oblong, 239 x 315 : (23 ff. first blank). Publisher's hardback, illustrated with a color reproduction of a work by the artist on the first cover. Very nice album including a photographic portrait in black of Bernard BUFFET and numerous reproductions in black and in colours of paintings made on the theme of the bird by the artist. As an introduction, Buffet has composed a text on his conception of painting, ending in
Result €687Estimate €500 - €600 -
180 - CARRÉ (Léon) - BARRUCAND (Victor). The Terracotta Chariot. From the Indian play attributed to King Soudraka. Paris: H. Piazza, [1921]. - In-4, 294 x 229 : 114 pp. 2 ff. 20 plates, illustrated cover. Red half-maroquin with corners, gilt fillets, smooth spine decorated with gilt and mosaic motifs, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, slipcase (period binding). New edition of Victor Barrucand's adaptation of this play, illustrated with colour ornaments on each page of the text and 20
Result €1,000Estimate €400 - €500 -
181 - CASTELLANI (Enrico). Enrico Castellani pittore. Milan: Achille Mauri editore, 1968. - Square in-4 booklet, 300 x 300, accompanied by a work of the same size in thermoformed plastic, in a publisher's printed cardboard slipcase. First edition of this booklet on the Italian painter Enrico CASTELLANI (1930-2017), accompanied by a work of the artist in thermoformed plastic. The booklet and the artwork are in mint condition and have never been unpacked. The slipcase is also very well preserved, wit
Estimate €800 - €1,000 -
182 - CÉSAR. Omaggio a Morandi. A cura di Danielle Londei. Testo critico di Renatu Barilli. Ravenna: Edizioni Essegi, 1989. - In-4 square, 310 x 302 : (12 ff.). Publisher's hardback, red printed cardboard cover. French-English catalogue of the exhibition Omaggio a Morandi which took place in Bologna in October and November 1989. It includes a photographic portrait of Caesar and the reproduction in black and in colour of the works exhibited. The edition of the catalogue was limited to 700 copies. Th
Estimate €1,500 - €2,000 -
183 - CHAGALL (Marc) - LASSAIGNE (Jacques). Chagall. Paris : Maeght éditeur, 1957. - In-8, 230 x 200: (2 ff. first blank), title, pp. 11-177, (1 f.), 13 plates. Publisher's boards with illustrated dust jacket and rhodoïd. First edition of this sought-after monograph on Marc CHAGALL (1887-1985). It is decorated, apart from numerous reproductions of works and photos in black and in colour, with 15 original lithographs, including one on the dust jacket, one on the title and 13 off-text (11 in colour a
Result €875Estimate €400 - €500 -
184 - CHAGALL (Marc). Set of 4 issues of Derrière le miroir devoted to Marc Chagall. Paris : Maeght, 1962-1981. - 4 issues in folio, in sheets. Includes : - N° 132. June 1962. Issue published for the exhibition of 13 recent paintings by Chagall at the Galerie Maeght. Text by Yves Bonnefoy. Includes two original lithographs in colors, one on the cover and one on a double page. Complete with the two leaves of the Chronicles. Slight wear to the back cover. - N° 147. June 1964. Issue published for the
Result €1,125Estimate €400 - €500 -
185 - CHESSA (Charles) - SAMAIN (Albert). Le Chariot d'or. Paris : Librairie des Amateurs, A. Ferroud, F. Ferroud, Successeur, 1907. - In-8, 247 x 183 : frontispiece, (2 ff.), 146 pp. and (1 f.), printed cover. Dark blue morocco, first plate decorated with a mosaic lyre in havana morocco and gilt fillets representing the strings, covering a branch of roses mosaic in brown, dark green and pink morocco, second plate decorated with a branch of roses mosaic in the same way, spine with nerves decorated in
Estimate €500 - €600 -
186 - CHUBB (Ralph Nicholas) - STUART (Vincent). Pastoral and paradisal songs. Brockweir : The Tintern press, 1935. - In-4, 292 x 200 : (3 ff.), 28 ff. Half blue morocco with corners, double spine, untrimmed (publisher's binding). Very rare first edition, printed in only 100 copies on wove paper, of this poetic collection by the English poet and artist Ralph Nicholas Chubb (1892-1960). This is the first book printed by "The Tintern press" in Brockweir, a village in the county of Gloucesterchire in E
Result €375Estimate €400 - €500 -
187 - COCTEAU (Jean) - GENET (Jean). Querelle de Brest. Paris : Paul Morihien, 1947]. - In-4, 312 x 236 : 305 pp, (3 ff. last two blank), illustrated cover. Paperback, filled cover, both sides of the hardback folder preserved. First clandestine edition, out of trade, published without date or mention of publisher by Paul Morihien. It is illustrated with 30 lithographs by Jean COCTEAU, including a frame on the title, repeated on the cover, and 29 full page erotic compositions. Edition at 525 copies. O
Result €1,000Estimate €400 - €500 -
188 - COCTEAU (Jean). Théâtre. Paris: Grasset, [1957]. - 2 volumes in-8, 227 x 157: (2 ff.), 535 pp. (4 ff. last blank), 21 plates; (2 ff.), 642 pp. (3 ff.), 19 plates. Publisher's illustrated boards. Beautiful edition of Jean Cocteau's theatre, illustrated by the author with 15 black compositions on the header and 40 original lithographs in colour outside the text. One of the 8890 copies on Voiron laid paper from Navarre paper mills, this one enriched with two beautiful letters from the author in
Result €875Estimate €500 - €600 -
189 - COLUCCI (Gio) - MIRBEAU (Octave). Le Jardin des supplices. Paris : La Connaissance, 1925. - In-4, 330 x 250 : frontispiece, (4 ff. first blank), XVIII pp., (1 f.), 210 pp., (5 ff. last 3 blank), 13 plates, illustrated cover. Paperback, filled cover, publisher's illustrated folder and slipcase. Rare edition illustrated by the painter and illustrator Gio COLUCCI (1892-1974) with 60 compositions, including 2 in pale green on the cover and 58 in black stenciled on the title, at the head of the chap
Result €4,750Estimate €2,000 - €3,000 -
190 - CZARA-ROSENKRANZ (Dusza). Buch der Trauer. Bucharest: Eugeniusz Stec, 1936. - In-4, 350 x 250 : (27 ff.), illustrated cover. Paperback, filled cover. Very rare first edition of this work by the German-speaking poetess Dusza Czara-Rosenkranz (1899-1971), illustrated with 9 original woodcuts by the Polish painter Eugeniusz STEC, husband of the author. The edition was only 120 numbered copies on japon, signed by the poetess and the artist at the justification. In place of her signature, Dusza Cza
Estimate €400 - €500 -
191 - DROUART (Raphael). The Song of Songs of Solomon. According to the French of the Doctors of Louvain 1550. Paris : [Gabriel Thomas], 1925 . - In-4, 319 x 242 : (38 ff.), illustrated cover. Brown morocco, bevelled boards decorated with gilt and cold filets in frames, copper inlaid in the centre of the first board, spine ribbed, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (period binding). Beautiful and rare edition entirely composed and engraved by the painter and engraver Raphaël DROUART (18
Estimate €800 - €1,000 -
192 - DUBUFFET (Jean) - BENOÎT (Pierre-André). Oreilles gardées (guarded ears). Paris, Alès : PAB, [1962]. - In-4, 259 x 249 : (14 ff.), illustrated cover. Paperback. First edition illustrated with 15 black compositions by Jean DUBUFFET (1901-1985), including two on the cover, 2 on double page as endpapers, and 11 full page. One of the very rare "Attrape-Oreilles" monochrome copies on havana paper, the edition of which, not mentioned, would be less than 6 copies. This one is justified by hand by
Estimate €1,000 - €1,500 -
193 - EDZARD (Dietz) - GOGOL (Nikolai Vasilyevich). Wij. Munich: Pflüger, 1924. - In-folio, 405 x 285 : (3 ff.), 32 pp., (1 f.), 6 plates, printed cover. Paperback except for the 6 plates in leaves, in publisher's white half parchment portfolio with corners and cardboard flaps. Beautiful edition of the German translation by Karl Nötzel of this fantastic tale by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, illustrated with 6 original engravings out of text by the German painter Dietz EDZARD (1893-1963). Edition at 1
Estimate €400 - €500 -
194 - FAY (Clark) - MAETERLINCK (Maurice). Ariadne and Bluebeard. A tale in three acts. Lyon : Cercle lyonnais du livre, 1943. - In-4, 292 x 227 : (58 ff. 2 first and 2 last blank), illustrated cover. Beige morocco, boards and spine decorated with gilt crosses, two wide horizontal bands of havana morocco on the boards, decorated with three lozenges in relief, wide beige morocco frame decorated with gilt crosses inside, beige cloth lining and endpapers, gilt head, cover and spine preserved, beige moroc
Estimate €600 - €800 -
195 - FONTANA (Lucio)]. Lucio Fontana. Milan: Achille Mauri, 1968. - Booklet in-4 square, 298 x 299, accompanied by a work of the same size in a cardboard slipcase printed by the publisher. First edition of this beautiful book dedicated to the Argentine painter and sculptor Lucio FONTANA (1899-1968), illustrated with numerous photographs of the artist and his works by Ugo Mulas, and including 2 poems by Nanni Balestrini and a short biography of the artist in Italian, English, German and French. The
Result €2,500Estimate €1,500 - €2,000 -
196 - FONTENAY (Charles de). Florilège des poèmes de Théophile de Viau précédé du Tombeau de Théophile par de Scudéry. Paris : La Belle Édition, [1914]. - In-4, 280 x 225 : (43 ff. 42nd blank), illustrated cover. Ivory parchment, boards decorated with a distinct floral decoration, chased, painted and lacquered, smooth spine, ivory parchment lining and endpapers, untrimmed, cover preserved, parchment-covered slipcase decorated on the first board with a chased, green painted and lacquered flowe
Result €2,500Estimate €2,000 - €3,000 -
197 - GUSMAN (Pierre) - NOLHAC (Pierre de). Roman letter to Claude Lorrain. Paris : Aux dépens de la société de la gravure sur bois originale, 1931. - In-4, in sheets, filled cover. Precious original model of this work by Pierre de Nolhac, with all the original drawings, 10 in number, by the designer and engraver Pierre GUSMAN (1862-1942). It consists of a printed title, dated 1931, two leaves, the first blank and the second with a full-page drawing, and 14 pages including the text cut and pasted
Estimate €600 - €800 -
198 - HARTUNG (Hans) - PROAL (Jean). Farandole. Barcelona : Ediciones Poligrafa, [1971]. - In-folio, 490 x 370 : 77 pp. with 7 blank pages, illustrated cover. In sheets, filled cover, publisher's hard cover and grey cloth slipcase, with an illustration by the artist on each front cover. Beautiful edition printed at 1150 copies plus a few copies of collaborators, printed on wove paper and decorated with 15 large original lithographs on double page by Hans HARTUNG (1904-1989), which illustrate the poem
Result €2,375Estimate €2,000 - €3,000 -
199 - IMAGIER DE LA GRAVURE SUR BOIS ORIGINALE. Paris : [S.G.B.O.], 1920-1929. - 11 albums in one volume in-4, 326 x 272. Black chagrin, gilt imprint of an engraved plate by Paul Jouve on the first board, smooth spine, grey suede linings and endpapers, gilt head, untrimmed, covers retained (Marie-Josée Guian 2016). Complete suite of the 10 collections of the Imagier de la gravure sur bois original, published each year between 1920 and 1929, each containing 12 original plates numbered and signed by
Result €5,125Estimate €5,000 - €6,000
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