MANUSCRIPTS - ANCIENT AND MODERN BOOKS

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227 lots

200 - JAECKELL (Willy) - MOLO (Walter von). Fugen des seins. Berlin: Eigenbrödler, 1924. - In-4, 262 x 190: 70 pp. 3 ff. 8 plates. Grey morocco, oblique gilt fillets criss-crossing the boards, spine ornamented, grey morocco framed with double gilt fillet inside, gilt head, untrimmed, slipcase (Spamersche Buchbinderei, Leipzig). First edition printed at 550 copies on laid paper, illustrated with 8 hors texte compositions by the German painter Willy JAECKEL (1888-1944). All copies are signed by the a

Result €437

Estimate €500 - €600
201 - JOUAS (Charles) - HUYSMANS (Joris Karl). The Cathedral. Paris : A. Blaizot, René Kieffer, 1909. - In-4, 286 x 200 : (2 ff.), 360 pp. illustrated cover. Dark green morocco, large gilt plate on the boards, representing a large frame and a central cross composed of rosettes and foliage at the corners, ornate ribbed spine, dark green morocco frame inside, decorated with a double gilt fillet, linings each including an unpublished engraving by Jouas printed on satin, green brocaded silk endpapers, do

Result €1,125

Estimate €600 - €800
202 - JOUAS (Charles) - RÉGNIER (Henri de). La Cité des Eaux. Paris : Aug. Blaizot, René Kieffer, 1912. - In-4, 296 x 196. Red morocco, boards decorated in the centre with a radiant face in a circular frame of two gilt fillets, bordered by gilt scrolls, the whole set in a gilt rocaille frame, richly decorated spine, blue morocco lining decorated with a beautiful gilt rocaille frame, engraving on silk as a guard at the beginning of the volume, yellow silk guard at the end, gilt edges on witnesses, c

Result €1,062

Estimate €600 - €800
203 - JOUAS (Charles) - HUYSMANS (Joris Karl). Three Churches. Paris : René Kieffer, 1920. - In-4, 303 x 198 : 163 pp, (2 ff.), 21 plates, illustrated cover. Red morocco, cathedral decoration on the boards, composed of black morocco listels and cold fillets, gilt fleur-de-lys decorating the angular quadrilobes, spine ribbed and decorated in the same spirit, red morocco lining decorated with a large gilt frame, red moiré silk endpapers, double guards, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserve

Result €4,000

Estimate €2,000 - €3,000
204 - JOUAS (Charles) - CAIN (Georges). The Seine from Point-du-jour to Bercy. S.l.Printed at the expense of two amateurs, 1927. - In-4, 281 x 207 : frontispiece, (2 ff.), 108 pp. and (3 ff.), printed cover. Grey-green morocco, composition in shades of grey and green painted on the first board, apparently depicting a sunset or sunrise, spine with two thick, pointed nerves with the words "La Seine" painted in grey lettering in between, grey morocco framing inside, with green morocco band on one third o

Result €2,750

Estimate €1,000 - €1,500
205 - JOUAS (Charles). Paris seen from Notre-Dame. Paris : À l'ermitage Saint-Jacques, 1949. - In-folio, 327 x 253: portrait, 47 pp, (3 ff. last 2 blank), illustrated cover. In leaves, filled cover, publisher's folder and slipcase. Rare first edition printed at only 75 numbered copies on Rives wove paper, of this remarkable album of 10 etchings by Charles JOUAS (1866-1942). Meunier, in his preface, reports the artist's words as to the purpose of this suite: "I sought in my prints to be a true witne

Result €5,750

Estimate €600 - €800
206 - JOUVE (Paul)] - TERRASSE (Charles). Paul Jouve. Paris : Livre de Plantin, 1948. - In-4, 278 x 224 : (5 ff.), 183 pp. illustrated cover. Green half-maroquin with corners, spine gilt, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (R. Blaizot). First edition of 502 copies plus a few copies out of trade, of this monograph dedicated to the life and work of Paul JOUVE (1878-1973). It includes numerous reproductions of the artist's works, as well as 10 original lithographs, in black and in color, in

Result €1,500

Estimate €800 - €1,000
207 - LABOUREUR (Jean-Émile) - TOYE (Nina) - ADAIR (A. H.). Small & large glasses. Selection of the best cocktails collected by Nina Toye & A. H. Adair and put in French by PH. Le Huby. Paris : Au sans pareil, [1927]. - In-4, 241 x 190: frontispiece, (2 ff.), 131 pp. (3 ff. last 2 blank), 9 plates, illustrated cover. Paperback, filled cover. Sylvain Laboureur, Catalogue complet de l'œuvre de Jean-Émile Laboureur, II, pp. 120-123, no. 342. French original edition of this collection composed by Nin

Result €475

Estimate €400 - €500
208 - LASSAIGNE (Jacques). Douze contemporains. Paris : Éditions d'art du lion, 1959. - In-folio, 460 x 328 : (12 ff.), 12 plates. In sheets, in publisher's red cloth folder, laces. A very beautiful publication that has become rare despite its edition of 1000 copies on wove paper, offering a suite of 12 remarkable colour plates made by Jacomet after works by Georges BRAQUE, Marc CHAGALL, André DERAIN, Raoul DUFY, Fernand LÉGER, Henri MATISSE, Amedeo MODIGLIANI, Pablo PICASSO, Georges ROUAULT, Maur

Result €1,375

Estimate €400 - €500
209 - LÉGER (Fernand) - CENDRARS (Blaise). La Fin du monde filmée par l'Ange N.-D. Roman. Paris : Éditions de la Sirène, 1919. - In-4, 317 x 252 : (30 ff.), illustrated cover. Paperback. First edition of this famous and remarkable work, illustrated with 22 compositions by Fernand LÉGER, including 2 in black on the cover and 20 stenciled in the text or on full page. This is the second work by Cendrars illustrated by Léger, after J'ai tué published the year before. Edition at 1225 copies. This

Result €2,500

Estimate €1,000 - €1,500
210 - LÉGER (Fernand)] - RIMBAUD (Arthur). The Illuminations. Preface by Henry Miller. Lausanne : Éditions des Gaules, [1949]. - In-4, 330 x 250 : 134 pp, (5 ff. last 2 blank), printed cover. In sheets, filled cover, publisher's folder and slipcase. Edition of 395 copies, illustrated with 15 original full-page lithographs by Fernand LÉGER (1881-1955). One of 275 copies on hand-tinted vellum paper (n° 142), this one including 6 of the 15 lithographs stencilled under the direction of Louis Groscla

Result €2,000

Estimate €1,000 - €1,500
211 - LESIEUR (Pierre)] - PROUST (Marcel). Days of reading. S.l.Le livre contemporain et les Bibliophiles Franco-suisses, 1969. - In-folio, 366 x 256 : 82 pp, (3 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. In sheets, filled cover, publisher's slipcase. Very fine edition printed at 180 copies on large Rives vellum, illustrated with 27 original etchings by the painter and engraver Pierre LESIEUR (1922-2011), including 2 on the cover, 11 full-page and 14 in the text. A unique copy, specially printed for André

Result €3,125

Estimate €1,500 - €2,000
212 - LÉVY-DHURMER (Lucien) - RODENBACH (Georges). Bruges la morte. Paris : Javal & Bourdeaux, [1930]. - In-4, 327 x 251 : (5 ff. 2 first blanks), XII pp., (1 f.), 143 pp., (4 ff. 3 last blanks), 18 plates, printed cover. In leaves, filled cover. Publisher's sleeve and slipcase. Beautiful edition printed at 170 copies, illustrated with 18 superb out-of-text pastel compositions by the symbolist painter Lucien LÉVY-DHURMER (1865-1953), engraved on copperplate by Lorrain and printed in colours by Adol

Result €2,500

Estimate €500 - €600
213 - MARTIN (Charles) - COCTEAU (Jean). Take care of the glory of your firm and the excellence of your goods, because, if you judge them to be good, your interest becomes the general interest. Montrouge : Draeger frères, 1924. - In-folio, 382 x 312 : (4 ff. first blank), 11 plates, illustrated cover. In sheets, in a jacket with a typographic decoration. Prestigious catalogue glorifying the graphic arts industries through a major collaboration between the printer Draeger, the writer Jean Cocteau and

Estimate €600 - €800
214 - MARTIN (Charles). Masquerades and Amusements. Paris: for amateurs, under the sign of the navel of Venus, [1933]. - Oblong folio album, 310 x 415. In sheets. Very rare album published by Marcel Valotaire, Jean Beauclair and Georges Cretté, composed of 13 free plates, in colours and in black, engraved with etching by Charles MARTIN (1884-1934) . Each plate is presented in a captioned folder. Edition of only 63 numbered copies on Lafuma vellum pur fil; this is one of 50 numbered from 1 to 50 .

Result €2,625

Estimate €1,000 - €1,500
215 - MATISSE (Henri) - REVERDY (Pierre). Les Jockeys camouflés. Paris : La Belle Édition, [1918]. - In-4, 246 x 220 : (25 ff.), printed cover. Grey tan spotted morocco, cold fillet along the edge of the first board, framing a composition made of two pieces of exotic wood leaves at the top and bottom, surrounding two half circles facing each other, slightly offset from each other, each composed of a sheet of exotic wood on which is glued a piece of elephant leather also in a semicircle, title of the

Estimate €2,000 - €3,000
216 - MIRÓ (Joan). Set of 10 issues of Derrière le miroir devoted to Joan Miró. Paris : Maeght, [1948]-1978. - 10 issues in-4, in sheets. Includes : - N° 14-15. November-December 1948. Reprint of the 1948 edition, marked "2nd edition". - N° 57-58-59. June-July-August 1953. Issue published for the exhibition of 63 paintings and 36 etchings by Miró at the Maeght Gallery. Incomplete copy of the lithograph in quintuple page. - N° 87-88-89. June-July-August 1956. Issue published for the exhibitio

Result €1,000

Estimate €800 - €1,000
217 - MIRÓ (Joan). The lizard with golden feathers. Illuminated poem by the author. Paris : Louis Broder, [1971]. - Oblong folio, 355 x 499 : (42 ff.), illustrated cover. In leaves, in publisher's grey cloth slipcase. First edition of this work written and illustrated by Joan MIRÓ, with 15 original lithographs by Mourlot, one on the cover, 12 full-page and 2 double-page. The text is a reproduction of the artist's handwriting. Edition at 185 copies on vellum of Rives with Miró's wat

Estimate €4,000 - €5,000
218 - PICART LE DOUX (Charles Alexandre) - BAUDELAIRE (Charles). The Flowers of Evil. Pièces condamnées. Paris : Librairie Paul Cotinaud, 1951. - In-folio, 380 x 283 : frontispiece, (2 ff.), 29 pp., (1 f.), 6 plates, blank cover. In leaves, in a cardboard folder covered with gilt paper. Edition of 257 copies, illustrated with 7 washings by the painter Charles Alexandre PICART LE DOUX (1881-1959), reproduced in black out of text. One of the very rare copies on imperial japan, this one out of print,

Result €1,000

Estimate €500 - €600
219 - PRASSINOS (Mario) - QUENEAU (Raymond). L'Instant fatal, in six poems. Paris] : Aux Nourritures terrestres, 1946. - In-4, 331 x 254 : (20 ff. first 2, 17th and last 2 blank), 15 plates, illustrated cover. In sheets, filled cover, illustrated folder and publisher's slipcase. First edition of this collection of six poems by Raymond Queneau, illustrated with 16 original etchings by Mario PRASSINOS (1916-1985), including one on the cover and 15 outside the text. Edition of 250 numbered copies. One

Result €875

Estimate €400 - €500
220 - [REVIEW]. 20th century. Cahiers d'Art published under the direction of Gualtieri di San Lazzaro. Paris : Fernand Hazan, 1951-1960. - 20 issues bound in 6 volumes in-4. Red half-chagrin, smooth spine, covers preserved (contemporary binding). Set of the first 20 issues of the new series of the art magazine XXe siècle initially created in 1938 and which lasted until 1981. It was directed successively by its creator Gualtieri di San Lazzaro from 1938 to 1974 and then by Alain Jouffroy. The volumes

Result €6,750

Estimate €1,500 - €2,000
221 - SCHMIED (François-Louis) - MARDRUS (Joseph-Charles). Charming history of the adolescent sugar of love. Paris : F. L. Schmied, 1927. - In-4, 304 x 234 : (4 ff.), 145 pp., (5 ff.), illustrated cover. Dark green jansenist morocco, smooth spine, thin dark green morocco border inside, gilt fillet, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, case (Alix). First edition of this oriental tale, printed at 170 copies on Arches wove paper, entirely established by François-Louis SCHMIED (1873-1941

Result €3,250

Estimate €2,000 - €3,000
222 - SOULAGES (Pierre) - LAGRANGE (Michel). Soupçons du Noir. Paris] : Éditions Virgile, [2006]. - In-4, 271 x 200 : 26 pp, (1 blank page), 1 plate, printed cover. In sheets, filled cover, in publisher's black cloth slipcase, label printed in blue and black on the first cover. Rare edition, illustrated with an unsigned silkscreen by Pierre SOULAGES (born in 1919). Edition of only 90 numbered copies on white Arches vellum, all signed by the author and the artist at the justification. A perfectly

Result €5,625

Estimate €2,000 - €3,000
223 - TÀPIES (Antoni) - DU BOUCHET (André). Air. Paris : Maeght Éditeur, [1971]. - In-8, 280 x 218 : (22 ff. first 2 blank), illustrated cover. In sheets, under double cover, the second one filled. Rare first edition illustrated with 14 compositions in black and in colour by Antoni TÀPIES (1923-2012), mixing etching and lithography, including 2 on the covers. Limited edition of 180 copies on Auvergne paper by hand from Moulin Richard de Bas, all signed by the author and the artist. A perfectly p

Result €2,625

Estimate €1,500 - €2,000
224 - TÀPIES (Antoni) - TAKIGUCHI (Shuzo). Llambrec Material. Barcelona: La Poligrafa, 1975. - In-folio, 436 x 319 : 96 pp. with 3 blank pages (first and last), printed cover. In sheets, filled cover, cardboard folder illustrated with a colour composition on the boards, publisher's illustrated slipcase. A particularly fine edition of this collection of 16 poems by the Japanese poet and painter Shuzo Takiguchi (1903-1979), the most important representative of surrealism in Japan. The po

Estimate €800 - €1,000
225 - TEXIER (Richard) - MICHON (Pierre). The King of the Wood. S.l.Éditions infernales, [1992]. - In-4, 335 x 265 : (2 blank ff.), 28 pp, (4 ff. last 2 blank), 3 plates, illustrated cover. In sheets, filled cover, publisher's folder and slipcase. First edition printed at only 48 copies on vellum paper, illustrated with 4 original etchings in colours by Richard TEXIER (born in 1955), one on the cover and 3 outside the text. One of the 24 copies bearing the artist's signature at the justification and

Result €625

Estimate €400 - €500
226 - WOU-KI (Zao)] - LESCURE (Jean). The Pond. S.l.Galanis, [1971]. - In-folio, 380 x 285 : 42 pp, (5 ff. 2 last blank), printed cover. In sheets, filled cover, publisher's folder and slipcase. First edition of this poem by Jean Lescure, illustrated with 8 original etchings by Zao WOU-KI (1920-2013), including a header, a cul-de-lampe and 6 full page compositions. Edition at 133 copies signed by the author and the artist at the justification. One of 114 on Auvergne paper and especially one of 80 on

Result €7,500

Estimate €2,000 - €3,000

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