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Memories of a Hippopotamus by Georges Trémisot.
Published by Ch. Delagrave, 15 rue Soufflot, Paris. Undated (ca. 1910).
Publisher's cardboard in-4 (290x190 mm) full brown percaline, decorated with a polychrome and gilded decoration on the first cover and on the spine an embossed

Children's books - Quantity: 1 - Coffee table book

Georges Trémisot - Souvenirs d'un hippopotame - 1910

Murray's A Handbook For Travellers In India Burma And Ceylon. Including All British India, The Portuguese And French Possessions, And The Indian States. Twelfth Edition. With Eighty-Six Maps And Plans. clvi/728 pages. Advertisements at the end of the book.General map in the end

Topography, Transport, Travels - Quantity: 1 - Other - see description - Book

John Murray - Murray's Handbook India Burma & Ceylon - 1926

Rare 1st edition!!!

1904 , Soft cover with a tipped on collotypes photo string binding , 25 page book.

 Illustrated with 25 black & white photos 24*29cm size of buildings, architecture and landscapes of Washington . 

Each plate is titled at the bottom edge and all are mounted

Washington - Quantity: 1 - Limited edition - Photo book

Various Contribuors - Washington [Souvenir Book] - 1904

It does not have loose leaves but the cover has come loose as seen in the photo

Art - Quantity: 1 - Book

Xavier Marmier, Alphonse Mucha - Contes des Grand Mères - 1892

Superb edition of this essential work for bird lovers by the great naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, who revolutionized the study of birds in the 18th century -

Both an academician of sciences and a French academician, he participated in the spirit of the

Illustrated, Natural History, Ornithology - Quantity: 1 - Book

Buffon - Œuvres Complètes De Buffon - Oiseaux - 1824

Paris, Émile Larose, 1911.
In-8, contemporary binding, spine with 5 raised bands, rubbed binding and boards; XIII-420 pages., figures. and maps in and h.-t., 5 color folding maps., 84 photoengravings out of text.. First edition.

Travels, North Africa - Quantity: 1 - Book

Augustin Bernard - Les Confins Algéro-Marocains - 1911

‎Medicinal Plants 2 Complete Volumes.
A color plate for each plant.
Alphabetical table of plant correspondence.
2 volumes comprising 245 color plates, arranged in alphabetical order of French names, of medicinal plants on each plate we find the description of the plant, the

Medical Plants - Quantity: 2 - Dust jacket - Dictionary

Emile Perrot  - René Paris - Les Plantes Médicinales 2 volume set - 1971

Rare and sought after second edition of this specific recipe book on legumes.

Ingenious Brothers, How to cook legumes. Second Edition, Milan, Stab. Typ. Enrico Reggiani, 1895.

PP.: XII, 200. COMPLETE.

Copy with papers in overall good/very good condition, with moisture stains

Cookery, food & drink, Cookbooks; Gastronomy - Quantity: 1 - Book

Fratelli Ingegnoli - Come si Cucinano i Legumi - 1895

Very rare first edition of this work by Ferentilli, a little-known author (we only know that he was a historian and polygrapher born in Terni in the 16th century). The six ages and four monarchies of the world are described (each with its own woodcut vignette): the first age

Esotericism, Politics - Quantity: 1 - Book

M. Agostino Ferentilli - Discorso Universale - 1575

Set of 3 works with their own title page bound in one volume: Le Vray style of the privy council of the king, Le Vray style of the Court of Aides & Le Vray style of the Chastelet of Paris. A final part deals with the style of the archiepiscopal courts of Paris, Sens, Rouen,

Law - Quantity: 1 - Book

Lazare du Crot - Le Vray styl du conseil privé du roy - 1639

Complete collection with its 11 volumes of works by the famous Alfred de Musset. (9 works + biographical supplement + portrait supplement).
Year of publication 1879, luxury edition with gilded upper pages.
Edition decorated with numerous engravings with their individual

Illustrated, Literature - Quantity: 11 - Book

Alfred de Musset - Les oeuvres complètes - 1879

Vatican City.
Manuscript Ms. A. 2848.
It is the most famous manuscript with prophetic content. It contains 30 prophecies concerning the fate of the papacy and the Church and is attributed to the Italian mystic Gioacchino da Fiore.
The work contains symbolic links to historical

Bibles - Quantity: 2 - Limited edition - Book

Gioacchino da Fiore - Vaticinia Pontificum - 1300-2006

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Up for auction, is this RARE first printing of the first appearance of The Hobbit in paperback form, published by Puffin in 1961.

This is a significant book for Tolkien collectors, being the first time The Hobbit appeared ain’t softcover form - which paved the way for

Children's books, Literature, Fantasy - Quantity: 1 - Book

JRR TOLKIEN - The Hobbit - 1st printing of the first UK paperback - 1961

Adolphe Rouargue. 15 engravings showing.
ships and shipwrecks.
The boards approximately 12 to 15 x 22 to 26 cm,
a few smaller boards.
Most of the plates monogrammed “AR” and dated (18)34 or (18)35,
Almost all laminated.
Half leather binding with gold title. 30 x 22 cm.
Few

Marine - Quantity: 1 - Book

Adolphe Rouargue - Scènes maritimes. Navires et naufrages - 1834-1835

Gondola of the Dead.
Jean Cocteau.
1959 by Vanni Scheiwiller, Milan.
Work n°422/2000.
In 16, paperback, illustrated dust jacket.
Limited and numbered edition of 17 drawings by Cocteau.
Dust jacket a little used, corners rubbed, interior fresh.

Illustrated, Literature, Poetry - Quantity: 1 - Limited edition, Numbered edition - Reference book

Jean Cocteau - Gondole des morts - 1959

ALBERT the Great]. • Prima pars Summe Alberti ma= // gni: alias dictates: de mirabili scientia dei. •• (1) Annotatio Tractatuum […] Second parties […]. •• (2) Secunda leaves […]. Basilee ex officina industrii magistri Jacobi de phortzheim, 1507. ••• Directorium

Religion - Quantity: 1 - Book

Albertus Magnus - Prima pars Summe Alberthi magni: alias dicte: de mirabili scie[n]tia dei - 1507

Rare copy. This essay illuminates the foundations of American laws and critiques the challenges of emerging democracy, offering profound reflection on freedom and justice -

Mably, known for his ideas on popular sovereignty, brings here his enlightened vision on the formation of

History, Law, Sociology, Travels - Quantity: 1 - Book

M. L'Abbé De Mably - Observations sur le gouvernement et les loix des Etats-Unis D'Amérique - 1784

Fig Tree, Louis.
The life and habits of animals. Zoophytes and molluscs.
Paris, Hachette, 1866.
Large in-8 of 500 pp. Work decorated with 385 figures (including numerous out-of-text plates).

Green half-chagrin, spine with decorated faux raised bands, gilded edges.

Very good

Natural History, Science (general) - Quantity: 1 - Book

Louis Figuier - La vie et les moeurs des animaux. Zoophytes et mollusques - 1866

First edition of this important treatise by Nollet, his first on the subject published 3 years before his "Research on the Particular Causes of Electrical Phenomena" (1749).

Illustrated with a frontispiece engraved on copper, representing a demonstration in a cabinet decorated

Illustrated, Physics - Quantity: 1 - Book

Abbé Jean Antoine Nollet - Essai sur l’électricité des corps - 1746

Very rare first edition of this sought-after work, complete in 2 volumes in4 published in 1855 1856 illustrated with 19/19 lithographed plates including 13 in two shades all drawn and engraved by the author. (collated)
First print. Beautiful, well-detailed compositions.
In the

Illustrated, Regional interest, Travels - Quantity: 2 - Book

Abbé Barrère - Histoire Religieuse et Monumentale de la Gascogne - 1855-1856

Set of complementary Books and Documents, relating to Napoleon Bonaparte.

- The war from 1870 to 1871 by Imagerie Pellerin Épinal.
- Testament of Napoleon by Jean-Pierre Babelon and Suzanne d'Huart, 1969.
- France from royalty to nation by Friedrich Sieburg, 1963, 438 pages.
-

History - Quantity: 4 - Book

Voir déscription - Ensemble de Livres et Documents se complétant, relatif à Napoléon Bonaparte. - 1963

Rare and sought-after first edition according to Clouzot, and what's more is one of 50 numbered copies on Hollande paper, the only large papers (n°26).

Bradel, half-percaline with corners, decorated smooth spine, title label and gilded fleuron. Year of publication in foot.

Literature - Quantity: 1 - Book

Théophile Gautier - Histoire du Romantisme, suivie de notices romantiques et d'une étude sur la Poésie Française - 1874

Speech by Ghazi Moustafa Kemal. President of the Turkish Republic. October 1927, Koeler Verlag, Leipzig, 1929.
In 8, 777 pp., green skyvetex cover, gold title label on the spine,
First French edition of Atatürk's speeches after Turkey's accession to independence in 1923.
The

History, War history - Quantity: 1 - Book

Atatürk - Discours du Ghazi Moustafa Kemal - 1929

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