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Magnificent numbered edition 432 on Rives vellum and illustrated with 14 lithographs by Raymond Moretti and accompanied by a study notebook -

This bibliophile publication invites the reader to contemplate the initiatic path as an inner progression, a process of discovery and

Illustrated, Literature, History - Quantity: 1 - Book

Pierre Charbonnier & Michel de Just / Raymond Moretti - Chemin Initiatique - 1982

Old and sought-after edition of the famous Dictionnaire Infernal by Jacques Collin de Plancy, devoted to beliefs, superstitions, legends and traditions related to the demonic and supernatural world. This reference work lists demons, spirits, apparitions, occult practices and

Illustrated, Dictionaries and thesauri, Literature, History, Reference - Quantity: 1 - Book

J. Collin de plancy - Dictionnaire Infernal, répertoire universel - 1863

Exciting illustrated edition of 76 engraved plates, a frontispiece encasing in its frame all the theoretical prescriptions, according to the order and principles of the grand cuisine - 

This book of descriptive geography is intended to make known the towns, villages, towns,

Cookery, food & drink, Literature, Sociology, Illustrated - Quantity: 2 - Book

Urbain Dubois & Émile Bernard - La Cuisine Classique, Etudes pratique, raisonné et demonstratives de l'école Francaise - 1879

La Carte et le Territoire  ** Michel Houellebecq & Louis Paillard ** 

“Rare opportunity to acquire a unique copy signed by Houellebecq, enhanced with an original illustration – pieces like this are extremely rare on the market.”

- Signed by both authors + original drawing

Literature, Art - Quantity: 1 - Inscribed by author, Signed by author, Signed by illustrator - Book

Signé ; Michel Houellebecq / L. Paillard - La Carte et le Territoire [double envoi autographe signé de l'auteur et de l'illustrateur] - 2022

First book The Lusiads 1, ediclube publishing house, author Luís de Camões, year 1997, ISBN 84-408-0022-3, number of pages 198, second book The Lusiads 2, ediclube, author Luís de Camões, year 1997, ISBN 84-408-0024-X, number of pages 189, third book Candide or Eugénio, ediclube,

Literature - Quantity: 7 - Reference book

Mark Twain; Honoré de Balzac; Miguel de Unamuno; Voltaire; Luís Vaz de Camões - Lusíadas 1, Lusíadas 2, Cândido o Eugénio,amor e pedagogia,Balzac,o príncipe e o pobre,o médico e o - 1996-1997

Set of eight volumes of "La Comédie Humaine" by Balzac, Gallimard / La Pléiade edition; the volumes are in quite poor external condition: numerous wear to covers and edges, however there is no loss and the interior is in good condition, with no tears, nor markings (see photos).


Literature - Quantity: 8 - Book

Honoré de Balzac - La Comédie Humaine (8 volumes) - 1950-1960

1963. L'HERNE, Cahier appearing twice a year - Witnesses, correspondence, unpublished works, interferences, essays, studies, photographs, bibliography - ORIGINAL EDITION - In-4, softcover - Complete in 2 issues - No. 3, 1963, and No. 5, 1965 devoted to Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE. No.

Literature - Quantity: 2 - Book

Louis-Ferdinand Céline.  Roux, Dominique,  Directeur de l' Herne - Collectif - Louis-Ferdinand Céline - 1963-1965

JAMMES (Francis) - LA FRESNAYE (Roger de)

The Rabbit's Novel.

Paris, at Emile-Paul Frères, 1929.

1 volume large quarto (31 x 23.5 cm), loose leaves, slipcase with flaps from the edition, casing, untrimmed, [6 pp. the first 3 blanks], 81 pp., [3 pp. the last 2 blanks]

Literature, Illustrated, Poetry - Quantity: 1 - Book

Francis Jammes / Roger de La Fresnaye - Le Roman du Lièvre - 1929

[BIGNON, ABBÉ JEAN-PAUL]. — THE ADVENTURES OF ABDALLA, OR HIS VOYAGE TO THE ISLE OF BORICO (THE HAGUE / PARIS, MUSIER, 1773, 2 COMPLETE VOLUMES).
The Hague & Paris: J.B.G. Musier, 1773.
2 volumes in-12. Full contemporary calf, spine with raised bands ornamented.
Beautiful

Abbé Bignon - Les aventures d’Abdalla - 1773

First edition of La visita, Carlo Cassola's debut work, published in Florence by Parenti in January 1942, in the «Literature» series.
The collection comprises nineteen youthful tales, written between 1937 and 1940, and constitutes one of the earliest testimonies of the writer's

Literature - Quantity: 1 - Book

Carlo Cassola - La visita - 1942-1942

Jules Verne, Illustrated Geography of France and Its Colonies.
Undated.
Ornamented with engravings and drawings by the artists Hubert Clerget and Édouard Riou.
Maps by Constans, engraved by Sédille.
 Illustrat or: Théophile Lavallée.
Publisher: Bibliothèque d'Éducation - J.

Literature, Illustrated, Travels, Geography - Quantity: 1 - Book

Jules Verne - Géographie illustrée de la France et de ses colonies - 1895

The History of English Poetry, from the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century (1774-1781) by Thomas Warton.
This is a pioneering and influential literary work. Only three complete volumes were published, covering the period up to the reign of Queen

Art history, Literature, Poetry, Reference - Quantity: 3 - Reference book

Thomas Warton - The History of English Poetry - 1774-1781

Third deluxe limited edition of the novel Langs de wegen by Stijn Streuvels from 1915. Brown half-leather spine with corners and marbled boards. Both the exterior of the boards and the interior (flyleaves) are covered with a coordinating, organic green-white hand-marbled paper.


Literature - Quantity: 1 - Signed by author - Book

Stijn Streuvels - Langs de wegen (luxe derde druk, door de auteur handmatig genummerd en gesigneerd) - 1915

Angelo Gabrieli (Nobile Veneto).

Letters of Simple Compliments, by the Most Illustrious Signor Abbate Angelo Gabrieli, Nobile Veneto.
Divided into two parts… Reprinted again, with new additions… In Venice, for Ieppo Prodocimo, 1709.
Format: small 8vo (13 x 7.5 cm), contemporary

Literature, Poetry, Religion, Curio & ephemera - Quantity: 1 - Book

A. Gabrieli - Lettere di Complimenti Semplici - 1709

Decamerone.
Vertaald door Frans Denissen.
Met aantekeningen en een nawoord van René Stipriaan.
Met honderd Vlaamse miniaturen in kleur.
Published: Athenaeum – Polak & Van Gennep, 2003.
Binding: cloth, dust jacket, slipcase.
Dimensions: 24,5 x 16,5 cm 
Condition: fine; date and

Literature - Quantity: 1 - Dust jacket, Slipcase - Book

Giovanni Boccaccio - Decamerone - 2003

Satyricon de ¨Petronius : Londres, "privately printed" par Ralph Straus, 1910. Grand format in-4 de 303pp et 100 planches illustrées non paginées. Tirage limité à 265 exemplaires : n° 105, cosigné de la maison de l'imprimeur éditeur Ralph Straus et de l'illustrateur Norman

Literature - Quantity: 1 - Tipped in plates - Book

PETRONIUS [Pétrone] / LINDSAY Norman - Satyricon [reliure signée René Kieffer] - 1910

Journal des Demoiselles , 51e année , 1883.
1 vol. in-4 demi-chagrin bleu (coiffe supérieure frottée), 28 gravures couleurs h.t., ill. noir et blanc, Au Bureau du Journal, Paris, 1883, 336 pp.
Revue fameuse pour ses gravures de mode en couleurs.
Planches de gravures de mode en

History, Fashion, Illustrated, Literature - Quantity: 1 - Book

Au bureau du journal - Journal des demoiselles (1883) - 1883

Köln, Taschen, 2014. Original cloth, with pasted-on illustration (front and backcover). 324 pp., richly illustrated.

Celebrated around the world as a literary monument, The Divine Comedy, completed in 1321 and written by Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) is widely considered the

Art, Literature - Quantity: 1 - Book

William Blake; Sebastian Schütze; Maria Antonietta Terzoli - William Blake: Dante's Divine Comedy (XXL) - 2014-2014

Montbliart, 1967. Binding with endpapers on a paper designed by Alechinsky, illustrated with 4 plates by Urbain Herregodts. Print run of 435 copies. One of the 400 numbered on edition paper. Autograph inscription signed by Chavée to a friend.

Achille CHAVÉE - L'Agenda d'émeraude. Signé - 1967

Maurice Bedel – La Nouvelle Arcadie (1934) – Rare numbered deluxe edition on Vélin Pur Fil in a half-leather binding.
An exceptional collector's copy of La Nouvelle Arcadie by the well-known French author Maurice Bedel (winner of the Prix Goncourt), published in 1934 by Gallimard

Maurice Bedel - La Nouvelle Arcadie - édition originale N° 11 - 1934-1934

Francis Darwin, F.R.S. (son of Charles Darwin) - Life of Charles Darwin.
- Published 1908.
- Hardback.
- Gilt title on spine.
- Ex-library copy.
- Ornate decorative tooling to front board 
- The book contains a small number of illustrations 

Condition:
Good overall condition.

Bibliography, History, Illustrated, Natural History, Nature, Literature, Travels - Quantity: 1 - Book

Francis Darwin, F.R.S. (son of Charles Darwin) - Life of Charles Darwin - 1908

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