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Jean Racine. Oeuvres de Jean Racine. Paris, Jules Andriveau, 1825, 657 pp.

One volume in-12 (140x90 mm), full caramel calf, decor blind-stamped on the boards, spine with ornate raised bands, morocco title piece, gilded edges (binding of the period signed Vogel). Fine overall

Theatre, Literature - Quantity: 1 - Book

Jean Racine - Oeuvres de Jean Racine [reliure signée Vogel] - 1825

THE LIMPING DEVIL, GIL BLAS, AND THE THEATER OF THE WORLD: THE GREAT ILLUSTRATED COLLECTOR’S EDITION OF LESAGE.
A refined and complete eighteenth-century collection of the principal works of Alain-René Lesage, the author who transformed the French novel into an ironic machine

Theatre - Quantity: 15 - Tipped in plates - Book

Le Sage - Œuvres choisies - 1783

Pietro Metastasio – Works - 8 volumes – Venice, Antonio Zatta, 1781 

130 ENGRAVINGS approx.
Prestigious series of 8 volumes of the works of the famous Abate Pietro Metastasio, printed in Venice by the publisher Antonio Zatta in 1781. 

Great iconographic apparatus of about 130

Literature, Poetry, Theatre, Illustrated - Quantity: 8 - Tipped in plates - Book

PIETRO METASTASIO - Opere del Signor Ab. Pietro Metastasio Poeta Cesareo - 8 TOMI con 130 INCISIONI - 1781-1782

HUGO (Victor). Victor Hugo's Theatre, of the Académie française. Paris, Charpentier, bookseller-editor, 1844-1847.

3 volumes in-12 of 428, 368 and 360 pages. 12x19cm.

Compilation of the three series of Victor Hugo's theatre in the Charpentier collection:
- First series (1844):

Theatre - Quantity: 3 - Book

Victor Hugo - Théâtre de Victor Hugo (trois séries) - 1844-1847

Charming six-volume illustrated set of this edition which brings together several major or representative works from the literary universe of the Provençal writer and allows the main themes running through his work to be followed, notably the relationship between man and nature,

Literature, Theatre, Illustrated, Cavalry and chivalry, History - Quantity: 6 - Book

Jean Giono / Gaston Sébire, Louradour & Jannick Carron - Colline, Triomphe de la vie / Les chant du monde / Les deux cavaliers de l'orage, solitude de la - 1974

Fixed ensemble devoted to one of the most important dimensions of Victor Hugo's work (1802-1885), a major figure of French Romanticism and a poet whose creation accompanies the great political, social and intellectual transformations of the 19th century -

The interest of this

Literature, Poetry, Theatre, Illustrated, History - Quantity: 19 - Book

Victor Hugo - Œuvres poétique de Victor Hugo - 1900

Set of 9 volumes from Bibliothèque de la Pléiade – Gallimard (Montherlant, Gide, Alain, Sévigné)

Description:
For sale is an exquisite collection of a total of 9 volumes from the world-famous French edition series 'Bibliothèque de la Pléiade', published by the renowned Éditions

Collected works, Literature, History, Philosophy, Europe, Politics, Theatre - Quantity: 9 - Fold out maps or plates - Book

André Gide; Henri de Montherlant; Alain; Madame de Sévigné - Sammlung Gallimard nrf: Romans; Journal; Propos; Théâtre; Lettres - 1970-1970

Collection Pop-Up Books.
Encore: A Pop-up Book of Scenes from the Theatre.
Language: English.
London : Kestrel Books, 1982.
ISBN 0 7226 5778 1.
Antony Maitland.
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The Theater Book.
Based on the original edition from 1878.
Uitgeverij Ploegsma.
ISBN 90 216 0841 3.
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Lothar

Theatre - Quantity: 4 - Book

Maitland, Dawson, Schreiber - Theater pop-ups - 1979-1994

August von Kotzebue — Almanach dramatischer Spiele zur geselligen Unterhaltung auf dem Lande — P. G. Kummer — 1823.

Original-era edition by August von Kotzebue (1761-1819), who was a German playwright, writer, and diplomat extremely popular in Europe at the beginning of the 19th

Literature, Theatre, Illustrated - Quantity: 1 - Book

August von Kotzebue - Almanach Dramatischer Spiele - 1825-1825

1556 FIRST EDITION OF THE EPIC CHIVALRY NOVEL "Orlando Furioso or Roland Furious" by Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533), an Italian poet, playwright, and diplomat. This book, "Orlando Furioso," is richly illustrated with a full page frontispiece and 46 full-page elaborate and skilful

Animals, Anthropology, Archaeology, Architecture, Art, Art history, Cartography, Astrology, Cavalry and chivalry, Esotericism, Europe, Fine Bindings, Heraldry, History, Illustrated, Incunabula & early printing, Islamic heritage, Hunting, shooting and fishing, Literature, Linguistics, Memorabilia, Military, Nature, Philosophy, Poetry, Outer space, Religion, Ships and seafaring, Theatre, War history - Quantity: 1 - Book

Ludovico Ariosto - Orlando Furioso; First Valgrisi Edition, Illustrations by Dosso Dossi, Epic Chivalry Romance - 1556

Charming numbered edition on large white vellum and illustrated with this vibrant encounter between Pagnol's southern theatre and Dubout's exuberant graphic imagination, giving birth to a book where popular tenderness and visual caricature intertwine in a celebration of the verb

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

Marcel Pagnol / Dubout - Fanny, pièce en trois actes et quatre tableaux - 1949

This special art edition of Romeo and Juliet published by TREC Edizioni Pregiate has exactly 354 pages in total. The volume is monumental in size (approximately 37 x 50 cm) and includes the original English text with the Italian facing translation by Salvatore Quasimodo.

Literature, Theatre - Quantity: 1 - Signed - Book

William Shakespeare; Domenico Purificato - Romeo e Giulietta - 1982

Programme of the Théâtre de l’Œuvre (Paris, 55 rue de Clichy) for L’Annonce faite à Marie, a mystery in four acts and a prologue by Paul Claudel, under an illustrated cover after a drawing by Kees van Dongen, a painter and engraver of Dutch origin. The program is not dated

Art, Theatre, Literature - Quantity: 1 - Tipped in plates - Book

Van Dongen - Programme Théâtre de l’Œuvre - L’Annonce faite à Marie - 1927

Set of 6 ancient volumes from the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade – Gallimard, devoted to the great classics of French and English theater: Corneille, Shakespeare, Molière and Victor Hugo.

General condition: good to very good, with exterior defects related to age. The interiors are

Literature, Theatre, Collected works - Quantity: 6 - Book

William Shakespeare, Victor Hugo, Molière, Pierre Corneille - Les grands maîtres du théâtre – 6 Pléiade anciennes - 1950-1963

Complete works of William Shakespeare in the translation by Willy Courteaux - Meulenhoff/Manteau - 11 volumes - 3648 pages - In perfect mint condition (unread)
According to Hugo Claus the very best translation: "When I translate Shakespeare, Willy Courteaux sits on my shoulder."

Literature, Theatre - Quantity: 11 - Slipcase - Book

William Shakespeare (vert. Willy Courteaux) - Verzameld werk - 2007

LE HOC. — PYRRHUS, OR THE ÉACIDES (ORIGINAL EDITION WITH COLORED COSTUME, 1807).
Paris: Lecouvreur, 1807.
Octavo. Contemporary marbled-paper softcover.
Precious and rare original edition of this neoclassical tragedy created at the Théâtre-Français under Napoleon I in February

Theatre - Quantity: 1 - Book

Le Hoc - Pyrrhus ou les Eacides - 1807

Superbe édition numérotée sur grand vélin blanc et illustrée de belle compositions en couleurs de Albert Dubout -

L’action se déroule principalement dans le quartier du Vieux-Port de Marseille, autour du bar de César, où se retrouvent marins, habitués et personnages du quartier,

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

Marcel Pagnol / Dubout - Marius, pièce en quatre actes et six tableaux - 1949

Set of 4 volumes from the prestigious Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, published by Gallimard, bringing together four major authors of French and European literature.

Leather-soft bindings, with their original transparent rhodoid protectors.

Composition of the lot:

1. Carlo Goldoni

Literature, Theatre, Collected works - Quantity: 4 - Book

Goldoni; Voltaire; Alexandre Dumas; Paul Claudel - Bibliothèque de la Pléiade – Voltaire, Dumas, Goldoni, Claudel – 4 volumes reliés cuir - 1956-1989

Rare and exceptional original edition of this theatrical work by Miguel Zamacoïs (1866-1955), in a specimen of absolute bibliophile significance: it is No. 1, part of the extremely precious edition limited to only 30 numbered copies on Hollande paper (papier de Hollande).

Miguel

Literature, Theatre - Quantity: 1 - Book

Zamacoïs - Monsieur Césarin Ecrivain Public [1/30 ex de tête sur Hollande, le n°1] - 1919

MOLIÈRE, JEAN-BAPTISTE POQUELIN — WORKS OF MOLIÈRE (AMSTERDAM & LEIPZIG, ARKSTÉE & MERKUS, 1750, 4 COMPLETE VOLUMES).
Amsterdam & Leipzig: Arkstée & Merkus, 1750.
4 volumes in-12. Full contemporary calf, back with raised bands ornamented.
Very beautiful complete set of Molière’s

Molière/Jan Punt - Œuvres - 1750

Charming numbered and illustrated volume of this work which brings together a selection of major texts by William Shakespeare in an edition associated with François-Victor Hugo’s French translation or adaptation and enriched with compositions by Jean Gradassi, thus offering a

Literature, History, Illustrated, Theatre, Reference - Quantity: 2 - Book

William Shakespeare & F. Victor Hugo / Jean Gradassi - Comme il vous plaira / Mesure pour Mesure / Peines d'Amour perdues & Richard II - 1974

Eugène Ionesco - The Bald Soprano - EO 1/2200 - Double inscription, Massin & Cohen.
Author : Eugène Ionesco (with Massin and Henry Cohen)

Title :  The Bald Soprano, followed by an unpublished scene. Typographic and photo-graphic interpretations by Massin and Henry Cohen after

Literature, Theatre - Quantity: 1 - Signed by author, Signed - Book

Eugène Ionesco - [livre signé] La cantatrice chauve - EO 1/2200 - Double envoi, Massin & Cohen - 1972

QUINAULT, PHILIPPE. — MR. QUINAULT'S THEATRE (PARIS, PIERRE RIBOU, 1715).
Paris: Pierre Ribou, 1715.
4 volumes in octavo. Volume three missing. Full contemporary calf embossed with arms on the boards, spine with raised bands ornamented with lyres.
A collective edition the most

M. Quinault - Le théâtre de M. Quinault - 1715

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