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Very beautiful illustrated edition of 18 plates representing 90 hand-engraved figures of this important esoteric work on magic -

It is an encyclopedia that traces the origins, practices and philosophies of magic through the ages -

It contains: the Kabbalah, the magic of mages,

Esotericism, History, Literature, Illustrated, Fine Bindings - Quantity: 1 - Book

Eliphas Levi (Adolphe-Louis Constant) - Histoire de la magie - 1992

One Thousand and One Nights - Arab Tales translated into French by Antoine Galland - Complete in 2 volumes - Paris. Th. de Lamotte Saint-Martin, Publisher, 1883 - New edition with 171 illustrations for the first volume and 250 for the second volume (outside-the-text plates or

Literature, Illustrated, Fine Bindings - Quantity: 2 - Book

Contes Arabes - Les Mille et Une Nuits - 1883

1839 FIRST EDITION ON GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, SCIENCE, HAWAII, AUSTRALIA, BRAZIL, SOUTH AFRICA, POLYNESIA, MICRONESIA, ANTHROPOLOGY, WEST PAPUA, INDONESIA, FAR EAST ASIA, TRIBES, ABORIGINES by Jacques Arago (1790–1855), a French writer, artist and explorer, author of a "Souvenirs d'un

Africa, America, Animals, Anthropology, Archaeology, Art, Art history, Asian art, Astronomy, Biographies and memoirs, Biology, Botany, Cavalry and chivalry, Colonial history, Education, Europe, Fine Bindings, Games and pastimes, Geography, Illustrated, History, Hunting, shooting and fishing, Incunabula & early printing, Literature, Memorabilia, Natural History, Nature, Oceania, Physics, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Ships and seafaring, South East Asia, Sports, Travels - Quantity: 4 - Book

Jacques Arago - Voyage Around the World [1st Edition, Hawaii, Australia, Polynesia, Oceania, Geography, Travel, - 1839

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - Translation by Princess Irina Ivanovna Paskiévitch. Text prepared by Violaine de Vlieger - Complete in 2 Volumes - Paris, at Jean de Bonnot, Publisher 1984, format: 15 x 21 cm - Illustrations from the author's era (headbands at the top of each page

Biographies and memoirs, History, War history, Literature, Illustrated, Fine Bindings - Quantity: 2 - Book

Léon Tolstoï - [Jean de Bonnot] Guerre et Paix - 1984

The Office of Holy Week for the Use of the King’s Household.

At Herissant, Paris, undated (circa 1770), in-8 (13.5 x 19 cm), 677 pp., 3 pp. (table of contents), 66 pp. (Office of the Dead), 3 pp. (manuscript).

Period binding in full red morocco, spine with five raised bands

History, Heraldry, Literature, Illustrated, Religion, Fine Bindings, Royalty - Quantity: 1 - Book

Rare reliure d'époque aux armes de la future Reine Marie-Antoinette - Office de la Semaine Sainte - 1770

Henry Jacques: Under the Sign of the Nightingale.
39 delightful compositions by Kay Nielsen, of which 19 are printed in color on coated, mounted paper as full-page plates with wide borders and captioned serpents, and 20 engravings including one on the cover, one title page, 6

Literature, Illustrated, Fine Bindings - Quantity: 1 - Book

Henry Jacques / Kay NIELSEN - Sous le Signe du Rossignol - 1923

Fine original edition of this work by Claude Farrère (1876-1957), in one of the rare copies printed on luxury paper in a limited, numbered edition, with a refined collector's binding.

Copy No. 141, part of the prestige edition limited to only 250 numbered copies on fine Papier

Literature, Fine Bindings, Travels - Quantity: 1 - Book

Farrère - Une Jeune Fille Voyagea [Tirage à 250 Exemplaires] - 1925

Alfred De MUSSET.

Complete illustrated works by Charles MARTIN.

1927; 1928; 1929, Librairie de France, Paris 
10 vol. in boards of IX-412; 263; 484; 312; 228; 327; 346; 446; 498 and 470 pages. Half vellum bindings with corners, smooth spine ornamented with triple-filed gilded

Literature, Illustrated, Fine Bindings, Art - Quantity: 10 - Tipped in plates, Signed by illustrator, Hand coloured illustrations - Book

MUSSET - EXEMPLAIRE TRUFFE DE 62 CROQUIS ORIGINAUX DE CHARLES MARTIN - Oeuvres complètes illustrées. - 1927-1929

Scarce first edition thus, limited to 299 numbered copies. Four volumes. This copy is one of 30 copies in Rives blanc or teinté. 

Containing a suite of 147 lithographed illustrations. With the suite of 23 portraits as a separate volume, and with two original illustrations by

Literature, Illustrated, Fine Bindings - Quantity: 4 - Book

Emily Brontë / Léon Masson - Wuthering Heights - 1947

Beautiful, large paper first edition of this work. Bound in full dark blue Morocco binding, signed by J. Bonnemort. With a double filet to the boards, and simple, yet beautiful Taurus bull design in gilt to the front board. Gilt titles to the spine. Doublures with real pressed

Fine Bindings, Literature, Illustrated - Quantity: 1 - Signed by author - Book

André Maurois - Dialogues des vivants - 1959

2 Superb Works by Hector Malot, crowned by the Académie Française - Magnificent Bindings (Rich publisher’s boards) quarto format (28 x 19 cm) - Both in Excellent condition - Like New!
1.) Sans famille - Library of Education and Recreation J. Hetzel et Cie, Paris. Circa 1880, 563

Hector Malot - Sans Famille et En Famille - 1880-1893

The rare and historically significant large-format work “Le Premier Voyage Officiel en Alsace-Lorraine Française” was written by René Weiss and printed by the prestigious Imprimerie Nationale in Paris in 1919. The book serves as the official luxury chronicle documenting the

History, Photography, Regional interest, Fine Bindings, War history - Quantity: 1 - Book

René Weiss - Le premier voyage officiel en Alsace-Lorraine française - 1919

Art book on the theme of eroticism, on Arche BFK paper or Japanese paper, in the form of portfolios with 20 lithographs signed in pencil by the artist (see photos), as well as texts attached to each lithograph, also signed, including one by Marguerite Duras, among others... a

Fine Bindings - Quantity: 1 - Tipped in plates, Signed by illustrator - Book

Signé ; Léonor Fini / Georges Rohner / André Masson etc. - Variations sur l'amour [20 lithographies signées au crayon] - 1968

Joseph Kessel.
The Housekeeper or Mariette in the Desert.
Paris, Kra, 1928, 8vo of 79 pp. - (2) leaves (colophon and printer's imprint).

FIRST EDITION printed in 825 copies, 1 of 750 on Rives vellum (no. 229)

3rd volume of the Femmes collection.

Half green morocco binding,

Literature, Fine Bindings - Quantity: 1 - Book

Joseeph Kessel - La Femme de maison ou Mariette au désert-É.O. n°sur Vélin-Reliure Art Déco mosaïquée signée - 1928

Gaspard Guillard de Beaurieu - Cours d'histoire naturelle ou tableau de la Nature (Tome second)

Published 1770.
- Leather-bound.
- Contains 7 folding engraved plates.
- Gilt decorative motifs largely absent on spine due to age-related wear.
- 5 raised bands on spine.
- Red

Animals, Fine Bindings, History, Illustrated, Natural History - Quantity: 1 - Fold out maps or plates - Book

Gaspard Guillard de Beaurieu - Cours d'histoire naturelle ou tableau de la Nature (Tome second) - 1770

La fontaine aux acanthes. Étretat, L’Isle-Adam, Taormina.
First edition. A novel set in Étretat, L’Isle-Adam and Taormina in Sicily. Bound by Henri Blanchetière, and signed to the front end paper.

The edition comprised two limited editions and a trade edition. One edition on

Literature, Travels, Europe, Fine Bindings - Quantity: 1 - Signed by author - Book

André Doderet - La fontaine aux acanthes.  - 1908

This monumental edition was released in 2018 as a limited and numbered edition of 5,000 copies, of which this copy is number 2287.

The edition is much more than a book: it is an exceptional art portfolio featuring 21 individual reproductions on fine art paper in an impressive

Illustrated, Art, Reference, Fine Bindings - Quantity: 1 - Slipcase - Coffee table book

Kay Nielsen - 1001 nights the complete watercolors Taschen Collector’s Edition No. 2287/5000 - 2018

Joris-Karl Huysmans.
En ménage.
Orné de vingt-trois dessins par EM. Jodelet.

Paris, Les Beaux Romans - Henri Jonquières et Cie, M.CM.XXIII (1923). In-8° de 336pp. 

Édition tirée à 1100 exemplaires, 1 des 50 exemplaires de tête sur Japon Impérial, celui-ci le n°19.

Édition

J.-K. Huysmans / Em. Jodelet - En Ménage [1/50 de tête sur Japon Impérial / reliure signée] - 1923

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