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NEW YORK ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR

April 12th-15th, 2012

Booth C 20

LITERATURE

ARISTOPHANES. Comoediae novem, 1498 ...................................................................... 2

DESCARTES. Les Passions de l‟âme, 1649 .................................................................... 15

DESCARTES. Epistolae, 1682 ....................................................................................... 16

RACINE. Athalie, 1691 ................................................................................................. 17

MONTESQUIEU. Lettres persanes, 1721 ........................................................................ 20

LES FAICTZ MERVEILLEUX DE VIRGILLE, 1831 ............................................................. 36

FLAUBERT. L'Education sentimentale, 1870 ............................................................... 45

GIDE. Les Faux-Monnayeurs, 1925 ............................................................................. 49

TRAVELS

BRAUN / HOGENBERG. Civitates Orbis Terrarum, 1575.................................................. 9

PORCACCHI. L‟Isole piu famose del Mondo, 1590 ........................................................ 11

CHAMPLAIN. Les Voyages de la Nouvelle France, 1632............................................... 13

BACQUEVILLE DE LA POTHERIE. Histoire de l‟Amérique septentrionale, 1722 .............. 21

SONNERAT. Voyage aux Indes orientales et à la Chine, 1782 ....................................... 28

AKISATO. Miyako Meisho Zue, 1786 ........................................................................... 29

PERON. Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes, 1807 .......................................... 31

DANIELL. A picturesque voyage to India; by the way of China, 1810 ........................... 32

MŒURS ET COUTUMES DES PEUPLES, 1811.................................................................... 33

SPIX. Selecta genera et species piscium, 1829 ............................................................. 35

MCKENNEY. History of the Indian Tribes of North America, 1836 ............................... 37

ALT. Festoï Megtekintések Budara es Pestre, 1853 ...................................................... 43

HARTMANN. Album martiniquais, 1860 ....................................................................... 44

BURMEISTER. Vues pittoresques de la République Argentine, 1881 .............................. 46

MARCO POLO. Le Livre des Merveilles, 1996 ............................................................... 50

SCIENCE / NATURAL HISTORY

STOEFFLER. Von künstlicher Abmessung aller grösse…, 1536 ....................................... 5

GALLUCCI. Theatrum Mundi, 1588 .............................................................................. 10

APPIER. La Pyrotechnie de Hanzelet Lorrain, 1630 ..................................................... 12

DESCARTES. Discours de la Méthode, 1637 ................................................................. 14

DESCARTES. Les passions de l‟âme, 1649 .................................................................... 15

TREW. Plantae Selectae, 1750 ..................................................................................... 25

REDOUTE. Les Roses, 1828 .......................................................................................... 34

SPIX. Selecta genera et species piscium per Brasiliam, 1829 ....................................... 35

HISTORY / RELIGION

SAVONAROLA. Sermone dell' Orazione. 1492 ................................................................ 1

GEYLER VON KAISERBERG. Predigen Teutsch. 1508 ....................................................... 4

LUTHER. Biblia. 1560 .................................................................................................... 6

VIRGIL. Virgilius Maro, Et in eum commentationes, 1575 ............................................. 8

VARGAS. Lettres et mémoires, 1699 ............................................................................ 19

THE FRENCH CONSTITUTION, 1791 ............................................................................... 30

ARCHITECTURE / DECORATIVE ARTS


AKISATO. Miyako Meisho Zue, 1786 ........................................................................... 29


BURMEISTER. Vues pittoresques de la République Argentine, 1881 .............................. 46

ILLUSTRATED BOOKS

DÜRER. The Passion of the Christ, 1507 ....................................................................... .3

GEYLER VON KAISERBERG. Predigen Teutsch, 1508 ...................................................... 4

STOEFFLER. Von künstlicher Abmessung aller grösse…, 1536 ....................................... 5

LUTHER. Biblia, 1560 .................................................................................................... 6


WEIGEL. Abbildung der Gemein-Nützlichen Haupt-Stände, 1698 ................................ 18

RIGAUD. Recueil choisi des plus belles vues de palais, châteaux, 1740 ........................ 22

TREW. Plantae Selectae, 1750 ..................................................................................... 25

ENGELBRECHT. Album de jeux, jouets et images enfantines, 1750 ................................ 26

ALBUM AMICORUM, 1760 ............................................................................................ 27

MŒURS ET COUTUMES DES PEUPLES, ou Collections de tableaux, 1811......................... 33

REDOUTÉ. Les Roses, 1828 .......................................................................................... 34

MCKENNEY. History of the Indian Tribes of North America, 1836 ............................... 37

ENGLERT. Die zwölf Monate des Jahres, 1838 ............................................................. 38

DAUMIER. Les Cent et un Robert Macaire, 1839 .......................................................... 39

FRANCE IN MINIATURE, 1839 ....................................................................................... 40

SCHENCK. Tarot animalier, XIXth century .................................................................. 41

LIVRE D'HEURES ILLUSTRE PAR MLLE M. RIVOCHE, XIXth century ............................... 42


HEURES NOUVELLES, 1883 .......................................................................................... 47

CATALOGUE OF PERFUMES AND COSMETIC PRODUCTS, 1898 ......................................... 48

MARCO POLO. Le Livre des Merveilles, 1996 ............................................................... 50

BINDINGS

OVERLAPPING BINDING WITH A VERY DECORATED FLAP, 1561 ........................................ 7

VIRGIL. Contemporary luxury binding, 1575 ................................................................. 8

VARGAS. Mosaic binding with sumptuous doublures ................................................... 19

A SPLENDID ITALIAN SILVER-GILT BOOK BINDING FROM 1744 ....................................... 23

HEURES NOUVELLES. One of Derome‟s masterpieces, 1749 ......................................... 24

HEURES NOUVELLES. Unique binding, 1883 ................................................................ 47

Very rare first incunable edition of Savonarola's Sermon.

SAVONAROLA, Girolamo. Sermone dell' Orazione.

Florence, Antonio di Bartolomeo Mioconiri, October 20th 1492. $20,000

4to [195 x 135 mm]: 14 ll. numbered a

8b

6 of 36 lines. Type: 5: 86R. (Last number I scratched out

on the colophon). Light brown morocco, inner gilt double fillet, gilt fillet on the endleaves. Binding

from the XXth century made by Sangorski and Sutcliffe for Bernard Quaritch Lt.

EXCEEDINGLY RARE FIRST INCUNABLE EDITION OF ONE OF SAVONAROLA'S FIRST PRINTED

TREATISES. Goff. Incunabula. S 265. Hain 14405. Proctor 6160. BMC VI 641.

Referring to the prayer addressed by Jesus to his Father on the Mount of Olives, the day before the

Passion, Savonarola urges the masses to return to the precepts of the Gospel. He doesn't hesitate to

attack the powerful Medici, by preaching against luxury and depravity of the Church and the

powerful. Savonarola was judged and sentenced to be burnt at the stake in 1498.

Printed in beautiful roman letters, the treatise is decorated with a very beautiful woodcut on the

title-page picturing Jesus praying God the Father.

In his bibliography dedicated to the "Italian book illustrations", A.W. Polland conducts a study on

the 3 versions of this famous incunable representation of Jesus‟ prayer on the Mount of Olives: "Of

the Agony in the garden, three different woodcuts have come down to us, all of them of great beauty". This version, where, "of the angel carrying the cup, only the hands appear", is published

in the first state on October, 20th, 1492 in this first edition of the Oration treatise.

A PRECIOUS COPY OF THIS RARE INCUNABLE SERMON BY "AN UNEQUALLED ORATOR",

ILLUSTRATED WITH A LARGE WOODCUT "OF GREAT BEAUTY". No other copy has been recorded on the international public market since the beginning of the

records 40 years ago.

Only 4 copies are listed among American Libraries: Harvard CL, MMU (P)L, PML and Wart GL.

Editio princeps of Aristophanes‟ Comedies.

ARISTOPHANES. Comoediae novem, in Greek.

Venice, Aldus Manutius, July 15th

1498. $84,000

Folio [317 x 210 mm] of (347) ll. Many comments from

41 to 42 lines a page on the borders of the text. Bound in

limp vellum, flat spine with the title handwritten in ink,

blue edges. Binding from the end of the 16th

century.

EDITIO PRINCEPS OF ARISTOPHANES‟ COMEDIES.

HC 1656; BMC, V, 559; GW 2333; Goff A 958; Essling

1163; Renouard, Alde, 16; Brunet, I, 451.

IN THIS FIRST EDITION, ALDUS MANUTIUS PRESENTS TO

THE EDUCATED AUDIENCE OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

9 OF THE 11 COMPLETE COMEDIES OF ARISTOPHANES of

which manuscripts came down to us: Ploutos, les Nuées, les Grenouilles, les Cavaliers, les Acharniens, les Guêpes,

les Oiseaux, la Paix and l‟Assemblée des femmes.

THIS EDITIO PRINCEPS WAS REALIZED BY ALDUS

UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF MARC MUSURUS (1470-

1517), ONE OF THE GREEK SCHOLARS WHO CONTRIBUTED

TO SPREAD THE TASTE FOR LETTERS IN EUROPE.

The edition was published with very copious comments

by Marc Mursus which enhance its interest.

A SUPERB WIDE-MARGINED COPY, VERY FRESH, OF THIS PRECIOUS EDITIO PRINCEPS OF THE

WORKS OF THE GREAT COMIC POET FROM THE ANCIENT TIMES, PRESERVED IN ITS ATTRACTIVE

BINDING IN LIMP VELLUM.

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The „Small Passion‟ engraved by Dürer.

DÜRER, Albrecht. The Passion of the Christ.

N.p.. 1507-1512. $213,000

Suite of 16 copper-engraved prints (≈ 115 x 75 mm) cut at the edge of the composition, mounted in

a 4to volume [245 x 190 mm]. Red morocco, spine ribbed and decorated with blind-stamped fillets,

inner gilt border, gilt edges. Capé.

VERY RARE FIRST STATE OF THIS SUITE OF THE PASSION COPPER-ENGRAVED BETWEEN 1507

AND 1512, BY ALBRECHT DÜRER, THE GERMAN RENAISSANCE MASTER. Meder, 3 to 18. Panofsky. La vie et l'art d'A. Dürer. 218 to 223.

THIS SUITE OF THE PASSION COMPOSED OF 16 ENGRAVINGS (≈ 115 X 75 MM) WAS COPPER-

ENGRAVED BETWEEN 1507 AND 1512 BY DÜRER, ON HIS RETURN FROM VENICE. CONSIDERED AS ONE OF HIS MOST BRILLIANT SUCCESS, THIS COPPER-ENGRAVED PASSION REVEALS

THE SKILLS OF DÜRER, IN THE USE OF THE CHISEL AND THE LOW-KEY EFFECT.

Dürer also worked at the same time on the wood-engraved "Small Passion" but the recipients of the

2 suites were totally different. While the woodcuts were made for the general public, the copper-

engravings were meant for amateurs who, already in the XVIth century, collected them as precious

miniatures.

IN THIS SET, THE ENGRAVINGS ARE ELABORATED AND LABORED WITH THOROUGHNESS, AND

PRESENT A LOT OF FANCY AND REFINED DETAILS AS MUCH FOR THE CHARACTERS AND THEIR

CLOTHES AS FOR THE ARCHITECTURE.

First edition of the Sermons by Geyler von Kaiserberg illustrated by Hans Burgkmair.

A precious copy hand-colored at the time.

GEYLER VON KAISERBERG. Predigen Teutsch. Augsburg, Hans Otmar, 1508. $28,000

Folio [280 x 195 mm] of 156 ll. Small wormtrack in the margin of about thirty ll. Brown blind-

stamped calf over wooden boards, a few traces of wear on the spine. Contemporary binding.

FIRST EDITION OF THE SERMONS OF STRASBOURG BY GEYLER VON KAISERBERG,

ILLUSTRATED IN FIRST STATE BY HANS BURGKMAIR. VD 16, G 790 ; Burgkmair-Ausst. Augsb. 1963, Nrn. 30-32 u. Abb. 35/36 ; Burkhard 88 ; Dacheux

36 ; Dodgson II, 61, 6 ; Goed. I, 399, 9 ; Muther 857 ; Panzer, DA 603 ; Proctor/Isaac 10671.

Jean Geyler von Kaiserberg carried out for 30 years the role

of preacher in the cathedral of Strasbourg. His bold and

sharp Sermons attracted so many people, that the chapel of

St Laurent, where he preached, became too small, and, in

1481 was erected the beautiful pulpit that can still be seen in

the cathedral.

THE EDITION IS ILLUSTRATED WITH 4 WOODCUTS IN

MEDALLION ON THE TITLE-PAGE symbolizing the 4

evangelists and with 3 FULL-PAGE WOODCUTS BY HANS

BURGKMAIR SUMPTUOUSLY HAND-COLORED AT THE TIME

that represent the first significant work of the artist.

HANS BURGKMAIR (1473-1553) WAS A PAINTER AND A

DRAWER. Student of Martin Schongauer, he left in his 17th

year, as Durer, to Italy. Until around 1510, he remained pretty faithful to the old Germanic manner, which his father

explained to him, and it was only from this date that he moderated the vigorous but still dry rwad of his technique with the harmony of the Italian school that Dürer had introduced so often in his work. Burgkmair paid particular

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attention to picture scenes of everyday life. His portraits are very alive, full of vigor and vividness.

"His work as an illustrator is considerable for the works of the preacher Gailer de Kaiserberg (1445-1510)… From 1509 to 1512, he engraves 92 woodcuts for Maximilian's genealogy for whom he works almost exclusively from now on. He illustrates mythological-historical novels of the

emperor, including the 'Theuerdank' of 1527… Around 1519-1520, he produced several suites of drawings for the engraving; the one of the 'Heroes', the ones of the 'Heroines', Christians, Jews and Pagans, the ones of the 'Love Madness', where we find Samson, David, Solomon, Aristotle. In

1523, he illustrated 'The Old Testament', translated by Martin Luther." Bénézit.

A PRECIOUS WIDE-MARGINED COPY, PRESERVED IN ITS ORIGINAL BLIND-STAMPED BROWN

CALF BINDING OVER WOODEN BOARDS, WITHOUT RESTORATION.

One of the earliest measuring instructions in a modern language, in splendid contemporary coloring.

STOEFFLER, Johann. Von künstlicher Abmessung aller grösse, ebene oder nidere, in die lenge,

höhe, breite unnd tieffe, als Gräben, Cisternen und brunnen… mit eim Astrolabio und Quadranten, oder mesleiter… Ein gar künstlich Sonnuhr, Horarium bilimbatu genant… Ein vast leichtes

künstliches Geometrisch Instrumennt… Durch P. Weis ann Tag gebenn.

Francfort, Christian Egendolff, 1536. $49,500

Small folio [280 x 188 mm] of (17) ll., 18 woodcuts in the text colored at the time. Few

restorations, only here and there staining, partly mounted on guards, one leaf with restored tear

through margin and woodcut, last leaf with carefully rebacked strip missing in side margin

(woodcut and text not affected). Bound in flexible modern green vellum.

RARE FIRST GERMAN EDITION OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST MEASURING INSTRUCTIONS IN A

MODERN LANGUAGE. VD 16, pp. 9196 - BM STC, German Books pp. 834 - Zinner 1649 and Instr. p. 544 -

Ornamentstich-Slg. Bln. 1685 - Benzing, Egenolff 112 - Pauli, Beham 1239f.

This treatise was first published in Latin.

THE MAGNIFICENT ILLUSTRATION IS COMPOSED OF 18 WOODCUTS IN THE TEXT and 1

historiated initial, all ENTIRELY CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLORED IN VERY BRIGHT TINTS.

The superb engravings illustrate the different methods for measuring proposed by Stoeffler. The

two woodcuts decorating the title-page picture an astronomer and an architect.

A GOOD COPY OF THIS RARE HANDBOOK TEACHING MEASURING INSTRUCTIONS KNOWN AT THE

BEGINNING OF THE XVITH CENTURY, IN CAREFUL AND BEAUTIFUL CONTEMPORARY COLORING.

COPIES IN CONTEMPORARY COLORING ARE VERY RARE.

Luther's Bible illuminated at the time.

BIBLIA. Das ist Die gantze Heylige Schrifft, Teutsch, D. Mart. Lut. Sampt einem Register, und

schönen Figuren.

Frankfurt, David Zöpfel, Joh. Rasch und Sigmund Feyerabend, 1560. $115,000

3 parts in 1 volume folio [365 x 240 mm], full black morocco, border fillets in the style of Duseuil

on covers, spine ribbed, monogram I.G.T. 1674 gilt-stamped on the front cover, edges gilt and

chiseled, clasps. XVIIth century binding.

EXCEEDINGLY RARE FIRST EDITION AND FIRST STATE OF LUTHER'S BIBLE ILLUSTRATED BY

VIRGIL SOLIS.

IT IS ILLUSTRATED WITH 3 WOOD-ENGRAVED TITLES, 3 WOOD-ENGRAVED BORDERS, 2 FULL-PAGE

WOOD-ENGRAVED PORTRAITS, 149 WOODCUTS IN RENAISSANCE CARTOUCHES AND NUMEROUS

HISTORIATED INITIALS, THE WHOLE WONDERFULLY ILLUMINATED AT THE TIME IN VIRGIL

SOLIS' ACTUAL WORKSHOP, with gold, silver and bright colors.

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Réf. : VD 16, B 2747. – Adams B 1179. –

Schmidt, Illustr. der Lutherbibel S. 236-244. –

Vgl. Darlow/Mloule 4209 (nur die Ausg. 1567).

"Mit der von Virgil Solis illustrierten Bibel

beginnt eine neue epoche der Bibelillstration. Es ist die Periode der Bildfolgen zur ganzen Bibel von ein und demselben Meister… Es ist kein

Zufaff, daß Sigmund Feyerabend die Epoche der Bibelillustration einleitete, in der diese nur noch Sache der Künstler und Verleger ohne jede theologische Beratung geworden war.

Feyerabend, aus Heidelberg gebürtig. war

selbst Maler, Formschneider und Schriftenschneider, Drucker und Verleger,

arbeitete zuerst 1559 als Formschneider für Zôpfel in Frankfurt, tat sich dann mit Rabe und

Han zusammen und druckte selbst." (Schmidt).

The first edition of Luther's Bible is from 1541.

THIS ONE IS THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED BY

VIRGIL SOLIS, TWO YEARS BEFORE HE DIED.

THE TWO GORGEOUS PORTRAITS, SIGNED BY

V.S., represent the counts Frédéric Pfalzer and

Heinrich Psalzgraff.

A COMPLETE BRILLIANTLY ILLUMINATED

COPY.

A handsome specimen of 16th century binding.

OVERLAPPING BINDING WITH A VERY WIDE DECORATED FLAP on an historical German text

beautifully handwritten in Gothic script.

Germany, 1561. $26,000

Folio. German overlapping blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, elaborate blind-stamped

frames of Biblical scenes on each cover, owner‟s

initials “KVW” above the central panel and date “1561”

stamped below this panel, spine ribbed, the wide

decorated protective fore-edge flap bears the same

design, superb original elaborate brass clasp. Binding dated 1561.

Dimensions of the binding: 315 x 240 mm / Thickness:

11 cm.

A MAGNIFICENT SPECIMEN OF AN OVERLAPPING

BLIND-STAMPED PIGSKIN BINDING PRODUCED IN

GERMANY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 16TH

CENTURY. This binding was made to protect an historical German

manuscript entirely written in black ink in Gothic script

and also dated 1561.

A superb decorated binding with both covers entirely

blind-stamped with religious scenes: Annunciation,

Crucifixion, Resurrection … The date of the binding

(“1561”) is stamped below the central panel and the owner‟s initials “KVW” are stamped above this panel.

The protective flap of the outer edge of upper cover (31.5

x 10 cm) was to be folded around the edge of the manuscript. It shows the same design as the covers.

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This binding, not restored, is in extraordinary original condition and still has its original elaborate clasp.

THIS KIND OF OVERLAPPING BINDING FROM THE 16TH

CENTURY, OF WHICH ONLY A FEW

EXAMPLES HAVE COME DOWN TO US, HAS BECOME MORE AND MORE SCARCE ON THE MARKET,

ESPECIALLY IN THIS FOLIO FORMAT.

AN EXCEPTIONAL EXAMPLE OF 16TH

CENTURY OVERLAPPING BINDING IN ITS ORIGINAL

CONDITION, WITHOUT RESTORATION.

Virgil published by Christopher Plantin in 1575.

VIRGIL. Virgilius Maro, Et in eum commentationes, & paralipomena Germani Valentis Guelli,

PP. Eiusdem Virgilii apendix, cum Josephi Scaliegeri Commentariis & Castigationibus. Anvers, Plantin, 1575. $33,000

Folio [350 x 245 mm. Light brown morocco, presenting on both covers a large geometrical pattern

with interlaced and painted in green, bronze and burgundy ribbons, gilt medallion in the center,

framed with gilt fillets, edges gilt. Contemporary binding.

FIRST EDITION, PRINTED IN A SMALL RUN, OF THE WORK OF A UNANIMOUSLY ACKNOWLEDGED

HUMANIST. Germain Vaillant de Guélis, who was chaplain of Catherine de Medici from 1552 to 1560, then

bishop of Orleans from 1585 to 1587. Humanist and Latin poet, he receives friendship and esteem

from some of the greatest literary men of his time, including Ronsard, Desportes, Theodore de Bèze, Jean Dorat. He is friend with Scaliger, and is also close to Scévole de Sainte-Marthe.

AN INNOVATIVE EDITION, valued by its contemporaries as well as its continuators.

"… Germain Vaillant de Guélis (1517-1587), bishop of Orléans, a friend of Ronsard and Jean

Dorat... He is the first Vergil commentary which can be called a modern one". (G.N. Knauer,

"Vergil and Homer", in Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, II-31-2).

The careful editor printed only a small run of copies, and even promised the author an enlarged

second edition that never came out.

A DE LUXE COPY, ENTIRELY HAND-RULED IN RED INK, COVERED WITH A SPLENDID BINDING

ORDERED BY THE EDITOR CHRISTOPHER PLANTIN, VERY WELL PRESERVED. We have here the kind of pattern made of interlaced ribbons, related to the most prestigious

productions of the Parisian binding workshops in the 1550's. A kind of pattern very similar to those

that illustrated the collections of the main bibliophiles of the Renaissance, particularly Thomas

Mahieu.

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"On several occasions Plantin had books bound by Parisian craftsmen, including volumes for

Cardinal Granvelle's library. The other bindings done there were undoubtedly also intended for eminent men in the Netherlands or Spain who were prepared to pay high prices. However, the greater part of the orders was placed in Antwerp itself. Plantin had a few very sumptuous bindings

done at Paris because both he and his clients appreciated the artistry and skill of the craftsmen there. But the Antwerp binders knew their trade too, and their works was recognized and esteemed beyond the confines of the city: Plantin received many orders from other towns on the Low

Countries, where - as at Tournai for example - there were no bookbinders, or from countries like Spain where the work of the local practitioners was not acceptable to connoisseurs." (Voet).

The perfection of this copy is in minute detail: the margins were washed and then the text was

entirely ruled, that is to say hand-framed with a red ink fillet. This particular processing was

realized in the Parisian workshops.

WE CAN CONCLUDE FROM THE SMALL RUN, FROM THE PAPER CHOICE, THAT CHRISTOPHER

PLANTIN HAD DEDICATED THIS EDITION, PARTICULARLY, TO A SELECTED CLIENTELE OF

ERUDITE BIBLIOPHILES. AND THE FACT THAT IT IS HAND-RULED, AND PRESERVED IN A

CONTEMPORARY VERY LUXURY BINDING, REVEALS THE COPY OF AN EMINENT CONNOISSEUR.

236 towns of the Renaissance finely contemporary hand-coloured. An exceptional copy of the Braun & Hogenberg.

BRAUN, Georg and HOGENBERG, Franz. Civitates Orbis Terrarum.

Cologne, G. von Kempen, 1575-1588. $400,000

4 volumes folio bound in contemporary full calf, spines decorated with gilt fleurons, later arms gilt-

stamped in the center of covers. Contemporary uniform bindings.

1 preliminary. leaf of volume 4 bound in volume 3, pl. 43 of volume 1 and 25 of volume 4 come

from another copy and were bound in the present copy a long time ago, slight browning and

waterstaining, pl. 31 and 1 of volume 4 slightly stained, loss in the margin of pl. 54 of volume 2.

THE EARLIEST PRINTED BOOK SHOWING ALL THE WESTERN AND MEDITERRANEAN TOWNS AT

THE END OF THE RENAISSANCE.

Koeman, II, B & H 1-4.

VOLUMES 2 AND 4 ARE FROM THE FIRST EDITION, volumes 3 and 1 are from the second and the fifth

Latin editions respectively.

Two other volumes were published few years later, between 1598 and 1617.

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THE ILLUSTRATION CONSISTS OF 4 FRONTISPIECES AND 236 ENGRAVINGS DEPICTING 374 VIEWS

OF TOWNS AND PLANS.

ALL THE ENGRAVINGS WERE FINELY CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLOURED.

The authors of this work are Georg Braun (1541-1622) from Cologne and the engraver Franz Hogenberg (1540-1590).

THE “CIVITATES” WERE ONE OF THE MAJOR WORKS FROM THE LAST QUARTER OF THE 16TH

CENTURY. The publication of this great work spread over 45 years and most of recorded copies are incomplete.

THE PRESENT WORK DESCRIBES TOWNS OF FRANCE, ITALY, SPAIN AND THE LEVANT (volume

1), from THE NETHERLANDS, THE CHANNEL ISLANDS, CENTRAL EUROPE AND RUSSIA (vol. 2).

« The supreme value of this work lies in its survey of European towns and cities just at the time when draughtsmen were capable of conveying a wealth of information in a single portrayal ».

THE EARLIEST, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND THE MOST SPECTACULAR BOOK OF ARCHITECTURE

FROM THE RENAISSANCE, DEDICATED TO THE REPRESENTATION OF TOWNS OF WESTERN AND

MEDITERRANEAN WORLD, COLOURED AT THE TIME.

AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY, COMPLETE WITH ALL THE ENGRAVINGS, PRESERVED IN ITS

CONTEMPORARY UNIFORM DECORATED BINDINGS, WITH THE FRONTISPIECES AND THE 236

PLATES FINELY CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLOURED. Provenance: ex libris and arms of the Tempsford Hall Library (from 19

th Century).

The “first modern celestial atlas using the coordinates of Copernicus”.

GALLUCCI, Giovanni Paolo. Theatrum mundi, et temporis, In quo non solum precipuae horum

partes describuntur… sed accomodatissimis figuris sub oculos legentium facile ponontur.. Venice, Giovanni Battita Somasco, 1588. $74,000

4to [243 x 184 mm.] of (8) ll., 478 pp., (1) l. of errata, more than 140 engraved figures in the text,

of which 50 have a total of 70 volvelles. P. 229 has been bound twice. Some waterstaining. Bound

in full contemporary limp vellum, remains of ties, flat spine with handwritten title, handwritten title

on the bottom edge. Contemporary binding.

RARE AND VERY PRECIOUS FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST CELESTIAL ATLAS, "GIVING THE

COORDINATES OF THE STARS AND THE FIRST ATLAS TO USE THE COORDINATES OF

COPERNICUS." Adams G168; Mortimer, Italian, 206; Riccardi I: 568.

Published in Venice in 1588, the Theatrum mundi PRESENTS THE 48 MAPS OF THE CLASSICAL

GREEK CONSTELLATIONS, each preceded with a catalog of the stars which compose them with

their coordinates and sizes, and shows a magnificent collection of mythological figures. The

positions of the stars are taken from the Copernicus' catalog.

"Gallucci's work is remarkable because it is the first atlas using a system of coordinates from which the latitude and longitude of the stars could be read from the margins. The very popular 'Theatrum Mundi' was printed again several times after the edition of 1588". (Star maps... Nick

Kanas).

THIS BOOK IS CONSIDERED AS THE FIRST MODERN CELESTIAL ATLAS.

« Gallucci‟s works are known for their visual impact ».

THE VOLUME IS DECORATED WITH THE PRINTER‟S MARK ON THE TITLE, 144 FULL-PAGE

WOODCUTS, OF WHICH 50 HAVE A TOTAL OF 70 VOLVELLES.

A MAGNIFICENT COPY PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY LIMP VELLUM, COMPLETE WITH THE

RARE CONSTELLATION OF CEPHEUS, NOT INCLUDING IN PAGINATION, BETWEEN LL. MM4 AND

NN1. Provenance: hand-written ex libris on the title, engraved ex libris pasted on the back of the title

"Mutio Sforza da Cotignola”.

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The Porcacchi about America. One of the largest copies known.

PORCACCHI, Thomaso. L‟Isole piu famose del Mondo.

Venetia, Heredi di Simon Galignani, 1590. $18,000

Folio [310 x 214 mm] with an engraved frontispiece, 47 copper-engraved maps and the printer's

mark at the end. Some slight foxing. Preserved in its contemporary limp vellum with small flaps,

flat spine with small portions missing, handwritten title on the

lower edge. Contemporary binding.

THIRD EDITION WIDELY ENLARGED OF THIS FAMOUS ATLAS,

ILLUSTRATED WITH 47 MAPS, THAT IS TO SAY 17 MORE

THAN IN THE FIRST EDITION OF 1572.

Leclerc, n°461; Sabin 64150 ; Adams 1906.

PAGES 157 TO 184 ARE DEDICATED TO AMERICA and contain

« Descrittione della Gran Citta e isola Temistitan » and

« Descrittione dell‟Isola et terra di Santa Croce, overo Mondo

Nuovo » with a reduced version of the VERY IMPORTANT MAP

OF NORTH AMERICA PUBLISHED BY FORLANI IN VENICE IN

1565, THE FIRST MAP TO SHOW AMERICA AS A GEOGRAPHIC

ENTITY OF ITS OWN, AND THE SECOND MAP TO SHOW IN

DETAILS THE

STRAIT OF

ANIAN. These

pages also

present the

descriptions of Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, of S. Iacopo, S.

Lorenzo, S. Giovanni with 5 maps. The book

concludes with 2 world maps.

The greater part of the texts dedicated here to

America is published here for the first time. This third edition contains 2 maps that are published

here for the first time, absent from the 1576 second

edition: « Descrittione dell‟Istria » and

« Descrittione dell‟Isola d‟Elandia, isola de Gotti ».

THE ILLUSTRATIONS CONSIST of 1 title printed in

an architectural border decorated with cartographic symbols, the printer's mark at the back of the

last leaf, and 47 FINELY COPPER-ENGRAVED MAPS.

The 47 maps of Girolamo Porro, a famous member of the Italian School, are superbly drawn.

AN ATTRACTIVE PURE COPY PARTICULARLY WIDE MARGINED (height: 310 mm), ONE OF THE

LARGEST KNOWN, PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY LIMP VELLUM.

“Appier's influence on subsequent pyrotechnic works is immense".

APPIER, Jean [called Hanzelet]. La Pyrotechnie de Hanzelet Lorrain où sont representez les plus

rares & les plus appreuuez secrets des machines & des feux d‟artifice… Au Pont-à-Mousson, I. Gaspard, 1630. $6,000

4to [246 x 180 mm]. Engraved frontispiece, numerous etched illustrations (several full-page) in

text. Some browning and stains. Contemporary limp vellum, handwritten title on the spine, ties.

NEW AND AUGMENTED EDITION OF APPIER'S „RECUEIL DE MACHINES MILITAIRES‟, AN

IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL PYROTECHNICAL MANUAL. Berlin Kat. 3295; Cockle 938; Philip A140.4.

Appier had first published this work on pyrotechnical military devices in 1620, in collaboration

with the surgeon Francois Thybourel.

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''There was an evident jealousy between the joint authors. Thybourel the surgeon (the engraver)

was employed by Appier, and yet Appier managed as engraver to get his name first in the first issue (of the 1620 edition), a proceeding evidently resented by his partner, and amended in the next (second issue of the 1620 edition). Ultimately, however, Appier dit Hanzelet got the upper hand,

and his name alone appears in the much finer edition of 1630 (= the present edition). Appier's influence on subsequent pyrotechnic works is immense" (Cockle).

THE WORK IS ILLUSTRATED WITH an engraved frontispiece and NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS

(INCLUDING SEVERAL FULL-PAGE) IN TEXT.

A GOOD COPY OF THIS RARE FIREWORKS MANUAL PRESERVED IN ITS ORIGINAL BINDING IN

LIMP VELLUM.

The first complete edition of Champlain's Voyages.

CHAMPLAIN, Samuel de. Les Voyages de la Nouvelle France occidentale, dicte Canada, faits par

le Sr de Champlain […] depuis l‟an 1603 jusques en l‟an 1629. Où se voit comme ce pays a esté, premierement descouvert par les Francois […].

Paris, Pierre Le Mur, 1632. $400,000

4to [220 x 174 mm] of 8 pp., 308 pp., 310 pp., (1) bl.l., 8 pp., 54 pp., (1) bl.l., 20 pp., pp. 9 to 16

for the table exceptionally bound here at the end of the volume. 6 illustrations in text and 1 folding

map. Complete copy. Bound in full contemporary limp vellum, remnants of ties, flat spine.

FIRST COMPLETE EDITION OF CHAMPLAIN'S VOYAGES, "EXCEEDINGLY RARE AND SOUGHT-AFTER". (Leclerc, Bibliotheca Americana, 695).

Streit, Bibliotheca Missionum,

2493 ; Field 268; Burden 237.

« THE BEST EDITION ». (Sabin

11839).

« OF ALL THE EDITIONS OF

CHAMPLAIN, THIS IS THE MOST

COMPLETE ». (Leclerc).

« It is perhaps the most important of the old editions, as it contains a collective narrative embodying a

review of all preceding French expeditions to the New World, followed by and interwoven with

Champlain‟s own voyages to

Canada: a short account of the First (1603), which had been published in 1604; and an abridgment of the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and sixth (1608-1613), as they had been published in the volume dated 1613. These voyages

end on p. 210. Pages 239-308 contain the Seventh Voyage (1615-1616), while the eighth Voyage (1617) is only mentioned between pp. 211 and 214 as unimportant. The Second Part contains the Ninth Voyage and a History of Canada (1620-1631), pp. 1-310; a Treatise on Navigation, pp. 1-

54; followed by the Doctrine Chrestienne du R.P. Ledesme and l‟Oraison Dominicale par le R.P. Massé, with separate signature-marks and pagination. This was the last of Champlain‟s works”. (Church).

« THIS EDITION IS THE ONLY COMPLETE ONE OF CHAMPLAIN‟S VOYAGES […]. THE GREAT MAP IS PRINTED HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME. An imperfect fac-simile of the large map is usually substituted for the rare original […].

This work gives us the first accurate accounts we have of the Indians of the interior of the present

State of New York. It is very largely devoted to descriptions of their habits, modes of life and warfare; and of personal observations and experiences among the Algonquins and Iroquois. The most remarkable event in Indian history was caused by Champlain‟s first visit to the shores of the

lake bearing his name. In a conflict between the two named races of savages, he gave the victory to his friends the Abnaquis, by the use of his musket. The Iroquois never forgave the injury, and thousands of Frenchmen were slaughtered to avenge it.” (Field).

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THE EDITION, dedicated to the Cardinal of Richelieu, IS ILLUSTRATED WITH THE MAP OF NEW

FRANCE (549 X 858 MM), 6 ENGRAVINGS IN TEXT, a diagram and wood-engraved head-pieces and

initials.

A modest copy of this edition, covered with a heavy modern binding, was sold for $ 264 000 by

Christie‟s NY on the 16th

of April 2007 at the Streeter auction (lot 101).

A VERY PRECIOUS COPY COMPLETE WITH THE IMPORTANT MAP OF THE NEW FRANCE THAT

CAN HARDLY BE FOUND INTACT, PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY LIMP VELLUM.

WE KNOW THAT SUCH COPIES ARE SOLD ON THE MARKET AT TWICE THE PRICE OF COPIES IN

MODERN BINDINGS.

“Precious first edition of Descartes‟ masterpiece.”

DESCARTES, René. Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, & chercher la vérité dans les sciences…

A Leyde, Ian Maire, 1637. $148,000

4to [203 x 158 mm] of 78 pages, 1 title, 413 pages, (17) ll. Some browning, small burnhole p. 101.

Bound in contemporary stiff vellum, gilt fillet on the covers, back cover with stains, flat spine

decorated with gilt fillets, green fabric ties. Contemporary binding.

“PRECIOUS FIRST EDITION OF DESCARTES‟ MASTERPIECE.”

FOUNDING WORK written in French in order to be more intelligible and accessible, the “Discourse on Method” MARKS A CONSIDERABLE STEP IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF WESTERN THOUGHT IN

THE 17TH CENTURY.

The « Discourse on Method” IS FOLLOWED BY 3 SCIENTIFIC REPORTS “La Dioptrique”, “Geometry”

AND the "Meteors”, ABUNDANTLY ILLUSTRATED WITH WOODCUTS.

Since a few years the price of this original edition has manifestly increased and it is likely that this

trend continues.

Two copies in contemporary bindings recently came onto the market: one of them, the Macclesfield copy, in an unsophisticated "slightly rubbed” binding, medium sized (height 197 mm) was sold on

November 4, 2004 at Sotheby's for € 142,000; the other one, in contemporary vellum, was sold for

€ 250,000 at Christie's London on June 2, 2004.

A PRECIOUS COPY PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY OVERLAPPING VELLUM BINDING, THE

MOST ENVIABLE CONDITION.

First edition of „The Passions of the soul‟ by Descartes.

DESCARTES, René. Les Passions de l‟âme.

Paris, Henry Le Gras, 1649. $28,000

8vo [155 x 94 mm.], of (24) ll. including the title, 286 pages, (1) bl.l. Old handwritten annotations

in the margin of p. 46. Bound in overlapping vellum, flat spine. Contemporary binding.

FIRST EDITION OF THE LAST PHILOSOPHICAL WORK OF RENÉ DESCARTES PUBLISHED A YEAR

BEFORE HIS DEATH.

Tchemerzine. Editions originales, II, 791; Guibert, p. 150; Willems, 1083.

It is his most important work after «Discourse on Method» and the only one that directly evokes

the problems of moral life.

THE TREATY INCLUDES 3 PARTS:

-the first analyzes the relationship between body and soul.

-in the second part of the treaty, Descartes examines the passions by studying them from the inside,

giving a definition for each of them.

-the treaty, in its third part, deals with the various passions classified by kinds according to the "6 primitive passions" discussed in part 2.

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The Treatise on the passions was written in French for the Princess Palatine Madame Elizabeth,

with whom Descartes had exchanged an active correspondence.

A BEAUTIFUL VERY PURE COPY PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY OVERLAPPING VELLUM.

Descartes' „Letters‟ in a superb contemporary vellum binding.

DESCARTES, René. Epistolae. Amsterdam, Blaeu, 1682-1683. $11,500

3 parts in 1 volume 4to [220 x 165 mm], full dutch vellum, blind-stamped fleuron in the center of

the covers, spine ribbed, sprinkled edges. Contemporary binding by the editor Blaeu. COMPLETE FIRST EDITION OF DESCARTES' LATIN LETTERS to the princess Elizabeth and to

Mersenne.

THE 3RD VOLUME CONTAINS THE SEQUEL OF DESCARTES' LATIN CORRESPONDENCE AND IS

PUBLISHED HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME.

For several years, from 1642 to the end of 1649, DESCARTES EXCHANGED A CONSTANT

CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH, DAUGHTER OF FREDERICK V.

THIS CORRESPONDENCE IS OF A GREAT INTEREST BECAUSE, REGARDING THE QUESTIONS OF HIS

INTERLOCUTOR, DESCARTES FINDS HIMSELF BROUGHT TO TAKE UP AGAIN SOME OF HIS

PROBLEMS AND GIVE A CLEARER AND MORE COMPLETE REPORT THAN IN HIS WORKS. DESCARTES ALSO WRITES TO MERSENNE, improvising answers with an extraordinary easiness.

A SUPERB COPY PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY DUTCH VELLUM.

The first edition of „Athalie‟ by Racine.

RACINE. Athalie. Tragédie. Paris, Denys Thierry, 1691. $10,000

4to [252 x 185 mm] of (1) bl.l., (6) ll., 1 engraved frontispiece, 87 pp. Small hole in the margin of

p. 40. Bound in contemporary granite-like calf, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt fleurons,

mottled edges. Contemporary binding.

FIRST EDITION OF RACINE'S LAST GREAT TRAGEDY, OFTEN CONSIDERED AS HIS MASTERPIECE,

ILLUSTRATED WITH AN ENGRAVED FRONTISPIECE BY J. MARIETTE AFTER J.-B. CORNEILLE. Tchemerzine, V, 350 ; Graesse, Trésor de livres rares, VI, 15 ; Rahir, La Bibliothèque de

l‟amateur, 601 ; Brunet, IV, 1083 ; Le Petit, Bibliographie des éditions originales, 377-379.

Composed at the request of Louis XIV and Madam de Maintenon, Athalie was first performed by

the students of Saint-Cyr, during the months of January and February 1691.

Often considered as Racine's masterpiece, the play was strongly appreciated by the private

audience in front of which it was played. However it was played to the public only after the

author's death, on March, 3rd

, 1716, in the Théâtre-Français.

In this brilliant play Racine depicted the confrontation between good and evil and the deeply

moving and imposing drama of the queen.

« „Athalie‟ was Racine's last play and his last masterpiece » (Guibert).

This tragedy was really consecrated only in the XIXth century, when the Romantics saw in Athalie

« one of the heights of French poetry ».

A BEAUTIFUL VERY PURE COPY, PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY BINDING, OF ONE OF OUR

GREATEST CLASSICAL TRAGEDIES.

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The reference book about XVIIth century professions.

WEIGEL. Abbildung der Gemein-Nützlichen Haupt-Stände von denen Regenten und ihrer so in

Friedens als Kriegs-Zelten zugeordneten Bedienten an biss auf alle Künstler und Handwercker…

Regenspurg, Gedruckt… 1698. $28,000

4to [201 x 160 mm], 684 pages misnumbered 676; 212 copper-

engravings; 1 frontispiece. Full light-brown calf, spine ribbed

and richly decorated, red edges. Contemporary binding.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS FAMOUS ILLUSTRATED BOOK ABOUT

CRAFTS IN THE XVIITH CENTURY. ILLUSTRATED WITH 212

COPPER-ENGRAVINGS AND A FRONTISPIECE.

Bauer, Weigel 1062, 10; Lipperheide Pe.; Brunet Suppl. II. 941.

ALL THE CRAFTS OF THE CLASSICAL AGES ARE HERE

REPRESENTED WITH FINE HALF-PAGE COPPER-ENGRAVINGS. THIS EDITION IS VERY RARE: in the last 35 years, only 3 copies

have been recorded on the international public market, two of

which being incomplete.

31 years ago (Swann. Feb. 5, 1981, lot 343), a copy bound in

the XIXth century, lacking the title-page, a plate and pp. 481-

482 was sold for $ 6 900. The only complete, but damaged,

copy, was sold for £ 5 300, 27 years ago (Phillips, July 25,

1985, lot 76).

A VERY FRESH COPY COMPLETE WITH THE 212 ENGRAVINGS IN THE FIRST STATE BEFORE THE

NUMBERS, PRESERVED IN ITS ELEGANT DECORATED CONTEMPORARY BINDING.

A superb binding decorated in mosaic pattern with morocco doublures.

VARGAS, François de. Lettres et mémoires de François de Vargas, de Pierre de Malvenda et de

quelques évêques d'Espagne touchant le Concile de Trente. $16,000 Amsterdam, Pierre Brunel, 1699.

8vo [191 x 122 mm] of (13) ll., 567

pp. and 2 ll. of table. Citron

morocco, four gilt fillets around the

covers, entirely decorated with a

repeated mosaic pattern creating a

design of gilt circles on citron

morocco, enclosing blue lozenges

and a small central red one, spine

ribbed and identically decorated,

red and blue morocco lettering-

pieces, blue morocco doublures

entirely decorated with a large gilt

border, gilt edges. Joly fils.

FIRST FRENCH EDITION OF THESE

HISTORICAL MEMOIRS RELATING

THE COUNCIL OF TRENT.

It is illustrated with a frontispiece representing the Council of Trent and a portrait of Guillaume

Trumbull who discovered the autograph manuscript of François de Vargas' Memoirs.

IN THIS TREATISE, VARGAS RECOUNTS THE HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXT IN WHICH WAS

HELD IN TRENT THE LAST BIG ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, FROM DECEMBER 1545.

A WONDERFUL COPY OF THIS FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, PRESERVED IN A GLOWING MOSAIC

BINDING, WITH SUMPTUOUS DOUBLURES.

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The „Persian Letters‟ in a contemporary binding.

MONTESQUIEU. Lettres persanes.

Amsterdam, Pierre Brunel, 1721. $3,500

2 volumes 12mo [165 x 91 mm]. Bound in full contemporary brown calf, spines ribbed finely

decorated with gilt fleurons, red morocco lettering-pieces, red edges. Contemporary binding.

RARE EDITION UNKNOWN TO ROCHEBILIERE, PUBLISHED THE SAME YEAR AS THE ORIGINAL. It contains some remarks of the second issue, as the misprints from the first issue have been

corrected but it also includes pagination mistakes in part 2 that were not present in the first issue.

Montesquieu took great care of preserving his anonymity when this

satirical unexpected novel was printed, which immediately achieved a

tremendous success. The anonymity of the Persian Letters fooled no

one and the audacity of the novel even temporarily compromised

Montesquieu's election to the French Academy. But the success paved

his way to the Parisian salons.

EPISTOLARY, SATIRIC, PHILOSOPHIC AND ORIENTAL NOVEL, THE

"PERSIAN LETTERS " LEAD TO A CAUSTIC SATIRE OF THE AUSTERE

FRENCH SOCIETY IN THE LAST YEARS OF LOUIS XIV'S REIGN.

By placing into this society some ingenuous Persian observers,

Montesquieu thus succeeded in creating this ironic distance that allowed

him to question customs, prejudices and uncertainties and to express

himself freely, under irony's veil, about the important philosophical

questions.

A PRECIOUS COPY WITH VERY WIDE MARGINS (HEIGHT: 165 MM)

PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Fine copies printed in 1721 of this text are very sought after, especially

in contemporary binding. Thus, Hayoit's copy (with the remarks of the

second issue mentioned by Rochebilière) was sold for 240 000 Francs 10 years ago (Sotheby's

auction, 28th

of June, 2001, lot 100). As for the copy of the second edition, printed after our copy,

that appeared on the market last year, it was sold for almost 20 000 € (Alde, 11th of December 2010,

lot 157: Rochebilière n°775).

«First edition of this very rare work, one of the best about Indians in Canada... » (Chadenat).

BACQUEVILLE DE LA POTHERIE. Histoire de l‟Amérique septentrionale. Contenant le Voyage du Fort de Nelson, dans la Baye d‟Hudson, à l‟extrémité de l‟Amérique. Le premier établissement des

Français dans ce vaste païs, la prise dudit Fort de Nelson, la Description du Fleuve de Saint Laurent, le gouvernement de Quebec, des trois Rivieres & de Montreal, depuis 1534 jusqu‟à 1701. Paris, Jean-Luc Nion et François Didot, 1722. $24,000

4 parts in 4 volumes 12mo [161 x 90 mm]. Bound in full contemporary calf, spines ribbed and

finely decorated, red morocco lettering pieces, red edges. Contemporary binding.

« FIRST EDITION OF THIS VERY RARE WORK, ONE OF THE BEST ABOUT INDIANS IN CANADA,

CONTAINING THE STORY OF THEIR WARS AGAINST THE FRENCH ». (Chadenat, 2777).

Brunet 28506 ; Field 66 and Sabin 2692 who only refer to the 1753 edition; not in Leclerc.

Bacqueville de la Potherie arrives to New France in 1698 and stays there until 1701. He is

fascinated by the history of this French colony and interrogates many actors of the French

expansion in North America, including militaries, translators, missionaries … Thanks to these

numerous testimonies, he writes his Histoire de l‟Amérique septentrionale.

THIS BOOK RECOUNTS THE STORY OF FRENCH PRESENCE IN NORTH AMERICA SINCE JACQUES

CARTIER'S DISCOVERIES, AND IT GIVES A LARGE PLACE TO DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN

FRENCH AND AMERICAN INDIANS AT THE END OF THE XVIITH CENTURY. BACQUEVILLE DE LA

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POTHERIE MAKES THE AMERICAN INDIANS BE FULL-FLEDGED PARTICIPANTS OF THE HISTORY OF

FRENCH NORTH AMERICA.

Bacqueville de la Potherie's text is ONE OF THE BEST INFORMED ABOUT NEW FRANCE AND

INDIANS IN THE XVIITH CENTURY. This Histoire de l'Amérique septentrionale is, among travel

books, ONE OF THE FOUNDING TEXTS REGARDING NORTH AMERICA.

Tomes 3 and 4 are about the customs of the Iroquois.

« This work entirely relates to Canada and the Iroquois Indians; the plates comprise the earliest

views taken in Canada. It is written in the form of letters, except the second volume, which is divided into chapters.” (Sabin).

“De la Potherie‟s work is a history of the Indian nations of Canada, being entirely devoted to that subject and the relations of the French with the natives. Much of his work is written from his own

observation, and the remainder seems to have been derived from authentic sources. Most of the 27 plates are illustrative of scenes of peculiarities in Indian life”. (Field, An Essay towards an Indian Bibliography, 66, who only refers to the 1753 edition).

THE ILLUSTRATION, OF THE HIGHEST INTEREST, is composed of a frontispiece and 28 PLATES,

most of them folding, PICTURING INDIAN LIFE SCENES.

AN ELEGANT COPY OF THIS VERY INTERESTING TRAVEL BOOK TO NORTH AMERICA,

PRESERVED IN ITS FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDINGS. Provenance: hand-written ex-libris J.B. Loyer on the title-pages.

The only copy in private hands.

An extraordinary copy, with all the 129 plates magnificently painted in gouache at the time.

Definitely one of the most precious French books from the old regime.

MADAME DE POMPADOUR, LOUIS XV AND RIGAUD. Recueil choisi des plus belles vues de

palais, chateaux et maisons royales de Paris et des environs, painted from life and engraved by J.

Rigaud at a total of 129 pieces.

Paris, J. Fr. Chereau & F. Basan, n.d. [around 1740]. $495,000

Oblong folio [555 x 375 mm], red quarter morocco, spine decorated with gilt garlands, green

morocco lettering piece, sprinkled edges, red shagreen box. Contemporary binding.

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THE ONLY COPY RECORDED IN PRIVATE HANDS MAGNIFICENTLY ILLUSTRATING WITH

ORIGINAL GOUACHE, THROUGH 129 PAINTINGS, THE ROYAL FRANCE OF MADAME DE

POMPADOUR AND LOUIS XV.

This unique copy, printed on large-paper, preserved in its contemporary binding, depicts with all

the magnificence of the original colors, the customs, fashion, architecture, the parks and gardens,

conversation and stroll, the life of royal and princely homes under the reign of Madame de

Pompadour and Louis XV, without omitting hunting scenes or tragic events such as the arrival of

plague in Marseille in 1720.

The contemporary coloring completely transcends here a certainly famous and interesting book but

infinitely less exciting uncolored, as all the recorded copies are.

AN EXTRAORDINARY COPY, WITH ALL THE PLATES MAGNIFICENTLY PAINTED IN GOUACHE AT

THE TIME. AN UNEQUALLED COPY, APPARENTLY THE ONLY ONE TO EVER APPEAR IN PRIVATE HANDS.

It contains views showing Paris (22), Versailles (24), Meudon and Saint-Germain (8),

Fontainebleau (6), Vincennes and Choisy (4), Saint-Cloud (4), Sceaux (6), Chantilly (6),

Rambouillet, Chambord and Blois (4), Anet and Monceaux (5), Marseille (2)…

Rigaud worked, from 1730 to his death, on the series of Les Maisons Royales de France. It's his

most famous work, the one that made him go down in history.

The present work might be a royal command. This compilation is made of 129 engraved plates.

Rigaud is among the artists who knew the best how to reproduce these royal properties. Each

drawing offers, in the foreground, a happy and animated vision of court life at the beginning of

Louis XV's reign. These views that celebrate the magnificence of buildings, gardens, parks and

fountains of royal residences, claim to be as true and objective as possible and respect the laws of

perspective. The compositions are drawn and engraved as closely to reality as possible.

His work on royal houses lasted many years according to the captions of the engravings that

sometimes mention a date: 1730 for the Vue de la Cascade de Saint-Cloud, 1736 for the plates on

Sceaux and 1738 for the Vue de la Cour Ovale de Fontainebleau. It will remain unfinished and it's

his nephew, Jean-Baptiste Rigaud, who will finish the engravings from his drawings.

The engravings are from the first state, before the numbers.

THIS COPY, A UNIQUE TESTIMONY OF THIS BEAUTIFUL FRENCH SOCIETY AT THE HEIGHT OF ITS

ELEGANCE AND OPULENCE, IN CONTEMPORARY COLORING AND BINDING, IS DEFINITELY ONE

OF THE MOST PRECIOUS FRENCH BOOKS FROM THE ANCIEN RÉGIME. Ex-libris Baron Charles Gilles de Pélichy, Brugensis 1872-1958.

A precious Italian silver-gilt book binding dated 1744. A real gem!

A SPLENDID ITALIAN SILVER-GILT BOOK BINDING FROM 1744 DECORATED WITH RICH

SCULPTURES IN RELIEF OVER WOODEN BOARDS, spine made of cloth and pieces of silver-gilt,

clasps, edges gilt and gauffered. $33,000

Binding dated January, 5th

1744.

Dimensions: 334 x 245 mm.

The illustrations of the binding show the crucifixion with

Mary and St John on the front cover and the Ascension of

the Lord on the back cover. An interlaced design of wine

grapes topped by the Virgin and child frames the covers.

The four medallions at the angles of the front cover

represent St Constantine, St Karalampios, St Georges and

St Helen. Cherubs encircle the sculptures in relief

representing the crucifixion and the Ascension. 6 lines

written in Greek come with the display.

THIS GORGEOUS BINDING ENCLOSES A GREEK BIBLE

PRINTED IN VENICE BY NIKOLAOS GLYKIS IN 1718. The text on double column is printed in red and black and

includes two frontispieces and four full-page woodcuts

representing the evangelists.

A PRECIOUS ITALIAN SILVER-GILT BOOK BINDING OVER

WOODEN BOARDS MADE OF SCULPTURES IN RELIEF

SHELTERING THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE GOSPELS WRITTEN IN GREEK.

One of Derome's masterpieces.

HEURES NOUVELLES DÉDIEES À LA REINE, enclosing prayers and instructions about all the

actions of the day & about the sacraments […] With the Church Office, for the use of Rome. Paris, Hérisant fils, 1749. $90,000

8vo [173 x 103 mm]. Citron morocco, both covers entirely

covered with a gilt and mosaic pattern with small dots and tools

in the background: central asymmetrical pattern with a seven

stems bouquet including a pomegranate, a peony, a tulip, leaves

and oval fantasy flowers, the whole lying on a large bowl, small

festooned mosaic made of brown, red and black morocco

pieces, partially under mica, set out on the entire covers, spine

ribbed and decorated with gilt patterns with red pieces and foil

mosaics, brown morocco lettering piece, inner dentelle, edges

gilt, light blue watered silk doublures and endleaves.

CONTEMPORARY BINDING DECORATED IN MOSAIC

PATTERN WITH A TINSEL DECOR OF FOIL AND MICA BY

JACQUES-ANTOINE DEROME.

A MASTERPIECE OF DEROME MADE IN 1749. "Both in the technical field as well as in the artistic creation, the

Deromes were innovators and first class craftsmen. These bindings have the advantage of being exactly dated, because they enclose royal almanacs. The earliest almanac of this kind is dated 1755, and the last one is from

1772. The trend lasted for at least seventeen years". (L. M. Michon. Les Reliures mosaïquées du XVIIIè siècle).

THIS BINDING IS INTERESTING BECAUSE THANKS TO ITS DATE OF 1749, IT ALLOWS TO BRING

FORWARD THE MAKING OF THIS KIND OF ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT BY DEROME OF SIX YEARS.

THE COPY, RULED, IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION WITHOUT ANY RESTORATION.

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« One of the greatest eighteenth century botanical colour plate books. »

TREW, Christop Jakob. Plantae Selectae.

N.p. (Nuremberg), 1750-1773. $107,000

Large folio [504 x 353 mm] of 10 parts in 1 volume with 10 repeated engraved and watercolored titles,

100 plates, 3 portraits, (2) ll., 56 pp., (1) l. Bound in quarter-calf, spine ribbed, mottled edges.

Contemporary binding.

FIRST LATIN EDITION AND FIRST STATE OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT GERMAN

BOTANICAL BOOKS. Nissen 1997; Hunt 539; Dunthorne 309; « Great Flower books », p.78.

"The genius of Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-70) was the dominant influence in botanical art during the

middle years of the eighteenth century". Wilfred Blunt.

THIS SUPERB WORK IS ILLUSTRATED WITH 3 full-page portraits of Trew, Ehret and Haid and with 100

GORGEOUS FULL-PAGE PRINTS ENGRAVED AND HAND-PAINTED BY J.J. HAID AFTER EHRET, with the

name of the flowers in gold letters and with the 10 engraved titles. The 10 engraved titles have been

watercolored in black, red and gold ink.

Magnolias, lilies and rhododendrons are especially superb.

Trew (1695-1769), a botanist and physicist from Nuremberg, was one of Ehret's first masters and his

works considered as real masterpieces reach high prices at auctions.

His "Hortus nitidissimus” illustrated with 180 plates, preserved in a restored calf binding was

adjudicated at the price of 310 800 £ (3 100 000 FF) on April, 28th, 1987 and the « Plantae selectae »

with the 20 plates supplement published in 1790-1792, with one part bound and the other one in sheets,

was adjudicated at the price of 99 900 £ (1 000 000 FF) at the same date.

A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF ONE OF THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY BOTANICAL BOOKS FROM THE XVIIITH

CENTURY IN ITS CONTEMPORARY BINDING.

Hundreds of toys and children's games in contemporary coloring.

ENGELBRECHT, (Martin). WILL, (John-Martin). Album de jeux, jouets et images enfantines de la

famille Walch (1586-1799). Augsburg, Engelbrecht and Will, 1750-1799. $23,000

Oblong folio [300 x 410 mm], quarter-roan. Contemporary binding worn.

EXTREMELY RARE ALBUM INTENDED FOR CHILDREN OF THE WEALTHY BOURGEOISIE MADE IN

AUGSBURG, IN 1799, DURING THE NAPOLEONIC WARS.

IT IS COMPOSED OF 34 FULL-PAGE COPPER-ENGRAVINGS, COLORED AT THE TIME, mounted on

18 thick leaves on guards.

Measuring 24 x 35 cm, they

were produced by the

engraver and printer from

Augsburg Johann Martin Will

(1726-1806).

THE LARGE VIEWS ARE IN A

NICE CONTEMPORARY

COLORING, are numbered in

the top right corner and bear

the signature J. Mart. Will

A.V. on the lower margin.

The album contains:

4 leaves with large street

scenes (n° 1, 2, 3, 6).

3 ll. picturing Napoleon's

regiments that went

through Augsburg in 1799.

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1 leaf with uniforms (n°75).

13 leaves with toys and children's games.

2 leaves of rustic and notable farm yard (31 and 32).

1 leaf of alphabet pictured with childish images (n°26).

3 leaves with the occupations of the twelve months of the year (large portion missing in the

month of November and small portion in December: n° 22, 23, 24).

1 leaf about the vegetable market in Augsburg (n°74).

2 leaves with the pets and wild animals (n° 33 and 35).

The 4 ages of life by Martin Engelbrecht pictured in 12,5 x 15 cm engravings (with some losses).

Martin Engelbrecht (1684-1756) was an engraver in Augsburg.

A PRECIOUS VOLUME, ONE OF VERY FEW CHILDREN ALBUMS OF THE XVIIITH CENTURY

ENTIRELY COLORED AT THE TIME THAT HAS COME DOWN TO US. The binding and the engravings

have traces of use and some foxing but books from the XVIIIth century intended for children like

this one, so often manipulated and consulted, have rarely come down through the ages.

This copy has survived the hazards of time as it remained all the time in the Walch family and it is

reproduced in the book dedicated to this family "Chronik der Familien Walch", July, 20, 1984, p. 15.

Charming album amicorum composed around 1840 with 40 watercolored engravings.

ALBUM AMICORUM. N.p., n.d., probably Paris, engravings from 1760-1835. $12,000

Oblong folio [350 x 240 mm] of 1 frontispiece and 40 ll. Each leaf comprises an engraving pasted

on. Bound in full burgundy shagreen, spine ribbed, two finely wrought metal clasps, gilt edges.

Binding from the middle of the XIXth century.

SUPERB ALBUM AMICORUM COMPRISING 40 PRINTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS: professions,

children's games, illustrations for Paul et Virginie and Robinson Crusoe, chinoiseries, biblical scenes…:

1 frontispiece finely enhanced with gold,

6 engravings of biblical scenes signed by Daumont,

Le Grand Balet de l‟Opéra, anonymous,

Le Printemps (= The Spring), anonymous,

A plate representing 6 professions by J.-B. Jean, around 1797,

Les Maris comères, Paris, Basset, around 1805,

Le Jeu du Sabot and le Jeu de la Fossette, anonymous,

Le Jeu du Cheval fondu and le Jeu de l‟Oie, Paris, Genty, around 1818-1831,

4 engravings for Paul et Virginie drawn by Lambert and engraved by Legrand, Paris, Genty,

the Story of Robinson Crusoe in 1 plate divided into 8 vignettes, Paris, Basset,

the small Parisian professions) in 1 plate divided into 8 vignettes, Paris, Basset,

the characters of the carnival) in 1 plate divided into 8 vignettes, Paris, Basset,

the small professions and artists) in 1 plate divided into 8 vignettes, in Paris, at Basset,

Les Contes de Perrault (= Perrault‟s tales) in 1 plate divided into 6 vignettes, anonymous,

Les quatre parties du jour (= the four parts of the day) in 4 vignettes, anonymous,

4 vignettes for Paul et Virginie, anonymous,

The Spectacle de la Rue (= the street scenes) in 6 vignettes, Paris, Basset,

Les Premiers pas de l‟enfance (= the first steps of the childhood), Paris, Boulard, around 1810,

La Satisfaction maternelle (= mother‟s satisfaction), Paris, Boulard, around 1810,

Les Soins maternels (= mother‟s care), Paris, Boulard, around 1810,

9 plates of chinoiseries from the middle of the XVIIIth century (« A Paris, chez Crepy, rue

Saint-Jacques », « A Paris chez Jacques Chereau »…).

THE 40 ENGRAVINGS GATHERED IN THIS ALBUM HAVE ALL BEEN FINELY WATERCOLORED AT

THE TIME.

A MOVING COLLECTION OF ENGRAVINGS IN BRIGHT CONTEMPORARY COLORING, MADE BY A

PRINT LOVER IN THE BEGINNING OF THE XIXTH CENTURY.

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A rare and precious copy printed on large-paper, entirely watercoloured at the time

and preserved in its original red morocco binding.

SONNERAT. Voyage aux Indes orientales et à la Chine (= Journey to the East Indies and China,

Undertaken at the King's Command, from 1774 until 1781: In Which the Religious Mores, Sciences, and Arts of the Indians, the Chinese, the Pegouins, and the Madegasse are Discussed). Paris, 1782. $110,000

2 volumes 4to [289 x 220 mm] bound in full red morocco, triple gilt fillet on the covers, spine

ribbed and decorated, inner gilt border, edges gilt. Contemporary binding.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS “CLASSIC RECORD OF NATURAL HISTORY, EXPLORATIONS AND

DISCOVERIES IN THE FAR EAST, WHICH INCLUDED EXPLORATIONS IN CEYLON, THE

PHILIPPINES, MOLUCCAS, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE”. (Mac Gill/Wood).

Cottrel 16; Hill 578; Nissen IV, B 886; Nissen SUB 473; Pritzel 8774; Stresemann 83; Mac

Gill/Wood 577.

Born in a family of merchants, Pierre Sonnerat (1748-1814) French naturalist and explorer, could

take part in 2 expeditions from 1767 to 1774 to Mauritius, Madagascar, Moluccas and the

Philippines. As a

naturalist, he wanted to

bring back his most

precious discoveries to

the Cabinet du Jardin du

Roi. He was sent to

India in 1774. During

two successive

expeditions he visited

the Coromandel and

Malabar coasts, Ceylon,

Malacca and China.

He was the first person

to give a scientific

description of the

south Chinese fruit

tree lychee. In his two accounts of

travel dedicated

respectively to China

and India, Sonnerat gives the results of his explorations regarding the customs, sciences, art,

religious practices of the countries visited, as well as all his fascinating observations about natural

history.

Volume 1 was dedicated to India and Volume 2 covered the Far East including China, Burma,

Madagascar, the Maldives, Mauritius, Ceylon, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

IN ORDER TO ILLUSTRATE HIS WORK, THE AUTHOR DREW HIMSELF 140 LARGE PLATES THAT

WERE THEN ENGRAVED BY POISSON, MILSAN AND AVRIL. Some of the plates show the customs of the countries explored, with lots of details about the

professions, festivals and costumes of the people.

55 BEAUTIFUL PLATES ARE DEDICATED TO ORNITHOLOGY, ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY. Many birds‟

species are represented here for the first time: “Indeed for 70 years Sonnerat‟s account remained the most important contribution to the ornithology of China” (Streseman).

ALL THE PLATES OF OUR COPY, PRINTED ON LARGE-PAPER, WERE ENTIRELY CONTEMPORARY

WATERCOLOURED IN VERY VIVID COLORS.

VERY PRECIOUS COPY, ENTIRELY WATERCOLOURED, PRESERVED IN ITS CONTEMPORARY

BINDING ATTRIBUTABLE TO DEROME LE JEUNE.

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418 woodcuts representing Kyoto two years only before its destruction in 1788.

AKISATO, Rito Shoseki. Miyako Meisho Zue, “Illustrations of the famous places of interest of the

(imperial) capital”. (Miyako is called Kyoto since 1788). 6 volumes.

[Followed by]: - Shûi-Miyako Meisho Zue, “Supplement to the Illustrations of the famous places

of interest of the capital”. 5 volumes.

Osaka, Kawachiya Tasuke, [Tenmei 6 (1786)] - Tenmei 7 (1787). $34,000

11 volumes 4to [270 x 186 mm] printed on Japanese mulberry or rice paper. Sino-Japanese text.

Circular stamp at the beginning of each volume. 327 double-page engravings and 91 full-page

engravings. Preserved in their original pale blue wrappers sewn the Chinese manner. Stitches

renewed. Volumes formerly numbered in ink on the cover with Chinese numerals. Modern blue

cloth protecting chemise. Contemporary binding.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS EXCEPTIONAL GUIDEBOOK DEDICATED TO KYOTO AND ITS

SURROUNDINGS, PUBLISHED JUST 2 YEARS BEFORE THE CITY WAS RAVAGED BY THE FIRE OF 1788.

This book, of great importance for the history of the edition of Japanese books, was an absolute

best-seller when it came out. It inaugurated the series known as "famous places of interest".

The first 6 volumes are dated An'Ei 9 (1780) but in reality they were not published until Tenmei 6

(1786). The first series, published in 1786 in 6 volumes, was so successful that the author

undertook to publish 5 additional volumes in the following year: the Shui-Miyako Meisho Zue.

The center of the Imperial city was almost entirely destroyed in a terrible fire in 1788: only the

temples and gardens, which were located on the surrounding mountains, were spared from

destruction. THE BOOK REPRESENTS THE CITY JUST BEFORE THE GREAT FIRE.

THEREFORE, THIS BOOK IS THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF THE IMPERIAL CAPITAL AS IT WAS FOR

NEARLY A THOUSAND YEARS, UNTIL 1788.

THE DESCRIPTIONS WITHIN THE BOOK BY AKISATO RITO (1776-1830) ARE A SOURCE OF

FASCINATING AND MOVING INFORMATION, OF INCOMPARABLE VALUE KNOWING THAT THE CITY

ALMOST COMPLETELY DISAPPEARED ONLY TWO YEARS AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF THE WORK.

A perfect guidebook of the city of Kyoto and its surroundings, the work of Akisato provides a

detailed description of the city, its people and customs of the region.

THE ABUNDANT ILLUSTRATION CONSISTS OF 418 WOODCUTS, INCLUDING 91 IN FULL-PAGE AND

327 ON DOUBLE-PAGE, by Takehara Shunchôsai Nobushige, the most famous illustrator of his time.

"Shunchôsai draws landscapes in a realistic way. His illustrations are not only meticulously executed

and aesthetically appealing but are also full of information." (Orientalia Willy Vande Walle.)

A PRECIOUS COPY OF THIS FIRST EDITION OF THE UTMOST RARITY, PRESERVED IN ITS

ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.

THE FEW COPIES OF THIS RARE GUIDEBOOK OF KYOTO THAT SURVIVED THE GREAT FIRE OF

1788 WHICH RAVAGED THE IMPERIAL CITY ARE OF GREAT HISTORICAL INTEREST.

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The 1791 French Constitution in contemporary red morocco.

[THE FRENCH CONSTITUTION]. Présentée au Roi le 3 Septembre 1791, et acceptée par Sa

Majesté le 14 du même mois.

A Paris, de l‟Imprimerie Nationale, 1791. $9,000

16mo [142 x 88 mm] of (2) ll., iv pp., 179 pp. Red morocco, triple gilt fillet on covers with corner

fleurons, flat spine decorated with gilt fleurons, olive green morocco lettering-piece, inner gilt

border, watered blue silk doublures and endleaves, gilt edges. Contemporary binding.

FIRST 16MO EDITION OF THE FIRST FRENCH CONSTITUTION. « The first of our revolutionary charters » bound in fine contemporary red morocco.

It starts with the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen and presents, with the imprint

dated September, 30st, 1791, the facsimiles of the official signatures of the writers as well as the

king's who signed 'Louis'.

« THIS FIRST CONSTITUTION, EVEN WITH ITS SLIGHT IMPERFECTIONS, WILL ALWAYS BE ONE OF THE

MOST VENERABLE POLITICAL MONUMENTS OF HUMAN HISTORY…».

A PRECIOUS COPY OF THIS MAJOR TEXT IN FRANCE HISTORY, IN VERY GOOD CONDITION,

PRESERVED IN ITS ELEGANT CONTEMPORARY RED MOROCCO BINDING.

The „Voyage of Discovery to the Southern lands‟ by Péron and Freycinet, sumptuously bound.

PERON, François et FREYCINET. Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes, exécuté par ordre

de Sa Majesté l'Empereur et Roi, sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste, et la Goélette le Casuarina, pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804.

Paris, de l'Imprimerie Impériale, 1807 - de l‟Imprimerie Royale, 1816. $65,000

And : - Atlas du Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes par MM. Lesueur et Petit.

Set of 2 4to volumes of text [340 x 250 mm], and 1 large folio atlas [520 x 335 mm].

Contemporary straight-grained red morocco, gilt dentelle on the covers, gilt imperial eagle on each

cover, flat spines richly gilt, inner gilt border, blue watered silk doublures and endleaves, gilt

edges. Contemporary binding.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS ACCOUNT STARTED BY PÉRON AND ENDED BY FREYCINET. This famous

scientific expedition led by Captain Nicolas Baudin, marks the peak of the XVIIIth century great

travels.

References: Nissen, ZB, 3120; Sabin 60999.

The expedition lasted more than 3 years, from October 19th 1800 to March 25th 1804. The goal

was the coasts of New Holland. Twenty-two of the most brilliant scientists of the time took part in

it and almost 2500 new species were collected to enrich the museum's collection.

The third volume, written by Freycinet, is about navigation and geography.

Péron went on board in Le Havre on October 19th, 1800 on the Géograhe.

"We reach, on January 13th, 1802, the south cape of the land of Diemen, of which we explore the

south part and the eastern coast for three months. Péron studies the tribes of this island today

extinct. On March 29th

, 1802, the ship crosses the Strait of Banks, and we start a first reconnaissance of Napoleon's land (land of Flinders), on the south-west coast of Australia. After

having recognized a very large island (Kangaroo island, Decrès island), and when there were only four valid men left and a single officer, the expedition reaches Port-Jackson on June 20

th, 1802….

The "Géographe", then crosses the Strait of Bass, and stops at the King Island… Then the small

archipelago of the Hunter Islands was visited... After a new call in the Decrès island, the month of January 1803 was dedicated to the inspection of the gulfs in Napoleon's land, to the discovery of

the Joséphine islands, to a review of the Nuyts land, already reported by Entrecasteaux; then, after

a stay in King George Port, in the early days of March 1803, we started again the exploration of the Leeuwin land… then, from the Witt land, the expedition returns to Timor and stays there during the month of May 1803. Intense winds prevented us from reaching New Guinea, so we sailed back to the Isle de France where we stayed five months. We stayed one more month in the Cape… The

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ship finally landed in Lorient on March, 25th, 1804, bringing back in addition to a huge collection,

a hundred of living animals that had never been brought to Europe before. Péron was made responsible for publishing, jointly with Freycinet, the account of the travel and the description of the zoological collection."

Our copy of the atlas is lacking, as most of the time, the 3 folding maps numbered I, I bis and I ter.

Moreover, this atlas only includes the first part of the plates – numbered from II to XLI, that is to

say 40 plates, including 23 brush-colored by the editors. The second part, containing 14 plates, is

missing. Instead of the 56 plates announced in the catalogue, our copy of the atlas of the Voyage of Discovery only contains 40 plates.

A PRECIOUS PRESENTATION COPY SUMPTUOUSLY BOUND IN CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO

DECORATED ON EACH COVER WITH THE IMPERIAL EAGLE, SYMBOL OF THE EMPIRE.

The second text volume, printed in 1816 by the royal printing office, was identically bound to

maintain a logic and a homogeneity to the copy.

China and India at the end of the XVIIIth century.

DANIELL, Thomas and William. A picturesque voyage to India; by the way of China.

London, Thomas Davison, 1810. $17,000

Oblong folio [343 x 245 mm]: (2) ll., 50 colored plates out of pagination on thick paper mounted

on guards, 50 ll. of explanatory text (the whole horizontally bound). Bound in green quarter-

morocco, green marbled paper

covers, flat spine decorated with

the title, gilt edges. Corners

rubbed. French binding from the XIXth century.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS VERY

ATTRACTIVE ILLUSTRATED BOOK

ON CHINA AND INDIA AT THE END

OF THE XVIIITH CENTURY.

Brunet, II, 489 ; Graesse, II, 326 ;

Abbey, Travel, 516 ; Lipperheide

1523 ; Colas 797 ; Tooley 173 ;

Cordier, Sinica, 2107.

This book was issued in 10 parts

illustrated with 5 plates each.

It illustrates the long trip

undertaken by Thomas Daniell (1749-1840), an English landscape painter, and his nephew William Daniell (1769-1837) to China

and India. The Daniells left England in April 1785 on board of the Atlas, and arrived in Whampoa,

in China, in August. After spending several months in China, the two travelers went to sea again

and reached Calcutta in 1786.

Daniell spent almost 10 years in India, and when he came back to London in 1795, he published his

book entitled Oriental scenery. The explanatory text that comes with the plates gives information

about the local people met in the various countries visited.

THE SUPERB ILLUSTRATION IS COMPOSED OF 50 CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLORED AQUATINTS

showing views of Madeira, Java, Macao, Canton, the Cape of Good Hope, Malaysia, Calcutta, the

Bay of Bengal, …

AMONG THESE 50 PLATES, 22 ARE DEDICATED TO CHINA, with views of towns, but also of the

inhabitants in their traditional clothes. One of the plates shows a scene of shark fishing in Java.

« Among these plates that mainly represent views, 8 show Chinese costumes and 12 Java inhabitants. » (Colas)

BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS FINE TRAVEL BOOK TO ASIA PRESERVED IN ITS FRENCH

CONTEMPORARY BINDING IN DECORATED GREEN HALF-MOROCCO.

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61 nations of the world in 144 colored plates.

MŒURS ET COUTUMES DES PEUPLES, ou Collections de tableaux représentant les usages

remarquables, les mariages, funérailles, supplices et fêtes des diverses nations du monde. Paris, Madame Veuve Hocquart, 1811-1814. $20,000

2 volumes 4to [260 x 200 mm] illustrated with: I/ 74 full-page plates; II/ 70 plates. Half-calf, flat

spines, red morocco lettering-pieces. Contemporary binding.

RARE FIRST EDITION, PUBLISHED IN PARTS, THE FIRST PART BEING PRINTED IN 1811. Colas (2109) only mentions 143 plates, not in Lipperheide or Barbier.

THE PRESENT WORK GIVES AND INTERESTING PRESENTATION OF 61 NATIONS OF THE WORLD:

Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Oceania, ILLUSTRATED WITH 144 PLATES OUT OF PAGINATION

CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLORED.

THE ILLUSTRATION IS COMPOSED OF 144 COPPER-ENGRAVINGS ENHANCED WITH COLORS AT

THE TIME, UNDER SILKY-PAPERS, HIGHLY INTERESTING AS THEY PRESENT THE CUSTOMS

(weddings, funerals, tortures, etc.) OF 61 NATIONS OF THE WORLD: Europe (Turkey, Russia,

Albany, Finland, Lapland, Greece...), Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Iran, India, Tibet, peoples in Siberia, Yakutsk, Korea, Tonkin, Japan, Vietnam...), Africa (Maghreb, Guinea, Abyssinia, Congo, Cafre,

Madagascar, Tuaregs...), America (Mexico, Canada, Louisiana, Greenland, various American Indian tribes, Intuits, French Guiana, Brazil, Aleutian, Peru...), Oceania (Indonesia, Sandwich Islands, Marquesas, Pelew, New-Zealand...).

Our copy is enriched, compared to the tables, with 2 plates for Greece, that is to say a total of 144

plates (Colas announces only 143).

A BEAUTIFUL AND FRESH COPY ILLUSTRATED WITH 144 HAND-COLORED PLATES.

Redouté's Roses.

REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph. Les Roses peintes par J.P. Redouté. Paris, P. Dufart, 1828-1829. $49,000

3 volumes large 8vo [220 x 154 mm]. Hand-coloured engraved floral wreath and 182 stipple-

engraved plates. Blue half-calf, flat spines finely decorated, mottled edges. Contemporary binding.

ENLARGED EDITION OF REDOUTÉ'S ROSES, SOUGHT-AFTER AS IT IS THE MOST COMPLETE.

This is one of Redouté's major works, nicknamed the "Raphael of flowers" by his contemporaries.

Nissen 1599. Great Flower books, 71. Stafleu, 1044.

IT IS ILLUSTRATED WITH 181 FULL-PAGE PLATES (HEIGHT: 220 MM), drawn by Redouté, PRINTED

IN COLOR THEN ENHANCED WITH WATERCOLOR AT THE TIME "UNDER THE EYES" OF THE ARTIST.

"This is the most complete 8vo edition. It is illustrated with 2 portraits and 181 plates, 21 of which appear here for the first time. It contains a new methodic classification of the roses by C.E. Thory".

REDOUTÉ BECAME QUEEN MARIE-ANTOINETTE'S PERSONAL TEACHER. On each royal lesson,

the most beautiful flowers of Versailles' greenhouses were arranged in Japan and Sèvres porcelain

vases before being wonderfully watercolored by the painter under the eyes of the Queen.

THROUGH 183 WONDERFUL PLATES WITH A LINE BOTH PRECISE AND AERIAL, ALL THESE

SPECIES OF ANCIENT ROSEBUSHES THAT ENCHANTED VERSAILLES OR BAGATELLE'S ROSE

GARDENS REVIVE.

Rosa centifolia, gallica, alpina, multiflora, muscoa, indica, rubrifolia… printed in color were very

subtly enhanced with watercolor under the eyes of Redouté in a very large range from the most

delicate pink to purplish red.

A BEAUTIFUL COPY, VERY FRESH AND IN ORIGINAL CONDITION.

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Brazilian fishes and fishing techniques.

SPIX, J.-B. et AGASSIZ Louis. Selecta genera et species piscium quos in itinere per Brasiliam.

Munich, C. Wolf, 1829. $25,000

Folio [380 x 290 mm] of (4) ll., xvi pp., ii, 6, 138, 97 plates including 91 in color. Bound like

sometimes without the engraved portrait. Some foxing. Bound in contemporary quarter-

paperboards, title gilt-stamped on the flat spine, untrimmed. Contemporary binding.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS STUDY ON FISHES AND FISHING TECHNIQUES IN BRAZIL.

Borba de Moraes, p.829; Nissen ZBI 3951; Nissen Schone Fischbucher 121; Wood, p.580

« Jean-Baptiste de Spix was a German naturalist (1781-1826). In 1817, he took the lead of a

scientific expedition to South America and another naturalist, Martius, was assigned to assist him.

They left in April 1807, and after a three-year stay in Brazil, they came back to Europe. The materials they brought back were huge. Spix instantly started to write them but he died on May, 31

st, 1826 and gave his collaborator Martius the responsibility for publishing his papers. The

„Selecta genera et species piscium brasiliensium‟, reviewed by par L. Agassiz, forms 2 parts with

96 plates published in 1829 and 1832 ». (Biographie universelle, p. 72) The comments of this treatise are devoted to South American fishes.

« M. Agassiz published, in 1829, the first issues of his „Selecta genera et species piscium

Brasiliensium‟, a volume of text decorated with colored plates. » (Bulletin des sciences naturelles,

1831, n°40)

THE SUPERB ILLUSTRATION IS COMPOSED OF 97 PLATES INCLUDING 91 IN COLOR.

The first 7 plates, lettered A-G, show native fishing techniques and are here found colored (unlike

most of the copies, such as the Bradley Martin copy). There are indeed two states of the

engravings, one in black and one in color.

On the other hand, the number of plates mentioned in the bibliographies varies from 88 to 101.

The Athenæum: a journal of literature, science, the fine arts, music, and ... from 1859 mentions for

example 96 plates, such as Michaud in the Biographie universelle.

A PRECIOUS COPY OF THIS STUDY ON BRAZILIAN FISHES CARRIED OUT IN THE FIELD,

PRESERVED IN ITS ORIGINAL BINDING.

« One of the most curious types of fantastic literature. » (Yemeniz) Very rare copy printed on vellum and illuminated at the time.

LES FAICTZ MERVEILLEUX DE VIRGILLE. One of only xxx copies, including xviii on vellum.

Paris, Guillaume Nyverd, n.d. [Facsimile reprint, Paris,

Techener, n.d. [1831]]. $10,000

8vo [173 x 128 mm], Gothic type, printed on vellum of: (2)

bl.ll., (15) ll., (3) bl.ll. Bound in red morocco, gilt fillets on the

covers with corner fleurons, flat spine with the title gilt, inner

gilt fillets, edges gilt, untrimmed. Binding signed Thouvenin.

COPY ON VELLUM OF THE FIGURED REPRINT BY TECHENER

OF THIS SUCCESSFUL XVTH CENTURY NOVEL, THE

POPULARIZED STORY OF VIRGIL'S ADVENTURES, PRINTED IN

A VERY SMALL RUN. Brunet, II, 1167.

THIS EDITION WAS LIMITED TO A PRINT RUN OF ABOUT 20

COPIES, AMONG WHICH A VERY SMALL NUMBER ON VELLUM. «Nyverd gave an edition of this small novel, in a small 8vo

format, in which the engraving of the title is repeated on the

back of the last l. It's from a different edition that was made the lithograph reprint published in Paris, Techener in 1831, 16mo, of which, according to this bookseller, only 38 copies have been preserved, that is to say: 18 on vellum with borders ready to be colored (34 fr.); 12 on China paper with the same borders (6 fr.), and 8 on colored paper

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without frame. A copy printed on vellum, with the borders painted, and bound in morocco, has

been sold for 32 fr. in Silvestre room, in 1831. 48 fr. Solar. » (Brunet) « The middle-ages had the idea to turn Virgil into a magician and to put on his account a great deal of wonders often very peculiar. This tradition had a significant impact on the old literary

tradition. Towards the end of the fifteenth century, these stories were gathered together in a booklet entitled: „Les Faictz merveilleux de Virgille‟, which obtained quickly several editions, all of them having become quite rare today: to give an idea of the eagerness to find them today, let's just

remember that in 1866, at the Yemeniz sale, a copy of the edition without date, published by J. Trepperel in Paris, was brought up to the price of 1320 fr. This opuscule was, under various forms, spread throughout Europe…. » (Polybiblion, Revue bibliographique universelle, Febr., 1868, p. 301). « Virgil the enchanter is the middle-ages Faust, and he came before Faust. THIS BOOK DESERVES

INDEED TO BE PRESERVED AS ONE OF THE MOST CURIOUS TYPES OF FANTASTIC LITERATURE. THIS

LITHOGRAPH REPRINT WAS ONLY PRINTED IN A RUN OF ABOUT TWENTY COPIES, despite what the lower line of the title may say, as most of the copies on vellum haven't made it. THERE IS NO COPY

OF ANY KIND ANYMORE IN THE SHOPS ». (April 15th, 1838, Ch. Nodier, Catal. Crozet, 2nd

part, p.

295) » (Notice of the Catalogue Yemeniz, n° 2365).

THIS EDITION IS DECORATED WITH A WOODCUT ON THE TITLE, REPEATED ON THE BACK OF THE LAST

LEAF AND WITH INITIALS PAINTED IN RED, BLUE AND GOLD.

OUR COPY ALSO PRESENTS ON 4 LEAVES GORGEOUS BORDERS FINELY HAND-PAINTED AT THE

TIME IN GOLD AND COLORS.

PRECIOUS COPY, ONE OF THE VERY FEW PRINTED ON VELLUM AND ILLUMINATED AT THE TIME,

FINELY BOUND BY THOUVENIN. Provenance: Yemeniz and Edouard Moura with their ex-libris.

The most beautiful book about American Indians.

MCKENNEY, Thomas L. HALL, James. History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with

biographical sketches and anecdotes of the principal chiefs. Embellished with one hundred and twenty portraits from the Indian gallery in the Department of War, at Washington. Philadelphia, Edward C. Biddle (vol. 1), Frederick W. Greenhough (vol. 2), Daniel Rice and James

G. Clark (vol. 3), 1836-38-44. P. o. r.

3 volumes folio [500 x 363 mm] with 120 hand-colored lithographed plates and uncolored

lithographed map (Western Reserve blindstamp on each plate within image). Contemporary half-

calf (worn), name in gilt William L. Marcy on cover label.

FIRST EDITION OF "THE GRANDEST COLOR PLATE BOOK ISSUED IN THE UNITED STATES UP THE

TIME OF ITS PUBLICATION" (Reese).

THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THE BOOKS DEDICATED TO AMERICAN INDIANS AND THE MOST

SPECTACULAR ILLUSTRATED WORK PUBLISHED AT THIS TIME IN AMERICA WITH COLORED

LITHOGRAPHS.

Sabin 43410. Howes M129. Bennett p. 79; BAL 6934; Field 992; Reese Stamped with a National Character: Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books 24.

"Its long and checkered publication history spanned twelve years and involved multiple

lithographers (mainly Peter S. Duval and James T. Bowen) and publishers, but the final product is one of the most distinctive and important books in Americana. Almost all the plates are portraits of individual Native Americans, the majority painted from life by Charles Bird King (who also

reworked the less skilfull portraits of James Otto Lewis). The complicated circumstances of its production have left a bibliographical stew of issues and issue points that are yet to be satisfactorily resolved" (Reese.).

The practice of taking portraits of the principal American Indians who came to Washington had

begun as early as 1824. McKenney, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Washington, conceived of

the plan of making a collection of biographies, enhanced by the addition of the portraits.

A biographical sketch accompanies each portrait.

THIS SUPERB WORK REPRESENTS THE MOST FAMOUS COLLECTION OF PORTRAITS OF INDIAN

CHIEFS EVER PUBLISHED.

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MADE FROM THE PORTRAITS PAINTED BY Charles Bird King, IT IS COMPOSED OF 120 EXQUISITE

FULL-PAGE COLORED LITHOGRAPHS "THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EVER EXECUTED".

A BEAUTIFUL COPY, COMPLETE, ILLUSTRATED WITH VERY BRIGHT ENGRAVINGS. Provenance: William L. Marcy (name in gilt on cover label); Western Reserve Historical Society

(inkstamps and blindstamps on titles).

Teaching the youth the change of seasons.

ENGLERT, D. Die zwölf Monate des Jahres, in bildlichen Darstellungen für den Anschauungs-

Unterricht.

Esslingen, J.F. Schreiber, 1838. $29,000

Oblong folio [366 x 263 mm] of 1 title, (9) text ll., (1) l. with the table of the plates, 60 numbered

plates. Bound in contemporary dark blue half-morocco, flat spine. Minor browning, slight staining

here and there, tiny creasemarks. Contemporary binding.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS VERY RARE SET OF ENGRAVINGS AIMING AT TEACHING THE YOUTH THE

CHANGE OF SEASONS.

Cf. Hauswedell 673 and Granier XXVI, 971 (title slightly different: "The seasons" and only 20 plates).

THE 60 MAGNIFICENT FULL-PAGE CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS FINELY ENGRAVED AND COLORED

WITH METICULOUS CARE REPRESENT THE TWELVE MONTHS OF THE YEAR WITH THE VARIOUS

ELEMENTS CHARACTERIZING THEM. Thus, January shows lumberjacks working in the snow and sleighs sliding on a frozen lake, the

picture of February shows people fertilizing the fields. In April, the plates show a farmer feeding

the poultry and a scene of apiculture in the back. In May, we can see many scenes: shepherds

watching their sheeps, a farmer who is milking his cows, butter making. The month of June shows

a joyful scene of swimming in front of a big oak tree and a walk in a rose garden. The pictures of

July and August are dedicated to the cereals harvest, whereas in September the hay is put into

sheaf. The month of October is represented by the grape harvest. And in December, the workers

thresh grain in the barn, whereas the pretty maids devote themselves to their works of spinning and

embroidery in the background. Other plates show fishes, birds, wild animals and plants.

Some plates bear the name of the artist David Englert, who is known for other illustrated works,

and they are dated between 1836 and 1838.

In its variety of scenes, the magnificent landscapes in the background and also the truthful and

detailed representation of the country life, this suite is somehow close to the book of Hours of the

duke of Berry from the 15th

century.

Each month is represented with one to 14 pages illustrated with appropriate scenes or subjects.

EXTREMELY FINE AND RARE CHILDREN'S BOOK WITH 60 OUTSTANDING PLATES IN COLOURED

LITHOGRAPH.

The France of Louis Philipp caricatured by Honoré Daumier.

DAUMIER, Honoré and PHILIPPON. Les Cent et un Robert Macaire composés et dessinés par M. H. Daumier, sur les Idées et les Légendes de M. Ch. Philippon.

Paris, Aubert et Cie, 1839. $32,000

2 volumes 4to [268 x 210 mm], each volume is composed of 8 pp., 50 and 51 issues of 4 pp. each,

3 pp. of text and 1 lithographed page with a caption, a table of contents and 2 ll., one ending the

first and second parts, the other one blank. Preserved in the green cased binding illustrated by

Célestin Nanteuil. Editor's binding.

FIRST STATE OF THE 101 LITHOGRAPHED PLATES OF DAUMIER'S ROBERT-MACAIRE. Vicaire, VI, 572 ; Rahir, 391 ; Lipperheide n° 3618 ; Catalogue de Backer n° 3279. Daumier produced his social caricatures for Le Charivari, in which he holds bourgeois society up

to ridicule in the figure of Robert Macaire, hero of a popular melodrama.

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For the present work, reduced, reversed versions of the plates were drawn and related text added by

Alhoy and Huart. The "Robert-Macaire" was representative of all that was wrong with the society that flourished

under Louis Philipp's "gross and venal regime".

It's all Louis Philipp's middle-class France, the business world and the liberal professions that are

briskly castigated by the artist.

The text is by Messrs Maurice Alhoy and Louis Huart.

Daumier's 101 lithographs exist in black and in colors.

THIS COPY BELONGS TO THE VERY RARE STATE WITH THE PLATES CONTEMPORARY HAND-

COLORED AND ENHANCED WITH GUM. Carteret (III, p. 187) emphasizes the scarceness of this work in a beautiful condition.

A PRECIOUS COPY OF THIS SOUGHT-AFTER COMPILATION OF CARICATURES, IN THE RARE

STATE WITH THE CONTEMPORARY COLORED PLATES, PRESERVED IN THE EDITOR'S

ILLUSTRATED CASED BINDING.

6 miniature books describing the French regions.

FRANCE IN MINIATURE. $6,500

Paris, Marcilly ainé, 1839.

A box containing 6 miniature books. Each volume has 31

pp. and 2 lithographs in colors. The box is composed of a

finely decorated and gilt lid bearing an engraved colored

vignette in the center representing a regional costume.

Each volume is bound in white cased boards decorated on

the front cover with gilt ornaments and a vignette in

colors in the center depicting a woman in traditional

costume. Original box.

Dimensions of the box: 194 x 139 mm / Dimensions of

the volumes: 118 x 77 mm.

SUPERB BOX CONTAINING 6 MINIATURE BOOKS

DEDICATED TO THE SEVERAL FRENCH REGIONS AND TO

THEIR TRADITIONAL COSTUMES. The 6 volumes describe Normandy, the Béarn, Auvergne,

Gascony, Brittany and Alsace.

EACH VOLUME IS ILLUSTRATED WITH 3 LITHOGRAPHS

WATERCOLOURED AT THE TIME DEPICTING THE

TRADITIONAL COSTUMES OF THE REGIONS DESCRIBED, one on the front cover of the volume, the other 2 inside the volume.

A RARE EXAMPLE OF A PRECIOUS BOX COMPLETE WITH ITS 6 MINIATURE BOOKS, IN VERY

GOOD CONDITION.

Pretty tarot pack entirely hand-colored.

SCHENCK, I. Tarot animalier.

Nuremberg, XIXth century. $12,000

Complete pack of 78 cards with a black marbled back, preserved in a carton box from the end of

the XIXth century. Black shagreen lettering piece gilt-stamped on the box.

Dimensions of the cards: 110 x 58 mm.

PRETTY PACK VERY PLEASANTLY COLORED AT THE TIME, INSPIRED FROM THE EXOTIC AND

ORIENTAL ANIMAL TAROTS OF THE XVIIITH CENTURY. The figures are very well drawn and of large dimensions. On the Jack of clubs we can see the name

of the card maker I. Schenck.

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At the top and bottom of the cards representing the trumps there is a large Roman numeral

indicating the value of the card; in the middle a scene represents an exotic or imaginary animal:

dromedary, unicorn, leopard, lion, elephant, monkeys, bears…

The king of diamonds indicates the city where the cards were made, Nuremberg.

THE 78 CARDS WERE ENGRAVED ON METAL AND STENCILLED AT THE TIME.

PRECIOUS EXAMPLE OF A TAROT PACK PRODUCED BY A GERMAN CARD MAKER IN THE XIXTH

CENTURY, COMPLETE WITH ITS 78 CARDS STENCILLED AT THE TIME, IN VERY GOOD CONDITION.

Provenance: 2 stamps on the ace of hearts, Deutsches Reich – Dreissig Pf., the second unidentified.

Outstanding illuminated book of Hours on vellum.

LIVRE D‟HEURES ILLUSTRE PAR MLLE M. RIVOCHE.

N.p.n.d. [France, XIXth century]. $10,500

8vo [188 x 137 mm] of (52) ll. on vellum, including The Holy Mass, the Spouses Blessing and the

Wedding Mass. Bound in full brown calf decorated with a large blind-stamped border on the

covers, silver plate decorated with the Virgin and Child in the center of the upper cover, spine

ribbed and decorated with blind-stamped fleurons, finely wrought metal clasps, gilt edges,

decorated red silk endleaves and doublures. Contemporary binding.

VERY BEAUTIFUL BOOK OF HOURS SPECIALLY MADE FOR THE WEDDING OF A FRENCH COUPLE

BY SOMEONE CALLED MISS RIVOCHE. 89 of the pages composing this book of Hours are

DECORATED WITH A SUPERB HAND-PAINTED BORDER,

ILLUMINATED AT THE TIME, WITH MANY GOLD

HIGHLIGHTS.

EACH OF THE 89 BORDERS IS DIFFERENT AND PRESENTS A

VERY FINELY EXECUTED SETTING: animal or floral patterns,

landscapes, various geometrical patterns …

In addition to the leaf opening the book decorated with the

arms of the dedicatee's family, the illustration comprises 4

FULL-PAGE PLATES that represent the Crucifixion, Mary and Joseph with Jesus in Joseph's workshop … The text is composed of a black typography with on all the

pages a different border in chromolithography and gold.

This copy has the plates, the decorated letters and the

borders all colored and enhanced with gold in the manner of

the medieval illuminations.

This book of Hours was engraved by Miss M. Rivoche.

SUPERB EXAMPLE OF A UNIQUE BOOK OF HOURS ON

VELLUM, ENTIRELY ILLUMINATED AND ENHANCED WITH GOLD, MADE ON THE OCCASION OF

THE WEDDING OF A FRENCH COUPLE IN THE XIXTH CENTURY, PRESERVED IN ITS PRECIOUS

BINDING DECORATED WITH A SILVER PLATE PICTURING THE VIRGIN AND CHILD.

23 views of Budapest finely engraved and hand-colored at the time.

ALT, Rudolf von. Festoï Megtekintések Budara es Pestre. Malerische Ansichten von Ofen und

Pest. Nach d. Natur gezeich. V. R. Alt. Lithogr. V. X. Sandmann. L T. Neumann, Vienna, (around 1853). $5,800

Oblong 4to contemporary small box, in the shape of a book, full green velvet, title "Ofen und Pest" in gilt copper and small oval view in color of the Budapest castle under mica and frame decorated

with gilt copper in the center of the upper cover, gilt edges, white watered silk doublures.

The box contains the front cover of the original wrappers and 23 lithographs (out of 24).

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Dimensions of the box: 285 x 208 mm / Dimensions of the pages: 260 x 188 mm.

SUPERB SUITE OF 23 RAVISHING VIEWS LITHOGRAPHED BY Xavier Sandmann after drawings by

the Viennese painter Rudolf von Alt.

THE PLATES WERE FINELY HAND-COLORED AT THE TIME AND ENHANCED WITH GUM ARABIC.

Each lithograph, measuring 185 x 128 mm, is laced with a caption in Hungarian and German.

“The important view-painter Rudolf von Alt was famous, well beyond the frontiers of Austria, for his ruins landscapes, his cities views and his interiors and for his bold and contrasting colors... Alt

knew constantly how to bring something new to his work. His very clear and lightened style, without insipidness or cheesiness, evolves in his last works into an almost visionary sense of the atmospheric reality. It's in Vienna that we can find the most important collections of his watercolors. (Albertina and Historisches Museum) (Larousse).

“In 1852 or 1853, Rudolf Alt's series of twenty-four lithographs, „Festõi megtekintések Budára és Pestre‟ (Artistic Views of Buda and Pest) was published by Leopold Neumann of Vienna. Alt's original watercolours were lithographed by F. X. Sandmann, and most of them (nos 1, 2, 5, 6 and

8-24) were printed by Rauh. Number 3 was printed by J. Stoufs and number 4 by Reiffenstein and Rösch. Number 7 has no printer's mark. The images are not all contemporaneous. They were made in the years between 1844 and 1852, as evidenced by the state of certain buildings.

„Festõi megtekintések‟ differs strikingly from Alt's Buda-Pest series. The 1845 series of 32 prints is

dominated by landscapes, while the later series (1852 or 1853) of 24 mainly shows smaller parts of the city (internal cityscapes). Twenty-one of the Buda-Pest series are landscapes, the remaining 11

individual urban features, while 15 of the later series show buildings and the remaining 9 are not landscapes per se so much as wide-angle vedutas, such as the Archduke Stephen Hotel, the Rakpiac, the Chain Bridge and the Royal Palace, and the Hercules steamboat and Gellért Hill. The

titles of these prints also indicate the primacy of the relevant objects (fig. 62)…

By contrast with the more artistic, relaxed style of Buda-Pest, the pictures in the later series are,

with a few exceptions, somewhat dry. An overall evaluation gives the impression that Alt's intention was partly to present what had been left out of the earlier series and partly to present new sights

(Hentzi Memorial, Hercules steamboat), but without even an attempt at completeness, as the omission of squares so central to the cityscape proves. That the pictures were made at different times is inferred from the lack of dates on the second series, unlike the first series, which all carry

the year 1845. There is no explanation for including pictures of the same subjects, unless Alt simply wished to publish some drawings that happened to be finished.”

A GORGEOUS VELVET BOX FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE XIXTH CENTURY CONTAINING 23 VIEWS

OF BUDAPEST FINELY ENGRAVED AND HAND-COLORED AT THE TIME, ENHANCED WITH GUM

ARABIC.

Splendid album of views of Martinique.

HARTMANN, Hermann. Album

martiniquais par Hartmann lithographié par Eugène Cicéri. [Paris], Imprimerie Lemercier,

57, rue de seine, [1860].

$28,000

Oblong folio [440 x 302 mm] of

(1) title, 12 numbered

lithographs. Preserved in the

black editor‟s buckram, blind-

stamped decoration on covers,

title stamped in gilt in the centre,

flat spine.

VERY RARE FIRST EDITION AND FIRST ISSUE OF THIS WONDERFUL ALBUM OF VIEWS OF

MARTINIQUE.

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The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection at Hamilton College, n°942. Not mentioned by Sabin,

IT IS COMPOSED OF A LITHOGRAPHED TITLE AND 12 SUPERB LITHOGRAPHS by Eugène Cicéri including 11 after Hermann Hartmann‟s photographs and 1 AFTER A DRAWING by Michel J. Cazabon.

THIS COPY FROM THE DELUXE ISSUE, WITH ALL THE LITHOGRAPHS FINELY CONTEMPORARY

HAND-COLOURED AND ENHANCED WITH GUM ARABIC.

A SUPERB COPY OF THIS COLLECTION OF VIEWS OF THE UTMOST RARITY DEDICATED TO

MARTINIQUE, ENTIRELY CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLOURED, PRESERVED IN THE EDITOR‟S

BINDING. No copy has been recorded on the public market since the beginning of the reports, 35 years ago.

We couldn‟t locate any copy of this album among French public Institutions.

We could locate only 2 copies worldwide: Getty Research Institute and Hamilton College Library.

Large-paper copy of „Sentimental Education‟. FLAUBERT, Gustave. L‟Education sentimentale.

Paris, Michel Lévy, 1870. $65,000

2 volumes large 8vo [245 x 153 mm] of: I/ (2) ll., 427 pp.; II/ (2) ll., 331 pp. Bound in burgundy

quarter-morocco, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt fleurons, untrimmed, top edge gilt. Case.

Contemporary binding.

FIRST EDITION.

PRECIOUS COPY, ONE OF 25 ON DUTCH PAPER, ONLY LARGE-PAPER, ONE OF VERY FEW

PRESERVED IN ITS SUPERB CONTEMPORARY BINDINGS. Carteret. Le Trésor du Bibliophile romantique, 268.

« 25 COPIES ON DUTCH PAPER, VERY SOUGHT-AFTER, RARE IN CONTEMPORARY BINDINGS OF

QUALITY. » (Clouzot. Guide du Bibliophile, 121).

Story of a young man, started at the end of 1863 and written from September 1864 to May 1869,

"L'Education sentimentale" was published in November 1869.

« How no tot recognize today in this archetypal Flaubert-type book and this Goethe-like work by

its scope, one of the major books of modern literature, which has seen, afterwards, so many copies of this melancholic hero. Some pages as the ones describing the encounter of the two lovers, at the

end of the novel, are among the purest and most lyric of all Flaubert work. »

A SUPERB COPY, VERY WIDE-MARGINED, WITH UNTRIMMED EDGES, IN ITS ELEGANT

CONTEMPORARY BINDING.

Very rare album of views of Argentina.

BURMEISTER. Vues pittoresques de la République Argentine. XIV planches avec 36 figures,

dessinées la plupart d‟après nature et accompagnées de descriptions.

Buenos Ayres, Paris, Halle, 1881. $20,000

Imperial folio [565 x 390 mm], 13 pp. of text folded, 37 views on 14 lithographic plates (7 plates

tinted, 7 colour-printed and finished by hand or hand-coloured). Slightly foxed, text part a little

browned. Bound in contemporary blue quarter-calf, flat spine with gilt fillets, red edges.

A FINE COPY OF THIS VERY RARE ALBUM OF VIEWS OF ARGENTINA. Hermann Burmeister (1807-1892) emigrated to Argentina in 1861, where he rendered a great

service to the development of the La Plata countries.

THE WORK INCLUDES 7 TINTED PLATES, 7 COLOUR-PRINTED AND FINISHED BY HAND OR HAND-

COLOURED PLATES by W. Loeillot (9), Carl Muller (4) and 1 unsigned, after Burmeister (12), A. Methfessel (6), A. Goring (8), 10 after photographs and 1 a joint effort by Burmeister and Goring.

The plates include multiple images (from two to five to a plate) and are numbered.

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TEN OF THE IMAGES ARE TAKEN FROM PHOTOGRAPHS by Labat and other unnamed photographers

in Buenos Aires. THE REMAINDER IS FROM ARTIST'S SKETCHES BY THE AUTHOR, his assistant A. Goring, and a professional artist Adolf Methfessel (1836-1909).

Besides partly large-sized landscapes there are also views of and from Buenos Aires, Mendoza and

Parant en Entrerios.

The work was issued as part of a larger work with the general title Description physique de la Republique Argentine d'apres des observations personelles et etrangeres (Buenos Aires, etc.: 1876-

1886). This larger work was never completed but includes 4 octavo text volumes (volumes 1-3 and

5, as volume 4 was never published), the present atlas, and another four "atlas" parts (published in

quarto and folio) that included text and plates on mammals and butterflies.

A WIDE-MARGINED COPY OF THIS RARE ILLUSTRATED WORK ABOUT ARGENTINA.

Outstanding book of Hours illuminated and enhanced with gold and silver.

HEURES NOUVELLES. Paris, 20th of February 1883. $8,500

Small 8vo [154 x 120 mm] of (2) ll., clxxxii pp., (8), mounted on guards. Text printed on each page

inside a very decorative hand-painted border. Bound in full brown morocco finely decorated with

gilt fillets and fleurons, front cover decorated with a central enamel painted medallion representing

the Adoration of the Magi, spine ribbed and finely decorated, gilt signature Gruel at the foot of the

spine, gilt initials "G.B.B.L." stamped in the central oval of the lower cover, two pierced metal

clasps at the fore-edge, edges gilt and gauffered with the inscription Gloria in Excelsis Deo

repeated twice, red velvet endleaves and doublures, gilt inner border. Binding signed Gruel.

VERY BEAUTIFUL BOOK OF HOURS SPECIALLY MADE FOR GEORGES BERTHIER AND BERTHE

LAURENT'S WEDDING, CELEBRATED ON THE 20TH OF FEBRUARY 1883 AT THE FERTE-VIDAME.

The 96 printed leaves of this book of Hours are EACH DECORATED WITH A SUPERB HAND-PAINTED

BORDER AROUND THE

TEXT, ILLUMINATED AT

THE TIME, WITH MANY

GOLD AND SILVER

HIGHLIGHTS.

Each of the 188

ornamental borders is

different and presents a

very finely executed

setting: religious

scenes, animal or floral

patterns, landscapes,

various geometrical

patterns...

In addition to the

frontispiece, the

illustration comprises

14 FULL-PAGE PLATES

that represent the Crucifixion, the Annunciation, the Presentation at the Temple, the Adoration of the Magi, the Nativity, the Annunciation to the shepherds …

The text is composed of a black, red and blue typography with on all the pages a different border in

chromolithography and gold. This copy has the plates, the decorated letters and the borders all

colored and enhanced with gold in the manner of the medieval illuminations. This book of Hours was engraved by Moulin from P. Engelmann and painted by E. Moreau.AN

EXTRAORDINARY FINE COPY OF A UNIQUE BOOK OF HOURS ENTIRELY ILLUMINATED AND

ENHANCED WITH GOLD AND PRESERVED IN AN EXQUISITE BINDING MADE ON THE OCCASION OF

THE WEDDING OF A FRENCH COUPLE IN 1883.

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Rare and luxury sale catalogue of a perfume and cosmetic products manufacturer,

with more than 775 samples in color and enhanced with gold.

[CATALOGUE OF PERFUMES AND COSMETIC PRODUCTS]. J.G. Mouson & Cie. Parfumerien &

Toiletteseifen.

Frankfurt, [1898]. $22,000

Folio [430 x 310 mm] of (1) title-page, xii pp., 106 pp. Bound in burgundy quarter-shagreen, green

bookbinder's cloth, name of the company stamped in the center of the upper cover, flat spine. XXth century binding.

SUPERB CATALOGUE FROM THE END OF THE XIXTH CENTURY, PRESENTING THE COLLECTION

OF PERFUMES AND COSMETIC PRODUCTS OFFERED FOR SALE BY THE GERMAN HOUSE MOUSON. Rare testimony of the richness and luxury of the merchandise produced in this field in the XIXth

century, it was used as a sale catalogue by this German merchant.

THIS UNIQUE COMPILATION PRESENTS MORE THAN 755 COSMETICS such as soaps, perfumes, oils

for hair, flower oils, brilliantine, various unguents, hair lotions, scent extracts, lavender and

Cologne waters, eau de toilette, toothpastes, face powders, beard creams…

Founded in 1798, the firm Mouson & Cie was one of the most important in its sector, with a

catalogue offering more than 700 various products in 1898.

During the World's fairs of 1862 in London, 1873 in Vienna, 1879 in Sydney and above all 1900 in

Paris, soaps and perfumes from Mouson‟s house were always exposed.

IN THIS CATALOGUE, DATED 1898, MORE THAN 700 ITEMS ARE MENTIONED. The choice goes

from simple cheap soaps to fine or medical soaps or even to exotic perfumes.

It is also interesting to notice that the labels on the items presented are written in different

languages in order to touch the largest clientele possible: notices are written in French, English,

German … in order to be exported throughout the entire world.

All of the 755 finely engraved samples have been colored at the time and most of them have been

enhanced with gold.

A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS RARE TESTIMONY OF THE CRAZE FOR LUXURY COSMETICS IN THE

WORLD AT THE END OF THE XIXTH CENTURY.

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Numbered dedicated copy „the Counterfeiters‟. GIDE, André. Les Faux-Monnayeurs. Roman.

Paris, N.R.F., 1925. $8,000

4to [209 x 161 mm] of 503 pp., (1) l. for the imprint, (1) bl. l. Bound in slightly posterior green

morocco, spine ribbed, purple morocco doublures, watered green endleaves, gilt over untrimmed

edges, wrappers and spine bound in, green half-morocco slipcase, case. (R. Devauchelle).

FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF GIDE‟S GREATEST WORKS.

A PRECIOUS COPY, NUMBERED XXIII, ONE OF THE 112 PRINTED FOR THE NRF BIBLIOPHILES. PRECIOUS COPY BEARING THIS AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION SIGNED BY ANDRE GIDE: « Ce bel

exemplaire des Faux Monnayeurs appartient à Monsieur Richard Anacréon. André Gide ».

Native from Granville, Richard Anacréon (1907-1992) was a bookseller and enlightened art lover,

who mixed with, in his Parisian bookshop "L'Originale" many artists and writers.

A TRADITIONAL APPRENTICESHIP NOVEL where young people gain some experience of life, the Counterfeiters is also amazingly innovative.

A VERY BEAUTIFUL COPY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE BOOKSELLER AND ART LOVER

RICHARD ANACRÉON, PRESERVED IN AN ELEGANT MOROCCO BINDING WITH DOUBLURES BY

ROGER DEVAUCHELLE, WITH THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS AND THE SPINE BOUND IN. Provenance: Richard Anacréon with his ex libris.

The Book of the Marvels of the world by Marco Polo.

MARCO POLO. Le Livre des Merveilles. (Copy n°176).

Suisse, Editions Facsimilé Lucerne, 1996. $7,500

Large folio [430 x 300 mm] with 84 large miniatures in text.

(With: Commentary volume: 4to. Bound in light-brown half-

calf.) Bound in full light-brown calf, triple gilt fillet on

covers, large gilt arms stamped in the centre, spine ribbed

and decorated with a crowned initial in the panels, red

morocco lettering piece, inner gilt border, edges gilt.

« THIS FACSIMILE IS THE IDENTICAL REPRODUCTION of the first part OF THE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT KEPT under

the reference ms.fr.2810 AT THE FRENCH NATIONAL

LIBRARY IN PARIS. THIS WORK WAS PUBLISHED IN A

UNIQUE LIMITED EDITION OF 980 COPIES NUMBERED in

Arabic numbers and intended for sale all over the world. This volume has been hand-sewed, bound in calf; gilt stamped and put in a box hung with China silk. »

« In 1295, Marco Polo came back to Venice after a 24 years journey that led him, throughout Central Asia up to China and Beijing. Three years later, in 1298, he dictated in French

the account of his travels. MARCO POLO TELLS WHAT HE SAW

OR HEARD; HE GIVES ANECDOTES AND EMPHASISES ON

EVERYDAY LIFE, RELIGIONS OF THE PEOPLE HE VISITED. HE NOTES THE ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES,

DESCRIBES THE FAUNA AND FLORA, THE CITIES OF THE COUNTRIES HE CROSSED...„Le Devisement du

monde‟ resumes the two trips made by the Polos, in 1260, without Marco, then in 1271, with him and IS DIVIDED INTO THREE BOOKS : THE ITINERARY THROUGH THE MIDDLE EAST, ASIA MINOR

AND CENTRAL ASIA TOWARDS THE CATAY; THE JOURNEY IN CATAY'S EMPIRE; THE ITINERARY BY

SEA FROM SOUTH-EAST ASIA THEN THROUGH INDIA UP TO ASIA MINOR. THE „BOOK OF THE

MARVELS OF THE WORLD‟ WAS, WITH THE "IMAGO MUNDI" BY PIERRE D'AILLY, ONE OF

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS' REFERENCE BOOKS. »

THE SPLENDID ILLUSTRATION IS COMPOSED OF 84 MINIATURES ENHANCED WITH GOLD, WHICH

SUPPORT THE ACCOUNT OF MARCO POLO'S TRAVELS TO ASIA.

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