Barbou Frères, 1856. Hardcover. Scarce. Decorative pictorial cover shows minor wear and tear, rubbing and soiling, foxing, some loss on the backstrip. Pages show minor foxing, text is intact and unmarred. More
Paris: Chez Frederic Leonard, 1703. Hardcover. Breviary of the Order of Cistercians for the summer, 1703. 688 pages. Bound in full leather with raised bands, broken metal clasps, cover shows minor wear and rubbing. Partially removed bookplate on the front pastedown. Pages are tanned with minor soiling and chipping, some..... More
Chez Durand (Paris), 1774-01-01. Hardcover. 3-volume set. Full calf covers with gilt decoration and lettering on the spines. Covers show minor wear and tear, edgewear and rubbing, soiling and discoloration, top board of volume 1 is detached. Marbled endpapers. Pages show minor scattered foxing, text is intact and unmarred... More
Paris: Chez Pierre le Petit, 1683. Hardcover. Luxury binding in full red leather with raised bands and gilt decoration, metal clasps. Cover shows minor wear and tear, rubbing, minor crack and loss at the crown of the spine, top clasp is broken. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Minor writing on..... More
Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1865. Hardcover. Quarter leather with raised bands, cover shows minor wear and rubbing. Marbled endpapers. Pages are mostly clean with some minor tidemarks, fold-outs show minor tears. More
Editions Albin Michel, 1930-48. Hardcover. 5-volume set. Covers show minor wear and rubbing, original wrappers bound in. Pages are clean, text and pictures are intact and unmarred. More
Paris: C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1812. Hardcover. 58-volume set, complete (volume 1 is A-AMP, volume 58 is VIE-ZYT). Uniformly bound with marbled boards, leather spines with gilt. Covers show minor to moderate wear and tear, heavy erosion and cracking on the spines of volumes 5, 14, 24, and 51. Marbled endpapers, speckled..... More
Bruxelles et Liege: Riga, 1839. Hardcover. 3-volumes only. Rebound in half-leather with marbled boards with raised bands and gilt lettering, covers show minor wear. Pages show minor scattered foxing/soiling, text and pictures are intact and unmarred. More
Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1908. Hardcover. 3-volume set. Quarter leather covers with marbled boards show minor wear and tear, rubbing. Pages are tanned and clean, text and pictures are intact and unmarred. More
Paris: Chez Nicolas Buon, 1614. Hardcover. Wood-engraved illustrations of anatomy, surgical instruments, monstrous children, sea creatures and monsters, terrestrial creatures and monsters, and portraits of Hippocrates and Galen. Title page is repaired and affixed to a blank prelim with man signs of erosion and biopredation. Minor holing to the first..... More
Librairie des Amateurs - Ferroud, 1912. Hardcover. Bound in half-leather with marbled boards and gilt on the spine, cover shows minor wear and rubbing. Marbled endpapers, gift inscription on the front pastedown, top edges gilt. #209 of a limited edition. Tanning to the prelims and rear blanks. Pages are clean..... More
A l'Imprimerie de Sa Hautesse, 1722. Hardcover. French language. An anonymous collection of satrical plays, mostly against the clergy, by a self-proclaimed fraudster. The imprint is a fake, probably printed in Holland rather than Constantinople. Full contemporary calf with 4 raised bands on the spine and a title label, cover..... More
Lyon: Antoine Briasson, 1682. Hardcover. Scarce. Volume 1 only. Red morocco, 5 rasied bands, gilt decoration and dentelles, gilt stamped coat of arms (Marquis level crown, 3 stars, 3 lizards, medal of the Royal Military and Hospitaller Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem united)..... More
Paris: Baudouin, 1801. Hardcover. 10-volume set, uniformly bound in half-leather with marbled boards, gilt decoration and black title label on the spines, covers show minor wear and rubbing, edgewear and tanning. Top board of volume 10 is detached. Pages are tanned with minor scattered foxing, books are intact and unmarred..... More
Gustave Havard, 1849. Hardcover. The first 300 pages of the book are Les Millie et Une Nuits, while the remaining half of the book are the other works, by Chateaubriand and Balzac. Possibly signed by Hector Berlioz on the story dedicated to him by Balzac, "Ferragus, Chef des Dévorants" (it's..... More
Paris: Chez Durand, 1763. Hardcover. Full leather cover, detached top board, cover shows wear and rubbing. Pages show minor scattered foxing. Contemporary signature of former owner in the back of the book as well as on a blank prelim. Contemporary poem also handwritten on a blank prelim, which is detached..... More
Vallat-La-Chapelle, 1762-01-01. Leather Bound. First edition. Bound in contemporary plain brown boards, black title label on the spine with gilt lettering. Some bookseller notations in pencil on the front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned with minor foxing, text is intact and unmarred. More
Lyon: Chez Boissat & Remeus, 1666. Hardcover. Bound in full calf with 5 raised bands and gilt decoration, missing a portion of the title label. Boards are bowed and show rubbing and bumps, some erosion on the backstrip. Minor ink mark on the title page, some tanning and minor foxing..... More
Librairie J. B. Baillière et Fil, 1878-01-01. Hardcover. 1885 edition. Quarter leather cover in red with raised bands on the spine, black title label with gilt lettering, marbled boards. Cover shows minor wear and tear, chipping and soiling, cracked joints and rubbing. Marbled endpapers. Pages are tanned and mostly clean..... More
Bailliere, 1865-01-01. Hardcover. Bound in hardcover with original wrappers, cover shows minor wear and tear, rubbing and soiling, tanning. Pages show minor scattered foxing. More
J.-B. Bailliere, 1859. 1859-01-01. Hardcover. Tome Premier, only. Leather backstrip with raised bands, gilt decoration and lettering, marbled boards. Cover shows moderate wear and rubbing, cracked joints and erosion at the foot and crown, tanning. Dated contemporary signature of former owner in the prelims. Pages show foxing, text is intact..... More
1766. Hardcover. A series of eighteen letters written by French philosopher and theologian Blaise Pascal under the pseudonym Louis de Montalte. Written in the midst of the formulary controversy between the Jansenists and the Jesuits, they are a defense of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld from Port-Royal-des-Champs, a friend of Pascal..... More
Paris: Niogret, 1822. Hardcover. Full leather cover in green with gilt on the spine shows minor wear and rubbing, cracking. Marbled edges and endpapers. Pages are lightly tanned with minor foxing, text is intact and unmarred. More
Paris: Brunot-Labbe. Hardcover. Full leather cover with gilt decoration shows minor wear and tear, edgewear and rubbing. Marbled edges and endpapers. Pages show minor scattered foxing, text and pictures are intact and unmarred. Undated edition. More
