Half red morocco, backstrip panelled in gilt, gilt top, orig. Backstrip just fading to brown, otherwise a fine copy. This is the best-known novel of the Goncourt brothers and and a cornerstone in the emergence of the realism or naturalism movement; it tells the double-life of one of their own servants. Jeanniot left the military to pursue an artistic career and became a successful and popular illustrator.
This is one of his earliest works; his first illustrations were published in Librairie de Firmin Didot, Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, title in gilt, by Canape, a very good copy. Edition du Mercure de France, Cloth backed marbled boards, orig.
Quarter vellum over orig. Light wear, otherwise very good. A prospective frontispiece to the work depicts the "Modes futures: Leon Techener Fils Librairie, A very good copy. In this overview of the rule of Louis XV, one finds, according to Michaud "the views, the ardor, and the sentiments of a great citizen.
It is, or rather ought to be, a tableau of the progress of the human spirit in the 18th century. Quarter calf over marbled boards, spine tooled in gilt, red morocco label. Light external wear, some browning, otherwise very good. The true first, Utrecht , is extremely rare. Handsomely printed by Bulmer.
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Very good with the orig. Not in The Private Case. Compositions de Bieler, Myrbach et Rossi. Half cloth, brown morocco labels, orig. Paper a little browned, otherwise an excellent copy. He was one of the French writers of this century whose conversion to Catholicism became a literary event. NUC lists 3 copies. He is best remembered for his vaudevilles, comic operas, and a tragedy.
This work of erotica was not included in his collected works. Kearney, The Private Case, Quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt title on spine. Final leaves loose, upper boards loose, extremities worn. Charpentier et Fasquelle, Half calf, marbled boards, orig. Renduel published many of the works of the Romantics. KOCK, Paul de, et al. Nouveau Tableau de Paris. Comique, Critique et Philosophique. Uniform contemporary quarter calf, gilt, very good. The abundant illustrations by Gavarni, V.
Adam, Daumier with 58 wood-engravings , Daubigny, Emy, Travies and Monnier show the modes, manners, foibles and glory of midth century Parisians. In addition, there are chapters on restaurants, boats, auctions, the Jockey-Club, crime, courtesans and prostitution by Dumas , and an important chapter on printing by Balzac, failed printer that he was, with some of his axioms: NUC cites one set only. Old calf, rebacked and rebordered, marbled endpapers, gilt titles. Armorial bookplates of the Marquis Cornwallis. After becoming director of the Beauvais tapestry factory the French painter Jean-Baptiste Oudry amused himself in making sketches to the Fables.
Cochin copied the drawings and oversaw the remarkable engravings, particularly famous for the renderings of animals. The Oudry engravings are complemented by the beautiful fleurons following each fable engraved by J. Bachelier, "among the most splendid woodcut decorations of their kind known" Updike, Printing Types, Ray, Art of the French Book, 5. Bassey, Les Fables de La Fontaine: Oudry Ft Worth p. An acclaimed critic and dramatist and member of the Academie, Laharpe was a friend and disciple of Voltaire.
One of the four great French Romantic poets, Lamartine was a man of action as well as a lyric poet. Mottled calf, red morocco labels to spine, spines stamped in gitl, edges tinted red, red paste-papers. Even light external wear, moderate wear to headcap of vol. I, back cover of vol. Completed in , the present volumes incorporate material from the supplements of earlier editions and are greatly expanded beyond them. Though unimaginably prolific, he was called by Laharpe "the most energetic second-hand clothes dealer [fripier] of French literature" Barbier II, pp.
The caption title reads: Silvain Bailly, Maire de Paris. Grisettes, the young shopgirls of the Latin Quarter, were known to be always ready for love and gaiety, always cheerful and loyal to their lovers of the moment. We wonder if de Launay was so against the "filles de joie" how he happened to have so many of their names in his address book! Lacombe, Bibliographie Parisienne, NUC records only the Harvard copy.
Edges rubbed, othewise very good. Quarter morocco, gilt spine. The author Le Suire was a professor of law at Rouen. Preface de Albert Sorel. Quarter red calf, cloth sides, gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, orig. Printed throughout on citron paper. Old quarter green morocco, gilt top, a fine copy. A very rare work on marriage customs by the author of Cuckoldiana No copy is recorded in bibliographies of erotica.
Quarter calf, marbled boards, numerous illustrations throughout. Some foxing, otherwise a very good set. The first volume does deal with punctuation and other technical matters; subsequent volumes branch out into an encyclopedic treatment of heraldry, botany, astronomy, scientific terms, etc.
Volume 3 begins with a glossary of musical terms and biographies including one "famous German composer," Louis van Beethoven. Leger urges the reader to learn the "divine art" of dance and quotes his own poetry at every opportunity. French, he insists, is the most beautiful, precise, clear, majestic, varied in its forms, noble and well-spoken of all languages.
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NUC lists no copies of this edition and only 2 copies of an edition. Old mottled calf, covers panelled in gilt, backstrip gilt, label, a pleasant copy. Duplessi-Bertraux is regarded as one of the most brilliant exponents of engraving. The lovely plates are signed V.
Cordier I, , Partout et Nulle Part [Henry Kistemackers] With the autofellating faun vignette to titlepage. Perceau , , Negley, Utopia Collection, p. Scattered marginalia, occasional ownership stamp throughout text, exteriors soiled, edge of wrapper torn. Red quarter-morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers. Leszczynski , king of Poland from to , settled in France in where he patronized arts and letters. In his daughter Marie became the wife of Louis XV. Decorated boards, a very good uncut copy.
Various editions appeared with the date This curious work recounts the adventures of a prostitute who give up a life of licentiousness for one of virtue. A note at the end favors Masonry. A copy of this book was in the collection of the Goncourt brothers no. Not in Barbier or supplements ; not in Querard or the BN catalogue. Gay , in error, list the first edition as NUC which has the title entry only, with 4 locations.
Some foxing and crinkling of text, otherwise very good. Half blue morocco, marbled boards, t. This edition not in Pia.
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Half-cloth, illustration to front board. Hundreds of engraved vignettes ornament the text. NUC cites three copies only. Cox et les Travaux de la Science Moderne. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt backs, light rubbing, very good. Cohen de Ricci declared them among the most beautiful that Gravelot made. Ray, Art of the French Illustrated Book, A la Haye, 2 vols, 12mo, xiv, ; 2 , pp.
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Old patterned boards, labels, a good set. Not in Barbier or BL. Imprimerie de Lebeau, This work collects fragments of verse and prose translated from, or in imitation of, Italian literature. Minor foxing to prelims, inscription cut from upper right corner of front free endpaper, spine very lightly faded. French red morocco, covers backstrip panelled in gilt, gilt edges, dentelles, frontispiece slightly foxed, occasional browning or offsetting of plates into text, otherwise a very good copy in a gorgeous unsigned binding typical of the period. Towards the end there is an interesting and very early article on lithography, mentioning the experiments of Lasteyrie and Engelmann and wholeheartedly endorsing the new technique as an art form worthy of the most serious attention pp.
There are also essays on enamels, mosaics, Gobelin tapestries, medal engravings, and music. Not in the standard lithography references. Marbled boards rebacked in red morocco, gilt title, very good with orig. Very good set with the bookplates of H. The eminent encyclopedist Paul Lacroix, known as "Le Bibliophile Jacob," wrote books on the eighteenth century, the middle ages, and a monumental compilation on the trades and crafts of France. Oblong 12mo, 40 tinted lithographs with tissue guards. Original embossed cloth, gilt, spine somewhat frayed, occasional foxing, but plates in fine condition.
Other views include the Bourse, rue de Rivoli, Porte St. Cloud, Versailles, and Fontainebleu.
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Not copy in NUC. Rebound in red boards with brown morocco label. Les Filles du Feu. Full red crushed morocco, gilt borders, spine gilt, full green crushed morocco dentelles gilt, a. The illustrations, comprising engravings in all, are after Raffet, Dauzat, and Decamps: Raffet did most of the plates with figures and Dauzat specialized in the landscapes, and Ray comments on their accuracy and spirit while noting the superb quality of engraving by the best engravers at the Imprimerie Royale.
Au Bureau du Journal Le Charivari, [n. Late 19th century half burgundy morocco over marbled boards, gilt lettering, raised bands, some foxing, occasional age-toned leaves, original wrappers preserved, bookplates, otherwise very good. Half calf over marbled boards, raised bands with gilt title on the spine. Light foxing, some edge wear, interior clean. Old quarter blue morocco, paper manuscript label, lacks front free endpaper, occasional light soiling, but quite a pleasant copy.
Later red cloth, orig. Piron , a witty poet and playwright, enemy of Voltaire, is remembered for Les Fils Ingrats and Arlequiin Deucalion Bonhomme, an antiquarian and poet, was the authority on Piron. These studies of many different aspects of life in Paris were renowned in their time and brought their author great fame and little else. First published in , this second edition is unrecorded by NUC.
Moreover, he was an early astronaut: I saw globes revolve around me and earths gravitate at my feet. Its first written version was printed in Bologna in Once he claimed that he had met Queen of Sheba and Cleopatra. Eventually she become interested in his "elixir of life" and started to use it, assuring the King, that she felt she would grow no older.
St Germain's diplomatic blunders in the peace negotiation between France and England led him into conflict with the powerful Duc de Choiseul. After escaping to England, he lived in the Netherlands, and possibly in Russia, where Catherine the Great had seized the power.
In some point his paths must have crossed with his countryman, Charles d'Eon de Beaumont, a diplomat, writer, spy, and Freemason, but there is no evidence of joint adventures. D'Eon is often called the patron saint of transvestites. St Germain was seen in France again in When the minister von Wurmb met St Germain in May in Lepzig, he estimated that the Count was between 60 and 70 years old.
At that time, he had spent most of his fortune, sold his precious diamonds, and he suffered from rheumatism.
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The Mayor and Council of the town stated that nothing had been ascertained as to the existence of a will. His creditors were called upon to come forward, "with their claim". Possibly Count Karl took into his possession all of the comte's papers. The original manuscript of St Germain's Trinosophia , a work on cabalistic, hermetic, and alchemical mysteries, is in the Bibliotheque de Troyes. However, the work was a forgery, written by one Lamothe-Langon, whose specialty was to produce forged memoirs. Baron de Gleichen tells in Souvenirs de Charles Henri, baron de Gleichen , that according to his acquaintances, St Germain had in the appearance of a man of fifty years old.
De Gleichen's information is just hearsay. St Germain tells her a secret of the cards, which helps her to retrieve her loss completely. She keeps the secret. Decades later a young man becomes obsessed with it, and causes her death. Eventually she returns as a ghost and gets her revenge. The young man loses his reason. Pushkin never met the enigmatic Count, but he knew his legend well and brought another angle to it: St Germain can tell the future. Das konnten sie nicht begreifen, dass der Kram nur Sinn hat, wenn man damit geboren wird. The American writer Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has written a number of novels, where the Count is the protagonist.
Saint-Germain's knowledge of diamonds, precious stones, and chemistry impressed his contemporaries; his dyeing skills were widely acknowledged. The E-mail Address es you entered is are not in a valid format. Please re-enter recipient e-mail address es. You may send this item to up to five recipients.
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