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The beautifully illustrated luxury issue, of which only a 100 copies were printed

CASANOVA, Giacomo. Memoires ... ecrits par lui-meme.
Paris, Garnier frères, [1880]. 8 volumes. 8vo. With 145 full-page engravings, the wrappers and titles of each volume are printed in red and black.
Contemporary gold-tooled half morocco by Lambert, marbled paper sides, the title, author, and volume number lettered in gold on the spine, surrounded by a gold-tooled frame with onlaid morocco ornaments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. [6], XVII, [1 blank], 507, [1 blank]; [6], 530, [4]; [6], 516; [6], 533, [3]; [6], 569, [3]; [6], 563, [1]; [6], 567, [1 blank]; [6], 551, [3] pp. Full description

€ 12,000

Bindings Erotica France French Literature History / 18th Century Italian Literature Italy Law & Politics Prints & Print Series

Autograph letter by an apparent spy for an ambassabor in 1726,
reporting on members of the French Royal court

CAVALLI. [Letter to an unknown person].
Paris, 18 August 1726. 4to. [1] leaf. Full description

€ 500

Autographs & Letters France

Oval portrait painting of Voltaire

CERF, J. de. [Oval miniature portrait painting of Voltaire].
[France?], "1687" [= ca. 1735?]. Oval portrait painting (11 x 9 cm) in grisaille on copper, with a note on the back "J. de Cerf A[nn]o 1687". Mounted in a gilt rectangular wooden frame (34.5 x 28 cm). Full description

€ 9,500

France French Literature Philosophy & Humanism

Autograph concerning the appointment of a forester

CHAPSAL, Jean-Antoine. [Autograph letter concerning the guard of his woods].
Riom, 9 July 1803. 4to (21 x 33.5 cm). 2 pp. text, 1 blank and the final page with the recipient's address. Formerly folded three times for posting and with traces of a seal. Full description

€ 350

Arboriculture & Dendrology Autographs & Letters France

Texts of original documents concerning Charles VIII’s hunting and falconry 1485-1486: compiler’s presentation copy

CHARLES VIII, King of France, [compiled by Emmanuel Victor POURROY de l’Aubérivière, Comte de QUINSONAS]. Comptes de la venerie et fauconnerie du Roi Charles VIII. ... 1485-1486.
Lyon, printed by Louis Perrin [for the compiler], 1860. 8vo (24 x 16 cm). With the title-page in red and black with the coat of arms of the compiler, 4 chromolithographed plates showing 3 stained-glass portraits and an architectural elevation, all drawn by P. Giniz and lithographed in Paris by Engelmann & Graf, 2 double-page etched views drawn by J. de Montchalin & Le Bon de Maupetit and engraved by J. M. Fugère, and a lithographic facsimile of a letter written and signed by Margaret of Austria. Half grey-brown cloth (ca. 1900?), top edge gilt, with the publisher's printed paper wrappers bound in. VI, 22 pp. plus plates. Full description

€ 8,500

Falconry, Fishing & Hunting France

One of the earliest works on the cultivation of tulips

CHESNÉE MONSTEREUL, Charles de la. Le floriste François. Traittant de lorigine des tulipes. ...
Caen, Eleazar Mangeant, 1654. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, and numerous head- and tailpieces, both woodcut and made up of typographical ornaments. Contemporary vellum, with the title printed in red on the spine, red and blue sprinkled edges. [44], 250, [4], [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 7,500

Flowering Plants France Horticulture

Almanac by one of the oldest chocolate houses of Paris

CHOCOLAT FOUCHER. [Almanac chocolat Foucher].
Paris, (colophon:) Duffit, 1922 Ca. 5.8 x 4 cm. The calendar has been printed in red and black. Contemporary wrappers stapled to the bookblock, with a blue floral design on the front. [20] ll. Full description

€ 100

France Gastronomy Miniature Books

A rare pocket atlas for officers and travellers, with 25 maps

[ATLAS - EUROPE]. CLEYNHENS, Bernardus. Accuraat geografisch kaart-boekje of zak-atlas van het keyzerryk en geheel Duytsland, de Oostenrykse Nederlanden, ...
Haarlem, Bernardus Cleynhens, [ca. 1747?]. Small 8vo (16 x 10 cm). With 25 double-page engraved maps (2 overview maps), and an engraved plate with 8 scales, all hand-coloured, partly in outline. Half textured red cloth (ca. 1860?). 40, 23, [1 blank] pp. plus maps and plate of scales. Full description

€ 5,000

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Unrecorded work with finely hand-coloured plates of costumes at the French court

COLIN, Anaïs. La cour de France, suite de costumes historiques - The court of France. A set of historical costumes.
Paris, Gihaut frères, and London, Ch. Tilt, [ca. 1835]. Folio (ca. 47 x 30 cm). With a lithographed title with vignette, and 12 hand coloured full-page lithographed plates, highlighted with gum arabic and protected by tissue paper guards. Contemporary quarter gold-tooled red morocco. [13] ll. Full description

€ 8,500

Costumes, Fashion & Uniforms France Prints & Print Series

An excellent treatise on viniculture

COLLIGNON D'ANCY, Théodore. Nouveau mode de culture et d'echalassement de la vigne, applicable à tous les vignobles où l'on cultive les vignes basses.
Metz, printed by Dembour and Gangel for Warion, [1847]. 8vo. With woodcut vignette on the title-page, and 3 large folding plates, lithographed by Dembours and Gangel. Modern half morocco, preserving the original illustrated wrappers. VI, [2], 191, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,950

Agriculture France Gastronomy Horticulture Wine / Viticulture

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