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190970972L. Carteret | Paris 1909 | 17.50 x 27 cm | relié
1657CLL-395Paris, Augustin Courbé, 1657 in-4 de (48) ff., 477 pp., (11) ff., vélin ivoire, titre manuscrit à la plume au dos, tranches nues (reliure de l'époque).
194444134Grenoble Editions Marcel Bess 1944 In-4, box vert orn sur chaque plat d'une guirlande pousse froid le long du dos et du bord suprieur, titre de l'ouvrage en capitales pousses or sur le dos sans nerfs; larges encadrements orns de filets dors, doublures et gardes de soie verte, tte dore, non rogn, couverture imprime. Etui (Bayard).20 eaux-fortes originales en couleurs de Jean Traynier, dont un frontispice et 19 in-texte. Tirage limit 555 exemplaires numrots sur vlin de Rives. Un des 20 premiers exemplaires accompagns d'une aquarelle originale signe par l'artiste (correspondant l'illustration de la page 29) et d'une suite des eaux-fortes tires en noir avec remarques. L'exemplaire a t enrichi du cuivre original encr ayant servi l'impression de la gravure figurant la page 196 du livre, qui a t insr dans une chemise spare range dans l'tui avec le livre.
1883047309Paris: Les Amis des Livres 1883. Hardcover Full Leather. Near Fine Condition. Finely bound in full crushed green morocco by Chambolle-Duru gilt ruled marbled endpapers. Original spine tipped in and original wraps bound in. Number 53 of 120. Slight offsetting to a few of the plates small browned spot on frontis and title; fine otherwise. 345pp with the list of the members of the society at the rear. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 047309. Les Amis des Livres hardcover
1830ST12140bParis: Levavasseur 1830. FIRST EDITION. 197 x 127 mm. 7 3/4 x 5". Two volumes. <br/> Appealing rose-colored morocco by Fletcher Battershall stamp-signed on front turn-in with his distinctive bat device covers with mitered frame of double gilt rules topiary cornerpieces raised bands spine compartments framed in gilt with leaf cornerpieces gilt titling turn-ins with gilt rules and leaves at corners top edges gilt. Front pastedowns with large wood-engraved bookplate of the binder. Vicaire I 181. ◆A dozen leaves spotted four of these noticeably so scarcely perceptible uniform fading to spines but IN FINE CONDITION the text otherwise clean bright and fresh and the bindings with lustrous leather glittering gilt and virtually no wear.<br/> <br/> This is a pleasing copy of an early work in Balzac's celebrated multi-volume "Comédie Humaine" offered here in excellent amateur bindings by scholar collector connoisseur and binder Fletcher W. Battershall. A lawyer by trade Battershall 1866-1929 was the author of "Book-Binding for Bibliophiles" 1905 and several articles on bookbinding. He was perhaps a pupil of Louis Kinder head binder at the Roycroft Shop as Kinder dedicated his own book "Formulas for Bookbinders" to Battershall in admiration of the latter's "love for and unceasing labors in the study of artistic bookbinding." Generally considered to be the father of social realism Honoré de Balzac 1799-1850 was one of Europe's greatest novelists. His "Comédie Humaine" was a collection of interlinked narratives depicting French society from 1815-48 encompassing the Restoration and the July Monarchy the collection embracing 95 finished and 48 unfinished works. "New World Encyclopedia" tells us that "even in its unfinished state it represents an immense literary endeavor larger in scope and length than possibly any other literary work undertaken in recent history and comparable perhaps only to" William Faulkner's series of novels and stories set in the American South. The present Balzac work was part of what is called the "physiologie genre" a group of books produced in Paris in the 1820s 1830s and early 1840s. According to "Oxford Companion to French Literature" these works comprised "a precious source for the study of the society politics and culture of this period" with "the most notable of these being Brillat-Savarin's 'Physiologie du Goût' 1826 and Balzac's 'Physiologie du Mariage' 1830. . . . Underlying all the Physiologies was the sense that modern city life had become both infinitely interesting and mysterious as well as decidedly ridiculous and bathetic." Balzac was no expert on marriage and his self-help advice here seems to us somewhere beyond unsound. Husbands are advised to keep their wives weak and submissive by discouraging sunshine and physical exercise in favor of lounging and frequent baths. Should the wife continue in ruddy good health leeches might be employed to reduce her to the desired languorous state. Despite the dubious applicability of its text to modern life the book is nevertheless sought after whether attractively bound or not. Levavasseur unknown
39131New York: Carlton House. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - ND. Included in this anthology: Don Juan; Christ in Flanders; In the Time of the Terror; Madame de Day's Last Reception; A Passion in the Desert; Lost by a Laugh; Gold; Doomed to Live; An Accursed House; The Atheist's Mass; and A Tragedy by the Sea. -- with a bonus offer-- . Carlton House hardcover
199710973New York New York U.S.A.: New Directions. New. 1997. Hardcover. 0811213595 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY AVOID WEEKS OF DELAY ELSEWHERE. -- clean and crisp tight and bright pages with no writing or markings to the text. -- with a bonus offer-- . New Directions hardcover
197638905New York New York U.S.A.: Viking Press. As New. 1976. Paperback. 0140442510 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - TEXT PRISTINE -- with a bonus offer-- . Viking Press paperback
187827896London: Richard Bentley & Son. As New. 1878. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - -- AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY- -- with a bonus offer-- . Richard Bentley & Son hardcover
1901875M26Philadelphia: Avil Publishing Company 1901. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. The uniformly bound works of the notable French novelist and playwright Balzac in thirty-six volumes with two volumes of Droll Stories. Thirty-eight volumes in the publisher's original cloth bindings. Top edges gilt.Thirty-four volumes from No. 1212 of 1250 limited edition sets of the Connoisseur Edition de Luxe of the complete works of Honoré de Balzac two volumes 1 and 33 from No. 456 of this edition and two volumes of Droll Stories uniformly bound like the rest of this collection. Honoré de Balzac 1799-1850 was an influential French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine is generally viewed as his magnum opus and it is in this collection in its entirety.Thirty-three volumes are introduced by George Saintsbury two 33 and 34 are introduced by J. Walker McSpadden and Volume 36 is introduced by Paul Bourget. They are all translated from the original French by either Ellen Marriage Clara Bell R. S. Scott James Waring or J. Walker McSpadden.All volumes are illustrated with a frontispiece. All volumes are illustrated with a further three plates except for Volumes 2 9 16 and 21 which have four further plates and Volumes 33 34 and 35 which have one further plate and Volume 2 of Droll Stories which has two further plates. Collated complete.This selection comprises: 1: The Magic Skin and Other Stories; 2: The Quest of the Absolute and Other Stories; 3: About Catherine de Medici; 4: Seraphita; 5: Eugene Grandet and Other Stories; 6: Ursule Mirouet and Other Stories; 7: At the Sign of the Cat and Racket and Other Stories; 8: A Bachelor"s Establishment and Honorine; 9: A Daughter of Eve and Letters of Two Brides; 10: A Woman of Thirty and Other Stories; 11: A Marriage Settlement and Other Stories; 12: Modeste Mignon and Other Stories; 13: Beatrix; 14: The Jealousies of a Country Town and The Commission in Lunacy; 15: Lost Illusions; 16: A Distinguished Provincial at Paris; 17: The Lily of the Valley and the Firm of Nucingen; 18: The Country Doctor and Other Stories; 19: The Country Parson and Albert Savarus; 20: The Peasantry; 21: Cousin Betty; 22: Cousin Pons; 23: Scenes from a Courtesan"s Life: Part First; 24: Scenes from a Courtesan"s Life: Part Second; 25: The Thirteen; 26: Father Goriot and Other Stories; 27: The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau and the Secrets of a Princess; 28: The Middle Classes; 29: The Chouans: A Passion in the Desert; 30: The Gondreville Mystery and the Muse of the Department; 31: The Member for Arcis; 33: Physiology of Marriage; 32: The Seamy Side of History and Other Stories; 34: The Dramas; 35: The Dramas; 36: Repertory of the Comedie Humaine by Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Christophe; and two volumes of Droll Stories. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally fairly smart with a little shelf wear to the extremities. Sunned to spine labels. Mark to the spine label and front board of Volume 8 and 27. Marks to the front board of Volume 3 6 9 15 18 and 28. A couple of indentations to the rear board of Volume 18. Marks to the spine of Volume 13. Mark to the spine label and rear board of Volume 14. Small losses to spine labels of Volumes 24 27 and 34. Internally firmly bound. Pages are age toned and roughly cut but clean. Very Good Avil Publishing Company hardcover
186739565Paris: Garnier 1867. Gustave Doré. A LARGE-PAPER COPY ON CHINESE PAPER OF THE FIRST EDITION WITH THE PLATES PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL WOODBLOCKS. XXXII 665 pp. Balzac's "Contes drolatiques" which the author considered his masterpiece first appeared between 1832 and 1837. In 1855 appeared the first illustrated edition with 425 wood-engravings after Gustave Doré which Doré considered his masterpiece but the images were printed from electrotypes plate rather than from the actual blocks so the impressions are somewhat dull. A second edition with Doré illustrations appeared in 1861 again printed from the electrotype plates except 25 copies. This third edition with the Doré illustrations published in 1867 is THE FIRST EDITION PRINTED ENTIRELY FROM THE ORIGINAL BLOCKS. This is furthermore ONE OF ONLY 25 COPIES PRINTED ON FINE CHINESE PAPER RENDERING THE IMPRESSIONS EVEN SHARPER. 8vo. Attractively bound in three-quarters morocco and marbled boards c. 1900. Top edge gilt other edges uncut. Light wear to extremities of binding. INTERNALLY FINE AND BRIGHT. Béraldi VI p. 35; Leblanc p. 43 n1. <br/><br/> Garnier hardcover
186388287Paris: Alexandre Houssiaux 1863. Fine. A great classic of bibliophily Alexandre Houssiaux Paris 1858 -1863 13 x 21.50 cm 20 volumes reliés A new printing of the works issued by Houssiaux who had acquired the Furne publishing stock under which the works were originally released. He expanded the series with three additional volumes Théâtre Contes drolatiques etc. which appeared for the first time within the collected works in 1855. The edition was entirely reprinted in 1855. Most volumes bear the date 1863. Contemporary half shagreen bindings in brown spines with five raised bands decorated with four blind-stamped fleurons within compartments. Author title and volume numbering gilt. Scattered foxing. One volume with the paper boards renewed. Signs of rubbing. The set is illustrated with 138 plates hors-texte by the leading artists of the period including Bertall Daumier Gavarni Johannot and Nanteuil together with a small number of in-text illustrations and several sheets of printed music. As is invariably the case with these editions of the complete works our set ""naturally"" shows a number of noteworthy variants detailed as follows: Volume I: 7 plates including the portrait of Balzac; Volume II: 7 plates; Volume III: 8 plates; Volume IV: 7 plates; Volume V: 8 plates; Volume VI: 8 plates; Volume VII: 8 plates; Volume VIII: 8 plates; Volume IX: 7 plates; Volume X: 8 plates; Volume XI: 8 plates; Volume XII: 6 plates; Volume XIII: 6 plates; Volume XIV: 6 plates; Volume XV: 6 plates; Volume XVI: 5 plates; Volume XVII: 5 plates; Volume XVIII: 16 plates; Volume XIX: 4 plates; Volume XX: 5 plates. Alexandre Houssiaux hardcover
1828123875Paris, Charles-Béchet, libraire-commissionnaire, quai des Augustins, N° 57, près le Pont-Neuf, impr. Imprimerie de H. Balzac, rue des Marais S. G., N° 17 1828 In-8 21 x 12,5 cm. Reliure de l’époque demi-chagrin violine, VIII-503 pp., frontispice dessiné et gravé par Rouargue, table des matières, table alphabétique. Coins émoussés et frottés, rares rousseurs marginales.
AMA-9304 pp. in 8° sur papier bleu, restauration à la pliure.
1660CLL-560Paris, Michel Bobin, 1660 In-12 de (8)ff., 420pp., maroquin rouge, triple filet doré d'encadrement sur les plats, fleurons aux angles, dos à nerfs orné de caissons de fleurons dorés, coupes et bordures décorées (reliure de l'époque).
26862Paris, J. Hetzel, 1845-1846. 2 grands volumes petits in-4 (28 x 19,5 cm), brochés sous couvertures illustrées en couleurs. 1- 6 ff (faux-titre, frontispice, page de titre) - XXXII pp (Histoire de Paris par Théophile Lavallée avec 21 vues de Paris à différentes époques représentant les anciennes enceintes et les principaux monuments, dessinés par CHAMPIN) - 380 pp. 100 planches (frontispice compris). Table des matières. T II. 2 ff (faux-titre et titre)- LXXX (Géographie de Paris par Théophile Lavallée) - 364 pp. 112 planches. Ces deux volumes sont réunis dans un coffret sous plexiglass. Sans le catalogue éditeur.
Paris, J. Hetzel, 1845-1846. 2 grands volumes petits in-4 (28 x 19,5 cm), brochés sous couvertures illustrées. 1- 6 ff (faux-titre, frontispice, page de titre) - XXXII pp (Histoire de Paris par Théophile Lavallée avec 21 vues de Paris à différentes époques représentant les anciennes enceintes et les principaux monuments, dessinés par CHAMPIN) - 380 pp. 100 planches (frontispice compris). Table des matières. T II. 2 ff (faux-titre et titre)- LXXX (Géographie de Paris par Théophile Lavallée) - 364 pp. 112 planches. Ces deux volumes sont réunis dans un coffret sous plexiglass. Sans le catalogue éditeur. llustrations : " Les Gens de Paris ", séries de gravures avec légendes par Gavarni (212 planches hors texte, 4 étant de Bertall) - Paris comique, très nombreuses vignettes par Bertall - Vue, monuments, édifices particuliers, lieux célèbres et principaux aspects de Paris, par Champin, Bertrand, d'Aubigny et Français (environ 800 vignettes au total). Textes par les plus grands écrivains de l'époque : Honoré de Balzac, George Sand, P.-J. Stahl, Léon Gozlan, Frédéric Soulié, Théophile Gautier, Alfred de Musset, Eugène Sue, Charles Nodier, Alphonse Karr, Taxile Delord, Gérard de Nerval, Théophile Lavallée. Premier tirage de l'ouvrage et surtout des couvertures en tous points conformes à la description de Carteret. La planche N° 2 de la série Oraisons funèbres dans le tome I porte par erreur le N° 3 comme c'est parfois le cas. " Titre emblématique des illustrés romantique, rarissime dans son état originel ". Réf. biblio. : Vicaire II, 241-244 - Carteret III, 203-207. BEL EXEMPLAIRE SANS ROUSSEURS, rare condition.
182641704Paris, chez les Marchands de nouveautés, [Imprimerie de H. Balzac], 1826. In-32 de (5)-160 pp., demi-percaline, dos lisse orné de filets dorés, pièce de titre en maroquin vert, entièrement non rogné (relié vers 1860).
184515635Paris, Chlendowski (Sceaux, Imprimerie Dépée), 1845 ; 3 tomes in-8 ; bradel demi-percaline noisette, pièces de titre et de tomaison marron soulignées de filets dorés, couvertures roses conservées, non rogné (reliure postérieure) ; (4), VI, CXL (i.e. CLX)-335 pp., (1 bl.), (1) f. de table ; (4), 314 pp., (1) f. ; (4), 276 pp., (2) ff. le dernier blanc.
14899Paris Vve André Houssiaux 1874 in 8 (22x13,5) 20 volumes reliures demi veau havane de l'époque, dos à nerfs, pièces de titre de cuir rouge, pièces de tomaison de cuir vert. Ouvrage illustré d'un portrait et 146 figures d'après Gavarni, Johannot, Monnier, Nanteuil. Quelques rousseurs éparses. Bon ensemble
1842655593 vol. in-8 reliure de l'époque demi-toile grise, Scènes de la Vie politique, M. Hippolyte Souverain, Editeur de MM. de Balzac, Frédéric Soulié, Alphonse Brot, Paul de Kock, etc. etc., , Paris, 1842, 2 ff., 304 pp. et 1 f. n. ch. ; 324 pp. et 1 f. n. ch. ; 324 pp. et 1 f. n. ch.
1830453671830 Paris. Mame et Delauney-Vallée. 1830. 2 volumes in-8, demi-maroquin grenat à longs grains postérieur à l’imitation, dos à nerfs ornés.
3197livre en 5 volumes. Encyclopédie morale du dix-neuvième siècle. Province, livre en 3 volumes. Le Prisme, Paris. L. Curmer éditeur, 1840-1842, Imprimerie Schneider et Langland imprimerie, rue d’Erfurth, f. Ensemble de 9 volumes in-4, demi-maroquin rouge, double filet doré bordant les plats, dos à nerfs orné (reliure de l’époque.) Edition originale & premier tirage. Une carte de France repliée (t.III, Province), huit frontispices, 409 planches et très nombreuses illustrations dans le texte, par DAUMIER, GAGNIET, GAVARNI, GRANDVILLE, MALAPEAU, MEISSONIER, PAUQUET, PENGUILLY, RAYMOND PELEZ & TRIMOLET. Bien complet de la planche du Napoléon à cheval d’après Horace VERNET au t. V.Quelques taches aux dos ; quelques cahiers roux et rousseurs, plus fortes sur certains feuillets du volume Le Prisme dont deux cahiers déreliés. EXEMPLAIRE DONT LES PLANCHES ONT ETE AQUARELLEES ET GOMMEES, la plupart dans un bel état de fraicheur, même parfois éclatantes.Les Français peints par eux-mêmes font partie de cette nouvelle tendance littéraire de vouloir s’intéresser à la nouvelle société française, tel un tableau des mœurs du XIXe. Entreprise extrêmement ambitieuse, elle a sollicité les plumes les plus en vue de l’époque, ainsi que ses illustrateurs, avec un regard à la fois attendri et curieux des différents acteurices de la comédie humaine. Cela rend compte également de la dureté de la société, la solitude, la violence et des laissés-pour-compte.
1875R300292727Michel Lévy Frères. 1875. In-8. Relié demi-cuir. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 603 + 627 + 696 + 583 + 788 + 669 + 738 + 657 + 633 + 691 + 806 + 763 + 663 + 538 + 648 + 687 + 701 + 597 + 484 + 634 + 693 + 625 + 792 + 673 pages - un portrait en noir et blanc en frontispice du tome 24, sous serpente. Signets conservés. Plats et contreplats japsés. Dos cuir à 5 nerfs, titre, auteur, tomaison et motifs dorés. Plats légèrement frottés. T18 : 2e plat taché.. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.08-XIX ème siècle
1895933T53London: The Caxton Publishing Company 1895. Cloth. Very Good. 8.5" by 6". None. A large fifty-three volume set of the works of French novelist and playwright Honore de Balzac. Fifty-three volumes. Caxton edition. With a frontispiece to each volume and additional illustrations in-text to some volumes. A large collection of the works of Honore de Balzac a French novelist and playwright regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. Containing many of the works from his multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories La Comedie Humaine which depicts society in the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy of post-Napoleonic French life and is generally viewed as his magnum opus. This set contains: Splendours and Miseries in two volumes 1895 The Poor Relations in three volumes 1896 Lost Illusions in three volumes 1898 Physiology of Marriage in two volumes 1900 The Celibates in two volumes 1897 The Deputy from Arcis in two volumes 1898 The Petty Bourgeois in two volumes 1896 The Repertory of La Comedie Humaine in two volumes 1900 Les Contes Drolatiques in two volumes 1900 Gambara 1899 Honorine 1897 The Magic Skin 1899 The Chouans 1898 Z. Marcas 1898 A Woman of Thirty 1897 The Lily of the Valley 1897 The Unknown Masterpiece 1899 The Marriage Contract 1897 Ursule Mirouet 1897 A Start in Life 1897 The House of Nucingen 1896 The Village Cure 1899 The Peasants 1899 Eugenie Grandet 1897 Catherine De' Medici 1899 Modeste Mignon 1897 Beatrix 1897 The Civil Service 1896 History of the Thirteen 1896 Memoirs of Two Young Wives 1896 Old Goriot 1897 The Country Doctor 1899 Cesar Birotteau 1896 Adieu 1899 Jesus Christ in Flanders 1899 The Quest of the Absolute 1899 Albert Savarus 1897 The Old Maid 1898 A Double Family 1897 The House of the Cat and Racket 1896 The Illustrious Gaudissart 1898 and A Passion in the Desert 1898. In the original green cloth binding. Externally smart with minor rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spines with the odd small mark to the boards. Damp staining to the front board of volume one of The Repertory of La Comedie Humaine Memoirs of Two Young Wives Cesar Birotteau Jesus Christ in Flanders and The Old Maid resulting in slight cocking of the boards. Front hinge starting but firm to volume one of Splendours and Miseries The Village Cure and Catherine De' Medici. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot or handling mark. Age toning to the endpapers. Frontispiece detached but present to volume one of The Deputy from Arcis and Eugenie Grandet. Damp staining and tide marks to the first and last few pages of volume one of The Repertory of La Comedie Humaine Memoirs of Two Young Wives Cesar Birotteau Jesus Christ in Flanders and The Old Maid. Very Good The Caxton Publishing Company hardcover