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Paris, Rouquette, 1882. Fort in-8, frontispice - titre-XXII - 261 pp orné de 10 vignettes gravées en bandeaux. Reliure plein maroquin bleu nuit, dos à 5 nerfs orné de caissons dorés, titre doré, année en pied du dos, plats ornés de triple filets dorés, gardes de moire bleue, tranche supérieure dorée, tous témoins conservés. Exemplaire enrichi de 8 états des deux frontispices tirés sur Japon ou Whatman fort, et de 4 états supplémentaires de chacune des dix vignettes dues à Moreau, en bistre et en noir.Justification du tirage manuscrite (exemplaire n° 19, un des vingt exemplaires sur Whatman, pour un tirage total de 170 copies). Bien que ne figurant pas sur l'ouvrage, la justification du tirage est annoncée au catalogue n° 6 de La Librairie Roquette en date de juin 1882. Sobre et pure reliure, dans le style de David, non signée mais qui l'eut mérité. Vicaire III 747. Très bel exemplaire.
Paris, Montalant, 1715. 2 parties en 1 vol. in-folio ; (3) ff. (sur 4) de titre, préface et privilège-396 pp. pour la première partie-384 pp. pour la deuxième partie-(35) ff. de table des matières-XXV pp. de procès-verbal. Pleine basane brune, dos à 6 nerfs orné, tr. mouchetées rouges (rel. ép.). Ex-libris manuscrit Delapierre f. Brunet, II, 394. Faux-titre absent, découpages restaurés sur la page de titre faisant disparaître les mots bailliage et M. (vandalisme révolutionnaire) ; caisson supérieur du dos, coiffe inférieure et coins restaurés, mors sup. fendillé, mais bon exemplaire, frais intérieurement.
Mayenne & Paris, Floch, Imprimeur-éditeur, 1935. In-4, en feuilles, couverture rempliée, imprimée et illustrée en couleurs, chemise et étui cartonnés bleu-ciel, 303 pp. (Ex-libris Dr Berthet). Tirage à 560 exemplaires. Un des 500 numérotés sur vélin d'Arches (n° 248). 185 illustrations en noir et en couleurs dans et hors-texte (28 hors-texte en couleurs, une double-planche en noir). SUPERBE DESSINS BEL EXEMPLAIRE. Texte historique.
Features: The "Hold-Up" at Fenelon; Avalances; A Tramp in Spain - VI; Hunting the Giant Tortoise; A Desert Tragedy; The Land of the Shrimp-God; How "Buffalo Bill" Won his Name; The Looting of the "Bang Yee"; On the March in the Bahr-El-Ghazal - III; Francisca Machalek, the female burglar; The Wilson Life Insurance Fraud; "Monkey"; The Happenings of a Night; A West African Mutiny; Paris to New York Overland - IV; A Chapter of Mishaps; My Experiences at Kano - I; Besieged in a Tree; The Man-Stealers; In the Grip of the Quagmire; The Monks' Republic; The Strange Case of the "Ferret"; The Calculut Affair; Some Japanese Signboards; A Tramp in Spain - VII; Hoist By His Own Petard; The Island of Captive Kings; The March of "Coxey's Army"; Sport and Adventure in Gallaland - I; In the Land of the "Never-Never"; The Range War; A Thousand Miles in a Refrigerator; Sport and Adventure in Gallaland - II; How the Treasure was Saved; A Tardy Vindication; Rambles in Macedonia; Attacked by Wolves in the Desert; A Tramp in Spain - VIII; My Experiences at Kano - II; Defective in the Barrel; The Last of the Bushrangers; Prisons of Many Lands; The Solving of a Mystery; "Meistertrunk" at Rothenburg; The Shrine by the Nujha Bridge; Among the Buriats; Adrift on a Raft; A Night of Horrors; The Narcissus Festival at Montreux; A Mountain of Salt; After the "Mad Mullah"; A Unique Summer Residence; The Wandering Jew; With the British to Sokoto; John Glover of Texas; A Baby Parade; How the Gipsy Queen found her lover; A Cargo of Cats; A Tramp in Spain; When the Water Came Down; A Mystery of the Bush; The Story of My Chinese God; A Battle with a Rhino; After the "Mad Mullah" - II; The Pursuit of Captain Victor - II; The Cave-Dwellers of Mexoco; Calamity Jane; With the British to Sokoto - II; Arrested as Spies; When Niagara Ran Dry; The Flying Dutchman; Among the South Sea Cannibals - I; Across Sumatra in a Motor-Car; A Tramp in Spain - X; Our Attempt to Reach Mecca; A Puma Hunt in Surrey; Entombed in a Capsized Ship; With the British to Sokoto - II; The Apotheosis of Simpson; Our Quiet Little Shooting Trip; My Adventure with a Lunatic; A Tramp in Spain - XI; Sacred Town of Mandhata; Mystery of Silver Bow Valley; Among the South Sea Cannibals - II; A Night in a God-House; The Tragedy of the "Maria" and My Part in it; The Red Pig of Poora; Two-Thousand Miles in a Trawler; The Most Inaccessible Place in China; What Happened at Morelia; The Blumencorso at Hamburg. Heavily worn. Backstrip almost detached. Binding open after second blank leaf. A worthy reading copy. Book
Features: Cover photo of Deng Xiaoping, perhaps the man most responsible for the mighty industrial resurgence of China in recent decades; Vantage cigarette ad features Nancy Clarke; Resurrection in China - This week Gerald Ford will be met on the tarmac in Peking by Teng Hsiao-ping, the effective head of the Chinese government; Consensus in Russia - No matter who takes over from Brezhnev, the future will be a continuation of the present; Boomer of the Arts - In nine high-voltage years Thomas Hoving has led the Metropolitan Museum the city's No. 1 tourist attraction among New Yorkers; The New York Blues - What is worth Saving in New York City?; Body Building - Is it an art, a sport or sheer exhibitionism? - article with full-page photo of Arnold Schwarzenegger plus photo of Charles Atlas; Nice color-photo one-page ad for the Salton Peanut Butter Machine; Color photo of Frank Gifford in half-page ad for Dry Sack; After Orthodoxy - Paris fashion photos of works by Kenzo, Yves Saint Laurent, Sonia Rykeil, Dorothee Bis, Chloe, Jean Charles de Castelbajac, and Issey Miyake; Passive Solar Home Design - article with photos and input from Ronald Beckman, executive director of the Research and Design Institute (REDE); Uncommon one-page color-photo ad for Borden's Liederkranze soft ripened cheese; The possible comeback of the vanishing whooping crane; A Confession of Multiple Homicides, by Richard Condon. 112 pages. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and fantastic color-photo ads. School stamp on front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy of this excellent issue. Book
92 pages. Text in French. Features: Le Chapitre Des Chapeaux; Ensemble a Cape Pour Le Printemps; Le Mouvement Projete En Avant; L'Ecole De Ski; Sous Le Soleil De Sestrieres; Les Nouvelles Collections; A La Decouvert; Le Massage Facial; Idees Nouvelles Dans Les Bikoux; Accessoires; Fraicheir Du taffetas Quadrille; S.A.R. La Princesse Marina De grece; Mue De L'Homme, par Jean-Richard Bloch; Matins de Printemps; Sur La Cote De Floride; A Burlington House; Sur La Scene; Many gorgeous vintage ads. Above-average wear. Soiling to front cover. Binding intact. Missing pages 71-72. A worthy reference copy of this marvelous vintage issue. Book
Avec un texte historique de Théodose Burette, 3 vol. grand in-4 reliure demi-maroquin à petit coins lie de vin, Furne et Cie, 1844, T. I : 2 ff., 8 pp., 63 gravures (y compris le portrait de Louis-Philippe en frontispice), chacune des gravures est accompagnée d'une notice de 2 pp. ; T. 2 : 2 ff., 64 gravures accompagnées chacune d'une notice de 2 pp. ; T.3 : 2 ff. (faux-titre, titre), 73 gravures accompagnées chacune d'une notice de 2 pp., 1 f. (placement des gravures) Exemplaire collationné, bien complet des 200 gravures sur acier reproduisant les oeuvres conservées dans les galeries du musée historique de Versailles, qui venaient d'être inaugurées en juin 1837. Chacune des 200 planches est accompagnée d'un commentaire de 2 pages. Bon état (dos très lég. frottés, plats du tome 1 frotté, qq. mouill. et rares petits accrocs en marge sur qq. planches, bon ensemble par ailleurs) pour ce beau livre d'hommage à l'histoire de France et à ses grands hommes. Vicaire, I, 977-978 Français
Ten volumes, complete. FIRST EDITION of the memoirs of M. Claude, who served as director of the Surete during the Second Empire. Extensive accounts of murders and other major crimes and the ensuing investigations. Complete with numerous manuscript facsimiles (many folding) and an engraved portrait of M. Claude (frontispiece of final volume). 8vo. Attractively bound in recent cloth, leather spine labels. Very good throughout. A RARE AND IMPORTANT SET. Vicaire II, 443.
Pages 41-80 plus xvi pages of great vintage ads. Many great black and white photos. Features: The House of C.P. Searle, Esq., at Ipswich, Massachusetts; Hand-Made Rugs, the Revival of an Old Handicraft; Three Types of Gambrell Roof Houses - the home of Mr. Walter C. Sampson, at Summit, New Jersey, the home of Arthur E. Thayer at Dedham, Massachusetts, the home of Mr. Farnham, and the home of Mr. James Purdon, of Boston; Plant Breeding; The Dino Collection of Historic Armor - collected by the late Duc de Dino, Marquis of Talleyrand-Perigord; The Use of Anesthetics for Plants; A Few Neglected Fruits; A Seventeenth Century Homestead near Boston; A Wood Garden - at the country seat of Mr. H.H. Battles at Newton Square, PA; Nature's Traps; The Country Seat of Charles S. Brown, Esq., Mount Kisco, New York; A New Method of Housekeeping; The New Seed testing Station in Paris at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, then the Agronomic Institute in the Rue Cervantes; Great color back cover ad for Pierce Arrow cars (The George N. Pierce Company) features illustration of chauffeur holding door for woman in orange coat on city street; and more. Printed on glossy stock. Complete and unmarked with average wear. Some pages loose but all present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
Pages 41-80 plus xvi pages of great vintage ads. Many great black and white photos. Features: Notable American Homes - "Gellian Court," The Country Seat of Emil Berolzheimer, Esq., Tarrytown, New York; Roses for Winter; Homes of American Artists - The Rose Valley Artist's Home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Stephens, built and arranged by Price and McLanahan, architects, of Philadelphia; The Roadway and the Grounds; Giant Leaves - article with photos of massive cabbage, Gunnera, Monstera deliciosa, Elephant's Ear, and Anthurium leaves; The Compost Heap; The Residence of Friend A. Russ, Esq., "Rock Ridge," Greenwich, CT; New Developments in Stenciling; Residence of Prof. L.W. Reid, at Merion, PA; A "Triple-Gable" House at Oak Lane, PA, built for Charles E. Frick, Esq.; A French Model Dairy - wonderfully photo-illustrated article on this leading-edge operation on an island of the Seine, near Bougival, ten miles from Paris; The Colonial Residence of J. Randall Williams, Esq., Haverford, PA; One-page ad for Knabe pianos; Nice one-page illustrated ad for the Andrews Systems of the Andrews Heating Co.; Coldwell Lawn Mower ad; Two-color ad for the Royal Chair Co. on back cover illustrates chair with push-button sliding footrest; and more. Printed on glossy stock. Complete and unmarked with average wear. Covers and some pages loose but all present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
Ouvrage illustré de 165 gravures sur bois, 1 vol. in-8 cartonnage éditeur pleine percaline bleu, premiers plats richement illustrés, dos et second plat ornés, toutes tranches dorées, Librairie de Firmin Didot, Paris, 1879, 3 ff., 663 pp. avec frontispice Rare exemplaire en très beau cartonnage bleu de l'éditeur, richement illustré. Bon exemplaire (qq. rouss., petits frott. sur tranches, beau cartonnage frais). Si l'on trouve plus communément le cartonnage rouge ou le cartonnage vert, cette version "bleue" est rare. Brivois, 156 ; Vicaire, III, 771 Français
90 pages. Features: My Hop Around the World - Captain James Gallagher - article with great photos; 101 Answers to Cancer; Baseball's Winners of 1949; Young Man with a Sneer - Richard Widmark - article with great full-page headshot photo; Hot Fashions by Hattie Carnegie; Trouble is my Middle Name - part 2 of the 3 part Rocky Graziano article; Nice colour illustrations and article for men's spring fashion. Fiction: You Haven't Changed a Bit; Last Kiss; The Stolen Countess; The Spell of the Jade Goddess; Pride's Castle (part 8 of 8). Includes these ads: Hart Schaffner & Marx ad inside front cover; Bert Parks in an Ipana toothepaste ad, Borden's milk products, Jeep trucks, Chrysler's new car with fluid drive transmission, Lucky Strike (nice photo of girl on horse), Plymouth (with photo of Toby Couture, their main test driver), American Airlines - attractive 2-pages in color, PM Whiskey, Mallory hats, Van Heusen ties, Kaiser cars, Chevrolet, the Dodge Meadowbrook, Elgin watches, Glidden paint, Mercury cars, Burroughs business machines - 2 pages in color, Budweiser - full page in color shows fans at ball game, Canada Dry and a back cover color photo ad for Chesterfield cigarettes featuring Joan Crawford and L.E. Thomason of Paris, Kentucky. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
102 pages. Cover photo of Nazi officer imposed over large swastika. Contents: Vietnam widow - Shirley Isaaacs of Phenix City, Alabama; America's Ten Outstanding Young Men of 1965 - Donald Dickinson Williams, Bill D. Moyers, Jerry Herman, Edward H. White II, Frederick P. Whiddon, Aurther Edward Turner, Fred R. Harris, Charles Conrad Jr., Frederick Rogers Adams Jr.; Nice two-page color-photo ad for the 1966 Ford Galaxie XL in Paris; Oklahoma's Education War - the lesson it can teach a nation; How the Jews Changed Catholic Thinking - "B'nai B'rith wanted the Catholics to delete all language from the Church services that could even seem anti-Semitic" - extensively documents organized Jewry's intensive effort which resulted in the Catholic Church watering down its position that Jews killed Jesus Christ; The Defeat of Hitler's Order - General Dietrich von Cholitz did not obey Hitler's order to burn Paris; Nice colour ad for the American Motors Rambler station wagon; Great colour centerfold ad for the 1966 Plymouth 2-door hardtop VIP (blue); The New Mexico - yesterday's tradition takes on today's tempo - Luis Barragan; Acapulco's Young Fashionables - colour photos of lovely Latinas; *Fantastic* two-page colour ad for the 1966 Dodge Charger, featuring a grey model with red interior; Shooting is the least important part of Basketball - John Wooden is now in his 17th season at UCLA; Nice colour photo 7up ad; Luxurious 1-page colour photo ad for the wide-track 1966 Pontiac; Debbie Watson (of the ABC-TV show Tammy) says she'll be dangerous at 20; Albert the Dalmation dog defies nature and flips for the dolphin way of life - with great photos; Johnny Carson, the Prince of Chitchat, is a Loner - with photos; Nice full-page colour ad for Philco colour televisions; Two-page colour photo ad features the safety features of 1966 General Motors cars; Lovely colour photo ad for the 1966 Oldsmobile Jetstar 88. Nice two-page colour photo ad for 1966 Chevrolet trucks features a rocky desert scene. Back cover features nice colour painting of a railworker in a Camel cigarette ad. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Address label upon front cover. A sound copy of this informative issue. Book
89 pages. Contains piano sheet music, chords and lyrics to the following songs, several of which are now classics: Court and Spark, Help Me, Free Man in Paris, People's Party, The Same Situation, Car on a Hill, Down to You, Just Like This Train, Raised on Robbery, Trouble Child, Twisted. Contains five full-page black and white images of Joni plus 11 full-page artistic colour illustrations. Please Note: Poster not included. Few small check marks on table of contents. Prior owner's name atop front cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A precious vintage memento of Joni Mitchell, truly a beautiful and magically-gifted composer and performer. Book
Features: More Queer Fixes - A Meeting with a Meteor, In the Dark with a Mamba; A Night Attack; The Shot-Pickers; The Underground Pirates; Housekeeping Troubles in Annam; "In the Name of the Czar!" - I - A Subterranean Duel; Across Africa By Boat - I; Cupid and the Wire; Fallen Among Thieves; Remarkable "Follies"; Through the Black Canyon; Across Australia on a Bicycle; The Crop that Failed; Eight Days on an African Farm; Across Africa by Boat - II; More Queer Fixes - A Ride With Death - Sixteen Days Entombed - Lost in a Swamp; On the Roof of the Western World; Black Magic - A Weird Experience - Tambooze the Zulu; Life in the Sulphur Mines of Sicily; A Fight for Life Under Water; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger"; The Present that Went Astray; The Menace of the "Black Hand"; The Wreck of the "Dundonald"; The Experiences of a "Jackaroo"; The Story of Jasper Brown; Sporting Stories - A Brush with Elephants - The Senator's Tiger - A Ride on a Rhino; Buried Treasures in England; Six Months on a Drifting Ice-Floe; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger" - II; A Deal in Diamonds; Elk-Hunting in Sweden; How I Found My Wife; Across Africa by Boat - III; More Queer Fixes - an up and down affair - a battle with a shark; The Romance of Hermann Ochs; The "Night Riders" of Kentucky; "Captain Starlight"; More Queer Fixes - Imprisoned Under a Ship's Keel - A Motor-Boat in a Cyclone - An Uninvited Guest; A War Against a River; A Railway Stowaway; The Kauri Timber Industry; "Who Am I?"; My Ascent of Aconcagua; Running the Gauntlet; Eight Years in Babylonia - I; The Secret of the Castle; Ruined!; An Island in the Making; A Duel of Brains; Across Africa by Boat - IV; An Encounter with a Waterspout; The Ship that Disappeared; A Mountain of Gold; The "Vultures of Paris"; Eight Years in Babylonia - II; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - I; Caribou-Hunting in Newfoundland; More Queer Fixes - An Actor's Adventure - A Shifted Cargo; Through France in a Yacht; The Keeper of the Light; Flooded Out; The Bridge-Builders; Five Days in a Blizzard; A Holiday in Crete; A Short Cut; A Lion-Hunt in a Sewer; The Carriers of the Thames; How I Visited the Gouliot Caves; A Day with the South Sea Prince; More Queer Fixes - A Race Against a Leak - Two Hours in a Crevasse - The Millionaire's Messenger; The Perchten Dancers of Salzburg; The Wassmann Diamond; On the Frontier at Gibraltar;; A Romance of Two Islands - I; A Railway Smash to Order; The Ghost of the San Jose Mine; Up the Athabasca with the Fur-Traders; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - II. Average wear. Modest lean to spine. A sound copy. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: 'Twixt Sunset and Sunrise - Mining Engineer William Bartle relates a story from Mexico where, outside the large cities "no foreigner's life is worth a farthing"; The Cannibal Islands - Part II - photo-illustrated article by Clifford Collinson who has lived in the Solomon Islands for several years and, in this instalment, visits the little-known atolls of Ong-Tong-Java, with nice photos; The Disappearance of Annie Mooney - A thirty-year-old mystery is solved in a strange and unlooked-for manner - was she kidnapped by the Chinese all those years ago?; The Most Wonderful School in the World - A remarkable "sun-cure" establishment at Aigle in the Swiss mountains where children - recently hopeless cripples - learn their lessons and romp in deep snow clad only in loin-cloths and boots! - with photos; Obyada, Bad Indian - story related by a member of the Royal North-West Mounted police about a troublesome individual near Red Deer, Alberta; The Rum-Runner - the story of a sea captain's first smuggling voyage, as told in St. Pierre, headquarters of a fleet of ships engaged in the liquor-running business; Soliman the Seer - the mysterious fortune-teller of the Pyraid of Cheops; The Children of the Wilderness (Conclusion) - Juliet Bredon's photo-illustrated travels in little known Mongolia; A Wildfowling Adventure - a nasty little adventure on the Solway Firth; Fishing for Crocodiles - using a special hook and line; On Patrol - a quaint little experience related by a flying officer of the Royal Air Force; The MIssing Links - An Indian magician discovers a thief when the police had failed; Round the World With a Lasso - former Texas Ranger Captain George Ash tours the world giving exhibitions and training troops in the use of the lasso - article with photos; The Strangest Mutiny on Record - The Schooner Pedro Varela; Six Hundred Thousand Francs - One of the most audacious jewel robberies ever perpetrated (in Paris); and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
1 cahier cartonnage demi-percaline à coins bleu, s.d. [ circa 1890-1900 ] environ 96 ff. dont environ 80 rédigés à l'encre : Saint Vrain anciennement Escorchy (9 pp.) - Chevilly (6 pp.) - Lay ou Lahy (2 pp.) - Fresnes-les-Rungy (1 page et demie) - Rungy (4 pp.) - Arcueil - Villejuy - Longjumeau (6 pages et demie) - Orengy - Ris (3 pp.) - Evry anciennement Aivry (10 pp.) - Soisy-sur-Seine (2 pages et demie) - Lices (6 pages et demie) - Courcouronne (1 pages et demie) - Juvisy (2 pages et demie) - Vigneu (4 pages) - Draveil (3 pp.) - Montgeron - Villeneuve St Georges (6 pp.) - Crone - Valenton - Bonneuil sur Marne - Vitry sur Seine - Choisy le Roi (2 pp.) - Thiais - Orly - Athis - Villeneuve le Roi (3 pp.) - Paray - Arpajon (9 pp.) - Chanteloup (4 pages et demie) - Saint Sulpice de Favières - Longpont (12 pp.) - Montlhéry (9 pp.) - Plessis-d'Argonge - Brétigny (5 pp.) - Torfou (8 pp.) - Lardy (4 pp.) - Chamarante (2 pp.) - Gentilly (2 pp.) - Villeroy [ entre Fontenay et Corbeil ] (20 pp. avec Relevés au crayon sur 2 calques du plan terrier de Villeroy de 1751) - Le Vicomte - Nicoles de Neufville Seigneur de Villeroy (6 pp.) - Créteil - Chetainville - Viry - Ste Geneviève des Bois - Vitry - Bonneuil - Maisons - Epinay - Ballenvilliers - Chailly - St Sulpice de Favières (suite) - Itteville (9 pp.) - Cours de M. C. Jullian - Souvenirs inédits de Fontenay le Vicomte (6 pp.) Intéressant manuscrit recueillant des informations de provenance diverses sur plusieurs communes de l'Essonne. Le rédacteur s'intéresse longuement au petit village de Villeroy (près de Fontenay-le-Vicomte) et joint un relevés au crayon, sur 2 calques, du plan terrier de Villeroy de 1751. Le manuscrit se termine sur d'intéressantes anecdotes inédites relatives à Fontenay-le-Vicomte. Des similitudes avec d'autres manuscrits font penser que le rédacteur était un membre ou un proche de la famille Géruzez et de l'illustrateur Crafty ; il s'agit selon toute vraisemblance de sa fille Jeanne Geruzez, épouse du futur général Joseph Andlauer, né en 1869 à Fontenay-le-Vicomte (d'où l'intérêt pour Andlau dans un autre manuscrit, et pour Fontenay-le-Vicomte). Bon état. Bon état Français
1 vol. in-4 reliure demi-chagrin bleu, dos à 5 nerf, environ 24 feuillets façon vélin, 1885 : Contrat de Mariage passé le 10 août 1885 entre Jean Louis Marie Armand Bovet, Ingénieur civil des Mines, fis de François Bovet, Général de Brigade, Gouverneur de Belfort et de François Louise Anne Audebert et Mademoiselle Sophie Marie Charlotte de Courpon, demeurant chez M. et Mme de Creutzer Magnifique contrat de mariage manuscrit, détaillant notamment le patrimoine des époux. Le mariage fut célébré deux jours plus tard, le 12 août 1885, dans la mairie du huitième arrondissement, en présence notamment des témoins souvent prestigieux :"Eugène Poubelle, Préfet de la Seine, cinquante quatre ans, au Pavillon de Flore ; d'Alfred Rebillot, Général de Brigade, Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur" ou encore d'Edouard Phillips, Inspecteur Général des Mines, membre de l'Institut. Très bel état Français
1 programme format in-8, 4 ff. sous couv., 1914. Rappel du titre complet : Palais de la Boxe. 8 Rue aux Ours et 189 rue Saint-Martin [ Programme ] [ Contient : ] Mardi 20 Janvier 1914 à 9 heures : Première Partie. Poids mouche. Gill contre Conegnas ; Poids Coq Hubert contre Limin ; Poids Légers Bersthein contre Volaire. Deuxième Partie : Grand Combat pour le titre de Champion de France (Poids Welter Weight) Henri Piet Champion contre Degand, Challenger. Bon exemplaire de ce très rare document original, qui propose notamment un portrait en pied d'Henri Piet, et un portrait de Georges Carpentier (couv. très lég. frottée, mention ms. de la date en haut de couv.). Français
1 brochure in-12, J.A. Poincelin [ circa 1913-1914 ], 8 ff. et 1 f. volant joint (traduction des titres anglais et les grands voyages du Kinemacolor). Rappel du titre complet : Théâtre Edouard VII. Kinemacolor Tous les jours en matinée et en soirée. Le Spectacle le plus attrayant, la plus jolie salle de Paris. La Vie et la Nature en couleurs naturelles dans toutes leurs manifestations intéressantes. L'après-midi de 5 à 7 heures Kinemacolor-Thé sous la direction de l'Hôtel Edouard VII ainsi que les Bars et Buffets dans les Salons les plus sélects. Orchestre spécial Piano Pleyel, Lyon & Cie Très rare programme du Kinémacolor, procédé cinématographique mis au point par par George Smith et Charles Urban. L'obturateur de la caméra contenait un filtre orangé et bleu vert, donnant l'impression de couleur au film. Charles Urban fit construire le Théâtre Edouard VII à Paris en 1913 afin de projeter ses films en Kinemacolor ; la société de ce nom formée avec George Smith fit faillite en 1914. Le programme se compose de films de voyage ("La saison des bains à Ostende", "les chutes du Niagara", "le Lac de Lucerne", "Paris Pittoresque", "Le Japon" (avec tous les détails dans l'encart joint), mais aussi "La Lettre Infamante" (la lettre écarlate de Hawthorne), "Le Tentateur", etc... Bon état (couv. lég. frottée, très bon exemplaire par ailleurs) pour ce très rare document. Français
7 classeurs annuels prévus pour 10 numéros chacun, in-4, couv. ill. noir et blanc, ill. noir et blanc, Comédie Française, Paris, 1971 à 1978, env. 34 pp. par numéro i.e. env. 2170 pp. au total.. Rappel du titre complet : Comédie Française - revue mensuelle de la Comédie-Française , lot de 7 saisons, de 1971 - 1972 à 1977 - 1978 (numéros 1 à 70 sauf les n° 47, 48, 49, 62, 63, 66. Saison 1971-72, saison 1972-73, 1973-74, 1974-75, 1975-76, 1977-78) Etat très satisfaisant (un dos de classeur pressé, qques traces d'adhesif en int. de couv., bon état par ailleurs). Peu courant dans une telle série, presque continue. Prix pour l'ensemble. Poids de Kg. Cet ensemble permet non seulement de suivre la programmation de la Comédie-Française dans les années 70, mais aussi de faire la connaissance de ses comédiens et sociétaires de l'époque, de découvrir les coulisses de son activité, et de lire des articles de fond relatif au théâtre (rubriques "Présence du Passé", "Bibliographie", etc.). Un ensemble d'un grand intérêt pédagogique. Français
2 brochures in-8, 1913-1914, Gaumont-Palace, 36 pp. et 1 f. ; 10 ff. Très rare ensemble réunissant la notice complète du film muet "Fantômas contre Fantômas", des "Grands Films Artistiques Gaumont", et le programme du "Gaumont Palace" pour la saison 1913-1914. Comme il est indiqué au bas de la couverture de la notice, "Cette Notice, délivrée gratuitement avec le Programme, ne peut-être vendue". Ouvert le 11 octobre 1911, le Gaumont-Palace "plus grand cinéma du monde", avait une capacité de 3400 places. Bon ensemble (couv. de la notice un peu frottée, le spectateur a annoté une couv. et une page de titre en précisant la date : "vendredi 13 mars 14", bon exemplaire par ailleurs). Inspiré du roman de Pierre Souvestre et Marcel Allain "Fantômas, le policier apache", les vedettes du film de Louis Feuillade étaient Georges Melchior (Fandor), René Navarre (Fantômas...), et Edmond Bréon (Juve). Français
Texte par Philippe Gille de l'Institut. Dessins et relevés par Marcel Lambert, 2 vol. in-folio reliure éditeur pleine percaline verte, armoiries en plat, couv. et dos conservés, Edition Nationale, Maison Mame et Fils, Tours, 1899, 2 ff., xv-308 pp et 2 ff., 297 pp. Bon état (couv. lég. frottées, des rouss.) pour cet exemplaire dans la reliure d'édition, peu commune. Un impressionnant ouvrage de référence. Français
Notes et relations d'un Vyage autour de la Capitale à quatre lieues à la ronde, 2 vol. in-folio en feuillet sous chemise à lacet demi-toile orange, Chez F. Contet, Editeur d'Art, Paris, 1928-1931, 12 pp. et 36 planches hors texte ; 12 pp. et 36 planches hors texte. Rappel du titre complet : La Guirlande de Paris ou Maisons de Plaisance des Environs, au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siècle (2 Volumes - Complet) Tome I : Berny, Bourg-la-Reine, Cachan, Chatenay, Chatillon, Choisy-le-Roi, Gentilly, Ivry, L'Haÿ-les-Roses, Sceaux, Thiais, Vitry ; Tome II : Chambourcy, Chatillon, Fontenay-aux-Roses, La Celle-Saint-Cloud, Meudon, Savigny sur Orge, Versailles, Viroflay Bon exemplaire, rare ainsi bien complet des deux volumes (sans les lacets du second volumes, rares rouss., très bon état par ailleurs). Français
Folio (380 x 280 mm), 40 leaves of thick card stock with 3 samples pasted on verso, an addition 3 samples to rear paste-down and a further 2 samples tipped-in ( 122 in total), 3 sample having been removed, each sample is numbered with choice of colour and weight added in Ms. orig. cloth, title in gilt on upper cover, a little stained and faded.