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• Buy [BIBLE]. MANUSCRIT ENLUMINÉ SUR PEAU DE VÉLIN. Superb Capetian manuscript from the School of Paris.
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• Buy BEGUILLET, Edmé / PONCELIN, Jean-Charles. Description historique de Paris, et de ses plus beaux monumens, Gra... The finest eighteenth-century work devoted to Paris, adorned with 54 engravings by Martinet.
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• Buy DU BELLAY Les Œuvres Françoises de Joachim Du Bellay, Gentilhomme Angevin et ... According to Abbé St-Léger, this Rouen edition of 1597 is more complete than the previous ones.
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• Buy ESTIENNE Project du livre intitulé De la precellence du langage François. Le... Precious first edition in a contemporary vellum binding of Henri II Estienne’s work about French language printed in 1579, an author featured in “Lagarde et Michard du XVIe s...
• Buy FERMANEL DE FAVERY Relation des missions des evesques françois aux royaumes de Siam, d... "Very rare" first edition of this mission to the Far East.
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• Buy GREGOIRE Explication des cérémonies de la Fête-Dieu d’Aix-en-Provence, Ornée... The ceremonies of the Corpus Christi Festival of Aix-en-Provence printed in Aix in 1777.
• Buy HERGE Les Aventures de Tintin. Extremely rare first Chinese edition of The Adventures of Tintin, complete with all 23 albums.
• Buy LA FONTAINE Fables choisies, mises en vers par La Fontaine. Nouvelle édition gr... The Fables by La Fontaine illustrated with 723 etchings in first issue.
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• Buy LEIRIS Miroir de la tauromachie. Avec 3 dessins de André Masson. Original edition of this essential text in the work of Leiris, which has become the classic of bullfighting literature, indispensable for countering the detractors of the corr...
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• Buy MACHAULT Éloges et discours sur la triomphante réception du Roy en sa ville ... Beautiful festival book celebrating the victory of Louis XIII over the Huguenots of La Rochelle adorned with 16 large engravings, one of which is by Abraham Bosse, preserved in ...
• Buy MALLARME L’Après-midi d’un faune. Unique copy in printer’s proofs presenting the complete text.
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• Buy VOLTAIRE. Œdipe, Tragédie. Par Monsieur de Voltaire. Original edition of the first work by Voltaire which immediately established him as one of the great writers of the 18th century.
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• Buy Zienkowicz, Leon Les Costumes du peuple polonais suivis d’une description exacte de ... Original edition of this very rare collection of Polish costumes illustrated with 39 finely watercolor-painted and gummed plates from the period.
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• Buy MURGER, Henry. Scènes de la bohême. Rare original edition of the masterpiece of Murger.
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