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• Buy Chateaubriand, François René de. Mémoires d’Outre-tombe. Precious copy from the first issue preserved in its highly elegant contemporary bindings with provenance.
• Buy LAPLACE, Pierre Simon, marquis de Théorie analytique des probabilités ; par M. le comte de Laplace… First edition of a foundind work of the theory of probability
• Buy Homère. L’Iliade d’Homère, traduite en françois, avec des remarques par Mad... "Homer, a plural god, had worked, without mistakes, upstream and downstream at the same time, giving us a glimpse of the whole country of man and gods." René Char.
• Buy VALERY, Paul La Soirée avec Monsieur Teste. "La Soirée avec Monsieur Teste" by P. Valery
• Buy AGRICOLA, Georgius De re Metallica. De animantibus subterraneis liber. “One of the first technological books of modern times”. P. M. M., n°79.
• Buy CÉLINE, Louis-Ferdinand Voyage au bout de la nuit. First edition of the “Journey to the End of the Night” by Céline
• Buy ARS MORIENDI. Le Livre nomme Lart et science de bien vivre et de bi... The Art of Dying and Living
• Buy MUNSTER, Sebastian Cosmographey oder beschreibung aller Länder herrschafften, fürnemst... Very rare edition not described by Sabin of one of the most famous travel and geography books from the Renaissance.
• Buy Chateaubriand, François René de. Mémoires d’Outre-Tombe. Extremely rare pre-original edition of the Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe published before the original Parisian edition, unobtainable in well-preserved original wrappers.
• Buy DAUDET, Alphonse Le Petit Chose. Histoire d’un enfant. The first edition of the Petit Chose by Alphonse Daudet
• Buy DIDEROT, Denis Œuvres inédites de Diderot. Le Neveu de Rameau. Voyage de Hollande Diderot’s masterpieces, “Rameau’s Nephew”
• Buy STENDHAL, Henri Beyle La Chartreuse de Parme par l’auteur de Rouge et Noir. Deuxième édit... La Chartreuse de Parme by Stendhal
• Buy OVIDE / OVID Metamorphoseos libri moralizati. [Commentaires par Lactantius Placi... First illustrated edition from Lyons of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, illustrated with 16 beautiful woodcuts in first issue.
• Buy HUGO, Victor Les feuilles d’automne. “Exquisite for the learned, original and essential among the author's other productions, the collection of 'Les Feuilles d'automne' is also in perfect harmony with this century...
• Buy MOLIERE, J.-B. Poquelin. L’Avare. Comédie. Par I. B. P. Molière. First edition of L'Avare, one of the rarest and most famous comedies by Molière.
• Buy STENDHAL, Henri Beyle Armance, ou quelques scènes d’un salon de Paris en 1827. “The most beautiful copy seen by the great bookseller Maurice Chalvet in the course of his long career.”
• Buy ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. Eventyr, fortalte for born. A rare compilation that gathers together the first editions of two of Andersen’s main tales: "The Little Mermaid" and "The Emperor’s New Clothes".
• Buy FAUCHARD, Pierre Le chirurgien dentiste, ou traité des dents, Où l’on enseigne les m... Pierre Fauchard, the creator of the art of dentistry
• Buy HUGO, Victor / DE VIGNY, Alfred. Le Conservateur littéraire. Famous and very rare first edition of the Conservateur littéraire by the Hugo brothers and Alfred de Vigny.
• Buy DESCARTES, René. Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, & chercher... First edition of the Discourse on the Method preserved in its elegant contemporary Parisian binding.
• Sold HAUY, Valentin. Essai sur l’éducation des aveugles, ou exposé de différens moyens, ... « The first printed book intended to be read by the blind"
• Sold MARIVAUX, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Le Jeu de l’amour et du hazard. Comédie en trois actes. Représentée... First edition of Marivaux’s most accomplished comedy
• Sold Laclos Les Liaisons Dangereuses Liaisons Dangereuses by Laclos
• Sold Turgot Plan de Paris, commencé l’année 1734, dessiné et gravé sur les ordr... The map of Paris by Turgot
• Sold FLAUBERT Madame Bovary- Mœurs de province- First edition of Flaubert’s masterpiece, with dedication
• Sold LA MER DES HISTOIRES (contenant les Fables d’Esope et l’histoire de... La Mer des Histoires, the history of France until the death of King Louis XI
• Sold Produit De luxe edition of Buffon's Natural History
• Sold BERNARD, Claude Introduction à l’Etude de la Médecine Expérimentale. La médecine experimentale, a decisive work in science history
• Sold GROTIUS, Hugo De Jure Belli ac Pacis Libri tres. The foundation of modern international law
• Sold MERCATOR, Gerard. Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricat... Mercator’s famous atlas printed in Amsterdam in 1623, illustrated with 162 engravings, most of them on double-page, all of them finely contemporary watercolored.
• Sold LOBACHEVSKI Geometrische Untersuchungen zur Theorie der Parallellinien. The founding text of non-Euclidian geometry
• Sold Produit The Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène
• Sold REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph Les Roses par P. J. Redouté, peintre de fleurs, Dessinateur en titr... Precious and rare copy of the first edition of Redouté’s Roses, complete with the 171 engravings in two states, including the colored one.
• Sold LACLOS, Choderlos de. Les Liaisons dangereuses. The finest 18th century edition of the Dangerous Liaisons illustrated with 15 engravings in first state.
• Sold KESSEL, Joseph. Le Lion. First edition, limited to 155 numbered copies, of the “most charming” novel of Joseph Kessel.
• Sold FLAUBERT, Gustave L’Education sentimentale. Histoire d’un jeune homme. "L'Education sentimentale" by Flaubert on large paper
• Sold CERVANTES [Don Quixote] Segunda parte del ingenioso cavallero Don Quixote de ... "Exceedingly rare edition of Don Quixote" (Ricardo Hérédia, n°2518)
• Sold FAUCHARD, Pierre Le chirurgien dentiste, ou traité des dents, ou l’on enseigne les m... “This work is the best one ever written on teeth illness”
• Sold BRUEGHEL, Pieter, dit le Vieux / BOL, Hans Les Quatre Saisons. The Four Seasons by Brueghel
• Sold ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques Collection complète des œuvres de J.J. Rousseau citoyen de Genève. First collective edition of the “Confessions” by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Sold LA FAYETTE, Madame de La Princesse de Clèves. First edition of the "Princesse de Clèves"
• Sold LA FONTAINE Fables choisies, mises en vers par M. de La Fontaine. First edition of La Fontaine's Fables, rich with 118 etchings
• Sold BLAEU, Joan. Atlas Major, Sive Cosmographia Blaviana, Qua Solum, Salum, Coelum, ... First edition illustrated with 593 maps and views entirely colored and illuminated at the time.
• Sold PROUST A la recherche du temps perdu. "A la recherche du temps perdu" by Marcel Proust
• Sold BOUTILLIER, Jehan La Somme rurale. The first great book in the French language to codify medieval customs.
• Sold HUGO, Victor Notre-Dame de Paris. "Notre-Dame de Paris" by Victor Hugo
• Sold FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND, Barthélémy. Description des Expériences de la Machine Aérostatique de MM. De Mo... « The first Aerial Voyage ». (P.M.M., 229).