Books & manuscripts

Georges MATHIEU (1921-2012) "Red Energy II" Oil on canvas signed lower right, titled in red on the stretcher on the back Framed in blackened wood 81 x 130 cm Private collection Nord de la France / Artist's studio Freckles on the back of the canvas. Accompanied by a handwritten letter from the artist to the owner dated 17/02/1995. Reference: Similar work "Energie rouge, 1970", sold at Sotheby's London in 2006. *Resale rights for this lot are the responsibility of the buyer.

A secret poison cabinet in book cover, German historicism in the style of the 17th century Poison cabinet in the original 17th century parchment-covered and ornamentally embossed book cover with cut-out, glued pages. On the first cover page a colored copper engraving on parchment with an anatomical depiction. In the book block lined with marbled paper, twelve inscribed drawers with flame borders frame the memento mori composition placed in the center in front of the mirror, the skull made of dark horn, adorned with lumps of quartz and faux pearls and corals. Somewhat rubbed. Dimensions 36.5 x 24 cm. Condition: II -

Hard Edge. With 9 mounted color screenprints by Josef Albers, Hans Arp, Olle Baertling, Auguste Herbin, Alexandre Libeman, Richard Lohse, Richard Mortensen, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Victor Vasarely. Paris, Galerie Denise René, 1964. 35 sheets. 23 x 23 cm. Original cardboard (spine torn at lower capital, somewhat rubbed and dusty, front cover with annotation in "RENÈ"). Rare exhibition catalog for the groundbreaking Hard Edge exhibition at Galerie Denise René. With texts by Lawrence Alloway, Michel Seuphor and Teddy Brunius. - The silkscreen by Mortensen slightly scratched, otherwise in good condition.

Bayros, Franz von (pseudonym: Choisy le Conin). Tales at the toilet table. Title illustration and 15 plates, each with printed silk shirts. No place, privately printed, 1908. 1 sheet. Title/contents/printer's mark. 36 x 30.5 cm. Original half vellum portfolio with mounted cover illustration (upper spine bumped, lower spine with small loss, joints partially cracked). One of 500 (GA 510) numbered copies, for subscribers only. - Brettschneider 15th - All sheets with small collector's stamp on verso, title page with light-staining. - Provenance: From the collection of Hans-Jürgen Döpp, Frankfurt.

Rops, Félicien. Twelve engravings. Series of 12 mounted heliogravure plates. No place, privately printed, 1919. 1 sheet. Title/content/printer's mark. 31.5 x 24.5 cm. Loose in original half-linen portfolio with cover label (joints cracked, edges rubbed). One of 400 (GA 500) numbered copies. - Plates with small collector's stamp on verso. - Provenance: From the collection of Hans-Jürgen Döpp, Frankfurt.

[15th century illuminated manuscript]. NORMANDIE] Hours for the use of Rouen, northern France (Rouen?), last quarter of the 15th century, circa 1470-1480. Volume: 224 × 165 × 52 mm. [162] vellum leaves. Page 213: × 152 mm. Calendar. Writing area: 65 × 90 mm; upper margin 37 mm; lower 85 mm; inner 27 mm; outer 22 mm. One column of 16 lines, line spacing 6 mm. Large initials: 28 × 14 mm; small initials: 11 × 7 mm. Body text. Writing area: 95 × 65 mm; upper margin 38 mm; lower margin 85 mm; int. 27 mm; ext. 22 mm. One column of 15 lines, line spacing 6 mm. Large initials: 30 × 27 mm; medium initials 26 × 20 mm to 17 × 14 mm; small initials: 15 × 5 mm. Bound in 19th-century havana Russian leather, spine with 3 broad, protruding faux-nerves, gilt title and date, cold-finish decorated boxes edged with gilt roulettes and fillets, boards decorated with multiple frames composed of cold-finish and gilt roulettes and fillets, rhombus in the center, rotated roulette at the edges, green morocco lining and endpapers, edges formerly gilt and painted with two-tone floral motifs (slight rubbing, unstuck). PROVENANCE The hypothesis of a female patron, suggested by the presence of a woman praying before the Virgin and Child (f. 149r), is supported by the addition of the name of Saint Catherine, on the date November 25, by a hand different from that of the copyist. Calendar (f. 1r-12v) The calendar, in French, refers to the custom in Rouen. It mentions Saint Sever (February 1) and Saint Austreberte (February 10), both commemorated in a 15th-century breviary from Rouen (Leroq. B. 539); Saint Vigor (March 5), bishop of Bayeux from 511 to 538; Saint Valery (April 1), bishop of Rouen, attested to in several 15th-century Rouen manuscripts; Saint Méen (April 15), founder of the eponymous abbey in Ille-et-Vilaine; Saint Vaast (April 16 and July 16), to whom a dozen churches are dedicated in the Somme; the translation of the relics of Saint Ursin (June 12), celebrated in the dioceses of Rouen, Lisieux and Sées (Leroq. B.539, Lat. 1323, B.631, Lat. 1334); Saint Maclou (July 15); Saint Vivien (August 28), celebrated on the 26th in a 15th-century manuscript from the diocese of Rouen (Lat. 1334); Saint Mellon, bishop of Rouen (October 21); Saint Maclou (November 15 and July 10), attested to in several 15th-century breviaries from the dioceses of Bayeux, Coutances, Troarn, Lisieux and Sées (Leroq. B.572, B.469, Lat. 1323, Leroq. B.620, B.571, B.544, B.545, B.661); and Saint Ursin (December 30), celebrated in a series of breviaries and missals used in Rouen and Bayeux (Leroq. B.539, B.572, B.571, M.725, M.724, Lat. 1334). Contents Sequences from the four Gospels (f. 13r-18v): Jn 1, 1-14 (f. 13r- 15r); Lc 1, 27-38 (f. 15r-16r); Mt 2, 1-12 (f. 16r-17v); Mc 16, 14-20 (f. 17v-18v). Oraisons à la Vierge (f. 18v-25v): "Obsecro te" (f. 18v-21v); "O Intemerata" (f. 21v-25v). Hours of the Virgin (27r-78v) [the rubrics indicating the next office generally appear after the prayers of the preceding office; this ensures that the volume is complete, which is confirmed by the order of the leaves]: matins (f. 27r-37v); lauds (f. 38r-51v), ending with a series of antiphons and prayers to the Holy Spirit, St. Michael, St. John the Baptist, St. Lawrence, St. Nicholas, St. Catherine, St. Margaret, for peace [f. 52 virgin]; prime (f. 53r-58r); tierce (f. 58v-61v); sexte (f. 62r- 64v); none (f. 65r-67v); vespers (f. 68r-73v); compline (f. 74r-78v). Penitential psalms (f. 79r-91v), followed by the litanies of the saints (f. 91v-95v), which include Saint Mellon of Rouen (f. 93r) and Saint Maclou (f. 93v) [f. 96 blank]. Abbreviated Hours of the Cross (f. 97r-100r): matins (f. 97r-98r); prime (f. 98r-v); tierce (f. 98v); sexte (f. 98v-99r); none (f. 99r); vespers (f. 99r-v); compline (f. 99v-100r). Abbreviated Hours of the Holy Spirit (f. 100v-103v): matins and lauds (f. 100v-101v); tierce and sexte (f. 101v-102r); none (f. 102r-v); vespers (f. 102v-103v) [f. 104 blank]. Hours of the Dead (f. 105r-147v) [in this section, the text lacks the rubrics separating the offices]; [f. 148 blank]. The volume ends with two prayers in French. The first (f. 149r-154v), dedicated to the Virgin, follows the text of the Quinze joies Notre Dame, whose verses alternate with the Ave Maria. The second (f. 154v-162v) is a devotional oration addressed to Christ, alternating with the Pater noster. The success of these orations in the last decades of the 15th century was largely due to the rise of the Rosary confraternities and the distribution of the Livre et ordonnance de la dévote confrérie du Psaultier de la glorieuse Vierge Marie. The particular success of these texts in Brittany, the homeland of the Dominican Alain de la Roche who encouraged this devotion, is not surprising given the origin of our manuscript. D

Stone, Sasha. Femmes. With 20 (including cover) photographic plates. Paris, Edition Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1933. 1 sheet. 31 x 25 cm. Title page and plates loose in original photographically illustrated cardboard folder (illustration somewhat scratched and stained, edges rubbed and somewhat bumped, leaves with tears, 1 leaf loose). Collection d'Études Photographiques du Corps Humain - This impressive series is Stone's second independent publication. - Title slightly stained and creased, slight marginal wear, plates somewhat scratched in places, edges and corners somewhat rubbed or slightly creased in places.

VITRUVE - Les Dix livres d'architecture, corrigez et traduits nouvellement en François, avec des Notes & des Figures. Paris, Jean-Baptiste Coignard, 1673. In-folio, red morocco, Du Seuil decoration, coat-of-arms surrounded by gilt lace in the center, ornate spine, interior roulette and on the edges, gilt edges (period binding). Fowler, n°418. - Cicognara, n°727. First edition of the French translation by Claude Perrault (1613-1688), the brother of the famous storyteller. It features an allegorical frontispiece by Sébastien Le Clerc and 65 large intaglio plates in the text. A morocco copy bearing the arms of Louis-Auguste de Bourbon (1670-1736), Duke of Maine and Count of Eu, legitimate son of Louis XIV, and Grand Master of the Artillery. Note that the coat of arms on the first plate, though identical in every respect to that on the second and good plates, is a little deeper in the morocco and stamped with a gold that does not appear in the same color as the border. This curious border, which surrounds the coat of arms and features a sun, can only be found in frames on books produced by the Imprimerie Royale. Smudging at the head of the frontispiece, and at the head and margins of a few leaves. Some leaves slightly foxed. Fine restoration to head and spine.

Architecture - Mendelsohn, Erich. Russia. Europe. America. An architectural cross-section. With numerous photographic illustrations. Berlin, R. Mosse 1929. 214 p., 5 pp. 33.5 x 24 cm. Original half cloth (front cover slightly dampstained, slightly dusty and stained, back cover slightly light-stained). First edition. - Heidtmann 6097 (6th edition) - Heiting/Jaeger, Autopsie I, 174 - Jaeger 733 - Parr/Badger I, 77 - "One of the most innovative photo books of the twenties." (Roland Jaeger). - The photographs by the architect Erich Mendelsohn, reproduced in copper gravure (Dr. Trenkler, Leipzig), show skyscrapers in New York, Chicago, Detroit and Buffalo, but also granaries, traffic buildings and street views, flanked by emphatic comments by the author. - The recordings were made in 1924 during Mendelsohn's trip to America, on which he was accompanied by Fritz Lang. One shot was taken by the director, who "later recorded his travel impressions ... ... in his main cinematic work 'Metropolis'" (Roland Jaeger). - A clean copy inside. VAT: *

Hugo Pratt - War inks, 1989 pencil and ink on thin cardboard 21 x 30 cm Original illustration created by Pratt for the "Chine di Guerra" cycle, published for the first time in the newspaper Il Messaggero to accompany the novel "L'Ombra del Sole" by Wilbur Smith published in installments in January 1989, subsequently reprinted in the volume "Chine of War" on page 51 by Lizard Edizioni in 2000. A letter of authenticity signed by Mrs. Patrizia Zanotti is attached.

Gursky, Andreas. Montparnasse. Two-part exhibition catalog based on the concept by A. Gursky and H. Irrek for the Frankfurt Gursky exhibition in summer 1995. With numerous mostly color illustrations and the accompanying color photographic offset print (Parisian apartment block) in a separate cover. Frankfurt, Portikus and Stuttgart, Oktagon, 1995. 30 pp. 24 x 26.5 cm (catalogs)/ 27 x 48 cm (cover). Two original cardboards loose in original silver-colored cassette (27.8 x 50 cm) with cover title (cassette somewhat scratched). With the famous photograph of the Paris apartment block. - Parr/Badger II, 275: "Montparnasse is a 'one-picture' book, a rigorously elevational view of a giant housing block in Paris, itself a relentless gridded structure some 18 storeys high and over a quarter of a mile long. The block is the epitome of the 'housing as rabbit hutch' syndrome." - Good copy.

Oehlen, Albert. Eternal file. With poems by Wolfgang Bauer. With numerous full-page reproductions of collages. Cologne, König, 1983. 95 pp. 24.5 x 20 cm. Gilt-stamped original cloth binding with illustrated original dust jacket (dust jacket somewhat rubbed at the edges, upper edge with 2 tears, approx. 1 cm). Only edition. - Inside immaculate. - Enclosed: The same. Signed postcard "Ewige Feile". Cologne, König, around 1983. 15 x 10.5 cm. - Signed in the motif. - Perfect condition.

Verve. Revue artistique et littéraire. Vol. 2, No. 5-6. 16 lithographs, some in color, after Braque, Rouault, Derain, Léger, Bonnard, Matisse, Klee and others. Paris, 1939. 134 p., 22 pp. 35.5 x 26.5 cm. Original cardboard with color cover illustration by Maillol. American edition. - With a contribution by Gisèle Freund on D. O. Hill. - Good copy. VAT: *

BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - Les Diaboliques. Paris, E. Dentu, 1874. In-12, long-grained midnight-blue morocco, double gilt fillet, smooth spine, red title page, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine, slipcase (Devauchelle). First edition of the writer's most famous work. The book caused a scandal, and as with Baudelaire and Flaubert's Fleurs du mal and Madame Bovary, Barbey was prosecuted on charges of diabolism and moral outrage. The writer agreed to withdraw his work from sale, and the seized books were destroyed. The case was finally dismissed in January 1875 (cf. En français dans le texte, n°300). The six short stories that make up the Diaboliquess collection are as follows: Le rideau crimsi, Le plus bel amour de Don Juan, Le bonheur est dans le crime, Le dessous de cartes d'une partie de whist (which had appeared in 1852 following L'Enscorcelé under the title Ricochets de conversation), À un dîner d'athées, and La vengeance d'une femme. Washed copy, with cover marked second edition.

Geiger, Willi. The common goal and other things. A cycle of erotic drawings. With introductory words from the Todtenmesse by Stan. Przybyszewski. With 12 signed plates, 5 of them in red and black. Munich, privately printed, 1907. 3 pp. (1 white), 11 pp., 12 pp. (1 white). 28.5 x 31 cm. Original laid paper boards with gilt-stamped cover title and cord binding (lower board with minimal loss, margins with tears). One of 100 numbered copies, title and printer's mark signed by Geiger. - Bilderlexikon II, 432 - Hayn/Gotendorf II, 535 - The plates on Imperial Japan. - Untrimmed. - The work was confiscated by the Reichsgericht Leipzig shortly after publication and most of the edition destroyed. Printer's mark with 4-line handwritten note by Geiger: "The entire edition was destroyed (Reichsgericht Leipzig)...only 4 copies (....) saved. G." - First leaves slightly fingerstained and slightly wavy in lower margin, otherwise a good copy. - Provenance: From the collection of Hans-Jürgen Döpp, Frankfurt.

Fluxus - Iannone, Dorothy. Nine plastic printed sheets to Lists IV. A much more detailed than requested reconstruction. With 35 original serigraphs. Cologne, Diver Press, 1968. 8 loose sheets with 4 prints, 1 loose sheet with 3 prints. Print sheets from the workshop of Rudolf Rieser. - With a list of Dorothy Iannone's sexual partners before her relationship with Dieter Roth. In addition to the 30 accompanying images with the serigraphs: cover picture (Dorothy and Dieter Roth), title page, edition note, dedication drawing "for Papa" and a list of names of the partners with the categories "name", "one's age", "screwing" and "other". - Slightly creased, otherwise very good condition. - Provenance: Estate of Rudolf Rieser.

Cobra No. 1 Bulletin pour la coordination des investigations artistiques. With 5 (including cover) original color lithographs and some illustrations. Copenhagen, Galerie Birch, 1949. 21 pp. 31 x 24.5 cm. Illustrated original paperback (separated at spine, edges somewhat browned and stained, front cover with small loss at lower edge, somewhat creased, spine and edges with minor losses). Rare first issue of the series, only 7 issues were published in total (numbered up to issue 10, although issues 8 and 9 were not published). - The cover illustration is a joint work by Egill Jacobsen, Asger Jorn and Carl-Henning Pedersen, the other four lithographs are by Ejler Bille, E. Jacobsen, A. Jorn and C.-H. Pedersen. - Slightly browned and somewhat dog-eared, with faint vertical fold mark throughout.

LA PLEIADE, Tolstoy "Memories and Stories", 1978

ALMANACH ROYAL, leap year 1764. Paris, Le Breton, 1764. In-8, red morocco, gilt small-iron lace, central coat of arms, ornate spine, interior roulette, blue silk lining and endpapers, gilt edges (Period binding). Fine binding in morocco with lace, bearing the arms of a Duc de Luynes et de Chevreuse. Light staining at the head of the sections. Spine faded, small loss at upper head.

COLETTE - Mitsou. Paris, Société nouvelle des Éditions d'art Devambez, 1930. In-4, midnight-blue morocco, on each cover a large floral vase in beige, pink and green morocco, surrounded by a geometrical decoration in gilded fillet evoking a mosaic of irregular tiles, spine decorated with the title in gilded fillet written in Chinese style, inner scroll, lining in pink Russian leather, midnight-blue brocaded silk endpapers, gilded edges, cover and spine, midnight-blue half-maroquin and band folder, slipcase (Max Fonsèque). Edition produced under the artistic direction of Édouard Chinot, decorated with 26 etchings and drypoints by Edgar Chahine, including 8 hors texte and one on the cover. Edition of 226 copies, this one of 120 on Rives vellum, specially produced and watermarked, containing the engravings in their final state. Copy in an interesting binding by Max Fonsèque, from the Félix Marcilhac library (2012, no. 16).

BAUDELAIRE (Charles) - Les Fleurs du mal. Seconde édition. Paris, Poulet-Malassis et De Broise, 1861. In-8, orange half-maroquin, decorated spine, gilt head, untrimmed, cover (Durvand). Second edition, partly original, with 35 poems appearing here for the first time. Missing the portrait of Baudelaire engraved by Bracquemond. Scattered foxing and small wet spots. Cover restored. Spine darkened. The Complément aux Fleurs du mal (Bruxelles, Chez tous les libraires, 1869), which includes the six pieces condemned in August 1857 and removed from the book at the time of publication, has been bound in. Wet stamp of Alfred Mauger's library on the cover and title of this last platelet.

Architecture - Kozma, Ludwig. The New House. Ideas and experiments for the design of the family house with drawings and photographs of his own work. With numerous illustrations and floor plans. Zurich, Grisberger, 1941. 161 p., 1 sheet. 28.8 x 21.5 cm. Original cloth with spine title in the original illustrated dust jacket (the latter somewhat edgeworn, backed in the margin and with a tear to the spine). First edition. - Rare publication by the Hungarian architect and industrial artist Lajos Kozma (1884-1948), whose designs have shown strong references to the avant-garde (Bauhaus) since the early 1930s VAT: *

Koranic manuscript Ink, polychrome pigments and gold on paper, bound in brown and red leather India or Eastern Iran, 16th - 17th century 25 x 15.4 x 0.8 cm The opening folio of this Qur'anic manuscript features a Sarlow frontispiece illuminated with mandorles, abundant floral motifs and geometric friezes in polychrome and gold. This is followed by a text written in black ink, spread over 9 lines per page. Lines 1, 5 and 9 are in beautiful riqa' thuluth script, alternated with naskh on the intermediate lines, which are bordered by cartouches adorned with floral friezes, creating a beautiful symmetry. The brown leather binding is embossed with mandorls and double-flower motifs in red on both boards. (Worn, leaves detached, some margins reinforced).

DADA - Hering, Karl Heinz; Rathke, Ewald. Dada. Documents of a movement. With autograph signatures of Paul Citroen, Hans Richter, Man Ray, Suzanne Duchamp, Hannah Höch on the front cover. Düsseldorf, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, 1958. unpaginated. Original paperback. Including: Richter, Hans. A life for image and film. Berlin, Akademie der Künste, 1958. unpaginated. Original paperback with original cover. 2 copies, each signed by Hans Richter on title.

Religious manuscript from the Maghreb, compilation of Suras from the Koran Black ink, polychrome pigments on paper, embossed and gilded red leather binding Maghreb, 19th century 27 x 22 x 4.3 cm In black Magribi script enhanced with polychrome, the text is spread over 17 lines in colored framing fillets, with the titles of the suras in decorated cartouches. It features numerous marginal medallions. It opens onto a large bifolio (probably later) adorned with decorative polychrome compositions around a radiating star. The last pages of the manuscript also feature geometric and floral compositions, probably original.

Part of a silver ménagère 1st quality 925/000, model with leafy clasps, comprising: ten table settings, eight small spoons. Goldsmith: PUIFORCAT Minerve Weight : 3 kg 560 !!! Please read carefully: This lot is to be picked up at the study.

Fingesten, Michel. 21 Improvisations. Watercolor title, 19 (18 watercolor and signed) original lithographs (17) and original etchings (2) as well as 2 (1 signed) original watercolor pencil drawings, each mounted. No location, probably Berlin, around 1920, various formats. Loose in half-linen folder of the period with closing straps (lower edges heavily bumped, some with small losses). Collection of mostly erotic occasional prints, including some ex-libris. The two pencil drawings are titled "Autarkie" (7.5 x 14 cm) and "Elegie" (23 x 20.5 cm). The watercolor ex-libris were perhaps intended as final templates for the final color lithographs and as such are mostly listed with Nechwatal. - Some of the upper corners of the prints with traces of mounting, some of the outer margins of the boards and the cut somewhat red-stained, title page somewhat waterstained. - Provenance: From the collection of Hans-Jürgen Döpp, Frankfurt.

[ENLUMINURE]. [CHOIR BOOK]. Set of 5 ornate initials from a choir book. Music notated square on drypoint staves and a red line. Tempera and ink on parchment. France (?), late 12th century (?) Initial D, dimensions: 97 x 105 mm; Initial Q, dimensions: 108 x 110 mm; Initial E, dimensions: 75 x 85 mm; Initial I, dimensions: 70 x 154 mm; Initial H, dimensions: 105 x 142 mm Good condition, some traces of glue on the back. These initials come from a choir book (most likely an antiphonary) that betrays a minimalist Cistercian aesthetic, but with a profusion of blue pen-and-ink decoration that enhances the soberly decorated monochrome red initials. The decoration recalls certain manuscripts painted for Pontigny Abbey (Yonne), see for example the initials of a manuscript by Bede the Venerable (circa 1164-1166) (Auxerre, BM, MS 14). Expert: Ariane Adeline

Avant-garde - Japan - Onchi, Koshiro. Han geijutsu. No. 31, October 1934. 21 original woodcuts (incl. cover) by Onchi Koshiro. 27.5 x 20.5 cm. Illustrated original cardboard (spine with small losses, somewhat brownstained, slightly creased). The magazine for contemporary Japanese art, Han geijutsu, existed from 1930-1936 - This special issue is devoted exclusively to the work of Onchi Koshiro (1891-1955). The woodcut artist and book cover designer as well as co-founder and central figure of the Sosaku-hanga movement was one of the first Japanese to engage in abstract art. - 1 plate brownstained, somewhat creased in the area of the prints, probably due to production. VAT: *

Lipchitz, Jacques. 12 Dessins pour Prométhée. With 12 (10 colored) plates. Paris, Edition Jeanne Bucher, 1940. title page. 47.5 x 34 cm. Original half canvas portfolio with gilt-stamped cover title and ribbon marker (edges partly rubbed). One of 450 (GA 500) copies, reproduced by M. Beaufumé, colorist. - These drawings were created in 1936 for the sculpture Prometheus, which was presented in the Pavilion of Sciences during the Paris World Exhibition in 1937. The sculpture was later destroyed. - A good copy. VAT: *

Albert DUBOUT (1905-1976) La Gloire de mon Père - 1958 Texts by Marcel PAGNOL Éditions Pastorelly Richly illustrated copy Copy justified H.C. and enriched with a signed autograph letter from the author "A Gaston Bonheur, le poète, mon ami. With all my heart. Marcel C'est pour les dessins" Edition of 5,000 copies 25.5 x 19 cm (in jacket and slipcase, wear and pitting)

Lot of two works Charles BAUDELAIRE, E. BRACQUEMOND, Femmes damnées. Paris, Kieffer, 1946, composed of a series of engravings on lino, Edition of 350 copies, numbered 109. Louis BERTHOMMÉ SAINT-ANDRÉ & Guy de MAUPASSANT, La maison Tellier. Monaco, Les documents d'art, 1946, Edition of 900 copies, numbered 159

Homosexuality - Die Freundschaft. Weekly magazine for freedom and friendship. Official organ of the German Friendship Association. III. year: issues 44, 45, 49, 51 - IV. Volume IV: 1, 4, 15-18, 20-24, 27/28, 29, 31-33, 35-51/52 - Volume V: 1. with illustrations. Berlin, Karl Schultz-Verlagsgesellschaft, 1921-1923. 34.5 x 25 cm. Newspaper fold (only a few issues with tears). Extensive bundle of the newspaper published from 1919-1933, with mostly homoerotic topics. - Dietzel/Hügel II, 1077 - Hayn-Gotendorf IX, 290 - Published only monthly from volume V onwards. - Enclosed: Das Freundschaftsblatt. Central organ of the homoerotic movement in Germany. Published by Martin Radszuweit. 16 issues of volumes V.-X. Berlin, M. Radszuweit, 1927-1932. 31 x 23.5 cm. Newspaper fold (some light wear). VAT: *

Set of documents from the Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes : 6 First-class menus printed on bristol board, 1954 including dinner December 24 and lunch December 25, Paquebot Felix Roussel. 5 blank cardboard sheets for Paquebot Felix Roussel menus. 26 typescript menus on paper, for the different classes, Paquebot Felix Roussel, 1954. Commandant J. Coffin , Intendant J. Bossennec. Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes brochure on the Viet-Nam, Cambodia and Laos liners, with maritime map. ( torn in two parts). Bristol on the features, decoration and life on board the liner "Laos" 1954. Issue of La Semaine à Saigon (1959). Lot of miscellaneous documents Paquebot Laos and Paquebot Felix Roussel

[PICASSO] / [BALLETS RUSSES] Théâtre du Châtelet - May 1917 - Les Ballets russes in Paris. Exceptional performances with the gracious assistance of the artists of M. Serge de Diaghilew. Paris, Maurice de Brunoff, s.d. (1917). In-folio, saddle-stitched with wire (one staple missing) upper cover illustrated with a color drawing by Picasso, (34) ff. Without the Châtelet de Paris cover. Small crack on back cover, center leaves detached. Nevertheless, a good copy. Numerous illustrations in the text (photogravure portraits of artists, sets, watercolors of costumes, etc.). Emblematic program of the Parisian avant-garde and surrealism. Includes announcements of performances, notably of Parade (music by Satie to text by Cocteau, set and costumes by Picasso), Petrouchka (Stravinsky), L'Oiseau de Feu (Stravinsky) and others. In Apollinaire's presentation of Parade, we note the first appearance of the term surrealism (here written "sur-réalisme"). In addition to the illustrated cover, two other watercolors by Picasso: Chinese costume from the ballet "Parade", enhanced in color by hand, and acrobat's costume from the ballet "Parade", enhanced in blue by hand. Rare.

ATLAS. - ZANNONI (Rizzi). Geographical atlas containing the Mappemonde and the four Parts, with the different States of Europe. Paris, Lattré, 1762. - BONNE. Idée de la sphère, ou Principes sur la géographie astronomique. Paris, 1763. Together 2 works in one volume, in-18, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, fleururette at the corners, ornate smooth spine, green title page, interior roulette, gilt edges (period binding). The atlas includes an engraved title, an allegorical frontispiece and 29 double-page maps (n°1-27, 10 bis and 24 bis), all finely colored. A fine copy in contemporary morocco. Lattré publisher's catalog at the end of the volume (4 leaves). Armorial bookplate engraved by Edgar Stern.

VITRUVE (Marcus Pollio Vitruvius) / MARTIN (Jean) Architecture ou Art de bien bastir (...) mis de Latin en Françoys, par Ian Martin. Paris, veuve et héritiers de Jean Barbé pour Jacques Gazeau, 1547. 1 vol. in-folio, marbled fawn basane, ribbed spine decorated with gilt fleurons, blackhead morocco title page, red edges. 18th-century binding, spine faded, upper jaw split, corners dull. Title with woodcut portrait, 160 woodcut figures in the text, many full-page, (4) ff, 155 ff, (1) blank ff, (23) ff. A4 [A-Z]6 [Aa-Zz]6 [A-D]6. Title leaf partly detached from binding, angular wetness on ff. 11 to 18, some freckling. The last blank leaf (D6) is missing. First edition of the first complete French translation of Vitruvius. The translation is the work of Jean Martin (translator of Le Songe de Poliphile and Serlio's architectural books in 1545), revised by the French sculptor Jean Gouujon. One of the finest illustrated books of the French Renaissance. The edition, designed by Jean Barbé, was inspired by Italian editions of Vitruvius, notably those of 1511 and 1521, from which it borrows some illustrations. The three engravings depicting theatrical scenes are taken from those illustrating Serlio's second book of architecture (1545). But the bulk of the engravings are by Jean Goujon, who also wrote a five-page afterword, considered to be the earliest original architectural text written directly in French. Renouard III, n°62; Brun, 313; Mortimer II, n°549; Cicognara, 710; Fowler, n°403.

[ENLUMINURE]. [CHOIR BOOK]. Ornate initial I. Tempera, gouache and gold leaf on parchment. Italy, Lucca (?), circa 1475 (?). Dimensions: 135 x 244 mm Minor loss of pigments (especially the green), some chipping. This large initial I is reminiscent of the style of historiated initials associated with Lucca Cathedral. There are two fragments preserved at Oberlin College, donated by Robert Lehmann, which are thought to come from a volume in the series of antiphonaries commissioned by Stefano Trenta, bishop of Lucca from 1448 to 1477. The artist responsible for the Oberlin College initials was also involved in two other volumes (commun des saints and sanctoral) housed in Lucca's Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (MS 2 and MS 6). This artist has been associated with the production of Lucca artists of the third quarter of the 15th century, such as Baldassare di Biagio and Matteo Civitali (see R. Massagli, in Seil et Silva (dir.), Lucca città d'arte e i suoi archivi, Venice, 2001. See also P. Palldino, Treasures of a Lost Art, New York, 2003, nos. 83a and 83b. Expert: Ariane Adeline

LÉGER (Nadia). - CZWIKLITZER (Christophe). Suprematism by Nadia Khodossievitch-Léger. Paris, Éditions Art-C.C., 1972. Fort in-folio, black velvet, gilt brass sculpture in relief on first cover, smooth spine, publisher's Plexiglas folder and slipcase. First edition of this monograph devoted to the painter Nadia Léger (1904-1982), illustrated with 93 laminated reproductions. One of 250 copies of the French-language deluxe edition, signed by the publisher and the artist, with a numbered and signed original lithograph in color, and an original Suprematist sculpture in gilded brass metal by the artist on the front cover. A very good, perfect copy, preserved in its original cardboard box. Expert : Sylvie Collignon

VERNE (Jules) L'école des Robinsons. Le rayon-vert. Paris, Collection Hetzel, [1905-1914]. Large in-8, 6 plates, polychrome cartonnage, 1st board with fan and elephant, title in cartouche, spine with lighthouse, second board type r. Very fresh copy

BERLIOZ (Hector). BÉATRICE & BÉNÉDICT Opera in two acts imitated from Shakespeare...first performed at the new Theater in Baden, August 9, 1862. Paris: G. Brandus & S. Dufour, [1863]. In-4, [1] f. (illustrated title), 200 p. of notated music, contemporary red half-basin with corners, smooth spine, author, title, gilt fillets, initial "L" stamped in tail (binding worn, unbound; first 2 f. unbound, extensive but light wetness throughout, tear without missing title and p.39). Copy of the pianist and composer Henry Litolff (1818-1891), with this signed autograph ex-dono from Hector Berlioz: "à mon ami Litolff, souvenir affectueux et admiratif". The binding bears the pianist's initial on the spine, and he in turn presented this precious copy to a dear friend, with this autograph signed letter dated 1872: "Souvenir affectueux à la femme de mon bien cher collaborateur Jules Brésil". Jules Brésil was a writer, playwright and opera librettist, as well as a celebrated actor of his time.

Bayros, Franz von - Dante Alighieri. The divine comedy. - La divina commedia. Color fantasies by Franz von Bayros. German by Otto Gildemeister. Edited by Karl Toth. 3 volumes. With 60 mounted color plates after watercolors by Franz von Bayros. Vienna, Amathea, 1921. 27.5 x 22 cm. Original full vellum volumes with gilt-stamped spine title, gilt-stamped cover vignette and full gilt edges (slightly browned). One of 85 (GA 1100) numbered copies of the special edition in full vellum, the printed dedication leaf in volume 1 with handwritten signature by Bayros. - German-Italian parallel text. - A very good copy. VAT: *

Miklos BOKOR (1927-2019), Paintings and drawings, Exhibition catalog Musée Jenisch Vevey and Galerie Ditesheim Neuchâtel, 1993, accompanied by a lithograph on Arches paper, signed by the artist in the margin and numbered 13/50.

DIDEROT (Denis) - La Religieuse. Paris, s.n., 1797. 2 volumes in one small in-12, speckled tawny calf, gilt foliate border, ornate smooth spine, green title page (contemporary binding). Edition of the original date, with 2 unsigned copper-engraved figures. A pleasant, well-bound copy. Minor foxing and slight wetness to engravings, 2 loose leaves in book N in volume I. Minor binding defects.

LA BRUYÈRE (Jean de) - Maximes et réflexions morales, extractes de La Bruyère. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Monsieur, 1781. In-18, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate smooth spine, interior roulette, gilt edges (contemporary binding). Fresh contemporary morocco binding, in the style of Derome. Some light foxing, engraved bookplate torn off on one endpaper.

Fuchs, Bernhard. Cars. Photographs. With numerous full-page illustrations. London, Koenig Books, 2006. unpaginated. 31 x 42.5 cm. Silver-stamped original cloth binding with illustrated original dust jacket. Only edition. - One of 500 (GA 525) copies. - Impeccable condition.

Collection of Koranic prayers by Abdolhamid al-Sharif Ink, polychrome pigments and gold on paper, bound in stamped brown leather Iran, 1262 AH / 1846 AD 20.5 x 13.7 cm This illuminated manuscript, written in fine black and red naskh calligraphy with 11 lines per page and framed in gold, is a compilation of Qur'anic prayers. The manuscript opens with a mandorla and a poetic text, followed by the opening bifolio, richly illuminated with a Sarlow frontispiece featuring mandorla motifs with abundant floral decoration, as well as margins with gilded vegetal decoration and polychrome touches. The brown leather binding is adorned with vegetal decoration in stamped mandorles. (Wear to binding, pages detached).

HUYSMANS (Joris-Karl) - À Vau-l'eau. Paris, Georges Courville, 1933. In-4, leaves, filled cover, publisher's folder and slipcase. First illustrated edition, with 19 etchings and drypoints by Edgar Chahine. Edition of 215 copies, this one of 20 on japon impérial containing an original drawing and a suite of etchings with remarks.

LA PLEIADE, Fénelon, "Œuvres", volume 2, 1997

[MAN RAY] / PERET (Benjamin) Immortelle maladie. Paris, Collection "Littérature", 1924. Small in-4° brochure, orange printed cover. Off-text frontispiece by Man Ray, (6) ff. Cover slightly faded. A good copy. First edition. One of 50 press copies (total edition of 201). Handsome autograph letter from the author to Léon Treich: "Les poissons de chaleur s'envoleront" (verse from the 6th poem).