BIBLIOTHÈQUE JOËL DUPONT - LIVRES & AUTOGRAPHES

Lot 1 - BUSINESS CARDS. Set of 34 autograph business cards, most of them signed (or initialled): Paul Bourget, René Bazin, Henri Bergson, Henri Bordeaux (2), Jules Romains, Fernand Gregh, André Maurois, Émile Henriot, Charles Guérin, Émile Mâle, Jules Massenet (2), Francis de Croisset, René Boylesve (2), Charles Léandre, Roger Vercel, Fernand Vrolyk, Jean Pourtal de Ladevèze, André Mary, Lucien Lepoittevin, H.A. Quéru, Paul-Jean Toulet (blank), Catherine de Monicault, Cécile Périn, Paul Adam, Hélène Vacaresco, Francis Vielé-Griffin, Paul Margueritte, Paul Reboux (on a card from Mme G.Y. Lotte), Albert Guillaume, Georges d'Espagnat and Henri de Régnier.

Estim. 100 - 200 EUR

Lot 2 - LITERATURE. Large lot of around 200 letters, mostly signed autographs, many of them addressed to the writer Jean-Joseph Renaud (1873-1953). Jean Ajalbert (2 including a letterhead from the Académie Goncourt); Théodore de Banville; Gérard Bauër; Maurice Bedel (3); Pierre Benoit (3); Louis Bertrand; André Billy (5); Léon Blum; Jules Bois; Paul Bourget (2); Eugène Brieux; Francis Carco (6 and a fine photograph of Carco in Egypt, smoking in front of hieroglyphs); André Chevrillon; Judith Cladel; Jean Cocteau (L.A.S. and telegram); André Corthis; Georges Courteline; Francis de Croisset;Guy-Charles Cros; Lucien Daudet (2); Charles Derennes; Lucien Descaves (4); Gaston Deschamps; Léon Dierx; Georges Duhamel (2); Luc Durtain; Henri Duvernois(3); Georges Faillet dit Fagus (2); Claude Farrère (2); Eugène Fasquelle (2); Feuillet de Conches (on the correspondence of Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and Mme Elisabeth); André Fontainas; Paul Fort (10 including poems, manuscripts, etc.); Maurice Garçon (3).); Maurice Garçon (3); Gustave Geoffroy; Serge Groussard; Maurice Genevoix; Fernand Gregh(8); Gyp; Edmond Haraucourt; Émile Henriot(2); Abel Hermant (2); Gérard d'Houville; Etienne Lamy; Raymond de La Tailhède; Laurens; Henri Lavedan; Maurice Leblanc; Charles Leconte de Lisle; Hubert Lyautey (telegram); Louis Madelin (2); Maurice Magre (2); Jules Massenet; Paul Marguerite; Charles Maurras(Action française letterhead); André Maurois; Fernand Mazade(2); Francis de Miomandre(2); Raoul Ponchon; Charles-Louis Philippe; Paul Reboux (2); Henri de Régnier (7); Marie de Régnier (3); Jean Richepin (2 of which poem); J.-H. Rosny (Jeune et Ainé); Jean Royère; Maurice Schumann; André Siegfried (7); Albert-Emile Sorel; Sully Prudhomme; Pasteur Vallery-Radot (4); Paul Valéry; Fernand Vandérem; Léon Vérane (2); Alfred de Vigny (autograph envelope); Maxime Weygand; Léon Hennique; Philippe Chabaneix (6 drawings); Jean-Louis Vaudoyer (M.A.S. "Le Jardin romantique. 5 pp. ½ in-4); Théodore Botrel (M.A.S. "Ma Mitrailleuse". 2 pp. in-folio, pencil), etc.

Estim. 400 - 500 EUR

Lot 3 - MITTERRAND, François (1916-1996) - L.D.S. to M. Dupont. Paris, July 22, 1886. 1 p. in-8. Header of the Presidency of the Republic. Retained envelope. "I can in no way hold your absence from Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte against you during my recent visit. This visit to the Barbey d'Aurevilly museum was quite impromptu and left me with the best of memories [...]". He'll be back after the renovation work is completed

Estim. 100 - 150 EUR

Lot 4 - NOAILLES, Anna de (1876-1933), poétesse et romancière - Set of 6 documents: - 3 L.A.S. including one to Countess Greffulhe. 6 pp. in-4 and in-8. Stains and paper sticking to one document. She refers to Les Eaux de Damas, Ivresse au Printemps and Soir à Saint-Cloud, to be published in Le Figaro, "these verses are detached from my volume Les Éblouissements, which is due to be published around the 20th by Calmann Lévy"; she wishes Elisabeth de Caraman-Chimay not to be affected by the "written remarks", "your name being put there with no other consequence than to remind readers that there exists, among war and its misfortunes, a beautiful and good being, who must disdain to defend herself, being the friend of the King and Queen [....]" and praises her devotion and patriotism, etc. - 3 autograph cards signed, including to Armand Dayot and Melle Dayot. 5 pp. in-12 and in-16 oblong. An address on the reverse and a preserved envelope. An envelope addressed to Countess Greffulhe is enclosed.

Estim. 400 - 500 EUR

Lot 5 - PAGNOL, Marcel - Set of 2 letters: - L.A.S. Parcé [sur Sarthe], September 1, 1945. 2 pp. in-4. "I am delighted by your letter and your article. Indeed, a certain number of critics overwhelm me with their contempt, and sneeringly call me the "champion of Georges Ohnet", whom they have certainly not read. Your approval comforts me [...] I'll mention it in my reply to the "Critics of the Critics of the Critics". He goes on to talk about the "overwhelming success" of his novel, whose print run in France has exceeded "four million copies". - L.A.S. [Monaco], May 27, 1949. 1 p. in-8. Letterhead with his name. "The grand prize for the novel is already practically given following long and laborious deliberations. I will read your book [...]".

Estim. 150 - 200 EUR

Lot 6 - RODIN, Auguste (1840-1917) - L.A.S. to Armand Dayot (1851-1934), art critic and founder of the journalL'Art et les Artistes. "Your letter, dear friend, is one of the kindest I have received. I don't think I have any greater sympathy than the one I feel for you. My respectful regards to Madame Dayot, who must have made good progress and is already executing pretty things. Your friend Rodin". AUTOGRAPHS see lots 69 to 79, 178

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 7 - 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.

Estim. 800 - 1 000 EUR

Lot 8 - [ARCONVILLE (Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Thiroux d')] - Mélanges de poésie angloise, containing the Essai sur la poésie de Jean Sheffield duc de Buckingham & de Normamby. Alexander Pope's Temple of Fame. Henry and Emma, imitated from Chaucer's beautiful Brune, by Mathieu Prior. S.l., 1764. In-8, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, small gilt fleur-de-lys at the corners, ornate smooth spine, interior roulette, gilt edges (Period binding). First edition of this translation given, according to Barbier, by Madame d'Arconville (1720-1805), a French woman of letters and anatomist. A fine copy in morocco, with the author's bookplate engraved by Louise Le Doulceur after Charles Eisen, pasted into the lining. Small scuff marks on second cover.

Estim. 300 - 500 EUR

Lot 9 - 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.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 10 - ATLAS. - BONNE. Atlas maritime ou Cartes réduites de toutes les Côtes de France avec des cartes particulières des Isles voisines les plus considérables. Paris, Lattré, 1778. In-18, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, fleururette at corners, ornate smooth spine, green title page, interior roulette, gilt edges (period binding). Atlas comprising an allegorical title-frontispiece and 36 double-page maps, finely colored, and 12 leaves of engraved text (including one leaf for the table and 10 others paginated 31-49 for the Idées des villes whose plans are in this collection). A fine copy in contemporary morocco. 2 colored folding plans of Paris and Versailles added. Handwritten Delahaye bookplate. Armorial bookplate C. Garnier

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 11 - BACON (Francis) - Moral and political works. Paris, Pierre Rocolet, François Targa, 1633. Large volume in-8, limp vellum, traces of binding, title in ink on spine (contemporary binding). Second edition of Jean Baudouin's French translation, following that of 1626 published by the same editors (Gibson, Francis Bacon, no. 165). It is decorated with a title-frontispiece and a portrait of Francis Bacon (1561-1626), engraved on copper by Crispin de Passe. A pleasant copy in contemporary vellum. Angular staining on several leaves, small paper loss with loss of a few letters at the lower corner of leaf Qq1.

Estim. 300 - 500 EUR

Lot 12 - BIBLE. - New translation of the Psalms of David, based on the Hebrew. Justified by remarks on the genius of the language, by M. Laugeois. Paris, Le Mercier, Desaint & Saillant, Savoye, 1762. 2 volumes in-12, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, central coat of arms, smooth spine decorated, interior roulette, gilt edges (period binding). First edition of the complete translation of the Psalms by the Hebraist Joseph-Michel Laugeois. Large paper copy, bound in morocco with the coat of arms of Marie-Josèphe de Saxe (1731-1767), dauphine of France. Daughter of Frederick-Augustus III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, she was the second wife of the Dauphin Louis de France (son of Louis XV) and the mother of three kings who ruled France: Louis XVI, Louis XVIII and Charles X. Her personal library contained only books of piety and small numbers of works on theology, history, music and the fine arts, generally well bound (cf. Quentin Bauchart, Les Femmes bibliophiles de France, t. II, pp. 91-104). The copy appeared in Bulletin Morgand (November 1895, no. 26699). Handwritten bookplate dated 1860 on endpapers. Small chip to a headpiece.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 13 - BOILEAU (Nicolas) - Poésies. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Didot l'aîné, 1781. 2 volumes in-18, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate smooth spine, gilt coat of arms on tail, interior lace, gilt edges (period binding). Beautiful edition printed in small type by Didot. A superb copy in morocco, stamped on the tail with the arms of Princess Grimaldi. Louise-Félicité-Victoire d'Aumont-Mazarin (1759-1826) married Honoré IV Grimaldi (1758-1829), Duke of Valentinois and Prince of Monaco, in July 1777. From the libraries of Sutton Sharpe and Daniel Sharpe, with their bookplates. Covers and hinges slightly darkened, tiny crack to one jaw.

Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

Lot 14 - BOILEAU (Nicolas) - Miscellaneous works. Avec le Traité du sublime, ou du merveilleux dans le discours. Paris, Veuve Claude Barbin, 1701. 2 volumes in-12, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spines, interior lace, gilt edges (Brany). Last edition published during the author's lifetime, with 2 frontispieces and 8 (of 9) copper-engraved figures by Landry, Vallet, Thomassin and Noblin (Magne, Boileau, no. 289). A very well-bound copy. From the libraries of Baron Horace de Landau and Vicomte de Cossette. The figure preceding the Discourse to the King in Volume I is missing. Slight scuffing to one corner.

Estim. 150 - 200 EUR

Lot 15 - BOILEAU (Nicolas) - Oeuvres. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Didot l'aîné, 1789. 2 volumes in-4, long-grained red morocco, wide gilt border decorated with neoclassical motifs, ornate spine, entrenerfs outlined with a green listel, interior roulette, gilt edges (period binding). Edition in-4 printed at 250 copies on wove paper, of the Collection des auteurs classiques français et latins printed by order of the King for the education of the Dauphin. Beautiful binding attributable to Jean-Claude Bozerian. Some light foxing, paper a little weakened in the margin of p. 14 in volume I. Spine a little faded.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 16 - BOSSUET (Jacques-Bénigne de) - Oraison funèbre de Henriette Anne d'Angleterre, duchesse d'Orléans. Prononcée à Saint Denis le 21 jour d'Aoust 1670. Paris, Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1670. In-4, jansenist blue morocco, interior lace, gilt edges (Riviere & Son). First edition. From the Michel Dubos library (2019, n°262). One bookplate torn off. Discharge of the gilding of the inner lace on the facing endpapers.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 17 - BOSSUET (Jacques-Bénigne de) - Oraison funèbre de très-haut, et très-puissant prince Louis de Bourbon prince de Condé, premier prince du sang. Prononcé dans l'Église de Nostre-Dame de Paris le 10 jour de Mars 1687. Paris, Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1687. In-4, red jansenist morocco, interior lace, gilt edges (Riviere & Son). First edition of one of Bossuet's great funeral speeches. I have just seen a prelate who was at the funeral oration [of the Prince de Condé]. He told us that Monsieur de Meaux had surpassed himself, and that never has such beautiful material been so nobly presented and used (letter from Madame de Sévigné to her cousin Bussy-Rabutin, March 10, 1687). Very wide margins (H. 250 mm). Title and last page a little soiled

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 18 - BOSSUET (Jacques-Bénigne de) - Oraisons funèbres. Paris, Antoine-Augustin Renouard, An X - 1802. 2 volumes in-12, midnight-blue long-grained morocco, border decorated with a roulette between two double fillets crossing at the corners, spine decorated with small irons and thousand dots in the caissons, interior Greek, pink moire lining and endpapers, gilt edges (Bozerian jeune). Edition printed on wove paper, decorated with 3 engraved portraits of Bossuet, the Grand Condé and Madame de La Vallière, the author's portrait signed by Augustin de Saint-Aubin. Fine binding by Bozerian jeune. Some light foxing, notably on the portraits.

Estim. 400 - 500 EUR

Lot 19 - BOSSUET (Jacques-Bénigne de) - Discours sur l'histoire universelle, depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'à l'empire de Charlemagne. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné, 1784. In-4, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, interior roulette, gilt edges (Gaudreau relieur de la Reine). In-4 edition printed at 200 copies on wove paper, part of the Collection des auteurs classiques français et latins published by order of Louis XVI for the education of the Dauphin. Beautiful morocco binding from the workshop of François Gaudreau, Queen Marie-Antoinette's bookbinder, signed on the upper flyleaf at the bottom of the morocco. Without the leaf of the Brevet qui ordonne... Covers foxed. A split jaw over the height of a box, another restored, restoration to the upper headpiece and to a corner, small loss at the tail.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 20 - BUSSY-RABUTIN (Roger, comte de) - Histoire amoureuse des Gaules. S.l.n.n., 1754. 5 volumes small in-12, green morocco, double silver fillet, smooth spine decorated with silver fillets and a small repeated iron, interior gilt roulette, gilt edges (period binding). The most complete edition, with 5 copper-engraved title-frontispices by Pierre-Philippe Choffard. In addition to Histoire amoureuse des Gaules, the work that led to the author's imprisonment, it includes Amours des dames illustres de notre siècle and La France galante, satirical novels "of unbridled libertinism, with scandalous anecdotes and very crisp passages" (Pia, Dictionnaire des oeuvres érotiques, p. 218). An attractive copy in a Derome binding with silver decoration. Fine provenance: from the libraries of Robert Samuel Turner (1878, no. 456), Comte de Mosbourg and Eugène Paillet (1902, no. 97). Some foxing. Spine a little darkened, marginal tear to volume 1 and small tear to second cover of volume 2.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 21 - CENT NOUVELLES NOUVELLES (Les). Suivent les cent nouvelles, contenant les Cent Histoires Nouveaux, qui sont moult plaisans à raconter, en toutes bonnes Compagnies; par manière de joyeuseté. Cologne, Pierre Gaillard, 1736. 2 volumes in-12, English green Russian leather, gilt fillet, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, small interior roulette, gilt edges (English binding of the period). Attractive edition, illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece engraved by G. Vander Gouwen and 100 (45 + 55) large mid-page vignettes in the text, all engraved in intaglio after Romain de Hooghe and retouched by Bernard Picart. These figures originally illustrated the 1701 edition, and some bear the signature of Jan van Vianen. From the libraries of Arthur Hugh Smith Barry (engraved armorial bookplate) and George Arthur Williams (Williams's Library Cheltenham wetstamp). Small, unbroken crack on the edge of folio X2 in volume II. Slight angular wetness on a few leaves and some spotting.

Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

Lot 22 - CÉSAR (Jules) - C. Julii Caesaris quae extant. Ex emendatione Jos. Scaligeri. Leiden, Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1635. In-12, overlapping ivory vellum, gilt filleting with fleuron at corners, coat of arms in center, traces of binding, smooth spine decorated (Dutch binding of the period). First Elzevirian edition, decorated with a copper-engraved title-frontispiece, a medallion portrait of Julius Caesar, 5 full-page woodcuts in the text, and 3 folding maps. (Willems, n°420.) The masterpiece of Elzevirian printing. A vellum copy bearing the arms of the city of Rotterdam. Ex-libris label Jos. Raspieler. Incomplete with 3 maps. Slight scuffing on title-frontispiece.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 23 - CORNEILLE (Pierre) - The Theatre of Pierre Corneille. Reveu & corrigé par l'Autheur. À Rouen, Et se vend à Paris, Guillaume de Luynes, 1664-1666. 4 volumes in-8, jansenist red morocco, gilt title on spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Vve Brany). Partly original collective edition of Corneille's theater, with reformed spelling (Picot, no. 109). It is illustrated with 3 title-frontispices and 24 intaglio figures by Lesueur, Chauveau and Spirinx, taken from the collective edition of 1660; the figure for La Toison d'or, which is new, was engraved by G. Ladame. The fourth part is entirely new and contains Sertorius, Sophonisbe and Othon. A fine copy. Without the 3 figures for the fourth part, which Picot says was originally planned without illustrations. Skilful restoration of paper on the edge or corner of several engravings, often with pen retouching.

Estim. 2 000 - 2 500 EUR

Lot 24 - 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.

Estim. 150 - 200 EUR

Lot 25 - FÉNELON - Les Aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Didot l'aîné, 1784. 2 volumes in-8, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate smooth spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Derome). Edition printed in the new Didot l'aîné typeface, 350 copies on wove paper. Fresh Derome binding signed with his label (cf. Pascal Ract-Madoux, "Essai de classement chronologique des étiquettes de Derome le Jeune" in Bulletin du bibliophile, 1989, n°2, pl. H). Engraved armorial bookplate of Charles de Montlaur de Murles. Several quires foxed in vol. 2, a few russet spots.

Estim. 400 - 500 EUR

Lot 26 - FÉNELON - The Adventures of Telemachus, son of Ulysses. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Didot l'aîné, 1783. 4 volumes in-18, porphyry calf, triple gilt fillet, ornate smooth spine, olive title-pieces, interior roulette, gilt edges (period binding). First title in the Collection des auteurs classiques français et latins inaugurated by François-Ambroise Didot at the request of Louis XVI for the education of the Dauphin. Edition in-18 printed at 450 copies on wove paper. A very fine copy, in a fine, fresh porphyry calf binding in the taste of Derome. From the L. Froissart library (bookplate). Label or ex-libris torn from upper back cover.

Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

Lot 27 - [HAMILTON (Antoine, comte d')] - Mémoires de la vie du comte de Grammont; contenant particulièrement l'Histoire amoureuse de la cour d'Angleterre, sous le règne de Charles II. Cologne, Pierre Marteau, 1713. In-12, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, richly decorated spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Chambolle-Duru). One of three editions with the same date as the original: this one bears the characteristics of the one Claudin considers the third (cf. Tchemerzine, t. III, p. 656). Handwritten bookplate on title: Duval curé de la rue St Pierre. A fine copy from the Alain de Rothschild library (bookplate).

Estim. 500 - 600 EUR

Lot 28 - HAUTESERRE (Antoine Dadin de) - De ducibus, et comitibus provincialibus Galliae, libri tres. Toulouse, Arnauld Colomiès, 1643. In-4, fawn calf, triple gilt fillet, coat of arms in center, spine decorated with small arms, double ? interlaced and the Jesuit cipher repeated, red edges (Period binding). First edition, published in Toulouse, of this three-book legal treatise on the powers and rights exercised by dukes and counts in the kingdom of France. A native of Cahors, Antoine Dadin de Hauteserre (1602-1682) was a great jurisconsult of his time, and held the chair of law at the University of Toulouse, where he died. Copy with Fouquet's coat of arms, from the library of the Jesuit College in Paris. Louis XIV's powerful superintendent had donated a perpetual annuity of 6,000 livres to the Jesuits of Paris to help them expand their library: the books acquired by the Jesuits with this sum were decorated with Fouquet's coat of arms, and bear the IHS numeral of the Society of Jesus on the spine. Handwritten bookplate on title: Collegii Paris. Societ. Jesu. Ex-libris Ex Bibliotheca C. Van Baviere. Spotting throughout. Hinges cracked, headbands missing, three jaws previously restored (the restoration did not hold).

Estim. 400 - 500 EUR

Lot 29 - HENRI IV. - Collection of 22 pieces concerning Henri IV and his assassination, bound in an in-12 volume, olive-green morocco, triple gilt fillet, smooth spine decorated à la grotesque, red morocco title page, interior roulette, gilt edges (18th-century binding). Collection of 22 pieces concerning the assassination of King Henri IV, published between 1610 and 1623, and assembled by an 18th-century amateur who listed them on two handwritten leaves bound at the end. These include: La Chemise sanglante d'Henry le Grand (S.l.n.d.), La Rencontre de M. d'Espernon & de François Ravaillac (1615), L'Hermaphrodite de ce Temps (S.l.n.d.), Discours faict au Roy par le vray Matthault naguières retourné du Purgatoire & de Paradis (1616), Arrest de la Cour de Parlement contre le très-meschant parricide François Ravaillac (1610), Discours véritable sur la mort de François Ravaillac... Avec un ample récit des tourmens qu'on luy a fait endurer (1610), Les Imprécations et furies contre le parricide commis en la personne sacrée de Henry IIII (1610), or L'Assassinat du Roy ou Maximes du Vieil de la Montagne Vaticane & de ses assassins (1615). Very rare set. Most pieces have been trimmed very short, often with damage to pagination and leaf signatures. Slight wetness on some leaves. Some titles have not been preserved and a few pages are missing from two of the pieces in the collection. Parts list on request

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 30 - HEURES de Nostre Dame, à l'usage de Rome, avec plusieurs aultres Oraisons. Antwerp, De l'Imprimerie Joachim Trognaesius, 1589. 3 parts in a gothic in-8 volume, 17 quires signed A-Q8 T4, red morocco, Du Seuil decoration, ornate spine, interior lace, red edges (Binding of the second half of the 19th century). A rare Gothic edition, of which we have found no other copy in the major computerized catalogs. Printed in Gothic script in black and red, it is decorated with some 30 woodcuts in the text, including ten large woodcuts illustrating biblical scenes and 6 small figures of saints. It has an almanac for 19 years, from 1585 to 1603. The text was revised and corrected by Nicolas de Leuze, a Flemish theologian who was rector of the University of Louvain, where he died in 1598. The Hours are followed by Suffrages antiennes & Oraisons des saincts & sainctes and Petite instruction & manière de vivre pour une femme séculière, each with its own title page. From the Léonce Dupont de Saint-Ouen library (engraved armorial bookplate). Cahiers R and S incomplete. Paper browned with broad wetness throughout. Small black spots on first cover.

Estim. 500 - 600 EUR

Lot 31 - JEUX DE CALLIOPE (Les), ou Collection de poèmes anglais, italiens, allemands et espagnols, en deux, trois & quatre Chants. London, Paris, Ruault, 1776. 3 parts in one volume in-8, royal blue morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Chambolle-Duru). Includes translations of three poems: l'Économie de l'amour by Armstrong, this one adorned with 4 intaglio figures by Marchand after Gibelin, L'Hermite ou Amintor et Théodora by Mallet, and L'Amour accusé by Wiéland (Cohen, col. 518). A very fine copy in large paper, perfectly established by Chambolle-Duru. From the Genard library (1882, n°395). Small crack discreetly restored at the top of folio S2.

Estim. 500 - 600 EUR

Lot 32 - 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.

Estim. 150 - 200 EUR

Lot 33 - LA BRUYÈRE (Jean de) - The Characters of Theophrastus, translated from the Greek. Avec les Caractères ou les Mœurs de ce siècle. Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1688. In-12, brown calf, ornate spine (period binding). First original edition, containing 418 characters. A copy of the third printing (no copies of the first printing are known, with the original text without boards), with the errata leaf. Old handwritten bookplate on title. Covers restored, otherwise a pleasant copy in contemporary calf.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 34 - LA FAYETTE (comtesse de) - La Princesse de Montpensier. Jouxte la Copie, à Paris, Thomas Jolly, 1671. Small in-12, lemon morocco, triple gilt fillet, small gilt coat of arms in center, ornate spine, green title page, interior lace, gilt edges (Amand). First Dutch edition, printed in large type, appended to the Elzévirienne collection (Willems, no. 1857). A very handsome copy bearing the arms of Count Joseph de Lagondie (1879, n°543). From the Louis Masurier and Doctor Bernard Jean libraries (1992, no. 89).

Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

Lot 35 - LA FONTAINE (Jean de) - Contes et nouvelles en vers. Amsterdam, 1762. 2 volumes in-8, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate smooth spine, interior roulette, paper lining and endpapers decorated with a series of gilt stars, gilt edges (period binding). Famous edition, known as the Fermiers-Généraux because they had it printed at their own expense, illustrated with 2 portraits (La Fontaine and Eisen) engraved by Ficquet, 80 figures by Eisen engraved in intaglio by Aliamet, Baquoy, Choffard, Flipart, Lemire, etc., and numerous culs-de-lampe and vignettes by the master ornamentalist Choffard. The figures for Papefiguière's Cas de conscience and Diable are uncovered. Copy in contemporary morocco. Light freckling, sometimes uniform, in many sections.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 36 - LA FONTAINE (Jean de) - Fables. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Didot l'aîné, 1787. 2 volumes in-18, lemon morocco, triple gilt fillet, small corner finial, smooth spine grotesquely decorated, olive-green title-pieces, dominoté paper lining and endpapers with gilt stars, gilt edges (Period binding). Edition on wove paper, part of the Collection des auteurs classiques français et latins published and printed by Didot for the education of the Dauphin. A delightful copy in lemon morocco. The dominoté paper comes from the workshop of Johann Michael Munck, a major manufacturer of dominoté paper active in Augsburg between around 1730 and 1760. Some light foxing, minor scuffing on one plate.

Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

Lot 37 - LA FONTAINE (Jean de) - Fables; followed by Adonis, poem. Stereotype edition. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné, An VII. 2 volumes in-12, long-grained green morocco, framed floral garland, ornate smooth spine, interior roulette, gilt edges (period binding). Beautifully printed using the stereotype process invented by Firmin Didot in 1795, in association with Herhan. Copy on wove paper, in an elegant Directoire period binding. Numerous light brown spots. Small dent on one cover, one corner dulled, spine very slightly faded.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 38 - LA FONTAINE (Jean de) - Fables. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Didot l'aîné, 1789. 2 volumes in-8, green morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate smooth spine, red title-pieces, interior roulette, gilt edges (period binding). Edition of the Collection des auteurs classiques françois et latins, published by order of the King for the education of the Dauphin. It was printed in an edition of 400 copies on Angoulême wove paper. Copy in contemporary green morocco, the spine elegantly decorated with a repeated iron urn. Some light foxing. Spine a little lightened.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 39 - LA FONTAINE (Jean de) - Fables. Printed by order of the King for the education of Monseigneur le Dauphin. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Didot l'aîné, 1788. In-4, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, interior roulette, blue moire lining and endpapers, gilt edges (period binding). Superb typographical edition, one of Didot's masterpieces. It was printed with the greatest care in 250 copies on wove paper. A fine copy, with wide margins, in an elegant red morocco binding. Small paper restoration at the bottom of the first 3 leaves. Spine creased.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 40 - [LA ROCHEFOUCAULD (François de)] - Reflections or Moral Sentences. Sixième édition augmentée. Paris, Claude Barbin, 1693. In-12, midnight blue morocco, triple gilt fillet, richly decorated spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Lortic). Partly first edition, comprising 50 Maximes, including 25 new ones, and 504 Réflexions morales, with a Discours sur les Réflexions by Sieur de Segrais. This speech has been restored to La Chapelle-Bessay. A very fine copy, perfectly established by Lortic. From the Ambroise Firmin-Didot and Charles Hayoit libraries (I, 2001, n°51). Minor restoration at the bottom of the title.

Estim. 1 200 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 41 - LACLOS (Pierre Choderlos de) - Les Liaisons dangereuses, ou Lettres recueillies dans une Société, & publiées pour l'instruction de quelques autres. Amsterdam; Et se trouve à Paris, Durand Neveu, 1782. 4 volumes in-12, marbled calf, spine decorated with gilt fillets, red title page, red edges (period binding). Edition of the original date, known as "à la roue dentée", corresponding to the C edition described by Max Brun in his Bibliographie des éditions des Liaisons dangereuses bearing the date 1782 (1963, pp. 13-16). From the Gérard de Berny library (engraved armorial bookplate). Tears to leaves C12 (formerly restored) and H12 of volume II. Browning on endpapers. Restorations to binding (head and spine), rubbing to spine.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 42 - [LE MONNIER (l'abbé Guillaume-Antoine)] - Discours d'un nègre marron, Qui a été repris, & qui va subir le dernier supplice. S.l.n.d. [1777]. Plaquette in-8 of 8 pages, the last unencrypted page containing a list of the author's other works, bradel orange half calf, smooth spine with gilt title throughout (Modern binding). Vibrant plea against slavery, detached from Fêtes des bonnes-gens de Canon and Rosières de Briquebec (1777) by the same author. An account of an escaped slave, recaptured and then condemned, through which the author attempts to incite whites to humanity towards blacks: White-skinned men, atrocious men [...] May they [the race of blacks] learn that all men are brothers!

Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

Lot 43 - LONGUS - Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et de Chloé. New translation. Paris, Lamy, De l'Imprimerie de Monsieur, 1787. Large in-4, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, interior roulette, gilt edges (period binding). 29 line and bistre copies of the Regent's figures, engraved by Martini. Copy in contemporary morocco. From the Alain de Rothschild library (bookplate). Restoration to the bottom of the title, which is a little shorter at the margins. Spine slightly lightened.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 44 - LONGUS - Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et de Chloé, translation from Greek by Amyot. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné, An VIII - 1800. Large in-4, red morocco, double framed with three gilded fillets, one bordered with a rich gilded decoration in small irons forming large spandrels, blue quatrefoil charged with a gilded flowerette in the corners, large iron with a bouquet of roses gilded and mosaicked in the center, ornate spine, boxes decorated in small irons with the same blue quatrefoil repeated, interior lace, double marbled paper endpapers, gilded edges (Petit succr de Simier). Edition illustrated with 9 very fine out-of-text figures by Prud'hon and Gérard, finely engraved on copper by Godefroy, Roger, Massard and Marais. Copy with figures before the letter and captions on tissue paper, to which has been added a medallion portrait of Pierre Didot engraved by Wedgood, 4 figures by Prud'hon lithographed by J. Boilly, 5 figures by Lebarbier engraved by Roger and Hulk, and a figure by Duvivier engraved by Villerey. Remarkable binding signed by Charles Petit, mosaiced and gilded in small irons, with a highly elegant decoration. The beautiful iron with rose bouquet on the boards is the same as that used on the magnificent copy bound by Duplanil in 1834 of Les Roses de Redouté (1828 edition) in the Descamps-Scrive library (II, 1925, no. 372, reproduction) and Raphaël Esmerian (IV, 1973, no. 100); this iron, originally engraved after a drawing by Redouté, was also used by Petit on a copy of an edition of Le Roman de la Rose (cf. cat. vente Berès, V, 2006, n°639). In addition, a copy of the same book, bound by Petit with the same iron, from the Adolphe Bordes library, is preserved at the BnF. From the Genard (1882, n°520) and Earl of Birkenhead libraries, with their bookplates. Spine and corners rubbed, marks on second board.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 45 - MAINTENON (Madame de) - Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de Madame de Maintenon, & à celle du siècle passé. Amsterdam, Aux dépens de l'Auteur, 1755. - Lettres. Amsterdam, 1756. - Lettres de Messire Paul Godet des Marais, évêque de Chartres, à Madame de Maintenon. Brussels, Ant. Bruyn, 1755. Together 15 volumes in 8 volumes in-12, lemon morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate smooth spine, red title and olive tomaison, red piece at the tail of the first volume marked La Baumelle 1755, interior roulette, gilt edges (Period binding). Title-frontispiece, portrait of Madame de Maintenon engraved by G. Sibelius and portrait engraved by Fritsch in the first two volumes of the Mémoires, which were given by La Baumelle and led to his imprisonment. A lemon morocco copy from the Lamoignon library, with the repeated wet stamp and characteristic quotation on the endpapers. Frequent foxing, traces of damp. Spine darkened. Without the portrait and title-frontispiece announced by Tchemerzine in Lettres.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 46 - MALHERBE (François de) - Poetry. Stereotype edition. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné, An VIII. In-12, long-grained green morocco, framed floral garland, ornate smooth spine, interior roulette, gilt edges (period binding). Beautifully printed using the stereotype process invented by Firmin Didot in 1795, in association with Herhan. Copy on wove paper, in an elegant Directoire period binding. Ex-libris label Eugenio Ephremo Candy, et amicis, and ex-libris André Granger. Some light foxing. Spine very slightly faded.

Estim. 150 - 200 EUR

Lot 47 - MALHERBE (François de) - Poésies, arranged chronologically. Genève, s.n., 1777. In-24, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, gilt fleur-de-lys at the corners, ornate smooth spine, interior roulette, gilt edges (period binding). Edition printed in small type, decorated with a portrait of the author finely engraved on copper by Nicolas de Launay after Dumoustier. An attractive copy in morocco.

Estim. 150 - 200 EUR

Lot 48 - MILTON (John) - Le Paradis perdu. Paris, Defer de Maisonneuve, 1792. 2 volumes large in-4, dark green half-maroquin with corners, spine decorated, untrimmed (Binding first third of the 19th century). Bilingual edition, in English and French. Beautifully illustrated by Schall, with 12 color-engraved figures by Clément, Colibert, Demonchy and Gautier. Portrait of Milton engraved by Bock added. Some light foxing. Joints and covers restored.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 49 - MOLIÈRE - Les oeuvres. Amsterdam, Jacques Le Jeune, 1675. 5 volumes. - Les oeuvres posthumes. Amsterdam, Guillaume Le Jeune, 1689. One volume. Together 6 volumes small in-12, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (F. Bedford). A highly sought-after Elzevier collective edition, consisting of the 27 pieces printed separately by Daniel Elzevier (Guibert, II, p. 699 et seq. - Tchemerzine, IV, p. 825 - Willems, n°1511). It features an unsigned copper-engraved frontispiece at the head of Volume I. Les Fourberies de Scapin, Psiché and Le Malade imaginaire (prologue and interlude) are dated A (1671 for the first two plays, 1673 for the last). The other plays are dated 1674 or 1675, with the exception of Tartuffe, which is dated 1669 (cf. Willems, no. 1418; print run A according to Guibert). The volume of posthumous works contains Les Amants magnifiques, La Comtesse d'Escarbagnas, L'Impromptu de Versailles, Dom Garcie de Navarre and Melicerte; added to these are Le Festin de Pierre in the Amsterdam edition of 1683, which gives the full text, and a 1690 edition of Le Malade imaginaire. Each of the 7 plays cited above is adorned with an engraved intaglio figure. The Tartuffe play was enriched at the time of binding with the preface to the Elzévirienne reprint (5 leaves signed *2-6). A very fine copy, well established by Bedford. Small perforation deleting page numbers on two leaves (volumes II and V). Slight wetness on the side edge of volume III, with a slight halo in the margin of the affected sections. Skilful and discreet marginal restoration to 2 leaves. Small chip on the first cover of volume I.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 50 - MONTAIGNE (Michel de) - Les Essais. Nouvelle édition exactement purgée des défauts des précédentes, selon le vray original. Bruxelles, François Foppens [Amsterdam, Antoine Michiels for volume III], 1659. 3 volumes in-12, dark green morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spines, interior lace, gilt edges (Chambolle-Duru). Attractive edition, adorned with a title-frontispiece with a copper-engraved portrait of Montaigne by P. Clouwet. A fine copy of this sought-after edition. From the Chatsworth library

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 51 - MONTESQUIEU - Le Temple de Gnide. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Didot l'aîné, 1780. Small in-12, olive morocco, small-iron lace, Lorraine cross crowned at the corners, ornate smooth spine, pink tabis lining and endpapers, interior roulette, gilt edges (period binding). Attractive edition forming part of the Collection d'ouvrages français, en vers et en prose, commissioned by the Count of Artois and printed at his expense in a small number of copies by Didot l'aîné. The collection comprises 64 titles, published between 1780 and 1784: the Temple de Gnide is the first. Delightful binding in morocco with lace, executed for a prince of Lorraine. Tabis a little faded on the edges.

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 52 - MONTESQUIEU - Le Temple de Gnide, followed by Arsace et Isménie. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné, L'an IV, 1796. In-12, long-grained red morocco, right-hand border formed by a roulette between two double fillets crossing at the corners, richly ornamented smooth spine, the caissons decorated with a thousand-point decoration with a small green mosaic pastille, interior roulettes and fillet, light blue moire lining and endpapers, gilt edges (Bozerian). Medallion portrait of the author, engraved by Augustin de Saint-Aubin and printed on the title, and 12 figures, 10 drawn by Regnault and 2 by Le Barbier. A fine copy in large vellum paper with the figures before the letter, bound by Bozerian. Some light and rare freckling.

Estim. 400 - 600 EUR

Lot 53 - PARNASSE SATYRIQUE (Le) du sieur Théophile. S.l., 1660, small in-12, lemon morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, olive-green morocco lining, interior lace, double marbled paper endpapers, gilt edges (Thibaron-Joly). Sought-after edition of this famous collection of licentious and satirical poems, a landmark work of 17th-century libertinism. It is the prettiest of this work and is an addition to the Elzévirienne collection (Lachèvre, Recueils collectifs..., p. 71. - Willems, n°1705). Denounced by Father Garasse as the most horrible book that the most pagan and despotic centuries ever produced, the work led to Théophile de Viau's arrest as soon as it was published in 1622: initially condemned in absentia to be burned alive, the poet was finally forced to endure two years' imprisonment, before being banished from the kingdom for life. A very fine copy in doubled morocco. From the libraries of Bruno Monnier, at Château de Mantry in the Jura, and Antoine Mouradian.

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 54 - [PASCAL (Blaise)] - Les Provinciales ou les Lettres escrites par Louis de Montalte, à un provincial de ses amis, & aux RR. PP. Jésuites: sur le sujet de la Morale, & de la Politique de ces Pères. Cologne, Pierre de La Vallée, 1657. 2 parts in a small in-12 volume, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, richly ornamented spine, the caissons decorated with small filigree irons arranged around a small green mosaic cartouche housing a small flower, interior lace, gilt edges (Lortic). First Elzévirienne edition and first collective edition with continuous pagination, published the same year as the original in-4 (Willems, n°1218). A fine copy, finely bound by Lortic. Small paper loss in the margin of folio L5, without affecting the text.

Estim. 800 - 1 000 EUR

Lot 55 - PRÉVOST (l'abbé) - Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du chevalier des Grieux. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné, An V, 1797. 2 volumes in one small in-12, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, green morocco lining decorated with gilt small-iron lace, marbled paper double endpapers, gilt edges (Veuve Niédrée). Attractive edition from the Bleuet collection, with 8 charming copper-engraved figures by Lefèvre. A fine copy in vellum paper with the figures before the letter, in doubled morocco. False-title and title of the second volume were not preserved at the time of binding.

Estim. 500 - 600 EUR

Lot 56 - PRÉVOST (l'abbé) - [Manon Lescaut]. Mémoires et avantures d'un homme de qualité, qui s'est retiré du monde. Amsterdam, Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1731. Small in-12, garnet, Jansenist morocco, gilt title on spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Huser). First edition of Histoire du chevalier des Grieux & de Manon Lescaut, which forms the seventh and final volume of Mémoires d'un homme de qualité. This brief love story, in many ways scandalous, published anonymously in Holland and condemned to fire in France, soon established itself as one of our purest narratives. During Prévost's lifetime, it went through 23 editions (Jean Sgard, in En français dans le texte, n°144). Some light foxing, some leaves a little trimmed short, but no damage to the text.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 57 - RABELAIS (François) - Les oeuvres. Contenant cinq Livres de la vie, faicts, & dits Heroiques de Gargantua & de son fils Pantagruel. Plus, la Prognostication Pantagrueline, avec l'oracle de la Dive Bacbuc, & le mot de la Bouteille. Lyon, Jean Martin, 1584. 2 parts in one volume in-16, fawn basane, ornate smooth spine, red title page, red edges (modern pastiche binding). Very rare edition of Rabelais, given under a false address and probably printed in Rouen by Georges Loyselet (cf. R. Cappellen, "À l'enseigne du masque: imprimeurs, libraires et éditeurs de Rabelais de 1552 à 1588" in Réforme, Humanisme, Renaissance, 2016/1 (n°82-83), pp. 65-115). The copy is incomplete of the third part (books IV-V) and its collation is different from that given by Plan (n°109): 402 pp. (books I-II), 5 ff.n.ch. and 270 pp. (book III). It is presented in a perfect pastiche binding in imitation of those of the 18th century. Old handwritten bookplate on title. Some underlining in green ink and a few old annotations in pen in the margins (mostly cut by the binder's knife). Small light stains on some leaves, light foxing, page numbers and signatures affected by the binder's knife.

Estim. 800 - 1 000 EUR

Lot 58 - RACINE (Jean) - Oeuvres. Paris, Pierre Traboüillet, 1697. 2 volumes in-12, midnight blue morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spines, interior lace, gilt edges (Yseux sr. de Simier). Third collective edition, the last published during Racine's lifetime. It is the first complete edition, since it includes the Cantiques and Racine's last two plays, Esther and Athalie, published in 1689 and 1691. This is the definitive version, which set the text for later editions. (Tchemerzine, V, p. 360.) Illustrated with 2 frontispieces, one engraved after Charles Le Brun, and 12 intaglio figures by François Chauveau. Paper often yellowed by washing

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 59 - RECUEIL DES MEILLEURS CONTES EN VERS. London [Paris, Cazin], 1778. 4 volumes in-16, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate smooth spine, havana title and tomaison, interior roulette, gilt edges (period binding). This famous collection, known as Les Petits conteurs, is undoubtedly Cazin's most successful publication. The first two volumes contain the Contes et nouvelles in verse by Jean de La Fontaine; the others bring together works in verse by Voltaire, Perrault, Moncrif, Saint-Lambert, Grécourt, Chamfort, Dorat and others. The illustrations include a portrait of La Fontaine and 116 delightful, unsigned intaglio vignettes attributed to Durand, miniature painter to the Duc d'Orléans. A fine copy, in morocco decorated on the spine with Cazin's iron. Small marginal wetness on two leaves.

Estim. 2 000 - 2 500 EUR

Lot 60 - ROUSSEAU (Jean-Baptiste) - Odes, cantatas, epistles and miscellaneous poems. Paris, P. Didot, 1790. In-4, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, spine decorated with a repeated iron (a lyre with two crossing flabellums), small inner lace, gilt edges (Bradel). Edition of 250 copies on wove paper, part of the Collection des auteurs classiques français et latins published by order of Louis XVI for the education of the Dauphin. Elegant morocco binding by Bradel l'aîné, successor to his uncle Sr. Derome le Jeune, signed with his label at the address rue St Jacques, Hôtel de la Couture, N°65. Numerous scattered light foxing. Rubbing to binding, small dent on one corner.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 61 - SAINT-AMANT (Marc-Antoine Girard de) - Les oeuvres, Reveuës, corrigées, & de beaucoup augmentées en cette dernière Edition. Paris, Michel Bobin and Nicolas le Gras, 1665. Small in-12, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Brany). A late edition of this poet's burlesque works, many of which deal with gastronomy, vines, cheese and more. Included are two of Saint-Amant's most famous poems: Le Poète crotté and Le Passage de Gibraltar.

Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

Lot 62 - SAINT-GELAIS (Mellin de) - Oeuvres poétiques. Lyon, Antoine de Harsy, 1574 [Paris, Guillaume de Luyne, 1656]. In-12, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, central coat of arms, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (E. Niédrée 1845). A rare counterfeit, printed in round type, of the 1574 Lyon edition (Tchemerzine, V, p. 609). Unbound copy, containing the free passages that have not been replaced on pp. 74-78. A fine copy bearing the arms of the Marquis de Coislin (1805-1873), peer of France. Early handwritten note on a flyleaf concerning the author

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 63 - SAINT-PIERRE (Bernardin de) - Paul et Virginie. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné, 1806. Large in-4, long-grained blue morocco, wide gilt and cold-stamped roulettes and gilt fillet framing the boards, richly ornamented spine, interior grecque, gilt edges (Simier R. du Roi). Superb edition of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's masterpiece, illustrated with a portrait of the author and 6 fine out-of-text figures by Lafitte, Gérard, Girodet, Isabey, Prud'hon and Moreau le jeune, engraved on copper by Ribault, Bourgeois de la Richardière, Mecou, Prot, Roger, Bovinet and Tillement. Armorial stamp (crowned shield of vair) affixed at the top of the faux-titre. Very attractive binding by Simier, faded in places.

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 64 - SAINT-PIERRE (Bernardin de) - Paul et Virginie. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Monsieur, 1789. In-18, eggplant morocco, framed with full and dotted gilded fillets and a small cold roulette, gilded motif at the corners, spine decorated with a loaded iron with a thousand dots repeated, interior grecque, gilded edges (Bozerian jeune). 4 engraved figures by Girodet, Halbou and De Longueil after Moreau le jeune and Joseph Vernet. Signed binding by Bozerian jeune. Some foxing on the engravings.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 65 - SÉVIGNÉ (Madame de) - Recueil des lettres de Madame la marquise de Sévigné, à Madame la comtesse de Grignan sa fille. Nouvelle édition augmentée. Paris, Rollin, 1754. 8 volumes small in-12, red jansenist morocco, gilt title on spine, inner lace, gilt edges (Wendling). Published in the same year as the large in-12 edition with exactly the same text, the latter containing 772 letters including 133 new ones. It is adorned with 2 portraits, one of Madame de Sévigné engraved by Pelletier after Le Fèvre, the other of her daughter the Countess de Grignan, engraved by Aubert after Mignard. A fine copy. Volume II, small wormholes and gallery (partly restored) at the lower corners of the quires, especially affecting the last seven quires. Light, uniform foxing on some leaves.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 66 - 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.

Estim. 3 000 - 4 000 EUR

Lot 67 - VOLTAIRE - The private life of the King of Prussia. Ou Mémoires pour servir à la vie de Mr de Voltaire, écrits par lui-même. Amsterdam, Chez les Héritiers de MM. Rey, 1784. Small in-12, blue morocco, tiple gilt fillet, ornate smooth spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Period binding). Attractive small-print edition of Voltaire's Mémoires, decorated with an unsigned engraved portrait of Frederick II of Prussia (Bengesco, II, p. 436). A delightful copy, from the Pixérécourt (1838, n°2133) and Édouard Rahir (VI, 1938, n°1857) libraries. Spine slightly faded.

Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

Lot 68 - VOLTAIRE - Romans et contes. Bouillon, Aux dépens de la Société Typographique, 1778. 3 volumes in-8, marbled calf, triple gilt fillet, ornate smooth spine, red and green titles, gilt edges (contemporary binding). The finest early edition of Voltaire's Romans et contes, illustrated in the first printing with an engraved portrait of Voltaire after Quentin de La Tour, 57 out-of-text figures by Monnet, Marillier and Moreau le jeune, and 13 vignettes by Monnet. A pleasant copy in contemporary calf. Small paper defect in the upper margin of a few leaves in Volume I. Two plates inverted between volumes I and II. The table leaves are bound at the end of the volumes rather than following the titles. Hinges rubbed, one headband nicked.

Estim. 800 - 1 000 EUR

Lot 69 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - Set of 2 letters: - L.A.S. to his friend the Norman orientalist Guillaume-Stanislas Trébutien (1800-1870). S.l.n.d. [September 30, 1834]. 1 p. in-8. Address on verso. Black ink. Barbey apologizes for the paper on which he writes "[...] I have no other to hand. I've been very ill, bedridden, vomiting nervously. My first outing is to you. Would you like to think about Joseph Delorme [de Sainte-Beuve]? I'm going to the country tomorrow, but on Monday when I come back from Madame [Amable] Tastu's you'll find me all yours. J B". Letter published in Barbey d'Aurevilly, Correspondance générale (Belles-lettres, 1980), I, 1834/3, p. 35. - L.A.S. [to Armand Dutacq]. S.l.n.d. [March 1855]. 1 p. in-8. Red ink. "[...] Please ask Mr. L'Héritier for my article on Du Camp. Take it and send it back to me with the Balzac biographies. Adieu, mon seul ami [...]". Letter published in Barbey d'Aurevilly, Correspondance générale (Belles-lettres, 1980), IV, 1855/13, p. 194

Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

Lot 70 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - Set of 2 documents: - L.A.S. S.l.n.d. [April 4, 1870, postmarked the next day]. 1 p. in-8. Engraved letterhead with the number BA. Black ink. "Monsieur, si le livre (L'intelligence, je crois) de M. Taine a paru, veuillez donner l'ordre de l'envoyer moi. I will report on it immediately in the Constitutionnel. You will see several articles on Goethe & on your translation of Goethe, in a very short time. I asked you for the work; and when it comes to works I ask for, you can always count on me [...]". Beautiful, large signature. Letter published in Barbey d'Aurevilly, Correspondance générale (Belles-lettres, 1980) VII, 1870/4, p. 73. - C.A.S. to Charles Buet. S.l.n.d. [1882-1883]. 1 p. in-12. Black ink. Barbey's large signature engraved in red on verso. "Je vous mande par exprès que je n'irai pas au Gil Blas ce soir. Too much rain, too much poop, no car. If I'm hungry tonight, I'll go to Daumas and eat anything. Tell Georges [Landry] [...]. It's the terrible weather that's preventing me from going to your place [...]". Letter published in Barbey d'Aurevilly, Correspondance générale (Belles-lettres, 1980), IX, 1883/36, p. 95

Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

Lot 71 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - Set of 2 letters: - L.A.S. to Mme Frinzine. S.l.n.d. "Monday 3". 1 p. in-8. Header printed in green "Never More". Red ink. "Madame, only yesterday I hoped to be able to attend the wedding of Mademoiselle your daughter, but a residue of liver pain which has kept me at home for the past fortnight will not allow me to mingle in the joys of what must be for you a day of happiness. [Please tell Monsieur Frinzine [the publisher] that I will see him on my first outing. Large, handsome signature. - L.A.S. S.l.n.d. "Vendredi". 1 p. in-8. Letterhead engraved in red with the number BA. Black ink. Barbey requests a box at the Théâtre français. "There is no first performance this week, and I have to write an article for tomorrow. What better occasion to talk about the Théâtre français! [...]". Enclosed: - Two beautiful autograph envelopes from Barbey, written in two different red inks; to Amédée Pommier and to M. and Mme Thomas. Stamps retained. - A portrait of Barbey engraved by Paul Rajon.

Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

Lot 72 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - Set of 2 letters: - L.A.S. to Amédée Pommier. S.l.n.d. [December 1874]. 1 p. in-8. Red ink. Retained envelope. "It's a shame not to have an André Chénier at home, but it's very nice to have a friend like you, who will lend me his. I'll only keep it until Monday. But what I keep for you, in my heart, is for all my life; - Your friend [...]". Large, beautiful signature. Letter published in Barbey d'Aurevilly, Correspondance générale (Belles-lettres, 1980) VII, 1874/62, p. 244. - L.A.S. to Francis Lacombe. S.l.n.d. [postmarked February 15, 1850]. 1 p. in-8. Black ink. Address on verso of second leaf. "I have just seen your National Assembly. I was a little astonished, and as friends owe each other the truth, this is the cause of my astonishment. You told me that my friend Louis Couture would have an article the next day - he didn't have an article. And he was so unnamed that he wrote to you, as I see it, to claim what I think you rather dishonestly call authorship of his book. Your rectification has an impolite and mocking tone which is not what one should take, all opinions aside, when speaking of friends of friends [...]".

Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

Lot 73 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - L.A.S. to Théodore de Banville. Valognes, Hôtel Grandval-Caligny, October 22, 1882. 2 pp. in-8. Red ink. Preserved envelope with postmarks. "I am late with you, not from the heart, but from the hand. If I weren't so wandering on the shores of my peninsula, I would have written to you earlier to thank you for your generous lines, (in Gil Blas) which avenged me on the culottiers of the outraged Confection, hell-bent, at the moment, against my panties, about my literature. They're stupid, but you're delicate. You didn't name me in your article, and that was another delicacy. Two words from you prevent me from hearing these vile clamors. So thank you, my dear Monsieur de Banville, and a warm handshake [...]. My respect to Madame de Banville". Beautiful document

Estim. 400 - 500 EUR

Lot 74 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - L.A.S. to Alfred Grévin. Paris, "Vendredi matin" [1881]. 3 pp. in-8. Red ink. Header engraved in red "Never more" repeated on the preserved envelope with postmarks and silk lakes. Important letter from Barbey to Grévin, violently opposed to his museum project. "You won't find me at your photographer's tomorrow, and here's why. The pleasure of receiving you in my home yesterday, and of making the acquaintance of a talented man whose manners pleased me immensely, made me welcome the project you told me about a little too quickly? I should have asked you to reflect on your proposal; but when you were gone I thought about what you had told me, I took four steps away from your idea to judge it, (as you would a painting) and what I saw in my reflection detached me completely from it. I don't know the Tussaud Museum, but I've seen Cabinets de Curtius [Philippe-Guillaume Mathé, known as Curtius, founded a famous wax cabinet under Louis XVI, in the Palais-Royal] a few times in my life, and I've always found them dreadful. The impression they made on me has come back, an ugly vision! And no matter how talented your museum is, it will always be a Curtius cabinet! It will always be crude art - frozen life, - trompe l'oeil that can never be fooled... These statues, with mechanical springs, dressed in real clothes, these colored wax casts, this life which is not the life we want, obtained by the most brutally material means and which is, in the final analysis, nothing but an odious & impotent antics of life, all this came back into my mind [...] you who were sympathetic to me right away, I had said "yes" to your project too quickly. If you had asked me for a portrait or a statue, it would have been different: it would have been art, in its high & true notion, but here art is not [...]". Letter published in Barbey d'Aurevilly, Correspondance générale (Belles-lettres, 1980) VIII, 1881/30, p. 290

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 75 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - Set of 2 documents: - L.A.S. [to Hippolyte Costard]. Paris, July 12, 1868. 2 pp. in-8. Black ink. Address on front of second leaf. "I have inherited jointly with my two brothers, Abbé Barbey d'Aurevilly and M. Barbey du Motel, the property left by our late father, M. Théophile Barbey, proprietor of Saint-Sauveur le Vicomte. Our divisions are still to be made [...] and we are determined not to hasten the sale of our father's house and lands [...]". Barbey requests a mortgage of 4,000 francs, and asks for details of the route of the railroad to Coutances, which has been decided, and whether it will pass through his meadows "situated at the exit of the village of Saint-Sauveur [...]". Fine signature. Letter published in Barbey d'Aurevilly, Correspondance générale (Belles-lettres, 1980) VII, 1868/5, p. 43. - L.A.S. to M. Bessaignel. S.l.n.d. "Saturday 4" [August 1883]. 1 p. in-8. Red ink. Letterhead engraved in red "Never more". Preserved envelope with stamp and postmarks. Barbey delayed accepting an invitation to dinner, not knowing if he could "wrest a day from my devils of present occupations. Otherwise I would have accepted your invitation with an eagerness equal to the pleasure it gives me [...]". Letter published in Barbey d'Aurevilly, Correspondance générale (Belles-lettres, 1980) IX, 1883/16, p. 82

Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

Lot 76 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - Autograph manuscript, entitled "Pope Pius IX". S.l.n.d. [1873] 2 pp. in-folio (cut out for printing and taped up). Printing notes in blue pencil. Red, green, violet and brown ink. Brown traces. Beautiful text on Pope Pius IX, on the eve of his death. "Whether he lives or dies, it matters little to the duration of the Holy Church! No matter to the Papacy! If he dies, he will be one more saint in that magnificent list of saints who were Popes, occupied in every place by great men who accumulate & who, to be great men, are no less saints, but it will not be a failure for the Papacy, as those who are already dancing on its grave imagine. The Papacy, which is not a Pope, even the greatest of all, will nonetheless continue, after the death of Pius IX, to be what it has always been: the keystone of all the governments of this world. Which without it are what you see: Anarchy and stupidity in the minds of men, until they become, in the reality of History, Jacqueries and Cruelty... For we are approaching these terrible moments. We have reached the grotesque proscenium, it being a law of politics that the grotesque always precedes the atrocious [...]. Didn't the puppets of September 4th, those awful comedians, precede the bloody puppets of the Commune, those tragic horrors?... [...]"

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 77 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - Set of 3 documents: - L.A.S. to Rapetti with the words "Important pressé". S.l.n.d. [March 12, 1858]. 1 p. in-16. Black ink. Address on verso of second leaf. "[...] I have been asked to veil certain truths - which are too much steel mirror, - and I will veil them - because it is about you. Your book got me into politics. The Emperor is superior and can understand, but you know the cowards around him! [...]". Letter published in Barbey d'Aurevilly, Correspondance générale (Belles-lettres, 1980) VI, 1858/16, p. 80. - L.A.S. to LéonEscudier(1815-1881), director of Le Réveil. S.l.n.d. "2 heures - samedi" [April 3, 1858]. 1 p. in-8. Black ink. Mourning paper. Preserved envelope with cut-outs. "My friend, send me on receipt of this several issues. I forgot to ask you for them yesterday [...]". - L.A. (incomplete draft of the end). S.l.n.d. 1 p. in-4. Red ink. Chipping. Barbey is unwell. He has neglected to reply to his correspondent and does not know when he will be able to receive and meet him for the first time. "The way you spoke of me in a newspaper where I would not have dared to count on sympathy like yours has given me hope that this sympathy will not be merely intellectual, and that the man will add his own to that of the writer. I've kept you waiting, Sir, but I've waited longer than you [...]".

Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

Lot 78 - AUTOUR DE BARBEY D'AUREVILLY - Set of 5 documents: - HUYSMANS, Joris-Karl. Autograph business card signed. S.l.n.d. 1 p. in-16 oblong. "Cher ami, une carte de plus! mais ne répondez pas à celle; elle est simplement pour le plaisir de celui qui l'envoie et qui met une affectueuse poignée de main [...]". - VIVIEN, Renée. Autograph postcard signed to Katy Hope [his mistress Kérimé Turkhan-Pacha], in Turkey. September 1904. 1 p. in-12 oblong with address on reverse, stamp and postmarks (Basel and Constantinople). "My love and thoughts R.V.". [Renée Vivien and Kérimé kept up a hot correspondence from 1904 onwards]. - BLOY, Léon. Blank carte de visite "Entrepreneur de démolitions". 1 p. in-16 oblong. - HUGUES, Clovis. Ink drawing dated 1905 and signed lower right. 9.1 x 11.4 cm. - SAINTE-BEUVE. L.A.S. to Barbey d'Aurevilly. 1 p. in-8, [1851] after sending Les Prophètes du passé. Enclosed is a portrait of Léon Bloy, various documents about Barbey d'Aurevilly, letters from Gabriel de Broglie, Léopold Delisle, the Duc du Maine (1704 to Chamillart), etc.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 79 - READ, Louise (1845-1928), secretary and friend of Barbey d'Aurevilly. Set of 3 documents: - L.A.S. addressed to the symbolist poet Henri CAZALIS, known as Jean LAHOR (1840-1909). S.l., March 27, 1893. 4 pp. in-12 oblong. Header with his cipher. Evokes "la chambre si aimée de la rue Rousselet" [Barbey d'Aurevilly's address], the verses and works of his correspondent, etc. - L.A.S., October 12, 1897. 4 pp. in-8. Long and beautiful letter about the death of a cat. - C.V.A.S. on mourning paper. S.l.n.d. 2 pp. in-16 oblong

Estim. 150 - 200 EUR

Lot 80 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - L'Amour impossible. Chronique parisienne. Paris, Librairie nouvelle, A. Bourdilliat et Cie, 1859. In-12, paperback, untrimmed, black chagrin spine folder and slipcase (Devauchelle). Uncommon first in-12 edition of Barbey's first published novel. The original edition dates from 1841. A chronicle inspired by the writer's youthful impossible love affair with the worldly marquise Armance du Vallon. Autograph letter from the author on the title page: Ces couillonneries du temps passé offerts à Poncet par amitié humble. The Poncet to whom Barbey offers his "couillonneries" is Alexandre-Gabriel Poncet-Deville, a Bordeaux wine merchant and one of the writer's faithful friends: Incessantly, you dear Trebutien, you will see another friend of mine in Caen. This one is not an artist and a scholar in the manner of César Daly, but he is also a man full of nobility and devotion to me. His name is M. Poncet-Deville. He's a merchant, but he's a thinking head and the most ardent of ardent Catholics. He has all the makings of a party man (Barbey d'Aurevilly, letter to Trebutien, October 13, 1847, in Correspondance générale, II, 1847/10, p. 99). Numerous scratches

Estim. 800 - 1 000 EUR

Lot 81 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - La Bague d'Annibal. Paris, Duprey, 1843. Small square in-12, bradel lemon half-maroquin, smooth spine decorated with gilt fleuron and gold titling, untrimmed, cover (Binding circa 1900). Very rare first edition, published in small numbers by Trebutien. One of only 15 copies on colored paper, this one on pink paper. [...] le papier rose, cette insolente couleur de la jeunesse qui dure deux jours (Barbey, letter to Poulet-Malassis about the Du Dandysme... edition, October 1861). At least one other copy on pink paper is known, having belonged to Léon Duchesne de La Sicotière, a mutual friend of Barbey and Trebutien (see Bernard Loliée sale catalog, VII, 2018, no. 3). From the libraries of Docteur Lucien-Graux (I, 1956, n°11), André Sciama, and Colonel Daniel Sickles (IX, 1991, n°3564). Cover lined and restored. Spine darkened

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 82 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - Les Bas-bleus. Paris, Victor Palmé; Bruxelles, G. Lebrocquy, 1878. In-12, midnight-blue, Jansenist morocco, gilt title on spine, interior lace, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine in slipcase (Ed. Klein). First edition of this violent critique of women of letters, referred to in the 19th century as bas-bleus. Striking autograph letter from Barbey d'Aurevilly, in the form of a quatrain, on the title page: À Saint-Maur Here! Take... No! Don't take all those bas- -bleus, without buttocks, who make a literary cuckold of this century. And make fun, my dear Saint-Maur, of these drôlesses, believing themselves to be geniuses and having no cu. J. B. d'A. It was Flavie de Glatigny, his relative, who introduced the poet Hector de Saint-Maur (1808-1879) to Barbey: the two men became fast friends and kept up an extensive correspondence. Barbey, who painted a portrait of his friend in Les Poètes (1893, pp. 288-305), described him as the truest of poets as he was the truest of men. The dispatch is not recorded by Bonnefon, Les Dédicaces à la main de M. J. Barbey d'Aurevilly. Barbey's quatrain is quoted in Les oeuvres romanesques (La Pléiade edition, II, 1964, p. 1599). It has been transcribed and corrected by a foreign hand on a leaflet mounted at the head of the volume. Attached to the copy is an autograph letter signed by Barbey d'Aurevilly to M. Léopold Frinzine, bibliothèque des Deux-Mondes, Paris (one page in-12, envelope preserved); Barbey recommends to his correspondent: M. Victor Lalotte, un de mes amis. He is the one who bought my Bas-Bleus, part of the five volumes sold to Amyot. He knows all about my business. Unite your two wisdoms and draw the consequences of my folly. In 1885, the publisher Frinzine resumed the interrupted publication of Les oeuvres et les Hommes. From the libraries of Jules Le Roy, J. S. Marchand (1936, no. 70), and comte de Hanot d'Octeville (Maurice d'Hartoy).

Estim. 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lot 83 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - Happiness in crime. Paris, La Connaissance, 1920. Large in-8, brown half-maroquin with corners, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine (Modern binding). One of the short stories in Les Diaboliques. Edition illustrated with 15 original color compositions drawn and etched by Armand Rassenfosse, including 11 full-page hors texte. Edition of 125 numbered copies on Rives wove paper. Browning on the frontispiece, some foxing on the cover.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 84 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - Ce qui ne meurt pas. Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1884. In-12, dark green half-maroquin with corners, edged with gilt fillet, spine decorated, the caissons decorated with a red listel set with a double silver and gold fillet, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine, slipcase (Devauchelle). First edition. Barbey's first novel, written in 1835 and originally entitled Germaine, unfolds a frenzied story of incest and adultery, mixed with homosexuality, suspicions of necrophilia and matricide, so that the text can be read as a condensed, sometimes clumsy, account of all Aurevillian fantasies (2015 edition by Marie-Françoise Melmoux-Montaubin). The text first appeared as a serial in Gil Blas in 1883. A very fine copy, perfectly established by Roger Devauchelle.

Estim. 800 - 1 000 EUR

Lot 85 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - Ce qui ne meurt pas. Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1884. In-12, paperback, untrimmed, burgundy half-chagrin folder and modern slipcase. First edition. One of the few copies on chine, as issued, paperback. Some light foxing.

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 86 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - Le Chevalier des Touches. Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1864. In-12, blue half-maroquin, spine ribbed with gold titling, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine (G. Gauché Rel. Paris). First edition, of which no large paper was printed. One of Barbey's masterpieces, inspired by the life of Jacques des Touches, a historical figure and hero of the Norman Chouannerie. Spine a little faded. Restoration to cover and spine.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 87 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - Le Chevalier des Touches. Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1879. In-12, lemon chagrin, gilt fillets framing the boards, large fleur-de-lis at the corners, in the center of the first midnight-blue morocco mosaic shield charged with three fleurs-de-lis and surmounted by a crown, ornate spine, midnight-blue title-piece, the caissons decorated with small fleurs-de-lis and a gilt mosaic umbilicus, interior lace, gilt edges and painted with black lines (Gayler-Hirou). A precious copy bound for Barbey d'Aurevilly by Gayler-Hirou, his favorite bookbinder, with the royal coat of arms evoking his hero's commitment, and decorated edges (here, two-tone). We know that the writer had copies of his books bound as he wished, as gifts for his friends and family, as he himself pointed out in a letter to Madame de Bouglon dated February 15, 1882: Je lui répondrai quand j'envoierai mon Prêtre marié (relié à ma fantaisie) à sa femme. We're working on it at the bookbinder's [...] I'm not sending you the Prêtre marié, because you already have one (Correspondance générale, IX, 1882/8, p. 16). The copy bears this autograph letter signed by Barbey, in green, violet and red inks, with a Sagittarius arrow and dusted with gold: à Mademoiselle Mathilde Biéli, son respectueux Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly. The copy was included in the exhibition organized for the centenary of the writer's death at the Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris in 1989 (cf. cat. Barbey d'Aurevilly, n°115; error in the name and surname of the addressee). There are 3 handwritten corrections in the text, probably in Barbey's hand (pp. 25, 53 and 208). Bookplate bearing the initials J and M undetermined. Upper hinge fragile.

Estim. 3 000 - 5 000 EUR

Lot 88 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - Le Chevalier des Touches. Paris, Henri Jonquières & Cie, 1924. In-8 square, two-tone red and cream morocco, a few cream and red gilt fillets on the edges of the boards, smooth spine decorated in the same manner, author's name and title in gilt capitals, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine, slipcase (C. Valdès - A. Jeanne dor.). Black and color illustrations by Gaston Pastré, including a full-page frontispiece. One of 40 copies on Marais wove paper. Art Deco period binding.

Estim. 500 - 600 EUR

Lot 89 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - Du Dandysme et de G. Brummel. Caen, B. Mancel, 1845. Small square in-12, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Belz-Niédrée). First edition, printed by Trebutien and distributed hors commerce. For a long time, it was advertised as having been printed in an edition of only 30 copies, but its print run was re-evaluated at 250 copies by Barbey himself, and then at 321 copies (cf. Melmoux-Montaubin, Barbey d'Aurevilly, 2001, no. 246). The work is presented as an aesthetic essay in which Barbey attempts to define dandyism, and as a biography of George Brummel, the dandy par excellence, born in London in 1778 and died in Caen in 1840. A fine copy on Hollande laid paper in full contemporary binding. Last endpaper detached. Lower hinge slightly rubbed.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 90 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - Du Dandysme et de G. Brummel. Caen, B. Mancel, 1845. In-16 square, half red morocco, gilt title on spine, gilt head, untrimmed (Modern binding). Rare first edition, printed by Trebutien and distributed hors commerce. A fine copy on Hollande laid paper. Without the final errata leaf.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 91 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - Two forgotten rhythms. Caen, Imprimerie de Buhour, 1857. Small square in-12, red half-maroquin with corners, untrimmed, cover (M. Lortic). Partly first edition, very rare, not commercially available and published in a small number (36 copies according to Carteret, I, p. 109). It contains Laocoon, a poem published separately the same year, and Les Yeux caméléons, which appeared for the first time. Copy on laid paper. From the Paul Muret and Guy Seligmann libraries. Slight russet mark in the leaf margins.

Estim. 800 - 1 000 EUR

Lot 92 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - Two forgotten rhythms. Caen, Imprimerie de F. Le Blanc-Hardel, 1869. Small square in-12, green half-maroquin, gilt numeral on tail, gilt head, untrimmed, cover (Petit). Reprinted in 36 copies. Copy on Hollande laid paper. It belonged to Paul-Louis Arnauldet, a well-informed bibliophile of the period, who had it bound with his cipher and affixed his bookplate engraved by Félix Bracquemond. His library was sold at Drouot in 1878. The latter's brother, Thomas, employed in the Cabinet des Estampes of the Bibliothèque Impériale, was close to Charles Monselet and Baudelaire. From the Paul Muret library (ex-libris)

Estim. 500 - 600 EUR

Lot 93 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - Two forgotten rhythms. Caen, Imprimerie de F. Le Blanc-Hardel, 1869. Small square in-12, bradel marbled paper boards, gilt title on spine, cover (Ateliers Laurenchet). Reprinted in 36 copies. A "mise en train" copy, justified as such by a note printed on the verso of the title, printed on wove paper. Some light foxing.

Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

Lot 94 - 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.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lot 95 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - Les Diaboliques. Les six premières. Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1882. In-12, cream shaped leather, red fillet crossing at the corners framing the boards, smooth spine decorated with a gilt fleuron, red title page, red head, untrimmed (Period binding). Second edition. Copy of the current edition on ordinary paper. Superb autograph letter from the author, signed in red ink on the title page: To my great friend Paul Haag, always the machine gun of my novels: Les Diaboliques, those younger sisters of an Old Mistress Mistress, even worse than the elder sister. J. Barbey d'Aurevilly. Writer and civil engineer Paul Haag (1843-1911) was very close to François Coppée and Barbey. It was he who wrote the preface to Poésies posthumes (Lemerre, 1879) by the young poet Henri-Charles Read, the younger brother of Louise Read, the devoted secretary of the Connétable des lettres. Paul Haag's library was sold in 1911. The mailing is reproduced by Bonnefon in Les Dédicaces à la main de M. J. Barbey d'Aurevilly, p.64. Hinges slightly rubbed

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 96 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - Les Diaboliques. Paris, Librairie de la Collection des dix, A. Romagnol, 1910. In-4, blue morocco, triple gilt filet gras et maigre, ornate spine, inner frame decorated with five gilt filets, gilt head on witnesses, cover and spine, slipcase (A. Bernasconi). Luxurious edition, with a fine portrait of the author and 37 original etchings by Lobel-Riche, including 20 hors-texte. Edition of 300 copies, this one on wove paper containing the portrait in 4 states, a triple suite of illustrations (in black, bistre and color with remarks), 2 japon proofs signed in pencil by the artist, and a large original watercolor drawing signed by Lobel-Riche for the short story Le Rideau cramoisi. Prospectus (4 pages) bound in the volume. Portrait of the writer engraved by Rajon added (facing pages browned).

Estim. 1 200 - 1 500 EUR

Lot 97 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - Disjecta membra. [Paris, Daniel Jacomet pour Émile Lafuma et Roger Crès, 1920]. In-4, burgundy Russian leather, multiple gilt filets forming a frame with a large cold motif in the corners, ornate spine, interior roulettes, gilt head, untrimmed (Randeynes). A deluxe edition, partly original, giving a complete facsimile reproduction of Barbey's personal manuscript register, inherited by his devoted secretary Louise Read. This extraordinary collection wonderfully reveals Barbey's abundant creative spirit, in which he recorded his thoughts, notes, poems, drafts and sketches of works, etc., in multicolored inks and a multitude of small drawings. They include travel souvenirs and reading notes, as well as poems that would later be included in Poussières or Rhythmes oubliés, thoughts on various subjects, and more. Although not intended for publication, this collection was not unknown to a number of Barbey d'Aurevilly's contemporaries - notably those who had the privilege of crossing the threshold of the "sous-lieutenant's tournebride" occupied by Barbey d'Aurevilly at 25 rue Rousselet. We know from the testimonies of several of them that Barbey was happy to show this large manuscript volume to his visitors; as in a liber amicorum, some even left a souvenir on it: for example, Jean-Louis Forain painted a beautiful full-page portrait of a woman of the world (Joël Dupont in Omnia, 2008, p. 9). The title chosen by Barbey for this collection alludes to the "scattered limbs" of the poet Orpheus quoted by Horace in his Satires: les disjecta membra poetae. Edition of 150 copies, this one unnumbered. A fine copy, very well bound by Randeynes. Without the accompanying brochure and the unpublished etched portrait of Barbey by Ernest Laborde after A. Salomon.

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lot 98 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - L'Ensorcelée. Paris, Alexandre Cadot, 1855. 2 volumes in-8, bradel beige cloth, smooth spine decorated with a gilt fleuron, black title page, untrimmed (Pierson). First edition, dedicated to the Marquis de Custine. A fine copy, having belonged to Paul de Saint-Victor with his small stamp in red ink on the titles; it appears in his catalog (1882, n°711), then bound in half-basane. Paul Bins, comte de Saint-Victor (1825-1881) was Lamartine's secretary, a fact deplored by Barbey, who met him at the end of 1848: I have, through the most ordinary encounters in the world, lately known a young man who has the misfortune to be Lamartine's secretary (Correspondance générale, II, p. 124). The man quickly became a friend and admirer of Barbey, who later entrusted him with his first two Memoranda written for Maurice de Guérin. Unfortunately, the errata page at the end of Volume I is missing, as is the page corresponding to pp. 133-134 in Volume II.

Estim. 800 - 1 000 EUR

Lot 99 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - L'Ensorcelée. Paris, Librairie nouvelle, 1859. In-12, red half-maroquin with corners, spine ribbed with gold titling, gilt head, untrimmed, cover (Stroobants). First edition in-12, with a new unpublished preface dated September 1858. J'ai tâché de faire du Shakespeare dans un fossé du Cotentin et je crois avoir dessiné vous un personnage, entr'autres, que vous reverrez dans vos rêveswrote Barbey about L'Ensorcelée (letter to Trebutien, October 31, 1851, in Correspondance générale, III, 1851/45, p. 109). Some light foxing.

Estim. 600 - 800 EUR

Lot 100 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - Fragment, to be placed at the head of the Joseph Delorme that I must give to... Preface by François Laurentie. Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1912. In-12, soft-bound, ochre morocco, title and author's name in gilded capitals on first board, olive nubuck lining and endpapers, gilded edges, cover and spine, half-maroquin folder and slipcase (Renaud Vernier maître d'art 2003). First edition, decorated with a frontispiece portrait of the author photographed by Mélandri. One of 10 copies on hollande, the only announced first edition with 5 japon. The scene in this text takes place in Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, on a gray December day: two young girls dressed for a ball lean out of a window, moved to see the funeral procession of a girl their own age... (cf. Pierre Leberruyer, Au pays et dans l'œuvre de Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, p. 25). This Fragment, in which the very young Barbey d'Aurevilly already shows himself to be what he was until his last hour, is imbued with the melancholy inspired by the pains and realities of life (Prière d'insérer, one page, enclosed). An attractive copy in soft binding by Renaud Vernier.

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

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Lot 85 - BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (Jules) - Ce qui ne meurt pas. Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1884. In-12, paperback, untrimmed, burgundy half-chagrin folder and modern slipcase. First edition. One of the few copies on chine, as issued, paperback. Some light foxing.