Books & Manuscripts

Good copy of this rare encyclopedia on arts and techniques bound in 22 folio volumes and illustrated with more than 1500 plates.

An unregistered German world atlas.

Superb medicinal herbarium

Book abundantly illustrated with color plates

Second edition of this monument to the history of the book

The coronation of the first emperor of Haiti.

Rare first edition of this relation composed in the form of notes or letters

Superb work gathering the portraits and the life of representative men of India at the end of the 19th century.

Five handwritten plans of the hotel are attached to the book.

The Paris edition of Religious Ceremonies

Exceptional Atlas manuscript of the 17th century

Complete collection of the Gazette du Bon Ton, an elegant magazine of contemporary fashions founded by Lucien Vogel, illustrated with more than 700 plates, most of them stenciled.

First French translation of the first reliable source on the Mongol dominations of Central Asia

Watercolor album of 18th century costumes

Unique edition printed in a very small number

Reunion of two rare works and in first edition a volume, printed in Greek and Latin type.

Spectacular binding with the arms of Ferdinand I

"The best editions of Arrien are those of Jacques Gronovius, Leiden 1704 [...] with a Latin translation by Bonaventure Vulcanius."

Third edition of this treatise on Baker's microscopes.

French first edition of Henry Baker's work

Rare first edition of the French translation by Pierre Demours.

"One of the author's masterpieces" (Carteret I, p.109)

Beautiful suite of 24 plates

115 LARGE MAPS COVERING THE COASTS OF THE FIVE CONTINENTS IN A SUPERB CONTEMPORARY RED MOROCCO BINDING WITH THE ARMS OF LOUIS XV.

Precious copy enriched with a suite signed on Japon.

20 plates colored with stencil by Jean Saudé after Edouard Benedictus.

First edition illustrated with sixty superb plates.

Superbement relié dans une reliure néerlandaise d'époque

One of the most famous anatomy books of the 19th century, illustrated with 257 plates and their descriptions.

Beautiful small atlas of 36 maps, all but one colored at the time, composed by Bonne, Janvier, Rizzi-Zannoni and de L'Isle.

Beautiful copy with the arms of Louis XV.

Extremely rare work on Scottish Masonry also containing the polemic Masonry dissected by Samuel Prichard.

The most beautiful French work of anatomy published in the 19th century, illustrated with a lithographed frontispiece in colors, 8 lithographed titles and 725 superb plates.

First edition of this detailed study, which gives an excellent overview of the mores in Constantinople in the early nineteenth century

40 colored boundary maps in 48 sheets

German edition of the Grands Voyages de Bry illustrated with 4 double page maps.

First edition of De Bry's great travels with the very rare first state of the double page map of Virginia.

First edition with arms

First edition and first printing of this beautiful album dedicated to the Isle of Wight.

First edition, complete in a fine binding signed by Alphonse Giroux

First edition of the Egyptian Grammar of Champollion

"It is mainly on this work that the reputation of the famous scholar rests" (Brunet).

First edition of this important optical treatise

Beautiful work of anatomy illustrated with 340 plates, most of them in color.

Copy enriched with a beautiful sending to the Shah of Persia

Rare French edition of Colom's famous Maritime Atlas of Europe.

French first edition of Cook's three voyages.

The first book on exotic butterflies ordered according to the new system developed by Carl von Linné, enriched with his supplement, and superbly illustrated with 442 plates engraved and colored at the time.

Very rare Chaldean grammar and hagiographic lexicon of Chaldeanism.

Composite atlas with 16 maps by d'Anville

With 21 original plates including 14 hors-texte signed in the plate.

Ouvrage principal bien conservé d’un célèbre avocat flamand du XVIème

A beautiful and attractive atlas of the world.

Very rare

The most famous Atlas by the German mathematician, cartographer and astronomer Johann Gabriel Doppelmaier.

52 lithographs including 40 enhanced in colors at the time.

Deluxe edition in a sublime mosaic binding

Dedication copy by the author, with the handwritten mention "Tribute of the author G. E." on the cover.

"In The 300 Meter Tower, Eiffel gave in a scientific and technical way the descriptions, calculations, and drawings of all the parts of his tower"

Lisbon, 1582.

First edition of the most important celestial atlas of the 18th century.

One of the most beautiful books on India.

Copy of the collection of Richard Benyon de Beauvoir.

Signed first edition, illustrated with 21 lithographs of which one on double page.

"One of the rarest and most desired cat books in existence."

Important manuscript richly illustrated.

First editions and first prints of Gavarni's beautiful Fantasy

Exemplaire de l’auteur dédicacé à sa nièce Marguerite Toiton.

« Les modifications que Merian et Gottfried apportèrent aux textes et aux illustrations surpassèrent les changements apportés aux volumes originaux de l'Amérique »

Delightful collection of marine by Guéroult du Pas including 3 suites of various buildings evolving in Europe, in the Mediterranean Sea and in the oceans.

with 250 colored plates

Second edition, 25 copies

with 13 maps in period colors.

Le Traité de la peste, par le maître apothicaire et écrivain philanthrope parisien Nicolas Houel, fondateur du jardin et de l'école des apothicaires de Paris.

Edition originale de la célèbre expédition d'André Citroën avec suite en couleur.

Tthe fifth work to be printed by Ibrahim Muteferrika

Un des 30 exemplaires PP (Printer Proof) de l’édition limitée.

Edition incunable de Venise des Etymologies d’Isidore de Séville, avec la célèbre "carte en TO".

A precious testimony on the daily life of couples during the Renaissance.

Precious copy enriched with 6 original preparatory drawings for the illustration .

First edition of one of the greatest scientific expeditions of the 18th century.

Beautiful work of devotion and piety, for the personal use of the author, Father Guilelmi Langenberger.

Première édition avec 499 plans et perspectives.

Monographie sur Chagall illustrée de 15 lithographies originales de l'artiste.

Bel ouvrage apprécié pour sa riche iconographie sur l'Orient dessinée d’après nature et reproduite en taille-douce annonçant plus de 320 gravures.

First edition of this long and interesting scientific voyage to the East Indies and the Indian Ocean.

Beautiful and rare collection

First edition of the first accurate topographical description of the region

Atlas of 208 maps and 41 photographic plates reproducing the itineraries of the trips made in the Pei Tcheuly Gulf basin between 1916 and 1923, by the Jesuit missionary Emile Licent.

Nice and rare album of 14 plates on the uniforms of the Royal Prussian Infantry