Books & Manuscripts

Second edition of this monument to the history of the book

An unregistered German world atlas.

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

The coronation of the first emperor of Haiti.

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

Exceedingly rare manuscript atlas of the 17th century

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

Very rare Chaldean grammar and hagiographic lexicon of Chaldeanism.

Bellin’s most important work, with royal coat of arms.

Lisbon, 1582.

Superbement relié dans une reliure néerlandaise d'époque

Precious copy enriched with a suite signed on Japon.

The Paris edition of Religious Ceremonies

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

"Very rare first edition of one of Prosper Merimee's most famous works" (Carteret)

Tthe fifth work to be printed by Ibrahim Muteferrika

Beautiful copy with the arms of Louis XV.

First edition illustrated with sixty superb plates.

Unique edition printed in a very small number

First edition of Plato by Froben from the commented Latin translation by Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) and revised by Simon Grynaeus (1493-1541).

Spectacular binding with the arms of Ferdinand I

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

French first edition of Henry Baker's work

Exemplaire de Ferdinand Ier (1793-1875), Empereur d’Autriche, Roi de Lombardie-Vénétie, couronné en septembre 1838.

40 colored boundary maps in 48 sheets

Rare first edition of the French translation by Pierre Demours.

Famous edition of Dante, masterpiece of illustration of Dali.

Copy of Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria.

The first printed collection of voyages and discoveries.

A very fine copy of the first printing.

Deluxe edition in a sublime mosaic binding

Exemplaire est en parfait état

The manuscripts describe the events of the War of the Austrian Succession that followed the defeat of the King of Sardinia in his camp in Alexandria, the siege of Valencia and the route from Cazal to Alexandria in 1745.

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

A very attractive atlas of the world.

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

Letters from Daubenton to Etienne-François Dutour de Salvert on botany

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

First edition of this important optical treatise

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.

Well-preserved main work of a 16th century Flemish lawyer

Exemplaire with suite

with 13 maps in period colors.

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

Sale of a black slave on the island of Gorée in July 1844.

First edition of this methodical geography book for school children.

Copy of the collection of Richard Benyon de Beauvoir.

Illustrated with 105 full page lithographs of Salvador Dali.

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

First editions and first prints of Gavarni's beautiful Fantasy

Letter of claim signed by Buffon to force Mr. Jacques Rollin to pay a rescripture of 3825 livres.

Second edition, 25 copies

A beautiful binding for a very nice Latin edition of 1701 illustrated by three Dutch engravers.

The most important edition of ptolemy’s geographia, extended for the first time by the modernmaps of martin waldseemüller (Stevens).

Limited edition of Fêtes galantes Verlaine illustrated by George Barbier.

Eighteenth century atlas composed of 209 watercolor boundary maps by Robert de Vaugondy father and son.

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

First edition composed of 132 lithographs in colors by Alfons Mucha partially enhanced with silver or gold, lettering, culs-de-lampe and fleurons.

Autograph manuscript of Doctor Ernest Delbet, who accompanied Guillaume-Rey on his journey. These notes include unpublished excerpts of Guillaume-Rey's trip in 1857 to the Haouran and the Dead Sea.

Très belle série de 23 vues de villes d'Europe par Nicolaes Visscher, en coloris de l'époque.

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

Rare illustrated work from the end of the 16th century.

A complete copy in a beautiful red morocco binding with the arms of Gabriel Junosza Podoski, prince primate of the kingdom of Poland.

Milano, [1838]. Seul exemplaire connu.

Manuscript report on the capture of the port of Muscat by d'Estaing.

Superb work combining a terrestrial and a celestial atlas in a superb period colouring.

First edition with the watercolor plates enhanced with gold.

Autograph letter signed by the playwright to President Pigault de l'Epinoy, about his great patriotic tragedy Le Siège de Calais.

First edition of one of the most beautiful atlas of obstetrics illustrated with 60 plates.

Fragment of a course in physics given at the École Polytechnique by André-Marie Ampère. 

Signed death certificate. Nice seal with the arms of the Company.

letter by François Rollinat and addressed to his brother the painter Philippe Rollinat, residing in San Francisco, California.

 Correspondence between Louis Jou and Mrs. and Mr. André Coq (his publisher) about their work Abeille.

Interesting letter on one of his most important works Murat, of which he realized the illustrations.

Certificate accompanying the Tonkin Expedition Commemorative Medal.

Handwritten birth certificate made in Mauritius in july 1836

Moving letter to a member of her family, beautiful signature Princesse de Canino Widow Lucien Bonaparte.

61 double-page maps hand-coloured in outline, including 15 of the ancient world, drawn by Rigobert Bonne, Ingénieur-Hydrographe de la Marine and published by P. Santini in Venice between 1788 and 1793.

Beautiful letter from Guillaume Guillon-Lethières in which he evokes his works presented at the Salon, among which "Saint Louis à Tunis" [Saint Louis visiting the victims of the plague in the plain of Carthage]. He then gives his feelings on the work of his student Melle Mélanie-Marie d'Hervilly.

Beautiful edition composed of 5 volumes which contain the Works of Master François Rabelais.  

Exceptional, unsophisticated example of the first state of Abraham Ortelius’s Theatrum, one of the most important works in the Western Canon.

One of the most spectacular atlases in existence.

Interesting manuscript describing the events of the Austrian Campaign, mainly the Battle of Austerlitz.

22 plates in gummed original color.

Letter addressed shortly before his departure at sea.