Search Results: Titles starting with C from Comellas Rare Books

Genève, Paschoud, 1807. 2 volumes petit in-12. pp.3-183pp. 1f. 220pp. (sans les faux-titres). Full calf, ornate smooth spines, gilt garland framing the covers (fine period binding). A very rare edition, apparently the second, of Madame de Charrière's famous novel, which established her literary reputation. It remained unknown to Clouzot. Isabelle de Charrière, a Swiss woman of letters of Dutch origin, was a friend of Benjamin Constant and Madame de Stael. A handsome copy, finely bound in the period, without its faux-titres. Missing from Clouzot.

A Paris, chez Delalain le jeune et Maradan, an V - 1797. 4 tomes in 2 volumes, 12mo. Frontispiece. VII. 228 pages. and Frontispiece. 258 pages. + Frontispiece. 2 leaves. 277 pages. and Frontispiece. 2 leaves. 259 pages. Full calf, ornate smooth spines (period binding). A very rare novel generally attributed to Samuel Constant de Rebecque (1729-1800), "one of the most distinguished men in Lausanne's aristocratic society" (Godet). This Swiss writer, who frequented Voltaire, was also a friend of Madame de Charrière, and the present work is sometimes attributed to the latter (cf. Clouzot), as is another novel by Constant entitled "Le Mari Sentimental" published in 1785, the same year as the first edition of the present novel. "Madame de Charrière consulted Mr Samuel Constant, or some other learned gentleman of her society, whenever her works dealt with political or economic subjects (...). Madame de Charrière also used the intermediary of these people whenever she had her works printed, either in… Read More

4 works in 1 volume 8vo. 1). 14 pages. (1 blank leaf). 2). 16 pages. 3). 136 pages. 4). 15 pages. Later boards (spine summarily repaired). 1). Very rare first edition, printed in Madrid, of this poem by a French woman of letters living in that city. Now forgotten, Madame de Suberwick, born Germillon, wrote several works on Spain, in particular "Les Mystères de l'Inquisition et autres sociétés secrètes d'Espagne" (1845), a "curious" and "seriously anticlerical" (Caillet) work that was translated into several languages and reprinted many times. Written in French, with a title page in Spanish, the present poem, published under the pseudonym "Victorine de Féréal", depicts Spain personified in the guise of a "black-eyed woman, with the face of a Queen". Copy presented by the author to the Belgian novelist Estelle Crèvecoeur, known as Caroline Gravière (1821-1878), an avant-garde feminist "often compared to George Sand" (Gubin): "A Caroline Gravière, ton humble sœur en poésie, V. de Féréal… Read More

Amsterdam, aux dépens de l'Auteur, 1772. 8vo. 4 leaves. 195 pages. LXXVI pages. (1 blank leaf). Half-calf, ornamented flat spine (later binding circa 1840). First Edition. Despite his unorthodox life the French adventurer Ange Goudar (1720-1791) was one of the most notable figures in French Enlightenment thought. "Origine des Russes, grandeur de l'Empire, première cause de sa foiblesse", "Que les premiers Russes n'avoient point de forme de gouvernement", "Dépopulation", "Des Czars", "Du Despotisme Russe; qu'il étoit étranger au climat, des maux qu'il causa",, "Révolution causée par le changement du dogme", "Des premières guerres Russes", "Pourquoi l'Empire subsista malgré les causes qui devoient le faire périr", etc. The eulogy of Catherine II occupies the seventy-six pages numbered separately at the end of the volume. Important work that has become rare on the market.