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Famous edition known as the Fessard edition, the most richly illustrated of La Fontaine in the 18th century.
Printed on large paper and with large margins.
Volumes entirely engraved copper-plated, illustrated with 724 compositions by Étienne Fessard from the drawings of several artists including Claude-Louis Desrais, Charles Monnet and Jean-Baptiste Le Prince.
The text was engraved by Montulay and Drouet, as an hors texte, 244 plates stamped on the front alone:
• 2 of dedication (Princes du sang in volume I and Duke of Burgundy in volume VI),
• 238 each illustrating a fable,
• 2 portraits (Aesop and La Fontaine in volume I),
and 2 each illustrating an epilogue.

In the text, on the ff. included in the collation above, 480 vignettes including
• 10 full page (one half-title, one on the back of the title of volume I, 6 titles and three culs-de-lampe),
• 244 banners,
• 226 cul-de-lampe.
Provenance: E. Robert (ex-libris stamp on the title pages) ; Librairie Pierre Berès (label on first inside… Read More

Paris, GLM, 1935.
1 vol. (185 x 240 mm) non paginé. Reliure à emboîtage avec plats à bandes de soie noir et de cuir argenté, titre gravé au laser sur le premier plat et gardes en papiers poncés (reliure signée de Tamara Lise).
First Edition.1/1200 copies printed on velin (n° 450).Inscribed: [in french]: "To Marcel Adéma, who has for poetry the respect due to the young and the old ones, Paul Eluard".
In 1935, Man Ray took a series of photographs of Nusch, Paul Éluard's second wife, whom he had met in 1929. It was on these images that the poet wrote the love poems for Facile, published in a masterly layout by the poet-typographer Guy Levis Mano. Man Ray followed very closely all the stages of the production of this refined book, one of the most beautiful surrealist books illustrated by photography.
Pierre-Marcel Adéma, Apollinaire's first true biographer, had built up an extensive library, obviously on his favourite author, but more generally on the French poetry of the first half of the… Read More

Nice Set of advertising leaflets and booklets :

• the issue of "Current biography", the Who's who of New York, which gives for the first time the card of Fernandel (vol. 16, no. 9, October 1955).
• booklet for the film "Regain" (Harvest), after Giono, shot by Pagnol, with Fernandel. The film had been awarded the prize for best foreign film in the USA. It was the only film, that year, to get all four stars in the NY times cinema rating charts, with "Gone with the wind" and "Mr. Smith goes to Washington". Pencil note: Chicago.
• Booklet for Public enemy n°1, with Zsa Zsa Gabor and Fernandel, shot in New York by Henri Verneuil, who signs there at the age of 32 his fifth film; with a photographic print of Fernandel in costume - print "Studio Albert, Marseille".
• booklet for "Trio des quatre", at the Town Hall of New York, with the "n° 1 comedian of the french screen". This unique performance took place on 25th October 1948, in the famous theatre of 123 West 43 rd.
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Fernandel in the Americas! Nice set of documents, including his passport!

- April in Paris Ball : typed letter signed by C.C. Philippe, Secretary, addressed to Fernandel to thank him for his presence and his arrival in NY on April 23rd 1959, on the ship "Liberté".
- A participation envelope is enclosed, to be returned to the Treasurer, Bernard F. Gimbel,
- as well as the list of "Patronesses" of the event.
- The Menu "so French" of the 1955 Ball, to which Fernandel was invited.
This great annual ball and banquet, for a charity event, took place every year at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
[WITH] :
Fernandel. Fernand Contandin. UNIQUE and original PASSPORT.
French Republic, issued April 7, 1953, extended until September 20, 1959.
A great traveller by taste and by his profession, Fernandel travels all over Europe, and even farther: Italy, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Morocco, and the United States.

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Paris, Revue de Paris, (10, 17 and 31 April) 1833. 1 vol. (165 x 245 mm) of 352 p., then 34 p. and 1 f. of table. Half vellum, plain spine, handwritten title in ink "Revue de Paris | 48", untrimmed (contemporary binding).
Pre-original edition of Ferragus, leader of the Dévorants [Les Treize], which appears on pages 126 to 131, 156 to 200, 289 to 332 of the three issues forming volume 48 of the "Revue de Paris". It has been bound in an offprint, paginated 1 to 34, which contains the last part of the fundamental text, with an afterword and conclusion. The general table has also been preserved and bound at the very end.
A copy bound and made up at the time, probably for its director, Amédée Pichot.
The copy is enriched with an autograph leaf signed by Honoré de Balzac:
"the manuscript will be delivered within ten days".
The manuscript, completed by Balzac in February 1833, consists of 104 pages (Bibliothèque de l'Institut, Fonds Lovenjoul, A 99): the first two chapters are characterised by careful… Read More

Barcelona, en la impressa de Mathevat, 1684 et 1686. 2 volumes in 1 vol. (145 x 205 mm) of [4], 87, [12] and 198 pp; modern vellum, smooth spine, title in black ink (modern binding).
A rare edition printed in Barcelona and the first complete edition, the first volume appearing in the same year as the edition published in Madrid by Villadiego.
This is a detailed account of the first years of the Second Austro-Turkish War (1683-1699), intended to exalt the House of Habsburg. Its author, Fabio Bremundan, of Flemish or Burgundian origin, went down in history as the founder of the Gazeta de Madrid, which championed the cause of Prince John Joseph of Austria (legitimized child of Philip IV of Spain) - of whom. Bremunda was the prince's personal secretary, who dreamed of one day acceding to the Spanish throne, in competition with the only legitimate heir to the throne, the future Charles II.
Palau, 86152 (for the Madrid edition).
A good copy, with wide margins.
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FLORO HISTÓRICO, DE… Read More