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4to volume, ‘cartonnage percaline romantique’, 27.5 x 19.5 cm, green cloth with gilt fillet border and fictional coat of arms to front, border and fleuron to back, gilt and embossed vignette to spine, yellow endpapers, all edges gilt, 32 plates, incl. frontispiece, with tissue guards, and numerous in-text woodcuts after J.-J. Grandville by various engravers, mostly by Best, Leloir, Hotelin et Régnier group. Page 102 is numbered correctly. Title-page: JÉROME | PATUROT | A LA RECHERCHE | D'UNE POSITION SOCIALE | PAR | LOUIS REYBAUD, | Auteur des Études sur les Reformateurs ou Socialistes modernes. | — | Édition illustrée par J.-J. Grandville. | {vignette} | PARIS, | J.-J. DUBOCHET, LE CHEVALIER ET Cie, ÉDITEURS, | RUE DE RICHELIEU, 60. | – | 1846 || Collation: π4 1-574 582; total 234 leaves plus 32 wood-engraved plates extraneous to collation. Pagination: [8] [1] 2-460; total 468 pages, ils. Catalogue raisonné: L. Carteret 516; Ray 197 (pp. 277-8); Brivois: 350-1. Contributors: Louis Reybaud [Jérôme Paturot] (French, 1799 – 1879) – author. J.-J. Grandville [Isidore-Adolphe Gèrard] (French, 1803 – 1847) – artist. Schneider et Legrand (Paris) – printer. J.-J. Dubochet, Le Chevalier et Cie – publsiher. Engravers: Lucjan Stypulkowski (Polish, 1806 – 1849) Best, Leloir, Hotelin et Régnier Jean Baptiste Best (French, 1808 – 1879) or Adolphe Best (French, 1808 – 1860) Isidore Leloir (French, 1806 – 1851) Laurent Éloi Hotelin (French, 1821 – 1894) Eugène Laurent Isidore Régnier (?) -
Hardcover volume, collated 18mo, 130 x 85 mm (2 parts in one). Contemporary burgundy morocco outlined with gilt triple fillet, flat spine gilt in compartments, brown morocco label gilt, all edges gilt, gilt dentelle, text printed on slightly blue laid paper with illegible watermark; dark blue endpapers, Tony Fekete (T. F.) bookplate by Wahorn to front pastedown. Frontispiece and 14 engraved plates by Elluin after Borel, with guard tissue. Graphite ms to h.t.: "Figures de Borrel. | Gravées pr. Elluin." Title-page: NOUVELLE TRADUCTION | DE | WOMAN OF PLEASUR, | OU | FILLE DE JOIE. | PAR M. CLELAND, | CONTENANT les Mémoires | de Mademoiselle FANNY, | écrits par elle – même. | AVEC FIGURES | — | PREMIERE (SECONDE) PARTIE. | — | ~ | A LONDRES; | Chez G. FENTON, dans le Strand; | — | M. DCC. LXXVI. || Collation: 18mo throughout A-O12/6, total 126 leaves plus 15 plates, incl. frontispiece. Pagination: separate for each part [1-5] 6-119 [120 blank], [1-3] 4-132, total 252 pages. Provenance: Tony Fekete (Christie’s 2014, № 54, p. 37; Price realized GBP 11,875): “[CLELAND, John (1709-1789).] Nouvelle traduction de Woman of Pleasur [sic] ou Fille de Joie. Contenant les Mémoires de Mademoiselle Fanny, écrits par elle-même. London [but Paris]: G. Fenton [Cazin], 1776. 2 volumes in one, duodecimo (128 x 80 mm). Printed on blue tinted paper. Frontispiece and 14 engraved plates on thick white paper by Elluin after Borel. (Short tear repaired in the margin of one plate, another plate with a faint dampstain touching the facing leaf of text.) Contemporary burgundy morocco, flat spine gilt in compartments, morocco label gilt, covers with a gilt triple fillet border, gilt edges, blue endpapers. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL 18TH-CENTURY ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF THIS CELEBRATED EROTIC NOVEL. An excellent copy bound in contemporary morocco. It is the second translation into French, but the first to include the exquisite plates by Elluin after Borel. These are some of the best illustrations by this remarkable partnership responsible for a number of important 18th-century libertine texts. Cohen-DeRicci 242-3; Dutel A-407 ; Gay-Lemonnyer II, 304; Pia Enfer, 915.” Catalogue raisonné: Dutel (I) A-407, p. 134; Cohen-DeRicci 242-3; Fekete (Christie's) 54, p. 37. Contributors: John Cleland (British, c. 1709 – 1789). François-Rolland Elluin (French, 1745 – c. 1822) Antoine Borel (French, 1743 – 1810) Hubert-Martin Cazin (French, 1724 – 1795) András Wahorn (Hungarian, b. 1953) Fekete, Tony Laszlo (Hungarian, b. 1972) -
Title page: GUIDE DE L’AMATEUR | BIBLIOGRAPHIE | DES | OUVRAGES ILLUSTRES | DU | XIXe SIÈCLE | PRINCIPALEMENT DES LIVRES A GRAVURES SUR BOIS | PAR | JULES BRIVOIS | AUTEUR DE LA BIBLIOGRAPHIE DE L’ŒUVRE DE P.-J. BÉRANGER | MEMBRE FONDATEUR DE LA SOCIÉTÉ DES AMIS DES LIVRES | — | PARIS | LIBRAIRIE L. CONQUET | 5, RUE DROUOT, 5 | 1883 || Justification: Il a été tire : | 900 exemplaires sur papier vergé. | Et 50 exemplaires sur grand papier de Hollande. | Tous sont numérotés et paraphes par l’auteur. | № {188 signature} | Les numéros pairs portent le nom de M. L. Conquet. | Et les numéros impairs celui de M. P. Rouquette. | — | Le dépôt légal sera fait en France et dans tous les pays avec lesquels il | existe des conventions pour la propriété littéraire. | Tous droits réservés. || Pagination : [2] blank, [i-v] vi-xiii [xiv], [1] 2-468; the total number of pages = 484. Collation: π8 1-288 2910, an asterisk on leaf 295; the total number of leaves 242; 3 blank leaves of wove paper before and after collation. Imprint to 11 : Imp. de Mme de Lacombe; Imprint to 2910 : Nancy, imprimerie Berger-Levrault et Cie. Binding: ¾ polished distressed calf over marbled boards by the previous owner "E.D", gilt-stamped spine with gilt-lettered black label, peacock marbled endpapers, printed on laid paper. Contributors: Jules Brivois (French, 1832 – 1920) – author. L. Conquet (Paris) – publisher. P. Rouquette (Paris) – publisher. Berger-Levrault et Cie – printer. -
Three volumes, 33 x 26.5 x 7 cm each, uniformly bound in 2/3 vellum over marbled boards, outlined with gilt fillet, brown label with gilt lettering to flat spine with double fillet faux-bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, other untrimmed, publisher’s wrappers preserved, incl. spine; collotype plates with captioned glassine guards; armorial bookplate of Comte Alain de Suzannet to front pastedown in each volume. Two volumes of Première partie, wanting, contain La vie artistique : texte and La vie artistique : planches. Title-page (red and black): JACQUES CALLOT | PAR | J. LIEURE | Introduction de F. Courboin | Conservateur du Cabinet des Estampes à la Bibliothèque Nationale | — | DEUXIÈME PARTIE | CATALOGUE DE L’ŒUVRE GRAVÉ | TOME I (II, III) | — | PARIS | ÉDITIONS DE LA GAZETTE DES BEAUX-ARTS | 106, Boulevard Saint-Germain (6e) | 1924 (1927, 1927) || Vol. 1 (1924): [4] [1] 2-122 [2], wrappers, plates 1-299; printed on September 15, 1924, by André Lesot (Nemours) and D. Jacomet et Cie (Paris). Vol. 2 (1927): [4] [1] 2-106 [2], wrappers, plates 300-652. Vol. 3 (1927): [4] [1] 2-128 [4], wrappers, plates 653-1428; printed on September 5, 1926, by Imprimerie moderne des Beaux-Arts (Bois-Colombes) and D. Jacomet et Cie (Paris). Contributors: Jules Lieure (French, 1866 – 1948) – author. Jacques Callot (French, c. 1592 – 1635) – artist. Gazette des Beaux-Arts (f. 1859) – publisher. François Courboin (French, 1865 – 1926) – author. D. Jacomet et Cie (Paris) – printer. Daniel Jacomet (French, 1894 – 1966) – printer. André Lesot (French, 1874-1951) – printer. Imprimerie moderne des Beaux-Arts (Bois-Colombes) Comte Alain de Suzannet (French, 1882 – 1950) – provenance. -
Vol. 1. Title: SOUVENIRS | D'UN | PRÉFET DE POLICE | PAR | L. ANDRIEUX | TOME PREMIER | {publisher’s device} | PARIS | JULES ROUFF ET Cie, ÉDITEURS | 14, CLOITRE SAINT-HONORÉ, 14 | 1885 || Pagination : [1-7] 8-356. Collation: 18mo; 1-1718 1916. Vol. 2. Title: Similar but TOME DEUXIÈME. Pagination : [1-5] 6-304. Collation: 18mo; 1-1518 176. Binding: Both volumes are uniformly bound in quarter black morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt lettering, peacock endpapers, all edges marbled; extensive foxing. -
Two volumes, 12mo; 14 x 9 cm, uniformly bound in speckled calf with dentelle border in gilt, gilt-stamped spine with two crimson lettered labels, marbled endpapers. Inscription to h.t.: P. Leigh Smith | Moscow | 1921 || Vol. 1: Half-title: MIROIR | DE L'ANCIEN ET DU NOUVEAU | PARIS, | AVEC TREIZE VOYAGES | EN VÉLOCIFÈRES, |DANS SES ENVIRONS. | TOME I. || Title page: MIROIR | DE L'ANCIEN ET DU NOUVEAU | PARIS, | AVEC TREIZE VOYAGES | EN VÉLOCIFÈRES, |DANS SES ENVIRONS. Ouvrage indespensable aus Étrangers et même | aux Parisiens, et qui indique tout ce qu’il faut | connoître et éviter dans cette capitale. | Orné d’un Plan de Paris et de 18 Gravures | {to the right, in single rules} Tels temps, telles mœurs. | Par L. Prudhomme. | Tome I. | PARIS, | PRUDHOMME, fils, rue des Marais, F. B. St.-G. | DEBRAY, rue St. Honoré, barrière des Sergens. | AN XIII. — (1804.) || Pagination: [i-vii] viii-xxxvi, 1-260; total 296 pages + 15 copperplate engravings and 1 folding plan of Paris. Collation: πA-πC6, A-C6, 4-216 224; total 148 leaves + 15 plates + 1 folding. Note: 12mo; πA1 unsigned, A2 unsigned, A–C3 signed A-C5, respectively, 4* unsigned, 9* marked 8*, 18* marked 17*. Vol. 2: Similar half-title and title, TOME II instead of TOME I. Pagination: [4] 1-408; total 412 pages + 3 copperplate engravings. Collation: π2, 1-346; total 206 leaves + 3 plates. -
129 issues of L'Éclipse, French weekly political magazine; published in Paris, 49 x 34 cm, bound in rebacked green quarter morocco over marbled boards, with gilt fillets and lettering to spine, peacock marbled endpapers, illustrated by André Gill (French, 1840 – 1885). Founder and editor-in-chief François Polo (French, 1838 – 1874). 1874: 271-322 (52 issues) 1875: 323-374 (52 issues) 1876: 375-399 (25 issues) -
Softcover volume, 22.8 x 17 cm, French flapped wrapper simulating unprimed canvas with crimson lettering to front; pp.: ffl, [5/6] h.t., [7/8] t.p., 9-109 [110], [111/112] limitation/blank, ffl; plus 12 colour lithographs by Schem (Raoul Serres), incl. frontispiece; printed on wove paper. Title-page (red and black): L'ÉCOLE | DES | BICHES | OU | MŒURS DES | PETITES DAMES DE CE TEMPS | [blank] | M. CM. XXXIX. || Limitation: printed 99 copies of which this is № 27; date of printing July 10, 1939. Catalog raisonné: Dutel III № 1447. As per J.-P. Dutel (II № 231 pp 119-20), the text was published in Brussels in 1868 by Jean-Pierre Blanche. Presumed authors are Alfred Bégis, Frederick Hankey and Edmund Duponchel. [BEGIS, Alfred, with DUPONCHEL, Edmond, and HANKEY, Frederick, attributed to.] L'École des Biches ou Mœurs des petites dames de ce temps. Paris [but Brussels]: [Jean-Pierre Blanche,] 1863 [1868] sold at Christie’s for GBP 1,000 on November 18, 2014. For details, see [LIB-2812.2021] Highlights from the Erotica Library of Tony Fekete / Auction catalogue, Tuesday 18 November 2014. — London: Christie's, 2014. — Lot 36. Contributors: Alfred Bégis (French, 1829 – 1904) – author. Frederick Hankey (British, 1823 – 1882) – author. Edmund Duponchel (French, c. 1795 – 1868) – author. Jean-Pierre Blanche (Beligian, second half of the 19th century) – publisher. Schem [real name Raoul Serres] (French, 1881– 1971) – artist. -
Exhibition held December 4, 2007, to March 2, 2008, at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Title: L'enfer de la Bibliothèque | ÉROS AU SECRET | Sous la direction | de Marie-Françoise Quignard | et Raymond-Josué Seckel | [spase] | {BnF | Bibliothèque nationale de France || Description: 23 x 16 cm, publisher’s lettered wrappers and pictorial dust jacket, [1-17] 18-460 [4], ils.; 257 entries, 8 pp. bibliography, 10 pp. index. -
L'Imitation de Jésus-Christ / Traduite et paraphrasée en Vers François Par P. Corneille. — A Paris, Chez Pierre Rocolet, Imprimeur & Libraire ordinaire du Roy, au Palais, en la Gallerie des Prisonniers, aux Armes du Roy & de la Ville. M. DC. LVI. Avec Approbation des Docteurs, et Privelege de sa Majesté. Paris: Pierre Rocolet, 1656. Half-title: Les Quatre Livres de L'Imitation de Iesus-Christ. Traduites et paraphrasez en vers françois Par P. Corneille. — pp.: ff [2 pictorial ht, verso blank] [2 title, blank] [10 epistre] [2 av lecteur] [2 approbation, frontis.] 1-551 [552-60 table, privilege] bf. 8vo, 24.7 x 18.7 cm, hardcover; full speckled brown calf, gilt double-ruled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt double-ruled compartments with lozenges, sprayed margins; pages darkened. Purple ink stamp of Diocèse de Valencia to half-title. Nut ink ex libris handwriting on front paste-down. Plates: Half-title: unsigned copper engraving with the coat of arms of Pope Alexander VII (r. 1655 – 1667) which contains an oak tree in the top left and bottom right quarters (from Della Rovere family, Dukes of Urbino), the top right and bottom left quarters feature a mountain of six coupeaux in base with three stars above (from Chigi family). Four copper engravings inbound at the beginning of each book signed 'F. Chauueau in et fe.': Page 1: Jesus teaches His disciple. Page 113: Annunciation. Page 183: Jesus meets Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. Page 459: Last Supper. François Chauveau (10 May 1613, Paris – 3 February 1676, Paris), a French painter and engraver. Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380 – 25 July 1471), a German-Dutch canon regular. Pierre Corneille (1606 – 1684), a French poet and playwright. Pierre Rocolet (1610 – 1662, active circa 1638 à 1662), a French publisher and printer. -
L'incendie de Hôtel de Ville (24 mai 1871). A woodcut by Provost; printed by Imp. Charaire et fils; F. Roy, éditier. -
Cover: La Conspiration Juive contre les Peuples | « Protocols » | Procès-verbaux de réunions secrètes | des | SAGES D'ISRAËL | ÉDITION DE | “La Vieille-France” | 1920 | 5Rue du Pré-aux-Clercs, 5 | PARIS (7e) || Title: « Protocols » | Procès-verbaux de réunions secrètes | des | SAGES D'ISRAËL | ÉDITION DE | “La Vieille-France” | 1920 | 5Rue du Pré-aux-Clercs, 5 | PARIS (7e) || Pagination: [1, 2] – t.p. / blank, 3-141 [142 blank] [2] – table / blank. Pp.: 1-11 – Introduction; 13-82 – Protocols; 97-141 – Le Bolchevisme, c’est les Juifs. Collation : 8vo; [1]8 2-98. Binding: Publisher’s blue black-lettered wrappers, lettered spine. Printer: Imprimerie Chantenay (Paris). The French translation of "Протоколы синоских мудрецов" written in Russian by Сергей Нилус (Sergei Nilus, 1862 – 1929) was published in “La Vieille-France” by Urbain Gohier (1862 – 1951). Inside front wrapper: "Brave French! Please note that the format of this book allows you to hide it in your pockets. Your Jewish masters strictly forbid you to read it. Its existence is hidden in every possible way by the Jewish-controlled press. But fear not! While carefully hiding it, read carefully about what your Jewish masters forbid the newspapers to tell you. And you will understand – who and how will take your homeland away from you." -
Title-page: LA | CORRECTIONNELLE | PETITES CAUSES CÉLÈBRES | ÉTUDES DE MŒURS POPULAIRES | Au Dix-Neuvième Siècle | ACCOMPAGNÉES DE CENT DESSINS | PAR GAVARNI | {woodcut vignette} | PARIS | Chez Martinon, rue du Coq-Saint-Honoré, 4 | 1840 || Collation: 2o, π3 (t.p. (wrapper?), h.t., t.p.), 1-1012; 205 leaves total, of them 100 plates, lithographs by Gavarni. Pagination: [6] [1] 2-403 [404], 410 pages total, incl. ils. (BnF calls for 426 pages total). Note: plate № 8 is numbered 9, plate № 9 numbered 8; p. 266 numbered 264, p. 268 numbered 266, p. 362 numbered 374, p. 364 numbered 376 (as called for by Carteret). Binding: “Romantique” publisher's quarter calf with gilt lettering and design elements over red paper boards, marbled endpapers. Complete 100 issues of the 4-page “La Correctionnelle” with a woodcut vignette after Gavarni on the 1st page of each issue, published between December 1839 and December 1840, and collected under one cover in 1840 by Martinon. Catalogue raisonné: Carteret (Le trésor, 1927): pp. 177-8; Brivois (1883): p.112. Both authors marked the edition as «rare in good condition". Gavarni [Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier] (French, 1804 – 1866) – artist. Amedée Gratiot et Cie. – printer, text. Coulon et Cie.– printer, lithographs. Coulon, Barthélémy Henry (French, fl. 1839 – ?) -
Description: Owner’s quarter calf over marbled boards, 14.5 x 10.5 x 4.5 cm, spine with raised bands, gilt-lettered brown label “H. ROCHEFORT | LA LANTERNE | 1868 | LÉON NOËL”, marbled endpapers; first 11 issues of Henri Rochefort’s journal bound together with original front and back red pictorial wrappers. Front wrapper (first two issues white of red, subsequent issues black on orange background, the text is similar): La | Lanterne | par | {vignette of the lantern} Henri Rochefort | Prix: 40 centes | Bureaux : | 3 rue Rossini & rue Coq Héron, 5 | PARIS || Back wrapper (first two issues white of red, subsequent issues black on orange background, the text is similar): La Lanterne | PARTAIT TOUS LES SAMEDIS | (52 fois par an). | — | Prix d’Abonnement | Un An 20 fr | Six Mois 10 fr | Trois Mois 5 fr | — | Les Mandats doivent être adresses | A Mr. Dumont ADMINISTRATEUR | ❦ | Imprimerie Central des Chemins de Fer A. Chaix & Cie | 20, rue Bergère, à Paris_4608 _ 8 || Collation/pagination: 3 blanks, № 1: fw [1] 2-56 [8] bw; № 2: fw, [57] 58-115 [116] [2] bw; № 3: fw [117] 178 bw; № 4: fw [179] 180-238 [4] bw; № 5: fw [239] 240-298 [4] bw; № 6: fw [299] 300-361 [362] bw; № 7: fw [363] 364-423 [424] [2] bw; № 8: fw [425] 426-483 [484] [4] bw; № 9: fw [1] 2-58 [6] bw; № 10: fw [1] 2-58 [6] bw; № 11: fw [1] 2-59 [60] [4] bw; 3blanks. Contributors: Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay (French, 1831 – 1913) – editor. Alban Chaix (French, 1860 – 1930); Napoléon Chaix (French, 1807 – 1865) – publishers. Dubuisson et Cie (Paris) – printer. -
Description: Six softcover volumes, collated in-4to, 14.3 x 10 cm in publisher’s lettered wrappers; printed on laid paper; series "Les petits mémoires de Paris" illustrated with 23 out of 24 etchings by Henri Boutet: (I) Les coulisses de l’amour; (II) Rues et Intérieurs; (III) Le carnet d’un suiveur; (IV) Le petits métiers; (V) Les nuits de Paris; (VI) Toutes les bohêmes. Vol. I: Cream cover, lettered black and red in a black frame: LA MÉSSAGÈRE | LES | PETITS MÉMOIRES | DE | PARIS | CONTENANT | Quatre Eaux-Fortes originales | PAR | Henri BOUTET | I | Les Coulisses de l’Amour | {vignette brown Notre-Dame de Paris} | A PARIS | CHEZ DORBON l’AINÉ, LIBRAIRE | 53 ter, Quai des Grands-Augustins || Title-page: similar, in black, with «MDCCCVIII» in the bottom. Edition not stated. [1-8] ( 7 marked 1) 9-125 [3] contents, colophon; h.t. uncut from 1st blank, three original etchings instead of four (one missing?), incl. frontispiece. Colophon: IMPRIMÉ PAR SOINS | DE LA | SOCIÉTÉ TYPOGRAPHIQUE | DE | CHATEAUDUN || Back wrapper blank. Vol. II: Mint-green cover, lettered black and red in a black frame: LA MÉSSAGÈRE | LES | PETITS MÉMOIRES | DE | PARIS | CONTENANT | Quatre Eaux-Fortes originales | PAR | Henri BOUTET | II | Rues et Intérieurs | {vignette brown Notre-Dame de Paris} | A PARIS | CHEZ DORBON l’AINÉ, LIBRAIRE | 53 ter, Quai des Grands-Augustins || Title-page: similar, in black, with «MDCCCIX» in the bottom. Edition not stated. [1-6] 7-125 [2] contents, colophon (same as in Vol. I); h.t. uncut from 1st blank, four original etchings, incl. frontispiece. Back wrapper blank. Vol. III: Cream cover, lettered blue in a blue frame: LA MÉSSAGÈRE | LES | PETITS MÉMOIRES | DE | PARIS | CONTENANT | Quatre Eaux-Fortes originales | PAR | Henri BOUTET | III | Le Carnet d’un Suiveur | 4e Edition | {vignette smoking gentleman in a top hat} | A PARIS | CHEZ DORBON L’AINÉ, LIBRAIRE | 53 ter, Quai des Grands-Augustins || Title-page: similar, in black, with «MDCCCIX» in the bottom. 4th edition. [1-6] 7-124 [4] contents, colophon (uncut); h.t. uncut from 1st blank, four original etchings, incl. frontispiece. Colophon: Imprimé par soins de | l’Imprimerie de Paris | Têtes de chapitre, lettrines et culs de lampe de | M. Paul Guignebault | Eaux-fortes tirées sous la direction de | M. Henri Boutet || Back wrapper with a frame and a ribbon at center, in blue. Vol. IV: Tan cover, lettered red and black in a black frame: LA MÉSSAGÈRE | LES | PETITS MÉMOIRES | DE | PARIS | CONTENANT | Quatre Eaux-Fortes originales | PAR | Henri BOUTET | IV | Le Petits Métiers | {vignette worker with a ladder} | A PARIS | CHEZ DORBON L’AINÉ, LIBRAIRE | 53 ter, Quai des Grands-Augustins || Title-page: similar, in black, with «MDCCCIX» in the bottom. Edition not stated. [1-6] 7-119 [120 colophon, uncut] [8 advert., uncut]; four original etchings, incl. frontispiece. Colophon: IMPRIMERIE DE PARIS | 22, RUE DES VOLONTAIRES PROLONGÉE | – PARIS - XVe – || Back wrapper with a black frame and a red ribbon at center. Vol. V: Olive-green cover, lettered red and blue in a blue frame: LA MÉSSAGÈRE | LES | PETITS MÉMOIRES | DE | PARIS | CONTENANT | Quatre Eaux-Fortes originales | PAR | Henri BOUTET | V | Les nuits de Paris | Deuxième Édition | {vignette woman on a street} | A PARIS | CHEZ DORBON L’AINÉ, LIBRAIRE | 53 ter, Quai des Grands-Augustins || Title-page: similar, in black, with «MDCDIX» in the bottom. 2nd edition. [1-8] 9-118 [2 colophon, uncut] [8 advert., uncut]; four original etchings, incl. frontispiece. Colophon: IMPRIMERIE DE PARIS | 22, RUE DES VOLONTAIRES PROLONGÉE | – PARIS - XVe – || Back wrapper with a blue frame and a red ribbon at center. Vol. VI: Cream cover, lettered red and blue in a blue frame: LA MÉSSAGÈRE | LES | PETITS MÉMOIRES | DE | PARIS | CONTENANT | Quatre Eaux-Fortes originales | PAR | Henri BOUTET | VI | Toutes les bohêmes | Cinquième Édition | {vignette windmill} | A PARIS | CHEZ DORBON L’AINÉ, LIBRAIRE | 53 ter, Quai des Grands-Augustins || Title-page: similar, in black, with «MDCDIX» in the bottom and “Deuxième Édition”. 5th or 2nd edition. [1-7] 8-120 [2 colophon] [4 advert.] [2 blank]; four original etchings, incl. frontispiece. Colophon: IMPRIMERIE DE PARIS | 22, RUE DES VOLONTAIRES PROLONGÉE | – PARIS - XVe – || Back wrapper with a blue frame and a red ribbon at center. Contributors: Henri Boutet [La Mésangère] (French, 1851 – 1919) – author, artist, etcher. François Louis Dorbon [Dorbon Aîné] (French, 1878 – 1956) – publisher. -
La Préfecture de Police, par un vieux petit employé - Procès de La Lanterne avec tous ses incidents. Administration du journal La Lanterne, Paris, 1879.
Quatrième édition.
Anonymous publication. Authorship attributed to: Yves Guyot, Francisque Sarcey. Source: Harvard College Library, Soc. 3375.6, 14-OCT-1914, Wolcott Fund.
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50 issues (full 1920 year) of the French anti-Semitic journal La Vieille France published by Urbain Gohier in Paris from 1916 to 1924. LIB-LIB-2731-1.2021 to LIB-2731-50.2021. -
![Le Comte de Arthur Grandeffe. Paris sous Napoléon III. Mémoires d'un homme du monde de 1857 à 1870 / Par Le Comte de Arthur Grandeffe. — Paris: Imp. et Lib. Centrales des Chemins de Fer, A. Chaix et Cie., 1870. — pp.: ff [2 ht, blank] [2 title, blank] [i] i-vi, 1-413 [1] bf.](https://varshavskycollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/LIB-2449.2020-a-1-500x743.jpeg)
Front wrapper: PARIS SOUS NAPOLÉON III | Mémoires d'un homme du monde | DE 1857 À 1870 | PAR LE COMTE DE ARTHUR GRANDEFFE | {publisher’s device} | PARIS: IMPRIMERIE ET LIBRAIRIE CENTRALES DES CHEMINS DE FER | A. CHAIX ET Cie | RUE BERGÈRE 20, PRÈS DU BOULEVARD MONTMARTRE | 1879 || Similar lettering to t.p. Softcover 18.5 x 12 cm, publisher’s original blue wrappers, first and last leaves glued to wrappers, unevenly trimmed, some uncut, pagination [4] [i] ii-vi, [1] 2-413 [414], authors advert to back wrapper; mispaginated pp. 136-141; collation: 18mo, π6, 1-2218 236. Sticker with gilt lettering to front wrapper “LIBRAIRIE CENTRALE | BERTRAND & QUEYROT | MENTON”; sticker to spine "577".
