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Three-volume 18th-century work on rhetoric

Gibert, Balthazar
JUGEMENS DES SAVANS, 1713-1719, RHETORIC, FRENCH LITERATURE, Vellum bindings, Qui ont traité de la Rhétorique, avec un précis de la doctrine de ces auteurs
$300

Deluxe First Edition

COCTEAU, Jean
Clair Obscur, Poèmes
$300

CHILD’S VISION OF ALSACE AT MOMENT OF LIBERATION

Hansi (Jean-Jacques Waltz) (1873–1951)
Le Paradis Tricolore • Alsace • World War I • Chromolithographs • 1918 • Beaucoup D'Images, Issued at the close of the First World War, this richly illustrated patriotic children’s book celebrates the return of Alsace to France. Published for Christmas 1918.
$245

First American Edition, Inscribed by Translator

SIMENON, Georges
Three Beds in Manhattan
$200

Inscribed First Edition

BARTHES, Roland
Sollers Écrivain
$250

Signed Association Copy

BARTHES, Roland
Leçon
$250

Inscribed Advance Review Copies

COCTEAU, Jean and MARITAIN, Jacques
"Lettre à Jacques Maritain" and "Réponse à Jean Cocteau", Inscribed First Editions, Advance Review Copies
$400

World War I peace through victory!

Comité de l'Union
À tous les Français" (To all the French people), A demand for total victory, accountability, and security guarantees so that the fallen soldiers’ sacrifice is not betrayed.
$275

French WW I/ interwar campaign against alcoholism.

National League Against Alcoholism (Ligue National Contre l'Alcoolisme)
Let's mobilize against the enemy from within! (Mobilisons!.. Contre l'ennemi... del'intérieur!!!), A large and rare example of French letterpress printed ephemera pertaining to the early 20th century history of the French Temperance movement.
$250

Exhibition poster, French book history & Matisse.

Paul Hilber, artist and illustrator
Ten Centuries of French Books / Henri Matisse, Musée des Beaux-Arts (Museum of Fine Arts) Lucerne in Switzerland
$450

over 100 1855-1856 DORÉ illustr. + many others

[G. DORÉ] C. PHILIPPON + others
Le Musée français-anglais. Journal d'illustrations mensuelles. Années 1855-1856., monthly Journal of Illustrations. The first two years of this important art magazine, a symbol of the significance of the illustrated press during the Second Empire.
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A fine copy, free of foxing.

François RABELAIS, Gustave DORÉ (illustr.)
Oeuvres de François Rabelais. Contenant la vie de Gargantua et celle de Pantagruel. - Illus. Gustave DORÉ (1854), Doré’s first major work as an illustrator of literary masterpieces. comprising: a frontispiece, 14 separate plates, 89 vignettes
$525
Gustave DORÉ
La Ménagerie Parisienne (n.d. but 1854), scarce first edition of this superb satirical album created by Gustave Doré, then twenty-two years old. One of the artist’s earliest published works, whose plates were subsequently sold individually.
$895

The Diocese of Charleston is Bankrupt

Ignatius A. Reynolds
1844 – A letter from the newly consecrated Cathoiic Bishop of Charleston to his superiors in France requesting funds to help pay off the massive debt left by his predecessor
$250