
BOOKS IN FRENCH
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In Need of Assistance from the CONVENTION — FAMINE in
Yonne
Fauchet, Claude. Rapport des commissaires envoyés
dans le département de l'Yonne, fait dans la séance du 6 Novembre 1792, l'an 1er. de la
République. [Paris]: De l'Imprimerie Nationale, 1792. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.5"). 11, [1] pp.
$100.00
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First edition, with “Convention Nationale” at the head: a report from the Bishop of
Calvados about famine-related issues in Yonne. This is an uncut, unbound copy, with the
outermost two leaves printed on blue paper.
Martin & Walter, II, 13122.
Folded as issued. Title-page with paper shelving label in lower inner corner,
touching three letters without obscuring sense, and with pencilled monogram in upper outer
corner. Page edges uncut, slightly ragged. (30835)

First ENGLISH TRANSLATION — Deluxe Binding
Flaubert, Gustave. November. [London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd., 1934]. 8vo (23.3 cm, 9.24"). 215, [3] pp.; illus.
$325.00
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First edition in English of Flaubert's first finished literary work: a melancholy tale of erotic longing followed by ennui and decline. The novella appears here translated by Frank Jellinek, with an introduction by John Cowper Powys and both full-page and in-text illustrations by Hortense Ansorge.
This is
numbered copy 71 of 1250 for sale in England.
Binding: Special signed binding of brown morocco, covers with leather bird inlays and gilt-stamped line of falling leaves, spine with blind-stamped leather title and author labels between raised bands. The back pastedown bears a blind-stamped omega, dated 1955.
Binding as above, corners and joints lightly rubbed. Inside, fresh and clean. An elegant volume. (33519)

“Ils Sont Morts Civilement”
France. Convention nationale. [drop-title] Loi contre les émigrés. Du 28 mars 1793, l'an deuxième de la république française. [Paris]: De l'Imprimerie Nationale, 1793. 8vo (19.3 cm, 7.6"). 35, [1] pp.
$125.00
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First edition: The penalties to be levied on refugees, along with possible exemptions and other actions to be taken, followed by an example of the certificate of residence. Note that this is not identical to the item of a similar title by Charles-Nicolas Osselin (Martin & Walter 26104), which has a different page count and subtitle.
At the top of the first page: “Convention Nationale.”
WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only four U.S. institutional holdings.
Removed from a nonce volume, first page with paper shelving label and pencilled initials in upper corners. Resewn. Scattered light spotting. (35411)

POLITICS . . .
"XYZ" in French, in Philadelphia
France. Ministère des Affaires Etrangères. French originals of all the documents, translations of which accompanied the message of the President of the United States, of the 18th January, 1799, retive to the affairs of the United States with the French republic. Philadelphia: Charles Cist, 1799. 8vo. [1] f., 58 pp.
$750.00
Yes, except for the title, this U.S. government publication is entirely in French and concerns the XYZ Affair and other aspects of the PinckneyMarshallGeary mission.
Evans 36517. Recent cloth. Released from the New Hampshire Historical Society with its bookplate and one small, inoffensive rubber-stamped number in the upper margin of page 1. No other markings. Stray stains (last third). A crisp copy. (2930)
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Louis XVI on
TAXES
France. Sovereigns, 1774–1792 (Louis XVI).[drop-title] Edicto de S. M. Christianisima, para el reembolso de las deudas del estado, publicado en Fontainebleau el dia 19. de Noviembre de 1765. [Spain, 1765]. 8vo. [2] ff.
$298.75
Spanish translation of an edict by Louis XVI on taxes.
Not in Palau. Disbound from a volume of pamphlets, but in very good condition. (4751)

Watercolors Abound
France, Anatole. At the sign of the Queen Pédauque. Chicago: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club by The Lakeside Press, 1933. Tall 4to. Frontis., [5], v–xii, 174, [2] pp., [3 (blank)] ff.; 19 plts.
$95.00
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This is number 1469 of 1500 in the Limited Editions Club edition of Anatole France's conte philosophique. Signed by the illustrator, Sylvain Sauvage, who created the book's 20 full-page and two smaller-sized water-colors, the work is here
translated from the French by "Mrs. Wilfrid Jackson," and carries both an introduction by Ernest Boyd and a prefatory note by the author. Designer William A. Kittredge chose a monotype centaur font printed in red and black inks, and embellished the title-page with red, blue, yellow, and black inks.
The binding is full blue linen stamped in gold on the spine and front cover, with additional ornamentation to both covers in deep pink. Top edges are gilt, others deckle; one leaf is left unopened.
Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 49. Binding as above; spine sunned and with thumbnail sized dark patch at head and foot. Some cracking along the top edges and spine of the slipcase, which is still sturdy; spine of case sunned, paper label a little soiled. Pages clean; no ownership markings or labels. A very good, clean copy. (22313)

Limited Edition — Mucha Illustrations
France, Anatole. Clio. Paris: Calman Lévy (pr. by Chamerot & Renouard), 1900. 8vo (20.4 cm, 8"). [4], 188, [4] pp.; col. illus.
$650.00
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First edition and the sole edition illustrated by Alphonse Mucha. The text is five historically inspired tales, decorated with 12 beautiful hand-colored wood-engraved Art Nouveau illustrations (some plates, some in text) by Mucha. There were 100 copies printed on Japan paper, and another 50 on China paper; the present example is one of the former, with the title-page vignette appearing in black and white rather than color.
Near-contemporary quarter red morocco with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; edges and extremities rubbed, front cover and joint with small scuffs. Original wrappers not present here. Pages very slightly age-toned, otherwise clean. (33470)

French N.T. with Marlorat Notes & an
ILLUSTRATED CALENDAR
(French Calendar). Calendrier Historial, & Lunaire. La Lune est nouuelle à l'endroit du Nombre d'or: & nous aluons 9. ceste annee 1566. Lyon: Pour Antoine Vincent, 1566. 8vo (12.1 cm; 4.75"). [16] ff.; illus. [bound with] Bible. N.T. French. [1564]. Geneva. [Le nouveau Testament, c'est à dire, la nouvelle Alliance de nostre Seigneur Jesus Christ. Reueu & corrigé de nouveau sur le Grec par l'aduis des Ministres de Geneve. Auec annotations reueuës et augmentées par M. Augustin Marlorat]. [Par Antoine Vincent, 1564; colophon: A Lyon: Par Symphorien Barbier]. 12mo. [30], 824, [24] pp. Lacks t.-p.
$3250.00
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Paired in this pocket-sized volume are an elegant 16th-century calendar and a French, Geneva N.T. The calendar — printed for use in 1566 — contains
twelve attractive and well-impressed one-third page size woodcuts depicting the various chores required in each month, such as shearing sheep in June or crushing grapes in September, and it ends with French fair dates generally as well as dates for fairs in Lyon, Frankfurt, and Anvers specifically.
The French N.T. contains revisions and numerous marginal notes from Marlorat (1506–62), a French reformer and popular preacher, and was published only two years after he was
martyred at Rouen in 1562 under charges of treason. While this N.T. lacks its title-page, its contents match those of Van Eys N.T. 118.
Binding: Late 19th- or early 20th-century tan calf, spine gilt extra with two gilt leather labels; covers framed in gilt and triple-ruled in blind, with marbled endpapers, gilt board edges and turn-ins. All edges gilt.
Searches of NUC, WorldCat, COPAC, and KVK find only one copy of the almanac and one of the New Testament, bound together. They are in the Württembergische Landesbibliothek. However Chambers lists five copies in addition to that one, including one at the National Library of Scotland that is not findable via COPAC.
Provenance: The Howell Bible Collection, Pacific School of Religion (properly released).
Van Eys, Bibles French, pt. II, 118; Chambers, French Bibles, 340; not in Darlow & Moule. Bound as above, rebacked, with gentle rubbing. Light general age-toning with this greater at edges, Bible title-page lacking; two early leaves darkened and one repaired, some leaves closely trimmed touching captions or with loss of a letter or two from marginal notes, two leaves with short tears and three each with a small spot. Ex-library as above: pencilling on endpapers, five-digit acquisition stamp and call number on title-page verso, booklabel at back.
A compact and dare it be said “darling” book. (36407)

Six Items Together — A French Lady's Anti-Jesuit Sammelband
[Frey de Neuville, Pierre-Claude]. Observations sur l'Institut de la Société des Jésuites. Avignon: Alexandre Giroud, 1761. 8vo (16.6 cm; 6.5"). [1] f., 108 pp. [bound with] [Anonymous]. Les Jesuites convaincus par leurs propres ouvrages d'être toujous les mêmes. Rome, 1761. 8vo. 32 pp. [also bound in] [Routh, Bernard], supposed author. Mémoire pour les jésuites de Franche-Comté. Besançon, 1762. 8vo. [1] f., 109, [1 (blank)] pp. [also bound in] [Cabut, Pierre]. Mes doutes sur la mort des jesuites. [France, ca. 1762]. 8vo. [1] f., 37, [1 (blank)] pp. [also bound in] [Anonymous]. **** Lettre sur le procés-verbal de vérification des textes des assertions cités dans l'instruction pastorale de M. l'archevéque de Paris, du 28 Octobre 1763.... [Place not determined], 1764. “Seconde édition.” 8vo. 143, [1 (blank)] pp. [also bound in] [Anonymous]. **** Tout n'est pas fait dans l'affaire des Jésuites, ou lettre d'un de leurs creanciers a M *** avocat au parlement. Lyon, 1765. 8vo. 52 pp.
$1500.00
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The short pieces in this mélange relate to the Society of Jesus in France just prior to and during their expulsion from that country in 1764. All were issued anonymously, many are scarce, and all now command the interest of various types of scholars and collectors. The first item is sometimes attributed to Charles de Neuville; the second, according to Carayon, is a “réimpression de la Tres humble remonstrance des PP. Jésuites à la France” that according to WorldCat and NUC is held by only one U.S. library, the University of Minnesota; the third is held by only two U.S. libraries; the fourth is held only in another edition of 45 pages; finally, the sixth item is reportedly held by only one U.S. library.
Provenance: Elegant contemporary bookplate of Mademoiselle de Valanglart.
Contemporary mottled calf, round spine without raised bands, gilt spine extra, marbled endpapers, all edges red; some leather abraded from covers and a very little from the spine's base, lacking spine label once reading “MELANGE” (and this now blind-embossed in that compartment). Light age-toning; bookplate as above. (36671)

EYEWITNESS TO HISTORY
in
Late 14th-Century France, Spain, Portugal, & England
Froissart, Jean. Le premier [second, tiers, qvart] volvme de l'histoire et croniqve de Messire Iehan Froissart. Lyon: Par Ian de Tovrnes, imprimevr dv roy, 1559–61. Folio extra (35 cm; 13.75") 4 vols. in 1. I: [10] ff, 462 pp., [17] ff. II: [6] ff, 314 pp., [3] ff. III: [6] ff., 363, [1] pp., [2] ff. IV: [6] ff., 350 pp., [3] ff.
$1200.00
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Froissart (1338?–1410?) was a poet and court historian and is best remembered for his famous late medieval chronicle of the house of Valois in France in the 14th century and British history of the same era. The work circulated in manuscript for decades and was first printed in 1499; this mid-16th-century edition is “reveu & corrigeé sus diuers exemplaires, & suyuant les bons auteurs, par Denis Sauuage de Fontenailles en Brie, historiographe du trescrestien roy Henry IIe de ce nom.”
These large and lengthy volumes present Froissart's mostly firsthand narrative of weddings, funerals, and notable events including battles from shortly before his birth to 1400. Information for the period before his birth and reaching maturity is based on Flemish writer Jean le Bel's Vrayes Chroniques. Vol. II chronicles events in Flanders down to the Peace of Tournai in 1385. Vol. III moves us from France and Flanders to address events in Spain and Portugal, while IV deals with events leading up to the Battle of Poitiers and Froissart's visit to England.
Each volume has its own title-page with the printer's device and its text is preceded by a “table des chapitres” (and errata in vols. I and II), ending with several pages of notes. The text is printed in roman with handsome
historiated, exquisitely executed woodcut initials. The printed marginal notes are in italic. The head- and tailpieces exhibit the same high quality of cutting as the initials.
Provenance: The Pacific School of Religion (properly released).
Adams F1066; Grässe, II, 638; Brunet, II, 1405. 18th-century calf with modest gilt triple rule border on boards, rebacked and forecorners of the boards restored; new endpapers. Oval library stamp (as above) on title-page and in the margins of a few text pages only; stamping is minimal. Fore- and bottom margins with old, light dampstaining; upper margins of a few leaves with a small semicircular brown stain; otherwise, an occasional spot or smudge only. Overall, a rather good copy of a standard and still important work
handsomely printed by the royal printer. (36777)

“Petites Histoires” with SPIRIT
Furetière, Antoine. Furetieriana ou les bons mots, et les remarques d'histoire, de morale, de critique, de plaisanterie, & d'erudition, de Mr. Furetiere. Brusselle: François Foppens, 1696. 12mo (14.2 cm, 5.55"). Frontis., [6], 267, [13 (index)] pp.
$450.00
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Witty words from the Abbé of Chalivoy, a lawyer, scholar, and one-time member of the Académie française who was expelled from that organization for daring to compile his own dictionary of the French language at a time when the Academy was claiming exclusive rights to produce such a work. While Furetière's Dictionnaire universel remains his best-known literary accomplishment, he also produced an eclectic range of entertaining literature, highlighted in the present Belgian printing of a collection of epigrams, maxims, poems, anecdotes, satirical remarks, and other bons mots edited by Guy Marais. Foppens's edition was printed in the same year as the Parisian first, following Furetière's death in 1688.
The volume opens with a
copper-engraved frontispiece done by Harrewyn, featuring a satyr and a jester in addition to muses crowning Furetière with a laurel wreath; the title-page is printed in red and black, and the text is ornamented with two woodcut headpieces, two tailpieces, and two decorative capitals. This nicely printed edition is not widely held in the United States; WorldCat locates
only four American institutional holdings and these perhaps unexpected ones, with no holdings added by NUC Pre-1956.
This edition not in Brunet. Contemporary speckled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped floral decorations in compartments, board edges with gilt roll; worn and rubbed, leather lost at extremities, front joint cracked and back joint starting (sewing holding). All edges speckled red and brown. Front pastedown and free endpaper with modern collector's inscriptions, front pastedown with early inked numerals and later pencilled annotations; one obscured name in text annotated in pencil in the margin. Pages gently age-toned with occasional tiny spots of foxing.
Externally worn, interior beautifully preserving the author's irrepressible, biting wit. (36242)
Gilt
MOSAIC Binding
[Gavard, Charles]. Souvenir d'une promenade a Versailles. Paris: au Bureau des Galeries Historiques de Versailles, [ca. 1850–55]. Folio (36.5 cm; 14.5"). [6] ff., 50 leaves of plates.
$600.00
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One of several works with the identical title but from different publishers and with different contents! The present volume contains engravings after paintings in the palace's “Galeries Historiques”: the engravers include Leroux, Masson, Thomas, Nargoot, Rebel, Frilley, and many others. Curiously, many engravings bear a faint line of identification reading “Diagraphe et Pantographe Gavard” and they have non-sequential numbering, meaning the images from this source could be and were recombined to form a wide variety of souvenir albums.
In this copy all plates are guarded by sheets of heavy paper stock.
Binding: In the style of a percaline mosaïquée, but the gilt and mosaic are applied to a textured pebbled cloth. Spine gilt extra with added “mosaic” of green, white, red and blue. Front cover with a blind-stamped border incorporating elegant corner-pieces; within this, “Souvenir de Versailles” gilt-stamped in an arc above a large on-laid crowned coat of arms flanked by banners and flags, this embellished in gilt with rich use of blue, white, red, blue, and green. Rear cover with similar blind-stamped border and a different large gilt-stamped center device strikingly incorporating an on-lay of blue stamped in gilt with a military medal. All edges gilt.
On this type of binding, see: Morris & Levin, The Art of Publishers' Bookbindings, pp. 94–97. Binding as above, rubbed to the underlying boards at the corners of the boards and top of spine slightly pulled with one bit of rubbing. Scattered pale brown stains mostly on interleaves and sometimes visible on versos of plates; some discoloration in some margins of plates and occasionally into one; overwhelmingly a clean copy, remarkably bright and unfoxed. A strong and nice example of this category of “souvenir” and of a gilt mosaic binding. (30464)

A Bishop/Politician on Post-Revolutionary Doctrine
Gobel, Jean-Baptiste Joseph. Lettre pastorale de
monsieur l'évêque métropolitain de Paris au clergé & aux fidèles de son diocèse. Paris: Cl.
Simon, 1791. 8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). 48 pp.
$135.00
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Uncut, sewn as issued, never bound first edition of this address from the
Constitutional Bishop of Paris (formerly Bishop of Lydda), who later resigned his position and
was eventually guillotined along with the Hébertists. The woodcut headpiece features a pyramid
floating over what appears to be a sacrificial lamb, signed “B”; where the supporting “altar”
might be expected there is a large book with many placemarkers dangling from it, upon which
(under the lamb) lies a short-armed cross.Uncommon: WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only three U.S. institutional holdings.
There seems to have been a 36-page variant of the same year, which is also uncommon.
Martin & Walter, II, 15045. Never bound, simply sewn as
issued. Title-page with affixed paper shelving label in lower inner corner (not touching text) and
with pencilled monogram in upper outer corner. Signatures unopened, page edges untrimmed.
Pages slightly age-toned and/or dust-soiled, title-page with light spotting.
(30815)

Beautifully
Bound & Illustrated FRENCH Edition
“Tr. by Mme. Bachellery”
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Les souffrances du jeune Werther. Tr. by Mme. Bachellery. Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1886. 8vo.
$2250.00
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Edition limited to 220, this one of 10 on papier du Japon. Illustrated with eaux-fortes by Lalauze, and each plate
present in four states.
Binding: Bound by Lortic Frères in red morocco with filigree gilt tooling on covers and in spine compartments; a gilt rose also in each spine compartment. Blue morocco in-laid doublures, turquoise watered silk endpapers, and marbled fly-leaves; very wide turn-ins with gilt dentelles. All edges gilt over marbling.
A copy in lovely condition, imperceptibly rebacked with the original spine retained. Original wrappers bound in. Protected in a crimson morocco-edged slipcase. (2933)
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Nouveau Dictionnaire CHIVALRY
Gourdon de Genouillac, Henri. Nouveau dictionnaire des ordres de chevalerie crées chez les différents peuples despuis les premiers siècles jusqu'a nos jours.... Paris: E. Dentu, 1891. 8vo. 347 pp.
$115.00
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Handy illustrated dictionary. The illustrations are in-text wood engravings. The date on the wrappers is 1892; on the title-page, 1891.
UNCUT and mostly unopened exemplar.
Original printed wrappers; dusty, with chipping, and front one now separated. Paper lost at top of spine along front joint. The whole, fragile and wanting to separate between signatures. (Our interior image tends a bit to pink tone that is not actually present, FYI.) Now housed in a simple acid-free phase box. (4701)

Limited Edition
French Symbolist Essay
Gourmont, Remy de. Le livret de l'imagier. Paris: Aux Éditions du “Sagittaire” chez Simon KRA, 1920. 16mo (16.5 cm; 6.5"). 49 pp.; illus.
$75.00
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Essay from a French Symbolist poet with an introduction by Gabriel Albert Aurier (1865–92), printed on Holland paper in a limited edition of 950 copies, of which this is number 909.
The little volume also offers a
striking wood-engraved frontispiece in orange and black by Jean Gabriel Daragnès (1886–1950) who additionally provided the wood-engraved headpieces, and the colophon notes the item was printed by Ducros, Lefèvre, & Colas.
Red and black printed cream wrappers, gently worn around edges; light age-toning with a few occasional spots, frontispiece offset onto title-page. A very nice copy. (36392)

Some Bishops Found Themselves Together in Paris . . .
Grégoire, Henri. Compte rendu par le citoyen Grégoire, au concile national, des travaux des évêques réunis à Paris, imprimé par ordre du Concile National. [Paris: L'Imprimerie-Librairie Chrétienne, 1797]. 8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). 84 pp. (lacking half-title).
$150.00
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Uncut copy of the first edition of Abbé Grégoire's account of a 1797 council of bishops and their debates on priests and marriage, Catholic–Presbyterian relations, the activities of the Société de Philosophie Chrétienne, and French colonies and foreign missions; also present here is a French translation of correspondence between Grégoire and the Bishop of Barbastro. The work closes with an expression of humility and an acknowledgment of the dual burden of being good ministers and good French citizens. WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only eight U.S. institutional holdings.
Martin & Walter 15618. Removed from a nonce volume; sewing holes present but stitching perished; gatherings now loose. Page edges untrimmed. Half-title lacking, title-page with paper shelving label in lower inner corner and inked numeral, old pencilling, and a light ink-smear. Pages age-toned with occasional small spots of mild staining or foxing; one word corrected in text in old ink. (32622)

Anti-Monarchy, Pro-Religion, Pro–Religious FREEDOM
Grégoire, Henri. Observations sur les calomniateurs et
les persécuteurs en matiere de religion. Paris: Chez la citoyenne Desrois (de l'Imprimerie-Librarie
chretienne), [1796]. 8vo (21.1 cm, 8.3"). 27, [1] pp.
$135.00
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Unbound, uncut copy of the first edition of this denunciation of religious
persecution, specifically of intolerance aimed at Catholics (“On vous passeroit de croire au
Zend-Avesta, à l'Alcoran, au Talmud, mais croire à l'évangile, à leurs yeux est un crime,” p. 1).
Abbé Grégoire (1750–1831) was a revolutionary, abolitionist, and opponent of vandalism — as
well as the constitutional bishop of Blois, and the first priest to take the oath of loyalty to the
Civil Constitution of the Clergy.Uncommon: WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only four U.S. institutional holdings.
Folded as issued, never sewn; outermost signature chipped at
spine. First page with paper shelving label, not touching text, and with pencilled monogram in
upper outer corner. Mild to moderate foxing. (30820)
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French Post-Restoration Politics
Grégoire, Henri. Seconde lettre aux électeurs du département de l'Isère. Paris: Librairie Constitutionnelle de Baudoin Frères, 1820. 8vo (19.3 cm, 7.6"). [4], 31, [1] pp.
$200.00
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One of the Scarcer Elzevir Works
Haestens, Hendrik van. La nouvelle Troye ou Memorable histoire du siege d'Ostende. Le plus signalé qu'on ait veu en l'Europe. En laquelle sont descripts & naifvement representés en diverses figures, les assauts, deffenses, inventions de guerre, mines, contremines, retranchemens, combats par terre & par mer, & autres choses remarcables advenues de part & d'autre, avec ce qui s'est passé par chascun jour durant ledit siege depuis le 5 iuing 1601 iusqu'au 20 septemb. 1604 qu'elle fut renduë. Recoeuillie des plus asseurés memoires. A Leyde: Chez Loys Elzevier, 1615. 4to (20 cm; 8"). [4] ff., 293 [i.e., 297], [1] pp., 14 fold. plates, port., coat of arms.
$950.00
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French-language translation of De bloedige belegeringe der stad Oostende in Vlaanderen, a classic account of siege of Ostend (1601–04), a protracted battle during the Eighty Years' War (i.e., the War for Dutch Independence) that eventually ousted the Dutch from Belgium.
The text is illustrated with a full page engraved portrait of Mauretius of Nassau, an engraving of his coat of arms, and
14 engraved folding plates.
A curious aspect of this Elzevir production is that the firm used very inferior paper and many of the surviving copies are severely browned in sections; this copy is no exception. The anomaly is clearly visible in the copy that the Austrian National Library (i.e., Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) digitized for googlebooks.
Willems 99; Copinger, Elzevier Press, 2063; Berghman 129; Rahir, Elzevier, 78. Contemporary vellum over paste boards; a large portion of the vellum gone from the rear cover, exposing the boards, and front free endpaper lacking. Evidence of ties. Several quires severely browned, others age-toned; some leaves loosened; worming in margins, only occasionally entering text. A lesser copy, essentially a near good one; still, rare and interesting. (35264)

Resisting the Revolution: An Expression of Devotion in Latin *&*
French
[Hamel, Etienne Paul]. Lettre latine de plusieurs
evêques de France au Pape Pie Six, et réponse du souverain pontife traduites en françois par un
prêtre exilé pour la foi. Londres: W. Williams, 1799. 8vo (22.9 cm, 9"). [4], 28, [2 (blank)] pp.
$110.00
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Uncut first edition, with errata leaf: French translation
printed in London of
Epistola quorumdam Gallae Episcoporum ad Summum Pontificem Pium Sextum, an address
from a group of émigré bishops to Pope Pius VI in his confinement, along with the latter's
response — the whole here printed in Latin and French on facing pages. At the back is the text
of an exchange of letters between the Duke of Portland and Dillon, Archbishop of Narbonne.Uncommon: WorldCat, ESTC, and NUC Pre-1956 locate only three U.S. institutional
holdings.
ESTC T38592. Simply sewn in later plain deep blue
paper wrappers, back wrapper lacking, front wrapper with paper shelving label in lower inner
corner and pencilled date and monogram. Title-page with monogram likewise. Page edges
untrimmed; pages slightly age-toned, otherwise clean.
(30877)

Life of the Warrior Queen — In a Regal Binding
Hauteville, Euvoi de [pseud. of Joseph Jouve]. Histoire de Zénobie, impératrice-reine de Palmyre. Paris: Les frères Estienne (pr. by Moreau), 1758. 12mo (16.7 cm, 6.6"). [4], xxiv, 357, [3] pp.
$200.00
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First edition: Jouve's romanticized account of Zenobia, legendary queen of Palmyra; the Monthly Review of June, 1758, made particular note of both the vivacity and floridness of the author's style. There was a La Haye edition of the same year; the present Estienne printing is significantly less common, with WorldCat locating
only six U.S. institutional holdings.
Binding: Contemporary mottled calf, front cover with elaborate gilt-stamped EC monogram and coronet, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt compartment decorations. Marbled endpapers and all edges marbled; original silk bookmark present and intact.
DeBacker-Sommervogel, IV, 860. Brunet gives only the Hague edition of the same year. Binding as above, leather scuffed and rubbed with spine head chipped yet gilt still bright. Pages gently age-toned and cockled, with some offsetting front and rear from the binding and scattered small spots of foxing; a few corners bumped.
A handsome volume and an interesting 18th-century perspective on the near-mythic rebel queen. (36250)

The Despotic, Seditious, Impious Pope
Henriquez, Louis-Marin. Le Pape traité comme il le
mérite, ou réponse a la bulle de Pie VI. [Paris]: L'Imprimerie du Cercle social, [1791]. 8vo (21.5
cm, 8.5"). 8 pp.
$60.00
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First edition: A theologian decries a papal bull that critiqued the Civil Constitution
of the Clergy. Henriquez describes the bull as avaricious, rapacious, and utterly mundane rather
than inspired by the Holy Spirit — and blames it on the royalist Abbé Royou, before going on to
accuse the Pope of being “le premier ennemi de Dieu” (p. 5).Uncommon: WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only two U.S. institutional holdings.
Martin & Walter, II, 16531. Folded as issued, page edges
untrimmed. First page with paper shelving label in lower inner corner, barely touching but not
obscuring five letters. Pages age-toned and dust-soiled, with a few faint spots.
(30880)

The Famous Heredia Catalogue — with
Auction Prices
Heredia, Ricardo. Catalogue de la bibliothèque de M. Ricardo Heredia. Paris: Ém. Paul, L. Huard, & Guillemin, 1891–1894. 8vo (27 cm, 10.6"). 4 vols. I: xxiii, [1], 332 pp.; illus. II: xi, [1], 482, [2] pp.; illus. III: viii, 340 pp.; illus. IV: viii, 524 pp.
$900.00
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First edition: Auction catalogue of the extensive, impressive library of bibliophile Ricardo Heredia y Livermore, Conde de Benahavís (1831–96). Heredia built “perhaps the greatest collection of Spanish books ever formed” (as noted by an old cataloguing slip laid into this set), incorporating the former Salvá y Mallén collection; this catalogue serves as an important reference work for a wide swathe of Spanish literature, theology, belles-lettres, etc.
The listings are augmented in the first three volumes by numerous in-text reproductions of illustrations and title-pages from the books. This copy includes
auction prices neatly inked alongside every book.
Contemporary treed sheep, spines with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels and gilt-ruled bands; sides showing minor rubbing, edges, joints, and extremities moreso. All hinges (inside) cracked or tender, some endpapers with pencilled notations. Vol. I: Two pages with light offsetting from now-absent item, one leaf with lower outer corner torn away. Vol. IV with bookplate of Alvaro de Fontagud y Aguilera. Pages gently age-toned, most noticeably in vol. IV, with occasional light smudges; each volume with last page browned. (29161)

He Sent Copies of Two Scores
Hervé [i.e., Louis Auguste Florimond Ronger]. Autograph Note Signed (“Hervé’) to “Cher Docteur,” in French. Cernay prés Permont, Seine et Oise, France: 14 October 1880. 12mo (18 cm; 7"), 2 pp.
$100.00
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Hervé, a French conductor, composer, and librettist credited by some with inventing the genre of operetta, writes that he sends his latest score and also that of Le Petit Faust (neither present). He adds that he is having vision problems and asks the doctor to suggest something that could rid him of his bifocals.Provenance: Ex–Allyn K. Ford Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, recently deaccessioned.
Written in a clear hand. In very good condition. (33763)

Holbein’s Dance of Death — HIS ALPHABET with “New” Borders
Holbein, Hans. L'alphabet de la mort de Hans Holbein entouré de bordures du XVIe siècle et suivi d'anciens poëmes français sur le sujet de trois mors et des trois vis publiés d'après les manuscrits par Anatole de Montaiglon. Paris: Edwin Tross, 1856. 8vo (21.8 cm, 8.625"). [96] pp.; illus.
$450.00
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Tross's careful and elegant 19th-century edition: The Dance of Death concept experienced a revival in French Romantic literature of the era and the main text here, in French and Latin, is prefaced by Anatole de Montaiglon's introduction (in French). The reproductions of Holbein's initials were done by Heinrich Loedel, and each page is given an
exquisite death-themed, wood-engraved border by Léon le Maire after designs from a Book of Hours printed by Simon Vostre. The alphabet is represented (excluding J and U) by magnificent engraved historiated letters, five of which are repeated.
Binding: Chocolate brown morocco, covers framed and panelled in blind with gilt-tooled corner fleurons and gilt strapwork central medallions; spine with blind-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped title and date and cover fleurons repeated in compartments; turn-ins with wide composite gilt rolls. All edges gilt; striking and distinctive marbled endpapers.
Signed by binder L. Claessens with tiny stamp in roll on lower front turn-in.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Bound as above and in lovely condition; extremely minor spots of rubbing and scraping to boards, one raised band with a short cut(?) and a sliver of leather lost.
An overall wonderful copy of this beautiful reprint. (37923)

Excoriating
Fréron the Destroyer
Isnard, Maximin. Isnard a Fréron. Paris: L'Imprimerie de Du Pont, IV [i.e., 1795/96]. 8vo (19.3 cm, 7.6"). 28 pp.
$100.00
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First
edition of this polemic against
the infamously vicious journalist and agent of
the Reign of Terror, Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron
(1754–1802). Prompted by accusations Fréron had made against him,
Isnard (1755–1825), a prominent Girondist who became President of the
National Convention in 1793, here decries Fréron's many atrocities in
southern France, which included the demolition of a large number of Marseilles's
most beloved edifices — but most particularly the massacre at Toulon.
The pamphlet is rather nicely printed, with an engraved title-page vignette,
one headpiece, and footnotes set in small but neat and attractive type.
WorldCat
and NUC Pre-1956 locate only eight U.S. institutional holdings.
Martin & Walter 16971. Removed from a nonce volume;
title-page with affixed paper shelving label in lower inner corner, not touching
text. Faint spotting throughout. An impassioned expression of horror and dismay.
(30682)
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