Second-hand books, manuscripts & comics at auction

MORIN (Jean) - Stalags de réfractaires. Souvenirs de captivité 1940-1945 - Bordeaux, l'auteur, sans date [vers 1945] - 1 volume In-4° - 2 leaves of text (restored with adhesive paper) and 50 plates of drawings by Jean Morin in sheets, under illustrated printed cover with flap - Album consisting of 50 drawings by Jean Morin showing the life of prisoners in a Polish stalag. Some of these drawings reflect the odious reality, while others are full of humour. Defects to the cover, handwritten bookplate on the verso of each plate and on the cover.

[Comic strips] - HERGÉ - Set of 2 albums In-4° - Tintin et les oranges bleues - Casterman - A few scattered freckles - Objectif Lune - Casterman (jaws partially split and spine partially detached, cuts and corners rubbed) - As is. Expert : Caroline Velk

[BANDES DESSINNÉES] - LA FUENTE (Victor de) & RAPHAËL - Histoire de France en bandes dessinées - Paris ; Librairie Larousse, 1979 - 8 volumes In-4° + 1 volume with reproductions of historical documents in leaves in pocket - Bound in blue half-skyvertex - Colour illustrated boards - Spines titled and lettered in gold - Good condition. Expert : Caroline Velk

[MAISON DIOR - JOAILLERIE] - 1 catalogue de la Maison Dior - Photographs of jewellery in colour - 1 volume In-8° bound in grey cloth and titled in gold on the 1st cover - Gilt edges. Expert : Caroline Velk

DAUDET (Alphonse) - OEuvres choisies - Éditions de Crémille, 1991-1993 - 2 volumes In-8° - Reproductions of period engravings in the frontispieces - Fawn skyvertex bindings - Spines titled in gold and decorated identically - Gilt edges. Expert : Caroline Velk

GALZAIN (Michel de) - Villes et villages du Morbihan pittoresque et disparu - Paris ; La Nef de Paris, 1955 - 1 volume In-4° paperback with illustrated cover - Numerous illustrations in and out of text in black or red - Good copy. Expert : Caroline Velk

SAINT-EXUPÉRY (Antoine de) - Le Petit Prince - Paris ; NRF, Gallimard,1964 - 1 volume In-8° - Coloured drawings by the author - Bound in white cloth decorated in gold, green and yellow in a coloured illustrated dust jacket (somewhat soiled and small tears with small tears at the headpieces) - A good copy however. Expert : Caroline Velk

LEVESQUE (P. Ch.) - L'homme moral, ou l'homme considéré tant dans l'état de pure nature, que dans la société - Amsterdam ; Sans nom, 1775 - 1 volume In-12° - Title almost detached - Binding contemporary marbled havana basane (part of the spine rubbed, 1 corner worn, a few small wormholes at the spine ends) - Spine lise orné (upper headpiece damaged) - Title page maroquin bordeaux - Sides red - Large armorial bookplate on the 1st spine plate. Expert : Caroline Velk

[HUNTING] - LE MASSON (Edmond) - Nouvelle vénerie normande ou essai sur la chasse du lièvre, du cerf, du chevreuil, du sanglier, du loup et du renard [...] - Avranches ; E. Tostain, 1847 - 1 volume In-8° - Title browned, angular halo having weakened the paper with a few tears without affecting the text (except for the last page of the table), some mould - Bound in contemporary half-fauwn basane (parts of the boards damaged) - Smooth spine decorated and titled in gold (rubbed) - Ex-libris and ex-dono - As is. Expert : Caroline Velk

[SAINT-HYACINTHE (Thémiseul de)] - Histoire du Prince Titi - Paris; Veuve Tissot, 1751 - 3 volumes In-12° - Some scattered foxing, paper somewhat yellowed, endpapers ringed, marginal loss on pages 93-94 and 95-96 of volume I - Bound in contemporary marbled havana calf (partial crack to the 1st gold plate of volume I) - Spines smooth and ornate (lower head of volume II frayed) - Title and appendix in burgundy morocco - Sides red - Wet bookplate on titles - Thémiseul de Saint-Hyacinthe integrates political and economic reflections into the very heart of this tale-novel. More than an economic allegory, the tale experiments with and puts to the test the economic theories prevalent among the elite of the early eighteenth century. Expert: Caroline Velk

[COLLECTIF] - La mythologie - Sans lieu ; Club du Livre, collection Visages de la Culture, [1960] - 2 volumes In-4° - Numerous illustrations in black and in colour in and out of the text, some pastedowns, most by Edy-Legrand - Publisher's tan basane binding in bordered slipcases - 1st boards decorated with 1 cold-stamped antique decoration in relief reminiscent of antique bas-reliefs and surrounded by 1 large frame of mythological scenes. 2nd boards decorated with 1 faun's head in relief, 2nd boards decorated with 1 head of a faun in relief - Back boards and endpapers illustrated in colour with 1 landscape of the Acropolis - Spine ribbed, titled and stamped in gold - Heads gilt - A good numbered copy on Marais vellum. Expert : Caroline Velk

[EROTICA] - BRANTOME (Messire Pierre de Bourdeille seigneur de) - Mémoires [...] de Brantome sur les vies des Dames Galantes de son temps - Paris ; Union Latine d'Éditions, 1953 - 3 volumes large In-8° - Some scattered brown spots - Miniature illustrations in vignettes in text by André Hubert hand-coloured with stencil - Bound in emerald green morocco chagrin, lined slipcases - Spine with ornate nerves, titled and toméed in gold - Heads gilt - Numbered copy on Chiffon d'Arches. Expert : Caroline Velk

DAGUERCHES (Henry) - Consolata fille du soleil - Paris ; Librairie Lemercier, 1928 - 1 volume In-8° - Some scattered foxing - Frontispiece and wood-engraved illustrations enhanced in colour by stencilling, lamp-ends in black by Constant Le Breton - Bound in contemporary green half-basin with corners (boards partly oiled, spine evenly worn) - Covers preserved - Spine with gold titling - Numbered copy on Arches vellum (n°247 of 220, total edition : 250 + a few hors commerce). Expert : Caroline Velk

[RELIGIOSA] - The Imitation of Christ. Traduction nouvelle par Gaston Bardet - Paris, Marseille ; Le Club du Livre, 1957 - 2 volumes In-4° - Off-text lithographed illustrations in colour by Edy Legrand - Bound in rich havane basane with 1 different cold-stamped decoration on each cover - Spine ribbed with gold titling and tomé (uniformly sunned) - Heads gilt - A good numbered copy on Marais vellum. Expert : Caroline Velk

CORNEILLE - Théâtre complet - Paris; Club du Livre, Philippe Lebaud, collection Héritage du Temps, [1973] - 4 volumes large In-8° - Lithographic plates out of text in black and in colour by Carrance, Fontanarosa, Pierre Henry, Lejeune, Rey Vila, Rohner, and Pierre-Yves Trémois - Bound in brown chagrin in bordered slipcase - Boards decorated with 1 large gilt frieze - Blue suedette fleurdelisée boards and endpapers - Spine ribbed and decorated with fleur-de-lys, titled and toméed in gold - Heads gilt - A very good numbered copy on Lana vellum. Expert : Caroline Velk

FRANÇOIS D'ASSISE (Saint) - Les Fioretti translated into French and annotated by R. Jacquin, according to the Cesari edition published in Verona in eighteen hundred and twenty-two - Paris, Club du livre, 1966 - 1 volume In°4 - Illuminations by A. Dussarthou: 16 coloured out-of-text illustrations and numerous in-text lettering, endpapers and vignettes - Bound in richly blind-stamped Havana basane - Spine with ornate nerves, metal clasps - Gilt head - In a slipcase with spines in fawn basane with ornate nerves simulating 2 books and containing separately in 1 folder the commentaries and 1 suite of decomposition of 1 plate - A very fine copy numbered on wire. Expert : Caroline Velk

La Chanson de Roland - Le manuscrit d'Oxford (fac-similé) - Original translation of the Oxford manuscript and commentary by Louis-Robert Plazolles - Paris ; Club du Livre, 1962 - 1 volume In-4° and 1 volume In-12° - Illuminations by Jean Gradassi in and out of text in colour for the Chanson de Roland - Bound in full brown basane with metal inlays on the boards for the Chanson de Roland and replicas of weapons for the Oxford manuscript - Spine ribbed and titled for the Chanson de Roland, Mute for the Oxford manuscript - Gilt head for the In-4° volume - All in a slipcase with titled ribbed spine lined with red suede - A very good numbered copy on pur fil du Marais. Expert : Caroline Velk

COLETTE - OEuvres - Paris ; Flammarion, 1960 - 3 volumes In-8° carrés - Illustrations couleurs hors texte de Yves Brayer, Dignimont, Garu Sala, Roland Oudot, Dunoyer de Ségonzac, Thérechkovitch, Van Dongen, Vertès - Reliures éditeur percale rose, bleu ciel et violine ornées - Dos titrés et tomés en blanc - Très bon exemplaire numéroté.

RACINE - Théâtre complet - Sans lieu ; Le Club du Livre, collection Héritage du Temps, [1961] - 3 volumes large In-8° - Off-text lithographic colour illustrations by Mariano Andreu - Publisher's binding in navy chagrin in bordered slipcase - Boards decorated with framed fillets, angular fleurons and gilded royal arms - Spines decorated with fleurs-de-lys, titled and toméed in gold - Heads gilded - A very good numbered copy on vélin pur fil du Marais. Expert : Caroline Velk

CERVANTÈS (Saavedra Miguel de) - Don Quichotte de la Manche - Paris ; Club du Livre, no date - 4 large In-8° paperback volumes in grey folders with title and endpapers on the spines, slipcases - Illustrations in and out of text in black and colour by José-Luis Rey-Vila - A very good numbered copy on Navarra vellum. Expert : Caroline Velk

[COLLECTIVE] - The nineteenth century. Mores. Les arts. Les idées - Paris ; Librairie Hachette, 1901 - 1 volume In-4° - 19 plates out of text including a frontispiece portrait of Louis Pasteur, numerous compositions in text - Bound in contemporary cherry half leather with corners - Spine ribbed with gold titling - Gilt head - Good copy. Expert : Caroline Velk

THEURIET (André) - Paternity - Paris ; E. Dentu, collection Guillaume, 1894 - 1 volume small narrow In-8° - Small scattered freckles - Illustrations in and out of text by G. Picard and Mittis - Bound in cherry chagrin decorated with 1 branch of mistletoe gilt on the 1st plate - Covers illustrated preserved - Inner lace - Spine ribbed titled and dated gold - Gilt head - Good copy. Expert : Caroline Velk

[LAW] - SERVAN (Maître) - Selected works. Partie du Barreau - Limoges ; Jean-Bapt. Bargeas, 1818 - 2 volumes In-8° - Leaves yellowed - Contemporary binding in half havana basane (1st jaw of volume I partly split) - Spines smooth and ornate - Title and appendix on orange paper - Sides yellow - 2nd edition by the author, former avocat général at the Grenoble parliament. Expert : Caroline Velk

[BEAUX-ARTS] - GIEURE (Maurice) - G. Braque - Paris ; Éditions Pierre Tisné, 1956 - 1 volume In-4° - 135 reproductions of works, many of them pasted down in colour - Bound in blue cloth illustrated with 1 composition in colour pasted down on the 1st plate, rhodoïd - A good copy. Expert : Caroline Velk

LA BIZARDIÈRE (M. de) - Histoire d'Erasme, sa vie, ses moeurs, sa mort et sa religion - Paris ; Claude Jombert, 1721 - 1 volume In-12° - Bound in contemporary fawn calf (beginning of cracks at the joins, 1 plate slightly stained) - Spine ribbed and decorated - Title page in maroon morocco - Red edges - A good copy. Expert : Caroline Velk

The order of nobility. Familles d'Europe enregistrées In Ordine Nobilitatis du 1er janvier 1977 au 30 juin 1978 - Paris ; jean de Bonnot, 1978 - 1 large volume In-4° - Bound in black leather with cold-stamped coat of arms, central coat of arms gilt in the centre of the boards - Smooth spine decorated and titled in gold - Gilt head - Very good copy. Expert : Caroline Velk

BERTHAULT (P.) - Florus gaulois [françois au 2nd titre], ou l'abrégé des faits et gestes des anciens Gaulois. Divisé en IV livres - Paris ; Jean Libert, 1634 - 2 volumes In-8° - Pages 273 à 288 manquantes du tome I, des rousseurs éparses, 3 derniers feuilles du tome II restaurés - Reliure XIXe siècle veau fauve - Plats encadrés de filets à froid - Dos lisses ornés - Pièces de titre et de tomaison maroquin noir. Expert : Caroline Velk

[AUTOMOBILIA] - Compagnie Armoricaine de Transporteurs Citroën - Set of 5 plates of bearer shares of Five Hundred Francs - Numbered from 2689 to 2693, located in Quimper and dated 20 February 1934 - Printed in Laval by H. Dalibard - Enclosed: 2 typographed letters from the Company concerning the formalities of recovery of the said shares - Good general condition. Expert : Caroline Velk

BUFFON (Comte de) - OEuvres complètes - Paris, Dufour, Mulat et Boulanger, 1856-1860 - 5 volumes In-4° - Some scattered foxing, leaves detached in volumes IV and V - Text on 2 columns - Portrait of the author - Text only, plates missing - Contemporary half-binding in used condition. Expert : Caroline Velk

La Maison de campagne, journal agricole et horticole illustrés des châteaux, des villas, des petites et des grandes propriétés rurales - Paris ; Bureaux du Journal, 1864 et 1865 - 2 volumes In-4° - Numerous engraved figures in text, out-of-text plates in chromolithography and in black - Bound in contemporary red half-basane - Smooth spines decorated, titled and decorated in gold. Expert : Caroline Velk

PARMELIN (Hélène) - Secrets d'alcôve d'un atelier : Les Dames de Mougins - Picasso, le peintre et son modèle - Notre Dame de Vie - Paris ; Éditions Cercle d'Art, 1970 - 3 volumes large In-4° squared - Numerous reproductions of works pasted down in colour - Publisher's beige cloth binding with facsimile signature of Picasso in colour on the 1st boards, common slipcase titled and decorated with vignettes (some rubbing) - A very good complete copy.

[RELIGIOSA - MISSEL] - Set of 2 books of hours - Les heures de la très Sainte Vierge - Washington ; Boussod, Valadon and co, 1895 - 1 volume In-8° - Text framed in red, 20 black photogravures, some enhanced with gold, under captioned serpents based on watercolours by Guillaume Dubufe - Beautiful contemporary Jansenist binding in electric blue morocco signed Bouasse jeune in Paris, black cloth jacket signed by the bookbinder and identical slipcase - 6 fillets on the blue moire lined boards as well as the endpapers - Double fillet on the edges - Spine ribbed and decorated with black fillets, titled in gold - Gilt edges - A very fine copy: the same copy in a marbled fawn calf binding decorated in brown with fillets, geometrical motifs and fleurs de lys on the 2 boards, in a marbled folder and slipcase - Spine ribbed with fleurdelisé and titled in gold - Edges gilt - Very fine set. Expert : Caroline Velk

[RELIGIOSA - MISSEL] - Paroissien de la Renaissance - Paris ; Gruel Engelmann, 1888 - 1 volume In-12° - Title in engraved frame, text framed with 1 large frieze and engraved plates out of text - Beautiful contemporary Jansenist binding in cherry morocco signed M. Meslier successor to Malesherbes. Meslier successor of Malesherbes green cloth binding and identical slipcase - Double fillet, inner laces and cold frieze, counter boards and endpapers lined with raspberry moire, fillet at the edges - Spine ribbed with gold titles - Gilt edges - A very fine copy. Expert : Caroline Velk

[AUTOMOBILIA] - Automobiles de tourisme et transport, canots à pétrole. Société des automobiles Delhaye - Paris ; Delahaye & Cie, Léon Desmarais et Morane, 1907 - 1 volume large In-8° oblong paperback in a filled cover illustrated in relief and titled in gold on the 1st cover - Title framed and illustrated in black and in colour, colour ornaments, numerous photogravure vignettes in text, and out-of-text colour lithographs by Abel Faivre, Léandre, Louis Morin, and Harry Eliott - Very good copy in publisher's hardback case. Expert : Caroline Velk

Album-Souvenir de la visite des Représentants Français de la lampe Philips aux Usines Philips aux usines d'Eindhoven (Hollande) les 24-27 mai 1924 - Paris ; A. Boscage, 1924 - 1 volume In-4° oblong bound with 1 brown cord - 1st plate titled in gold illustrated with 1 small polychrome composition and 1 photographic vignette pasted on - Photographic prints in and out of text - Good numbered copy (33 out of 50 total edition). Expert : Caroline Velk

[RELIGIOSA] - La Sainte Bible - Paris ; Éditions Lidis, 1986 - 3 strong volumes In-4° - Text on 2 columns - Colour plates out of text with reproductions of medieval manuscripts - Bound in burgundy skyvertex in a common slipcase - Boards richly decorated with orange and gold interlacing - Smooth spines titled in gold and decorated identically - Gilt edges - A very good copy on Bouffant laid paper. Expert : Caroline Velk

THIERS (Adolphe) - Histoire du consulat - Histoire de l'Empire faisant suite à l'Histoire du Consulat - Paris ; Lheureux et Cie, 1865-1867 - 5 volumes of text and 1 volume of atlas In-4° - Some scattered foxing - Text on 2 columns - Numerous engravings in the volumes of text including views and scenes of battles - 65 double-page maps mounted on tabs - Bound in contemporary havana half-chagrin (some rubbing) - Spine with ornate nerves, titled and lettered in gold - A good complete copy. Expert : Caroline Velk

MAYER (Monsieur de) - Les amours du chevalier Bayard avec Madame de Randan, et autres romans - Paris ; Leroy, 1787 - 2 volumes In-12° - Some small and scattered brown spots - Contemporary binding in havana half-basin (small bump to 1 corner, partial cracks to the jaws) - Spines smooth and ornate (upper head of volume I damaged, lack at the head of volume II) - Title-pieces on orange and black paper - Brown speckled edges. Expert : Caroline Velk

HUARD (Pierre) & DURAND (Maurice) - Connaissance du Viêt-Nam - Paris ; Imprimerie Nationale, Hanoi ; École Française d'Extrême-Orient, 1954 - 1 volume In-8° paperback - Vignette on 1st plate included in title - 132 figures in text, some full-page - A very good copy. Expert : Caroline Velk

MONTHERLANT (Henri de) - La Reine Morte - Paris ; Aux Dépens d'un Groupe de Bibliophiles, 1944 - 1 volume In-4° in uncut sheets in a filled jacket titled in brown on the 1st plate, a hardback publisher's jacket titled on the spine (faded and slightly tarnished) and slipcase - Large gold and black illuminated frame on each page, frontispiece and 9 hors texte coloured with stencils by Victor Stuyvaert - Good numbered copy on Lana vellum (n°227 of 527, total edition : 599). Expert: Caroline Velk

Album Lefèvre-Utile. Famous contemporaries, first series: portraits, autographs, illustrated biographical notes of contemporary celebrities. Publications Octave Beauchamp, 1904. In-4° bound in publisher's cloth with wood veneer and medallion of Sarah Bernhard after Mucha on the first cover and stork on the reverse with 28 portraits and biographical notes by Paul Acker, illustrations by Vogel, ornaments by Haber-Dys, Orazi and Fraikin, photographs by Nadar, Reutlinger, autographs from the LU collection collected by R. Stengler and G. Haranchipy. Expert: Caroline Velk

[BERGERON (Louis-Éloi)] - Manuel du tourneur - Paris ; Bergeron, 1792 - 1 volume In-4° (out of 2, volume I only) - Scattered halos - 30 folding plates (out of 72) including 8 of wood species enhanced in period colours - Bound in 20th century black half cloth with corners - Black leather title-piece on spine - Reference work on the subject in first edition. Expert : Caroline Velk

[NORMANDIE] - PONTAUMONT (M. de) - Histoire de la ville de Carentan - Paris ; Dumoulin et Ernest Gouin, 1863 - 1 volume In-8° - Minor scattered brown spotting at beginning and end of work - 2 folding plans engraved out of text - Bound in contemporary green half-basane - Smooth spine decorated (faded and lower cap damaged) with gold titling - Brown speckled edges - Good copy in first edition. Expert : Caroline Velk

Set of approximately 73 In-8° paperback volumes, mostly on scouting and mainly from the Signe de Piste collection published by Alsatia, the vast majority with illustrated colour covers by Pierre Joubert, Cyril, Michel Gourlier, etc. - Very good condition. Expert : Caroline Velk

CANTWEL - De la naissance et de la chute des anciennes républiques. Traduit de l'anglois - Paris ; Maradan, 1793 - 1 volume In-8° - A few scattered freckles, a few yellowed leaves - Contemporary binding - Contemporary binding in mottled red calf (boards and spines rubbed, 2 corners worn) - Smooth spine decorated (rubbed, top cap removed) - Old handwritten bookplate on the 1st white endpaper: Montagu. Expert: Caroline Velk

LA FONTAINE (Jean de) - Choix de fables de La Fontaine - Tours ; Imprimerie Berthiault, [circa 1860] - 1 volume In-folio - Portrait of the author and plates by Goujet accompanied by the texts, all engraved in intaglio - Bound in contemporary brown half-chagrin (boards scuffed, paper partially detached on the 2nd) - Spine with small nerfs decorated and titled in gold - Gilt edges. Expert : Caroline Velk

Set of 6 In-8° volumes from the collection Les savoirs-faire oubliés published by Éditions de Crémille - 700 recettes de santé de ma grand-mère - Nos grands-mères aux fourneaux - Chansons pour rire et pour pleurer - Le jardin de mon grand-père - Les meubles de chez nous - Légendes et traditions de la France mystérieuse - Des illustrations - Reliures identiques skyvertex vert ornées - Spines lisses ornés et titrés or - Bon ensemble. Expert : Caroline Velk