French Literature, Cookery and History

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Le Roi des Aulnes. Erlkönig. Paris: Edouard Pelletan, 1904. 4to, colored illustrations by Bellery-Desfontaines, with a set of progressive suites of the plates on chine, red morocco with an elaborate medieval interlaced frame consisting of inlaid morocco in orange, blue, light and dark green, edges gilt, black morocco doublures with gilt rules, maroon silk endleaves, in a morocco-trimmed slipcase, original wrappers bound in, by H. Noulhac. No. 115 of 200 on velin. — France, Anatole. Les Dieux ont Soif. Illustrations de G. Jeanniot. Paris: Le Livre Contemporain, 1925. 4to, etchings, maroon morocco, inlaid frame of crimson morocco surrounded by triple-fillet frames, central Revolutionary cap inlaid in crimson morocco encircled by gilt-ruled rays, spine gilt with  inlay, edges gilt, maroon watered-silk doublures and endleaves, in a morocco-trimmed slipcase by E. Maylander. — Bugnard, Catherin. L’École des Ménagères. Paris: [Louis Campi], 1931. Folio, woodcut text illustrations handcolored or finished, original printed wrappers, loose in wrappers as issued. Autograph letter signed by Eugene Lefebvre, Paris, 29 December 1931 apologizing for interrupting the coloring of this copy for reasons of health, along with his ms. transcription of an ad for another work. — Tillier, Claude. Mon Oncle Benjamin. Paris: W. Coquebert, 1843. 8vo, uncut, tan three-quarter calf, bookplate with monogram “E L”. Carteret II, p. 390; Vicaire VII, col 840. — Ponteau, L’Ugène. Le Godan guignolade en deux actes. Paris: [Louis Campi], 1930. Folio, woodcut text illustrations and borders colored or finished, original printed wrappers, loose in wrappers as issued. — Claudel, Paul; Aubert, Marcel. Vitraux des Cathédrales de France XIIe et XIIIe Siècles. Paris: Librairie Plon, [1937]. Folio, color plates, original printed wrappers. — Yriarte, Charles. Histoire de Paris ses Transformations Successives … Tirage Spécial. Paris: J. Rothschild, 1882. Folio, plates, maps and text illustrations, one of 550 copies on papier à la Cuve; occasional light spots and offsets. Contemporary three-quarter vellum, original wrappers bound in; front wrapper mended. — Hugo, Victor. La Légende des Siècles. Paris: Hetzel, no date. 4 volumes, 8vo, half-morocco gilt spine. — [Grimod de la Reynière, Alexandre Balthazar Laurent]. Manuel des Amphitryons; contenant Un Traité de la Dissection des viandes à table … Paris: chez Capelle et Renand, 1808. 8vo, half-title, 16 plates; without the frontispiece, a few marginal mends. Rose three-quarter morocco. Bitting, p. 203; Simon 805. — Mauclair, Camille. Le Charme de Versailles. Paris: H. Piazza, 1931. 4to, plates in two states by Charles Jouas, tan morocco gilt in a morocco-trimmed slipcase by Albinhac. No. 6 of 150 on japon impérial. — Pernette du Guillet, D. Rymes de Gentile. Lyon: Louis Perrin, 1856. 8vo, one of 125 copies on tinted hollande paper. Red half-morocco gilt. —  Bryce, James. Le Saint Empire Romain Germanique. Paris: Colin, 1890. 8vo, brown half-leather. — La Tailhède, Raymond de. Les Poésies. Paris: Émile Paul Frères, 1926. 8vo, salmon half-morocco, original wrappers bound in. — Guyau, Jean-Marie. La Morale Anglaise Contemporaine. Deuxième Edition. Paris: Alcan, 1885. 8vo, modern maroon half-leatherette. — Puitspelu, Nizier de [Clair Tisseur]. Les Oisivetés. Lyon: Bernoux & Cumin, 1896. 8vo, 3-pp autograph letter signed by the author bound in, brown half-morocco, spine gilt. — Cohen, Gustave. Études d’Histoire du Théâtre en France au Moyen-Age et a la Renaissance. Paris: Gallimard, 1956. 8vo, printed wrappers; lightly browned. — Cohen, Gustave. Recueil de Farces Françaises Inédites du XVe Siècle. Cambridge MA: Mediaeval Academy, 1949. Large 8vo, original green cloth. — Varille, Mathieu. La Cuisine Lyonnaise. Lyon: Masson, 1928. 4to, red three-quarter morocco. — Société des Amis de Guignol. Nouveau Recueil de Pièces de Guignol. Lyon: chez Pierre Masson, 1925. 8vo; edges browned, blue half morocco, original printed wrappers bound in. — Chateaubriand. Voyage en Amérique. 2 volumes. Paris: Didier, 1964. [With:] Vie de Rancé. 2 volumes. Paris: Didier, 1955. [With:] Lettre a M. de Fontanes sur La Campagne Romaine. Geneva & Paris: Droz, 1961. [With:] René. Paris: Droz, 1935. 6 volumes in all, uniformly bound maroon three-quarter morocco, original wrappers bound in. — Baudelaire, Charles. Les Fleurs du Mal. Paris: Garnier, 1959. 8vo, brown three-quarter morocco, original printed wrappers bound in. — Les Aventures de maitre Renart et d’Ysengrin son compère. Paris: Georges Crès, 1921. 8vo, printed in red and black on blue paper, no. 47 of 40 copies on velin bleu, three-quarter morocco, original wrappers bound in. — France, Anatole. [Oeuvres]. 18 volumes. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1921-1934. 8vo, red three-quarter morocco gilt, original wrappers bound in. — France, Anatole. La Rotisserie de la Reine Pédauque. Paris: chez Mornay, 1920. [With:] Les Opinions de Monseiur Jérome Coignard. Paris: chez Mornay, 1924. 2 volumes, 4to, red three-quarter morocco gilt. — Mathiez, Albert & G. Lefebvre. La Révolution française. 5 volumes. Paris: Armand Colin, 1933-1958. 8vo, red half-morocco. — France, Anatole. La Vie en Fleur. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1922. 8vo, red three-quarter cloth. — Flaubert, Gustave. [Oeuvres, including:] Madame Bovary, Education Sentimentale, Trois Contes, Salammbo.   Paris: Armand Colin, 1957-1960. 8vo, brown three-quarter morocco, original wrappers bound in. — Fromentin, Eugène. Dominique. Paris: Garnier Frères, 1961. 8vo, red three-quarter calf gilt. — Charmot, F. L’Art de se forme l’esprit et de Réussir au Baccalauréat. 2 vols. Paris: Gigord, 1932. 8vo, red three-quarter cloth. — Huysmans, Joris-Karl. Croquis Parisiens. Paris: Mermod, [1955]. 8vo, no. 1401 of 3000, green half-calf. — Demaison, André. La Comédie Animale, La Nouvelle Arche de Noé. Paris: Bernard Grasset, [1938]. 8vo, no. 369 of 200 copies, dark-green three-quarter morocco, top edge gilt. — Rousseau, Jean Jacques. Les Rêveries du Promeneur Solitaire. Paris: Payot, 1913. 8vo, frontispiece, calf gilt, wrappers bound in. — Lemaitre, Jules. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, no date. 8vo, dark-green half morocco, wrappers bound in. — Lemaitre,  Jules. Jean Racine. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, [1908]. 8vo, dark-blue three-quarter morocco, wrappers bound in. — Lemaitre,  Jules. Les Contemporains. Etudes et Portraits Littéraires. Paris: Société Française d’Imprimerie, 1898-1918. 8 volumes, 8vo; edges browned. Modern green boards. — Daudet, Alphonse. [Collection of 14 titles]. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1885; E. Dentu, 1888, 1890; Eugène Fasquelle, 1897; Marpon & Flammarion, 1887; and others, large and small 8vo, uniformly bound in red half morocco, original wrappers bound in. — Rabelais, François. Oeuvres. Louis Moland, ed. Paris: Garnier Frères, [1919]. 2 volumes, 8vo, no. 1469 of 1500. Modern three-quarter vellum, original wrappers bound in. — Ronsard, Pierre de. Poésies Choisies. Paris: Garnier Frères, 1924. 8vo, three-quarter vellum, no. 932 of 1000 copies. — Arène, Paul. La Chèvre d’Or. Paris: H. Piazza, 1933. 8vo, green three-quarter morocco, wrappers bound in. No. 971 of 3200. — Vercel, Roger. Croisière Blanche. Paris: Albin Michel, [1938]. 8vo, red three-quarter morocco, wrappers bound in. — Poëte, Marcel. L’Enfance de Paris. Paris: Colin, 1912. 8vo, blue half-morocco. — Lachelier, Jules. Du Fondement de l’Induction. Paris: Ladrange, 1871. 8vo; marginal spotting, tan calf, printed wrappers bound in. — Verlaine, Paul. Oeuvres Complètes. Paris: Vanier, 1907-1908. 2 volumes, 8vo, half-morocco, wrappers bound in. — Valéry, Paul. Variété. Paris: chez Claude Aveline, 1926. 8vo, blue three-quarter morocco, wrappers bound in. — Prévost, Antoine François, abbé. Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut. Paris: Colin, [1957]. 8vo, orange three-quarter morocco, wrappers bound in. — Baudelaire, Charles. Oeuvres Complètes. Paris: Louis Conard, 1922-1925. 3 volumes, 8vo, three-quarter morocco, wrappers bound in. — Gebhart, Emile. [Oeuvres]. Paris: Hachette, later Bloud & Cie, 1877-1913. 8 volumes, 8vo, brown three-quarter morocco, wrappers bound in. — Pallavicino, Ferrante. Opere scelte. Villafranca [Geneva?]: [Elzevir], 1673. 12mo; title and first few leaves somewhat spotted, early 19c red straight-grain morocco gilt, edges gilt, by Jean George Purgold. Bookplates of Marigues de Champ Repys, Henri Beraldi, Henri Burton. — Vigny, Alfred de. Servitude et Grandeur Militaires. Paris: Charpentier, Calmann-Lévy, 1882. 12mo, orange half cloth. — Brachet, A. Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Française. Paris: Hetzel, no date. 8vo, half-morocco, wrappers bound in. — Sayous, Pierre-André. Conseils à Une Mère pour l’Éducation Littéraire des ses Enfants. Paris: Hetzel, 1863. 8vo, blue half-morocco gilt. Bookplate of Ernest Lehr. — Sayous, Pierre André. Essai sur Quelques Poètes Moralistes. Geneva: Ramboz, 1844. 8vo; title and some margins spotted, half-calf, wrappers bound in. — Sayous, Pierre André. Études Littéraires sur les Écrivains Français de la Réformation. Paris: & Geneva: Dlay & Cherbuliez, 1841. 2 volumes, 8vo, modern three-quarter calf, original wrappers bound in. Inscribed by the author to Professor Cheauvière.  — Camus, Albert. Le Mythe de Sisyphe – L’Eté – L’Envers et l’Endroit. Paris: Gallimard, no date. 8vo, half leather. — Daudet, Alphonse. Le Petit Chose. Paris: La Bonne Étoile, no date. 4to, frontispiece.three-quarter morocco, wrappers bound in. — Le Faure, Georges. La Cantinière du 13e. Paris: Charavay et al, no date. Large 8vo; browned, publisher’s red pictorial cloth; backstrip torn. — Sentex, Marc, abbé. La France Catholique Illustré. Paris: no date. Folio; a few dampstains lower margin, dark-blue quarter-cloth, gilt-stamped title upper cover; worn. — Bleton, Auguste. Lyon Pittoresque. Lyon: Bernoux & Cumin, 1896. Folio, green three-quarter morocco, wrappers bound in. — Gaxotte, Pierre. Histoire de l’Allemagne. Paris: Flammarion, 1963. 2 volumes, 8vo, red three-quarter morocco, wrappers bound in. — Morillot, Paul. Lesage. Paris: Colin, 1896. 8vo, half leather. — Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Hommes Représentatifs. Paris: Crès, 1919. 8vo, tan three-quarter morocco, wrappers bound in. — [Thomas à Kempis]. L’Imitation de Jésus-Christ. Paris: Gruel & Engelmann, 1886. 12mo, red morocco, dentelles, in a slipcase. —  Courteline, Georges. Un Client Sérieux. Paris: Flammarion, no date. 8vo; browned, lavander half cloth, wrappers bound in. — Vigny, Alfred de. Les Destinées. Paris: Société d’Édition d’Enseignement Supérieur, 1964. 8vo. three-quarter calf, wrappers bound in. — Vigny, Alfred de. Poésies Complètes. Paris: Colin, 1958. 8vo, tan three-quarter calf, wrappers bound in. — Vaissière, Pierre de. Henri IV. Paris: Fayard & Cie, [1928]. 8vo; browned, blue three-quarter morocco. — Stendhal. Le Rouge et Le Noir. Paris: Garnier Frères, [1939]. 8vo, no. 231 of 500, maroon three-quarter morocco, wrappers bound in. — Stendhal. Lamiel. Paris: chez Jean Crès, 1947. 8vo, maroon three-quarter morocco, wrappers bound in. — Visan, Tancrède de. Le Guignol Lyonnais. Paris: Bloud & Cie, 1910. 4to, salmon half cloth, wrappers bound in. — Voltaire. Candide ou l’Optimisme. Paris: H. Piazza, 1924. 8vo, gray three-quarter morocco, wrappers bound in. — Voltaire. Lettres Philosophiques. Paris: Claude Aveline, 1924. 8vo, red three-quarter morocco, wrappers bound in. — Voltaire. Romans. Paris: Garnier Frères, n.d. 8vo; title and frontispiece browned. Maroon half-calf, wrappers bound in. — Benaerts, Pierre. L’Unité allemande 1806-1938. Paris: Colin, 1939. 8vo, half-calf, wrappers bound in. — Albert, Paul. La Littérature Française des Origines à la Fin du XVIe Siècle. [With:] … au 19e Siècle. Paris: Hachette, 1881-1882. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary red half morocco, gilt-stamped supralibros “Lycée Louis le Grand” on first volume. — Kleinclausz, Arthur. Lyon des Origines à Nos Jours. Lyon: Pierre Masson, 1925. Large 8vo, one of 120 copies, maroon three-quarter morocco, wrappers bound in. — Jullian, René. Lyon. Paris: Renouard, H. Laurens, 1960. Large 8vo, maroon three-quarter morocco, pictorial wrappers bound in. — Musée Historique Lorrain. Jacque Callot … Guide et Catalogue de l‘Exposition … Nancy: Pays Lorrain, 1935. 4to, tan three-quarter cloth, wrappers bound in. — Le Roman de Tristan et Iseut, renouvelé par Joseph Bédier. Paris: H. Piazza, [1908]. 4to, plates, publisher’s green cloth, pictorial stamp and title on upper cover, original dust jacket; jacket torn and soiled. — Laurent, Paul-Mathieu. Histoire de Napoléon I. Paris: Henri Plon, 1870. Large 8vo; title and a few margins spotted, half-leather. — Deniau, Jean. Lyon et ses Environs. Paris: B. Arthaud, 1963. 8vo, red three-quarter morocco, wrappers bound in. — Jolinon, Joseph. Charme de Lyon. Lyon: Lardanchet, 1942. 8vo, green three-quarter morocco, wrappers bound in. — Bauër, Gérard. Rendez-vous avec Paris. Paris: Albin Michel[1959]. 8vo, blue three-quarter morocco, wrappers bound in. — Epicurus. Doctrines et Maximes. Paris: Hermann & Cie, no date. 8vo, orange three-quarter calf, wrappers bound in. — Villon, François. Oeuvres Poétiques. Paris: Garnier-Flammarion, [1965]. 8vo, green leather gilt. — Monselet, Charles. Les Originaux du Siècle Dernier. Paris: Michel Lévy, 1864. 8vo, tan half-calf, spine gilt. — Bourges, Élémir. Le Crépuscule des Dieux. Paris: Stock Delamain, Boutelleau & Cie, no date. 8vo; browned, salmon half-cloth, wrappers bound in. — Colette. L’Étoile Vesper Souvenirs. Geneva, Paris, Montreal: Milieu du Monde, 1946. [With:] Paris de ma Fenêtre. 1944. 2 volumes, 8vo, maroon three-quarter morocco, wrappers bound in. — Lecoy de la Marche, A. Les Manuscrits et la Miniature. Paris: Quantin, no date. 8vo; browned, publisher’s teal-blue pictorial cloth gilt-stamped title upper cover. — Tharaud, Jérome & Jean. Le Maroc. Paris: Plon, 1923. 4to, tipped in plates, red three-quarter morocco gilt, wrappers bound in. — Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. Physiologie du Goût. Paris: Paulin, 1846. 2 volumes in one, 8vo (5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.; 140 x 88 mm). Contemporary half leather and marbled boards, edges gilt; extremities rubbed. An early edition of this oft-reprinted classic discourse on the pleasures of the table which has not been out of print since it first appeared in 1826. Vicaire 118. 

Approximately 104 titles, in 163 volumes.

For condition see cataloguing, generally fine clean copies, mostly in morocco bindings.
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