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AUBÉRY, [Antoine] [1616-1695].
L'Histoire Du Cardinal Mazarin.
Paris: the Widow Mabre Cramoisy, 1695..
2 Volumes. 12mo. pp. 13 p.l., 582; 6 p.l., 623. titles in red & black. engraved frontis. portrait. woodcut ornaments & initials. contemporary calf, gilt backs (spine ends & corners worn). Second Edition (first: 1688). A major source on the life and career of the celebrated courtier and prime minister of France, who exerted enormous influence over the queen-regent, Anne of Austria, and later over Louis XIV once the latter had attained the age of majority. "Italian though he was by birth, education and nature, France owed him a great debt for his skilful management during the early years of Louis XIV, and the king owed him yet more, for he had not only transmitted to him a nation at peace, but had educated for him his great servants Le Tellier, Lionne and Colbert. literary men owed him also much; not only did he throw his famous library open to them, but he pensioned all their leaders, including Descartes, Vincent, Voiture, Jean Louis Guez de Balzac and Pierre Corneille." (Encyc. Brit., 11th Edn.) Goldsmith, BM STC French, A986. cfBrunet VI 23764. cfCioranescu 8737.
$513 USD                          Book Number: FBÉHiAUB61                         Order / Enquire



BAILLARGÉ, Alphonse [Jules].
Album Du Château De Blois Restauré Et Des Châteaux De Chambord, Chenonceaux, Chaumont & Amboise Dessinés d'après nature par J.Monthelier.Accompagné d'un text archéologique et artistique Par Alphonse Baillargé.Et enrichi De Notices Historiques.Par M.
Blois: Arthur Prevost, 1851..
oblong folio. pp. 2 p.l., 107. with half-title. text in double columns. 17 tinted lithographed plates (incl. title), the title & plate of the coat of arms of Blois by Désiré Raimbault, the 15 architectural views by J.Monthelier & Bachelier. later cloth, rebacked, with original gilt-stamped front cover mounted (scattered light foxing, paper embrowned, dampstain to upper margins, extending into image of title & last 3 plates). First Edition.
$1281 USD                          Book Number: FILbuBAI4                         Order / Enquire



BAINES, Edward [1774-1848].
History Of The Wars Of The French Revolution, From The Breaking Out Of The War In 1792, To The Restoration Of A General Peace In 1815, Comprehending The Civil History of Great Britain and France, During That Period.
London: Printed For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, And Brown; And James Harper, By Edward Baines, 1817..
2 Volumes in 1. 4to. pp. 2 p.l., 3, [1], 539; 2 p.l., 595. with half-titles. text in double columns. 33 steel & wood-engraved plates, incl. 15 portraits & 12 engraved maps & plans (4 folding, 2 double-page). several wood-engraved text illus. contemporary half morocco, later spine labels (rubbed, covers warped, some dampstaining to frontis., faint marginal dampstains through first 100 pages, occasional spotting). First Edition.
$649 USD                          Book Number: elala1303                         Order / Enquire



BALZAC, [Jean Louis Guez] De [1595-1654].
Aristippe, Ou De La Cour.
Paris: Augustin Courbé, 1658..
4to. pp. 4 p.l., 244, [18]table, [1]privilege]. engraved frontis. by Huret. engraved printer's device on title. woodcut headpieces & initials. contemporary calf (worn but sound, short splits in joints, light dampstaining to lower margin - heavier in first 2 quires, some light foxing & browning). First Edition. Balzac was one of the writers who contributed the most to the perfection of the French language at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and introduced a masterly clearness, refined elegance and precision based on classical models into French prose style. He is thus credited with having executed in French prose a reform parallel to Malherbe's in verse. He enjoyed the patronage of the Cardinal de Valette, who brought him to Italy and made him his agent in Rome, and upon his return to France, secured that of the Archbishop of Luçon and Cardinal Richelieu. Esteemed the leading prosaist of his time, he was unanimously elected to the Académie Française in 1634. The present treatise on the duties of sovereigns is dedicated to Christina of Sweden, who was herself an admirer of Balzac. "Balzac "contributed greatly to the creation of the paradoxically formal colloquial style which still holds sway in French literary and academic circles.[he] wished above all to impose order, regularity, and gravity in prose.". (New Oxford Companion to French Literature) Brunet I 632-33. Cioranescu 9682. Tchemerzine I 374.
$1199 USD                          Book Number: elala1338                         Order / Enquire



BALZAC, [Jean Louis Guez] De [1595-1654].
Les Entretiens.
Paris: Augustin Courbé, 1657..
4to. pp. 48 p.l., 477, [1]blank, [20]table, [2]privilege. engraved printer's device on title. engraved dedication headpiece & initial. woodcut ornaments & initials. contemporary mottled calf, gilt back (spine ends worn, front joint cracked & upper rear joint starting, corners worn, some gatherings lightly embrowned). First Edition. Edited by G.Girard. Balzac was one of the writers who contributed the most to the perfection of the French language at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and introduced a masterly clearness, refined elegance and precision based on classical models into French prose style. He is thus credited with having executed in French prose a reform parallel to Malherbe's in verse. He enjoyed the patronage of the Cardinal de Valette, who brought him to Italy and made him his agent in Rome, and upon his return to France, secured that of the Archbishop of Luçon and Cardinal Richelieu. Esteemed the leading prosaist of his time, he was unanimously elected to the Académie Française in 1634. The present work was envisioned by Balzac as a modern version of Montaigne's essay form. "Balzac "contributed greatly to the creation of the paradoxically formal colloquial style which still holds sway in French literary and academic circles.[he] wished above all to impose order, regularity, and gravity in prose.". (New Oxford Companion to French Literature) Brunet I 632. Cioranescu 9681. Tchemerzine I 370 (incorrect pagination).
$1099 USD                          Book Number: elala1339                         Order / Enquire



BALZAC, [Jean Louis Guez] De [1595-1654].
Les Oeuvres Diverses.
Paris: P.Rocolet, 1644..
4to. pp. 4 p.l., 543, [1]privilege. full-page engraved portrait on ã4v. engraved printer's device on title. woodcut ornaments & initials. (spine ends & corners chipped, joints partly cracked, light dampstain in upper margin & in lower inner margins through first quarter of text, marginal worming in some gatherings occasionally affecting headline only). First Edition. Balzac was one of the writers who contributed the most to the perfection of the French language at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and introduced a masterly clearness, refined elegance and precision based on classical models into French prose style. He is thus credited with having executed in French prose a reform parallel to Malherbe's in verse. He enjoyed the patronage of the Cardinal de Valette, who brought him to Italy and made him his agent in Rome, and upon his return to France, secured that of the Archbishop of Luçon and Cardinal Richelieu. Esteemed the leading prosaist of his time, he was unanimously elected to the Académie Française in 1634. The collection of essays includes: Le Romain - De la Conversation des Romains - Consolation au Cardinal de La Valette - Réponse à deux questions ou Du caractère & l'instruction de la Comédie - Mécenas - Paraphrase ou De la grande Eloquence - Dissertation sur une Tragédie intitulée Herodes Infanticida - De la Gloire - Dissertation sur une harangue prononcée dans l'Académie de Rome - Lettre au comte Clermont de Lodève - Relation à Ménandre - Passages défendus - Response faite sur le champ. Brunet I 632. Cioranescu 9655. Tchemerzine I 379.
$999 USD                          Book Number: elala1340                         Order / Enquire



BARANTE, [Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière, Baron] De [1782-1866].
Histoire Des Ducs De Bourgogne De La Maison De Valois, 1364-1477.Nouvelle Édition.
Paris: Delloye, 1839..
12 Volumes. 8vo. complete with half-titles. 15 engraved maps & plans (12 folding) & 109 wood engraved plates on China paper mounted on papier vélin (after drawings by Delacroix, Grandville, Deveria, Johannot, Lami &c.). wood engraved vignettes. contemporary quarter calf, gilt backs (dull, hint of foxing). A fine set. BARANTE'S MAJOR WORK, ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN A SERIES OF VOLUMES BETWEEN 1824 AND 1828, WAS HIGHLY PRAISED IN POINT OF STYLE AND NARRATIVE QUALITY AND WON HIM IMMEDIATE ADMISSION TO THE FRENCH ACADEMY. CFBRUNET I 643. CFVICAIRE 283-284.
$871 USD                          Book Number: BRAstBAR51                         Order / Enquire



BARANTE, [Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière, Baron] De [1782-1866].
View Of French Literature During The Eighteenth Century. Translated from The French.
London: Printed For H.Colburn., 1814..
8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 205. Uncut in later cloth (portions of spine wanting, joints cracked, several institutional markings). from the library of William Henry Allan Davies, fur-trader for the Hudson's Bay Company. CFBRUNET I 643. CFESCOFFIER 180.
$128 USD                          Book Number: cRAewBAR51                         Order / Enquire



BARDINET [DE BINTAR].
Les Évenemens Nocturnes, Ou Les Nouvelles Méprises, Comédie En Trois Actes Et En Prose.le Samedi 9 Septembre 1775.
The Hague & Paris: Mequignon le Jeune, 1776..
8vo. pp. viii, 76. woodcut headpieces & title vignette. disbound (some dampstaining, title & one other leaf closely trimmed at outer margin). First Edition. Cioranescu 9492.
$85 USD                          Book Number: elala2376                         Order / Enquire



BARRES, Maurice [1862-1923].
L'Angoisse De Pascal.
Paris: Les Bibliophiles Fantaisistes, 1910..
4to. pp. 66, [5]. with half-title. frontis. portrait (tipped-in) & 1 facsimile. contemporary quarter morocco, t.e.g., original printed wrs. bound in (short splits in front joint). First Edition, Limited to 500 numbered copies [+10 on japon].
$150 USD                          Book Number: elala2379                         Order / Enquire



BARRUEL, [Augustin De], Abbé [1741-1820].
Mémoires Pour Servir À L'Histoire Du Jacobinisme.
London: The French Press, Ph. Le Boussonnier.Sold by A.Dulau & Co. & De Bosse, 1797 [Vol.s I-III] & Hamburg: P.Fauche, 1799 .
5 Volumes in 4. 8vo. pp. xx, 426, [5]incl errata; 1 p.l., viii, [2, 467, [3]incl. errata; 3 p.l., xxii, 408; viii, xvi, 288; 2 p.l., 328. Vols. IV-V with half-titles. folding table in Vol. IV. woodcut ornaments & title vignettes. contemporary half roan (rubbed, spine labels, corners & Vol. I spine ends worn, occasional light foxing, light dampstain to lower margin in first gatherings of Vol. IV). First Edition. In 1792 the French Jesuit fled revolutionary France for England, where he became almoner to the refugee Prince de Conti and where he wrote the present anti-revolutionary account. In it Barruel sought to account for the revolution by a study of the anti-Christian and atheistic principles of the secret societies and the encyclopedic philosophers. The work was widely read and elicited a voluminous response from the Freemasons of France, Germany, and England. Cioranescu 9799. Quérard I 197. cfMartin & Walter 1818 (Hamburg: Fauche, 1798-99).
$749 USD                          Book Number: elala1381                         Order / Enquire



BASSOMPIERRE, [François Baron de] [1574-1646].
Ambassade Du Maréschal De Bassompierre en Suisse l'an 1625. 2 Volumes. [WITH:] .Ambassade Du Maréschal De Bassompierre En Espagne l'an 1621. [WITH:] .Négociation Du Maréchal De Bassompierre Envoyé Ambassadeur Extaordinaire, en Angleterre de la part du
Cologne: Pierre du Marteau, 1668..
4 Volumes. in 2. 12mo. pp. 1 p.l., 188 [ie.388]; 269; 1 p.l., 163; 1 p.l., 316. sphere device on titles. contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt backs (neat repairs to spines, head of spine of Vol. I chipped). armorial bookplates of Charreton. Counterfeit Editions, published the same year as the first. While Bassompierre's military exploits in the service of Henri IV earned him great honour and distinction, as a diplomatist, his career was a failure. This collection of accounts relates his successive unsucccessful diplomatic missions to Spain (1621; where he was responsible for signing the Treaty of Madrid), Switzerland (1625), and England (1626). Brunet I 695. Cioranescu 10279-10281. Willems 1783n. Rahir 2334. Goldsmith, BM STC French, B332, B334, B341.
$615 USD                          Book Number: FSSbaBAS31                         Order / Enquire



BASSOMPIERRE, F[rançois, Baron] De [1579-1646].
Mémoires.
Amsterdam: André de Hoogenhuysen, 1692..
2 Volumes. 12mo. pp. 5 p.l., 552; 813. engraved frontis. portrait. sphere device on titles. contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt backs (bit rubbed, spine ends chipped, spine of Vol. II cracked). A detailed and faithful portrait of the French court under the reigns of Henri IV and Louis XIII, written during the author's imprisonment in the Bastille. He was confined there in 1631 by Richelieu, when the latter discovered his secret marriage to the Princesse de Condi, which implicated him in the plot to overthrow the Cardinal. He was not released until Richelieu's death in 1643. cfBrunet I 695. cfCioranescu 10275.
$350 USD                          Book Number: elala2381                         Order / Enquire



BELLIÈVRE [Ier, Pompone De] [1529-1607] & SILLERY, [Nicolas BRUSLART, Marquis De] [1544-1624].
Mémoires De.Contenant Un Journal concernant la Négociation de la Paix Traitée à Vervins l'an 1598. entre Henri IV. Roi de France, & de Navarre, Philippes II. Roi d'Espagne, & Charles Emanuel Duc de Savoye.
The Hague: Adrian Moetjens, 1696..
2 Parts in 1. 12mo. pp. 13 p.l., 266, [12]; 1 p.l., 269-586, [7]publisher's ads. titles in red & black with woodcut printer's device. woodcut ornaments & initials. contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt back (rubbed). First Edition. Bellièvre and Sillery were sent by Henri IV as plenipotentiaries to the Congress of Vervins, where they concluded peace with Phillip II of Spain in 1598. The present work contains their correspondence from January to July of 1598, together with a journal relating to the negotiations, written by the secretary of the Cardinal of Florence. Goldsmith, BM STC French B527.
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BENOIST, Felix [b. 1818 (Illus.); COURSON, Aurélien de Et Al. (Text).
La Bretagne Contemporaine Sites Pittoresques, Monuments, Costumes, Scènes De Moeurs, Histoire, Légendes, Traditions Et Usages Des Cinq Départments De Cette Province. Dessins D'Après Nature Par.
Paris: Henri Charpentier, 1867..
3 Volumes only (of 5), bound in 2. containing the parts for Loire-Inférieur, Morbihan, & Finistère; lacking those for Côtes-du-Nord & Ille-et-Vilaine. folio. pp. 3 p.l., lii, 98; 2 p.l., 118; 2 p.l., 125. with half-titles. titles in red & black with large vignettes. 1 coloured lithographed map & 110 fine tinted lithographed plates (architecture, landscapes, customs and social scenes). decorative headpieces & initials. contemporary half roan (rubbed, spine ends chipped, some light to moderate foxing, outer leaves browned). First Edition. NUC lists only 2 holdings of the parts on Loire-Inférieur, Côtes-du-Nord, and Ille-et-Vilaine.
$4356 USD                          Book Number: FCOB; CO32                         Order / Enquire


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