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New York: The artist / Mary Ryan Gallery, 2000. Michael Mazur. Two volumes, complete. Text excerpts in Italian and English, with 41 ORIGINAL LARGE FOLIO ETCHINGS (sheet size: 25 x 19 inches) BY MICHAEL MAZUR. Edition limited to 25 numbered copies of the bound issue (50 unbound sets were also issued), with an additional pencil-signed etching by Mazur laid in. Printed on fine wove paper. Elephant folio. Bound in quarter black Niger morocco by the Harcourt Bindery. FINE AND BRIGHT, WITH NO DEFECTS. ONE OF THE GREAT CONTEMPORARY INTERPRETATIONS OF THE INFERNO.
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L' Inferno di Dante (with 42 etchings by Michael Mazur)
by Dante (Michael Mazur, illustrator)
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LA IMITACIÓ DE JESUCRIST del venerable Tomas de Kempis. Traducció catalana de Miquel Pérez novament publicada per R. Miquel y Planas segons la edició de l'any 1482 (Biblioteca Catalana) (Imitatio Christi)
by Thomas à Kempis (Thomas de Kempis) (Miquel Pérez, translator) (Ramon Miquel y Planas, editor) (Biblioteca Catalana)
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Barcelona: L'Avenç / Biblioteca Catalana / Miquel Rius, 1911. FIRST CRITICAL EDITION of this important Catalan Renaissance text, a translation of the Imitatio Christi by Miquel Pérez. Printed on fine Guarro laid paper. Facsimiles. Large 8vo, publisher's goldstamped cloth. ENTIRELY UNCUT, FINE, AND BRIGHT. LIKE NEW, IN PERFECT CONDITION.
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L'Abencerage, nouvelle historique espagnol écrite par Antonio de Villegas M. D. LXV
by Villegas, Antonio de (Hermann-Paul, illustrator)
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Paris: Aux dépens de la société Les Exemplaires (printed by Léon Pichon), 1927. A beautiful livre d'artiste illustrated with 16 ORIGINAL COLOR WOODCUTS BY HERMANN-PAUL (2 large compositions and 14 lettrines). Edition limited to 109 numbered copies printed on extremely fine Arches wove paper. Initialed in pencil by the printer. Large folio. Loose as issued in original wraps. FINE AND BRIGHT, WITH NO DEFECTS, in the original qurter cloth portfolio (extremities of portfolio lightly faded).
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L'Alphabet des Lettres
by Anet, Claude, Pierre Benoit, Francis Carco, Jean Giraudoux, Edmond Jaloux, Andre Maurois, La Comtesse de Noailles, Pierre Mac Orlan, Octave Uzanne, Leon Werth, et al.
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Paris: A la Cite des Livres, 1925-1927. 26 volumes, complete. First and only edition of this extremely important collection of 26 short novels, each by an author whose last name begins with a different letter, from Claude Anet to Emile Zavie. Edition limited to 440 copies. This is an out-of-series LARGE PAPER COPY, printed throughout on Madagascar and Japan paper. Squarish 12mo. Original pink wraps. Entirely uncut and largely unopened. A fine set, with no defects.
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L'Amoureux passetemps declare en joyeuse poesie, par plusieurs epitres du coq a l'asne et de l'asne au coq avec balades. Dizains, huitain et autres joyeusetez
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Lyon: Benoist Rigaud, 1582 (But Bruxelles: printed by Mertens for Gay, 1867). A scarce book, limited to 126 copies, of which this is one of 120 printed on fine Dutch laid paper. 149 pp; 1 leaf. An ASSOCIATION COPY, with the armorial bookplate of JEAN-BAPTISTE MOENS (1833-1908), A BELGIAN STAMP DEALER CONSIDERED THE FATHER OF PHILATELY (he was the first dealer who sold stamps to collectors). 12mo. Beautifully bound (for Moens, without a doubt) in 19th-century three-quarters morocco and marbled boards. Spine elegantly gilt in six compartments. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. FINE AND BRIGHT. Vicaire II, 595.
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L'Ange du bizarre. Eaux-fortes de Dominique Heraud. (The Angel of the Odd, with original etching/aquatints by Dominique Heraud)
by Poe, Edgar Allan (Charles Baudelaire, translator) (Dominique Heraud, illustrator)
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Paris: A l'Enseigne du Bateau Ivre, 1998. Baudelaire's translation of Poe's surreal, delirious tale, illustrated with THREE ORIGINAL SIGNED LOOSE HORS-TEXTE ETCHINGS (with aquatint) by Dominique Heraud. From a total edition of 50 numbered copies, this is ONE OF ONLY FIVE (5) COPIES WITH A SECOND SUITE OF THE THREE SIGNED ETCHINGS. The etchings in the suite are signed as well. 12mo. Loose as issued in original wraps. Board chemise and slipcase. FINE AND BRIGHT, with no defects.
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L'Arc en ciel des Amours
by Jammes, Francis
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Paris: Bloud & Gay, 1931. First edition of this most unusual literary work. One of ten lettered copies on holland paper. 8vo. Fine, uncut, and unopened in publisher's wraps.
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L'Archipel aux sirènes (The Trembling of a Leaf, first French edition)
by Maugham, W. Somerset (Mme Emile-R. Blanchet, translator)
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Paris: Les Editions de France, 1925. A LARGE PAPER PRESENTATION COPY of the first French edition of Maugham's collection of South Sea Island stories, including "The Fall of Edward Barnard", which features the basic story that would later become "The Razor's Edge". 4, II, 329 pp. From a total large-paper issue comprising 45 copies printed on fine Lafuma wove paper, this is ONE OF ONLY 15 HORS-COMMERCE AD PERSONAM COPIES, this one printed for novelist Jacques Bessaignet. Signed presentation inscription from the translator to Bessaignet on the half-title. 8vo. Publisher's wraps. Uncut. Light wear to wraps, else FINE AND BRIGHT. sxxi
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L'Archipel des Comores. Etudes demographiques (The Comoro Islands)
by Manicacci, Jean
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Tananarive (Antananarivo): Imprimerie Officielle, 1939. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of the first serious scholarly study of the geography, history, ethnography, and demography of the Comoros. The author was the adjunct administrator of the French Colonial Administration. 108 pp. 4to. Bound in patterned cloth, surely from Madagascar or the Comoros. Original wraps bound in. Internally clean. Rare.
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L'Art de Juger de l'Esprit et du Caractère des Hommes sur leur Ecriture. Ouvrage neuf, dans lequel sont représentées, avec une vérité frappante, les écritures autographes d'un grand nombre de personnages célèbres, tels qu' Elisabeth, reine d'Angleterre; Marie Stuart, reine d'Ecosse; Louis XIV
by Edouard Hocquart
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Paris: Saintin, 1810. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST FRENCH BOOK ON GRAPHOLOGY, THE FOUNDATION OF MODERN GRAPHOLOGY. 2, 52 pp. + 25 plates (a hand-colored engraved frontispiece and 24 lithographed plates with a total of 43 writing samples.) The 24 plates of handwriting include samples from Elizabeth I, Mary Stuart, Bossuet, Racine, Frederick the Great, Voltaire, Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin (the first printed facsimile of his handwriting), and many others. These plates are among the first lithographs printed in France, the medium having been discovered a dozen years earlier. Printed on fine laid paper. 12mo. BOUND IN THE PUBLISHER'S PLAIN WRAPS, the "couverture d'attente" it was in the day it left the printing shop. Entirely uncut. Light wear to wraps, else A PRISTINE COPY OF AN EXTREMELY RARE AND IMPORTANT BOOK. Caillet 5197.
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L'Asie divisée en ses principaux Etats, assujettie aux observations Astronomiques par le Sr Janvier géographe (antique map of Asia)
by Janvier and Lattré
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Paris: Lattré, 1780. AN OUTSTANDING LARGE ENGRAVED MAP OF ASIA, with original outline color. 49 x 67 cm (plate), 55.5 x 77 cm (sheet). Printed on fine, thick laid paper. Reverse blank. A fine impression. Not to be confused with a much smaller map with a similar title. A PRISTINE EXAMPLE, with the paper FINE AND BRIGHT. Very scarce in such fine condition.
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L'Aube. (portfolio of 20 signed color etchings by Virgilije Nevjestic)
by Virgilije Nevjestic
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Paris: Virgilije Nevjestic, 1973. Virgilije Nevjestic. A portfolio of 20 LARGE SIGNED AND MATTED COLOR ETCHINGS (with aquatint) BY VIRGILIJE NEVJESTIC, the Croatian surrealist master. Edition limited to 30 numbered sets (most of which have been broken up for the individual prints), all printed on fine Rives wove paper. Each etching is signed, justified, and stamped by the artist. The justification / colophon is also signed, justified, and stamped. A presentation copy, with a signed inscription by the artist on the dedication page. Folio. Loose as issued in wraps, cloth chemise and clamshell box. A PRISTINE SET, AS NEW, EXACTLY AS ISSUED, WITH NO DEFECTS. Nevjestic's masterpiece, and extremely rare.
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L'Aveugle Clairvoyant. Parabole. Eaux-fortes par Elie Grekoff.
by Bruckberger, Raymond-Leopold (Elie Grekoff, illustrator)
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Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1948. A short story, dedicated to Albert Camus, illustrated with 5 full-page hors-texte original etchings by Grekoff. In four of these dark and mysterious etchings, an owl appears. Edition limited to 850 numbered copies beautifully printed on fine wove paper. 4to. Original wraps. Fine, uncut, and unopened in fine board chemise and slipcase.
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LES HISTORIES TROYANES. Traduides al catala en el XIVen segle per en Jacme Conesa y ara per primera volta publicades per R. Miquel y Planas (Biblioteca Catalana)
by Guiu de Columpnes (Guido delle Colonne) (Jacme Conesa, translator) (Ramon Miquel y Planas, editor) (Biblioteca Catalana)
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Barcelona: L'Avenç / Biblioteca Catalana / Miquel Rius, 1916. FIRST EDITION of this important medieval Catalan text, a translation of Guido delle Colonne's Latin "Historia destructionis Troiae". Printed on fine Guarro laid paper. Facsimiles. Large 8vo, publisher's goldstamped cloth. ENTIRELY UNCUT, FINE, AND BRIGHT. LIKE NEW, IN PERFECT CONDITION.
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L'Ecorche. Roman.
by De Traz, Robert
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Paris: Grasset, 1927. A LARGE-PAPER COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. From a total large-paper issue of 63 copies, this is ONE OF ONLY 20 PRINTED ON FINE ARCHES WOVE PAPER. 8vo. Original wraps. Entirely uncut. Minimal wear to wraps, else FINE AND BRIGHT.
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L'Ecrit du Courbeau (illustrated by Francois Righi)
by Dupont de Nemours (Francois Righi)
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Paris: Sergent-Fulbert & Le Tailleur d'Images, 1999. A charming artist's book which spells out all of the crow's utterances. Illustrated with two woodcut diagrams and AN ORIGINAL ETCHING BY FRANCOIS RIGHI. Edition limited to 60 numbered copies beautifully printed on fine Rives wove paper and signed by Righi on the colophon/justification. IN THIS COPY, EXCEPTIONALLY, THE ETCHING IS ALSO SIGNED BY RIGHI. Oblong format: 13.5 x 25.5 cm. Loose as issued in original wraps, attractively decorated cloth slipcase. FINE AND BRIGHT, WITH NO DEFECTS.
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L'Enfant martyr. Murs contemporaines. (Published as "L'Abandonné") AUTHOR'S ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT
by Dubut de Laforest, Jean-Louis
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1891-1892. THE AUTHOR'S ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF HIS NOVEL "L'ABANDONNÉ", WITH THE TITLE CROSSED OUT AND CHANGED TO "L'ENFANT MARTYR". 285 leaves (570 pp) with writing on rectos only. Easily legible cursive script with numerous corrections. SIGNED BY DUBUT DE LAFOREST. On good wove paper. This novel was first published in 1892 in installments in La Figaro, and later that same year by Dentu. Folio. Bound--surely for the the author--in contemporary quarter calf and pebbled boards, with author and title in gilt on front cover. A little wear to bidning. INTERNALLY FINE AND BRIGHT, WITH NO DEFECTS. Unique. An important literary manuscript, in excellent condition.
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L'Enfer (The Inferno, with original etchings by Edouard Goerg)
by Dante Alighieri (Edouard Goerg, illus.) (Espinasse-Mongenet, trans.)
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Paris: Chez Jean Porson, 1950. Four volumes, complete. ONE OF ONLY 24 "EXEMPLAIRES DE TETE" OF ONE OF THE GREAT ILLUSTRATED INFERNOS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Illustrated with 108 ORIGINAL ETCHINGS BY EDOUARD GOERG, including 36 full-page hors-texte plates. From a total edition of 250 numbered copies, this is one of 24 copies beautifully printed on fine wove paper (specially made for this edition) with two original drawings, two copper plates used for the book, an extra suite of the 108 etchings without text, and 236 proofs of intermediate states (THUS 452 ORIGINAL ETCHINGS IN ALL, ILLUSTRATING THE EVOLUTION OF ALL OF THE ETCHINGS AND THUS OF THE ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF THE PROJECT AS A WHOLE). Folio. Loose as issued in wraps, board chemises and slipcases. FINE AND BRIGHT, A PRISTINE SET, EXACTLY AS ISSUED. Skira 137 (it is a interesting that Skira cites the book, as Skira was issued in 1946 and the book didn't appear until 1950--demonstrating just how much time was required for production.)
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L'Enfer de Joseph Prudhomme. Deux gougnottes. La grisette et l'etudiant. (Jean Dulac, illustrator)
by Prudhomme, Joseph (i.e., Henry (Henri) Monnier) (Jean Dulac, illustrator)
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Paris: A l'Enseigne du Plaisir des Filles, c. 1932. A beautifully-illustrated edition of this erotic classic, with TEN GRAPHICALLY EROTIC ORIGINAL COLORED ETCHINGS BY JEAN DULAC. Of the two editions of this work (with completely different etchings) illustrated by Dulac around 1930, this is the one in large format. From a total edition of 300 numbered copies printed on fine Arches wove paper, this is ONE OF ONLY TEN (10) WITH AN ORIGINAL COLOR DRAWING FOR ONE OF THE ETCHINGS, THE CORRESPONDING COPPER PLATE, A SUITE OF THE ETCHINGS WITH REMARQUES, AND AN IMPRESSION OF THE PLANCHE REFUSEE. Large 8vo. Loose as issued in original wraps. Uncut. FINE AND BRIGHT, WITH NO DEFECTS.
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L'Entre-deux. (with original etchings by Marcel Jacno)
by Helft, Claudine (Marcel Jacno)
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Paris /Nimes: Editions Saint-Germain-des-Pres, 1975. First edition of this collection of poems by Helft, ILLUSTRATED WITH TWO ORIGINAL ETCHINGS BY MARCEL JACNO, EACH SIGNED IN PENCIL AND NUMBERED 27/60. Edition limited to 60 copies printed on fine wove paper. 4to. Loose as issued in original wraps, board chemise and slipcase. Bright and fine.
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