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Journal Des Jeunes Personnes Tome VIII, 1840

Paris, France, Au Bureau de Journal rue Cassette, 1840. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being currently only one additional copy available on-line. Volume VIII / Tome VIII of the Journal Des Jeunes Personnes, which ran in France from 1832-1868. Octavo in format in original wraps, now protected by Mylar coat, some foxing to and soiling to text-block, but not much, and with hand-tinted illustrations. Hand-tinted frontis, dated Janvier, 1840, showing two women in Robe de Mousseline Laine Garnie d'un Volant Festonne - Mantille et gants de fillet - Robe de tulle avec applications de velour garni de biasis - coiffure en fleurs de velours. Another hand colored plate dated Mai 1840 showing two young women in Robe en taffetas. Tablier de taffetas ecossais borde de velours - Robe de popeloner de cachemire, Capotte en peu de soie. Music notation. Eight folding plates on yellow paper showing embroidery patterns in black-and-white. Four black-and-white plates. As of this writing, only a handful of libraries worldwide have this title, and none have this Tome VIII, 1840. Black label to spine, with still sharp and distinct gilt lettering. 384 pp., with a full Table des Matiers.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 345240

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Arnoux, Francois

Merveilles de L'Autre Monde, Contenant Les Horribles Tourmens de L'Enfer; Les Admirables Ioyes Du Paradis; Auec le Moyen D'Euiter L'Un, & Acquerir L'Autre

Paris, Rouen, Chez Jean Boulley, dans la Court du Palais, Aux Approbation des Docteurs, 1617. . Hardcover. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Penned by Francois Arnoux, Chanoine en l'Eglise Cathedrale de Riez, a cathedral associated for several centuries with the cathedral at Notre Dame. The title page contains three separate works, "Divise en trois Livres," Le tout recueilly des Ecritures Sainctes et Docteurs de l'Eglise. Published in 1617 by Rouen at the house of Jean Boulley, from the Court du Palais, with the approval of the doctors there, as it notes above en Francois. Three volumes in one, each with its own title page, though each with its own and different printer's device thereon, though all three published by Rouen, Chez Jean Boulley. The title page for the second volume reads Du Paradis Et De Ses Merveilles . . . , while the third volume reads Practique Spirituell Enseignant Le Moyen se Garder d'Offenser Dieu, pour euiter l'Enfer & Acquerir le Paradis. Paginated in quite complicated fashion, being [24], 155 pp., [1], 179] pp., [1], [4], 136 pp., [2]. Each of the three title pages feature a different quote from the Bible, including both Old and New Testament. The book is bound quite strikingly in full leather, perhaps from the 19th century (?), and with four raised bands on spine. Title in gilt on a red background. No copies of this edition appear in O.C.L.C., the earliest Rouen imprint being two years later, in 1619, but the earliest edition overall being a Lyon imprint, from 1614. From the personal library of Gershon Legman, and the front free endpaper reads "G. Legman 1960.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 345219

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Barreme, Francois Bertrand de

Compte-Faits Ou Tarif General Des Monnoies, Avec Lequel on Peut Faire Toutes Sortes de Comptes Des Monnoies, Tant Anciennes Que Nouvelles, & Autres Comptes de Multiplication Par Entier & Fraction, Quelque Difficiles Qu'Ils Soient, Pourvu Sache L'Addition, Nouvelle Edition, Augmentee Des Epoques de L'Etablissement Des Dixiemes, Cinquantieme, Vingtiemes, & Deux Sols Pour Livre D'Iceux: Leur Commencement Suppression & Duree, Leurs Retenues, Regles Pour Les Faire & Tarif D'Icelles

Amsterdam, Aux depens de la Compagnie, 1774. . Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A handsome tome rebound wholly in leather by master binder, Patrick Bruno, scarcely available to the trade, there being only two copies available currently, but none of this 1774 edition, presumably the second edition, the first having been published three years prior. Internally quite fine of appearance. Comprised of Barreme's "Tables," which were extremely useful in French commerce and taxation, in currency exchange and speculation. Prior to the title page, quite unusually, is a marvelous full-page engraving of a "counting house" with men behind a table exchange money with a woman and two men. Off to a corner a youngster has just entered with a hamper-like panier on his back, full of coins. The text below reads: "Se Vend 50 sols de Paris Chez Jean Geoffrey Nyon dans la place du College des quatre Nations." Before this bookseller's frontispiece is a page of instructions on how to use these tables by M. Barreme.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 345234

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Bastien, Jean-Francois

L'Art de Rendres Les Femmes Fidelles; Ouvrage Imprime a Paris En 1717, Remis Au Jour & Commente Avec Des Anecdotes Tant Anciennes Que Modernes. Premiere Partie Et Seconde Partie

Paris, Chez Jean-Francois Bastien, Libraire, 1779. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. From the personal library of Gershon Legman, the noted bibliophile and erotophile. Pastepaper over leather boards. Bookplate on front pastedown which reads: Ex Libris a Garriques D.M. Binding sound, moderate wear to covers, short closed tear to an endpaper, else clean and unmarked, a bit waffly of text-block, but signs of neither . Scarcely available to the trade. A scarce little book that appears to be about "training" wives according to what is taken to be their character: the prude, the coquette, the Madonna, etc.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 345315

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Condessa de Beauharnais

Les Noeuds Enchantes, Ou la Bisarrerie Des Destinees

Bruges, Belgium, Gustave Davois, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. A lovely little tome published by Chez Gustave Davois, in Paris, 1914, attributed by the writer Paul Lecroix (who also went by the name of Pierre Dufour) to Condessa de Beauharnais. Binding is beautiful, featuring full old-style Morocco, very lightly discolored, very light scuffing along edges, spine decorated with ornate florets and threads, gilt title and head, frames with vegetal and floral motif on the covers, lace bordering the marbled guards, bookmark. Previous owner's name at second free endpaper, marbled endpapers. Gilt edges all around. Silk linen ribbon still intact. This is a reprint of this 18th century title, more of a critical satyr than an erotic mystic. First free endpaper has a miniscule "Canare," meaning to denote perhaps the famous binder.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 345304

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Philomneste Junior [Pierre Gustave Brunet]

Maranzakiniana. Nouvelle Edition Conforme a L'Original, Precedee D'Une Notice Par Philomneste Junior

Paris, Librairie Des Bibliophiles, 1875. Nouvelle Edition. Softcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Very scarcely available to the trade. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Nouvelle edition conforme a l'original. Precedee D'une Notice par Philomneste Junior (Pierre Gustave Brunet 1807-1896). 90 pp., and including a page of errata. Original stiff printed wrappers. 44-page introduction by the famous bibliographer Brunet. This constitutes "Sayings of Maranzak," an officer de Chasse in the service of the Duchesse de Bourbon Conde. Collected at her insistence and published by the Abbe Grecourt, printed in Paris by Des Presses de D. Jouaust, Imprimiteur brevete, Rue Saint-Honore, 338. From the personal library of Gershon Legman. This is Copy No. 22 of 150 ever printed.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 345299

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Christ, M.

Dictionnaire Des Monogrammes, Chiffres, Lettres Initiales, Logogryphes, Rebus, &C. Sous Lesquels Les Plus Celebres Peintres, Graveurs & Dessinateurs Ont Dessine Leurs Noms.

Paris, Chez Guillyn, Libraire, Quai des Augustins, pres du Pont S. Michel, au Lys d'Or, 1762. . Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. This is a perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, a helpful guide to the marks and names and logos of leading French makers of pottery, silverware, and the like. It is clean internally except for a margin stain affecting 20 pages but that doesn't affect text or illustrations. Surely a rebind from some point in the past but still strong and sturdy. Coverings to perhaps original boards are sympathetic to period (1762) and feature four fleurs-de-lis to both front and rear and miniscule dentelles surrounding ruled borders, too. Backstrip is moderately worn and scuffed but features five raised bands, and a neatly affixed leather label into which has been gilt-stamped the title, and with publication date to spine bottom. Octavo in format, lv + 414 pp. Illustrated and printed paper wrappers. Half a dozen black-and-white folding plates and many more black-and-white illustrations. All three edges stained red. Still a moderatly sturdy volume that looks great on the shelf, and with a remarkably clean interior.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 345604

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de Crebillon, M.

Le Sopha Conte Moral (Oeuvres de M. De Crebillon le Fils)

Bruxelles, Belgium, Librairie Universelle de J. Rozez, 1869. . Hardcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. A marvelously handsome little tome, a contribution to the complete works of M. de Crebillon. An apparent First Edition thus, bound in brown marbled paper over boards, a creamy brown leather to tips and spine, with five raised bands thereto, gilt titling and ruling between them. Beautifully marbled endpapers, marbled page edges all around, and but for some light toning to and foxing of the endpapers, a remarkably bright interior. French language text. A Wikipedia entry about him notes that Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (February 13, 1707 – April 12, 1777), called "Crébillon fils" (to distinguish him from his father), "was a French novelist," "son of a famous tragedian, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon," and who composed plays, poems and novels for the remainder of an illustrious career. 358 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 345484

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Dati, Giulio; Domenico Moreri, ed.

Disfida Di Caccia Tra I Piacevoli E Piattelli Descritta [Author's Name] Nã© Mai Fin Qui Comparsa in Luce

Firenzi, Italy, Il Magheri, 1824. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Skinny octavo format hardcover tome, bound in rubbed brown paper over boards, brown leather-backed spine, with five bands stamped in gilt, as is the title, to spine, authored by Giulio Dati (1596-1621), and edited by Domenico Moreri (1763-1835), text in Italian, published in Firenze by Il. Magheri. Bookplate inside front flap of Anatole de Montaiglon, with his famous motto, "De Jour En Jour En Apprenant Mourant." His initials (ADM) are stamped prettily to spine head. P. 134 is errata and corrigenda. Wide margins, exquisite paper, deep black inking of the text. Waffled text-block takes nothing away from this copy, truly a job to behold in one's hands. Anatole de Montaiglon was a famous bibliophile, librarian and a Professor of Bibliography! In 1899 his library was auctioned off in New York. According to a Wikipedia entry about him, "In 1850, De Montaignon graduated as an archivist and palaeographer from the École des chartes, with a thesis entitled Essai de dictionnaire des anciens peintres français pendant le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance." The printed bibliography of his work runs to 700 pages! He specialized in the poetry of the 15th century in France. He was a member of the Comité des travaux historiques, president of the "Société de l'histoire de l'art français", and a member of the Société des Antiquaires de France. lxxvi + 134 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 345288

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Gratelard, Baron de and Gustave Brunet

Les Recontres Fantaisies Et Coq-a-L'Asnes Facecieux Du Baron Gratelard, Tenant Sa Classe Ordinaire Au Du Pont Neuf; Ses Gaillardises Admirables, Ses Conceptions Inouies Et Ses Farces Jovialles

Paris, France, De l'Imprimerie de Jullien Trostole [i.e. A. Sommaville], 1866. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Original yellow wraps to this reprint of the original, 1622 or 1623 edition, mildly worn and soiled, protected now in a stiff Mylar coat, some cracking to and loss of yellow wraps, but still, a very sturdy item. "Baron de Gratelard" was apparently the pseudonym given to the charlatan, Desidirio Descombes or his mountebank, according to the previous owner, Gershon Legman, the noted bibliographer and erotophile. This is No. 69 of 150 copies printed. A Wikipedia entry devoted to Orvietan, an alleged antidote to poisonings, notes that "Baron de Gratelard," the pseudonym of Desidirio Descombes, was one of the many Italians who in the 17th century began to prescribe and sell quack medicines, along with Jean Vitrario and Cristoforo Contugi. Johann SchrÃ
¶ der's entry in Pharmacopeia Medico-Chymica in 1655 gave it some credence.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 345306

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Dumas, Alexandre, Paul de Musset, and Edouard Ourliac

Le Nouveau Magasin Des Enfants

London, Edition Hetzel Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A precious collection of three French language children's stories and ruminations upon children's literature, and illustrated with an extreme number of lovely black-and-white engravings. Published in First Edition state in Paris in 1860 by Edition Hetzel Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with scuffed but unbruised tips and edges, bumping to spine head and spine, but sturdy and tank-like. Decorated paper over boards, black pebbly cloth over boards, and neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Over 300 illustrations across the 370 pp. The volume, being the second in the series, is comprised of Alexandre Dumas's "La Bouille de la Comtesse Berte," then Gerard Seguin's "Monsieur le Vent et Madame la Pluie," and "Le Prince Coqueluche," by Edouard Ourliac.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 345132

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Crebillon le Fils, M. de

Le Sopha. Conte Moral

Bruxelles, Librairie universelle de J. Rozez, 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. French language text. No. 76 of 100 copies printed on fine papier de Holland. Tall octavo in format, 358 pp. Full leather bindings, gilt fillet borders, gilt dentelles, marbeled endpapers, four raised bands, gilt lettering on spine. Binding has the initials CP. Both contents and binding are fine and lovely. The previous owner of the tome, Mr. Richard L. Press of Richard L. Press Fine Art Books, has written a note, as follows: "This is the large paper copy of this celebrated work in an initialed binding. The regular edition is much smaller in format." "For Le Sopha (1742) he was exiled from Paris for three months. In this work Amanzei relates various scandalous encounters he witnessed from a previous incarnation, his soul inhabited a sofa . . . Crebillon Fils used to be dismissed as a minor licentious author . . . he now attracts a more appreciative critical attention. His style, always chaste as to vocabulary, is complex and relies on implication and sousentendus. The works themselves are often morally ambivalent. While he ridicules promiscuous women and rakes, the scenes of libertinage are written with an engaging zeal" (from the Oxford Companion to French Literature).Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 345287

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Editee par Les Freres Gebeode (Gustave Brunet and Octave Delepierre)

Bibliotheque Bibliophilo-Facetieuse

, , 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Les Freres Gebeode is the pen name for Gustave Brunet (1807-1891) and Octave Delepierre (1801-1879). This is a stated First Edition copy in short hardcover format, bound in burgundy (sunned to brown at spine and along edges) cloth over boards, blind-stamped decorations to edges of both boards, three ink-splotches to front board, bruising to four tips, else a sturdy, still tightly bound copy and with a clean, unmarked interior but for extensive bibliographic information written inside front flap and the writer's name at first free endpaper, the bibliographer and folklorist Gershon Legman (1959). Published as "Le Premier Acte Du Synode Des Tribades, Lemanes, Unelmanes, Propetides a La Ruine Des Biens, Vie Et Honneur De Calianteh MDCVIII. Avant-Propos signed Polupragme [Giullaume Reboul 1560-1611]. "Tribades," curiously, a.k.a. "women who rub their genitals together," is written in the title. A bibliographic note by the previous owner says that subsequent cataloging has left it out, while other leaves it in. This is Volume 1 of a three-volume set, published between 1852 and 1856, each volume having its own title, that is, is a stand-along volume. Published in London, apparently, but without noting publisher. 60 copies of this volume were published, for M.G. Garcia, alors libraire a Brighton, but by whom is not stated. xii + 116 pp. From the library of Gershon Legman and with his extensive bibliographic notes in purple ink and pencil mainly dealing with the copies available in the L'Enfer [Bibliotheque Nationale de France]Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 345302

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Gouffe, Armand

Le Panier Aux Ordures Suivi de Quelque Chansons, Ejusdem Farine

Canton, W. Field et Tching-Kong, Librairie Brahmique et Bouddhique, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Hubba-hubba. The fictitious place of publication, "Canton" (actuallement, Bruxelles), and the fine black-and-white engraving of a young mademoiselle showing a would-be suitor (or customer, or penitent, a Catholic priest) her privates, helps to explain why this was in the private library of Gershon Legman, the noted bibliographer, folklorist, and erotophile. The laid in note (see below) suggests extraordinary association and provenance, connecting a premier, Sacramento-based fine arts books bookseller, Richard L. Press, to a giant of bibliography, Gershon Legman. Handsomely bound in three-quarter leather, marble paper over boards. Some light wear to spine head and foot, edges, tips, else a lovely little tome. Silk linen ribbon bookmark sewn in, still attached. Decorated endpapers front and rear. This is a scarce volume of erotic poetry. Legman's note between second and third free endpapers reads as follows: "[Bruxelles: Gay & Douce 1875] Enfer 29; BM. PC. 1769. 1st ed. as : Le Panier aux ordures, par Armand Gouffe et autres. [Paris - London: John Camden Hotten, for Lord Houghton, 1865.]. 36 f., lg 8vo. Hand-drawn facsimile by H.J. Bellars, erotic drawings by Ulm. No copy.* 2nd ed. (first typographical): [title as here,] [Libreville, a a la Society pour la propagation des livres de l'Enfer' [Bruxelles: Jules Gay], 1866. vi, 154 p. smal 8vo. (106 copies.) BM.PC. 31 g. 4; Coll. G.L. 1957 G. Legman." The asterisk from above reads, at bottom of page, "except that of Pierre Louys, coll. Bottin, Nice, in 1962]." Laid in also is a folded piece of typescript from Legman noting "SOLD to RP02/2016" (that is, Richard Press, from his widow) and then the explanation of the woodcut engraving at title page, "probably by Gilbert," "showing a priest kneeling before a woman holding up her skirts before a kitchen fireplace to show her cunt.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Other. . Near Fine

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Book number: 345295

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Hippokrates (Hippocrate)

Des Airs, Des Eaux, Des Lieux. Version Littã©Rale Du Grec, Rã©Digã©E D'Aprã¨S le Texte Vulgaire; Par (Victor Amã©Dã©E) Magnan.

Paris, Impremerie de Veuve Herissant, 1787. . Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. An exceptionally handsome little tome, having been rebound by the master binder, Patrick Bruno but who retained the original spine in his fine work, and with two rows of fillets inside both flaps and a marvelous new floral-patterned endpaper. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being currently only a single additional copy available. xx + 95 + [1] pp. Victor Amédée Magnan was 'Medecin ordinaire du Roi, servant par quartier'. French language text. All edges gilt. The author was extremely well reputed, being Correspondant de la Society Royale des Sciences de Montpellier, du College et de l'Academie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de marseille; Correspondant de la Society Royale de Medecine. Published in Paris by De l'Impremerie de Veuve. Language: French.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 345235

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