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CENDRARS, BLAISE AND SONIA DELAUNEY.

La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France, Couleurs simultanées de Mme. Delaunay-Terk [caption title].

Playa Vista, California: Two Hands Press, 2018. First Two Hands Press edition, a facsimile - or “recreation” as the press prefers to describe it - of the first edition of 1913, letter "J" of 30 lettered copies hors de commerce; there are also 150 numbered copies, for a total edition.....

Price: $3,500.00

[DIDEROT, DENIS].

Principes de la Philosophie Morale; ou, Essai de M. S. sur le Mérite et la Vertu.

Amsterdam [i.e. Paris]: Chez Zacharie Chatelain, 1745. First edition. Tchemerzine, Bibliographie d'Editions Originales ou Rares d'Auteurs Francais II, 916; and see P.N. Furman, Diderot, A Critical Biography. ¶ The first book by the great French philosopher, writer, and polymath Denis Diderot (1713-1784), a translation of An Inquiry Concerning Virtue (1699).....

Price: $1,750.00

LOCKE, JOHN.

Essai Philosophique Concernant L'Entendement Humain . . . Traduit de l'Anglois de Mr. Locke, par Pierre Coste.

Amsterdam: Chez Henri Schelte, 1700. First French edition. Yolton 91. The first French translation of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and an important edition, translated by Pierre Coste with the assistance of John Locke, who "was very interested in having his Essay available to a wider audience than might be.....

Price: $1,500.00

MAISTRE, XAVIER DE.

Voyage Autour de Ma Chambre Suivi de L'Expédition Nocturne.

Paris: Librairie de Bibliophiles, 1877. Number 15 of 20 numbered copies (of a total of 210 copies), published in Jouaust's Librairie de Bibliophiles. ¶ Xavier de Maistre’s famous novella, first published in 1794, reprinted and translated many times, and it remains in print today. ¶ From the library of San.....

Price: $250.00

NODIER, CHARLES.

Questions de Littérature Légale. Du Plagiat. De La Supposition D'Auteurs, Des Supercheries qui ont Rapport aux Livres.

Paris: Barba, Libraire, 1812. First edition. Freeman, Bibliotheca Fictivia, 1639. ¶ A scarce study of literary forgery by French author, antiquary and bibliophile Charles Nodier (1780-1844), who was also apparently well versed in the subject: "The French C19 saw Charles Nodier, whose Questions de Littérature Légale . . . is.....

Price: $475.00

POUGENS, CHARLES.

Jocko, Anecdote Détachée des Lettres Inédites sur L'Instinct des Animaux.

Paris: P. Persan, 1824. First edition. An interesting work of short fiction by French author and polymath Charles Pougens (1755-1833). A female orangutan on a jungle island encounters a Portuguese man, Fernandez, who gives her the name Jocko. They become friends and engage in numerous activities together, including having meals.....

Price: $725.00

[SAINT-REAL, CESAR VICHARD DE].

Vida del Principe D[o]n Carlos, Espana Escrita por el Abad de S[a]n Real.

[N.p., n.d., circa 1750]. A manuscript copy of a Spanish translation of the famous French novel by César Vichard de Saint-Réal (1639-1692). First published in French in 1672, Don Carlos – a novella about the forbidden passion between Don Carlos, the son of Philip II of Spain, and his father's.....

Price: $1,500.00

VOLTAIRE, FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE.

Letters Concerning the English Nation.

London: Printed for C. Davis and A. Lyon, 1733. First edition. Cf. Bengeso 1558; Sabin 100751 (noting Voltaire's letters on William Penn and the Pennsylvania Quakers). The first appearance of an early and important prose work by Voltaire, a series of epistolary observations comparing British and French society, culture, science.....

Price: $2,500.00