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HUART, Louis. ~ Physiologie du Flâneur… vignettes de MM. Alophe, Daumier et Maurisset. Paris: [Béthune et Plon for] Aubert et c[ompagn]ie and Lavigne, 1841.

First edition of our favourite titles in the entire Physiologie catalogue, in which the author anatomises the cult of the Parisian flâneur with the help of the iconic wood engraved vignettes of Alophe, Daumier and Maurisset.  more...

£250

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MAURIN, [Nicolas-Eustache]. ~ Le Travestissement. El Disfraz. Die Verkleidung. Paris, A. Bes et F. Dubreuil, [ 1847].

Cross-dressing was not uncommon in nineteenth-century Paris, with prominent women such as George Sand and painter Rosa Bonheur regularly adopting male clothing.  more...

£750

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(JUVENILE). [S.T. ‘Monette’]. ~ Raton. Histoire d’un petit rat à mon frère Boby. [France, n.d., c. 1910].

A lovely original tale of the adventures of a mischievous young rat and his family, written by a young woman, ‘Monette’, for her little brother ‘Boby’ in her leisure hours at the beginning of the twentieth century.  more...

£250

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MOËT, Jean-Pierre. ~ Code de Cythère, ou Lit de justice d’amour. ‘À Erotopolis, chez le Dieu Harpocrates, à l’enseigne de la nuit. L’an du Monde 7746’, [Paris, 1746].

First edition of Code de Cythère, a utopian system for the regulation of prostitution in Paris, proposing a system of highly organized houses in which female sex workers would be gathered and cared for.  more...

£750

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HOLLAR, Wenceslaus. Robert SAYER, publisher. ~ Theatru[m] mulierum sive Varietas atq[ue] differentia habituum foeminei sexus diversorum Europae nationum hodierno tempore vulgo in usu… Londini Ao 1643. London: Robert Sayer, [n.d., c 1795].

Hollar’s small format plates of European women and their costume are dated from 1642-4 and followed his successful series Ornatus muliebris Anglicanus of 1640.  more...

£1600

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CODE POISSARD, ~ ou, Instruction comique et divertissante, pour s’amuser pendant le carnaval; contenant des dialogues burlesques et amusans entre les enfans de la joie; suivi du testament de Mr. l’Enflammé mort d’amour pour Mlle. Aux Yeux Doux. Paris: au Dépôt des Annas, [Delaguette. c. 1810-5].

First edition, a carnival chapbook with burlesque dialogues.  more...

£350

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ALBUM DES ARTS ~ utiles et amusants qui peuvent être cultivés par les Dames, les Jeunes Personnes et les Jeunes Gens. Recueil destiné à répandre les procédés nouveaux qui concernant le dessin, la peinture sur papier, bois, étoffés et porcelaines; le laque, les vases et meubles chinois, ainsi que toutes les préparations qui s’y rattachent; les fleurs artificielles en papier, batiste, soie, laine, pains à cacheter, ou coquillages; les ouvrages en carton, apier, paille, crins, cheveux; ceux à l’aiguille, de différens genres, tels que broderie, filet, tapisserie, objets en perles; et, enfin, tous les petits ouvrages qui se font dans les pensions, à la campagne, et dans les réunions familières, soit du main, soit du salon. Par une réunion d’artistes et d’amateurs. Publication faite dans l’intérêt des pauvres. Paris: [Manceron in Bourges for], Dentu, 1832-[c. 1835].

An exceptionally rare illustrated magazine of popular arts for women and young people.  more...

£2500

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POISSON DE LA CHABEAUSSIÈRE, Ange-Étienne-Xavier. ~ Catéchisme français, ou Principes de philosophie, de morale et de politique républicaine, a l’usage des écoles primaires. Paris: Du Pont, An VI, [ 1797].

A rare Revolutionary-era educational catechism for elementary school pupils, designed to inculcate a semi-religious sense of revolutionary values.  more...

£475

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(GAME). ~ Pope Joan. [British, early to mid nineteenth century].

Pope Joan was a card game popular in both the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the name a corruption of the French Nain jaune, the original form of the game.  more...

£600

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[FORTIN, Daniel-René]. ~ Armée du Rhin. Campagnes d’Allemagne sous le Général Moreau, simples notes d’un conscrit cavalier au 13e Régiment, 1re Compagnie, 2e Division du Centre. An 7-An 10. [cover title]. [ 1899].

A rare lithographic curiosity — a complete facsimile of a soldier’s pocket notebook kept during the Rhine campaigns of the French Revolutionary wars (1798-1800).  more...

£600

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NAPIER, Theodore. ~ The Royal House of Stuart. A Plea for its Restoration being an Appeal to loyal Scotsmen. [Edinburgh: Lorimer and Gillies] for [the author] in Edinburgh: ‘Balmanno’ and London: R. Stewart Meade, 1898.

First edition, dedication copy, inscribed by the author to ‘The Queen’, that is, the Jacobite claimant of the British Crown, Maria Theresa of Austria-Este (1849-1919).  more...

£600

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JACOB, Edward. ~ The history of the town and port of Faversham, in the county of Kent. By Edward Jacob, Esq. F.S.A. Illustrated with copper plates. London: for the author, by J. March; and sold by B. White, In Fleet-Street; L. Hawes, and Co. In Pater-Noster-Row; S. Patterson, In Essex-Street; and by S. Doorne, in Faversham, 1774.

First edition.  more...

£500

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BLAIR, Hugh. [André Samuel Michel] CANTWELL, translator. ~ Leçons de rhétorique et de belles lettres. Paris: [Pougin for] Gide, 1797.

First edition in French of Blair’s influential Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres.  more...

£300

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PITOU, Louis-Ange. ~ L’Urne des Stuarts et des Bourbons, ou, le Fond de ma conscience sur les causes et les effets des vingt-un Janvier, des XVIe., XVIIIe. et XIXe. siècles, chez les deux peuples, précédé d’une notice historique sur les grands événemens des 21 juin, 10 août et 2 septembre 1792… Paris: chez L.A. Pitou, Libraire de S.A.R. Madame la duchesse d’Orléans, 31 August, 1815.

First edition.  more...

£300

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[LOCRÉ, Jean-Guillaume] ~ Les grandes et incomparables Aventures de Milord Ptit, de Herr Rodomont-Mic-Mak, de quelques autres preux chevaliers de leurs dames, de leurs écuyers, ensemble des rois pour lesquels ils se sont battus ou fait battre. Histoire admirable traduite de l’anglais et du napolitain. Paris: Desenne et Debray, An VII, [ 1798].

Sole edition of a substantial political satire on the calamity of the Revolution, a roman-a-clef with Pitt and the Austrian General Mack as major protagonists, masquerading as a novel translated from the English and ‘Naplotain’ (presumably ‘Napoleonic’ rather than Neapolitan).  more...

£600

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‘POSTERITAS’ [unidentified pseudonym]. ~ Le Siège de Londres… traduit de l’anglais. Paris: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, [? 1885].

A very rare translation of the pseudonymous Siege of London (1885), probably the first edition in French (a condensed French edition also appeared in 1885).  more...

£400

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MILLHOUSE, John. ~ Dialogues anglais et français… troisième edition enrichie d’un Voyage à Londres par H. Hamilton. Milan: ‘a spese dell’autore’, Silvestri, Dumolard, Meiners [and sold by numerous others[, 1851.

A scarce little language tutor, first published some time before 1847, this edition with the account of a journey to London presented as dialogues and other useful examples.  more...

£60

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HERMANS, Jacques. René de PAUW, illustrator. ~ Silhouettes de Boursiers. Dessins originaux de René De Pauw. [?Brussels, c. 1931].

A suite of seventy caricature portraits of prominent Belgian bankers by René de Pauw, a post-expressionist artist who studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts.  more...

£650

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(MARIANI). ROBIDA, Albert and Émilie ROBIDA, illustrator. ~ Le Château de la Grippe… illustré de quarante compositions en noir et en couleurs. Paris: [Mesnil-sur-l’Estrée: Firmin-Didot for] Henri Floury, 1904.

First edition, number 20 of 25 copies on japon of a total edition of 300.  more...

£450

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