1669. Bruxelles: François Foppens, 1669. 12mo, engraved general title (trimmed with slight loss at foot), (8), 412, (8, index)pp. With 147 engravings in the text by Pieter Van der Borcht. Recent full calf, marbled edges, gilt backstrip, black label. A good clean copy though trimmed a little close to the..... More

1837. Cornopolis: Imprimerie de l’Encorné, [i.e. Lille: printed for the author chez Bloquel], [c. 1837?]. 12mo, 3-107, (1)pp. With a folding hand-colored frontispiece. Printed on yellow paper, bound with three “sermons” at the end. Early quarter calf, marbled boards, bookplate of E. Alexander. § Very rare and amusing treatise on..... More

1973. New York: Printed for Members of The Limited Editions Club, 1973. Large 8vo, xvii, 300pp. With a frontispiece and 15 hand-colored plates. text printed in two columns. Original blue cloth, glassine wrapper, slipcase, as new. § Limited to 1,500 copies printed at the Sign of the Stone Book. Amazingly..... More

1931. Luxembourg: Privately Printed, n.d. [but Paris: Guibal? c.1931]. 4to, 214 pp. With 53 color pochoir illustrations. Original printed wrappers, binding cracked and shaken but just holding, wrappers unevenly sunned, internally fine. § Privately published in an unknown edition. Worldcat lists copies only at Yale and the Bibliothèque nationale de..... More

1833. [Paris: Techener, 1833]. Small slim 4to,[32]ff, printed in black letter on vellum, woodcut illustration on t/p. Original full orange morocco, backstrip gilt, black label, modern quarter red morocco box, bookplate of Robert Hoe. A fine copy with some fading to the boards. § Unique; the only copy printed on..... More

1842. Paris: J. Hentzel et Paulin, 1842. Two volumes, 4to, [8], 386, [6]; [4], 390, [6]. Frontispiece, engraved head and tail pieces and vignettes in each volume, and with a total of 201 full page wood-engraved plates after Grandville. Original publisher's full red morocco, stamped in gold on backstrips and..... More

1996. New York: Orchard Books, 1996. 4to., [32] pp., blind-stamped purple boards, pictorial dust-jacket. Very bright, clean copy, unclipped. Inscribed by Halperin, “Especially for Peggy and Kevin. I hope you enjoy Books until ‘chickens grow teeth...’, 1998.” § A cafe keeper in a small French village cannot escape from his..... More

1751. Westphalie: Chez Florent-Q., Tue Pet-en-Guele, au Soufflet, MDCCLI [i. e. Paris, Jean-Baptiste Langlois, 1751]. 12mo, 108 pp. With a full-page engraved frontispiece. Later full calf, gilt edges, a very good copy. § First (only?) edition of this very rare satire on farting, complete with the frontispiece. Not in Brunet..... More

1765. Paris : Chez Des Lauriers, 1765-1775. 6 vols, 8vo, entirely engraved: LXXI, [1], 100; VI, 102; IV, 95, [1]; [6], 134; [4], 103 [i.e. 104]; [4], 115, [1] pp. Old calf quite worn, one label chipped away, internally a very nice large-paper set with huge margins, lovely impressions of..... More

1818. Paris: P. Blanchard, 1818. 12mo, viii, 264 pp. Six copperplate engravings. Contemporary calf, gilt borders, backstrip decoratively stamped in gilt, backstrip label, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, green ribbon marker. Backstrip lightly rubbed, board corners worn, pages with occasional spotting, but overall a sound, unsophisticated copy with the early..... More

1907. [Paris?: after October 7, 1907]. 3 pp., sm. 8vo (4 1/2 x 7 ins.). Written in ink (slightly faded) on paper watermarked "AU PRINTEMPS PARIS NOUVEAU PAPIER FRANCAIS". § A fine, personal letter written by Proust to Marie-Marguerite Catusse (née Bertin), his mother's dearest friend and his own close..... More

1865. London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1865. Square 8vo, xxxiv, 240 pp. Original brown cloth, backstrip lettered & ruled in gilt, covers ruled in blind. Frontispiece & title-page vignette engraved on wood by C. H. Jeens after sketches by Joseph James Jacques Tissot; eight additional wood-engraved plates. Rubbed along..... More