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

1883. Mantes: Imprimerie du Petit Mantais, 1883. 8vo, vii, 596, (4) pp. Large paper copy. Engraved plate, folding map, and several in-text illustrations. Quarter blue morocco, marbled paper covered boards, marbled endpapers, backstrip with raised bands, titled in gilt. Backstrip faded, scattered foxing particularly of first and final leaves, very..... More

1825. Paris: Chez les Marchands de Nouveautés, [c. 1825 or earlier]. 64mo, (3 x 2 ins, 7 x 5 cms). With an engraved frontispiece and facing engraved title-page, [2] letterpress title verso blank, [3]-254pp. text. Original pink wrappers, printed label, worn, gently restored and enclosed in a box. § A...... More

1775. [Paris]: 1775; 1780; 1776. 8vo, 3 vols. in 1: 63; 59; x, 202 pp. Each with title page; La Pucelle de Paris with the half title and the engraved frontispiece by Claude-Louis Desrais. Green boards richly gilt leather backstrip with red label and five raised bands, edges stained red..... 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..... 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

1855. Paris: Garnier Frères, 1855. 4to, 598 pp. Original quarter blue morocco with matching blue buckram boards. Backstrip richly gilt, front board neatly reattached and hinge strengthened. All edges gilt. Two pages show faint blue marks, very minor foxing. § A later edition of La Fontaine’s fables. With engravings for..... More

1888. Paris: Hachette et Cie, 1888. 4to, ix, 168, (4) pp. with 10 plates. Publisher’s deluxe binding of full maroon morocco, covers stamped with large gilt plaque, with colored arms at corners, spine similarly decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Binding fine, gilt bright, with colors just a...... 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