FRENCH LITERATURE from Luis Porretta Fine Arts

Paris: Firmin Didot Freres. Very Good with no dust jacket. c1860. Hardcover. Bound in brown half calf and marbled boards, edges a little rubbed, boards rubbed, five raised panels with floral decoration, gilt titles, tan title block. ; 7" x 5"; 665 pages .

Paris: Firmin Didot Freres. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in half brown calf with marbled boards, edges rubbed, lacks free end paper, frontis engraving intact, text block good, clean and tight. First Didot edition. ; 7" x 4.5"; 555 pages .

Paris: Didot. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1787. First Edition. Hardcover. Full calf, spine and text block split, edges rubbed, needs a bookbinders hand but well worth the effort. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .

Paris: Pierre Didot. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1799. Hardcover. 2 vol set, full calf, gilt decorated spines, edges lightly rubbed, marbled end papers, a lovely clean tight set. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .

Paris: Librairie Generale Des Sciences. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1911. First Edition. Softcover. White wraps, untrimmed page edges, page edges lightly rubbed, a lovely clean, tight copy. Scarce. ; 8vo; 170 pages .

Paris: Ernest Flammarion, Editeur. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1941. First Edition. Softcover. Buff wraps, a little soiled, edges a little rubbed, uncut and untrimmed pages. Scarce. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 230 pages .

London: M. Elsmely. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1783. First Edition. Hardcover. Full calf, spine replaced, title page from 'Le Seserteur' missing, bookplate ( thomas weld - ludworth castle ) textbloxck very good, clean and tight.; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .

Paris: Mequignon. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1836. Hardcover. Full smooth mottled tree calf, edges a little rubbed, gilt decorated spine, red title block gilt titles, blue marbled end-papers. A lovely clean, tight copy.; 12mo; 532. pages .

Paris: Gallimard. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1946. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Buff heavily decorated paper on stiff boards, edges very lightly rubbed, a lovely clean, tight copy. Limited edition no.633/1040. Scarce. ; 8vo; 88. pages .

Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, Editeur. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Green grained calf, five raised bands with heavy gilt decoration within the panels, edges lightly rubbed, untrimmed, owners signature, a superb French binding. ; 12mo; 253. pages .

Paris: Le Normant Et Henri Nicolle. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1803. Second Edition. Hardcover. Full smooth brown calf, gilt decorated spine, gilt titles on tan block, edges a little rubbed, head frayed, marbled endpapers, bookplate, contents in wonderful condition, hardly opened. Four volumes - 1) Jan/Feb 2) March/April 3) May/June 4) July/August. Scarce. ; 8vo;… Read more about this item

Paris: La Presse Francaise Et Etrangere. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1945. First Edition. Softcover. Buff wraps, edges lightly rubbed and a little sunned, untrimmed, uncut, a lovely clean, tight copy.; 8vo; 238. pages .

Paris: Librairie Hachette. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1878. Hardcover. Green decorated paper on stiff boards, green buckram spine, edges rubbed, gilt titles, convent stamp, a lovely clean, tight copy. ; 12mo; 456. pages .

Paris: P. Didot. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1793. Hardcover. Full speckled tan calf, edges lightly rubbed, black title label, gilt titles, small piece of calf chipped away from head, bookplate ( Folkestone ) black and green marbled endpapers. This is an attractive and quite scarce early edition of Florians work. ; 16mo; 208. pages .… Read more about this item

Riga: Izdevnieciba. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Buff coarse grained linen, gilt titles, edges lightly rubbed, contents very good, clean and tight. Heavily ilustrated with b/white plates. Very scarce printing. ; Small 4to; * .

Paris: Payot. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1951. First Edition. Softcover. Buff decorated wraps, uncut, untrimmed, edges very lightly summed, a lovely clean, tight copy. ; 8vo; 447. pages; * .

Paris: Lectures De Paris. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1947. First Edition. Softcover. Red decorated wrpas, edges lightly rubbed and a little subbed, uncut, untrimmed, a lovely clean, tight cpy. ; 8vo; 189. pages; * .

London: R. Juigne. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1810. Hardcover. Disbound with boards missing, tect block very good clean and tight. A very scarce book well worth a binders hand. ; 12mo; 194. pages .

Paris: Editions Correa. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1938. First Edition. Softcover. Pictorial wraps, a lovely clean, tight hardly opened copy, edges a little rubbed, and slightly sunned, untrimmed, uncut. Scarce political manifesto. ; Small 8vo; 159. pages; * .