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DUBOUT. – Le Sage, Alain-René.
Le Diable boiteux.

. Dubout, Albert. Le Diable boiteux.

Illustré de compositions en couleurs de Dubout (69 text illus., 12 plates, hand-colored by Maurice Beuafumé). 203 (1) pp., 3 leaves. Large 4to. Orig. stiff wrappers, in orig. drop-box with gilt lettering on red spine. With exlibris. – Monte-Carlo, Editions du Livre, (1945).

One of 1560 num. copies on „grand vélin filigrané Renage“, plates on B.F.K. Rives. – Box somewhat rubbed. – Best.-Nr. 10363

CHF 160.—
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Le Sage, (Alain-René).
Théâtre de la foire. 4 Bde. (alles).

. Théâtre de la foire. 4 Bde. (alles).

Mit 9 Kupfertafeln nach Mariller u. a. sowie zahlreichen Notenbeispielen. Zus. über 2000 SS. Gr.-8vo. Ldr. im Stil d. Zt. über 5 Bünden mit zwei goldgepr. Rückenschildern, Fuss- und Aussensteg unbeschnitten. – Paris, Leblanc, 1810.

Oeuvres choisies. Bde. XIII–XVI (von 16). Nachdruck der Ausgabe Paris 1783. – Brunet III, 1005. – Stellenweise gering stockfleckig. Gutes Ex. – Best.-Nr. 5926

CHF 260.—
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Le Sage, (Alain-René).
Histoire de Gil Blas de Sanitillane. Vignettes par Jean Gigoux. 1 vol. in 2.

. Histoire de Gil Blas de Sanitillane. Vignettes par Jean Gigoux. 1 vol. in 2.

With wood-engr. frontispiece, engr. portrait of Gil Blas on China, c. 500 vignettes in the text by J. Gigoux, and with an extra suite of 32 engr. illus. on plates by Gavarni (20) and Los Rios (12) . 486 pp.; pp. (487–) 972. 4to. Contemp. full grained olive morocco with triple fillets around boards, spine and boards gilt. Orig. printed wrappers bound-in. Uncut. – Paris, Paulin, 1835 (recte 1836).

Second printing of the beautiful Gil Blas edition illustrated by Gigoud (1806–1894), with all typographic characterstics described by Vicaire. Here one of 100 copies on „vélin superfin“ and with an extra suite of etchings by Gavarni and Los Rios. Orig. wrappers, printed in black, red and blue and dated 1836 bound-in. As well together with the 4 pp. leaflet, announcing the „Gil Blas“ as the first publication in the series of the „Editions Pittoresques des Classiques Français et Etrangers“ and planned as 50 to 55 weekly issues. Provenance: From the library of M. Lottin de Laval with his stamped exlibris on both wrappers and on the title. – Vicaire I, 239; Brivois 256ff.; Sander 440. – Spines somewhat faded. But slight foxing throughout. An extraordinary copy. – Best.-Nr. 22251

CHF 4450.—
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Le Sage, (Alain-René).
Le Diable Boiteux. Nouvelle édition, corrigée, refondue, augmentée d’un volume par l’auteur, et orneée de figures. Avc les entretiens sérieux et comiques des cheminées de MAdrid et les Bequilles dudit diable par B. de S..

. Le Diable Boiteux. Nouvelle édition, corrigée, refondue, augmentée d’un volume par l’auteur, et orneée de figures. Avc les entretiens sérieux et comiques des cheminées de MAdrid et les Bequilles dudit diable par B. de S..

With engr. frontispiece and 12 engr. plates. Title, 4 unn. leaves, 192 pp.; title, 1 leaf, 212 pp. 8vo. Contemp. marbled calf over 5 raised bands. Spine with gilt-lettered red label. – Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1766.

Le Sage’s version of „El diablo cojuelo“ (1641), a picaresque novel by the Spanish author Luiz Velez de Guevara (1579–1644). – Some quires becoming loose but still firm. – Best.-Nr. 25005

CHF 80.—
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Le Sage, (Alain-René).
Le Bachelier de Salamanque ou les mémoires de D. Cherubin de la Ronda, tirés d’un manuscrit espangol. 2 vols.

. Le Bachelier de Salamanque ou les mémoires de D. Cherubin de la Ronda, tirés d’un manuscrit espangol. 2 vols.

Titles printed in red and black. With 6 copper plates. 4 leaves, 378 pp., 3 leaves; title leaf, 380 pp., 2 leaves. Small 8vo. Contemp. full mottled calf, spine gilt. – Paris, Valleyre fils and Gissey (vol. I) and La Haye, Pierre Gosse (vol. II), 1736–1738.

First edition of parts I and II of this picaresque novel by Alain-René Le Sage (1668–1747). The last work by Le Sage who became famous at all for the „Gil Blas“. Part I has been reprinted together with part II in 1738. – Brunet III, 1008; Cohen/de Ricci 635. – With 2 engr. bookplates (1 from the period, 1 from the 20th century) in both volumes. Title leaves somewhat browned. Spine ends chipped, corners rubbed. Good in all. – Best.-Nr. 25184

CHF 950.—
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