France
206 items found
Feynman, R. [Balian, R. and C. H. L. Smith (Eds.)]
Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions at High Energy [Gauge Theories]. Les Houches Session XXIX. 5 Juillet - 14 Août 1976.
Amsterdam, North-Holland [Elsevier Science Publishers], 1977. Thick 8vo (22.4 x 15.2 cm). xxv, 668 pp.; several photos, numerous text figures. Original blue printed cloth.
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Barruel, P. [L. E. A.]
Roitelet à triple bandeau, Regulus ignicapilla. [Original watercolour].
[Unpublished], [ca. 1970]. Single, oblong sheet (17.5 x 24.2 cm). Original watercolour drawing with pencilled caption, and ink signature. Mounted on a larger sheet of greyish-brown paper (25.0 x 32.5 cm).
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Fey, A.
Les peuplements sessiles de l'infralittoral rocheux de l'Archipel de Glénan: Hydraires et bryozoaires.
Paris, Faculté des Sciences de l'Université de Paris, 1967. Folio (27.0 x 20.8 cm). Over 300 pp.; numerous text figures and tables. Blind quarter cloth over stiff, printed wrappers.
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Pfaehler-Erath, I.
Sur quelques Grossouvria et Choffatia du Callovien de Chézery (Jura français).
Genève, Société Paléontologique Suisse, 1938. 4to (31.5 x 23.7 cm). 30 pp.; four fine, phototype plates, nine text figures including a page-sized graph. Later green wrappers with typed title.
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Licent, É.
Vingt deux années d'exploration dans le Nord de la Chine, en Manchourie, en Mongolie et au Bas-Tibet. (1914-1935).
Tientsin [Tianjin], Musée Hoang ho Pai ho, [1936]. Folio (30.9 x 23.0 cm). 42 pp.; numerous illustrations; one very large, double-folded map in two colours showing the itineraries of Licent's expeditions. Original pictorial wrappers.
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Gard, M.
Atlas d'hybrides artificiels de Cistes ( Cistus T.) obtenus par E. Bornet à la Villa Thuret à Antibes. Compenant 41 planches, dont 5 en couleurs horse texte, d'après les photographies de E. Bornet et les aquarelles de Riocreux, précédées de la description de ces hybrides. [With the rare slipcase].
Paris, G. Dion, 1933. Large 4to (36.1 x 25.2 cm). 99 pp.; 41 plates of which five in full colour. Original printed wrappers. In a marbled slipcase (37.0 x 26.6 x 2.6 cm).
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Séguy, E. A.
Prismes. 40 planches de dessins et coloris nouveaux.
Paris, Editions d'Art Charles Moreau, [1931]. Folio portfolio (33.5 x 25.5 cm). [iv] pp. (half-title and title page); 40 very fine full colour pochoir plates. The original publisher's full-colour pictorial portfolio.
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[Wallpaper] Paul Dumas
"P.D.". Échantillons de papier peint - Pochoir wallpaper samples [Flowers and birds].
[Paul Dumas, Paris, ca. 1930]. A fine set of three very large sheets (119 x 73 cm each) with pochoir designs with flowers and birds, for wallpaper or similar ornamental purposes.
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[Wallpaper] Paul Dumas
"P.D.". Échantillons de papier peint - Pochoir wallpaper samples [Chinoiserie].
[Paul Dumas, Paris, ca. 1930]. A fine set of three very large sheets (119 x 73 cm each) with pochoir designs with flowers and birds, for wallpaper or similar ornamental purposes.
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Pasquet, O.
Coléoptères de la Manche.
Cherbourg, Société Nationale des Sciences Naturelles et Mathématiques de Cherbourg, 1929. Large 8vo (24.0 x 15.5 cm). Title page, 332 pp., interleaved; large, folded map of the Cotentin Peninsula (Normandy) region. Dark green pebbled morocco over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental bands, floral vignettes and title. Marbled endpapers. [AND] Six additional items, of which three supplemental to this work.
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Laborde, C. [Chas Laborde]
Scenes of Decadence. [Collection of coloured proof prints, perhaps for Rues et Visages De Paris, but one with a nudist scene from Rues et Visages De Berlin].
[Paris], 1926. Four proof plates (ca. 43.0 x 33.0 cm; printed surfaces ca. 27.0 x 24.0 cm) showing the Parisian and Berlin beau monde at its most decadent.
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Leconte de Lisle, [C. M. R.] and M. [J.] De Becque
Six poèmes barbares. Illustrés de douze eaux-fortes, dont six hors texte, gravées en couleur au repérage par Maurice de Becque.
Paris, Maurice de Becque, 1925. Folio (34.8 x 26.4 cm). Title leaf in red and brown. Seven finely engraved and hand-coloured plates (tissue-guarded), illustrating poems on separate leaves with engraved, hand-coloured headpieces, and colour-printed pictorial endpieces. The text leaves numbered [1]-15. Loose-leaved in printed portfolio with pictorial vignette on the front side.
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Nerval, G. de and Malfredier
Contes et Facéties.
Paris, Éditions Art et Pensée, 1925. Folio (26.7 x 21.4 cm). 103 pp.; Full-colour frontispiece; title page in gilt and black, numerous full-colour pochoir illustrations. (Near) contemporary full green morocco. Spine with gilt title. Boards with a gilt-bordered, raised lattice with inlaid green and red rhombi. Green silk-covered endpapers. Pastedowns with double gilt linings. Original printed wrappers, including the spine cover, bound in. Contained in matching green, pebbled morocco-covered cardboard sleeve (28.0 x 21.5 x 3.4 cm).
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[Women's Liberation] [André Citroën]
Application de la main-d'oeuvre féminine au travail des obus. [AND] Usines André Citroën. Vues photographiques des usines André Citroën de mars a ocobre 1915 [at] 143 quai de javel, Paris.
Paris, Citroën, [1915]-1916. In two volumes. Oblong folio (31.5 x 43.7 cm). 71 original photographs (22.0 x 28.5-35.5 cm) mounted on grey cardboard with printed captions [60; 11]. Uniform full mottled calf. Boards with double gilt-rolled ornamental borders and gilt title.
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Merlet, J. F. L.
Nitokris. Légende de l'ancienne Égypte. [Unique copy enriched with original photos and artwork].
Sèvres, Librairie de l'Edition Libre, 1911. Half-title, justification du tirage, title page. Dedication page (to La Sylphe), 39 pp. (text, numbered [13]-[51]); frontispiece portrait of Merlet, portrait of La Sylphe with facsimile autograph, full page illustration, several text illustrations, nine additional original photos of La Sylphe performing, mounted on blank sheets. Sketches by Max Bugnicourt; letters designed by Georges Auriol; drawings, tailpieces and page headers by Robert Bonfils. Contemporary full morocco. Spine with two raised bands and gilt title; front board with embossed vignette. Embroidered pastdowns and flyleaves. Board versos quadruple gilt lined. Marbled endpapers. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Méheut, M.
Études d'animaux. Tome premier - Tome second. [Complete].
Paris, Albert Lévy, 1911. Two parts in two [and an addition, described below]. Folio (44.0 x 34.0 cm). Title page in red and black, pp. 5-9 (introduction), index leaf; second title page in red and black, half-title; 100 [42; 58] loose, unnumbered plates in original, printed passepartouts. Uniform quarter cloth portfolios (45.0 x 35.0 cm); front boards with large vignette and printed title.
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Houlbert, C. et al.
Faune Entomologique Armoricaine. Publiée par la Station Entomologique de l'Université de Rennes. Tome I-II.
Rennes, Station Entomologique de l'Université de Rennes, 1909-1912. Three parts in three. 8vo (25.0 x 16.5 cm). 624 pp. [viii, 97; 140; 111-311; vi, 172]. 600 text illustrations [146; 149; 150-237; 217]. Near uniform original wrappers.
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