Recent arrivals and highlights

A sammelband (1807-26) of exceedingly rare and ephemeral titles honoring: François Joseph Talma (1763-1826): France’s leading dramatic actor of the early 19th cen.:

Didier Mutel's homage to John J. Audubon’s extraordinary Birds of America

One of Mutel's most delicate works, illustrated with abstract anthropomorphic figures reminiscent of the surrealists so admired by Ponge.

R217A reproduces the text of the United Nations Resolution 217A, the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man, made December 10, 1948, which was ratified by the UN General Assembly in Paris by 58 member states.

A perfectly preserved and stunningly original copy: Chateaubriand's Grand Tour

First-hand reports during the French Revolution by one of Paris’s greatest observers, bound in stunning contemporary parchment and paste-paper boards

Written entirely without the use of the letter "A": very rare first issue of the first edition of this celebrated if brief lipogram

A bibliophile's copy: 24 original watercolors and a deluxe binding by Ruban

Publicity leaflet and invitation for the department store Deux Magots, namesake for the celebrated Left Bank café

This atlas comprises 48 plates, representing globe gores intended to form a terrestrial globe.