Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Cole & Contreras

Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1827-1839. Ten volumes, complete. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this truly monumental bibliography of French books, focusing squarely on 1700 to 1825--a period largely ignored by Brunet. About 6,000 double-columned pages in all (complete with the extra pages printed for volume 8). Printed on good laid paper. 8vo. Quarter calf and decorated boards. Superficial wear to bindings, internally clean. Scarce and very important.

Barcelona: Critica, 1996. First edition of this anti-Semitic treatise written by Francisco de Quevedo, one of the key literary figures of Spain's "siglo de oro". Quevedo wrote this work in 1633, but the manuscript disappeared, and for centuries this work was catalogued among Quevedo's lost works. This is the first edition and is also a critical edition, with an extensive introduction, notes, and a bibliography. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Dustjacket. An attractive and important book.

Aix-les-Bains: printed by Bachet for the author (privately printed), 1862. First and only edition of this spectacularly rare account of Aix-les-Bains: its history, its present, and recommendations concerning how it must adapt to changing times. 59 pp. From a very small edition, this is A SPECIAL LARGE-PAPER COPY, POSSIBLY UNIQUE, PRINTED ON FINE DEEP BLUE WOVE PAPER WITH LARGE MARGINS. This is furthermore a fine association copy with a signed inscription from the author, the Comte de Quinsonas, to the Vicomte de Vaulogé. 4to. Beautifully bound in contemporary half-morocco and marbled boards, original pink printed and illustrated wraps preserved. Top edge gilt. Light wear to extremities of binding, else FINE AND BRIGHT. Extremely rare: the only other copy I have located is in the Bibliothèque Nationale.