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HEIBERG, P[eter] A[ndreas]:
Précis Historique et Critique de la Constitution de la MonarchieDanoise [Precise history and critique of the Constitution of the Danish Monarchy].
Paris, Jeunehomme-Crémière, 1820.
Tall Narrow 8vo., 109 pp. with blank end leaves pasted inside covers; half-leather with gilt spine, marbled boards (spine ends chipped, overall very good).

First edition as a rare offprint, as published in the "Journal général de législation et de jurisprudence, 3e Livraison et suivantes", here published with its own title page and printed motto "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Shakespeare." The original print is Heiberg's first draft of his later book "The Introduction of Autocracy in Denmark in the Year 1660", Drammen 1828.

PERRAULT (Char;es), FISCHER (Hans). Le Chat Botté Conte adapté illustré et agrémenté d'indispensables commentaires. Lausanne: André et Pierre Conin [1960-1961]. Illustrations: numerous lithographs (including several full-page and double; many in color) drawn on the stone in 1957 by Hans Fischer. The illustrations were printed by Arts graphiques J.-E. Wolfensberger, Zurich, and the stones erased after printing./ Unbound as issued, loose within letter=backed pictorial boards designed by the artist Han Fischer. Small folio, [40]pp + colophon, copy # 75 of 300 printed (this part of the regular version of 235 copies, then an additional 35 copies on Japan + XXX copies for the editors, all signed. An additional 200 copies in the German language was also printed for Editions Artémis, Zurich. Only this version of these illustrations are printed directly from lithographic stones, posthumously as the artist died in 1958. It is preceded by a trade edition photomechanically printed and published in… Read More

FREUCHEN (Peter):
Eskimo.
New York: Horace Liveright, 1931.
Frontispiece by Rockwell Kent
8vo., 504 pp.; blue cloth, original printed pictorial dust-jacket with design by Rockwell Kent.
First edition.

(MINERVA PRESS) The Atrocities of the Corsican Dæmon; or a glance at Buonaparte. London: Minerva Press for Lane Newman and co., 1803. Engraved portrait frontispiece by S Seare captioned "Do but observe the face of Villainy". 8vo., [i] 63 pp, (advert on verso); early terracotta cloth gilt-titled on spine, top of spine chipped and edges lightly frayed. Nevertheless, a solid copy.First edition. A virulent anti-Bonaparte tract, pure propaganda. The last section of the text is titled "Republican Economy" covering the largesse handed out by Napoleon to his family. Minerva Press was a publishing house, noted for creating a lucrative market in sentimental and Gothic fiction in the late 18th century and early 19th century. In a somewhat childish hand the blank endleaf is inscribed "John Horwood was born September the fourth One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety", identifying its first reader.