Skip to content

Search Results: Titles starting with L from Raptis Rare Books

You searched for:
  • Bookseller inventory: Raptis Rare Books (titles starting with L)
  • Bookseller: Raptis Rare Books
Results 1 - 20 of 399
L’Ancienne Alsace a Table.

L’Ancienne Alsace a Table.

by Gerard, Charles

  • Used
  • first
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€889.48
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Paris: Berger-Levrault et Cie, 1877. Scarce second edition of Charles Gerard's authoritative work on the culinary traditions of the former region of Alsace. Octavo, original wrappers as issued, advertisements to the rear panel. In very good condition. Housed in a custom velvet-lined half morocco clamshell box. Gerard's L'Ancienne Alsace a Table is a foremost example of the late nineteenth century French approach to writing about gastronomy. Gastronomy has historically been a primary factor in defining French regional and national identity, and at the turn of the 20th century, accounts of regional recipes, products, manners and customs penned by local dignitaries became a competitive practice. L'Ancienne Alsace a Table includes a study of the archaeology, cuisine, traditions, and 'art of the table' of the former region of Alscace.
Item Price
€889.48
FREE shipping to USA
L’Armee Francaise. Types et Uniformes.
More Photos

L’Armee Francaise. Types et Uniformes.

by Detaille, Eduoard; Text by Jules Richard

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€2,340.75
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Paris: Boussod et Valadon, 1885-89. First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work. Large folios, 3 volumes. Elegantly bound in full red morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt. Limited to 100 sets with the 2 volumes suite of 150 plates on Japanese paper. Édouard Detaille was a French academic painter and military artist noted for his precision and realistic detail. He was regarded as the "semi-official artist of the French army." "Detaille est un des peintres les plus populaires de l'école française du XIXe siècle. Peintre quasi officiel de l'armée française, Detaille s'est fait remarquer à la fois par l'ampleur de ses compositions et par le soin dont il témoigne dans l'exactitude des détails." (Bénézit).
Item Price
€2,340.75
FREE shipping to USA
L’Empire de La Chine Pour Servir a l’Histoire Generale des Voyages. [Eighteenth...

L’Empire de La Chine Pour Servir a l’Histoire Generale des Voyages. [Eighteenth Century Jacques-Nicolas Bellin Map of China].

by Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas

  • Used
  • first
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€702.22
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Paris, 1748. Eighteenth century engraved map of China by renowned French cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. One page with two decorative cartouches. In near fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 22 inches by 17.25 inches. Over the course of a 50-year career, French hydrographer and geographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin produced many maps of particular interest to the Ministere de la Marine. . He also produced a number of sea-atlases of the world, e.g., the Atlas Maritime and the Hydrographie Francaise. These gained fame, distinction and respect all over Europe and were republished throughout the 18th and even in the succeeding century. Bellin set a very high standard of workmanship and accuracy thus gaining for France a leading role in European cartography and geography. Many of his maps were copied by other mapmakers of Europe.
Item Price
€702.22
FREE shipping to USA
L’Enfer de Dante Alighieri. Avec Les Dessins de Gustave Dore. [Dante’s Inferno].

L’Enfer de Dante Alighieri. Avec Les Dessins de Gustave Dore. [Dante’s Inferno].

by Alighieri, Dante

  • Used
  • first
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€8,239.44
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1861. First Hachette edition with French text of Dore's magnificently illustrated edition of Dante's Inferno. Folio, bound in full morocco by Antoine Chatelin with elaborate Grolieresque gilt-decorated morocco onlays to the spine and panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, full gilt-decorated morocco doublures, watered silk endleaves stamped in gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with 75 full-page engravings by Gustave Dore including his striking frontispiece portrait of Dante. French translation by Pier-Angelo Fiorentino, accompanied by the text in Italian. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom clamshell box. An exceptional presentation linking two great artists of the 19th century. Widely considered the most important work of Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature, Dante's Divine Comedy takes as its literal subject the state of the soul after death and presents an image of divine justice meted out as due punishment… Read More
Item Price
€8,239.44
FREE shipping to USA
L’Etat de Siege. [The State of Siege].

L’Etat de Siege. [The State of Siege].

by Camus, Albert

  • Used
  • Signed
  • first
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€2,808.90
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Paris: Gallimard, 1948. First edition, early printing of Camus' fourth play, a political allegory about resistance to the plague of authoritarian rule. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "A Jean de Bosschere assiege sure anso mars insoumais [L'Etat de Siege] are Esperes a plus cordials Albert Camus." The recipient, Jean de Bosschere lived for most of the 20th century between London and France, and illustrated his own works as well as the works of Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire, and the classical works of Aristophanes, Ovid, Strato and Apuleius. He published his own works of poetry, and in 1952 was awarded the Prix de la Mediterranee and in November the Mandat des Poetes. In near fine condition.
Item Price
€2,808.90
FREE shipping to USA
L’Histoire De France Depuis Les Temps Les Recules Jusqu’en 1789 Racontee A Mes...

L’Histoire De France Depuis Les Temps Les Recules Jusqu’en 1789 Racontee A Mes Petits-Enfants Par Ms. Guizot. [The History of France From The Earliest Times To The Year 1789. Related For The Rising Generation by M. Guizot].

by Guizot, M

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€795.86
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1872-1876. First edition of Guizot's history of France, continued by Madame Guizot de Witt from her father's notes. Quarto, 5 volumes bound in three quarter crushed red morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, ribbons bound in, illustrated. In very good condition. A very attractive binding.
Item Price
€795.86
FREE shipping to USA
L’Homme De Buridan [Dangling Man].

L’Homme De Buridan [Dangling Man].

by Bellow, Saul

  • Used
  • Signed
  • first
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€468.15
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Paris: Libraire Plon, 1954. First French edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Saul Bellow on the title page. In near fine condition. Saul Bellow is the only author to have received three National Book Awards, for The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, and Mr. Sammler’s Planet, in addition to both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. The Sunday Times praised these achievements when it revered "Bellow’s oeuvre [as] both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary."
Item Price
€468.15
FREE shipping to USA
L’Homme Revolte. [The Rebel].

L’Homme Revolte. [The Rebel].

by Camus, Albert

  • Used
  • Signed
  • first
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€5,149.65
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Paris: Gallimard, 1951. First edition, review copy (marked "S.P." on title-page and lower wrappers) of one of Camus' most notable works. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "A Yvon Belaval en souvenir des Portiques d'Alger, amicalement Albert Camus." The recipient, French philosopher and literary scholar Yvon Belaval, was a specialist in 18th century French philosopher Denis Diderot and edited an important edition of Diderot's works with fellow philosopher Jean Grenier, one of Camus' most influential mentors to whom he dedicated the present volume. Camus became a student of Grenier's in Algiers and was strongly influenced by his work Les Iles, published in 1933. He dedicated his first book to Grenier: L'envers et l'endroit, published in Algeria by Edmond Charlot. L'homme revolte was also dedicated to Grenier, and Camus provided the preface to the second edition of Les Iles in 1959. In near fine condition. A unique association copy.… Read More
Item Price
€5,149.65
FREE shipping to USA
L’Hotel du Nord.

L’Hotel du Nord.

by Dabit, Eugene

  • Used
  • Signed
  • first
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€2,340.75
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Paris: Robert Denoel, 1929. First edition of the author's immensely popular novel. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco by Valmard with gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers and additional patterned silk endleaves, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by Valmard, with two illustrations signed by Dabit mounted to the front and rear pastedown. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to Bernard Steele. Hors commerce copy, from a total edition of 250 numbered copies. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase. Rare. A loose collection of sentimental tales about simple people residing in a hotel, L'Hotel du Nord won the du Prix du roman populiste and was filmed in 1938 by Marcel Carne. "The words sound like they came out of a conjurer's hat. It is the same in all languages. I can't say it or hear it anymore. Besides, it no longer belongs to me. It belongs to the public, and I know that in the mouths of many strangers, it is a pledge… Read More
Item Price
€2,340.75
FREE shipping to USA
L’Imagination. [The Imaginary].

L’Imagination. [The Imaginary].

by Sartre, Jean-Paul

  • Used
  • Signed
  • first
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€7,022.25
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Paris: Librairie Felix Alcan, 1936. First edition of Sartre's first book, published as volume 10 of the Nouvelle Encyclopedie Philosophique and commissioned by the editor, Henri Delacroix. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "A Brice Parain en tout amitie! JP Sartre." The recipient, Brice Parain was a fellow French philosopher and friend of Sartre's, mainly interested in Communism, Surrealism, and Existentialism, the failures of which he anticipated in part in some of his earlier works, such as Essai sur la misere humaine (1934) and Retour a la France (1936). Parain was one of the chief collaborators in the beginnings of Editions Gallimard (since 1927), as well as a close friend of the Gallimard brothers, particularly Gaston. He was the principal director of the Encyclopedie de la Pleiade collection, and translated various Russian classic works published through Gallimard, including works by Lev Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, and Aleksandr Pushkin.… Read More
Item Price
€7,022.25
FREE shipping to USA
L’Ingenu: Histoire Veritable Tiree Des Manuscrits Du Pere Quesnel 1767.

L’Ingenu: Histoire Veritable Tiree Des Manuscrits Du Pere Quesnel 1767.

by Voltaire. [Arouet, Francois-Marie]

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€117.04
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Paris: Librairie d'Amateurs, n.d. The Libraire d'Amateurs edition of Voltaire's satirical novella. Quarto, bound in three quarter crushed morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, ribbon bound in, top edge gilt, with 46 monochrome plates by Umberto Brunelleschi. In fine condition. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase. One of the most influential thinkers of the French Enlightenment, Francois-Marie Arouet, know by the nom de plum Voltaire, was a resourceful and prolific writer. His works touched nearly every literary form including plays, poems, novels, theoretical essays, and scientific treatises. A forthright and candid advocate of civil liberties, he frequently criticized the institutions of religious dogma and classism prevalent in 18th century France, often doing so through satire to avoid censorship and imprisonment.
Item Price
€117.04
FREE shipping to USA
L’Unite D’Habitation de Marseille.
More Photos

L’Unite D’Habitation de Marseille.

by Le Corbusier [Charles Edouard Jeanneret]

  • Used
  • Signed
  • first
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€5,149.65
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Souillac: Le Point, 1950. The Unité d'Habitation (Housing Unit) is the name of a modernist residential housing design principle developed by Le Corbusier. The concept formed the basis of several housing developments designed by him throughout Europe with this name.The first and certainly most famous of these buildings is located in Marseille, France, and was built in the late 1940’s. The Unité in Marseille is pending designation as a World Heritage site by UNESCO and was designated a historic monument by the French Ministry of Culture.
Item Price
€5,149.65
FREE shipping to USA
La Bibliotheque de Pierre Berge, Quatrieme Vente14 Decembre 2018.

La Bibliotheque de Pierre Berge, Quatrieme Vente14 Decembre 2018.

by Berge, Pierre

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€117.04
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Sotheby's, 2018. First edition of this landmark auction of Pierre Berge. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. In fine condition.
Item Price
€117.04
FREE shipping to USA
La Chine avec La Coree et les Parties de la Tartarie. [Jacques-Nicolas Bellin Eighteenth Century...

La Chine avec La Coree et les Parties de la Tartarie. [Jacques-Nicolas Bellin Eighteenth Century Map of China with Korea and Parts of Tartary].

by Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas [China]

  • Used
  • first
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€468.15
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Paris, c. 1750. Rare eighteenth century hand-colored map of China and Korea by French cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 19.75 inches by 17.5 inches. Over the course of a 50-year career, French hydrographer and geographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin produced many maps of particular interest to the Ministere de la Marine. . He also produced a number of sea-atlases of the world, e.g., the Atlas Maritime and the Hydrographie Francaise. These gained fame, distinction and respect all over Europe and were republished throughout the 18th and even in the succeeding century. Bellin set a very high standard of workmanship and accuracy thus gaining for France a leading role in European cartography and geography. Many of his maps were copied by other mapmakers of Europe.
Item Price
€468.15
FREE shipping to USA
La Cuisine du Marche: en hommage a Alfred Guerot.

La Cuisine du Marche: en hommage a Alfred Guerot.

by Bocuse, Paul [Jean Vergnes]

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
  • first
Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€2,340.75
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Paris: Flammarion, 1976. First edition of Bocuse's classic work on French cuisine. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Association copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half title page, "A Mon Ami Jean Vergnes ambassadeur de las cuisine Francoise aux U.S.A. Paul Bocuse N.Y. 1977." The recipient, Jean Vergnes, was a classically trained and highly acclaimed French chef, best-known as the co-founder of the famed Manhattan eatery Le Cirque, which opened in 1974. Vergnes had a major influence on American restaurant culture for more than four decades. He began his career working as a chef at various top restaurants in Paris during World War II, with a brief stop in Bermuda before moving to the United States in 1950. Classically trained in the French tradition, he was soon working in the kitchen of the Waldorf-Astoria, then as the youngest executive chef of the legendary Colony Restaurant, and finally as co-founder of Le Cirque, one of the most dazzling culinary jewels of New… Read More
Item Price
€2,340.75
FREE shipping to USA
La Desesperanza.

La Desesperanza.

by Donoso, Jose

  • Used
  • Signed
  • first
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€70.22
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Seix Barral, Biblioteca Breve, 1986. First edition. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed and dated in 1988 by Jose Donoso on the front free endpaper. In very good condition.
Item Price
€70.22
FREE shipping to USA
La Femme A Paris: Nos Contemporaines.

La Femme A Paris: Nos Contemporaines.

by Uzanne, Octave

  • Used
  • first
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€1,404.45
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Paris: Ancienne Maison Quantin, 1894. First edition of this lavishly illustrated work on Parisian women. Quarto, bound in full morocco, original wrappers bound in, illustrated with 20 hand-colored engraved plates by Masse after Vidal, engraved illustrations throughout, original wrappers bound in. In near fine condition. In the original embroidered dust jacket. Housed in a custom folding clamshell case. 19th-century French bibliophile, writer, publisher, and journalist Octave Uzanne produced a considerable literary output and frequent publications in newspapers such as L'Echo, Le Plume, Depeche de Toulouse, Le Mercure de France, Le Gaulois and Le Figaro of Paris. Her Highness Woman), Feminies and La Francaise du siecle (The Frenchwoman of the Century). His own works include novels and fantasy books, such as Surprises du Coeur and Contes pour les bibliophiles (Tales for bibliophiles).
Item Price
€1,404.45
FREE shipping to USA
La Flor Mas Grande Del Mundo.

La Flor Mas Grande Del Mundo.

by Saramago, Jose

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
  • first
Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€468.15
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Madrid: Alfaguara, 2001. First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's only children's book. Thin quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Signed and dated by Jose Saramago. In fine condition.
Item Price
€468.15
FREE shipping to USA
La Floride, Suirvant les Nouvelles Observations de Messrs de l’Academie Royale des...

La Floride, Suirvant les Nouvelles Observations de Messrs de l’Academie Royale des Sciences, etc. [17th Century Map of Florida and America].

by van der Aa, Pieter

  • Used
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€702.22
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Leiden: Pieter van der Aa, [1713]. Rare 17th century hand-colored engraved map of Florida and 17th century America by Dutch cartographer Pieter van der Aa. One page, the engraved hand-colored map features Florida, part of Mexico, the Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland and Illinois, Native American territories of Conchaques, Apalachicoli, and Apalache, Villages of the Chaktas Indians, and the Bahamas. Embellished cartouche. In near fine condition. Matted and framed. A very nice example. Dutch cartographer Pieter van der Aa was best known for preparing maps and atlases, though he also printed pirated editions of foreign bestsellers and illustrated volumes. He also printed many maps that were often out of print, which he reissued. Some of his most popular maps were of the African continent, detailing locations such as Morocco and Madagascar. Many of his later works were printed for the general public in French and Dutch.
Item Price
€702.22
FREE shipping to USA
La Gastronomie ou L’Homme Des Champs A Table. Poeme Didactique En IV Chants.

La Gastronomie ou L’Homme Des Champs A Table. Poeme Didactique En IV Chants.

by Berchoux, J

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€93.63
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Paris: Chez Giguet et Michaud, 1805. Finely bound example of Berchoux's epic gastronomical poem. 12mo, bound in one quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Engraved frontispiece and other engravings throughout. In near fine condition. Tasteful bookplate to the front free endpaper. A charming example. Gastronomy has historically been a primary factor in defining French regional and national identity, and at the turn of the 20th century, accounts of regional recipes, products, manners and customs penned by local dignitaries became a competitive practice. Berchoux's La Gastronomie is a masterful and elaborate work of prose, offering a clear and detailed insight into the customs of the early 19th century Parisian table.
Item Price
€93.63
FREE shipping to USA
Add to Want List

Didn’t find what you’re looking for?

Try adding this search to your want list. Millions of books are added to our site everyday and when we find one that matches your search, we’ll send you an email. Best of all, it’s free.

Add to Want List
Book lovers can save on books by joining our Bibliophiles club

Are you a frequent reader or book collector?

Join the Bibliophile's Club and save 10% on every purchase, every day — up to $20 savings per order!

Biblio is a socially responsible company

Social Responsibility

Did you know that since 2004, Biblio has used its profits to build 16 public libraries in rural villages of South America?