Description

Set of 8 uncommon books on Paris published between 1882 and 1902, identically bound with their covers.

Jean de Merlin
Debauchery in Paris
Paris, Antony, 1900.
ORIGINAL EDITION of this unusual "sThis is a series of realistic studies that will show readers Parisian vice as it really is. The author has neither exaggerated nor concealed anything.". Montmartre, Petites Fleuristes, Les Hirondelles, Le Bal des Vaches, Les camelots souteneur, La vie en Maison, le Recrutement des prostituées.... The book closes with specimens of cards distributed to the public by the Tenancières.

Louis Barron
Le Paris étrange - Parisian customs
Paris, Maryon et Flammarion, 1883.
ORIGINAL EDITION of this guide to foreigners in strange Paris, presented as the original idea of a security guard nicknamed Lapince, who takes the author into the underworld of the Maubert district, the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, the Croix Nivert and Batignolles-Clichy.

Georges Grison
Paris Horrible and Paris Original. 
Paris, Dentu, 1882.
ORIGINAL EDITION with publisher's mark on front cover.
"Ah! Paris is not only the bright, dapper, lively and boisterous Paris of the Boulevard des Italiens, the Avenue de l'Opéra and the Champs-ÉLysées; it also contains the desolate, starving, desperate, appalling Paris of the dark, foul and mouldy districts, where thousands of human beings, without fire, without bread, without strength and without hope, vegetate, waiting for the end, in an atmosphere of pestilence and doom.."

Pierre de Delcourt
The Flight to Paris
Paris, Alphonse Piaget, 1888.
ORIGINAL EDITION - with edition statement - published just after Vice in Paris also illustrated with an attractive cover by Georges Auriol.
This Physiology of Theft and Swindling in Paris is the first of its kind, according to the author. Considering that "the thief is divisible but the theft is not"He drew up a zoologically inspired classification, distinguishing between robbery by marksmen, robbery by specialists, robbery of hotels, railway stations and churches, and even gambling robbery.

Charles Virmaître
Forgotten Paris
Paris, Dentu, 1886.
ORIGINAL EDITION illustrated with a beautiful engraved cover.
Virmaître remembers, not without a certain nostalgia, places that have closed, disappeared or been transformed (Le Bal des Gigoteurs, Le Bœuf Furieux, la Tête de Grenouille, La Mère Binoche) and more or less famous characters (L'homme à la Vessie, le Lapon, l'homme Pavé, L'homme à la Poupée...).

Charles Virmaître
Paris Cocu
Paris, Antony, 1902.
ORIGINAL EDITION illustrated with a beautiful two-colour cover signed by Steinlen.
"There are a hundred thousand ways of being cuckolded", "Husbands who take advantage of cuckolding are legion. Lovers who take advantage of their husbands are almost as numerous".

Charles Virmaître
Paris Escarpe
Paris, Savine, 1887.
ORIGINAL EDITION - with edition statement on front cover.
A response to former Sûreté guard Gustave Macé, who had not asked any questions but whose best-selling memoirs on Parisian crime had fairly inflamed Charles Vimaître. The book seeks to give the truth about some crimes and larcenies as well as the actions of the Sûreté Générale.

Albert de Saint-Albin
Sports in Paris
Paris, La librairie moderne, 1889.
ORIGINAL EDITION - thousand stamp on front cover.
The Mysteries of Turf, Horse Racing, Velocipede, Vènerie, Pigeon Shooting, Boxing and Cane, Lawn Tennis...
Attractive cover illustrated in colour by Jean Béraud.

CHARMING IDENTICAL BINDING SET at the beginning of the 20th century in half vellum with two-tone titles.