First edition, Signed book

(Alfred de VIGNY) Comte de MARCELLUS

Un dernier mot sur la Vénus de Milo

Bureau de la Revue contemporaine, Paris 1854, 16x25,5cm, relié.

First edition printed in small numbers of this print apart from the Contemporary Review.
Bradel binding in half percaline sand, smooth back with handwritten label containing the name of the author and the title of the book, paper boards in the tank, preserved cover, Contemporary [...]

500 €

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Agricol-Joseph, marquis de FORTIA D'URBAN

Vie de Louis de Berton de Crillon des Balbes, surnommé le brave Crillon suivie de notes ...

A. Dupont & Roret & Firmin Didot père & fils , Paris 1825-1826, 13,5x22cm, 3 volumes brochés.

first edition.
Our copy is presented in its original pinout.
Small gaps on the backs and joints, a pale marginal wetting on the first volume, scattered foxing.

150 €

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Thomas A KEMPIS & Jacob STRATIUS, Christoffel van [...]

Die Alleen-Spraecke Der Zielen met Godt. Door den Eerw. Heere H. Thomas van Kempen, Regulier der ...

by Jan Maes, Loven (Louvain) 1628, in 12 (15,5x10,5cm), (8) 135ff. (5)., broché sous étui.

First illustrated edition of 20 engravings by C. Van Sichem (initials, ornaments, and text in a frame) and printed in Gothic.
Our copy is presented paperback in a contemporary case in half morocco with old rose nerves, golden date in the tail, cardboard vellum boards.
Jacob Stratius [...]

500 €

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Marc Antoine PETIT

Onan, ou le tombeau du Mont Cindre

de l'imprimerie de J. B. Kindelem., à Lyon 1809, in 8 (22x14cm), (4) x, 99pp. (1bc) (3)., broché.

first edition presented in its original pinout with blue and mute covers.
Doctor Petit, chief surgeon of the Lyon hospital, composed this poetry which is intended to be a metaphor for the dangers of onanism. The work begins with an eulogy from Tissot, the author of onanism. The poem, rewarded [...]

250 €

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MALLET DU PAN

Essai historique sur la destruction de la ligue et de la liberté helvétique

de l'imprimerie de Spilsbury, et se trouve chez l'auteur, à Londres 1798, in-8 (13,5x21cm), viij, 296pp., broché.

First edition of a suite of five issues of the English Mercure (published by Du Pan himself), with a preface and additions.
There were in fact 3 editions on the date of 1798.
The work paints a picture of the oppression exercised by the young French republic after the Revolution on the Swiss [...]

180 €

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Pierre-Dominique MARTIN

Description de l'Egypte. Description hydrographique des provinces de Beny-Soueyf et du Fayoum

Imprimerie Impériale, Paris 1809, In Folio (27x44cm), 196 - 228p., relié.

First edition, text extracted from the Description of Egypt, Volume II, Modern State.
Binding in full cardboard modern parchment cream. Piece of black sheepskin title.
The author was one of the members of the scientific commission of Egypt, his mission was to establish a precise survey [...]

250 €

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M. ROZIERE

Description de l'Egypte. De la constitution physique de l'Egypte, et de ses rapports avec les ...

Imprimerie Impériale, à Paris 1809, In Folio (27x42,5cm), 407-462p., relié.

First edition of this memoir, extract from volume II of the third delivery, Natural History section. Nice print on strong rag paper.
Binding in full cardboard parchment modern cream. Piece of black sheepskin title. Uncropped copy, all margins.
The author seeks to establish the link between [...]

300 €

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R. DESGENETTES

Description de l'Egypte. Tables nécrologiques du Kaire, pendant les années VII, VIII, IX [1798, ...

Imprimerie Impériale, Paris 1809, In Folio (27x44cm), 311 - 320p., relié.

First edition, text extracted from the Description of Egypt, volume II, Modern State.
Binding in full modern cardboard packaging parchment with a bradel. Piece of black sheepskin title.
These tables give us precise information on mortality in Egypt (Men, women and children) at the [...]

200 €

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