First edition

CAZOTTE

Oeuvres badines et morales de M. *******

Chez Esprit, à Amsterdam 1776, In-8 (12x18,5cm), xij, 205pp. (1) et (2) 206pp. et (4) 475pp., 2 tomes en 3 volumes reliés.

Illustrated edition of 2 frontispieces by Cochin and engraved by Prevost and Choffart.
Binding full brown marbled vintage calf. Smooth back decorated. title labels in green morocco, pieces of tomaison in red morocco. Triple framing net on the boards. Stony slices. Discreet and fine restorations [...]

750 €

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MILLIET DE SAINT ADOLPHE

Diccionario geographico, historico e descriptivo, do Imperio do Brazil

J. P. Aillaud, Pariz 1845, In-8 (12,5x20cm), 566pp. et 794pp., relié.

First edition, translated into Portuguese of the unpublished French manuscript by Gaetano Lopez de Moura. The map of Brazil and the 5 city maps have not been linked in this copy.
Binding half shagreen green fir contemporary. Back with false nerves adorned with 3 fetuses caissonés. Title and [...]

1 200 €

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Guillaume Thomas RAYNAL

Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des Européens dans les deux ...

Chez Jean-Léonard Pellet, Genève 1781, in-8 (12,5x20cm), xvj ; 348pp. (1) et xij, 378pp. (1) et (4) VII (1) 372pp. (1)

Third and last edition, the best and the most complete as to the text, bringing the number of volumes to 10 against 7 published until then. The work published in a luxurious version, in 4 and in this version in-8. The illustration includes a portrait of Raynal by Cochin (with the mention: The [...]

3 300 €

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First edition, Signed book

Georges DUMEZIL

Le Mahabarat et le Bhagavat du colonel de Polier

Gallimard, Paris 1986, 14x20,5cm, broché.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Back slightly cleared.
Signed autograph of Georges Dumézil to Jacques Soustelle: "... these reveries Euro-Asian ..."

120 €

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André POTTIER

La Normandie illustrée. Monuments, sites et costumes de la Seine-Inférieure, de l'Eure, du ...

Charpentier, Nantes 1852, In-Folio (35x47cm), relié.

First edition, copiously illustrated with a map in color, 5 frontispieces, 150 boards with a bistre bottom by F. Benoist, including 22 costumes designed and engraved by Lalaisse.
Publisher's binding in half blue shagreen to flat of percaline.

1 800 €

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First edition

Jean PAULHAN

Nouveaux entretiens sur les faits divers

Gallimard, Paris 1945, 13,5x20cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

Final edition, one of 1050 numbered copies on wove work, only draw.
Cartonnage of the editor bound according to the original model of Mario Prassinos.
Back slightly insolated as generally, otherwise beautiful copy.

60 €

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First edition

ANONYME

Map of Shanghai - Carte dépliante en couleurs

North China Daily News & Herald limited, Shanghaï 1933, 100x74cm, une feuille rempliée.

Map of Shanghai – Folding color map
tNorth China Daily News & Herald limited | Shanghaï 1933 | 100 x 74 cm | one map
Rare original folding colored map of the city of Shanghai printed on heavy paper and including the street names in English, as well as an extensive grid to find [...]

6 000 €

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Pierre Joseph MACQUER

Elemens de chymie theorique

Chez Jean-Thomas Herissant, à Paris 1749, In-12 (10x17cm), xxiv, 336pp. (24), relié.

First edition illustrated with 4 folding boards in fine (instruments and tables of different elements).
Binding full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back with ornate nerves. title label in red morocco. A lack in mind. Very rubbed together. 2 blunt corners.

350 €

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