First edition

SPALLANZANI

Expériences pour servir à l'histoire de la génération des animaux et des plantes. Avec une ...

Chez Barthélémi Chirol, à Genève 1785, in-8 (12,5x20,6cm), (4) XCVI, 413pp., relié.

Original French edition, illustrated with 3 folding plates containing many figures. Full calf blond marbled time. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Two small restorations on the upper flat. Nice copy. Fundamental work on the theory of generation. The conclusions reached above those [...]

950 €

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First edition

Benoît de MAILLET

Telliamed ou entretiens d'un philosophe indien avec un missionnaire françois sur la diminution de ...

Chez L'honoré fils, à Amsterdam 1748, in-8 (11,5x19,5cm), (10) cxix, (7) 208pp. (1) ; 231pp. (1), 2 tomes reliés en un volume.

First Edition. Telliamed is an anagram of Maillet, name of the author. Editing was done by J. Ant. Guers. The book is dedicated to Cyrano de Bergerac. Full sheepskin brown time. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Skillful restorations, almost invisible caps and nerves. Good copy, [...]

1 000 €

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First edition

Charles MAURON & André DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC

Poèmes en prose

Imp. Couloma, Argenteuil 1930, 17,5x21,5cm, broché.

First Edition, one of 180 numbered copies on Arches paper, only draw with Japan 15. Illustrated book of etching by Dunoyer de Segonzac A. frontispiece. Few bites mainly affecting the guards. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are [...]

200 €

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First edition, Signed book

A. de FLEURIAU

L'activité réfléchie

Grasset, Paris 1911, 12,5x19cm, relié sous étui.

First Edition, one of 21 numbered copies on Holland paper paper with only 3 major Japan. Bound in full morocco bordeaux, back with five nerves, initials and golden tail date on casters golden headdresses, gilt on the cuts, framing a scroll decorated with burgundy morocco gilt sextuple the guards, [...]

150 €

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First edition

Robert BRASILLACH & Maurice BARDECHE

Histoire du cinéma

Denoël, Paris 1943, 14,5x23cm, broché.

The definitive edition, first in parts, one of 25 numbered copies on vélin d'Arches paper, the only large paper copies.
Illustrated.
One small insignificant lack to foot of spine, a few small wormholes principally to endpapers, two tiny marginal tears without lack to lower cover, [...]

1 200 €

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François BAUDOUIN [ BALDUINUS]

Francisci Balduini Iuriscons. Commentarij. De legibus XII tabularum. [Ensemble] Ad edicta veterum ...

Per Ioannem Oporinum, Basileae [Bâle] 1557, in-8 (12,5x18,5cm), (1f. tit.) (5f. epis.) (1f.) 252pp. (7f. index) 121pp.

Third edition, the first in-8 in Basel after two folio published in Paris in 1550 and 1554 for the first text. The following two texts are first edition. Text column, 33 lines per column. Absent Brunet.
Full brown calf spotted eighteenth. Back with five nerves decorated with a piece of red [...]

1 600 €

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First edition

Luc DIETRICH

L'apprentissage de la ville

Denoël, Paris 1942, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on pur fil, this one of 10 hors commerce, tirage de tête after 15 Arches.
Two tiny traces of sunning to head and foot of spine (tiny foxings on spine, not serious).

600 €

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First edition

Josias SIMLER & Johan Jakob LEU

Von dem Regiment de lobl. Eydgenossschaft zwey Bücher / In deren Ersterem ein kurtzgefasste ...

David Gessner, Zurich 1722, Pet. in-4 (15x20cm), (16) 717pp. (23), relié.

First edition, rare, this revised edition, annotated and commented Johann Jakob Leu of the major work of Josiah Simler, "De republica helvetiorum" (1576). A large folding map of Switzerland by Michael Kauffer by Christoph Weigel. Frontispiece of Fussli, also often absent, was not attached to this [...]

800 €

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