First edition

BOISSIER DE SAUVAGES

Mémoires sur l'éducation des vers a soie. [Ensemble] De la culture des muriers. [Ensemble] ...

Chez Gaude, à Nimes 1763, in- 8 (11,5x19cm), xvj, 148pp; (1) et 192p. (1) 128p. 38p., 3 parties reliées en 2 volumes.

Edition sought rare. Full Sheepskin brown time. Back tooled raised. Part of title and volume number in brown morocco. Head cover of Volume II threadbare. A task on a board. 6 corners bumped. Right corner of the cover page of Volume II torn and missing. The first page of the catalog is absent. Good [...]

600 €

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First edition

Jules VERNE

Seconde patrie

Hetzel, Paris 1900, Grd. in 8 (18,5x28cm), 471pp., relié.

First Edition illustrated. This title will know only second edition in 1905 (cartonnage an elephant). Sixty-eight illustrations by Georges Roux in black and white and 12 chromotypography off-text, and two maps. Cardboard editor golden globe, or said, in the world map. Plate signed Blancheland [...]

750 €

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MARMONTEL

Chefs-d'oeuvre dramatiques, ou recueil des meilleures pieces du théâtre françois, tragique, ...

De l'imprimerie de Grangé, à Paris 1773, grand in-4 (22x29cm), xij, lxxij, 107p. vij, 118p. xvj, 132p. (3), relié.

First edition, beautifully illustrated and finely 3 figures, 15 header, and 10 tail-lamp, all by Eisen and engraved by de Launay young Helman, Masquelier, Born and Ponce. Printing on large paper.
Full mottled calf contemporary. Back tooled raised, wheels and tail head. Part of title in red [...]

800 €

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Joseph CANTEL

De romana republica sive de re militari & civili romanorum

Apud Guilielmum Van de Water, Ultrajecti (Utrecht) 1707, in-12 (9x15,5cm), (14) 392pp., relié.

New edition, which follows the first edition of 1684; there were three editions before this last one but it contains an illustration boards have been borrowed from other works, including that of Justus Lipsius. Illustrated as a frontispiece by Mulder after Hoet, 1 folding map and 12 figures [...]

650 €

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Louis MAIMBOURG

Histoire du calvinisme

Chez Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, à Paris 1682, in-4 (19x26,5cm), (24) 513pp. (16), relié.

First edition, illustrated with a beautiful title frontispiece by Sevin, engraved by S. Gautrel, a title banner by Pollain engraved by Le Pautre, 7 initials and 6 big and beautiful cul-de-lamp, as well as 6 bands storied head of chapters Pollain. Brand of printer in the title page. Rather neat [...]

550 €

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Mathurin REGNIER

Oeuvres

Ménard & Desenne, Paris 1823, 8,5x14cm, relié.

New edition illustrated with a portrait of the author as a frontispiece. Bound in full calf iced caramel, flat spine decorated with chains, nets and golden punches in golden heads and tails strips, casters on golden headdresses, a small hole without gravity up a bit, framed by a golden thread and a [...]

80 €

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MASCARON & BOURDALOUE

Oraisons funèbres

Ménard & Desenne, Paris 1818, 8,5x14cm, relié.

New edition. Bound in full calf iced caramel, flat spine decorated with chains, nets and punches golden, golden heads and tails in strips, rolls on golden headdresses, framing a golden net and lace Cold boards, edged gilt cups, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, marbled edges, bindings of [...]

80 €

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MASSILLON

Petit carême

L. Tenré, Paris 1820, 8,5x14cm, relié.

New edition. Bound in full calf iced caramel, flat spine decorated with chains, nets and golden punches in golden heads and tails strips, casters gold on the caps, frames a gold net and lace Cold boards, edgings gilded on the cuts, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, marbled edges, bindings [...]

80 €

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