Quintus Curtius Rufus (dit) QUINTE-CURCE

De rebus gestis Alexandri magni regis Macedonum, libri decem

Apud Ioanem Frellonium, Lugduni (Lyon) 1555, in-12 (8x12,5cm), (28) 325pp. (23) (33), relié.

Editions of Curtius on Alexander's life were numerous in the sixteenth century. We were unable to determine if it was a first for John Frellon, although not identified any've earliest edition in this editor (especially in the catalog of Lyon Aurelianensis sixteenth editions) present only in the [...]

600 €

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Etienne Bonnot de CONDILLAC

Essai sur l'origine des connoissances humaines

Chez Pierre Mortier, à Amsterdam [Paris] 1746, in-8 (9,5x17cm), xxx, 265pp. ; (4) 292pp., 2 tomes reliés en un volume.

First Edition.
Full Sheepskin vintage blonde. Back tooled raised. Tail wheels. Part of title in red morocco. A small loss in mind. 3 corners bumped with loss of leather. Light to work on the right margin of the first leaf becomes a simple hole to the whole work. Pretty good copy.
The first [...]

1 200 €

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Alexandre HURE

Le volontaire, épisode de la guerre du Tonkin

Lib. Jouaust, Paris 1886, 17x20,5cm, broché.

First edition, one of 50 copies numbered on Japan, ours is not justified, the only leading copies. Our copy is full of etching by Leopold Flameng here duplicate state like all copies on large paper. Rare and nice copy with all margins.

150 €

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Samuel GRANDCHAMP

La guerre d'Italie, ou memoires du Comte D ***. Contenant quantité de choses particulières qui se ...

Chez Pierre Marteau, Cologne 1707, in-12 (9x16cm), 535pp., relié.

New edition, after the original 1702 published by the same publisher. Illustrated four folding maps, one of Italy with its various kingdoms and republics. Full contemporary calf. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. A slight lack in mind. Slot in the upper joint tail. A torn map of [...]

550 €

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Marcel AYME

Le chemin des écoliers

Gallimard, Paris 1946, 12x19cm, broché.

First Edition, one of 105 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, leading copies 19 with Holland paper. Two pale and very slight traces of sunshine in the middle of the back and head of the first flat, fine copy. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the [...]

380 €

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MONTRESOR

Memoires de Monsieur de Montresor

Chez Jean Sambix, Cologne 1663, pet. in-12 (7,5x12,5cm), (2) 437pp. (2) et (4) 385pp. (6), 2 volumes reliés.

First complete edition of these memoirs were published lequelles partially redacted the previous year. The second volume, very rare and is almost never found together in the first volume of memoirs was published in 1665. Volume I bears no indication of volume number on the title page, volume II, [...]

700 €

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Abel HUREAU DE VILLENEUVE & COLLECTIF

L'Aéronaute. Bulletin mensuel illustré de la navigation aérienne. N°1 de la 11ème année au ...

Aux bureaux et à la rédaction de la revue l'Aéronaute, Paris Janvier 1878 - Décembre 1879, 15,5x23,5cm, 24 fascicules reliés en 1 volume.

First Edition. Bound in half navy shagreen, back with five nerves set with golden threads and double blind fillets, small traces of minor friction on the back, golden date (bookbinder, perhaps love, falsely indicated the years 1876 to 1877 then it is many years 1878-1879 contained in this volume), [...]

700 €

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Abel HUREAU DE VILLENEUVE & COLLECTIF

L'Aéronaute. Bulletin mensuel illustré de la navigation aérienne: Tête de collection : du N°1 ...

Aux bureaux et à la rédaction de la revue l'Aéronaute, Paris Avril 1868 - Décembre 1875, 15,5x23,5cm, 117 fascicules reliés en 4 volumes.

Head rare collection of first edition of this revue.bindings half marine shagreen, back with five nerves set with golden threads and double blind fillets, small traces of some minor friction back, marbled paper boards, some small traces scratches on portions guards and contreplats of handmade [...]

2 500 €

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