Lodovico DOLCE

Dialogo nel quale si ragion del modo di accrescere, & conservar la memoria

apresso Giambattista Sessa & fratelli, In Venetia (Venise) 1586, in-12 (15,3x10cm), 11ff., relié.

New edition after the original from 1562. Rare. Brunet II, 789. Edition italics illustrated twenty figures in and out of curious objects including text combining letters. A copy in the library of Manchester, we have found nothing in France and Germany. Vellum full time, smooth back and as long [...]

1 500 €

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Jean HELLOT

L'art de la teinture des laines, et des étoffes de laine, en grand et petit teint. Avec une ...

Chez la veuve Pissot et Jean Thomas Herissant, Paris 1750, fort in 12 (17x10,5cm), xix (5) 631 pp., relié.

First Edition. Full brown calf iced contemporary. Back to nerves tooled, red morocco title. A dull corner. Tail cap and lower edge redone, also headbands. A snag with slight lack in the room title. Scuffs on the boards. This is the first such treaty on how to dye wool and most important work of the [...]

900 €

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Gerard BLAES & Thomas SYDENHAM

Observationes medicae rariores in quibus multa ad anatomiam et medicinam spectantia deteguntur. ...

apud Henricum & Johanem Boom, Henricum Westenium, Amstelodami (Amsterdam) 1700, 1694, in 12 (16x9,5cm), (4) 69pp. (8) 96pp., relié.

Rare second edition of Blaes illustrated 12 boards. Rare edition of Thomas Sydenham, found in European libraries. We do not know if this is the first. Title pages in red and black. Absent Brunet. Calf full time, back with nerves tooled, red morocco title. Friction. This book by Gerard Blaes [...]

1 500 €

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Jean Charles Thibault de LAVAUX

Vie de Frederic II, roi de Prusse

Chez J.G. Treutel, AStrasbourg 1787, in 12 (18x10,5cm), 5 f. n. ch. (VIII) 362 pp , 464 pp. , 400 pp. , 410 pp., quatre

First edition. An additional volume will be added in 1788 works of Frederick II. Half brown calf ca 1820 smooth thread back. The first volume covers the contemporary 1712 to 1756, the second from 1756 to 1763, the third deals with the "administration for peace", and the last volume deals with [...]

450 €

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R.P. SARRABAT

Dissertation sur la cause de la salure des eaux de la mer

Chez la veuve & P. Brun fils, Bordeaux 1728, in-12 (15,4x9cm), (4) 50 ,pp., broché.

First Edition. Paperback, covered with a brown paper twentieth. Scientific spirit of the Society of Jesus, Sarrabat won the gold medal of the Academy of Sciences in 1728 for his work on the origin of the salinity of the sea, which he attributed mainly to water flowing into the sea . --- Please note [...]

400 €

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Pierre DRIEU LA ROCHELLE

Genève ou Moscou

Nrf, Paris 1928, 17x22cm, broché.

First edition, one of 109 numbered copies on Lafuma Navarre and in Tellière quarto format, tirage de tête.
A very good copy despite tiny foxings in the margins.

600 €

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Pierre BOITEL (Sieur de GOUBERTIN)

Le tableau des merveilles du monde

Chez Toussaint du Bray, à Paris 1617, in-8 (16x11cm), (12) (1bc) 627pp. -20., relié.

First Edition. Rather rare. A copy of the BNF, one at Tours. Cioranescu only reports Historical Chronicles Boitel. Full Parchment Contemporary flaps. Back mute. Historian, poet and polemicist of the first half of the seventeenth, we know that very little of the character, he wrote theater of [...]

750 €

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CHAMPFLEURY

Les excentriques

Michel Lévy frères, Paris 1852, 12x18,5cm, relié.

First Edition. Binding to bradel half carton to moiré, part of title in red half shagreen, binding post. Complete copy of the dedication to Honoré Daumier. Foxing. Rare. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are inaccurate. Contact us [...]

180 €

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