First edition

RINALDI

Raccolta di vedute antiche e moderne della citta di Roma

Stefano Piale, Roma 1816, in-4 (20,5x26cm), relié.

First edition, illustrated with an engraved title page and 26 plates containing two figures each, half page, designed and engraved by Rinaldi. Index slips are been connected before the title page.
Demi brown vintage sheepskin; Smooth spine tooled with fillets. Gilt. torn partly on two flat [...]

450 €

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Chansons choisies, avec les airs notés

S.n., Genève [Lyon] 1782, 4 tomes en 4 Vol. in 24 (6,5x12,3cm), (4) xvi ; 220pp. et (2) 236pp. et (4) 240pp. et (4) 239pp., relié.

Lyon edition of this famous songbook.
Scores at the end of each volume. 48 pages of scores in volume 1, 48 in volume 2, 38 in volume 3, 40 in volume 4.
Publisher's bindings, full contemporary red morocco. Spine with motifs in gilt. Red morocco title labels. Gilt tooling on the covers. [...]

950 €

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Nicolas VERRIEN

Recueil d'emblêmes, devises, medailles, et figures hyeroglyphiques [...]

Chez Claude Jombert, à Paris 1724, in-8 (12x20cm), (2) 62p. (62pl.) (4) 16p. (153Pl.) 24p. (2) (17Pl.), 3 parties reliées en un volume.

New Ediiton, abundantly illustrated with 233 plates containing multiple figures, and a portrait of the author as a frontispiece by Edelinck. Three titles recorded. The original was published in 1685, the latter seems to have been increased. Full mottled brown calf. Smooth back decorated. Part of [...]

900 €

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First edition

Johann Joachim WINCKELMANN

Recueil de différentes pièces sur les arts

Barrois l'aîné, Paris 1786, in-8 (14x22cm), broché.

First edition of the French translation. Translated from German by H. Jansen. Our copy is presented in its original pin. A split bit Length, small tears and angular gaps on boards, nice interior condition despite very rare spots. This first work of Winckelmann had a considerable impact in Europe by [...]

250 €

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First edition

Joseph FODOR

Trois duos pour deux violons composés par Mr. J. Fodor

Ches J. J. Hummel, à Berlin & à Amsterdam S.d. ca 1780, In Folio (24,5x34cm), 11pp. ; 11pp., en feuillets.

Partition consists of two notebooks in Folio (violino primo violino and secondly). Two title pages with engraved frame. In sheets. Good copy. Joseph Fodor, violinist and composer, was a pupil of Franz Benda, which was the most important German violinist of the second half of the eighteenth. He made [...]

400 €

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Natale CONTI

Mythologie, c'est-à-dire explication des fables, contenant les généalogies des Dieux, les ...

Chez Paul Frellon, à Lyon 1607, in-4 (19x25cm), Xij, 1066pp. (26) (2bc.), relié.

New edition, after the French first published in 1598. The original Latin date 1551, in Venice. Translation John Montlyard. Illustrated by a beautiful allegorical title frontispiece engraved by Thomas de Leu, and a portrait of Henry IV to twelve.
Bound in full calf antique brown. Back with [...]

1 600 €

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Gisbert CUPER

Harpocrates sive Explicatio imaguncula argentae perantiquae, quae in figuram Har pocratis formata ...

Apud Franciscum Halma, Trajecti ad. Rhenum (Utrecht) 1687, in-4 (16x21cm), (8) 294pp. (14), relié.

Second edition, illustrated with 6 folding plates and 43 vignettes in text; as a frontispiece signed and dated in the plate: Joh. van der Avele invention and fecit. Title page in red and black. This edition is enhanced with a letter of Etienne Le Moyne; this text has a half-title and the second [...]

1 000 €

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First edition

Jean-Baptiste Prosper JOLLOIS & Edme-François JOMARD

Description de l'Egypte. Antiquités. Description générale de Memphis et des pyramides par M. ...

Imprimerie Impériale, à Paris 1818, In Folio (27x42,5cm), 23, 4, 18, 18, 10pp., relié.

First edition of these four papers extracted from Volume II of the 3rd delivery (Part Antiquities) of the Description of Egypt. The memories are rated chapters XVIII, XIX, XXI, XXIII, XXV (it is not surprising that the chapters do not follow the chapters apparently manqunats located in another [...]

850 €

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