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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First edition

Jean-Baptiste Prosper JOLLOIS & DEVILLIERS

Description de l'Egypte. Antiquités. Description de Thèbes. Deuxième livraison

Imprimerie Impériale, à Paris 1812, In Folio (27x42,5cm), 448pp. (22) (16), Un Vol. broché.

Edition volume containing the second delivery, part antiques, corresponding to Chapter IX. (The first delivery contains Chapters I to VIII appeared in 1809 and third in 1818) Neither the title page nor the general title of the Description of Egypt have not been included in the volume. Good [...]

1 200 €

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First edition

M. ROZIERE

Description de l'Egypte. Mémoire sur les vases Murrhins qu'on apportait jadis en Egypte, et sur ...

Imprimerie Impériale, à Paris 1809, In Folio (27x42,5cm), 80 - 126p., relié.

First Edition, extracted from the first delivery of the Description of Egypt Part: Antiques, Memoirs. Cardboard modern parchment cream. Part of title in black sheepskin and gilt. Very good condition, because the copy is as published, wide-margined, on wove paper. The dissertation is an [...]

450 €

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Simon THOMASSIN

Recueil des statues, groupes, fontaines, termes, vases, et autres magnifiques ornemens du chateau & ...

Au dépens de la Compagnie, à La Haye 1723, in-4 (15,5x20,5cm), 59pp. 218pl., 4 tomes reliés en 1 volume.

New edition in four languages after the one cited on p. 59 mortar in 1659. This is the third edition, the original was published in Paris in 1694, in 8, in French only. The remarkable illustration includes an allegorical frontispiece by Jan van Vianen, a great plan brochure of the city and castle [...]

2 500 €

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First edition

Andrea MAIER

Della imitazione pittorica, della eccellenza delle opere di Tiziano e della vita scritta da Stefano ...

Dalla typografia di Alvisopoli, Venezia 1818, Grd. in 8 (15x23cm), XVI, 380pp., broché.

First edition, addressed to the Earl of Cigognara Venise.Brochure Publication beige. Back a little dirty. Large margins and fine laid paper. Copy well frais.Le first book seeks to theorize the imitation of nature and beautiful ideal; the second part deals with the work of Titian, composition, [...]

300 €

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Hyppolite Léris de la Tude CLAIRON

Mémoires d'Hyppolite Clairon et réflexions sur l'art dramatique, publiés par elle-même

Chez tous les marchands de nouveautés, à Paris An VII (1799), In 16 (8,5x14,5cm), (4) 272pp., relié.

Second edition, published shortly after the original. Full Sheepskin fawn early twentieth. Spine ribbed Jansenist. Part of title in red morocco. Gilt edges. Good copy. Memoirs of the famous actress Hyppolyte the Tude Clarion (1723-1803), who was revered by the greatest (Diderot, Voltaire, Louis XV [...]

200 €

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First edition

Jean Jacques BARTHELEMY

Entretiens sur l'état de la musique grecque, vers le milieu du quatrieme siecle, avant l'ere ...

Chez les frères de Bure, à Amsterdam & Paris 1777, In 8 (13x20cm), 110pp., relié.

First Edition. Full marbled calf contemporary. spine smooth adorned with jewels in boxes. Part of title in red morocco. Good copy. Jean Jacques Barthelemy (1716-1795) was originally a church before being an archaeologist, writer and numismatist. Before publishing the famous Anacharsis trip, he [...]

280 €

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First edition

Hyppolite Léris de la Tude CLAIRON

Mémoires d'Hyppolite Clairon, et réflexions sur l'art dramatique

Chez Buisson, à Paris An VII, In 8 (12,5x20cm), (4) 360pp. (1), relié.

First Edition. Sheepskin full of marbled time. Smooth back adorned with jewels and 5 casters. Two corners lightly bumped. Good copy. Memoirs of the famous actress Hyppolyte the Tude Clarion (1723-1803), who was revered by the greatest (Diderot, Voltaire, Louis XV ...). The actress was not content [...]

250 €

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