First edition

Gabriel Charles de LATTAIGNANT

Chansons et autres poésies posthumes de M. l'Abbé de L'Attaignant

Chez La veuve Duchesne, à Paris 1780, in-12 (9,5x16cm), (4) 380pp., relié.

Edition originale.
Reliure de l'époque en pleine basane blonde marbrée. Dos à cinq nerfs orné de caissons et fleurons dorés, ainsi que d'une pièce de titre de maroquin rouge. Roulette dorée sur les coupes et les coiffes. Toutes tranches rouges.
Mors de queue inférieur fendu sur [...]

200 €

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Pietro & Achille PARBONI

Raccolta di N°60 vedute antiche e moderne della citta di Roma e sue vicinanze : con la giunta ...

Presso Agapito Franzetti, in Roma 1820 S.d., Trois volumes in-12 oblong (15,5x22cm), reliés.

Edition illustrated with 158 figures etchings depicting views of Rome. The engravings are different signatures: Parboni, Franzetti, Olivieri, or not carry any, and sometimes the date of 1824. Drawing on strong vellum.
Binding half calf contemporary hazelnut. Back smooth decorated with long [...]

1 300 €

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John DART

The history and antiquities of the cathedral church of Canterbury, and the once-adjoining monastery

Printed and sold by J. Cole, London 1726, In-Folio (26x41cm), relié.

first edition, rare,
Speckled full calf binding contemporary and mosaic of coaching deveau tan on the boards. Back with nerves decorated fleuros to frois again in the twentieth old with an exhibit in red morocco. Coins remake too. Cold framing frieze on flat and angular jewels cold. --- Please [...]

1 200 €

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First edition

François-Jean BRALLE, François-Jean BRALLE

Nouvelles fontaines érigées à Paris, de l'ordre et par la munificience de Napoléon le Grand

Chez Joubert fils & chez Bance, Paris 1810, 27,5x41,5cm, relié.

Rare first edition consists of an allegorical title engraved with the arms of Napoleon and 59 inset plates engraved on steel by Boizot, Beauvallet, Vallois under drawings of Bralle. All prints are executed with great finesse and have a scale and an aerial view at the bottom of board. The book will [...]

1 000 €

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First edition

Adriaan SCHOONEBEEK , Ludolph SMIDS & Adriaan [...]

Pictura loquens

Ex officina Hadriani Schoonebeek., Amstelodami (Amsterdam) 1695, In-12 (9x16cm), relié.

The rare first edition, with a frontispiece and 61 illustrations.
Brown sheep, spine with decorated raised bands, roulette to head and foot, red morocco title piece. Three corners bumped.
A good and fresh copy.
The work puts together on two pages an extract from a literary work and its [...]

1 500 €

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First edition

Kornelis Van ALKEMADE

De munt der graaven van Holland

Andriez Voorstad, Te Delft gedrukt 1700, pet. in-folio (20x32cm), (24) 192pp. (8), relié.

First edition, illustrated with a handsome frontispiece unsigned (Dutch lion in the middle of a ruined classical portico) and 64 boards with several figures of rooms (up to 10 per board). They are numbered I to XLV, some numbers are a series of several boards. Some figures in texte.Plein vellum [...]

850 €

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BASAN

Dictionnaire des graveurs anciens et modernes

Chez l'auteur & Prault & Cuchet, à Paris 1789, 2 tomes en 2 vol. in-8 (12,5x20cm), relié.

Mentioned second edition, the original being published in 1767. Two frontispieces, one of Cochin, the second of Peter Delin and two header engraved by Choffart. Some copies at the request of the buyer who could command, contained 50 engravings. These copies appear very rare. Half brown marbled [...]

500 €

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Louis Antoine Francois de MARCHANGY

La Gaule poétique, ou l'histoire de France considérée dans ses rapports avec la Poésie, ...

A la librairie d'éducation et de jurisprudence d'Alexis Emery, Paris 1813-1817, 8 vol. in-8 (12,5x20cm), huit volumes reliés.

First Edition; the first two volumes appeared in 1813, the next two in 1815 and the last four in 1817. Sheepskin Half rooted contemporary. Back smooth decorated with parts of title and volume number morocco blond, small florets and gilt. Flat paper glue. Head cap seventh volume slightly hilly. Some [...]

500 €

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