First edition

Claude-François MENESTRIER

Des decorations funebres. Ou il est amplement traité des tentures, des lumières, des mausolées, ...

Chez J.B. de La Caille, à Paris 1683, In-8 (12x19cm), (4) 38pp. ; 367pp., relié.

First edition, rare, and illustrated with many in-text woods including 11 vignettes, a large figure (p.179), 4 shields and 14 tiny portraits.

Copy to the arms of the nineteenth Baron Pavée de Vendeuvre, with its motto: Ardeo persevero spero.
Binding full brown sheepskin [...]

500 €

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Pierre BERTUS & MONTANDRE

L'image d'un bon roy qui ayme ses sujets, et qui se fait aymer d'eux par ses vertus royales ...

S.n., s.l. 1652, In-4 (17x23,2cm), 4, 270pp. (6) ; 64pp. ; 210pp., relié.

Edition originale du premier texte. Edition en partie originale du second ouvrage, mazarinade formée de trois parties distinctes : La tutelle des rois mineurs (p.1-64) ; Le roy mineur ou panégyrique sur la personne et l'éducation de Louis XIV ; la dernière partie du volume ne contient pas de [...]

400 €

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Jacques LENFANT

Histoire de la guerre des Hussites et du concile de Basle

Chez Pierre Humbert, à Amsterdam 1731, in-4 (19,5x24,7cm), (4) xvij (1) 355pp. et (4) 406pp. (17), 2 volumes reliés.

First edition illustrated with 22 title vignettes and 10 portraits engraved by Fillieul and Scottin, and published by his widow Emilie Lenfant. The Dissertation of M. de Beausobre on the Adamites of Bohemia follows the work of Lenfant (258-370p.). 2 title thumbnails. Biography of the author in the [...]

600 €

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First edition

Claude DU MOLINET

Figures des differents habits des chanoines reguliers en ce siecle

Chez Simeon Piget, à Paris 1666, Pet. in-4 (17x23cm), (6) 144pp. (3), relié.

First edition, illustrated with an engraved title and 31 pretty full-page figures included in the pagination, as well as 2 headers, 2 initials and a cul-de-lamp, all engraved by The Doyen.
Binding full morocco blue night ca 1860 signed bottom of the Belz-Niedrée contreplat. Back to Jansenist [...]

800 €

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Gotthardo VISCHL

Disquisitiones in universam philosophiam Aristotelico-Thomisticam

Typis & sumptibus Joannis Baptistae Mayr, Salisburgi [Salzbourg] 1707, Pet. in-4 (15x20cm), (2) 56pp. ; 230pp. ; 139pp. ; 263pp., relié.

Edition
Binding vellum tinted red vintage, probably German. Back with nerves richly decorated with irons ly gilded, now cold. boards with gilded decorations composed of a double frame, the first adorned with a roulette with a pattern of birds and branches, the second with various jewels, and a [...]

500 €

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LEPINE DE GRAINVILLE

Memoire sur la vie de M. de Pibrac, avec les pieces justificatives, ses lettres amoureuses et ses ...

Chez Marc-Michel Rey, à Amsterdam 1761, In-12 (10,5x17,5cm), (2) 303pp., relié.

First edition.
Binding in full glossy brown calf vintage. Back to nerves of 5 pretty florets with stars at the corners. title label of beige morocco. Margins of the title page burnished, as well as the second page. Nice copy.
Biography much more complete than that published in Latin by [...]

350 €

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R.P. HENRI GRIFFET

Histoire de Tancrede de Rohan, avec quelques autres pieces concernant l'histoire de France et ...

Chez J. F. Bassompierre, à Liege 1767, (4) 498pp. (2), relié.

First edition. The Tancrede de Rohan's hitory is followed by 4 subtitles delimiting the different parts: Remarks on the birth of Henri II, Prince de Condé; History of the secret negotiations of France with Holland paper; Observations on the disorders of the Regency during the minority of Louis [...]

450 €

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John KEILL & Pierre Charles LEMONNIER

Institutions astronomiques, ou leçons élémentaires d'astronomie

Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, à Paris 1746, In-4 (20x26cm), (8) lxiv, 660pp., relié.

First edition
Binding full brown basement contemporary. Back with ornate nerves. title label of brown sheepskin. Upper joint tightly split largely. Lower joint open in tail and head. Rubbed and scratched boards, with some gaps. Corners very dull and trimmed, bare. Scattered bites.

800 €

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