First edition

Adrien RICHER

Vies des plus célèbres marins

Chez Belin, à Paris 1789, In-24 (8x12,9cm), 263pp. ; 209pp. (1) et 252pp. ; 295pp. et 304pp. ; 220pp. et 260pp. ;

Collective first edition. The various parts composing this collection were published a first time separately from 1780 to 1786. The tomaison is placed on the subtitle. The 11th and 12th volumes are by mistake on the title page Volume 1 and Volume 2. The thirteenth part which completes the [...]

700 €

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First edition

Bertrand de MOLLEVILLE

Costumes des Etats héréditaires de la Maison d'Autriche

Imprimé pour William Miller, Londres 1804, In-Folio (26x36cm), xxviij (2) 50 Pl. 50f., relié.

First edition, beautifully illustrated with 50 engraved plates and watercolors, all are numbered and signed William Ellis. Bilingual text, first English, then French on the following pages.

1 500 €

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Comte de Bussy, Roger de RABUTIN

Les memoires de Messire Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy

Chez Jean Anisson, à Paris 1696, In-4 (19x25,3cm), (4) 563pp. (1) et, 2 volumes reliés.

First edition.

Binding full brown marbled vintage calf. Back with nerves richly adorned. title label in red morocco, piece of tomaison red morocco ornate.

1 800 €

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First edition

Claude-François MENESTRIER

L'art des emblemes

Chez Benoist Coral, à Lyon 1662, Grd. in-12 (10,5x17,5cm), (4) 160pp. (6), relié.

First Edition illustrated with 9 emblem figures and some in-text figures.
Binding full brown sheepskin speckled contemporary. Back with ornate nerves. title label of brown sheepskin. Upper hat pulled off. Upper joint open in tail. Trace of wetting on the upper dish. Small scattered foxinges, [...]

250 €

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First edition

Pedanius DIOSCORIDE & Marcellus VERGILIUS

Pedacii Dioscoridae Anazarbei de Medica materia Libri sex [Traité de matière médicale]

Filippo Giunta, Florence 1518, in-folio (21x32,5cm), (6 f.) 352 ff. (6 f.), relié.

| Longest-lasting pharmacology book by a Humanist scholar |
Filippo Giunta | Florence 1518 | folio (21 x 32,5 cm) | [6] 352 [6] p. | pastiche renaissance binding
First edition of the Marcello Virgilio translation in [...]

8 000 €

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First edition

Rabbi Juda (Yehouda) ben Shmouel ibn Alhassan HALEVI, [...]

[Kuzari] Liber Cosri : continens colloquium seu disputationem de religione, habitam ante nongentos ...

Sumptibus authoris, typis Georgi Deckeri, Basileae [Bâle] 1660, in-4 (16x20,5cm), (50 p.) 455 pp. (29 p.), relié.

Sumptibus authoris. Typis Georgi Deckeri | Basileae [Basel] 1660 | 4to (16 x 20.5 cm) | (50 pp.) 455 pp. (29 pp.) | modern vellum

First edition of the Latin translation by Johannes Buxtorf The Younger of the first translation into Hebrew by Juda ibn Tibbon, Juda Halevi's Arabic text not [...]

4 000 €

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First edition

Madeleine de PUISIEUX

Mémoires d''un homme de bien

Chez Delalain, à Paris 1768, x, 234pp. ; (2) 203pp. et (2) 317pp. (3), relié.

First edition.
Binding half brown sheepskin at small corners' time. Back with ornate nerves. title labels in red morocco, pieces of black sheepskin tomaison. A lack of volume I, a lack of tail, a slot in the upper bit in tail. Friction. 5 blunt corners. Good copy.
One of the leading novels [...]

280 €

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First edition

Joseph Bernard Marquis de CHABERT

Voyage fait par ordre du Roi en 1750 et 1751, dans l'Amérique septentrionale, pour rectifier les ...

De Imprimerie Royale, à Paris 1753, In-4 (20x26cm), (2) viij, 288pp. (10), relié.

First edition
Copy to the figure and arms of Louis XV.
Binding full brown marbled and glossy brown sheepskin.

4 000 €

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