Joseph Aignan SIGAUD DE LA FOND

Description et usage d'un cabinet de physique experimentale

Chez Gueffier, à Paris 1775, in 8 (12,5x20,3cm), xxiv, 342pp. 24Pl. et (4) 456pp. 28Pl., 2 volumes reliés.

First edition, illustrated with 51 folding plates (23 for volume I and 28 for the second, at the end of volumes) on hard paper.
Binding full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back to ornate nerve. title label in red morocco and tomaison in black morocco. Headdresses of Volume II removed. Grip of [...]

800 €

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RAUCOURT

L'heureuse infidélité, ou mémoires du Chevalier de Raucourt

Chez S. Fauche, à Neuchatel 1782, In-12 (11x16,2cm), (4) 235pp., relié.

First edition.
Binding half blond sheepskin contemporary corners. Smooth back decorated with 5 florets. title label in red morocco. Lower bit split in tail. Restorations at the head and tail. 3 wormholes on the upper dish.

400 €

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BOUIS

La chaire des curez, ou la vraye methode de bien annoncer les festes aux eglises parrochialles ...

Chez Benoist Bachelu, à Lyon 1652, Fort. in-8 (10,5x17,2cm), (30) 440pp. ; (16), relié.

First edition. A title-frontispiece by Du Roy.

Binding full parchment contemporary. Smooth back mute. Back seams become loose, bringing out the notebooks. Dirt.

250 €

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WALLACE

Essai sur la différence du nombre des hommes dans les tems anciens et modernes

S.n., à Londres 1754, Pet. in-8 (10,5x17cm), (2) ij, ij, 292pp., relié.

First french edition, translated by Joncourt.

Binding poster ca 1790 full sheepskin blonde rooted. Smooth back decorated with 5 florets. title label in black sheepskin. Friction. 2 blunt corners.

450 €

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Charles de BROSSES

Lettres sur l'Italie

Chez Ponthieu, à Paris 1799 (An VII), In-8 (12,5x19,5cm), viij, 415pp. et (4) 455pp. et (4) 400pp., relié.

First edition.
Binding half brown sheepskin speckled flat flamed yellow paper, cunning pastiche of the late nineteenth. Smooth back decorated with fat and lean fillets. Black shagreen pieces. Tiny traces of friction. Nice copy, very fresh.

1 300 €

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Aleksey PETROVITCH

Mémoires en forme de manifeste sur le procès criminel jugé et publié à Saint-Pétersbourg en ...

Jean de la Rivière, Nancy 1718, in-12 (8x14,5cm), (8) 382 pp., relié.

First Edition illustrated frontispiece of a portrait of Tsar Peter the Great.

800 €

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Frances BROOKE

Histoire d'Emilie Montague

ChezChanguion, A Amsterdam 1770, in-12 (10x16,5cm), (4) 192pp. ; (2) 193-384p. et (2) 162pp. (2) ; (2) 156pp., 4 parties reliées en 2 volumes.

Original French edition, rare, translated by Jean-Baptiste Robinet, after the English premiere published in 1769. Four beautiful title pages engraved and separated. Changuion catalog in fine of the third part.
Binding full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin. Back with ornate nerves. title [...]

650 €

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Antoine Laurent LAVOISIER

Recueil de Mémoires et d'Observations sur la formation & sur la fabrication du salpêtre

Chez Lacombe, Paris 1776, in-8 (12,5x20cm), 622 pp. (2), relié.

Recueil de Mémoires et d'Observations sur la formation & sur la fabrication du salpêtre [Observations on the Formation and Fabrication of Saltpeter]
Chez Lacombe | Paris 1776 | 8vo (12.5 x 20 cm) | 622 pp (2) | contemporary sheep
First edition of this memoir, Duveen ascribing it [...]

1 500 €

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