First edition

Utagawa SADAHIDE

Kawanakajima gunkan (Batailles de l'île Kawanaka)

Sadahide 1860 (S.d), 12x18cm, 50 feuillets., broché.

First edition consisting of 50 illustrated sheets including many scenes on double page. The author of the text could not be identified.
Japanese binding in acordon. Title label with several gaps. Folds on the blue embossed cover.
The battles on Kawanaka Island took place in 1550-1560 [...]

700 €

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Révérend Père André Thomas BARENGER

Le guide fidele de la vraie gloire présenté à Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne

Chez Landry, à Paris 1688, In-12 (10x16,5cm), 102f., relié.

First edition
Binding full calf vintage marbled and glossy. Back with ornate nerves. title label in Havana morocco.

600 €

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François-Félix NOGARET

La terre est un animal, opuscule philosophique

De l'imprimerie de Cosson, à Paris 1794 (An III), In-16 (9,5x13cm), xix (1) 102pp. (1), relié.

First edition, rare.
Cartonnage late nineteenth covered with marbled paper made on brochure. Smooth back mute. Good copy, not trimmed.
A licentious tale with a philosophical pretension, light, The earth is an animal is the conversation of a Greek courtesan with two philosophers, [...]

350 €

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LAUNAY

Critique abrégée sur un livre nouveau ayant pour titre, Dictionnaire universelle de la France ...

Chez Noël Pissot & André Knapen, à Paris 1726, (8) 132pp. (3), relié.

First edition
Binding full red morocco contemporary. Back to nerves adorned. title label in red morocco. Triple framing net on the boards. Golden slices. Traces of friction. 2 blunt corners. Beautiful copy, precious red morocco contemporary.

350 €

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Gaspard LAUGIER

Ludovico Magni Galliarum regis, elucubratio anagrammatica-historica

Apud Claudium Marchy, In Platea [Aix-en-Provence] 1679, In-4 (18x25cm), (2) 60pp., relié.

First illustrated edition of 47 pretty emblematic figures arranged on 13 boards on fine paper. Only the title sticker is signed Gaudier. Absence of the frontispiece.
Binding at the end of the nineteenth half beige canvas. Smooth back with title label along with dark red shagreen. The boards are [...]

450 €

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Rémy DELAUNEY

Histoire d'un pou françois ; ou l'espion d'une nouvelle espece, tant en France qu'en Angleterre. ...

De l'Imprimerie Royale, AParis 1781, In-8 (14x22cm), 115pp., relié.

First edition.
Binding half calf blonde with small corners ca 1820. Back smooth 5 cold iron and nets. Golden title. Some pale foxing, especially in title page. Back rubbed. Good copy.
Autobiographical memoirs of a louse, which goes from head to head, embellishing his confessions of [...]

300 €

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Lodovico GUICCIARDINI (Louis GUICHARDIN)

Contes et historiettes amusantes, avec plusieurs dialogues en italien et en françois. La ...

Chez Jean de la Caille, à Paris 1688, In-12 (9,5x16cm), (22) 357pp. (3), relié.

First edition bilingual Italian and French translation of Pompe, teacher of Italian and Spanish.
Binding full brown sheepskin speckled contemporary. Back to nerves adorned. title label of brown sheepskin. A slash on the upper plate, 2 on the lower plate. Friction. A small lack in the upper bit [...]

350 €

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Honoré Gabriel Riquetti Comte de MIRABEAU

Considérations sur l'ordre de Cincinnatus, ou imitation d'un pamphlet anglo-americain par le Comte ...

Chez J. Johnson, à Londres 1788, xii, 403pp., relié.

First edition.

Posterior binding, modern. Cardboard blond pastiche bradel. Smooth back with title label and tomaison of pink sheepskin. Back slightly darkened. Friction. Copy untrimmed, made directly on brochure. The first 2 browned leaflets.

600 €

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