First edition

Jean NOVI DE CAVEIRAC

Apologie de Louis XIV et de son conseil, sur la révocation de l'Edit de Nantes. Pour servir de ...

S.n., s.l. 1758, In 8 (12x20cm), (2) vj (4) 565pp. (1) lxiij (3), relié.

First edition.
Binding half blond sheepskin marbled time. Back to nerves adorned. title label in tawny morocco. Upper joint split at the top, and tail on 10 cm. Friction on the boards.
The work was originally written in response to a book by Antoine Court (1695-1760), A Patriot's Letter [...]

500 €

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Louis AUBERY

Memoires pour servir à l'histoire de Hollande et des autres provinces unies.. Où l'on verra les ...

Chez Jean Vilette, AParis 1680, In 12 (9x16,5cm), (20) 363pp. (1), relié.

First edition, uncommon.
Binding full Velin rigid contemporary. Smooth Jansenist back. title label of brown sheepskin with small gaps. stains. Good copy.
Ex libris with blossomed figure, Rosny Castle with the motto: Loneliness.
The most famous work of the Seigneur du Maurier, These [...]

450 €

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First edition

Isaac LA PEYRERE

Systema theologogicum ex praeadamitarum hypothesis. Pars prima [Ensemble] Sunagogis Iudaeorum ...

S. n. [Louys & Daniel Elzevier], s.l. [Amsterdam] 1655, in-4 (14,5x19,5cm), (16) 297pp. 8pp., 2 textes reliés en 1 volume.

Very rare first edition presenting an inset map of the Holy Land.
Contemporary binding in full brown calf, back with five nerves adorned with double nets and golden florets, double golden thread on the boards, all flecks speckled.
"Singular book, and once very much sought after, in which [...]

2 800 €

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First edition

Judah ABRAVANEL (dit León Hebreo (Léon l'Hébreu))

Philosophie d'amour de M. Léon Hébreu

Guillaume Rouillé, Lyon 1551, petit in-8 (10,5x17,5cm), 675 pp. (44 p.), relié.

Juda ABRAVANEL or Leo the Hebrew
Philosophie d'amour de M. Léon Hébreu [The Dialogues of Love]

17 000 €

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First edition

François BRUYS

Histoire des papes, depuis St. Pierre jusqu'à Benoit XIII

Chez Henri Scheurleer, à La Haye 1732 - 1734, In-4 (19,5x23,5cm), XIV, 615pp. et (2) 654pp. (10) et (2) XXIV, 692pp.

first edition, rare, adorned with a beautiful frontispiece by Van der Laan and engraved by Bernart. Title pages in red and black.

Binding full sheepskin contemporary speckled. Back with nerves richly adorned. title labels in red morocco, pieces of tomaison in brown morocco.

900 €

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First edition, Signed book

Claude Joseph ROUGET DE L'ISLE

Essais en vers et en prose

De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné, Paris An V de la République, 1796, 11x18,5cm, broché.

One of the very rare copies enriched with an autograph - there are fewer than a dozen - of this first edition, featuring the Marseillaise.
First edition illustrated with an engraving inset engraved by Charles-Etienne Gaucher after Jean-Jacques Le [...]

8 000 €

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First edition

ANONYME, Ferdinand LANDERER

Pensées philosophiques, politiques, et morales en prose rimée sur le monde et sur le bonheur de ...

[Johann Trattner], [Wien] 1771, In-4 (21x26,7cm), 42f., relié.

First edition, rare, illustrated with a title engraved with a large vignette in a portico, the title to the pediment, four beautiful figures finely engraved and drawn by Landerer (including Royal troops camp in Moravia, mausoleum erected by the ipatrix and of 2 vignettes at the bottom of the page [...]

400 €

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First edition

Claude-Etienne SAVARY

Les amours d'Anas-Eloujoud et de Ouardi, conte traduit de l'Arabe

Chez Onfroy, A Bagdad se trouve à Paris 1789, In-18 (7,5x12,5cm), (2) 4p. (4) 96pp., relié.

First Edition posthumous, rare. After the subtitle, 4p. catalog.
Binding full porphyry vintage calfskin. Smooth back decorated with 4 florets. Title piece of black calf. Frieze framing on the boards. Small slot on 0,5cm with the upper joint in head and in tail, tiny. Nice copy.

500 €

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