First edition

Nicolas HEINSIUS

L'avanturier hollandois, ou La vie et les avantures divertissantes d'un Hollandois

Chez les Westein & Smith, à Amsterdam 1729, Fort. in-16 (7,5x13,5cm), (10) 448pp. et (8) 480pp., 2 volumes reliés.

French rare first edition, illustrated with 2 frontispices (the same repeated) and 12 pretty unsigned figures. Translation of the author himself. The novel was only reprinted in 1801 under another title. Title pages in red and black.
Binders full brown calf vintage granite. Back with ornate [...]

700 €

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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, (4) 157 pp. ; 5 pp., relié.

Un des très rares exemplaires enrichi d'un envoi autographe - on en recense moins d'une dizaine - de cette édition originale, comportant la Marseillaise.
Edition originale illustrée d'une gravure hors-texte gravée par Charles-Etienne Gaucher d'après Jean-Jacques Le Barbier et de 4 pages de [...]

9 000 €

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First edition

Pierre François HENRY

Route de l'Inde, ou Description géographique de l'Égypte, la Syrie, l'Arabie, la Perse et l'Inde

Carteret & Dentu, Paris 1798, In-8 (12,5x20,2cm), viij, 457pp., relié.

Rare first edition, illustrated with a folding map.

Binding half green sheepskin contemporary. Smooth back decorated with nets. Golden title. Hook in headdress with missing. A bare corner of paper. Friction. Trace of pale wetness on the map and the first page of text on p. 69 in the [...]

400 €

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First edition

Pierre LE TOURNEUR, François-Anne DAVID

Histoire d'Angleterre représentée par figures

Chez l'auteur & François Anne David, à Paris 1784 - 1800, In-4 (19,5x26,5cm), (4) 194pp. et (4) 211pp. et (4) 116pp., 3 volumes reliés.

First edition, very rare, augmented by a third volume published 16 years later, in 1800, and dedicated to wars in the colonies, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Canada and the American war of independence. She is superbly illustrated with 111 hors-texte engraved figures engraved by François Anne DAVID after [...]

1 800 €

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First edition

Guillaume-Germain GUYOT, François-Anne DAVID

Histoire de France représentée par figures, accompagnées de discours

Chez l'auteur & M. David, à Paris 1787-1796, in-4 (20x26,2cm), (4) 168 pp. et 204 pp. et (4) 200 pp. et (4) 184 pp.

First edition, rare, illustrated with 5 engraved titles and 140 hors-texte figures drawn in red on hard paper, with a specific ornamental border for each volume, corresponding to each era described by each volume. Print on large vellum paper.
Publisher's binding in full blond calf jasped and [...]

2 800 €

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First edition

Jean MONET & Anne Gabriel MEUSNIER DE QUERLON

Anthologie françoise ou chansons choisies [avec] Chansons Joyeuses

1765, in-8 (11,5x18cm), 7 (1) 64 pp. 318pp. ; (2) 317pp. ; (2) 320pp. ; (2) 80pp. 16 pp. (1) 110pp. 16pp., 4 volumes reliés.

First edition illustrated with 4 engravings by Le Mire after Gravelot and a frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by Saint-Aubin after Cochin. Includes the fourth volume Chansons joyeuses, often missing.
Full brown marbled calf binding, motifs tooled in gilt, morocco title [...]

1 200 €

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First edition

Elis BENNET

Henry Bennet et Julie Johnson, ou les esquisses du coeur, roman traduit de l'anglais, et orné de ...

Chez Louis, à Paris 1794, In-18 (8,5x13,8cm), (4) 192pp. ; (4) 188pp. et (4) 184pp. ; (4) 207pp. et (4) 216pp. ;

First edition of the French translation, illustrated with 6 anonymous figures.
Reliquure in half calf around 1820. Smooth backs decorated with 2 mirrored central irons, wheels. Title and volume pieces in black calf. Marbled slices.

450 €

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Louis LE MAINGRE DE BOUCICAULT

Les Amazones revoltées, roman moderne. Comedie en cinq actes. Sur l'histoire universelle et la ...

S.n. [Le Maingre de Boucicault], à Rotterdam 1738, In-12 (9x16,5cm), (6) 274pp. (4), relié.

Second edition, rare, published anonymously, and published by the author. Title mark to the sphere.
Binding full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back with nerves roné of 5 florets and a semi of points. Title piece in brown morocco. Upper headdress removed. A lack in line. Upper joint split in [...]

400 €

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