First edition

George KEATE

Relation des îles Pelew, situées dans la partie occidentale de l'Océan Pacifique, composée sur ...

Chez Le Jay et Maradan, A Paris 1788, in 8 (12,5x19,5cm), (4) 282pp. et (4) 274pp. (3), 2 volumes reliés.

First french edition, illustrated with 16 boards, including 11 unfolding and a large folding map (native views, objects ...). This edition was published the same year as the English original.
Bindings in full marbled and glossy sheepskin. Smooth back decorated with 4 boxed florets. Title pieces [...]

900 €

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Tobias SMOLLET

Aventures de Roderick Random, traduites de l'anglois de Fielding

Chez Jean Nourse, à Londres 1761, In-12 (9,5x17cm), (4) xvj, 400pp. et (4) 342pp. et (4) 320pp., 3 volumes reliés.

First french edition, illustrated with 3 frontispices by Eisen engraved by Pinssio.
Binders full marbled brown and glossy vintage. Title piece of red morocco, piece of beige morocco tomaison. Headdress of Volume I torn off. Bits of volume I closely split at the head and tail. Friction. Title [...]

950 €

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ANONYME

Le voyage de Guibray, ou les avantures des Princes de B... et de C... Piece comique. Avec ...

S.n., s.l. 1704, In-16 (9x15cm), 104pp. [204pp.], relié.

First edition, rare.
Binding full parchment contemporary. Smooth back mute. Headdress torn off.

450 €

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Nicolas Gabriel CLERC

Histoire naturelle de l'homme considéré dans l'état de maladie ; ou la médecine ramenée à sa ...

Chez Lacombe, à Paris 1767, Fort in-8 (13x20cm), xxviij (4) 454pp. et 513pp. (3), 2 tomes en un volume relié.

First edition.
Binding in half vellum with small posterior corners, ca 1800. Smooth back with title to the black pen. 2 small slits in the head, another in tail.
Epistemological and philosophical approach of medicine. The author goes back to Hippocrates to understand how medicine has [...]

350 €

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William VAUGHAN & Guillaume BLIGH

Relation des malheurs et de la captivité, pendant deux ans et cinq mois, du capitaine Woodard, et ...

Chez F. Buisson & Firmin Didot, à Paris 1805-1790, in-8 (12,5x20,5cm), (4) 322 pp. ; (4) xvj, 171 pp., relié.

First edition, rare, of the French translation, illustrated with a portrait with frontispiece profile, 2 folding maps of the island of Célebès in Indonesia, and 2 figures of ships on a folding board.
Binding full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin. Back with nerves decorated with urns in [...]

1 800 €

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Charles BONNET

Oeuvres d'histoire naturelle et de philosophie

Chez Samuel Fauche, à Neuchatel 1779 - 1783, In-8 (12x20,7cm), (2) xlviij, 362pp. et (4) 461pp. (2) et (4) 262pp. et

Collective first edition.
Bindings in full calf rooted blond slightly posterior. Smooth backs decorated with two flies and two alternating wasps; various wheels. Title pieces in red morocco; pieces of tomaison in a shield in black morocco. Triple framing net on the boards, with a second [...]

2 200 €

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REGNAULT DE LALANDE

Catalogue de tableaux, dessins et sculptures, après le décès de M. Moitte

Chez Denailly & Regnault de Lalande, à Paris 1810, In-8 (12x19cm), viij, 16pp., broché.

First edition.
Brochure covered with a blue cardstock, itself covered with a glossy marble paper type late nineteenth. Good copy, fresh.
Catalog including 64 entries of the cabinet of the sculptor Jean-Guillaume Moitte, with paintings and drawings of the French school. Biographical note [...]

300 €

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First edition, Signed book

(Laurent de MEDICIS) Aurelio BIENATO

Oratio in funere Laurentii de Medicis enrichi d'une lettre autographe signée de Pierre II de ...

Philippus de Mantegatiis, Milan s.d. [après le 8 avril 1492] et s.d. [1493], ouvrage : 20,8x13,8cm et lettre : 22x30cm, (8f.) Sig : a8, relié.

Oratio in funere Laurentii de Medicis habita. With an autograph letter signed by Piero II de' Medici to Dionigi Pucci

15 000 €

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