First edition

François TRONCHIN DES DELICES

Catalogue de tableaux

Chez Constantin & Boileau 1804, In-8 (12x18,5cm), (4) 59pp., relié.

First edition.
Binding calf green ca 1860. Smooth back decorated with 2 irons and nets. Golden title. Friction caps and borders. burnished paper. Good copy.
Collection of François Tronchin des Délices, State Councilor of the Republic of Geneva, which includes 226 paintings and whose sale [...]

350 €

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Jacques-Bénigne BOSSUET

Traité de la communion sous les deux especes

Chez Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, à Paris 1682, In-12 (8,5x15,5cm), (8) 461pp. (2), relié.

First edition. a figure in text.
Binding full morocco grain long chocolate ca 1860. Ornate back with nerves. Title piece and tomaison in red morocco. boards decorated with several nets and frame wheels and a large floral frieze. Inland frieze. Golden slices. Paper of perfect freshness, possibly [...]

650 €

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ANACREON

Traduction nouvelle des Odes d'Anacreon, sur l'original grec. Par M. de la Fosse

Chez Pierre Ribou, à Paris 1704, In-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (36) 198, 81p. (4), relié.

First edition of the translation of De la Fosse. Text in Greek with the translation opposite. A medallion portrait on the frontispiece of Anacreon.
Binding full glossy brown calf vintage. Back to nerves adorned. Title piece in red morocco. Headdress torn off with gaps in the joints. Upper joint [...]

180 €

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MAUBERT DE GOUVEST

Testament politique du cardinal Alberoni

Chez Marc-Michel Bousquet, à Lausanne 1754, In-12 (10x16,8cm), XXXI (1) 174pp. ; (2) XXXIII-XXXIV 291pp., 2 parties en un volume relié.

First edition.
Binding in full marbled brown calfskin. Back to nerves adorned. Title piece in red morocco. Headdress trimmed. Friction. A blunt corner.

200 €

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Ludwig LAVATER & Jean CALVIN

In libros paralipomenon, sive Chronicorum commentarius [Ensemble] Praelectiones Iannis Calvini ...

Excudebat Christophorus Froschoverus & Apud Bartholomaeum Vincentium & Per Ioannem Oporinum, Tiguri Bale 1559-1573,

Rare meeting of three books of theological commentaries so here is the detail:

2 500 €

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P. H. MALLET

[DANEMARK] Histoire de Dannemarc

Chez Barde, Manget & Compagnie & Chez Buisson, A Genève & à Paris 1787, 9 tomes en 9 Vol. in-12 (10,5x17,5cm), XXIV,

Third and best edition; it is indeed the most complete. Before composing this ensemble, several editions were published: in the first place an Introduction to the history of Dannemarc in 1755, which forms in our copy the first illustrated volume of a large folding map of Scandinavia. Two volumes in [...]

950 €

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Paul Philippe GUDIN DE LA BRUNELLERIE

Essai sur l'histoire des comices de Rome, des Etats-Generaux de la France, et du parlement ...

Chez Maradan, A Philadelphie Et se trouve à Paris 1789, In-8 (12x20cm), iv, 464pp. (1) et (4) 303pp. (1) et (4) 344pp., 3 volumes reliés.

First edition, rare.
Binding half marbled sheepskin contemporary with small corners of parchment. Smooth back decorated with wheels. Title and volume pieces in red morocco adorned. Friction. Lower bottom corner of volume 3 cropped. Good copy.
Comparative History of the States-General, [...]

900 €

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Jacques-Bénigne BOSSUET

Relation sur le quiétisme

Chez Jean Anisson, à Paris 1698, In-12 (8x14,8cm), 213pp. (1), relié.

First edition.
Binding full brown sheepskin speckled contemporary. Back to nerves adorned. Title piece of brown morocco. A wormhole with the lower joint in the lead. Foxing. First leaves frightened on the external margin.
Quietism is a mystical doctrine which considers that the most perfect [...]

400 €

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