First edition

Charles de COURCY

Tableau religieux et politique de l'Indostan, ou précis historique des révolutions de l'Inde, où ...

Chez Marchant, à Paris 1803, In-8 (12,5x20cm), (4) xxiij, 472pp., relié.

Edition originale, rare. L'ouvrage est suivi de deux mémoires présentés en 1781, à Louis XVI, par l'auteur de cet ouvrage, contenant un plan pour anéantir la puissance anglaise dans l'Inde, et d'un troisième sur les moyens actuels d'y parvenir encore.

Reliure en plein veau raciné [...]

650 €

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Jean-François PEYRON

Essais sur l'Espagne faits en 1777 et 1778 ; où l'on traite des moeurs, du caractere, des ...

S.n., Geneve 1780, In-8 (13x20cm), 3 volumes reliés.

first edition, rare.
Bindings in full veal blond speckled vintage. Smooth ornate back, wheels in tails and heads. Title and tomato pieces in red morocco.

1 200 €

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Caspar SAGITTARIUS

Celsiss. Origines Serenissimorum Ducum Brunswico-Luneburgensium. Historica Dissertatione pandent ...

Typis Nisianis, Jena (Iéna) 1684, 144pp., relié.

first edition, rare, illustrated with 2 medals in title page.
blond in full calf binding iced ca 1880 signed panying.

550 €

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Sébastien LE CLERC

Divers habillemens des anciens grecs et romains

Jeaurat, Paris 1706, In-8 (13x20,8cm), 25 Pl., relié.

"For the usefulness of young people who exercise in drawing & painting, Le Clerc collected 25 small prints on the different habillmens Greek and Roman, he engraved in 1706."

550 €

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Eustache LE NOBLE

L'esprit de Gerson

S.n., s.l. 1691, In-12 (9x16,5cm), (2) 249pp., relié.

first edition.
Bound in full brown speckled roan contemporary. Back with nerves decorated. As part of brown sheepskin. torn rotator head. Lack of upper joint in the head. upper joint with split tail missing. head of library etiquette. Coins very blunt.
2 handwritten pages before the title [...]

200 €

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Charles PERRAULT & Gabriele FAERNO

Cent fables en latin et en françois, choisies des anciens auteurs, mises en vers latin par Gabriel ...

Chez C. Marsh et T. Payne, à Londres 1744, In-4 (20,5x26cm), (24) 45pp. (1bc.) 238pp. (2), relié.

illustrated Edition. Worms Faerno appeared for the first time in 1564, and the version of Perrault in 1699.

3 800 €

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Philippe-Auguste de Sainte-Foix, Chevalier d' ARCQ

Histoire générale des guerres. Tome premier contenant l'histoire de la Grande Arménie [...] Tome ...

Imprimerie Royale, à Paris 1756 - 1758, In-4 (20x26cm), (6) vij-xij clxxvj, 372pp. et viij, 614pp., 2 volumes reliés.

first edition, rare, these two volumes published two years apart and whose result will never see the day.
Copy the arms of Louis XV hit on the boards, and the figure repeated on the back, a symbol that certifies the origin of the Royal Library in Versailles. Louis XV had a very large library [...]

4 000 €

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Johann Heinrich Samuel FORMEY

Mélanges philosophiques

Elie Luzac, fils, à Leyde 1754, in-12 (10x16,5cm), x, 462pp. et (4) 422pp., 2 volumes reliés.

Collective Edition.
Binders full calf antique brown. Back with nerves decorated. As pieces of red leather and black sheepskin volume number. Headdresses threadbare. Mors split head 1cm. Coins very blunt. Preliminary browned leaves. Good copy.

450 €

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