First edition

Richard BENTLEY

La friponnerie laïque des pretendus Esprits-Forts d'Angleterre: ou remarques de Phileleuthere de ...

Chez J. Wetstein & G. Smith, à Amsterdam 1738, XXXVI, 581pp. (1), relié.

first edition. Title page in red and black.
Binding nineteenth later in full morocco red long grain (Russian leather) signed Thouvenin tail. Back with nerves decorated with boxes framing nets. Gilt title and date. Framing nets on the boards with clover in the spandrels. Indoor Friesland. Gilt [...]

500 €

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Robert DODSLEY & John GAY

Choix de petites pieces du théatre anglois, traduites des originaux

Chez Prault, à Paris 1756, in-12 (9,5x16,2cm), (8) 218pp. ; (2) xiij, 235pp., 2 tomes en un volume relié.

first edition of this translation that gives first opera beggars, originally of The Threepenny Opera

400 €

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Ange GOUDAR

Les intérêts de la France mal entendus dans les branches de l'agriculture, de la population, des ...

Chez Jacques Coeur, à Amsterdam 1756, in-12 (9,5x16,5cm), viij, 436pp. et (2) vij (1) 428pp. (6) et (2) 392pp., 3 volumes reliés.

Original, unusual Edition.
Binding blond half roan. Back smooth decorated with grotesque. Morocco red part of title and volume number morocco beige. Tail library labels. 2 wormholes along the lower joint of Volume I. A hitch in the lower joint with lack of volume II. Good copy, [...]

1 200 €

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Alexis COLLIN de BAR

Histoire de l'Inde ancienne et moderne, ou l'Indostan

Le Normant, Paris 1814, In-8, (4) xvj, 372pp. et (4) 408pp., 2 volumes reliés.

first edition, rare, illustrated in a very nice large folding map in color on heavy paper.
Binding half speckled brown sheepskin contemporary. Back smooth decorated with irons the lyre and the ballot box. Part of title and volume number adorned with sheepskin chocolate. Gaps in mind. 2 Volume [...]

830 €

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Jean-François COLLIN D'HARLEVILLE

Théatre et poésie fugitives

Chez Duminil Lesueur, à Paris 1805, in-8 (12,5x20,5cm), (4) xxij, 348pp. et (4) 432pp. et (4) 418pp. (1) et (4) 199pp.

Collective Edition
Bound in full sheepskin rooted blond contemporary. Back smooth decorated with two irons and two boxes to the grotesque, castors. Part of title and volume number in red morocco. A wormhole leading the first three volumes. spine slightly thinned

450 €

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Vincent VOITURE

Les oeuvres. Les nouvelles oeuvres

Chez Augustin Courbé, à Paris 1650 - 1658, Fort in-4 (16,5x23cm), (30) 709p. (1) 210p. (17) (1bc.) ; (8) 173pp. (5), relié.

Seconde édition des Oeuvres (et première chez Courbe qui venait de récupérer le privilège) de Voiture et édition originale des Nouvelles oeuvres. Deux vignettes de titre par Picart. Un beau portrait par Champaigne.
Reliure en plein veau écailles du XVIIIe. Dos à nerfs joliment orné de [...]

1 000 €

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Jean PASSERAT

Kalendae Januariae, & Varia quaedam Poëmatia [Ensemble] De caecitate oratio [Ensemble] ...

Mamert Patisson, Lutetiae (Paris) 1603, Pet. in-8 (10x15,2cm), (2f.) 77ff. (2f.) ; 12ff. ; 13ff. ; (2f.) 44ff., 4 parties en un volume relié.

Rare meeting four older editions of Jean Passerat.
Binding full brown calf galcé eighteenth. Backpacks ornate nerves. As an exhibit in brown morocco. Mors finely restored. Lace on cuts. Beautiful copy.

2 000 €

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Paul BARET

Amours d'Alzidor et de Charisée, ouvrage traduit du grec

Chez Zacharie Chatelin, Amsterdam 1751, in-12 (9,5x16cm), (4) v (1) 106pp. ; (4) 105pp., 2 parties reliées en un volume.

first edition.
Copy the tail weapons
Bound in full sheepskin blonde time. Back smooth decorated with four finials caissonés. As an exhibit in red morocco. Triple mentoring net on the boards. Red edges. A lack overflowing the lower joint on the back. Rubbing on spine, joint and corners. Good copy.

350 €

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