First edition

François-Jean BRALLE, François-Jean BRALLE

Nouvelles fontaines érigées à Paris, de l'ordre et par la munificience de Napoléon le Grand

Chez Joubert fils & chez Bance, Paris 1810, 27,5x41,5cm, relié.

Rare first edition consists of an allegorical title engraved with the arms of Napoleon and 59 inset plates engraved on steel by Boizot, Beauvallet, Vallois under drawings of Bralle. All prints are executed with great finesse and have a scale and an aerial view at the bottom of board. The book will [...]

1 000 €

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Pierre François Guyot DESFONTAINES

Histoire de la ville de Paris

ChezJulien Michel Gandouin, à Paris 1735, in-12 (9x16,5cm), VI-576 pp. et IV-498-(4) pp. et IV-586 pp. et IV-532 pp.

Original edition, rare, published anonymously, and has never been reprinted; 5 leaflets illustrated maps of Paris for the four time periods studied the history of Paris, ranging from the dawn of the monarchy of Louis XV (to Louis X, Philip VI to Charles X, Charles X Henry IV and the latter to the [...]

1 200 €

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HELVETIUS

De l'Esprit

Chez Durand, à Paris 1758, in-4 (19,5x26cm), (4) xxij ; 643pp. (1f. priv.), relié.

First edition of the second draw and the first put on the market (it only lists 4 copies of the first issue, it was censored from the beginning of printing Malesherbes).
Bound in full brown sheepskin that time. Back with five nerves decorated with a piece of sheepskin as blonde, coffered and [...]

1 600 €

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Alexander POPE

Histoire de Martinus Scriblerus, de ses ouvrages & de ses découvertes

Chez Paul Knapton, à Londres 1755, In-12 (9x16,5cm), relié.

First Edition in French translation by Pierre Henri Larcher.
Full mottled calf contemporary. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. A tear with slight loss in the third box. Good copy.
Martinus Scriblerus was originally a literary club whose members (Pope, Swift, John Gay, [...]

450 €

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François Maréchal de BASSOMPIERRE

Ambassade du Mareschal de Bassompierre en Espagne l'an 1621 ; en suisse l'an 1625 ; en Angleterre ...

ChezPierre du Marteau [Elsevier], à Cologne [Amsterdam] 1668, Pet. in-12 (7,5x13,5cm), 4 parties reliées en 2 volumes.

Edition, printing Elsevier. 4 title pages to the sphere including two Embassy in Switzerland.
Full sheepskin brown speckled time. Back tooled raised. Part of title and volume number in brown morocco, ornate wheels. A slight lack the bit at the top of each volume. Good copy.
Important [...]

550 €

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PROCLUS & Georg HENISCH

Commentarius in sphaeram procli diadochi. Cui adiunctus est Computus Ecclesiasticus, cum Calendario ...

Typis Davidis Franci, Augustae Vindelicorum (Augsburg) 1609, in-4 (15x20cm), (8) 367pp. (20) (1), relié.

First edition, rare. Printing on both columns. Vignette of a sphere in the title page. 14 figures and in-text tables and many diagrams, including a timetable for the position of the stars and the zodiac figures, tables of latitudes and longitudes.Plein soft vellum vintage flap. Smooth back silent. [...]

1 600 €

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Giovani Battista MANZINI

Les harangues academiques

Chez Augustin Courbé, à Paris 1640, Fort in-8 (11x17,4cm), relié.

First edition, rare. Brand of printer in the title page. Translation of George Scuderi after delle Dissertazioni accademiche. Preface of the translator. Full vellum flexible time. Smooth back silent. The author himself calls his harangues "the fury of youth", thereby expressing that they are freed [...]

800 €

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Pierre-Jean-Claude MAUDUYT

Mémoire sur les différentes manières d'administrer l'électricité, et observations sur les ...

De l'Imprimerie Nationale, à Paris 1784, in-8 (12x19,7cm), (2) 301p. 46p., relié.

First Edition, illustrated with 2 folding plates on heavy paper. Paged party to share: Summary of newspapers, door colophon date 1786 Full brown calf and marbled ice.. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. 2 corners bumped. of p.96 in the end, foxing and pale yellow in margins; on the [...]

550 €

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