First edition

Joannes Aurelius KNIPINGA

Facetiarum epigrammaticarum centuriae sex. [Ensemble] Musa miscellanea [Ensemble] Ephemeris ...

Typis Jacobi Mesii, Antverpiae (Anvers) 1672, in-16 (7x12,5cm), (8) 98pp. (1) (1bc.) ; 48pp. ; (8) 98pp., relié.

First edition of the two books published on the same date, and illustrated two headpieces. The second title is separated from the first by a false titre.Plein vellum rigid time. Smooth spine with title in black pen. The title is reproduced in black pen on the front cover. Rare, missing electronic [...]

400 €

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First edition

Charles de SAINTE-AGNES

Le grand homme considéré dans les excellences de Saint Jean-Baptiste

Chez Alexandre Fumeux, à Lyon 1652, in-8 (10,2cmx17,2cm), (8) 389pp., relié.

First Edition, a great rarity, adorned with a frontispiece title: Saint John the Baptist and Christ capped with arms, probably those of the dedicatee, lord of Fontenille Full red morocco of the late nineteenth signed David. Back to nerves decorated with threads forming boxes. Gilt title, date and [...]

600 €

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Dom PERNETY

Histoire d'un voyage aux isles Malouines, fait en 1763 & 1764; Avec des observations sur le ...

Chez Saillant & Nyon & Delallain, à Paris 1770, 2 tomes en 2 Vol. in 8 (12x19,5cm), iv, 385pp. et (2) 314pp. (2), relié.

Second edition, the first of some parts, following the first, which appeared in Berlin the year before. With 16 folding plates at the end of volume two, 3 maps, charts, fauna and inhabitants…(2 plates missing). This edition also contains the "Journal historique du voyage fait aux îles Malouines [...]

700 €

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First edition

Alexander POPE

Oeuvres diverses de Pope

Chez Arkstée & Merkus, à Amsterdam & à Leipzig 1754, in-12 (9,5x16,5cm), 6 volumes reliés.

Original collective edition; illustrated portrait 1 and 5 figures in Volume I, 1 frontispiece and 13 figures in Volume II, 1 frontispiece to Volume IV; portrait by Syfang, the figures drawn by Blakey, Wale and engraved by Walker and Fritzsch. Full brown calf iced contemporary. Smooth back [...]

400 €

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First edition

John KEILL

Introductiones ad veram Physicam et veram Astronomiam. Quibus accedunt Trogonometria. De viribus ...

Apud Joh. et Herm. Verbeek (Jean & Herman Verbeek), Lugduni Batavorum (Leyde) 1725, in-4 (18,5x25cm), (4) 636pp. (10), relié.

Original collective edition of these two works, published respectively in Oxford in 1701 (Physica) and 1718 (Astronomy); illustrated with a vignette title, 12 folding plates for physics (experiments, diagrams, geometry), 29 for astronomy, trigonometry and 6, numbered I to XLVII.Pleine sheepskin [...]

800 €

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First edition

Kornelis Van ALKEMADE

De munt der graaven van Holland

Andriez Voorstad, Te Delft gedrukt 1700, pet. in-folio (20x32cm), (24) 192pp. (8), relié.

First edition, illustrated with a handsome frontispiece unsigned (Dutch lion in the middle of a ruined classical portico) and 64 boards with several figures of rooms (up to 10 per board). They are numbered I to XLV, some numbers are a series of several boards. Some figures in texte.Plein vellum [...]

850 €

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First edition

Abbé DOUAY

Histoire généalogique des branches de la maison de Béthune, existantes en Flandre et en Artois, ...

S.n., à Paris 1783, petit in-folio (23x37,5cm), iv, ix, 162 (2) (2) 269p., relié.

Rare first edition, and only edition of this book. Illustrated with numerous tables, a large folding plate depicting the genealogy emblazoned Desplanques, figures blazon in-text and notable feature of this book, 15 medallion portraits "in physionotrace" (process invented by Louis Christian and [...]

1 500 €

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First edition

Pierre GUARIN

Grammatica hebraica et chaldaica

Typis Jacobi Collombat [Jacob Collombat], LutetiaParisiorum [Paris] 1724 - 1726, in-4 (19,5x26cm), xlv (17) 632pp. et

First edition, rare, two volumes published in 1724 and 1726 respectively; illustrated with vignettes 2 header, 8 pp sheet music, a cabalistic tree inset, the Samaritan Alphabet, 2 boards and 2 figures currencies also inset. Copy to arms stamped on the flat and within each box of the library of the [...]

1 500 €

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