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Pedro Roman MELENDEZ

Epilogo de Utrera: Sus grandezas, y hazañas gloriosas de sus hijos

Por Juan Francisco Blas de Quesada, En Sevilla, Impressor Mayor de dicha ciudad 1730, Pet. in-4 (15x20cm), relié.

First edition. Large arms of Utrera on second leaf. Title in red and black with a floral frame.
Contemporary vellum, spine titled in ink (smudged). One tie in good condition, spine partly detached. Traces of glue to final endpaper. A good copy without significant faults, generally fresh.
A [...]

1 400 €

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Caspar MANZ

Patrocinii debitorum calamitate belli depauperatorum pars prima suivi de Pars secunda

typis Willem Eder, Ingolstadii (Ingolstadt) 1639, in 8 (16x10cm), (8) 526pp. -1., relié.

First edition of the two parts that are rarely met. Manz was later published two other parties. Absent German catalogs, there is an edition of Part IV (1640) in Scotland (because the parties were sold separately as they dealt with specifics.) Absent Brunet. Scroll to full recovery reusing a [...]

600 €

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ANONYME

Le fourbe puni, ou le duel des rivales. [Ensemble] Lettres infernales et Les tisons

S.n. ; Aux enfers, s.l. 1740, in-12 (9,5x16,7cm), (2) 181pp. ; (4) 123pp., relié.

First edition, rare. The second book is also the first edition, adorned with a frontispiece representing the devil handing a letter to a gentleman. Full Calf blond contemporary. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. A tear p. 127. Caps slightly threadbare. Excellent small anonymous [...]

500 €

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Albrecht von HALLER

La generation ou exposition des phenomenes relatifs a cette fonction naturelle de leur mechanisme, ...

Chez Des Ventes de la Doué, à Paris 1774, in-8 (12,5x20cm), vj (2) 641pp. et (4) 548pp., 2 volumes reliés.

Original French edition and first translation into the vernacular after the Latin original, which had appeared in the Elementa PHYSIOLOGICA in 8 volumes, published from 1757 to 1766.
Full blond speckled calf. Back to bands decorated. Parts of title and volume numbers in red morocco. Caps head [...]

550 €

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Joseph Guichard DU VERNEY

Traité de l'organe de l'ouie, contenant la structure, les usages & les maladies de toutes les ...

Chez Estienne Michallet, à Paris 1683, in-12 (9x17cm), (24) 210pp., relié.

The very rare first edition with 16 unsigned folding plates.

Contemporary brown sheep, spine in compartments, headpiece and one corner repaired, wormtrack to middle of upper margin, a few insignificant wormholes. The final engraving is shaved and lacking the last lines [...]

3 000 €

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NICERON

Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des Hommes illustres dans la République des Lettres, avec un ...

Chez Briasson, à Paris 1732, in 12 (10x17cm), de 408pp., relié.

First Edition. §Pleine Sheepskin contemporary. Back tooled raised. Copy the arms of Baron Square Vandeuvre, minister of Louis XVIII. Parts of titles and volume numbers were done at the same time, in the early nineteenth century. §Ce volume contains the following biographical and bibliographical [...]

180 €

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Amédée JAUBERT

Voyage en Arménie et en Perse, fait dans les années 1805 et 1806, par P. Amédée Jaubert

Chez Pelicier et Nepveu, à Paris 1821, Un Vol. in 8 (12,5x20,5cm), (4) xij, 506pp. (1), relié.

First edition, rare, illustrated with a large folding map of Constantinople between Tehran and regions, and 9 lithographs (by Aubry, Vernet ...), and a portrait frontispiece of the Persian prince Mirza Albas. Sheepskin half light brown boards. Smooth back decorated with nets and chains; roulette [...]

1 600 €

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Abbé Laurent BORDELON

Le voyage forcé de Becafort hypocondriaque. Qui s'imagine être indispensablement obligé de dire ...

Chez Jean Musier, à Paris 1709, in-12 (9x16cm), (2) xxxv (1) 342pp. (4), relié.

First edition, rare. Modern Cardboard cream parchment. Piece as black sheepskin. Like all the satirical works of the Father Bordelon, it is a curious work and unclassifiable in which a trip with Becafort, which he describes the thoughts, speech and dialogue narrator; the book is full of reviews and [...]

550 €

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