First edition

Isaac VOSSIUS

Isaaci Vossii variarum observationum liber

Apud Robertum Scott, Londini (Londres) 1685, in-4 (23,5x18,5cm), (8) 397pp., relié.

First edition. With some illustrations. Brunet V, 1374.
Contemporary vellum. Faint spotting to title.
Vossius (1618-1689) was one of the learned Huguenots who emigrated to England, where he became Canon of Windsor, and had the finest private library in the world. He also provided books for [...]

1 000 €

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Jacques-Bénigne BOSSUET

Relation sur le quiétisme

Chez Jean Anisson, à Paris 1698, in 8 (19,7x12,5cm), 148 pp., relié.

First Edition. Full contemporary calf, spine tooled raised. Small defects on spine, two open areas, a dark spot on the top plate. Quietism is a mystical doctrine that considers the most perfect communion with God intervenes only when the soul is in a state of tranquility. The feud between the [...]

400 €

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Gabriel NAUDE

Apologie des grands hommes accusez de magie

Chez Jacques Cotin, à Paris 1669, in-12 (14,4x8,5cm), (24) 502pp., relié.

First Edition, another edition was published on the same date in Besongné. Relatively rare but famous book. Full contemporary calf, spine tooled raised. Rubbed together. The top cap is missing at 2/3, a corner door no longer leather part borders leather lacks some gaps at the location of nerves. [...]

600 €

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Johann NOMSZ

Willem de Eerste

David Klippink, Te Amsterdam 1779, in-4 (24x20cm), 3ff. xiv. 504pp. et 25 planches., relié.

Rare first edition absent from the catalog of all major national libraries except for the British Library. 25 beautiful plates engraved by Koming Buys. Sheepskin half mottled tan, smooth spine with 4 large wheels and multiple chains (binding later 1810). Part of title torn damaged top cap, small [...]

500 €

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Antoine Raphaël MENGS

Oeuvres complètes d'Antoine Raphaël Mengs, premier peintre du roi d'Espagne, contenant ...

A l'hôtel de Thou, à Paris 1786, in-4 (25,5x20cm), viii 314pp. et (1) 392pp. -1., deux volumes reliés.

First french edition, translated from the Italian by M. Jansen (the book appeared in effect for the first time in Italian in Bodoni). Binding slightly later in full sheepskin rooted, smooth back, part of title and volume number bronze. Beautiful copy. The book begins with the memories of the life [...]

1 200 €

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Andrea MINORELLI & Viola ZANINI

Della architettura di Gioseffe Viola Zanini

apresso Francesco Bolzetta, in Padova 1629, in-4 (15,5x22cm), relié.

Apresso Francesco Bolzetta, in Padova 1629, in-4 (15.5 x 22 cm), bound

First edition. P. Michel (works in Italian preserved in libraries in France) VIII, 120. Work illustrated with 95 plates on wood.

Contemporary binding in full vellum, handwritten title in ink. Spine browned [...]

2 500 €

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Joh. Fried PENTHER

Praxis geometriae, worinnen nicht bu ralle bey dem Feld-Messen forkommende fälle, mit Stäben, dem ...

Chez Christoph Peter Detleffsen, Augsburg 1732, petit in-folio (20,5x30,5cm, (10) 97 pp. -5. et de 11ff.), (10) 97pp.

PENTHER Joh. Fried.
Praxis geometriae, worinnen nicht bu ralle bey dem Feld-Messen forkommende fälle, mit Stäben, dem Astrolabio, der Boussole und der Mensul, [...]
Chez Christoph Peter Detleffsen, Augsburg 1732, small in-folio (20,5 cm x 30,5 cm), (10) (97 [...]

2 300 €

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