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Pierre BOITEL (Sieur de GOUBERTIN)

Le tableau des merveilles du monde

Chez Toussaint du Bray, à Paris 1617, in-8 (16x11cm), (12) (1bc) 627pp. -20., relié.

First Edition. Rather rare. A copy of the BNF, one at Tours. Cioranescu only reports Historical Chronicles Boitel. Full Parchment Contemporary flaps. Back mute. Historian, poet and polemicist of the first half of the seventeenth, we know that very little of the character, he wrote theater of [...]

750 €

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POOPDS

Opuscule ou essai tendant à rectifier des préjugés nuisibles et à former des vertueux ...

Chez David Fowler (de l'imprimerie de J. Cooper), à Londres 1791, in 12 (16,3x10,5cm), 286 pp., relié.

Edition originale, et seule parue.
Demi Veau romantique rouge , spine lisse à 2 fers romantiques en long.
Cet ouvrage fut rédigé par un quaker américain, et selon l'éditeur avant la Révolution française. L'auteur y condamne sévèrement « la fourberie et le fanatisme des prêtres [...]

650 €

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Johann Heinrich HOTTINGER

Grammatica, quatuor linguarum hebraicae, chaldaicae, syriacae et arabicae, harmonica, ita perspicue ...

Adriani Wyngaerden, Heidelberae 1659, petit in-4 (21x15cm), (6) 212pp., (9) (1bc) 102pp., 96pp., relié.

First Edition. Brunet III, 347 cites a 1661 edition of Frankfurt. Sheepskin Half middle nineteenth century, back nerves, small irons cold ett wheels on the nerves. Rubbed together. Johann Heinrich Hottinger was a highly esteemed Swiss orientalist, and his numerous works in the field have been [...]

700 €

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Règlement et réformations des taxes des écritures judiciaires et extrajudiciaires, épices de ...

Chez Alexandre Giroud, Avignon 1765, in-4 (24,5x19cm), (4) 56pp., relié.

First Edition. Absent the BNF and French catalogs. Full Sheepskin mottled, spine ribbed. As part of the nineteenth redone. Scuffed top cap. Oldest traces of mold on some marginal sheets. The book makes statements of all fees received in all circumstances by the Avignon court system. Bookplate in an [...]

800 €

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Jean HELLOT

L'art de la teinture des laines, et des étoffes de laine...

Chez la veuve Pissot et Jean Thomas Herissant, Paris 1750, fort in-12 (17x10,5cm), xix (5) 631pp., relié.

First Edition. Full contemporary calf. Back to nerves tooled, red morocco title. A dull corner and a border on a centimeter. It lacks a third of the piece title. Réemboîté work. This is the first such treaty on how to dye wool and most important work of the author, Jean Hellot (1685-1766) [...]

800 €

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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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