First edition

Charles PATIN

Quatre relations historiques

S.n., à Basle 1673, In-12 (9x15,8cm), (8) 3-336p., relié.

First edition.

Binding full brown speckled brown and glossy vintage. Back with ornate nerves. title label of brown calf. Restorations in caps, joints and corners. Missed marbled cover pages on the blank sheets.
Ex libris of the twentieth: Bibliotheca Altholii doctoris.

350 €

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Claude-François MENESTRIER

Des decorations funebres. Ou il est amplement traité des tentures, des lumières, des mausolées, ...

Chez J.B. de La Caille, à Paris 1683, In-8 (12x19cm), (4) 38pp. ; 367pp., relié.

First edition, rare, and illustrated with many in-text woods including 11 vignettes, a large figure (p.179), 4 shields and 14 tiny portraits.

Copy to the arms of the nineteenth Baron Pavée de Vendeuvre, with its motto: Ardeo persevero spero.
Binding full brown sheepskin [...]

500 €

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Pierre BERTUS & MONTANDRE

L'image d'un bon roy qui ayme ses sujets, et qui se fait aymer d'eux par ses vertus royales ...

S.n., s.l. 1652, In-4 (17x23,2cm), 4, 270pp. (6) ; 64pp. ; 210pp., relié.

Edition originale du premier texte. Edition en partie originale du second ouvrage, mazarinade formée de trois parties distinctes : La tutelle des rois mineurs (p.1-64) ; Le roy mineur ou panégyrique sur la personne et l'éducation de Louis XIV ; la dernière partie du volume ne contient pas de [...]

400 €

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Jacques LENFANT

Histoire de la guerre des Hussites et du concile de Basle

Chez Pierre Humbert, à Amsterdam 1731, in-4 (19,5x24,7cm), (4) xvij (1) 355pp. et (4) 406pp. (17), 2 volumes reliés.

First edition illustrated with 22 title vignettes and 10 portraits engraved by Fillieul and Scottin, and published by his widow Emilie Lenfant. The Dissertation of M. de Beausobre on the Adamites of Bohemia follows the work of Lenfant (258-370p.). 2 title thumbnails. Biography of the author in the [...]

600 €

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Marquis de GESVRES

Recueil general, des pieces contenues au procez de Monsieur le Marquis de Gesvre, et de ...

Chez Reinier Leers, à Rotterdam 1714, In-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (6) xxiv, 292pp. ; (4) 226pp. 88pp., 2 tomes en un volume relié.

New edition.

Binding full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back with nerves richly adorned. title label in red morocco, entitled: Gesvre collection. A cut on some minimeters to the upper joint at the head. Epidermures on the back and cracks in the middle of the back. A hitch with missing [...]

300 €

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R.P. HENRI GRIFFET

Histoire de Tancrede de Rohan, avec quelques autres pieces concernant l'histoire de France et ...

Chez J. F. Bassompierre, à Liege 1767, (4) 498pp. (2), relié.

First edition. The Tancrede de Rohan's hitory is followed by 4 subtitles delimiting the different parts: Remarks on the birth of Henri II, Prince de Condé; History of the secret negotiations of France with Holland paper; Observations on the disorders of the Regency during the minority of Louis [...]

450 €

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François BERNARD

Histoire et vie de Madame la Comtesse Du Barry

AuPont-aux-Dames 1775, In-8 (13,5x21,3cm), 72pp., relié.

Counterfeit of The Kythera Gazette or secret story of the Countess du Barry, published the same year, attributed to François Bernard, who would have worked here with Pidansat de Mairobert.
Binding late nineteenth half hazelnut glossy calf. Back decorated with 5 small flowers. title [...]

180 €

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Prosper MARCHAND

Dictionnaire historique, ou memoires critique et litteraires, concernant la vie et les ouvrages de ...

Chez Pierre De Hondt, à La Haye 1758 - 1759, In-Folio (25,5x41cm), (8) 330pp. (6) ; (4) 328pp. (28), 2 tomes en un volume relié.

first edition that will not know reprint. It is illustrated with a board, a genealogical table of the Estienne family, and 7 figures in-text (medals ...). Title page in red and black. Printing on two columns, the subtitle and the titles on hard paper.
Binding full brown marbled and glazed [...]

700 €

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