First edition

Pierre NERON & Estienne GIRARD

Les edicts et ordonnances des tres-chrestien roys François I. Henri II. François II. Charles IX. ...

Chez Edme Pépingué, à Paris 1656, Fort in-Folio (24x36cm), (28) 1076pp. (24), relié.

New edition.
Binding very used in full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back with nerves adorned with the grotesque (scrolls, dots and lilies). title label of brown sheepskin. Torn caps with large gaps in the first and last boxes. Open joints in head and tail with lack of leather. Coins trimmed [...]

500 €

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First edition

Abraham Van VICQUEFORT

Memoires touchant les ambassadeurs, et les ministres publics. Par M.L.P.

Chez Pierre du Marteau, à Cologne 1677, In-12 (8,5x14cm), (6) (2bc) 627pp., relié.

First Edition, under initials LMP for "the prisoner minister". Title page to the sphere.
Binding full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin. Back with ornate nerves. title label of brown sheepskin. A slight lack in line. A blunt corner. Good copy, perfectly fresh.
In his memoirs written in [...]

400 €

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First edition

Matteo EGYZIO

Senatus consulti de bacchanalibus sive aeneae vetustae tabulae Musei Caesarei Vindobonensis

Apud Felicem Muscam, Neapoli 1729, Pet. in-Folio (22x32cm), (4) iiij, 221pp. (1) 2Pl., relié.

First edition illustrated with a title vignette depicting a Roman bacchanal engraved by Picini and 2 large folding planks on strong paper engraved by Schmutzer, one with medals and a vase, the second being a fac simile of an epigraph on a bronze plaque, edict of the consul Quintus Marcius on the [...]

700 €

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First edition

Jean VAILLANT

Selectiora numismata in aere maximi moduli e museo

Apud Antonium Dezallier, Parisiis 1694, (8) 132pp. (15), relié.

First Edition illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece in a portico engraved and drawn by Erlanger, and 59 boards

600 €

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TROGUE POMPEE

Iustini ex Trogi Pompeii historiis externis libri XXXXIIII

ApudHieronymum de Marnef, Parisiorum 1585, In-12 (8x13cm), 210ff. (18f.), relié.

12 figures of portraits of emperors in medallions.
German binding in full morocco brown seventeenth.

800 €

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First edition

WALLACE

Essai sur la différence du nombre des hommes dans les tems anciens et modernes

S.n., à Londres 1754, Pet. in-8 (10,5x17cm), (2) ij, ij, 292pp., relié.

First french edition, translated by Joncourt.

Binding poster ca 1790 full sheepskin blonde rooted. Smooth back decorated with 5 florets. title label in black sheepskin. Friction. 2 blunt corners.

450 €

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Nicolas de LA MARE

Traité de la police, Où l'on trouvera l'Histoire de son Etablissement, les Fonctions et les ...

Aux dépens de La Compagnie, à Amsterdam 1729, in-Folio (29,5x48cm), (28) 475pp. et (12) 477-1016p. (40pp.) et (8)

New edition, with mention of Second augmented edition. The illustration includes 3 thumbnails of repeated titles. The eight flip charts of Paris are missing. Title pages in red and black. The first volume of the Treaty of the Police appeared in 1707, Volume 2 in 1710, Volume 3 in 1719, and a fourth [...]

2 200 €

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First edition

Aleksey PETROVITCH

Mémoires en forme de manifeste sur le procès criminel jugé et publié à Saint-Pétersbourg en ...

Jean de la Rivière, Nancy 1718, in-12 (8x14,5cm), (8) 382 pp., relié.

First Edition illustrated frontispiece of a portrait of Tsar Peter the Great.

800 €

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