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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César Vichard de SAINT-REAL

Conjuration des Espagnols contre Venise

De L'imprimerie de Monsieur, à Paris 1781, In-16 (8x12,5cm), xxiv, 167pp., relié.

New edition.
Binding full icy blond calf vintage. Smooth back decorated with 5 small irons, roulette tail. title label in black morocco. Triple framing net on the splat with small angular irons. Friesian on the cuts and inner. Golden slices. Traces of friction. very nice copy, very [...]

200 €

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First edition

Lorenzo PIGNORIA

De servis et Eorum apud Veteres Ministeriis, Commentarius, In quo familia, tum erbana, tum rustica, ...

Ad insigne pinus [ C. Daberholtzer for Marcus Welser], Augustae Vindelicorum [Augsbourg] 1613, In-4, xij, 280pp. (10), relié.

First edition, rare, illustrated with 6 full-page figures and 21 vignettes.
Modern binding in full lace parchment. Smooth back mute.

1 500 €

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First edition

Adrien RICHER

Vies des plus célèbres marins

Chez Belin, à Paris 1789, In-24 (8x12,9cm), 263pp. ; 209pp. (1) et 252pp. ; 295pp. et 304pp. ; 220pp. et 260pp. ;

Collective first edition. The various parts composing this collection were published a first time separately from 1780 to 1786. The tomaison is placed on the subtitle. The 11th and 12th volumes are by mistake on the title page Volume 1 and Volume 2. The thirteenth part which completes the [...]

700 €

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Signed book

Père CASIMIR

Manuscrit original : Le triomphe de la croix sur les attraits de la souveraineté ou la vie du duc ...

1800, In-12 (9x16cm), 123pp., relié.

Original manuscript of a work published in 1674 under the same title. The text, in a state certainly before the publication presents many variants with the edition which contains additions and variations of style. The manuscript thus presents a state prior to the edition, the copy is clean and [...]

700 €

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Pierre COLEAU

Les invincibles, ou gloire des armées françaises. Précis des actions éclatantes qui ont fait ...

A la Libraire de H. Vauquelin, à Paris 1819, In-12 (10x17cm), xij 13-280p., relié.

Second edition. A frontispiece flyer depicting a mausoleum, dead soldiers crammed and generals.
Binding full red morocco long grain vintage. Back with richly decorated nerves, a central floret, 2 other small florets and several wheels. title label of red maorquin. boards decorated with 3 [...]

450 €

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Comte de Bussy, Roger de RABUTIN

Les memoires de Messire Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy

Chez Jean Anisson, à Paris 1696, In-4 (19x25,3cm), (4) 563pp. (1) et, 2 volumes reliés.

First edition.

Binding full brown marbled vintage calf. Back with nerves richly adorned. title label in red morocco, piece of tomaison red morocco ornate.

1 800 €

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First edition

Comte d' AVAUX & Abel SERVIEN

Lettres de messieurs D'Avaux et Servien, ambassadeurs pour le roy de France en Allemagne

S.n., s.l. 1650, In-12 (9x14,6cm), (2) 211pp. ; (2) 62pp., relié.

First edition.
Binding full vellum flexible of time. Smooth spine with long pen head (faded and unreadable).

300 €

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