Maurice Comte de SAXE

Les rêveries ou Mémoires sur l'art de la guerre

Chez Pierre Gosse, à La Haye 1758, In Folio (24x35cm), VIII (4) 228pp.(4) 40pl. 15pp., relié.

Second edition, reprint of the first edition in-folio in 1756 at the same publisher, rare, illustrated with 40 plates including 4 unfolding and 16 double page. Large vignette with weapons in title page, and 41 ornaments (header, culs-de-lampe). Title page in red and black.
Binding in full icy [...]

1 500 €

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C. Cornellius TACITE & C. VELLEIUS PATERCULUS

C. Cornelii Tacitii Opera quae exstant, a Iusto Lipsio postremus recensita [...] item C. Velleius ...

Apud Balthasarem &Viduam Ioannis Moretti [Plantin], Antverpiae [Anvers] 1648, In-Folio (26x41cm), (16) 547pp. (33) 36p. ; 84p. (14), relié.

Strict reprinting of this edition of the Plantin presses in 1627, with the same snack. The compass printer's mark on the title page and on the back of the last page. Title page in red and black.
Binding full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin. Back to nerves adorned with boxes to the [...]

700 €

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First edition

Giano VITALI

Epistola de ingressu Gallorum in Mediolanum

Jacopo Mazzochi, Rome 15 novembre 1515, petit in-4 (14x20cm), (6 f.), relié.

VITALI Giano
Epistola de ingressu Gallorum in Mediolanum
Jacopo Mazzochi, Rome November 15, 1515, small in-4 (14 x 20 cm), (6f.), full red polished morocco
First edition embellished with an architectural title frontispiece. The title is in gothic font, and the text is in [...]

8 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

(Laurent de MEDICIS) Aurelio BIENATO

Oratio in funere Laurentii de Medicis enrichi d'une lettre autographe signée de Pierre II de ...

Philippus de Mantegatiis, Milan s.d. [après le 8 avril 1492] et s.d. [1493], ouvrage : 20,8x13,8cm et lettre : 22x30cm, (8f.) Sig : a8, relié.

Oratio in funere Laurentii de Medicis habita. With an autograph letter signed by Piero II de' Medici to Dionigi Pucci

15 000 €

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First edition

Jean Levesque BURIGNY de

Histoire generale de Sicile

Chez Isaac Beauregard & Pierre Gosse, à La Haye 1745, In-4 (19,5x25cm), (14) 511pp. et (4) 454pp. (10), 2 volumes reliés.

First edition, rare.
Bindings plain marbled plain vintage. Back with nerves adorned with boxed glans. Title pieces in brown morocco, and tomaison in red morocco. Friction. 2 blunt corners. Head of Volume I a little soft and fragile. Beautiful paper dominated by the guards.

1 000 €

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First edition

MAUBERT DE GOUVEST

Testament politique du cardinal Alberoni

Chez Marc-Michel Bousquet, à Lausanne 1754, In-12 (10x16,8cm), XXXI (1) 174pp. ; (2) XXXIII-XXXIV 291pp., 2 parties en un volume relié.

First edition.
Binding in full marbled brown calfskin. Back to nerves adorned. Title piece in red morocco. Headdress trimmed. Friction. A blunt corner.

200 €

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P. H. MALLET

[DANEMARK] Histoire de Dannemarc

Chez Barde, Manget & Compagnie & Chez Buisson, A Genève & à Paris 1787, 9 tomes en 9 Vol. in-12 (10,5x17,5cm), XXIV,

Third and best edition; it is indeed the most complete. Before composing this ensemble, several editions were published: in the first place an Introduction to the history of Dannemarc in 1755, which forms in our copy the first illustrated volume of a large folding map of Scandinavia. Two volumes in [...]

950 €

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First edition

Paul Philippe GUDIN DE LA BRUNELLERIE

Essai sur l'histoire des comices de Rome, des Etats-Generaux de la France, et du parlement ...

Chez Maradan, A Philadelphie Et se trouve à Paris 1789, In-8 (12x20cm), iv, 464pp. (1) et (4) 303pp. (1) et (4) 344pp., 3 volumes reliés.

First edition, rare.
Binding half marbled sheepskin contemporary with small corners of parchment. Smooth back decorated with wheels. Title and volume pieces in red morocco adorned. Friction. Lower bottom corner of volume 3 cropped. Good copy.
Comparative History of the States-General, [...]

900 €

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