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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Jean-François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de RETZ

Memoires du Cardinal de Retz

S.n., Amsterdam 1718, In-16 (8,5x14,7cm), (14) 428pp. et (2) 407pp. et (2) 420pp., 3 volumes reliés.

Second edition. A rare counterfeit of the first edition of a rare rarity that appeared in Nancy in 1717. This edition will also be given in Cologne at David Roger, who seems to be a fictional publisher. Title pages in red and black.
Bindings in full brown contemporary brown. Back to Jansenist [...]

1 200 €

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First edition

Caspar SAGITTARIUS

Celsiss. Origines Serenissimorum Ducum Brunswico-Luneburgensium. Historica Dissertatione pandent ...

Typis Nisianis, Jena (Iéna) 1684, 144pp., relié.

first edition, rare, illustrated with 2 medals in title page.
blond in full calf binding iced ca 1880 signed panying.

550 €

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Germain-François Poullain de SAINT-FOIX

Essais historiques sur Paris

Chez Duchesne, A Londres & se trouve à Paris 1765, in 12 (10,5x17,5cm), (6) iv, 287pp. et (4) 263pp. et (4) 282pp.

third edition statement. The 6th and 7th volumes published in 1777 do not relate to the trials Paris, since they contain the Turkish Letters, and various parts, including the Iron Mask.
Binders posterior half slightly brown sheepskin. Back smooth decorated with two florets and 2 coffered [...]

400 €

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BARBIER DU BOCAGE

Recueil de cartes géographiques, plans, vues et médailles de l'ancienne Grèce, relatifs au ...

Chez de Bure l'aîné, à Paris 1789, In-4 (20,5x26cm), xli, 31Pl., relié.

Second edition, illustrated with 31 boards including 29 maps and plans (16 folding) including 11 enhanced colors.
Binding in full green vellum time. Back to jansenist nerves. part of title in red morocco.

650 €

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