First edition

Pierre LOUVET DE BEAUVAIS

Abregé de l'histoire de Provence contenant plusieurs memoires qui ont êté inconnûs aux auteurs ...

Chez Léonard Tetrode, à Aix 1676, in-12 (8,5x16,5cm), (16) 528pp. et (4) 556pp., 2 volumes reliés.

Édition originale, très rare, illustrée d'un frontispice et de 27 portraits. Première des études de l'auteur sur la Provence, ce dernier donnera L'Histoire des troubles de Provence en 1679, puis Additions et illustrations sur les deux tomes de L'Histoire des troubles de Provence en 1680. On ne [...]

2 600 €

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Claude François Xavier (Abbé) MILLOT

Abrégé de l'histoire Romaine, orné de 49 gravures, qui en représentent les principaux sujets

Lécrivain, Paris 1816, In-4 (22,5x29,8cm), (4) 192pp., relié.

Edition illustrated with 49 figures in Plover, Piauget, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, Eisen and engraved by Tardieu, Chenu ...
Binding half calf antique brown. Back with nerves decorated with cold and 5 irons gilded nets and cold. As shagreen brown piece. boards a beautiful yellow marbled paper, red [...]

750 €

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Benedetto ACCOLTI

De bello contra barbaros a christianis gesto, pro Christi sepulcro & Iudaea recuperandis, Benedicti ...

Robertus Winter, Basilae (Bâle) 1544, petit in-8 (8x14,5cm), (128)f. (sur 136) [sig : A-Q8], relié.

Edition although bearing the mark from the publisher to the last leaf verso.
Binding XIX in full brown sheepskin, back smoothes decorated with gilded nets and a part of title in red morocco, place and date of edition golden tail, frame patterns stamped on cold boards, head slices and red [...]

2 000 €

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Antoine-Augustin BRUZEN DE LA MARTINIERE

Le Grand dictionnaire géographique, historique et critique

Chez P. G. Le Mercier & Le Mercier & Boudet, à Paris 1739-1741, in-4 (25,5x38,5cm), (4) XII pp. (2) 525 pp. (3) 334

original and complete well Editing six volumes
Binders of the time in the open marbled brown calf,

1 000 €

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Philippe de COMMYNES (ou COMMINES)

Les Mémoires de Messire Philippe de Comines, Chevalier, Seigneur d'Argenton : sur les principaux ...

Jean de Roigny, Paris 1552, in-folio (22x33cm), (6f.) clxix ff. (4f.), relié.

First published comments of Denis Savage whose privilege seems to have been shared between the Pre and Galiot John Roigny.
Title frontispiece engraved with a beautiful frame. 46 lines per page. Two small old handwritten notes on the back of clxix slip.
Binding post (XVII) in full fawn calf, [...]

5 000 €

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Sauveur-Jérôme MORAND

Histoire de la Ste-Chapelle Royale du Palais

Chez Clousier & Prault, à Paris 1790, in-4 (20x26,5cm), iv, 307pp. ; 228pp. (12), relié.

Edition illustrated with 17 plates, including a frontispiece and 2 shots. prints investment slip in fine.
Bound in full sheepskin rooted contemporary. Back smooth decorated with coffered grotesque, 3 compounds of diamonds and other 3 stars. Friesland and mentoring net on the boards. Roll on [...]

1 600 €

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GUYARD DE BERVILLE

Histoire de Bertrand Du Guesclin

Chez De Hansy, à Paris 1772, In-12 (9,8x17,2cm), xxiv, 487pp. et (4) 530pp. (10), 2 tomes en 2 volumes reliés.

first edition.
Binding right calf glossy brown time. Back with nerves decorated. parts of title and volume number in red morocco. Cold framing net on the boards. 2 corners bumped. Slight lack along a border. Nice copy.

550 €

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First edition

François Borgia KERI

Imperatores orientis

Imprimerie du collège académique de la Compagnie de Jésus, à Tyrnau 1744, in-folio (21x33,5cm), (24p.) 569pp. (1f.), relié.

first edition dedicated to Maria Theresa of Austria (1717-1780), Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary. The book was printed by the Society of Jesus which is the motto at the end under the intiales OAMDG, "Omnia ad Dei gloriam majorem".
Bound in full brown calf, back [...]

1 200 €

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