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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Martin DU BELLAY & Guillaume DU BELLAY

Les memoires de Mess. Martin Du Bellay, Seigneur de Langey

P. L'huillier, à Paris 1569, In-folio (22x33cm), (6f.) 136ff. 10ff. 137-350ff. (6f.), relié.

original, unusual Edition. Brand printer in title page.

Bound in full brown sheepskin seventeenth. Back with nerves decorated. as Exhibit in Havana morocco. head cap arrasée. split bits. A head of library etiquette. Wetting the last index slips.

2 000 €

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Giovanni Battista CINI

Descritione della pompa funerale fatta nelle essequie del Ser. Sig. Cosimo de Medici Gran Duca de ...

Giunta, In Fiorenza (Florence) 1574, in-8 (15x22cm), 20f., relié.

first edition. Brand from the printer to the last leaf verso. Framed for Renaissance engraved title page with a title vignette representing the city of Florence. A medallion portrait of Cosimo de Medici on the back of the title page. italicized print.
Binding full rigid vellum nineteenth to [...]

800 €

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Henry Saint-Jean Lord Vicomte de BOLINGBROKE

Lettres sur l'histoire

S.n., s.l. 1752, In-12 (10x16,2cm), relié.

New edition after the original appeared in 1749.
Binding full fair calf iced contemporary. Back with nerves decorated. parts of title and volume number in red morocco. 4 corners bumped, a trimmed. Volume II slightly threadbare tail. Friction. Pretty nice copy.
British Foreign affires

400 €

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Robert CHALLE

Les illustres françoises, histoires veritables

Chez C. F. J. Lehoucq, à Lille 1780, In-12 (9x16,5cm), (4) xvij, 317pp. et (4) 325pp. et (4) 347pp. et (4) 338pp. (1),

New edition.
Bound in full marbled contemporary sheepskin. back smooth decorated with four finials and star.

180 €

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Comte d' AVAUX

Négociations de Monsieur le Comte d'Avaux en Hollande depuis 1679, jusqu'en 1684

Chez Durand & Pissot, à Paris 1754, in-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (2) 198pp. ; (2) 174pp. et (2) 145pp. ; (2) 184pp. et (2)

New edition after the first published in 1752. Pages in red and black tracks.
Copy to arms tails.
Binders in full sheepskin granite contemporary. back smooth decorated. parts of title and volume number morocco tan.

450 €

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Pierre Joseph CANTEL & JUSTIN

Justinus de historiis Phillipicis, et totius mundi originibus

Apud Fredericum Leonard, Parisiis (Paris) 1677, In-4 (18x25,5cm), (16) 329pp. (153), relié.

First edition, illustrated with a beautiful frontispiece of Chauveau the Dauphin's arms.
Bound in half vellum with corners twentieth. Back to jansenist nerves. Title and date in pen.

350 €

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Charles ANCILLON

Traité des Eunuques, dans lequel on explique toutes les différentes sortes d'Eunuques, quel rang ...

S.n., s.l. [Berlin] 1707, in-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (20) 187pp., relié.

first edition. Title page to the sphere. Dedicatory epistle to Mr. Bayle.
Bound in full brown sheepskin textured vintage. Spine tooled nerve. as Exhibit in Havana morocco. Shrouds partially torn. 2 corners bumped. Rubbed together. Traces of brown wetness on the first 2 layers.

550 €

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