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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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 CHALLES

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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