Madame de LA FAYETTE, (Marie-Madeleine PIOCHE DE LA [...]

Memoires de la cour de France, pour les années 1688 & 1689

ChezJean-Edmé Dufour et Philippe Roux, à Maestricht 1779, in-12 (11x19cm), (2) 224pp., relié.

Seconde édition, après l'originale posthume de 1731.
Reliure XIXème en plein veau blond, dos à cinq nerfs orné de filets, roulettes et fleurons dorés, ainsi que de filets noirs, pièce de titre de maroquin brun, date dorée en queue, double filet doré en encadrement des plats, roulette [...]

600 €

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Louis-Antoine Marquis de CARACCIOLI

Lettres interessantes du Pape Clement XIV

Chez Lottin le jeune, à Paris 1776, in-12 (9,5x17cm), (2) 439pp. et (4) 438pp. (6), 2 volumes reliés.

Second edition, after the original appeared in 1775.
Binders full mottled brown sheepskin. back smooth decorated. Parts of titles and volume numbers in red morocco. Rubbed together. 2 corners bumped. Good copy.

300 €

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Maximilien de Béthune, Duc de SULLY

Mémoires de Sully, principal ministre de Henri-Le-Grand

Chez Jean François Bastien, à Paris 1788, In-8 (12,5x20cm), xviij, 528pp. et (4) 631pp. et (4) 606pp. et (4) 634pp.

New edition
Binders in full sheepskin brown granite. Back with nerves decorated. Parts of titles and volume numbers in red morocco. 4 corners bumped. Friction. A brown spot in the upper tail dish of volume I.

500 €

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First edition

Thomas WELWOOD

L'histoire du temps, ou relation de ce qui s'est passé de memorable en Europe, & principalement en ...

Chez Abraham Wolfgang, à Amsterdam 1691- 1693, in-12 (7,5x14cm), (6) 357pp. (1) et (16) 358pp. ; (12) 342pp. (1) et

Rare first editions meeting forming the 5 volumes of The History of Time.
Dutch Binding full vellum flaps. Smooth spine with title to the modern black pen. Beautiful copy, fresh.

1 000 €

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First edition

Jean-François de LACROIX

Anecdotes angloises

Chez Vincent, à Paris 1769, Fort pet. in-8 (10,5x17,2cm), xiv (2) 720pp., relié.

first edition.
Binding in full mottled calf contemporary. Back with nerves decorated. part of title in red morocco. A small lack the joints head. Mors higher with cracks. Trace of an old label on the second flat. Trace Scorch on the title page and on the second sheet. Some sheets slightly [...]

450 €

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First edition

Jean Claude Hippolyte MEHEE DE LA TOUCHE

Alliance des Jacobins de France avec le ministère anglais suivie des stratagèmes de Fr..... Drake

De L'imprimerie de la République, à Paris 1804 - An XII, In-8 (14x21cm), broché.

First edition, and only edition.
Publication of brochure in gray paper. dumb back. Lack of head. upper joint open 5cm. Corners and edges folded. Uncut copy.
Mehee the key was a spy in the service of Napoleon. He posed in London for a royalist hunted by French police, and went up an [...]

1 500 €

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First edition

Jacques Davy DU PERRON

Ambassades et negociations de l'illustrissime et révérendissime Cardinal Du Perron

Chez Pierre Chaudiere, à Paris 1620, in-folio (23x35cm), (2) 724pp. (12), relié.

First edition, very rare. It is found more often, even in LIBRARY second and third editions of 1623 and 1629, and especially that of 1633. For example, the National Library of France has 13 copies of embassies, 5 1623, 2 1629, and 6 of 1633, but none of this edition 1620.
Bound in full brown [...]

1 800 €

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First edition

GOURVILLE

Mémoires de Monsieur de Gourville, concernant les affaires auxquelles il a été employé par la ...

Chez Estienne Ganeau, à Paris 1724, in-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (2) 333pp. et (2) 338pp. (5), 2 volumes reliés.

first edition.
Bound in full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back with nerves decorated. as exhibits in Havana morocco. tail cap of Volume I threadbare. Mors top of Volume I split the head and tail. "Corners bumped. Friction.
The Gourville public activity extends over nearly half a century, [...]

500 €

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