LE FEVRE DE MORSAN

Des moeurs et des usages des romains

Chez Briasson, à Paris 1744, in-12 (9,5x17cm), (4) 466pp. et (4) 352pp. (56), 2 volumes reliés.

New edition, after the first published anonymously in 1739 Publication, the name of the author is in Barbier, Dictionary ds works anonymes.Plein marble and glossy antique calf. Back tooled raised. Part of title and volume number in red morocco. Tail cap of Volume I partly threadbare, ditto for the [...]

250 €

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Jean SLEIDAN

Commentariorum de statu religionis & Reipublicae, Carolo Quinto Caesar, Libri XXVI

Chez Theodore Rihellius (Rihel), Argentorati (Strasbourg) s.d. [1559], grand in-8 (12x19,5cm), (16) 872pp. (20) [Sig :

A folio edition was published simultaneously in Strasbourg at Jean Rihel, reprinted with that of 1558. The 1558 edition is the oldest we found, but according to some sources the original edition dates from 1555. Brand of printer on the title page.
Binding in full pigskin over wooden boards of [...]

3 000 €

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First edition

Jean-François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de RETZ

Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz

Chez J. Frédéric Bernard, à Amsterdam 1731, in-12 (9,8x15,8cm), 4 volumes reliés.

Final Edition rare; "More comprehensive than previous and the best that has been given to the eighteenth century ... Tchemerzine V, 396. An engraved portrait frontispiece by Thomassin. This is the only edition of the memoirs quoted by Bure in his bibliography. Pages title ... red and black glossy [...]

700 €

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William ROBERTSON

Histoire du règne de l'empereur Charles-Quint

Chez Saillant & Nyon, A Amsterdam et se trouve à Paris 1771, in-12 (9x17cm), 6 volumes reliés.

New edition after the original appeared in 1769.Pleine sheepskin blonde time. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Heads of the six volumes élimées.spine-ends tail tomes III and IV torn. Friction. Émoussés.L'Histoire very corners of Charles V. is undoubtedly one of the great [...]

300 €

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First edition

Abbé DOUAY

Histoire généalogique des branches de la maison de Béthune, existantes en Flandre et en Artois, ...

S.n., à Paris 1783, petit in-folio (23x37,5cm), iv, ix, 162 (2) (2) 269p., relié.

Rare first edition, and only edition of this book. Illustrated with numerous tables, a large folding plate depicting the genealogy emblazoned Desplanques, figures blazon in-text and notable feature of this book, 15 medallion portraits "in physionotrace" (process invented by Louis Christian and [...]

1 500 €

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First edition

COLLECTIF

Almanach de Lorraine et Barrois, année 1773

Chez la Veuve Charlot, à Nancy 1773, in-18 (6,5x11,5cm), 190pp. (2), relié.

First Edition. Full sheepskin textured blonde then. Smooth back casing and adorned with gold jewels and a piece of sheepskin as blonde. All red edges. A lack in joint line. A corner a little blunt. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas [...]

180 €

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Quintus Curtius Rufus (dit) QUINTE-CURCE

Alexander Magnus et illum commentarius Samuelis Pitisci quo antiquitates persarum, macedonum, ...

Apud Petrum van Thol, Hagae-Comitis (La Haye) 1708, 2 tomes en un vol. Fort in 8 (11,5x19,5cm), 855pp. (168), relié.

New edition with commentary by Samuel Pitiscus mentioning third edition, illustrated with a frontispiece and title, Pitiscus portrait, 4 folding maps and 11 boards with 29 numbered figures (most folding) often very curious (the Gardens of Babylon) by Johan van den Avelen d "after G. Hoet. First [...]

650 €

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First edition

Joseph-Louis-Ripault DESORMEAUX

Histoire de la Maison de Montmorenci.

Chez Desaint & Saillant et Duchesne, à Paris 1764, in-12 (10x17cm), (6) 408pp. et (4) 448pp. et (4) 464pp. et (4) iii

First Edition. Full calf blond contemporary. Back with five nerves ornate coffered and gilded finials, as well as parts of title and volume number morocco blond and lemon. All slices speckled red. Head cover of the second volume threadbare. Back third and fifth volumes having to work. Galleries to [...]

700 €

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