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Henri Charles de LA TREMOILLE

Mémoires de Henri-Charles de La Tremoille, prince de Tarente

Chez J. F. Bassompierre, à Liège 1767, in-12 (10x16,5cm), lxxij, 380pp. (2), relié.

First Edition, relatively rare. Title page in red and black. This is the only edition of these old memories. Sheepskin half brown speckled slightly later. Back to nerves decorated with nets. Charles Henri de la Tremoille is the 4th Duke of Thouars and Duke of Trémoille, although he died before his [...]

450 €

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Pedro Roman MELENDEZ

Epilogo de Utrera: Sus grandezas, y hazañas gloriosas de sus hijos

Por Juan Francisco Blas de Quesada, En Sevilla, Impressor Mayor de dicha ciudad 1730, Pet. in-4 (15x20cm), relié.

First edition. Large arms of Utrera on second leaf. Title in red and black with a floral frame.
Contemporary vellum, spine titled in ink (smudged). One tie in good condition, spine partly detached. Traces of glue to final endpaper. A good copy without significant faults, generally fresh.
A [...]

1 400 €

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Recueil des Edits, declarations, lettres patentes, arrest et reglemens du roy; registrés en la ...

Chez Nicol. & Rich. Lallemant, à Rouen 1755, in-4 (19x25,5cm), (22) 876pp. (14), relié.

Originale.Plein Edition Calf time. Spine ribbed ornate. Part of title and volume number in red morocco. Friction. A few slashes on the boards. Reasonable exemplaire.Recencement of all edicts, sorted by year and by district. Note the importance of the decisions concerning the Protestants. --- Please [...]

450 €

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Pierre LE BRASSEUR

Histoire civile et ecclésiastique du Comté d'Evreux, où l'on voit tout ce qui s'est passé ...

Chez François Barrois, à Paris 1722, In 4 (19,5x25,5cm), (28) 417 (27) (1bc.) 208 ; 52pp., relié.

First edition, rare, illustrated three folding plates depicting the interior of a tomb discovered in 1685. Calf Full time. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Friction. A lack in the right margin of the title page, without loss of text. Composed of two parts, narrated history itself [...]

800 €

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Guillaume de CHOUL

Religio castrametatio disciplina militaris et balnae veterum romanorum

Apud Janssonio Waesbergios, Amstelodami (Amsterdam) 1685, in-4 (18x25cm), relié.

New edition and first printing of the illustrations: a frontispiece, 62 full-page and 241 figures in-text and a folding plate on the organization of a Roman camp. Title page in red and black. Velin from nineteenth century. Smooth spine.
This famous work is composed of three texts, the first on [...]

900 €

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Marquis de LOUVILLE

Mémoires secrets sur l'établissement de la Maison de Bourbon en Espagne, extraits de la ...

Maradan, Paris 1818, in-8 (12x19,5cm), VIII, 384pp. et 371pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First Edition. Half Calf burgundy wedge, 1900; clever pastiche of a binding 1820. spine false nerves decorated flat wheels and nets. Back uniformly thinned without consequence. Good copy. This soldier was appointed head of the French house of Philip V of Spain, the first Bourbon king of Spain [...]

450 €

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J. B. SALGUES

Mémoire au roi, pour le Sr. Joseph Lesurques, né à Douai...

Chez Dentu, à Paris 1822, In 8 (14x22cm), 240pp., relié.

First Edition. A fold-burning before the title page line. Half time Calf. Smooth back adorned with jewels and 5 casters. Part of title in shagreen burgundy. Two snags with light gaps on either side of the top cap. Have rubbed and burnished top cap. Upper joint and split open. Lesurques is one of [...]

300 €

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Quintus Curtius Rufus (dit) QUINTE-CURCE

De rebus gestis Alexandri magni regis Macedonum, libri decem

Apud Ioanem Frellonium, Lugduni (Lyon) 1555, in-12 (8x12,5cm), (28) 325pp. (23) (33), relié.

Editions of Curtius on Alexander's life were numerous in the sixteenth century. We were unable to determine if it was a first for John Frellon, although not identified any've earliest edition in this editor (especially in the catalog of Lyon Aurelianensis sixteenth editions) present only in the [...]

600 €

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