First edition

Louis-Charles de LAVICOMTERIE

Les crimes des papes depuis S. Pierre jusqu'à Pie VI

Au bureau des Révolutions de Paris, à Paris 1792, in-8 (12x20cm), (IV) XL; 568 pp., relié.

First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece and nine beautiful figures drawn and engraved by Ransonette illustrating crimes and exécutions.Demi fawn sheepskin wedge contemporary, smooth back with part of title and golden wheels. Friction. lack in mind. corners bumped. Frontispiece doubled. [...]

250 €

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ANSELME

Le palais de l'honneur, ou la science héraldique du blason. [Ensemble] Le palais de la gloire, ...

Chez Estienne Loyson et chez Pierre Bessin, à Paris 1664 - 1668, In 4 (18x24,6cm), (24) 711pp. (9) ; (6) 288 - 576p., relié.

Rare meeting of both parties constantly separated from Palace. If the Palace of glory is not really a sequel, it's a second part provided by the author. It is not known why it was published by another publisher, perhaps this change, and the year between the two editions has created this [...]

1 200 €

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Philippe LABBE BITURIGO

Pharus Galliae Antiquae. Ex Cesare, Hirtio, Strabone, Plinio, Ptolomeo, Itinerariis, Notitiis. ...

Ex officina Petri Vernoy, Molinis (Moulins) 1644, Pet. in 12 (7,5x13cm), (64) 272pp., relié.

First edition, scarce printing mill. Full Sheepskin contemporary. Back tooled raised. Good copy. Gazetteer of place names and cities of France in the texts of ancient geographers and their correspondences in modern French. Some autograph dedication of the authors are fully described as the one on [...]

500 €

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Philippe de COMMYNES (ou COMMINES)

Les memoires de Messire Philippe de Commines, chevalier, seigneur d'Argenton : sur les faicts & ...

Pour Jacques Chouet, s.l. [Genève] 1593, in-12 (8x14,3cm), (38) 854pp. (1f. bc.), relié.

New edition of the revised version by Denys Savage with the Epistles of Sleidan, which seems to have appeared for the first time in 1579 in Bonefons in Paris. Velin full time flexible flap. As pen and time. Traces of laces. The first white layer was not connected. Very pale wetness of p.280 to [...]

900 €

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First edition

Emmanuel Armand de Vignerot DU PLESSIS DE RICHELIEU & [...]

Mémoires du ministère du Duc d'Aiguillon, pair de France, et de son commandement en Bretagne, ...

Bureau de la collection historique des Mémoires relatifs au règne de Louis XV., Paris 1790, in-8 (12,5x21)cm, (8) 15-392p., relié.

First Edition. Posthumous publication of Soulavie. Full sheepskin contemporary. Smooth back decorated with gilt double, spare tracks, threadbare caps, bits rubbed, many scuffs, corners bumped. Emmanuel Armand de Richelieu Vignerot du Plessis, duc d'Aiguillon, was appointed governor of Britain in [...]

400 €

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Pierre de L'ESTOILE

Journal des choses mémorables advenuës durant tout le Regne de Henry III. Roi de France & de ...

Chez les héritiers de Pierre Marteau, A Cologne [Bruxelles] 1720, in-8 (10x16,5cm), (10) 280 (2) 281 - 532 (28)p. et

New and rare edition, illustrated with 15 figures by Harrewyn, including 13 portraits. Title page of Volume I in red and black. All first editions of this book were published in Hammer (Louis Elsevier); we do not know the true address it. This edition, after consultation copies identified in [...]

800 €

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Charles - Irénée CASTEL

Annales politiques

S.n., Londres 1758, in-12 (10x17cm), 402pp. et 402pp., 2 volumes reliés.

Second edition, after the original from 1757. Calf Full time. Smooth back decorated. Part of title in red morocco, and volume number in black morocco. Two small snags with gaps on upper cover of Volume I. Good copy. Essay on political events in France since 1658 juqu'a 1739. Considering the [...]

550 €

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Charles Joseph, Prince de LIGNE

Lettres et pensées du maréchal prince de Ligne, publiées par Mad. La Baronne de Staël Holstein

Chez J. J. Paschoud, à Genève 1809, In 8 (12x20,5cm), xiij, (1bc) 333pp. (2), relié.

New edition to the date of the original. Mentioned second edition. This edition by the same publisher as the first has the same collation. Sheepskin brown half contemporary. Smooth back wheels and decorated crosses dotted. Part of title in brown calf. A snag with the lack upper joint, in mind. [...]

200 €

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