Jean de SILHON

Le ministre d'estat, avec le veritable usage de la politique moderne

Chez Antoine Michiels [Elzevier], Amsterdam [Leyde] 1661 - 1662, Pet. in 12 (7,5x12,5cm), (24) 384pp. et (24) 485pp.

Rare meeting of the three parts of the Minister of State having appeared separately. The first part appeared for the first time in Paris, at Toussaint du Bray, in 1631, the second and third appeared respectively in 1643 and 1651 with the same publisher and were later picked up by the Elzeviers. [...]

1 600 €

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Oratio TOSCANELLA & PLUTARQUE

Gioie historiche, aggiunte alla prima [seconda] parte delle vite di Plutarco

Apresso appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, In Vinegia 1568, In-4 (14,5x21cm), (20) 268pp. ; (20) 121pp. (3) Sig : *4

New edition. Specific title page for the second part. Printer's mark on the title page. Pretty historiated drop caps, including that of Laocoon. Printing in italic and roman characters for the preliminaries.
Binding in full soft vellum of the 18th century with flaps. Smooth back. 2 title [...]

1 200 €

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Observations pour le citoyen Vond'horen, armateur du corsaire Le Spartiate, de Bordeaux, intimé, ...

Chez la veuve Lacourt et Faye., Bordeaux 1799, in-4 (18x24cm), 23pp. et 19pp., 2 parties brochées en un volume.

first editions of these two pieces.
The privateer Le Spartiate chased two American flag ships, the Charles and the Mary, the ships were brought back to port and the goods confiscated. The court of Bordeaux, complacent in the matter, declared of good catch the loading of the two ships, invoking [...]

250 €

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Can de. CAULET

Dissertation à l'occasion des actes de l'assemblée générale du clergé de France de 1765. Sur ...

S.n., s.l. 1767, in-4 (19x24cm), xij (4) 176pp. (2)., broché.

first edition.
This dissertation originated from three complaints against the general assembly of the clergy of France in 1765: the first and most important was the falsification of a text by Saint Paul. In support of the text of Saint Paul used, we find at the end of this first part a precious [...]

250 €

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ANONYME

[Adoucissement sur les boissons alcoolisées "du à la sollicitude de l'Empereur pour le peuple"] ...

Imprimerie Impériale, AParis 1815, 13,5x22cm, 50pp. (1), broché.

first edition.
The imperial decree, which took place during the Hundred Days, concerns a softening of the tax system for drinks. The brochure contains all the articles that regulate behavior related to beverages: grape harvests, unions, entry fees, storage, license fees for brewers and others [...]

250 €

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FERDINAND EMPEREUR

Lettre écrite à un jurisconsulte de la ville de... au sujet des dispositions faites par ...

S.n., s.l. 1741, in 4 (21,5x27cm), 22pp., broché.

first edition.
Since the XVIth century, there had always been a man for head of the house of Austria, and the succession had been transmitted from male to male, but the Emperor Charles VI had only daughters. He wanted to leave his inheritance to his eldest daughter, Marie-Thérèse, and [...]

200 €

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Alessandro NEGRI

Maniliani Bononiensis monumenti historico-mystica lectio

HH. de Ducciis, Boboniae 1661, in-4 (16x22cm), (8) 37pp., broché.

Rare first edition illustrated with a frontispiece with the emblem of Cardinal Mazarin and a plate out of text representing a cippe (funerary monument) found in Bologna in 1601.
It is a presentation and an interpretation of the funerary stele of the centurion Manilius Quintus Cordus (1st [...]

450 €

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MALLET DU PAN

Essai historique sur la destruction de la ligue et de la liberté helvétique

de l'imprimerie de Spilsbury, et se trouve chez l'auteur, à Londres 1798, in-8 (13,5x21cm), viij, 296pp., broché.

First edition of a suite of five issues of the English Mercure (published by Du Pan himself), with a preface and additions.
There were in fact 3 editions on the date of 1798.
The work paints a picture of the oppression exercised by the young French republic after the Revolution on the Swiss [...]

180 €

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