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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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P. S. GIRARD & M. ROZIERE

Description de l'Egypte. Description de la vallée de l'Egarement, et conséquences géologiques ...

Imprimerie Impériale, à Paris 1812, In Folio (27x32cm), 25 - 40p. ; 83-98p., relié.

First edition of these two texts extracted from volume II, Natural History section of the Description of Egypt.
Binding in full cardboard parchment modern. black sheepskin title label.
Topographic description of the so-called Lost Valley, located between the Nile and the Red Sea, by a [...]

250 €

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Gratien LE PERE & Gaspard de CHABROL

Description de l'Egypte. Extrait d'un mémoire sur les lacs et les déserts de la Basse Egypte ...

Imprimerie Impériale, à Paris 1809, In Folio (27x42,5cm), 469-490p., relié.

First edition of these memoirs, extracts from the Description of Egypt, Modern State section, Tome second, 3rd delivery. Nice print on strong rag paper.
Binding in full cardboard parchment modern. Smooth back with title label in black sheepskin. Some foxinges. Uncropped copy, all [...]

250 €

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Arnold Hermann Ludwig HEEREN

Essai sur l'influence des croisades

Chez Treuttel et Würtz, à Paris 1808, In-8 (13x20,2cm), xxij (2) 513pp., relié.

first edition.
Vintage half-calf binding with corners. Back to nerves adorned with grotesque cold box. title label in red morocco. Separation nets on the boards. Frictions. Good copy.

180 €

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Lorenzo PIGNORIA

De servis et Eorum apud Veteres Ministeriis, Commentarius, In quo familia, tum erbana, tum rustica, ...

Sumptibus Andrea Frisius, Amsterdam 1674, In-16 (7,5x13,3cm), (36) 582pp. (38), relié.

New, rare edition, illustrated with 6 full-page figures and 21 vignettes. Printer's mark on the title page, in pine. The boards include musical instruments, jewelry, kitchen utensils
Binding in full brown calf of marbled and glazed era. Smooth back decorated with 5 boxed florets. title label in [...]

750 €

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Felice Maria NERINI

De templo et coenobio sanctorum Bonifacii et Alexii historica moumenta

Auod Jo. Laurenti Barbiellini, Romae 1752, In-4 (19,5x26cm), XXXI (1) 600pp. (12), relié.

Original illustrated edition of 13 plates out of text, including several fold-outs, including the famous image of Notre-Dame d'Édesse. Title page in red and black, with a vignette bearing the coat of arms of Cardinal Quirino.
Binding in full soft vellum of time. Smooth back. title label of [...]

800 €

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