First edition

René-Antoine Ferchault de REAUMUR

Art de faire eclorre et d'élever en toute saison des oiseaux domestiques de toutes especes

De L' Imprimerie Royale, à Paris 1749, In-12 (9,5x16,8cm), xij, 342pp. et (4) 339pp., 2 volumes reliés.

Original illustrated edition of 9 fold-out plates for the first volume, and 6 for the second, as well as 11 header.
Binding in full speckled and glazed brown calf of time. Ornate nerved back. title label in red morocco, volume number decorated in green morocco. Small gaps at the head of the 2 [...]

1 000 €

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Michel-Jean SEDAINE

La tentation de St. Antoine, ornée de figures et de musique [Ensemble] Le pot-pourri de Loth. ...

S.n., s.l. 1784 (S.d.), In-8 (15x23,1cm), relié.

First edition of these 2 "vaudevilles".
Binding at the end of the 19th century in full glossy blond calfskin produced directly on a brochure. Richly decorated back to nerves. 2 pieces of black calf title, tail date on black calf. triple framing net on the boards. Large interior frieze. [...]

800 €

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William COXE

Voyage en Suisse

Chez Letellier, à Paris 1790, In-8 (12x20cm), vij (1bc.) iv, 454pp. et (4) iv, 432pp. et (4) 463pp., 3 tomes en 3 volumes reliés.

Original French edition illustrated with 7 folding plates, including 2 maps of Switzerland and Mont Blanc, and a panorama of the Alps.
Binders in half percaline beige nineteenth. Back with title labels in red morocco. Green paper boards. Dirty back. Very blunt corners. Small scattered pale [...]

450 €

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Jean LEPAUTRE

Veue grottes et fontaines de jardins à l'italienne inventez et gravez par I. le Pautre

Chez Pierre Mariette, Paris 1650 (S.d.), In-8 oblong (20,5x31cm), relié.

Premier tirage de cette suite à l'eau-forte numérotée de 1 (frontispice) à 7. La planche numérotée 2 ne se trouve pas après le numéro 1, la planche suivante portant le numéro 3. Le recueil conservé à la Bibliothèque de Madrid (Biblioteca historica Marques de Valdocilla) fait également [...]

500 €

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First edition

Jean LEPAUTRE

Grottes & veües de Jardins inventées et gravées par Jean le Pautre

Pierre Mariette, à Paris 1650 (S.d.), In-8 oblong (20,5x31cm), relié.

First print of this suite composed of 6 prints. Copy similar to that held by the Biblioteca historica Marques de Valdocilla in Madrid (UCM)

600 €

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Jacques VANIER

Praedium rusticum

Apud Marcum Bordelet, Paris 1746, In-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (6) x, 320pp. (8), relié.

New edition. An allegorical frontispiece engraved by Brunet.

Binding in full glossy brown marbled calf of the time. Ornate nerved back. title label in red morocco. Upper leveled cap. Split upper joint with gaps. Blunt corners. Fronstispice browned in the margins.

180 €

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Torquato Tasso (dit) LE TASSE

Il Gofredo poema eroico del signor Torquato Tasso (Gierusalemme liberata)

Apresso Gio. Mansie, In Padova 1737, (23pp.) 550pp., relié.

New edition, illustrated with a frontispiece and 20 pretty unsigned figures.
Italian binding in full vintage red morocco. Ornate nerved back. title label of red morocco. Border frieze on the boards. Golden slices. Head cap partially torn off. 3 blunt corners. Friction and cracked back. The [...]

400 €

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Edward-Daniel CLARKE

Voyage en Russie, en Tartarie et en Turquie

Chez Fantin, à Paris 1812, In-8 (13x21cm), xviij, 559pp. (1) et (4) 500pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First edition, rare
Binding in plain brown calf of time. Smooth back decorated with 4 quadrilobed irons and multiple wheels. title labels and tomaisson in red morocco. Frieze framing on the splat lined with a golden net. Inner roulette. Epidermures on the backs and boards. Part of tomaion of [...]

1 400 €

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