First edition

William COXE

Voyage en Pologne, Russie, Suède, Dannemarc, &c. & augmenté d'un voyage en Norvège par Mr. P.H. ...

Chez Barde, Manget, à Genève 1786, In-8 (12,5x20,5cm), x, 380pp. et (2) 404pp. et (6) 293pp. et (4) 303pp., 5 volumes reliés.

Original French edition published at the same time as an edition in 2 volumes in-4 at the same publisher, it is increased the trip to Norway Mallet. The first English edition was published in London in 1784. The illustration includes 12 maps and pamphlets (Poland, Russia, Caspian Sea, Dannemarc), 4 [...]

800 €

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Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU

Collection complette des oeuvres de J. J. Rousseau

S.n. [J. L. de Boubers], Londres [Bruxelles] 1774 - 1783, In-4 (20,5x28,2cm), (4) XXXII, viij, 382pp. et (4) 399pp. et

The best edition published so far. It is on the latter that will be established the famous Geneva edition revised by Rousseau of 1782, also in the format in-4, and which will borrow) this edition of 1774 the boards of Moreau the young. A portrait of Rousseau in a medallion at the frontispiece of [...]

1 800 €

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Andreas MARCHTALLO

Quadragesima Christo patinti sacra, seu passio domini nostri Jesu Christi

Apud Fratrum Klauber, Augsbourg 1778, In-12 (10x16cm), (12) 100pp., relié.

Second edition, illustrated with a frontispiece and 46 figures illustrating the Passion of Christ, etched by Catherine Klauber, in the German Rococo style, characteristic of Augsburg engravers, frameless and with rocaille framing, in compositions Baroque sometimes complex.
Binding in full [...]

400 €

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First edition

Jacques LENFANT

Histoire de la guerre des Hussites et du concile de Basle

Chez Pierre Humbert, à Amsterdam 1731, in-4 (19,5x24,7cm), (4) xvij (1) 355pp. et (4) 406pp. (17), 2 volumes reliés.

First edition illustrated with 22 title vignettes and 10 portraits engraved by Fillieul and Scottin, and published by his widow Emilie Lenfant. The Dissertation of M. de Beausobre on the Adamites of Bohemia follows the work of Lenfant (258-370p.). 2 title thumbnails. Biography of the author in the [...]

600 €

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Claude-François MENESTRIER & Lukas HOLSTE

Symbolica Dianae Ephesiae Statua a Clavdio Menetreio. Ceimeliothecæ Barberinæ Præfecto Exposita ...

Apud Io. Iacobum de Rubeis & Ioannem Baptistam Bussottum, Romae 1688, Pet. in-Folio (22,5x33cm), relié.

New edition, after the first, also published in Rome in 1657. The second text is also on the date of 1688, but not at the same address. A title page for the last part: Io. Petro Bellori notae in numistata tum Ephesia, tum aliarum urbium apibus insignata, without address and place, with a bee in [...]

1 300 €

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First edition

John KEILL & Pierre Charles LEMONNIER

Institutions astronomiques, ou leçons élémentaires d'astronomie

Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, à Paris 1746, In-4 (20x26cm), (8) lxiv, 660pp., relié.

First edition
Binding full brown basement contemporary. Back with ornate nerves. title label of brown sheepskin. Upper joint tightly split largely. Lower joint open in tail and head. Rubbed and scratched boards, with some gaps. Corners very dull and trimmed, bare. Scattered bites.

800 €

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Jean-Sylvain BAILLY

Histoire de l'astronomie moderne depuis la fondation de l'école d'Alexandrie, jusqu'à l'époque ...

Chez De Bure fils aîné, à Paris 1781 - 1785, In-4 (20x25,7cm), xvj, 728pp. (13Pl.) et 751pp. (5Pl.) et (4) 415pp., 4 volumes reliés.

Second edition.
Binding full marbled and glossy brown calfskin. Back with ornate nerves. title label in red morocco, piece of tomaison in red morocco. Upper joint of volume I split in the lead. A hitch with lack on the lower joint at the level of the first box. Upper joint of volume II closely [...]

1 800 €

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First edition

Matteo EGYZIO

Senatus consulti de bacchanalibus sive aeneae vetustae tabulae Musei Caesarei Vindobonensis

Apud Felicem Muscam, Neapoli 1729, Pet. in-Folio (22x32cm), (4) iiij, 221pp. (1) 2Pl., relié.

First edition illustrated with a title vignette depicting a Roman bacchanal engraved by Picini and 2 large folding planks on strong paper engraved by Schmutzer, one with medals and a vase, the second being a fac simile of an epigraph on a bronze plaque, edict of the consul Quintus Marcius on the [...]

700 €

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