First edition

Jean MONET & Anne Gabriel MEUSNIER DE QUERLON

Anthologie françoise ou chansons choisies [avec] Chansons Joyeuses

1765, in-8 (11,5x18cm), 7 (1) 64 pp. 318pp. ; (2) 317pp. ; (2) 320pp. ; (2) 80pp. 16 pp. (1) 110pp. 16pp., 4 volumes reliés.

First edition illustrated with 4 engravings by Le Mire after Gravelot and a frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by Saint-Aubin after Cochin. Includes the fourth volume Chansons joyeuses, often missing.
Full brown marbled calf binding, motifs tooled in gilt, morocco title [...]

1 200 €

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Elis BENNET

Henry Bennet et Julie Johnson, ou les esquisses du coeur, roman traduit de l'anglais, et orné de ...

Chez Louis, à Paris 1794, In-18 (8,5x13,8cm), (4) 192pp. ; (4) 188pp. et (4) 184pp. ; (4) 207pp. et (4) 216pp. ;

First edition of the French translation, illustrated with 6 anonymous figures.
Reliquure in half calf around 1820. Smooth backs decorated with 2 mirrored central irons, wheels. Title and volume pieces in black calf. Marbled slices.

450 €

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Dom Charles Joseph BEVY

Histoire des inaugurations des rois, empereurs, et autres souverains de l'univers, depuis leur ...

Chez Moutard, à Paris 1776, In-8 (12,5x20cm), xvj, 559pp. (5), relié.

First edition, illustrated with 14 beautiful costume boards representing about 80 French costumes from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century.
Binding full brown marbled vintage calf. Back to nerves adorned. Title piece in red morocco. Worthy restorations at the head and tail joints, idem in [...]

700 €

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Maurice Comte de SAXE

Les rêveries ou Mémoires sur l'art de la guerre

Chez Pierre Gosse, à La Haye 1758, In Folio (24x35cm), VIII (4) 228pp.(4) 40pl. 15pp., relié.

Second edition, reprint of the first edition in-folio in 1756 at the same publisher, rare, illustrated with 40 plates including 4 unfolding and 16 double page. Large vignette with weapons in title page, and 41 ornaments (header, culs-de-lampe). Title page in red and black.
Binding in full icy [...]

1 500 €

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François LE VAILLANT

Voyage de Monsieur Le Vaillant dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance

De l'imprimerie de Crapelet, à Paris 1798 (An VI), In-8 (12x19,5cm), xxxij, 385pp. et (4) 403pp. (1), 2 volumes reliés.

New edition, illustrated with 20 plates (animals, views, camps, natives) against 12 in the first edition of 1790, including 6 unfolding, all on hard paper, including the famous board of the Hottentote apron, which is sometimes missing.
Reals in full sheepskin marbled ice. Smooth back decorated [...]

800 €

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George KEATE

Relation des îles Pelew, situées dans la partie occidentale de l'Océan Pacifique, composée sur ...

Chez Le Jay et Maradan, A Paris 1788, in 8 (12,5x19,5cm), (4) 282pp. et (4) 274pp. (3), 2 volumes reliés.

First french edition, illustrated with 16 boards, including 11 unfolding and a large folding map (native views, objects ...). This edition was published the same year as the English original.
Bindings in full marbled and glossy sheepskin. Smooth back decorated with 4 boxed florets. Title pieces [...]

900 €

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Luigi TANSILLO

Stanze di cultura sopra gli horti de le donne, stampate nuovamente. Et historiate [avec] Stanze in ...

s.l. [Venise] 1537, petit in-8 (14,6x9,2cm), (16 f.) ; (16 f.), 2 textes reliés en 1 volume.

Stanze di Cultura sopra gli Horti de le Donne, Stampate Nuovamente.
Et Historiate [with] Stanze in Lode della Menta

9 000 €

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Tobias SMOLLET

Aventures de Roderick Random, traduites de l'anglois de Fielding

Chez Jean Nourse, à Londres 1761, In-12 (9,5x17cm), (4) xvj, 400pp. et (4) 342pp. et (4) 320pp., 3 volumes reliés.

First french edition, illustrated with 3 frontispices by Eisen engraved by Pinssio.
Binders full marbled brown and glossy vintage. Title piece of red morocco, piece of beige morocco tomaison. Headdress of Volume I torn off. Bits of volume I closely split at the head and tail. Friction. Title [...]

950 €

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