Louis Jean LEVESQUE DE POUILLY

Théorie des sentimens agréables

Chez de Bure père, à Paris 1774, in-8 (10,5x17cm), xxxij, 352pp., relié.

Fifth and best edition, plus the praise of Mr. Pouilly (Lieutenant General presidial of the city of Reims that Levesque Pouilly endeavored to beautify), by the abbot of Saulx, the text to be engraved on a fountain erected in his honor, the 2 speech he gave in Reims March 6, 1748 and February 17, [...]

600 €

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First edition

Jean PICARD & Philippe LA HIRE de

Traité du nivellement par M. Picard

Chez Etienne Michalet, à Paris 1684, In-12 (9x16cm), (12) 248pp. (2), relié.

first edition.
Binding in full speckled brown sheepskin contemporary. Back with nerves decorated. brown calf as an exhibit. 3 corners bumped. friction. Good copy.

800 €

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James BRUCE

Voyage aux sources du Nil

Chez Lepetit, à Paris An VII, in-18 (8,5x13,5cm), 237pp. et 225pp. et 244pp. et 255pp. et 255pp. et 223pp. et 213pp.

New illustrated edition, after the original was published in 1790. Our edition presents good volume atlas consists of a map and twenty-two engraved plates by Tardieu the Elder. The first board was connected frontispiece of the first volume of text. Cardboard brown time marbled paper. Parts of title [...]

800 €

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(Miguel de CERVANTES)

Le desespoir amoureux, avec les nouvelles visions de Don Quichotte, histoire espagnole

Aux dépens de La Compagnie, à Amsterdam 1747, In-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (4) 204pp. ; (2) 196pp., 2 parties en un volume relié.

original, unusual Edition.
Bound in full sheepskin brown vintage ice. Back with nerves decorated. red morocco title piece. torn off caps. Lack of title to the room. open tail upper joint.

450 €

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First edition

Adrien Thomas Perdou de SUBLIGNY

La fausse Clelie, histoire françoise, galante et comique

Chez Pierre Witte, à Paris 1712, In-12 (8,5x15cm), (2) 318pp. (2), relié.

first edition. An unsigned frontispiece. Title page in red and black.
Bound in full brown calf mouchet & é contemporary. Spine tooled nerve. As a piece of beige leather.

450 €

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FREDERIC II DE PRUSSE

Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de la maison de Brandebourg

Chez Jean Néaulme, à Berlin et a La Haye 1751, In-12 (9,5x16,5cm), XXIII ((1) viij, 405pp., relié.

New edition
Binding in full mottled calf antique brown. Back with nerves decorated. part of title in red morocco. Miss the joint in the head. delicate head cap. A small lack tail. 2 corners bumped. misfolded boards.

450 €

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First edition

Thomas Simon GUEULLETTE

Contes chinois ou les avantures merveilleuses du Mandarin Fum-Hoam

Chez Etienne Neaulme, à Utrecht 1733, in-16 (7x13cm), (8) 323pp. (7) et (2) 290pp. (6) 32, 3 volumes reliés.

original, unusual Edition.
Binders full mottled calf brown vintage. Back with nerves decorated. as exhibits in red morocco volume number of rooms in Havana morocco.

1 000 €

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Alain-René LESAGE

Le bachelier de Salamanque, ou les memoires de D. Cherubin de la Ronda, tirés d'un manuscrit ...

Chez Pierre Gosse, à La Haye 1741, In-12 (9,5x17cm), (8) 378pp. (5) ; (2) 380pp. (4), relié.

New Edition, the original was published in 1736 and then in 1738 for his suite. Six figures, including a frontispiece, all unsigned.
Binding full glossy brown calf contemporary.

180 €

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