First edition

Dominique de COLONIA

Histoire littéraire de la ville de Lyon avec une bibliothèque des auteurs lyonnois, sacré et ...

Chez François Rigollet, à Lyon 1728, 2 volumes in-4 (21x28cm), (34) 414pp (1f. errata) et (10) 838pp. (22), relié.

First edition, rare, illustrated eight Inserts plates most of which are extendible. Vignettes of securities arms of the city of Lyon. Title pages in red and black.
Full calf blond at the time. Back with five nerves ornate. Spare capacity and volume numbers of red. Golden coaching boards arms of [...]

1 000 €

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Amédée François FREZIER

Traité des feux d'artifice pour le spectacle

Chez Charles Antoine Jombert, à Paris 1747, in-8 (12x20cm), relié.

The best edition of this work increased and enriched by the author, whose original published in 1706. The author explains the importance of this new edition revised in a warning. Frontispiece, title 3 beautiful vignettes by Cochin and 13 folding plates (the 1741 edition contained only 8). Boards [...]

950 €

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First edition

François-Jean BRALLE, François-Jean BRALLE

Nouvelles fontaines érigées à Paris, de l'ordre et par la munificience de Napoléon le Grand

Chez Joubert fils & chez Bance, Paris 1810, 27,5x41,5cm, relié.

Rare first edition consists of an allegorical title engraved with the arms of Napoleon and 59 inset plates engraved on steel by Boizot, Beauvallet, Vallois under drawings of Bralle. All prints are executed with great finesse and have a scale and an aerial view at the bottom of board. The book will [...]

1 000 €

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Pierre Joseph MACQUER & Henri Gabriel DUCHESNE

Manuel du naturaliste. Ouvrage utile aux voyageurs et à ceux qui visitent les cabinets d'histoire ...

Chez Rémont, à Paris 1797 (An V), in-8 (12x20cm), 4 volumes reliés.

Stated the second edition, but actually the third, enlarged, with three volumes and eight plates of constellations; rare. The first edition appeared in 1770 in a single volume, a second being added in 1771.

Contemporary spotted sheep, spine with four tools and roulettes [...]

1 800 €

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First edition

Pierre François Guyot DESFONTAINES

Histoire de la ville de Paris

ChezJulien Michel Gandouin, à Paris 1735, in-12 (9x16,5cm), VI-576 pp. et IV-498-(4) pp. et IV-586 pp. et IV-532 pp.

Original edition, rare, published anonymously, and has never been reprinted; 5 leaflets illustrated maps of Paris for the four time periods studied the history of Paris, ranging from the dawn of the monarchy of Louis XV (to Louis X, Philip VI to Charles X, Charles X Henry IV and the latter to the [...]

1 200 €

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First edition

Adriaan SCHOONEBEEK , Ludolph SMIDS & Adriaan [...]

Pictura loquens

Ex officina Hadriani Schoonebeek., Amstelodami (Amsterdam) 1695, In-12 (9x16cm), relié.

The rare first edition, with a frontispiece and 61 illustrations.
Brown sheep, spine with decorated raised bands, roulette to head and foot, red morocco title piece. Three corners bumped.
A good and fresh copy.
The work puts together on two pages an extract from a literary work and its [...]

1 500 €

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Abbé NOLLET

Leçons de physique expérimentale.

Chez Durand, à Paris 1749 - 1764, fort in-12 (9x16cm), (6) lx ; 379 pp. et (4) 488 pp. et (4) 512 pp. et (4) 535 pp.

New edition, the volumes comprising three different editions (1749, 1753 and 1764), as is very often the case for this work when it is in a uniform binding, with editions and reprints spread over time. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 116 folding plates; particularly appreciated illustrations, [...]

1 300 €

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Marie Angélique de GOMEZ

Les journées amusantes

Par la compagnie, à Amsterdam 1766, in-12 (9,5x16,5cm), 8 tomes reliés en 4 volumes.

Mention eighth edition, illustrated with eight unsigned headpieces. The fun days were originally published from 1722 to 1731. Pages titles in red and black.
Full Sheepskin vintage blonde. Back tooled raised. Lack in the upper jaw of the head Volumes I and IV. Lack of Volume III in cap. Tail cap [...]

400 €

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