First edition

Marc de SAINT-MARTIN

La nature naissante ou les merveilleux effets de la puissance divine dans la creation du monde ...

De l'imprimerie de Vincent du Moutier, à Paris 1667 - 1670, In-8 (12x18cm), (8) 32, 6pp. ; (4) 44pp. (3), relié.

first editions of these two poems.

binding in full speckled brown contemporary sheepskin. Ornate nerved back. title label of brown sheepskin. joint restorations.

400 €

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François-Augustin Paradis de MONCRIF

Oeuvres

Chez la veuve Regnard, à Paris 1768, In-12 (9,8x16,5cm), (2) xiv, 233pp. et (2) 200pp. (2) et (2) 233pp. (1) 21pp.

New edition
Binding in full marbled and glazed calf of time. Ornate nerved back. title label in red morocco, volume number with black wax. red slices. A small lack in the lower joint at the head of volume I. Gallery of worms at the end of volume II. 5 blunt corners. Traces of friction. Very [...]

650 €

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HOMERE, QUINTUS DE SMYRNE

Odysseae Homeri libri XXIII. Raphaele Regio Volaterrano interprete [Ensemble] Quinti Calabri de ...

Seb. Gryphium, Lyon 1541, In-8 (10,5x16,5cm), 391pp. (9) ; 271pp. (1), relié.

New edition
Binding in full red morocco ca early nineteenth. Smooth decorated back. title label in red morocco. cover paper ca 1800. Lower joint split at the head with missing 2 cm. Traces of friction. Beautiful copy.

1 800 €

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Ambrosius Aurelius Théodorus MACROBIUS ( MACROBE)

Macrobius interpretatio in somnium Scipionis a Cicerone confictum. Eiusdem Saturnaliorum libri ...

Philippi Iuntae (Giunta), Florentiae (Florence) 1515, In 8, (24) 279pp. (1), relié.

Rare and precious first edition of Macrobe works by Niccolo Angeli. Editorial information can be found in the colophon, the title page showing only the title in full: Impressum Flor? Tiae opera & sumptu Philippi Iuntae. Anno à natiuitate D. XV. supra mille mense Iulio. Leone Decimo Pontifice. [...]

2 000 €

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Pierre CORNEILLE

Oeuvres de Corneille

Chez Augustin Courbé, Paris 1654 pour la première partie et 1652 pour les deux autres, in-12 (8x13,5cm), 691 pp. et

Fifth collected edition, with a frontispiece, the date of 1645 and a portrait, with the date of 1644.
Later bindings in navy-blue morocco, all edges gilt, bindings signed by Alix.

Rare and elegantly bound copy.

5 000 €

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Françoise-Albine BENOIST

L'erreur des désirs

Chez la veuve Regnard, à Paris 1770, In-12 (10x17cm), xxij (2) 237pp. et 251pp., 2 parties en un volume relié.

first edition, rare.
Binding in full icy blond calf of time. Smooth decorated back. title label in red morocco.
Novel in which two major romantic tendencies of the 17th century intersect, the libertine novel and the sentimental novel. For the author, the characteristic of man is not [...]

450 €

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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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Charles de SAINT-EVREMOND (ou SAINT-EVREMONT)

Oeuvres meslées

Chez Pierre Mortier, à Paris 1699 - 1700, in-12 (10,5x15,6), (10) 317pp. ; 280pp. et (4) 285pp. (3) ; (8) 268pp. et

New edition, at the wrong address of PIerre Mortier, probably published by Claude Barbin. The preface presents the edition in five volumes, the sixth volume was published in 1700; it contains the Praise and the portrait of Saint-Evremont, Speech on the critics, Apology of the works of Mr. de [...]

800 €

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