First edition

Anne Claude Philippe, Comte de CAYLUS

Histoires nouvelles, et mémoires ramassés

S.n., Londres 1745, In-12 (10x17cm), (4) 389pp. (1), relié.

first edition, rare.
Binding in full brown calf of marbled contemporary. Smooth decorated back. title label in red morocco. Cold framing fiet on the boards. Large margins. Good copy.
Collection of 4 short stories: Mémoires de Mademoiselle de ***, under the name of Lucilie; Dom Juan & [...]

400 €

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First edition

Jean-François de BASTIDE

Le tombeau philosophique. Ou histoire du Marquis de ** à Madame de **

S.n., à Amsterdam 1751, In-12 (10x17cm), (2) 129pp. (1) ; (2) 107pp., relié.

first edition.
Copy with the arms of Charron, Marquis de Menars.
Binding in full glossy blond calfskin. Smooth back decorated with decorated box and a box bearing the arms of Menars. title label in red morocco. A run on the upper flat, small spots. Traces of friction. Beautiful copy.

780 €

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Jean léon Le Gallois de GRIMAREST

La vie de monsieur de Moliere

Chez Jacques Lions, ALyon 1692, In-12 (9x15,5cm), 101pp. (6), relié.

New edition. By J.-L. Le Gallois, sieur de Grimarest, after Barbier. Counterfeit backdated from the 1st ed., Paris, P. Ribou, 1705, after P. Lacroix, n ° 982.
Binding in full soft vellum of time. Smooth dumb back. Beautiful copy.

250 €

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First edition

CHOLET DE JETPHORT

Etrennes lyriques, anacréontiques, pour l'année 1782

Chez L'auteur, à Paris 1782, In-16 (8x13,5cm), (24) 366pp. (1), relié.

first edition.
Binding in full brown sheepskin contemporary. Smooth decorated back. title label in red morocco. Slight lack in the upper tail joint.
Collection of gallant and light poems collected by Cholet de Jetphort to whom they were addressed. A play by Beaumarchais, three by Boufflers, [...]

150 €

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Jacques VANIER

Praedium rusticum

Apud Marcum Bordelet, Paris 1746, In-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (6) x, 320pp. (8), relié.

New edition. An allegorical frontispiece engraved by Brunet.

Binding in full glossy brown marbled calf of the time. Ornate nerved back. title label in red morocco. Upper leveled cap. Split upper joint with gaps. Blunt corners. Fronstispice browned in the margins.

180 €

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Torquato Tasso (dit) LE TASSE

Il Gofredo poema eroico del signor Torquato Tasso (Gierusalemme liberata)

Apresso Gio. Mansie, In Padova 1737, (23pp.) 550pp., relié.

New edition, illustrated with a frontispiece and 20 pretty unsigned figures.
Italian binding in full vintage red morocco. Ornate nerved back. title label of red morocco. Border frieze on the boards. Golden slices. Head cap partially torn off. 3 blunt corners. Friction and cracked back. The [...]

400 €

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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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Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de RACAN

Les oeuvres

Chez Antoine Urbain Coustelier, à Paris 1724, In-12 (9,5x16cm), (2) xviij 3-258p. (4) et (4) 407pp., 2 volumes reliés.

The most complete old edition, and the last one, partly original, before that made in 1857 by Antoine de Latour (by more exhaustive). "These two volumes, which follow the collection of French poets published by Coustelier, are hard to find". Brunet, IV, 1071.
Binding in full oyster calf iced [...]

650 €

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