First edition

RAUCOURT

L'heureuse infidélité, ou mémoires du Chevalier de Raucourt

Chez S. Fauche, à Neuchatel 1782, In-12 (11x16,2cm), (4) 235pp., relié.

First edition.
Binding half blond sheepskin contemporary corners. Smooth back decorated with 5 florets. title label in red morocco. Lower bit split in tail. Restorations at the head and tail. 3 wormholes on the upper dish.

400 €

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Samuel RICHARDSON

Clarisse Harlowe

Chez Paul Barde, à Genève 1785, Fort in-8 (13,3x20,8cm), lj (1bc.) 515pp. et (4) 527pp. et (4) 537pp. et (4) 512pp.

First edition in-8, illustrated with 21 figures of Chodowiecki and a frontispiece portrait by Pujos on hard paper. Draw the figures before the letter. The original English was published in 1748.
Bindings full porphyry antique sheepskin. Smooth back richly adorned with decorative boxes, Greek [...]

1 200 €

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Jean de LA FONTAINE

Contes et nouvelles en vers

Chez Henry Desbordes, à Amsterdam 1695, In-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (16) 236 pp. (2) ; (8) 216 pp. (2), relié.

This edition is a slightly modified impression of the first illustrated edition of 1685. The illustration consists of 2 frontispieces and 58 half-page vignettes designed by Romeyn de Hooghe (except the second frontispiece which is not in the edition of 1685). "The frontispiece of the first volume [...]

3 000 €

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Claude de MALLEVILLE

Nouvelles poesies et prose galantes

Chez Estienne Loyson, à Paris 1661, In-12 (8x14,5cm), (4) 352pp. (10), relié.

Third posthumous edition of the works of Malleville, adorned with a frontispiece. This reception appeared for the first time in 1649. Absent at Brunet and Querard.
Binding in full glossy blond calf XVIII. Back with nerves adorned with 5 florets. title label in red morocco.
Ex libris of the [...]

260 €

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First edition

Théodore Agrippa d' AUBIGNE

Les avantures du Baron de Foeneste

à Amsterdam 1731, In-12 (10x16,8cm), (24) cxciv (12) et (8) 384pp., 2 volumes reliés.

New and best critical edition by Le Duchat, with a new warning, notes, and notes. Title pages in red and black. This edition contains a foreword, the Secret History of Theodore Agrippa d'Aubigné, written by himself & addressed to his children, and texts attributed to Master Guillaume, [...]

400 €

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Frances BROOKE

Histoire d'Emilie Montague

ChezChanguion, A Amsterdam 1770, in-12 (10x16,5cm), (4) 192pp. ; (2) 193-384p. et (2) 162pp. (2) ; (2) 156pp., 4 parties reliées en 2 volumes.

Original French edition, rare, translated by Jean-Baptiste Robinet, after the English premiere published in 1769. Four beautiful title pages engraved and separated. Changuion catalog in fine of the third part.
Binding full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin. Back with ornate nerves. title [...]

650 €

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Philippe PETIT-RADEL

De amoribus Pancharitis et Zoroae, poema eroticon seu Umbratica lucubratio De cultu veneris

Apud Molini, Parisiis 1798 (An VI), In-8 (13x20,5cm), xxiv, 286pp. (2), relié.

First edition, rare. An allegorical frontispiece signed Clément. Print on vellum.
Binding full red morocco long grain glazed contemporary in the style of Derome. Smooth back decorated with 7 nets, title and date golden. Double cold framing thread on the plates with small angular irons. [...]

500 €

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Marcus Tullius CICERON

Epistolarum libri XVI ad T. Pomponium Atticum

Sumptibus Blaviorum & Henrici Wetsteinii, Amstelaedami 1684, Très fort in-8 (12x19,7cm), (16) 822pp. ; 284pp. et

First edition
Hardcover full rigid vintage velin. Jansenist smooth back. Title and tomaison with black pen.

600 €

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