Giovanni Battista MARINI

Lettere del signor Cavaliere Battista Guarini

Apresso Erasmo Viotti, Parma 1595, Pet. in-8 (10x15,5cm), (16) 320pp., relié.

Second edition by Agostino Michele.

Binding of the seventeenth in full icy blond calf. Back with nerves adorned with stars and a curious iron. title label in beige maorquin. A lack in mind. Upper joint split in the lead. 2 blunt corners. Friction. Pale foxing on the title.

400 €

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First edition

Madeleine de PUISIEUX

Mémoires d''un homme de bien

Chez Delalain, à Paris 1768, x, 234pp. ; (2) 203pp. et (2) 317pp. (3), relié.

First edition.
Binding half brown sheepskin at small corners' time. Back with ornate nerves. title labels in red morocco, pieces of black sheepskin tomaison. A lack of volume I, a lack of tail, a slot in the upper bit in tail. Friction. 5 blunt corners. Good copy.
One of the leading novels [...]

280 €

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First edition

Antoine de LA SALLE

L'histoire plaisante, et chronique du petit Jehan de Saintré, de la jeune dame des belles cousines

1750, In-4 (18,5x24,5cm), 400pp., relié.

Manuscript realized on the original Gothic edition of 1523, with the black pen, of a relatively readable writing. The manuscript is paginated from p.1 to 400. About 28 lines per page.

Binding full icy blond calf vintage. Back with ornate nerves. title label in red morocco. 2 corners [...]

600 €

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First edition

CARTIER DE SAINT PHILIP

Le je ne sais quoi. Nouvelle édition augmentée de XXXI articles nouveaux par M. de Mirone

Chez jean Broedelet, à Utrecht 1741, In-12 (9,5x17cm), xx, 392pp. et (2) 414pp. 54pp. (25), 4 parties en 2 volumes reliés.

New edition, partly original because augmented by a volume.
Binding full brown marbled and glazed vintage calf. Back with richly decorated nerves, wheels. Title and volume piece of red morocco.

500 €

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First edition

Gaspard GUILLARD DE BEAURIEU

L'élève de la nature

Chez Panckoucke, A Amsterdam & se trouve à Paris 1764, In-12 (10x17cm), iv, 307pp. ; (4) 212pp. (3), 2 parties en un volume relié.

First edition, rare.

Binding full marbled and glazed vintage calf. Back with ornate nerves. title label in red morocco.

500 €

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Henriette de Coligny Comtesse de la SUZE & Paul [...]

Recueil de pieces galantes, en prose et en vers de Madame la Comtesse de la Suze, et de Monsieur ...

Par La Compagnie, à Trevoux 1748, In-12 (10x16,6cm), (4) xxij, 345pp. (3) et (4) 307pp. (4) et (4) 277pp. (2) et (4)

New edition, considerably increased by several volumes.
Binding full icy blond calf vintage. Smooth back decorated with 4 irons sun with semi stars. title label in red morocco. Piece of tomaison in blond calf. Lace framing on the boards. Very nice copy, in a fine and elegant binding.

1 200 €

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First edition

Scévole de SAINTE-MARTHE

Les Oeuvres de Scevole de Sainte Marthe

Par Mamert Patisson au logis de Robert Estienne, à Paris 1589, in-4 (16x24,5cm), (6) 94 ff. 1 f. blanc ; 95-182 ff. (1 f. index), relié.

First complete edition, partially original, printed in in-4 format, in italics and presenting the mark of Robert Estienne on the title page. This collection contains 80 pieces more than the First edition 1569. Works Only our edition is indicated by Tchemerzine. Our copy is [...]

10 000 €

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Claude GODARD D'AUCOURT

Mémoires turcs

Par la Société, Amsterdam 1776, In-12 (10x17,2cm), xxiv (2) 176pp. ; 238pp., relié.

New edition, after the first published in 1743.
Binding full porphyry vintage calf. Smooth back decorated. title label in tawny morocco. 2 corners blunt and bare. Nice copy.
In full fashion "turqueries", and after Marana, Montesquieu, Godard d'Aucourt in turn gives his contribution to this [...]

500 €

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