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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Johannes MEURSIUS & Nicolas CHORIER

Elegantiae latini sermonis seu Aloisia segaea Toletana. De arcanis amoris & veneris. Adjunctis ...

S.n., Londres 1781, in-18 (8,5x12cm), (4) xxx 31-330 pp. et (4) 233 pp., relié.

New edition.
Binding full green morocco crisscross contemporary. Smooth back decorated with 3 florets, wheels and nets. Double framing net on the boards. Golden slices. Inland frieze. Back insolated and thinned. 2 wormholes along the upper joint of volume 2.
Superb copy, in a quality binding.

900 €

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Marguerite DAUBENTON

Zélie dans le désert [Ensemble] Supplément pour servir de suite à l'histoire de Zélie

Chez Belin & Desenne, A Londres et se trouve à Paris 1787 - 1788, In-8 (12,3x20cm), (4) 382pp. et (4) 405pp. et (2) 120pp., 3 volumes reliés.

Second edition of the first two volumes of the novel and first edition of the rare sequel given in 1788.
Binding full blond calf speckled for the first 2 volumes, blonde speckled sheepskin for the supplement. Title and volume pieces in red morocco. Friction. Epidermures on the boards. Good copies.

550 €

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Simon NANQUIER

De lubrico temporis (ut vocant) curriculo. Deque hominis miseria opusculum

Apud Benedictum rigaudum (Rigaud), Lugduni 1570, in-8 (10,5x17cm), 44 pp. (4), relié.

New edition. The oldest edition is at the British Library, 1498; it is undoubtedly the original, Charles VIII dying that same year. The book was reissued several times during the 16th century. It is the same for the piece of Gnapheus.
Binding semi rigid vellum late nineteenth. Jansenist smooth [...]

1 300 €

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First edition

Nicolo MARTELLI

Il primo libro delle lettere di Nicolo Martelli

Nicolo Martelli, Fiorenza 1546, Pet. in-4 (13,5x19,5cm), 92ff. Sig : A-Z4 (Z4 bc.), relié.

First edition, very rare. Portrait of Nicolo Martelli in title page, on wood, in a medallion.
Binding ca 1820 in half hazelnut. Back with false nerves adorned with 5 cold irons and nets cold and hot. Eliminated headdress. Lower joint open at the top. Rubbed together. The two low corners folded [...]

1 400 €

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Jean BONNEFONS

Jani Bonefonii Averni poematum libri II.

Philippi de Cro-y, Lugduni Batavorum 1655, (4) 54pp., relié.

Edition by Nicolas Blancard. Absent most of the catalogs consulted, British Library, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, French and English catalogs. A copy in Stockolm and a second at the British museum.

600 €

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Marie Catherine Madame de VILLEDIEU & Jean léon Le [...]

Les avantures ou memoires de la vie d'Henriette-Sylvie de Moliere [Ensemble] Adition a la vie de ...

Chez Abraham L'Enclume, à Amsterdam 1733 - 1706, In-12 (9x16,5cm), (4) 508pp. ; (4) 67pp. (1), relié.

New edition. The second book of Grimarest on the life of Molière is in first edition.
Binding in full marbled brown sheepskin. Smooth back decorated. title label in red morocco. Missing in the lead. Friction in caps, bits, corners and borders.

350 €

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