First edition

VOLTAIRE

La princesse de Babilone [Ensemble] Le dîner du Comte de Boulainvilliers par Mr. St. Hiacinthe ...

S.n., Londres 1768 - 1765, In-12 (10x16cm), 144pp. ; (4) 60pp. ; 48pp., relié.

New edition
Binding full brown marbled vintage calf. Smooth back adorned with the grotesque. Three pieces of title in red morocco.

500 €

View more

First edition

Pierre LE ROY & Jean PASSERAT

Satyre Menippée de la Vertu du Catholicon d'Espagne ; Et de la tenüe des Estats de Paris

Chez Mathias Kerner, à Ratisbonne 1664, In-12 (8x14cm), 336pp., relié.

Second edition by Kerner of this edition to the sphere that is added to the Elsevier collection. This second draw is characterized by the addition to the fourth sheet of 8 errata line. A folding plate of the procession of the League (which is missing in many copies).
Dutch binder in full vellum [...]

600 €

View more

First edition

François-Félix NOGARET & Antoine Joseph Nicolas de [...]

Le tribunal d'Apollon, ou jugement en dernier ressort de tous les auteurs vivans ; libelle ...

Chez Marchand, à Paris 1799 (An VIII), In-18 (8x13,5cm), xiv, 212pp. et (2) 236pp., relié.

First edition.
Binding full brown calf vintage. Smooth back decorated with 4 florets and wheels. Title and volume pieces in burgundy morocco. Roulette framing on the boards. Golden slices. Accident at the head of Volume II. 4 blunt corners. Absence of the false title to the second volume. Good [...]

200 €

View more

First edition

Utagawa SADAHIDE

Kawanakajima gunkan (Batailles de l'île Kawanaka)

Sadahide 1860 (S.d), 12x18cm, 50 feuillets., broché.

First edition consisting of 50 illustrated sheets including many scenes on double page. The author of the text could not be identified.
Japanese binding in acordon. Title label with several gaps. Folds on the blue embossed cover.
The battles on Kawanaka Island took place in 1550-1560 [...]

700 €

View more

First edition

Claude VILLARET

La belle allemande, ou les galanteries de Thérese

Chez F. B. Strinck, à Strasbourg 1776, Pet. in-8 (9,5x17cm), 155pp., relié.

New edition, after the first published in 1774. An allegorical frontispiece unsigned.
Binding full brown sheepskin marbled time. Smooth back decorated with 4 boxed florets. title label in garnet morocco. Triple framing net on the boards. Nice copy.

500 €

View more

First edition

François-Félix NOGARET

La terre est un animal, opuscule philosophique

De l'imprimerie de Cosson, à Paris 1794 (An III), In-16 (9,5x13cm), xix (1) 102pp. (1), relié.

First edition, rare.
Cartonnage late nineteenth covered with marbled paper made on brochure. Smooth back mute. Good copy, not trimmed.
A licentious tale with a philosophical pretension, light, The earth is an animal is the conversation of a Greek courtesan with two philosophers, [...]

350 €

View more

First edition

Lodovico GUICCIARDINI (Louis GUICHARDIN)

Contes et historiettes amusantes, avec plusieurs dialogues en italien et en françois. La ...

Chez Jean de la Caille, à Paris 1688, In-12 (9,5x16cm), (22) 357pp. (3), relié.

First edition bilingual Italian and French translation of Pompe, teacher of Italian and Spanish.
Binding full brown sheepskin speckled contemporary. Back to nerves adorned. title label of brown sheepskin. A slash on the upper plate, 2 on the lower plate. Friction. A small lack in the upper bit [...]

350 €

View more

First edition

Judah ABRAVANEL (dit León Hebreo (Léon l'Hébreu))

Philosophie d'amour de M. Léon Hébreu

Guillaume Rouillé, Lyon 1551, petit in-8 (10,5x17,5cm), 675 pp. (44 p.), relié.

Juda ABRAVANEL or Leo the Hebrew
Philosophie d'amour de M. Léon Hébreu [The Dialogues of Love]

17 000 €

View more