First edition, Signed book

Claude Joseph ROUGET DE L'ISLE

Essais en vers et en prose

De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné, Paris An V de la République, 1796, 11x18,5cm, broché.

One of the very rare copies enriched with an autograph - there are fewer than a dozen - of this first edition, featuring the Marseillaise.
First edition illustrated with an engraving inset engraved by Charles-Etienne Gaucher after Jean-Jacques Le [...]

8 000 €

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Felix MINUCIUS OCTAVIUS

Octavius cum integris omnium notis ac commentariis, novaque recensione Jacobi Ouzeli. Cujus & ...

Ex officina Hackiana [Leyde], Lugduni Batavorum 1672, In-8 (12x19,5cm), (48) 352pp. ; 64pp. (29), relié.

New edition
Binding full red morocco contemporary. Back with nerves richly adorned. title label in red morocco. Triple framing net on the boards.

500 €

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First edition

Jean-François REGNARD

Les oeuvres

Chez Pierre Ribou, à Paris 1708, In-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (4) 357pp. (3) et (2) 278pp.(2) ; 103pp. (3) ; (2) 11pp. (1), 2 volumes reliés.

First collective edition of Regnard's works.
Binding full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back to nerves adorned. title labels in red morocco, pieces of tomaison in red morocco. Headdress of Volume II partly torn off. Misses in the tail of the volume I. Friction. Blunt and bare corners.

450 €

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Charles de SAINT-EVREMOND (ou SAINT-EVREMONT)

Oeuvres meslées

Chez Claude Barbin, à Paris 1689, In-4 (18,5x25cm), (4) 462pp. (2), relié.

New edition, rare. Floral figure of Barbin in title page.
Binding full marbled calf and granite of time. Back with nerves richly adorned. Title piece in tobacco morocco. A slight lack in the upper mor at the head, a second at the lower bit in the tail. Gilding is blurred in places. Traces of [...]

900 €

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Clara REEVE

The Old English Baron : a gothic story

Printed for Charles Dilly, London 1780, In-8 (10,5x17,5cm), viii, 232pp., relié.

Second edition, rare. A frontispiece by Hamilton. The first edition dates from 1778.
English binding in full brown sheepskin flamed. Smooth back decorated with foliage. Title piece in red morocco. Frieze framing on the boards. 3 blunt corners.
After Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto [...]

900 €

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First edition

Claude-Etienne SAVARY

Les amours d'Anas-Eloujoud et de Ouardi, conte traduit de l'Arabe

Chez Onfroy, A Bagdad se trouve à Paris 1789, In-18 (7,5x12,5cm), (2) 4p. (4) 96pp., relié.

First Edition posthumous, rare. After the subtitle, 4p. catalog.
Binding full porphyry vintage calfskin. Smooth back decorated with 4 florets. Title piece of black calf. Frieze framing on the boards. Small slot on 0,5cm with the upper joint in head and in tail, tiny. Nice copy.

500 €

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LONGUS

Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé

S.n., Londres 1779, in-4 (16,5x21,5cm), relié.

Nice edition of the French translation of Jacques Amyot, illustrated with a frontispiece and 28 figures on copper.
Contemporary binding full calf tortoiseshell, smooth back richly adorned with wheels, irons and gilded nets and a title piece of red morocco, triple golden net framing boards, [...]

800 €

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Antoine François PREVOST D'EXILES (dit Abbé PREVOST)

Memoires et avantures d'un homme de qualité qui s'est retiré du monde. Histoire du Chevalier des ...

Chez J. Wetstein & G. Smith, AAmsterdam & se trouve à Paris 1735, in-16 (7,5x13,3cm), (6) 217pp. ; (2) 172pp. ; (4)

New edition.
Binding in plain granite brown contemporary sheepskin. Smooth back decorated. Title and volume pieces in red morocco.
The Abbe Prevost was one of the main agitators of the letters with Lesage of the first part of the eighteenth, and certainly one of the best novelists. His [...]

1 500 €

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