First edition

Nicolas BOILEAU DESPREAUX

Oeuvres diverses du Sr Boileau Despreaux : avec le traité du sublime, ou du merveilleux dans le ...

Chez Denys Thierry, à Paris 1701, In-4 (19x25cm), (16) 446pp. ; 200pp. (6), relié.

Last edition of the works of Boileau corrected and published during the lifetime of the author. The latter admits to prefer this ultimate edition in his preface. This edition is also the first to bear the name of the author.

500 €

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First edition

Nicolas HEINSIUS

L'avanturier hollandois, ou La vie et les avantures divertissantes d'un Hollandois

Chez les Westein & Smith, à Amsterdam 1729, Fort. in-16 (7,5x13,5cm), (10) 448pp. et (8) 480pp., 2 volumes reliés.

French rare first edition, illustrated with 2 frontispices (the same repeated) and 12 pretty unsigned figures. Translation of the author himself. The novel was only reprinted in 1801 under another title. Title pages in red and black.
Binders full brown calf vintage granite. Back with ornate [...]

700 €

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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, (4) 157 pp. ; 5 pp., relié.

Un des très rares exemplaires enrichi d'un envoi autographe - on en recense moins d'une dizaine - de cette édition originale, comportant la Marseillaise.
Edition originale illustrée d'une gravure hors-texte gravée par Charles-Etienne Gaucher d'après Jean-Jacques Le Barbier et de 4 pages de [...]

9 000 €

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First edition

Elis BENNET

Henry Bennet et Julie Johnson, ou les esquisses du coeur, roman traduit de l'anglais, et orné de ...

Chez Louis, à Paris 1794, In-18 (8,5x13,8cm), (4) 192pp. ; (4) 188pp. et (4) 184pp. ; (4) 207pp. et (4) 216pp. ;

First edition of the French translation, illustrated with 6 anonymous figures.
Reliquure in half calf around 1820. Smooth backs decorated with 2 mirrored central irons, wheels. Title and volume pieces in black calf. Marbled slices.

450 €

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Louis LE MAINGRE DE BOUCICAULT

Les Amazones revoltées, roman moderne. Comedie en cinq actes. Sur l'histoire universelle et la ...

S.n. [Le Maingre de Boucicault], à Rotterdam 1738, In-12 (9x16,5cm), (6) 274pp. (4), relié.

Second edition, rare, published anonymously, and published by the author. Title mark to the sphere.
Binding full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back with nerves roné of 5 florets and a semi of points. Title piece in brown morocco. Upper headdress removed. A lack in line. Upper joint split in [...]

400 €

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First edition

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de SEVIGNE

Recueil des lettres de Madame la marquise de Sévigné a Madame la Comtesse de Grignan, sa fille

Chez Nicolas Semard et chez Rollin (pour les tomes V et VI), à Paris 1734, in-12 (9,5x16,5cm), xxxj (1) 452 pp. et (2)

Edition largely original, rare, adorned with a portrait of the Marquise de Sevigne in Volume I and repeated in Volume V. In the copy described by Rochebilliere, Volumes V and VI of 1737 are in a different binding, as well as most of the time, our copy presents them in the same homogeneous binding, [...]

3 000 €

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First edition

Luigi TANSILLO

Stanze di cultura sopra gli horti de le donne, stampate nuovamente. Et historiate [avec] Stanze in ...

s.l. [Venise] 1537, petit in-8 (14,6x9,2cm), (16 f.) ; (16 f.), 2 textes reliés en 1 volume.

Stanze di Cultura sopra gli Horti de le Donne, Stampate Nuovamente.
Et Historiate [with] Stanze in Lode della Menta

9 000 €

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First edition

Tobias SMOLLET

Aventures de Roderick Random, traduites de l'anglois de Fielding

Chez Jean Nourse, à Londres 1761, In-12 (9,5x17cm), (4) xvj, 400pp. et (4) 342pp. et (4) 320pp., 3 volumes reliés.

First french edition, illustrated with 3 frontispices by Eisen engraved by Pinssio.
Binders full marbled brown and glossy vintage. Title piece of red morocco, piece of beige morocco tomaison. Headdress of Volume I torn off. Bits of volume I closely split at the head and tail. Friction. Title [...]

950 €

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