First edition

QUINTILIEN

Declamationes innumeris locis emendatae ex recensione Ulrici Obrechti

Sumptibus Joh. Reinhold Dusseck, Argentorati (Strasbourg) 1698, in-8 (16x22cm), (56) 801pp. (84), relié.

first edition.
Binding half contemporary vellum with corners. Smooth back with respect to the pen. rugged head cap without missing .. tail cap with torn vellum but lack (visible box).
The Declamationes are speech drafts, sort of school exercises for rhétorique.On are 19 [...]

400 €

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Jean de LA FONTAINE

Les Oeuvres posthumes de Monsieur de La Fontaine

Chez Jean Pohier, à Paris 1696, in-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (24) 276pp., relié.

Contemporary binding in full brown calf, back with five nerves ornate, cold boards mesh frame, golden roll on turns and headdresses, all red edges.
Mors slightly rubbed and some very discrete restorations.

1 500 €

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Aulu GELLE

Noctium atticarum libri XX

Apud Corn. Boutesteyn, Lugduni Batavorum (Leyde) 1706, In-4 (20x25,5cm), (34) 902pp. (63), relié.

New edition. A beautiful title frontispiece and title thumbnail. Title page in red and black.

550 €

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Samuel RICHARDSON

Nouvelles lettres angloises, ou Histoire du Chevalier Grandisson

S.n., à Amsterdam 1770, in-12 (9,5x17cm), (4) xij, 175pp. ; (4) 208pp. et (2) 196pp. ; (4) 180pp. et (4) 196pp. ; (4)

Nouvelle édition. Traduction de l'Abbé Prevost, avec son introduction sur la traduction.
Reliures en plein veau porphyre glacé. Dos lisses ornés à la grotesque. Pièces de titre en maroquin rouge, et de tomaison en maroquin beige. Coiffe de tête du volume 4 arasée, avec manque au mors en [...]

300 €

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MOLIERE

Les Oeuvres de Monsieur de Molière

Chez Denys Thierry & Claude Barbin & Pierre Trabouillet, à Paris 1682, in-12 (9x16,5cm), (24) 304 pp. (4) et 416 pp.

MOLIèRE
Les œuvres de Monsieur de Molière [The Works of Monsieur de Molière] Chez Denys Thierry, Claude Barbin et Pierre Trabouillet, Paris 1682, in-12: 90 x 165 mm (3 9/16 x 6 1/2 ”), (24) 304 pp (4) et 416 pp [...]

15 000 €

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AUSONE

Opera

Ex officina Christophori Plantini (Plantin), Antverpiae (Anvers) 1578, in-16 (7,5x11,5cm), (22) 7- 359p. (22), relié.

Edition produced and annotated by Theod. Pulmann
Binding in full mottled calf seventeenth. Back with nerves decorated. as Exhibit in Havana morocco. Lack head. 3 corners bumped. Friction.

500 €

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Vincent VOITURE

Les oeuvres

Chez Augustin Courbé, à Paris 1650, in-4 (17x24cm), (30) 848pp. (16) 174pp. (12), relié.

First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece of Mellan and a portrait by Nanteuil.
Bound in full sheepskin rooted late eighteenth. Back with nerves decorated with grotesque avev 2 different patterns. As part of rose veal. Mors cracked head. Wormholes tail. 2 corners bumped. Friction. Some [...]

700 €

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Françoise de GRAFFIGNY

Lettres d'une Péruvienne

De l'imprimerie de Migneret, à Paris 1797, Grd. in-8 (15,5x24,5cm), 487pp. (1), relié.

illustrated bilingual edition of a portrait frontispiece by Left and 6 beautiful figures by Le Barbier, engraved by Patas, Halbou, Lingée. Printing on vellum paper.
Bound in full sheepskin rooted and ice time. spine smooth ornate coffered 2 grotesque lozenges and 2 large florets. part of title [...]

500 €

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