Pierre de Bourdeille BRANTOME

Oeuvres du Seigneur de Brantome

Aux dépens du libraire, à Londres 1779, in-12 (10x17cm), 15 volumes reliés.

New edition, composed on 1740 edition of A portrait frontispiece engraved by Tardieu. Title pages in red and black. A family flyer table in Volume 1.
slightly later in Binders full sheepskin blond rooted. back smooth decorated with 2 diamonds, 2 boxes to the grotesque, wheels and nets. parts of [...]

800 €

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Alexis PIRON

Oeuvres complettes, publiées par M. Rigoley de Juvigny

De l'Imprimerie de Lambert, à Paris 1776, In-8 (13x19,6cm), (4) xv ; 158pp. ; 379pp. (4) et (4) 573pp. (1) et (4)

the most comprehensive collective edition works of Alexis Piron, given by Rigoley Juvigny. Portrait of the author leads the first book, engraved on copper by Augustin de Saint-Aubin from Caffieri. As so often, the eighth volume, including the playful works, is not attached here. Copy with [...]

500 €

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Louis Elisabeth de la Vergne, Comte de TRESSAN

Histoire du petit Jehan de Saintré et de la dame des Belles-Cousines

Chez Lepetit & Guillemard, à Paris 1792, in-18 (8x14cm), (4) 227pp. (2), relié.

New edition, illustrated with a frontispiece and 3 figures by Square on strong paper, and dated 1791.
Copy to arms
Bound in full morocco vintage claret. Back with nerves decorated. Triple net with angular irons in the spandrels and angular jewels, weapons centers boards. upper joint split [...]

280 €

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Giovanni Paolo MARANA

L'espion dans les cours des princes chrétiens

Chez Erasme Kinkius, à Cologne 1739, in-12 (10x17cm), (2) 34pp. (14) 513pp. et (10) 486pp. et (4) 530pp. (16) et (4)

New edition. This edition has been successively increased and it is very difficult to find the date of the original, certainly in 2 volumes. It is illustrated with 21 pretty faces, 5 folding (portrait Méhemet; a view of Constantinople, Richelieu portraits, Knights of Malta, the figures of the [...]

1 300 €

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Claude Joseph DORAT

Mes fantaisies. Mes nouveaux torts.

Chez Delalain & Monory, A Paris & Amsterdam 1770-1775, In-8 (13,5x20,5cm), 363pp. et xxij, 23-232p., 2 volumes reliés.

Third edition statement (significantly increased) for My fantasies; My new wrongs are on the date of the original, but from another distributor that Delalain. frontispiece engraved by Marillier by Ghendt and a figure of the same engraved by Gaucher for My new wrongs. A [...]

600 €

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First edition

François Baculard D'ARNAUD

Epreuves du sentiment

Chez Le Jay & Delalain, à Paris 1774-1778, Grd. in-8 (14,5x22cm), (2) 372pp. et (2) 179p. (2) 80p. 120p. 136p. et (4)

collective edition of this collection of short stories whose five volumes appeared from 1774 to 1778. 1774 the first two volumes, in 1775 for the third volume in 1777 and 1778 for the fourth to the fifth volume. Due to the spread of the publication, it is rare to meet a continuum with all the good [...]

900 €

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First edition

François-Antoine CHEVRIER

Bi-bi conte, traduit du chinois par un français

Chez Khi-lo-khula, à Mazuli 1764 - L'an 623, in-12 (10x16cm), 88pp., broché.

New edition. Date of issue from the catalog given by the Opinion of the publisher.
Paperback, under antique marbled paper. dumb back. Lack of paper caps. 2 small tears on upper cover high margin. Folded corners.
Story of Queen Argentina, China, ugly but a natural devoted to pleasure. She [...]

200 €

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First edition

François BERTRAND

Ruris deliciae

Apud Barbou, Parisiis (Paris) 1756, in-12 (9x16cm), viij, 288pp., relié.

Edition originale.
Reliure en plein veau brun marbré et glacé. Dos lisse orné. Pièce de titre en maroquin beige. Tranches cailloutées. Accroc avec manque aux mors en queue. Un coin émoussé. Malgré le défaut cité, bel exemplaire.
Florilège poétique avec une partie latine et une [...]

200 €

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