Nicolas BOILEAU DESPREAUX & LONGIN (Pseudo-Longin)

Traité du Sublime ou du merveilleux dans le discours, traduit du grec de Longin par M. D***.

Chez la Veuve de Claude Thiboust et Pierre Esclassan 1694, In-12 (9x16cm), (2) 231pp., relié.

First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece. Title page in red and black. Bilingual edition with translation in glance.
Binding full marbled fair calf contemporary. Back with nerves decorated with florets 5 boxed.

400 €

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Georg BUCHANAN

Poemata quae extant

Ex Officina Elzeviriana (Elzevir), Lugduni Batavorum (Leyde) 1628, In-24 (5,5x11,2cm), relié.

First edition elzÚvirienne
Binding in full after black sheepskin signed Thouvenin tail (one of the first bindings Thouvenin, in the style of his master Bozerian). Back to naves decorated with 4 small florets. Seeded nets. Gilt title and date. Mentoring net on the boards. Roll on turns and [...]

500 €

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First edition

Pierre-Joseph ARTHUYS

Benjamin ou reconnoissance de Joseph, tragedie chrétienne en trois actes et en vers

Chez Cailleau, à Paris 1749, in-8 (13,5x21,5cm), 32pp., relié.

first edition.
Binding full fair calf signed XIXth end Bauzonnet. Back smooth decorated with two flagships mirrored threads on the caps. Title cold. Triple mentoring net on the boards. Rich inner frieze. Very nice copy.

250 €

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First edition

Jean-François de LA HARPE

Tangu et Félime. Poeme en IV chants

Chez Pissot, [Paris] 1780, In-8 (11,5x19cm), 71pp., relié.

First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece and 4 thin figures by Marillier engraved by Ponce De Ghendt ... Rare copy fully settled, even for figures.
Bound in full morocco marine ca 1860 signed Arnaud. Back with nerves decorated. Gilt title and date. Triple mentoring net on the boards. Rich [...]

550 €

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Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde DESHOULIERES

Oeuvres choisies de Madame Deshoulieres

De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné, à Paris 1795, In-18 (9,5x15,3cm), relié.

Edition neat Didot printed on Velin, illustrated with a frontispiece and 3 figures by Marillier engraved by Thumb, of Ghendt.
Full binding ripe orange morocco late nineteenth signed David. spine beautifully decorated nerves, wheels and tail head. As Exhibit and toaison brown morocco. Triple [...]

850 €

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Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde DESHOULIERES, [...]

Poësies de madame et mademoiselle Deshoulieres

Chez François Foppens, Bruxelles 1708, 2 tomes en un Vol. in-12 (9,7x15,7cm), 247pp. (6) (3bc.) ; 265pp. (12), relié.

New edition
Bound in red full morocco signed late nineteenth Thompson. Back with nerves decorated. Gilt title and date. triple net framing the boards. Rich inner frieze. Gilt edges. Slight friction tail and bottom border.

800 €

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LUCAIN & Guillaume de BREBEUF

La Pharsale

Chez Antoine de Sommaville, à Paris 1659, In-12 (8x13,8cm), (20) 390pp. (1), relié.

Reprinting by the same publisher of the original published in 1657; it is pleasantly illustrated with a medallion portrait of Lucan supported by two eagles, a frontispiece and 10 figures in lively intaglio (shipwreck, battles ...) engraved by Francois Chauveau. All figures, except for the title [...]

850 €

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First edition

Charles Gilbert Terrey MOREL DE VINDE

Zelomir

ChezBleuet jeune, à Paris 1801, In-18 (7,5x13,5cm), 309pp., relié.

first edition, an edition Small 8vo being published on the same date. Letterpress neat big vellum paper. 6 in double figures Lefevre state, and engraved by Godefroy.
Binding in full morocco blond late nineteenth signed R. Raparlier. Back with nerves decorated. Gilt title and date. Triple [...]

500 €

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