SENEQUE

Opus tragoediarum aptissimisque figuris excultum. In quo tria millia errata atque inversa loca ...

Per Bernardinum de Vianis, Impressum Venetiis (Venise) 1522, in-folio (21x31cm), 140ff. Sig.: A-P8, Q-R10, relié.

Very rare edition of the tragedies of Seneca, illustrated with 10 woodcuts in-text (6,5x8cm), the head of each of the ten tragedies. Many initials in black or screened. Text of the tragedy in the center with the comments being distributed around in Roman characters.
Binding open vintage [...]

3 000 €

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Diego ORTUNEZ DE CALAHORRA & Antoine René de Voyer [...]

Histoire du chevalier du soleil, et de son frère Rosiclair, et de leurs descendants

Chez Pissot, à Amsterdam & se trouve à Paris 1780, in-12 (9,5x17cm), 2 volumes reliés.

First edition of the translation and abstract conducted by the Marquis of Paulmy Contant and Orville.
Copy the arms of Rohan Chabot, certainly from the date of publishing,

900 €

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Edward MOORE & Horace WALPOLE

Le monde par Adam Fitz - Adam. Ou feuilles périodiques sur les moeurs du temps

De l'imprimerie d'Elie Luzac, fils, à Leyde 1757, in-12 (10x16,8cm), 2 volumes reliés.

Original rare Edition. Translation Gaspard Joel Monod.
Copy to arms hit on Emmanuel Bliss dishes Dufort, Duc de Duras
Binding full fair calf ice and vintage marbled. Back nerve ornate iron rampant lion of the Duke of Duras. As an exhibit in red morocco, volume number piece very rubbed black [...]

950 €

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Frances SHERIDAN

Memoires de Miss Sidney Bidulph, extraits de son journal, et traduit de l'anglois

Aux dépens de la Compagnie , à Amsterdam 1762 - 1768, in-12 (9x16cm), (4) 413 pp. et (2) 448 pp. et (2) 395 pp (4) et

Original French edition. Title pages in red and black.
Binding slightly later half sheepskin marbled blonde. Back smooth decorated with nets. Part of title and volume number in beige leather. Speckled brown paper dishes. Tail Hat Volume 2 torn. Slot in the upper jaw head tail of Volume 1, the [...]

500 €

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Louis TRAVENOL

Voltariana ou eloges amphigouriques, de Fr. Marie Arrouet

S.n., à Paris 1749, 2 parties en un Vol. In-8 (11,5x18,5cm), relié.

Second edition, after the original published in 1748.
Binding half sheepskin used in small corners. Back Jansenist nerves. As an exhibit in brown leather. part of the head torn cap, same tail. Slots in the upper jaw. Corners bumped. gaps at the edges. A portion of the missing part of [...]

80 €

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Joseph de LA PORTE

La France littéraire

Chez La veuve Duchesne, à Paris 1769, in-12 (10,5x17cm), 2 volumes reliés.

New edition partly original and amply increased.
Binding full marbled fair calf and then chilled. Back smooth decorated. Part of title and volume number in red morocco. Slight lack of Volume I. head Low friction. Nice copy.
Full Title: The literary France, containing I. The Academies [...]

500 €

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Eilhard LUBIN

Florilegium hoc est Veterum graecorum poëtarum epigrammata comprehensa libris septem

S.n., In bibliopolio Commeliniano [Heidelberg] 1604, in-4 (16x22cm), (8) 1011pp. (1), relié.

Original rare Edition.
Binding in contemporary parchment. Back carrying a blackened title tag (missing). Traces laces. Several books emerged.
Anthology of Greek quotations translated by Lubin and grouped into thematic chapter (Mulieres, In virtutem, In princesses ...).

550 €

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Guillaume COQUILLART

Les poesies de Guillaume Coquillart

De l'imprimerie d'Antoine Urbain Coustelier, à Paris 1723, In-12 (9,5x16cm), (6) 184pp. (3), relié.

The best old edition. The volume is part of the collection of French poets published by COUSTELIER (Racan Cretin ...). Library Viollet Le Duc, p. 88: "the most correct edition for all those that have been made of the works of Coquillart." The text is, however, less correct than in the edition of [...]

450 €

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