Joseph DU CHESNE (Sieur de la Violette)

Le grand miroir du monde

Pour les héritiers d'Eustache Vignon, à Lyon 1593, in-8 (11,5x17,5cm), (22) 654pp., relié.

Second edition, after the first published in 1587. This edition is increased by the sixth book by the author and comments from Simon Goulart at the end of each of the six books.
Full parchment binding. Dumb back. Handwritten marks on the top plate. traces laces. Body of the book detached from [...]

1 000 €

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First edition

Dominique de COLONIA

Histoire littéraire de la ville de Lyon avec une bibliothèque des auteurs lyonnois, sacré et ...

Chez François Rigollet, à Lyon 1728, 2 volumes in-4 (21x28cm), (34) 414pp (1f. errata) et (10) 838pp. (22), relié.

First edition, rare, illustrated eight Inserts plates most of which are extendible. Vignettes of securities arms of the city of Lyon. Title pages in red and black.
Full calf blond at the time. Back with five nerves ornate. Spare capacity and volume numbers of red. Golden coaching boards arms of [...]

1 000 €

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Jacques BERNARD

Nouvelles de la république des lettres

Chez David Mortier, à Amsterdam 1715, 2 tomes en 2 Vol. In-16 (6,5x13,5cm), relié.

Mention of a second edition, the first edition was published in 1705. Each volume contains a trismestre, and a title page for each month. Therefore set includes the months of January 1705 to June of the same year. General title page in red and black.
Copy the unidentified weapons.
Full calf [...]

300 €

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Abbé BANIER

Explication historique des fables, ou l'on decouvre leur origine & leur conformité avec l'histoire ...

Chez François Le Breton, à Paris 1715, in-12 (9x17cm), (24) 424pp. et (4) 487pp. et (4) 500pp., 3 volumes reliés.

New edition, partly original and an increased volume troiqième after the first published in 1711 in two volumes; is illustrated as a frontispiece etched by Scotin Delamonce.
Bound in full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back tooled raised. Piece of red morocco title and volume number in brown [...]

250 €

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First edition

Alexander POPE

Histoire de Martinus Scriblerus, de ses ouvrages & de ses découvertes

Chez Paul Knapton, à Londres 1755, In-12 (9x16,5cm), relié.

First Edition in French translation by Pierre Henri Larcher.
Full mottled calf contemporary. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. A tear with slight loss in the third box. Good copy.
Martinus Scriblerus was originally a literary club whose members (Pope, Swift, John Gay, [...]

450 €

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Etienne François de LANTIER

Contes en prose et en vers, suivis de Pièces fugitives, du poème d'Erminie, et de Metastase à ...

Chez F. Buisson, à Paris 1806, in-8 (12x20cm), 2 volumes reliés.

Mentioned second edition illlustrée three figures engraved by Tardieu. The first edition was published in Vol 3. in-18 the same year.
Full mottled brown sheepskin. Back tooled raised. Part of title and volume number in red morocco long grain. A hitch with missing head of the first volume. [...]

350 €

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Marie Angélique de GOMEZ

Les journées amusantes

Par la compagnie, à Amsterdam 1766, in-12 (9,5x16,5cm), 8 tomes reliés en 4 volumes.

Mention eighth edition, illustrated with eight unsigned headpieces. The fun days were originally published from 1722 to 1731. Pages titles in red and black.
Full Sheepskin vintage blonde. Back tooled raised. Lack in the upper jaw of the head Volumes I and IV. Lack of Volume III in cap. Tail cap [...]

400 €

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Charles de SAINT-EVREMOND (ou SAINT-EVREMONT)

Oeuvres meslées

par La Compagnie des libraires, à Paris 1697, in-12 (8,5x16,2cm), 5 volumes reliés.

New edition. The privilege of being 1697, it is unclear whether this new edition differs from that given by Barbin in 1693, Barbin which itself is part of the Company booksellers. Full sheepskin brown ice time. Back to nerves ornate. Part of title and volume number in morocco beige. Head cover of [...]

550 €

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