Jean-Baptiste Marquis de BOYER D'ARGENS

Lettres chinoises , ou correspondance philosophique , historique & critique , entre un Chinois ...

Chez Pierre Paupie, à La Haye; à Berlin 1755 - 1746, in-12 (8x14,5cm), xxiv, 306pp. et 332pp. et 338pp. et 332pp. et

New edition (third?) And first in 6 volumes. The First edition date 1746.Les philosophical Dreams are publishing originale.Plein speckled antique brown calf. Smooth back decorated. Parts of titles and volume numbers in red morocco. Triple gold star and mesh spandrels on the boards. All red edges. [...]

900 €

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Pierre Laurent Buirette de BELLOY

Oeuvres complettes

Chez Moutard, à Paris 1779, in-8 (12x20cm), xiij, (3) 445 pp. et (4) 387 pp. et (4) 427 pp. et 407 pp. et 381 pp. et

First Edition collective adorned with a portrait frontispiece, which is Gabriel Henri Gaillard.
Full mottled calf time. Smooth spine decorated. Part of title and volume number in red morocco. Head cover of Volume I threadbare, the volumes V and VI partly frayed. Volume VI of the upper jaw split [...]

550 €

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Joannes Aurelius KNIPINGA

Facetiarum epigrammaticarum centuriae sex. [Ensemble] Musa miscellanea [Ensemble] Ephemeris ...

Typis Jacobi Mesii, Antverpiae (Anvers) 1672, in-16 (7x12,5cm), (8) 98pp. (1) (1bc.) ; 48pp. ; (8) 98pp., relié.

First edition of the two books published on the same date, and illustrated two headpieces. The second title is separated from the first by a false titre.Plein vellum rigid time. Smooth spine with title in black pen. The title is reproduced in black pen on the front cover. Rare, missing electronic [...]

400 €

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Gabriel Charles de LATTAIGNANT

Poesies de M. l'abbé de L'Attaignant

Chez Duchesne, à Londres & se trouve à Paris 1757, in-12 (9x16,6cm), lxxij, 282pp. 12p. ; 360pp. xliv, 360pp. ; 408pp., 4 volumes reliés.

New edition after the collective edition of 1756 given by the Abbe Delaporte; a first collective edition published under the title piece stolen in 1750 was made by Meunier Quelon, which can be found in the preface preliminary parts. A medallion portrait frontispiece Garand. Many pages of sheet [...]

550 €

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Giovanni Battista GIRALDI CINZIO

Euphimia

Apresso Giulio Cesare Cagnacini, in Venetia 1583, in-8 (9x13,5cm), 135pp. sig : A-H8 I4, relié.

Rare and unique first edition, posthumously of this piece, which was composed around 1560 at colophon, a different address: Apresso Zanfretti Paulo. Printing in italics. A portrait of the author inset on the back of the first page in a rich framework. Dedication to Don Cesare d'Este. Brand of [...]

800 €

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Edmé BOURSAULT

Les fables d'Esope, comedie

Chez Nicolas Gosselin, à Paris 1700, in-12 (8,5x15cm), (22) 97pp., relié.

Mention of third edition. The colophon bears the date 1702; Indeed, the play was shown that in 1701 and first published posthumously only took place in 1702, there has actually had three different prints in 1702, one at Damien Beugnié , the other to that of the Widow of Clement Gasse, and the last [...]

250 €

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Jean-François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de RETZ

Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz

Chez J. Frédéric Bernard, à Amsterdam 1731, in-12 (9,8x15,8cm), 4 volumes reliés.

Final Edition rare; "More comprehensive than previous and the best that has been given to the eighteenth century ... Tchemerzine V, 396. An engraved portrait frontispiece by Thomassin. This is the only edition of the memoirs quoted by Bure in his bibliography. Pages title ... red and black glossy [...]

700 €

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Alexander POPE

Oeuvres diverses de Pope

Chez Arkstée & Merkus, à Amsterdam & à Leipzig 1754, in-12 (9,5x16,5cm), 6 volumes reliés.

Original collective edition; illustrated portrait 1 and 5 figures in Volume I, 1 frontispiece and 13 figures in Volume II, 1 frontispiece to Volume IV; portrait by Syfang, the figures drawn by Blakey, Wale and engraved by Walker and Fritzsch. Full brown calf iced contemporary. Smooth back [...]

400 €

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