OVIDE & Jean-Marin KERVILLARS

Les Elégies d'Ovide, pendant son exil. Traduites en françois, le latin à côté avec des ...

Chez d'Houry, Paris 1738, in-8 (9,5x17cm), xxii (10) 455pp., relié.

New edition. Full calf blond speckled time, back with five nerves decorated boxes and golden jewels, coins under red and black morocco, caps streaked with gold, highlighted a simple gold band cuts. Red edges. Corners slightly rubbed. Nice copy. --- Please note that the translation in english is [...]

180 €

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Michel de LA BIZARDIERE

Caractères des auteurs anciens et modernes, et les jugements de leurs ouvrages

Chez Grégoire Dupuis, Paris 1704, in-12 (9x16,5cm), (1) 251pp. (22), relié.

First edition, rare. full brown calf antique, back with five nerves decorated with gilded boxes full, part red morocco, all sprinkled edges. Caps head and tail are threadbare and seating is widely uneven. Two nerves cracked. Sometimes fierce satire of the literary world. In a fictional greece, [...]

250 €

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L'Abbé Philippe-Louis GERARD

Le Comte de Valmont, ou les Egarements de la raison. Lettres recueillies et publiées par M...

Chez Jean-Albert Joly, Avignon 1793, in-18 (10x17cm), xxiv ; 406pp. et x (2) 354pp. et (4) 389pp. et xii ; 381pp. et ix

New edition, revised and enlarged, with original published in two parts in 1774 and 1778. Speckled brown calf Full time, back with five nerves ornate coffered and gilded finials, parts of title and volume number morocco blond and black, all red edges. Several caps are frayed, a few small holes to [...]

200 €

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MARMONTEL

Chefs-d'oeuvre dramatiques, ou recueil des meilleures pieces du théâtre françois, tragique, ...

De l'imprimerie de Grangé, à Paris 1773, grand in-4 (22x29cm), xij, lxxij, 107p. vij, 118p. xvj, 132p. (3), relié.

First edition, beautifully illustrated and finely 3 figures, 15 header, and 10 tail-lamp, all by Eisen and engraved by de Launay young Helman, Masquelier, Born and Ponce. Printing on large paper.
Full mottled calf contemporary. Back tooled raised, wheels and tail head. Part of title in red [...]

800 €

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Almanach des muses

Chez Delalain, à Paris 1773, in-16 (8x14cm), viij, (12) 224pp. 4p., relié.

First Edition. Title-engraved frontispiece. Full mottled calf blond and glossy. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Head cap threadbare. Good copy. This almanac contains, besides the calendar year, a suite of rooms, fables and light poems by various authors (Dorat Voisenon, Voltaire, [...]

150 €

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Jean-Baptiste Marquis de BOYER D'ARGENS

Mémoires du Comte de Vaxère ou le faux rabin, par l'auteur des Lettres juives

S.n., Amsterdam 1737, in-12 (7.5x12.5cm), (2) XII, 282pp. (1), relié.

First edition, rare. A frontispiece representing Isaac Meio frontispiece by the author, and a figure made by the same. Title page in red and black. Full calf iced contemporary. Back with four nerves decorated with a piece of red morocco. All slices speckled. Caps frayed, cracked joint and corners a [...]

400 €

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Nicolas BOILEAU DESPREAUX

Oeuvres diverses du sieur D *** avec le traité du sublime ou Du merveilleux dans le discours. ...

Chez Claude Barbin, à Paris 1674, in-8 (15,5x23cm), (4) 178pp. (2) ; (5) 102pp. (7) (1), relié.

First edition of Boileau and works with the term containing 9 satires, epistles 4, the first four songs of the lectern and the Treaty of the sublime. The edition also contains a new foreword and a new preface. Beautiful print in italics. There exists an edition of parts dating from 1670 which [...]

650 €

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First edition

Jean-François de LA HARPE

Tangu et Félime. Poeme en IV chants

Chez Pissot, Paris 1780, in-8 (16x24cm), 64pp., relié.

First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece and 4 thin figures by Marillier engraved by Ponce De Ghendt ... Cardboard navy late nineteenth century. Golden tail and date title. Copy uncut, connected as it was issued, in part uncut; sheets containing engravings have a smaller size; the blue [...]

200 €

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