First edition

François MAYNARD

Les oeuvres

Chez Augustin Courbé, à Paris 1646, in-4 (17x22,5cm), (16) (16) 384pp., relié.

Original collective edition containing some original pieces. One of the few copies containing the two epistles of Bois-Robert and Scarron (most copies contain less preliminary leaves). Portrait frontispiece of the author designed and engraved by Petrus by Daret; thumbnail of title, brand printer in [...]

1 300 €

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Antoine Léonard THOMAS

Oeuvres diverses de Mr Thomas

Jean-Baptiste Giroud, Avignon 1764, in-8 (12,5x20,5cm), (4) 288pp. 110pp. 51pp., relié.

First Edition printed in Avignon. Some ornaments engraved (headbands, initials and cul-de-lamp). Full calf brown speckled time. Back with five nerves decorated with boxes and flower and star motifs golden piece of red morocco. All red edges slightly rubbed Veal places and a small worm hole on the [...]

350 €

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Michael MATTAIRE

Corpus omnium veterum poetarum latinorum tam prophanorum quam ecclesiasticorum cum eorum, quotquot ...

Isaacum Vaillant, Londini [Londres] 1721, 2 tomes en un Vol. In folio (23x36cm), (4) 803pp. et (2) 805-1752pp. (14) 7pp., 2 volumes reliés.

Reprinted with new pages for a given edition in 1714: Opera and frag Veterum poetarum Latinorum. The edition includes three headbands. Full calf blond period. Back to six bands decorated with arabesques and jewels with golden birds, parts of title and volume number of red morocco. Cuts outlined [...]

600 €

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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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First edition

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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First edition

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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First edition

[ COLLECTIF]

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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