First edition

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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First edition

Adrien-Michel-Hyacinthe BLIN DE SAINMORE

Lettre de Gabrielle D'Estrée a Henri IV. Précédée d'une epitre à M. De Voltaire et de sa ...

De l'imprimerie de Sébastien Jorry, à Paris 1766, in-8 (12,5x20,5cm), x, 11-38p. (1), relié.

First edition, illustrated with a carved figure by Roubeau Eisen, a sticker under the same engraved by Massard, and a cul-de-lamp, engraved by Allianet this time. Printing on large paper. Full sheepskin signed early XX Champs. Smooth back Jansenist, with title and golden time. Fillet border on [...]

180 €

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First edition

Adrien-Michel-Hyacinthe BLIN DE SAINMORE

Lettre de Sapho à Phaon

De l'imprimerie de Sébastien Jorry, à Paris 1766, In 8 (12,5x20,5cm), vj, 7-32p., relié.

First edition, illustrated with a figure engraved by Allianet Plover, a header Eisen and a cul-de-lamp Choffart, engraved by De Longueuil. Smart printing on large paper. Full brown sheepskin early twentieth signed fields. Jansenist smooth back with title and golden time. Menus frotements in caps. [...]

180 €

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First edition

Evariste PARNY

La guerre des dieux anciens et modernes. Poeme en dix chants. [Ensemble] Les nouveaux saints. ...

Chez Didot, à Paris 1799 - An VII, In 12 (9,5x15,8cm), 202pp. ; (2) 24pp. ; 72pp. ; 24pp. ; 24pp., relié.

First Edition, peppered with a frontispiece by Cochin engraved by Sornique. New saints. In Dabin. Paris. 1801. Third Edition. André Marie Chénier. What the théophilantropie? At the claissique library. Paris.1801. Natural religion is it absurd, intolerant, contrary to popular belief, and it leads [...]

1 000 €

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Roland LE VAYER DE BOUTIGNY

Tarsis et Zélie

Chez Musier fils, à Paris 1774, 6 parties en 3 Vol. in 8 (13x21,8cm), xxiij, 563pp. et 563pp. et 597pp., relié.

Illustrated new edition first printing. The figure includes three frontispiece by Cochin, Moreau and Eisen, engraved by Gaucher, Ponce Born; and 20 headers by Eisen, engraved by Helman, De Longueuil, Masquelier and Massard. Elegant shown in the layout soignée.Demi morocco olive green late [...]

850 €

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First edition

ANACREON & SAPHO, Charles EISEN

Anacréon, Sapho, Bion et Moschus, traduction nouvelle en Prose, suivie De la veillée des fêtes ...

Chez Le Boucher, à Paphos & se trouve à Paris 1773, In 8 (14x22,2cm), (4) iv, 280pp., relié.

First edition of this translation of Moutonnet Clairfonds and first print of the illustration, which includes a frontispiece, 12 headers and 13 tail-lamp Eisen, engraved by Massard and Duclos. Title page in red and red morocco noir.Plein late nineteenth signed Pickering. Spine ribbed Jansenist. [...]

800 €

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