First edition

[Madame de LA FAYETTE ou Gatien COURTILZ DE SANDRAS

Memoires de Hollande

Chez Estienne Michallet, à Paris 1678, In 12 (10x15,5cm), (8) 456pp., relié.

First Edition, very rare, long attributed to Madame de La Fayette, published the year of The Princess of Cleves, then Courtilz de Sandras and even Pierre Daniel Huet. Full morocco late nineteenth signed Bellevallée glossy red old. Back to nerves Jansenist. Wide frieze gilded interior. Date tail. [...]

1 800 €

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Louis Elisabeth de la Vergne, Comte de TRESSAN

Oeuvres du comte de Tressan

Nepveu & Aimé-André, Paris 1823, in-8 (13x21,5cm), 10 volumes reliés.

The most comprehensive collective Edition published to date and illustrated with a frontispiece and 11 figures. Full calf glossy olive time. Smooth back thinned adorned with golden chains, golden heads and feet in friezes. Parts of title and volume numbers in red morocco, gilt caps on wheels. Lace [...]

800 €

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Antoine HAMILTON

Oeuvres du comte Antoine Hamilton

Antoine-Augustin Renouard, Paris 1812, 3 tomes en 3 Vol. in 8 (13x21,5cm), trois volumes reliés.

New edition, considered the most beautiful and the most correct of the complete works of the author. Illustrated with portraits of 8 A. Saint-Aubin in Volume I and 4 figures from Moreau the Younger in Volume II. Full calf glossy blond slightly later. Back with five nerves purposes set with gold and [...]

350 €

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[François BERNARD]

La gazette de Cythere, ou avantures galantes et recentes, arrivées dans les principales villes de ...

S.n., Londres 1774, in-8 (11,5x20,5cm), XI (1) 260pp. (2) ; (1bc.) 88pp., 2 parties reliées en un volume.

First edition, illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece and a portrait of Madame du Barry. The second part is entitled: Precis History of the Life of Mad. the Comtesse du Barry. Limited edition the author is Jean Frédéric Bernard by Barbier. Full mottled calf iced contemporary. Smooth back [...]

350 €

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Madame de GENLIS

Les petits émigrés, ou correspondance de quelques enfants

S.n., à Hambourg 1798, in-16 (8x13cm), (4) viij 172pp. ; (4) 174pp; et (4) 183pp. ; (4) 163pp., 4 tomes reliés en 2.

First edition small size due to the original published in Berlin and Paris on the same date. Full marbled calf contemporary. Smooth back decorated urn irons and rollers. Part of title and volume number in black morocco. Roll on turns. Lack head of Volume I; a snag with missing tail. Friction. 3 [...]

300 €

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (dit) HORACE

Q. Horatius Flaccus, ex recensione & cum notis atque emendationibus Richardi Bentleii

apud Rod. & Jacob. Wetstenios & Guil. Smith, Amstelaedami 1728, In 4 (20x26,5cm), (22) 717pp. (239p.), relié.

Third edition of the works prepared by Richard Bentley (1662-1742) better than the first (Cambridge, 1711) with the attached notes to the text and index Treter corrected by Verburgius. A frontispiece engraved by Bernard. Title page in red and black. Full Sheepskin rooted, 1900 (pastiche of a time [...]

300 €

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Gabriel Francisco LE JAY

Josephus venditus. Tragoedia

Apud Antonium Lambin, Parisii (Paris) 1698, Pet. in-8 (9,5x17cm), (12) 67pp., relié.

Edition, illustrated by a figure from Cornelius engraved by Mariette and headband to arms. Full glossy blond Calf. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Double fillet border on covers. A slight hitch in mind. Roll on turns. Small spots on the lower flat. 2 corners bumped. Guards [...]

250 €

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Philippe de Laurens Abbé de REYRAC

Hymne au soleil, suivi de plusieurs morceaux du même genre

Aux dépens de la Compagnie [Cazin], à Amsterdam [Paris] 1781, in-18 (6,5x12,5cm), xl, 138pp., relié.

New edition, illustrated with a portrait frontispiece. One of the few titles to the wrong address in Amsterdam. Binder editor full sheepskin blond marbled. Smooth back decorated. Part of title in red morocco. Trimple fillet border on covers. A hitch on the back. Small gaps in the joint line and one [...]

100 €

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