First edition

Claude Joseph DORAT

Merlin, Bel - Esprit

Chez Monory, à Londres & se trouve à Paris 1780, In 8 (14x21,5cm), xvj 136pp., relié.

First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece Marillier, engraved by De Veau launay.Plein blond glossy granite. Smooth back features 5 jewels compartmentalized roulette tail and head. Part of title in red morocco. Slices cailloutées blue. Wetting a high margin on a 4 cm wide (end of the book, the [...]

250 €

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Claude Joseph DORAT

Lettre de Barnevelt, dans sa prison, a Truman, son ami, précédée d'une lettre de l'auteur

Chez Sébastien Jorry, à Paris 1764, in-8 (12,5x19cm), 37pp., relié.

Second edition reprint of the original published in 1763 by the same publisher. It is illustrated with a frontispiece, a sticker and a cul-de-lamp Eisen, engraved by De Longueuil. Neat printing; Dorat indeed has ruined honing his publications, commander Eisen and engravers what was best ... Demi [...]

250 €

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Jean-François de SAINT-LAMBERT

Les saisons

S.n., à Amsterdam 1775, Grd et fort in-8 (14x23cm), xxxvj 38-467p., relié.

Seventh edition of the Seasons, after the original was published in 1769 and illustrated by Plover, but First printing illustration of Moreau. This edition is a reprint of that of 1769 and includes the headers Chauffart, but adds 7 figures Moreau, engraved by Delaunay, Duclos, Lebas, Prévost. Note [...]

450 €

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First edition

Claude Joseph DORAT

Mes nouveaux torts, ou nouveaux mélanges de poésies, pour servir de suite aux Fantaisies

Chez Delalain, à Amsterdam & à Paris 1775, In 8 (11,5x18,2cm), xxvij (1) 300pp., relié.

First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece engraved by Marillier by Ghendt and a figure of the same engraved by Gaucher.Plein brown calf contemporary. Smooth back adorned with grotesque interlacing floral motifs. Part of title and volume number in red morocco. Triple net framing the golden [...]

300 €

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Charles de Secondat MONTESQUIEU

Le temple de Gnide

Chez Le Mire, AParis 1772, Grd. in 8 (15,5x24cm), (2) vij, 104pp., relié.

Edition first edition of this famous illustrated eighteenth. The text was entirely engraved by Drouet. The illustration, entirely engraved by Le Mire includes a title engraved frontispiece (it is "avant la lettre." And nine figures by Eisen. Printing paper size. Calf Full sheepskin marbled period. [...]

400 €

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Miguel de CERVANTES

Nouvelles

Chez Arkstée & Merkus, A Amsterdam & Leipzig 1768, 2 tomes en 2 Vol. in 12 (9,5x17cm), XLIV 358pp. et (2) 396pp., relié.

Mention new edition, plus three new and life of the author (already published in 1744, and before that date, the edition included only 10 stories). The half-title of the second volume bears the title various works, these two volumes, although sold separately, could be placed after Dom Quixote in 6 [...]

700 €

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First edition

Nicolas BOILEAU DESPREAUX

Epistres nouvelles

Chez Denys Thierry, à Paris 1698, In 4 (15.5x21.5cm), 15 f. n. ch., relié.

First edition, rare. Grand finial title page. Text in italics. Great bands title, initials. Full Calf glossy blond, 1820 Back tooled raised florets 4.; roulette wheels and cold tail. Part of title and volume number in black morocco. Frieze framing on the boards. Gilt edges. Foxing on the first [...]

800 €

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First edition

Pierre François Godard de BEAUCHAMPS

Les amours d'Ismene, et d'Ismenias

Chez François l'Honoré, à Amsterdam 1729, In 12 (10x17.5cm), (6) 158pp., relié.

First edition illustrated. A title vignette, a frontispiece and three pretty faces before the letter. The title vignette is signed by Bernard Picard. Title page in red and red morocco noir.Demi wedge signed late nineteenth-Dubois D'Enghien. Back tooled raised. Gilt title, date tail. Double mesh [...]

600 €

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