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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Denis DIDEROT

Le pere de famille. De la poësie dramatique

Chez Marc-Michel Rey, à Amsterdam 1759, Pet. in-8 (9x16,5cm), XVI, 115pp. (1), relié.

New edition, after the first published in 1758 Full Sheepskin blond ice. Spine ribbed 4 jewels in boxes; roulette tail. Part of title in red morocco. upper jaw cracked. Corners lightly bumped. Head cover restored by an amateur. This piece, published by Diderot second after natural son in 1757 (for [...]

350 €

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Jean-François REGNARD

Œuvres complètes

De l'imprimerie de Monsieur, chez la veuve Duchesne et fils, à Paris 1790, 6 tomes en 6 Vol. in 8 (12,5x20cm), (4)

The best and most complete editions of Regnard, when it contains much the fifth and sixth volumes, fired small number (as indicated by Cohen), and are rarely found attached to four premiers.Elle is illustrated a portrait of the author by Rigaud engraved by Tardieu and 11 beautiful figures of Moreau [...]

1 200 €

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Charles CLAUTEAUX

Observations sur la poetique française

Chez Van Harrevelt, à Amsterdam 1769, in-12 (8,5x15,5cm), (8) 255pp., relié.

First Edition. Full brown calf marbled ca 1800. spine features 5 jewels. Part of title in red morocco. Frieze framing on the boards. Gilt edges. A lack in mind. Some scuffs on the boards. Good copy. The book is a critique of the book displayed Marmontel: French poetry, which the author denounces [...]

200 €

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Philippe Néricault DESTOUCHES

Oeuvres de theatre

Chez Prault père, à Paris 1736, 4 tomes en 4 Vol. in 12 (9,5x17cm), relié.

Dummy collection composed by the publisher, the title pages of the different pieces ranging from 1734 to 1742; the fourth volume being dated 1745 Note that the first part of the first volume comes after the general front cover without special title page, without apparent lack in the collation; same [...]

400 €

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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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