Claude-Prosper Jolyot de CREBILLON (dit CREBILLON FILS)

Le Sylphe ou songe de Madame de R***. [Ensemble] Lettre d'un jeune officier a Monsieur de V... En ...

Chez Prault & fils, à Paris 1735, in-12 (9,5x16,5cm), 40pp. ; xxij, 28pp., 2 volumes reliés.

The Sylph was published for the first time in 1730, this is the first tale Crébillon. Letter from a young officer in the first edition anonymous; very rare, this first edition seems absent from all libraries. At the end of the letter, signature: LBDK Rare edition. Cardboard cream parchment modern. [...]

500 €

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First edition

Alexander POPE & Germain-François Poullain de [...]

Essai sur l'homme [Ensemble] Lettres turques

S.n. ; Chez Pierre Marteau, s.l.; A Cologne 1736 - 1739, in-12 (9,5x16,5cm), xxx, 109pp. ; (2) 69pp., relié.

French Edition of The Essay on Man translated by Etienne de Silhouette, and second edition of the Turkish Letters published for the first time in 1730 by the same publisher in Cologne. Modern parchment cardboard. Piece as black sheepskin. The human trial, philosophical poem Pope is translated into [...]

650 €

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First edition

Marquis d' ALBERTAS

Lettre d'un père à son fils officier français

De l'imprimerie de Dubié, s.l. [Paris ?] ca 1815, 11x18,5cm, 8pp., 2 cahiers agrafés.

First edition of this booklet, published after his supposedly reading 1815.Pamphlet particularly violent and accuser against Bonaparte, warning a military son, according to the Marquis ready to betray the king to France and an adventurer wishing to bleed again France. The Marquis d'Albertas [...]

100 €

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Marie-Jeanne RICCOBONI

Lettres De Milady Juliette Catesby, A Milady Henriette Camply, Son Amie

S.n., à Amsterdam 1761, In 12 (9x15,5cm), (2) 250pp., relié.

Second edition, published by the same publisher reportedly the first in 1759, with the same snack. Novel published anonymously and claimed translated from English. Full of marbled sheepskin time. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. a blunt, bare corner. Friction. Marie-Jeanne [...]

250 €

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First edition

Caroline PICHLER

Agathocles, ou lettres écrites de Rome et de Grèce, au commencement du quatrième siècle

Chez Blanchard et Eymery, Paris 1812, 4 tomes en 4 Vol. in 12 (10x17,5cm), 246pp. (1) et 239pp. et 255pp. et 281pp., quatre volumes reliés.

Original French edition, translated by Isabelle Montolieu. Illustrated with a frontispiece by Le Cerf. The title page of Volume 1 is normally replaced by two sheets of catalog. Full Calf rooted contemporary. Smooth back decorated with two boxes to the Grotesque, urn irons and multiple wheels. Red [...]

400 €

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First edition

[ VERBOQUET], ANONYME

Les subtiles et facecieuses rencontres de I. B. disciple du genereux Verboquet, par luy pratiquées ...

De l'imprimerie de Jean Martin et de Jean de Bordeaux, à Paris 1630, in-12 (7,5x15cm), 71pp., relié.

First edition, rare. A priori absent catalog BN France and French catalogs; a copy in the British Library. Cardboard cream parchment to Bradel modern. Piece as black sheepskin. Foxing. A pale wetness high margin. A black spot in the lower margin of the sheet 2. Collection of curious and humorous [...]

500 €

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RAYNOUARD DORAT & VOLTAIRE

Recueil de pièces de théâtre : Les templiers (1805).[Ensemble] Regulus (1765). [Ensemble] Irene ...

Giguet & Michaud & Sébastien Jorry & S.n. & Martinu & Chaigneau Aîné & S.n. & Debray, Paris 1765-1805, in-8

New edition of the Templar Raynouard, illustrated with a frontispiece representing the Grand Master of the Templars. Corneille size of the room, which exalts the freedom and virtue, earned him the support of Napoleon, a triumph in the theater and library, and its entry into the French Academy in [...]

450 €

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First edition

Madame de GENLIS

Théâtre à l'usage des jeunes personnes

Chez Panckoucke, à Paris 1779-1780, in-8 (12x20cm), 522pp. (2) et (4) 464pp. et (4)436pp. et (4) 412pp., 4 volumes reliés.

First Edition.
Half time Calf. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco and volume number in brown sheepskin. Gaps on spine of Volume IV. A small loss in tail of volume III. Friction. Pretty good copies, fresh.
All volumes were 24 pieces. Many of these pieces were originally [...]

550 €

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