Marie-Jeanne RICCOBONI

Lettres d'Adélaïde de Dammartin, Comtesse de Sancerre, à Monsieur le Comte de Nance son ami

Chez Humblot, à Paris 1771, in-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (8) 242pp., relié.

Second edition, published after the original from 1767. Calf iced Full time. Smooth back decorated. Part of title in red morocco. A wormhole on the part of title, 2 on the top plate. A pale wetness in addition to the 3 first pages; with a tear sheet lacks 71 without achieving any text. Marie-Jeanne [...]

250 €

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First edition

Jean de LA BRUYERE

Les caracteres de Theophraste traduits du grec : avec les caracteres ou les moeurs de ce siecle.

Chez Etienne Michallet, à Paris 1691, Fort in-12 (9x16,5cm), (32) 587pp. (4), relié.

Sixth edition partly original. It contains 54 new comments from previous editions. Full Sheepskin brown time. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Friction. The last cover page was pasted on the privilege. 3 wormholes on the back. The characters were Heather implement a dynamic, [...]

500 €

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Antoine François PREVOST D'EXILES (dit Abbé PREVOST)

Le philosophe anglois, ou histoire de Monsieur Cleveland, fils naturel de Cromwel, Ecrite par ...

Chez Paul Vailant, à Londres 1777, 6 tomes en 6 Vol. in 12 (9,5x16,5cm), (4) xxiv, 429pp. et (4) 439pp. et (4) 424pp.

new edition, illustrated with 12 figures Desrais. Title pages in red and black. Volumes appeared successively in 1731, 1732, 1734 1739 and the entire novel published for the first time in 1741. Calf Full marbled time. Smooth back decorated. Parts of titles and volume numbers in red morocco. Marbled [...]

400 €

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First edition

Claude Henri Fusée Comte de VOISENON & Madame de [...]

Zély, ou, La Difficulté D'Etre Heureux, Roman Indien, Suivi de Zima et des Amours de Victorine & ...

Chez La veuve Duchesne, Amsterdam [Paris] 1775, In 8 (12x19,3cm), xvj, 166pp., relié.

First edition, rare, adorned with a frontispiece designed by Bertaux and engraved by Martinet. Full Velin green time. spine missing. Corners bumped. Paper for 2 sheet straight line without infringement text. wetting down a page on a few pages at the beginning of work without interference with text. [...]

200 €

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PINDARE

Pindari Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia. Caeterorum octo lyricorum carmina, Alcari, Sapphus, ...

Pauli stephani, s.l. 1612, In 16 (6x12,5cm), 684pp., relié.

New edition, the first seems to be published by the same publisher in 1599.Plein Calf time. Spine ribbed nicely decorated, consisting of a central iron of two intertwined C. Part of title in red morocco. Slices gilt. A lack of a cm in the last box and slot with little lack in tail cap, first white [...]

350 €

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Vincent VOITURE

Les oeuvres de Monsieur de Voiture

Chez Augustin Courbé, à Paris 1656, in-12 (9x15cm), 638pp. (10), relié.

fifth edition, published simultaneously in the 4 edition. The first edition dates from 1650. Sheepskin brown Full time. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Lower joint split in part. Restorations to relatively invisible caps. The book contains various letters and poems of the author. [...]

300 €

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LUCRECE

DE RERUM NATURA LIBRI SEX. Ad optimas editiones collati. Studiis Societatis Bipontinae

Ex Typographia Societatis, Argentorati (Strasbourg) 1808, In 8 (13,5x22,5cm), XLI, (3) 253pp. (50), relié.

Second edition, augmented by the League of Two Bridges. Strasbourg neat print on mottled calf velin.Plein. Beautiful pastiche of eighteenth twentieth binding using a beautiful leather. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Some scuffs on the boards. Bel exemplaire.L'édition contains [...]

450 €

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First edition

Marcus Valérius MARTIAL

Epigrammata

Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts, Londini (Londres) 1716, Grd. in-12 (9x15,6cm), (16) 288pp., relié.

First edition of Richard Mead with the life of Martial Petro Crinito. Frontispiece by Du Guernier. Title page in red and black. Full Velin rigid time. Smooth back Jansenist with respect to the red pen. Good copy. The book contains the Liber spectaculorum, which brings together 33 pieces [...]

250 €

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