ANONYME

Le papillotage, ouvrage comique et moral

Chez E. V. D. W., à Rotterdam 1767, Pet. in 8 (10,5x18cm), 118pp., relié.

Second edition after the original from 1766, by the same publisher. Half morocco emerald mid nineteenth century. Back to nerves decorated with flowers and 5 threads. The book is a libertine entertainment elegance and fashion in the novel form; this is the story of an elegant and its tribulations in [...]

250 €

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First edition

Vicesimus KNOX

Extracts, elegant, instructive, & entertaining in prose, &c

Printed for Mess. Rivingtons, Longman..., London 1791, 2 Vol. grd in-8 (15x24cm), xv, (8) 511pp. et 524pp., deux volumes reliés.

First Edition. 2 illustrated vignettes titre.Plein Calf tan marbled time. Smooth spine richly decorated wheels Greek and others. Part of title in red morocco. Parts volume number in black morocco. boards decorated with 3 wheels framing. interior frieze. 2 corners bumped. A serious snag with the [...]

280 €

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Vicesimus KNOX

Elegant extracts : or, useful and entertaining pieces of poetry, selected for the improvement of ...

T. Longman, London 1796, 2 Vol. grd in 8 (15x24cm), xvi, 544pp. et 545-1008pp., deux volumes reliés.

New edition, revised and enlarged. 2 stickers titre.Plein Calf tan marbled time. Smooth spine richly decorated wheels Greek and others. Part of title in red morocco. boards decorated with 3 wheels framing. interior frieze. 3 corners bumped. Small rips in caps. Friction. Elegant English binding, [...]

280 €

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Vicesimus KNOX

Elegant epistles : being a copious collection of familiar and amusing letters, selected for the ...

T. Longman, London 1794, Fort grd In 8 (15x24cm), xii, 873pp., relié.

New edition, revised and enlarged. Illustrated with a frontispiece with various authors medallions. Printing on dual colonne.Plein Calf tan marbled time. Smooth spine richly decorated wheels Greek and others. Part of title in red morocco. boards decorated with 3 wheels framing. interior frieze. [...]

250 €

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First edition

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (dit) HORACE

Q. Horatius Flaccus cum erudito Laevini Torrentii commentario, nunc primum in lucem edito. Item ...

Ex officina plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum, Antverpiae (Anvers) 1608, In 4 (18,5x25cm), (20) 839pp. (48) (1 bl.), relié.

First Edition. Large thumbnail of the printer on the title page, and back of the last page. Illustrated with a portrait of Torrentius and a second Horace copper. Text Horace Italique.Pleine sheepskin blond marbled early twentieth pastiche of a seventeenth binding. Back tooled raised. Part of title [...]

700 €

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Charles SOREL & Nicolas de MOULINET

La vraye histoire comique de Francion. Composée par Nicolas de Moulinet, Sieur du Parc, ...

Chez les Hackes, A Leyde et Rotterdam 1668, 2 tomes en 2 Vol. pet. in 12 (8x13cm), (16) 368pp. et (4) 454pp., deux volumes reliés.

New edition, after the original from 1623. This edition is illustrated by 2 lovely frontispieces and 11 figures unsigned. Each figure has a top and bottom, as if it were two vignettes. All illustrations have a beautiful contrast and were perfectly printed. This edition of the hacked part of the [...]

1 000 €

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Guillaume CRETIN

Les poesies

Chez Antoine Urbain Coustelier, à Paris 1723, Pet. in-8 (10x16cm), relié.

The most comprehensive collective edition, plus two new pieces, namely two letters to the Cretin in Molinet, with a response from the latter. Preface by the editor, who had made a specialty in the reissue of poets of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Full contemporary calf. Back tooled raised [...]

450 €

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First edition

Joseph CADALSO

Obras de Don Joseph Cadalso

Por Don Matteo Repullès, Madrid 1803, in-12 (10x15cm), 4 volumes reliés.

First Edition collective. Full Sheepskin brown mottled with age. Smooth spine decorated with bold and thin nets. Part of title in red morocco, room volume number in a circle in black morocco. A wormhole tail you Volume 1, a second tail of Volume 4 Cadalso José (1741-1792), Spanish poet and [...]

700 €

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