First edition

Charles Joseph de MAYER

Aventures et Plaisante éducation du Courtois Chevalier Charles-le-Bon, Sire d'Armagnac , contenant ...

S.n., à Amsterdam et se trouve à Paris 1785, 3 tomes en 3 Vol. in 12 (8,5x15cm), (6) 316pp. (5) et (6) 339pp. (1bc) (9) et (6) 259pp. (4), relié.

First Edition. Illustrated three frontispieces Marillier finely engraved by Le Beau. 4 tunes recorded on several boards. Half Velin early nineteenth to small corners. Smooth back. Parts of title and volume number of black gold-framed nets fat. Medieval novel set under Louis XI and Charles VI [...]

350 €

View more

SENEQUE

Senecae tragediae cum notis Th. Farnabii

Daniel Elzevier, Amstelodami (Amsterdam) 1678, In 16 (6,5x12cm), 428pp., relié.

Elzévirienne edition of the tragedies of Seneca with notes much esteemed English grammarian Thomas Farnaby (or Farnabie). The first edition with notes Farnabie is that of London, 1613 Brunet V, 286 Illustrated as a frontispiece. Full morocco marine time. Back tooled raised the Grotesque (castors [...]

600 €

View more

Louis BELIN DE LA FUYE

L'infortunée sicilienne, histoire et aventures galantes et tragiques d'Adelaide de Messine: ...

Chez Cailleau, à Paris 1768, in-12 (10x17cm), (4) 167pp., (4) 116pp. (4), relié.

The First edition date of 1722. The first illustrated edition was published in 1742, itself containing five fig. unsigned. All editions of this novel seem uncommon. The title page does not contain the name of the author. Fashion exotic stories added a first title that is not found in other [...]

450 €

View more

First edition

Benjamin CONSTANT

Deuxième lettre à M. Odillon Barrot. Sur le procès de Wilfried Regnault, condamné à mort. Avec ...

Chez Bechet, Planchet, Delaunay, à Paris 1818, in-8 (13x21,5cm), de 96pp., broché.

First Edition. Paperback, in blue paper era. Second letter from Benjamin Constant at the lawyer at the court of cassation Odillon Barrot, in which the author takes once again the defense of the accused, sentenced to death not on evidence but rumors and prejudices. "I will show earlier than those on [...]

250 €

View more

First edition

Vittorio ALFIERI

Il Misogallo. Prose, e rime di Vittorio Alfieri da Asti

S.n., Londra [Torino - Turin] 1799 [1814], Un Vol. in 8 (14x20,35cm), (8) 184pp., relié.

Rare first edition published in Florence. Illustrated boards opposite the title page, depicting a barn with chickens and roosters in the nascent Latin legend Orga (They hold). The book is full of small flying paper manuscripts that fill the gaps in the text, such as many dots in some poems. Half [...]

300 €

View more

First edition

Marquis de BIEVRE

Le séducteur, comédie en cinq actes et vers

Chez Prault, à Paris 1783, Un Vol. in 8 (13,5x20,5cm), (4) viij 135pp., broché.

first edition printed on heavy paper, which suggests that this is a great paper. Paperback, covered with a paper in his pastiche tank from the eighteenth to the twentieth. Tear head cover. Lack the upper right corner. The Marquis de Bièvre (1747-1789) was an accomplished courtier and an original [...]

300 €

View more

Robert DODSLEY

Le Bramine inspiré, traduit de l'anglais par Mr. L'Escallier

Chez Etienne de Bourdeaux, Berlin 1751, in-12 (11x18cm), (14) 80pp., broché.

Published the same year as the first French translation, without publisher's name. Edition Paperback. In paper eighteenth pink flowers. spine missing. Translated into truth by comedian Desormes Book Robert Dodsley: "The economy of human life." Following maxims and wisdom. --- Please note that the [...]

150 €

View more

Jean-Nicolas de PARIVAL

Histoires facetieuses et moralles, assemblées et mises au jour par J. N. D. P., [...]

Chez Salomon Vaguenaer, Leiden (Leyde) 1669, in-12 (131 x 74 mm), de (12) 312pp. (11) ., relié.

Stories and facetious moralles, assembled and brought to light by JNDP with some tragic stories. Second edition, more enhanced by the author. Rare, is not found prior to publishing it to the BN of France or the British Library. vignette on title. Pages with red and black titles. On page 201 is a [...]

550 €

View more