First edition

Barnabé Farmian de ROZOI

Henri IV, drame lyrique en trois actes

Chez Vente, à Paris 1774, In 8 (13x20cm), (6) 77pp. (1), relié.

First Edition. illustrated as a frontispiece designed by Gazard and engraved by Patas, and three prints by Larrieu, engraved by the same. Sheepskin half red mid nineteenth century. Back smooth threads. Good copy. Barnabas Farmian Durosy or Rozoi (1745-1792) was a journalist and man of letters [...]

200 €

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Francisco SANTOS

Las tarascas de Madrid, y tribunal espantoso. Passos del hombre perdido, y relacion del espiritu ...

Por Francisco Antonio de Burgos, en Valencia 1694, Pet. in-8 (10,5x16,3cm)), (32) 317pp. (3), relié.

New edition after the first edition of 1665 Rare. Parchment full contemporary. Smooth spine with title pen. Freckles scattered. Spanish prolific writer, Francisco Santos (1618-1696), who was his military state, is famous for his novels and short stories in which picaresque drew plenty Lesage for [...]

900 €

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Philippe-Auguste de Sainte-Foix, Chevalier d' ARCQ

Le palais du silence. Conte philosophique

S.n., à Amsterdam [Paris] 1754, 2 tomes en un Vol. in 12 (10x17cm), (2) 229pp. , 270pp., relié.

Rare first edition of this literary hoax falsely attributed by the translator Cadmus Millet in a long explanatory preface. Illustrated with a frontispiece by Cochin. Full sheepskin vintage blonde. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Threadbare cap head portion and the upper joint open [...]

650 €

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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 1688, in 12 (9,5x16,5cm), (58) 308pp., relié.

Second edition of mention. This edition follows the first few months, it is similar in all respects except for some corrections. It is at the Rue Saint Jacques, "the Image Saint Paul." "The second edition also Print. in 1688 only offers a few slight changes, and the third, under the same date, is [...]

1 200 €

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Gabriel GILBERT

Les poesies diverses

Guillaume de Luynes, à Paris 1661, In 12 (8,5X15,5cm), (13) 173pp., relié.

First Edition. Rare. Full speckled calf time. Back tooled raised. Torn off caps. Wetting marginal pale on the first 50 pages. Our copy is missing the sheet A1 which is a subtitle, there is no lack of text (see table of contents). Gabriel Gilbert (1610-1680) was first considered as précuseur Racine [...]

200 €

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Antoine MILLIEU

Moyses viator : sev, imago militantis ecclesiae mosaicis peregrinantis synagogae

Sumptibus Gabrielis Boissat, Lugduni (Lyon) 1636, in-8 (11,5x17,5cm), (16) 486pp., relié.

First Edition. Rare. Absent Brunet. A sequel will be published in 1639 edition of 1680 will bring together the two parties. Velin flexible full time. Title pen. Long poem in the exodus of the Jews. It reveals the image of the pilgrim and pilgrimage to the Renaissance, ie an exclusive walk to a [...]

800 €

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Marie-Jeanne RICCOBONI

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

S.n., à Amsterdam 1759, In 12 (10x17cm), (2) 250pp., relié.

First Edition. Novel published anonymously and claimed translated from English. Full Calf blond marbled time. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Base joint split head along the first casing, and a bare blunt corner. Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni (1713-1792), was, after a mediocre actress [...]

500 €

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Louis Abel BEFFROY DE REIGNY & COUSIN-JACQUES

Nicodeme dans la lune, ou la revolution pacifique. Folie en prose mêlée d'ariettes et de ...

Chez l'auteur, à Paris 1791, in-8 (13x20cm), 104pp., broché.

First Edition. Rare. Brochure naked. Covered with a glassine. Lack right corner of the title page (the letter E Moon is therefore missing), and bottom right corner. Satyr of the French Revolution. Cousin Jacques is the pseudonym of a journalist Beffroy of Reighton whom he owed his fame. He is the [...]

400 €

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