Bernard le Bovier de FONTENELLE

Poesies pastorales. Avec un traité sur la nature de l'Eglogue, & une digression sur les Anciens et ...

Chez Michel Brunet, à Paris 1698, in 12 (10x16,5cm), de (8) 286pp. (22)., relié.

Second edition, the first was published in 1688. Speckled calf Full time. Back to nerves nicely decorated. Part of title fawn. Good copy. In the quarrel between the ancients and the moderns, Fontenelle takes part here for second with many taunts and satires Defenders of the Ancients. --- Please [...]

250 €

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First edition

Jean Pierre CAMUS

Le cabinet historique, remply d'Histoires veritables, arrivées tant dedans que dehors le royaume, ...

Chez Jean Baptiste Loyson, à Paris 1668, in-8 (12x18cm), de (20) 246pp., relié.

First Edition. From an illustrated portrait frontispiece. Rare. Absent the BN of France, the French catalogs, the British Library and English catalogs. Vellum full time. Smooth back silent. The book is a collection of 34 historical novels, each new being followed by Christian and moral reflections. [...]

700 €

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Clément MAROT

Les oeuvres de Clément Marot de Cahors

Chez Adrian Moetjens, à La haye 1702, petit In-12 (14 x 8 cm), de XVI, 318 pp., (2), 321-732, (14) pp., deux tomes en deux volumes relié.

Reissue, by the same publisher, edition of 1700, the most sought after 'by Brunet III, in 1458, adding:' It is difficult to obtain copies of well preserved margins and whose leaves were not a red tint. 'Full Sheepskin brown time. Back tooled raised. A snag with loss of the joint between [...]

400 €

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First edition

Vicomte d' ARLINCOURT

Charlemagne ou la Caroleide, poëme épique en vingt quatre chants

Lenormand., Paris 1818, in 8 (13,5x22cm), de 279pp. , 274pp., 2 volume reliés en 1.

First Edition illustrated by Horace Vernet two frontispieces and 5 originals ink drawings and unsigned wash. A folding map enhanced color endnotes places where the poem takes place. Full contemporary calf. Smooth back decorated with two boxes to the Grotesque, multiple threads and wheels. Part of [...]

500 €

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Jean d' INTRAS ( DE BAZAS)

Le martyre de la fidelite [ensemble] Le duel de Tithamante

Chez Robert Fouet., à Paris 1609, in-12 (9x15cm), de 85 (1) , 197pp., deux ouvrages en un volume relié.

Seconds rare editions of both novels Jean D'Intras Bazas, published respectively in 1604 and 1603 only the BN France has a copy of the first editions and second editions. Absent the French catalogs and the British Library. A vignette on the title page of the martyrdom of the unsigned loyalty [...]

700 €

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First edition

Melchior de POLIGNAC

L'anti Lucrèce

Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin et Jacques Guerin, Paris 1749, in 8 (15x22cm), (7 ff.) lxxxv, 229 pp. (2) , 388pp., deux tomes reliés en un volume.

First edition of this translation of Bougainville. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait by Rigaud engraved by Daulle and 10 bands and 5 tail-lamp Eisen, engraved by Tardieu and Delafosse. Full Calf blond contemporary. Smooth back ornate. Part of title in red morocco. Caps frayed, corners [...]

500 €

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Signed book

Arnaud BERQUIN

Romances

de l'imprimerie de Moutardier., à Paris 1796, in 16 (10,5x14cm), (4) vij (1bc) v-xxxij, 124pp. 44., deux parties reliées en un volume.

New illustrated edition of these Romances. Frontispiece and 13 figures unsigned, and 44 pages of engraved music. Printed on thick rod. Full marbled calf contemporary. Smooth spine decorated with arabesques and jewels. Triple Net framework on boards. Gilt edges. Good copy. Smear the corners and jaw. [...]

350 €

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ANONYME

Le Papillotage, ouvrage comique et moral

Chez E. V. D. W. & Compagnie, à Rotterdam 1769, in 12 (11x18cm), 131pp., relié.

Nouvelle édition après l'originale parue en 1766, à la même adresse. Demi percaline mouchetée milieu XIXe. spine lisse à filets. Pièce de titre en veau rouge. L'ouvrage est un divertissement libertin sur l'élégance et la mode sous la forme romanesque ; c'est l'histoire d'un élégant et de [...]

150 €

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