Petrus ELMSLEY & SOPHOCLE

Scholia antiqua in sophoclis Oedipum tyrannum

C. H. F. Hartmann, Lipsiae (Leipsig) 1826, in-8 (13x21cm), relié.

Noted third edition. Cardboard brown speckled time. Red part of title. Friction. Greek text and Latin notes. Study and work on Scoliae or philological comments Sophocles' play Oedipus the King. The scholia ancient texts have always been a valuable source of information, they were most often written [...]

100 €

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MARTINVILLE

1, 2, 3, 4, ou la cassette précieuse, vaudeville en deux actes, par le citoyen Martinville

Chez Pellier-Lawalle, Bordeaux An X, in-8 (13,5x21,5cm), 48pp., broché.

First Edition. Paperback, covered with a strong twentieth beige paper. Blankets tucked. Vaudeville, ie popular piece, often embellished with songs as is the case here, the story part the story of two castaways believing owning a cassette filled with riches. It contains the Constitutions of 1791, [...]

100 €

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Eustache LENOBLE & Marie jeanne Villandon de LHERITIER

L'Allée de la seringue ou les Noyers, poème hérosatyrique en 4 chants, par M. D******. La ...

Chez Eugene Alethophile, chez Claude Mazuel, à Francheville (Paris) & Paris 1694, In 12 (9x15cm), 47, 44, 60pp. (1) , (2bc) (2) 24pp., relié.

first editions of these two works. Rare. Heresy is destroyed rated second edition. Full contemporary calf. Back tooled raised the Grotesque. Part of title in red morocco. Nets border on covers. Gilt edges. Upper cap threadbare. Upper joint split in head and lower joint split tail. A dark spot on [...]

450 €

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Claude Joseph DORAT

La muse libertine ou oeuvres posthumes

S.n., s.l. 1783, 11,5x19cm, relié.

First Edition. Binding in half basane bronze, back smoothes decorated two typographical motifs and triples nets gilded in head and in tail, headdresses slightly rubbed, boards of marbled paper, guards and contreplats of paper at a vat, bookbinding late nineteenth century. Copy free of freckles. --- [...]

250 €

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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 €

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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 €

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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 €

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Madame de GENLIS

Alphonse, ou le fils naturel

Chez Maradan, à Paris 1809, in-8 (13x20,5cm), (2) iv, 351pp., relié.

First Edition. Vintage cardboard with rose Bradel. Nets, as part of black sheepskin. Stéphanie Félicité du Crest de Saint-Aubin, by marriage Countess of Genlis, was a woman of letters known for his memoirs and fiction books mostly for the education of youth. She was also an intriguing and a [...]

120 €

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