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 €

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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 €

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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 €

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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 €

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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 €

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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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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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