First edition

Antoine Henri BERAULT BERCASTEL

Le serin de Canarie, poeme. Ouvrage dans un genre nouveau pour la poésie française, qui, à ...

S.n., à Londres [Paris] 1755, in 8 (13,5x21cm), 42pp., relié.

First Edition. Rare. Absent the French catalogs, a copy in the British Library. Sheepskin half burgundy nineteenth. Gilt. Back partly rubbed. Numerous footnotes pages commenting poem is a valuable source of information on canaries. Father Berault Bercastel wrote a famous story of the church. --- [...]

380 €

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Bonnaventure D'ARGONNE

Sentimens critiques sur les Caracteres de Monsieur de La Bruyere

Chez Michel Brunet, à Paris 1701, Grd in 12 (17x10cm), (4) 600pp. (8)., relié.

First Edition. Full contemporary calf. Back tooled raised. Friction on flat and corners. By Christmas, says Bonaventure Argonne. Also attributed to Abbé Pierre de Villiers and Pierre-Jacques Brillon, author of the Apology of Monsieur de La Bruyere and modern Theophrastus ... ', which is a response [...]

400 €

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PLAUTE

Comédies de Plaute, traduites en françois par mademoiselle Le Fevre...

Chez Deny Thierry et Claude Barbin, à Paris 1691, fort in 12 (15,5x9cm), trois tomes reliés en un volume.

Comedies of Plautus, translated into French by Le Fevre miss, with remarks and a review under the rules of theater. New edition. Illustrated two headpieces. Misses the third frontispiece of Volume III replaced with a blank sheet. Full Sheepskin brown vintage. Back tooled raised. Title unreadable. [...]

200 €

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Louis Sébastien MERCIER

La destruction de la ligue, ou la réduction de Paris, pièce nationale en quatre actes

S.n., à Amsterdam 1782, in-8 (19x12cm), xliij, 209pp., broché.

First Edition. Paperback, covered with a cream paper. Traces of glue on the wrong track, the cover is detached. It is an early example of historical drama. It was written for the sake of learning from past mistakes. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize [...]

150 €

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Louis Sébastien MERCIER & DESFORGES

Le vindicatif. Le déserteur. Jenneval. La piété filiale. Tom Jones. Richard et Derlet

Chez Phillipot & Jean-Florent Baour, Bordeaux et Toulouse 1774 -1784, in 8 (20x13cm), relié.

Collection of various parts, container, Mercier: The Vindictive (date corresponding to 1774 privilege) The Deserter (1770) Jenneval (1783), and Desforges: The filiiale piety (1784) and Richard Derlet (1779), Tom Jones (based on the novel of Fielding 1783). Full sheepskin with marbled and textured [...]

250 €

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Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde DESHOULIERES & [...]

Poesies de madame et mademoiselle Deshoulières

Chez François Foppens, Bruxelles 1750, i-in2 (15x9,5cm), 295pp. (8) (1 bc) , (6) 284pp (12)., deux tomes reliés en un volume.

New edition is more comprehensive than previous ones. The first date of 1694. Calf Full marbled time. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Red edges. Good copy. Antoinette Ligier de la Garde was married 13 years to Mr. Deshoulières woman of taste and mind, she did not care to live as [...]

300 €

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Jean regnault de SEGRAIS

Les nouvelles françaises, ou les divertissements de la princesse Aurelie

Chez Guillaume Saucrain, à Paris 1722, petit in-8 (16x9,5cm), (8) 473pp. , 483pp. (5)., 2 volumes brochés.

New edition after the original 1657 (Sommaville). Edition illustrated with a frontispiece and 6 fig. unsigned (one for each new frontispiece). Paperback, without binding. A clear wetting the end of Volume of Volume I, in the middle. Segrais (1624-1701) was secretary Miss de Montpensier (including [...]

250 €

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Nicolas LENGLET DU FRESNOY

La catanoise ou histoire secrète des mouvements arrivez au royaume de Naples, sous la reine Jeanne ...

Chez Pierre Gandouin, à Paris 1731, in 12 (16x9,5cm), (6) 324 pp., relié.

First Edition. Barber I, 527. Sheepskin Full of time, back tooled raised. Missing top cap and lower cap threadbare. Edges rubbed with leather shortages. A dull corner. The Catanoise was the nurse of Queen Joanna of Naples and mother of Robert de Cabanes (High Steward of Sicily), of low birth she [...]

250 €

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