Abbé Laurent BORDELON

Le voyage forcé de Becafort

Chez Fristch & Bomh, à Amsterdam 1719, in 12 (16,5x9,5cm), 342 pp., deux parties en un volume relié.

New edition after the original from 1709. Pages red and black titles. Full contemporary calf, spine tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Upper cap threadbare. Friction. Corners bumped. Like all the satirical works of the Father Bordelon, it is a curious and unclassifiable work in which a [...]

450 €

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PLAUTE

M. Actii Plauti Comediae XX. Post omnes omnium aéditiones accuryissime recognitae. Praeter ...

Excudebat Ioannes Gymnicus, Coloniae (Cologne) 1538, in-8 (16x10,5cm), 782pp., relié.

First Edition? Edition not found in German libraries that hold edition 1535 in Basel with another commentator or in French and English libraries. Beautiful italic small print. The first edition of Plautus is 1472. Edition not cited in Brunet. Full Vellum later, perhaps eighteenth .. Back to nerves. [...]

900 €

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Clément MAROT

Les oeuvres de Clément Marot, valet de chambre du roi. Revues et augmentées de nouveau

Chez Adrian Moetjens, à La Haye 1700, petit in-2 (14x8cm), XVI, 318 pp., (2), (319) 732, (14) pp., 2 tomes reliés en un volume.

The works of Marot knew many editions in the sixteenth, seventeenth much less. Contains an abstract of the life of the author. Pretty edition, the most sought 'according Brunet (III 1458) adds:' It is difficult to obtain copies of well preserved margins and whose leaf does not have a red tint. [...]

450 €

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Abbé Charles COTIN

Recueil des énigmes de ce temps

Chez Jean Guignard, à Paris 1661, petit in-12 (13x8cm), (28) 80 pp (1 bc) , 98 pp (3) , 92 pp (4)., trois parties en un volume relié.

New edition after the original from 1645. Full contemporary calf, spine with raised bands tooled, red morocco title. Rubbed together. Gaps in caps. The collection of puzzles game refers to a particularly fashionable in the salons was to guess a word in a poem or charade. Father cotin (1604-1681), [...]

300 €

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Giulio Cesare CROCE

Bertoldino et Cacasenno

Pietro Pinolato, Venezia (Venise) 1782, in 8 (18,5x10,5cm), xii. 396pp., relié.

First edition. Neat print on thin paper. Illustrated with 20 woodcuts in a rough and popular taste, and a medallion portrait frontispiece (intaglio). The original date of 1606 Half Calf glossy navy late nineteenth, spine ribbed features 5 jewels. The copy, perfectly white, appears to have been [...]

400 €

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Samuel RICHARDSON

Histoire du chevalier Grandisson

S.n., à Amsterdam 1777, 8 tomes en 4 Vol. in 12 (16,5x9,5), relié.

New edition. Full glossy marbled calf, spine decorated nerves. A hitch a cap joints. Translated by the Abbe Prevost. Richardson was the inventor of the bourgeois tragedy [...] He invented this novel where the art is to ignore all the precepts of the art, where the accumulation of foreign details to [...]

350 €

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Jean-Louis Ignace de la SERRE & Louis Adrien DUPERRON

Les aventures de Leonidas et Sophronie suivi de Les aventures de Zeloïde et d'Amanzarifdine suivi ...

Chez la veuve Le febvre, chez Saugrain, chez Wan de Vater, à Paris, à Paris, à Utrecht 1722, 1715, 1728, in 12

first editions of these three rare novels. Absent the BNF and French but present in the English catalogs (Oxford and British Library) catalogs. Full contemporary calf, spine decorated nerves and part of title in red morocco. Top cap with 2/3 missing. Two slots 1 and 2 cm in the upper joint. 2 [...]

550 €

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FACETIAE FACETIARUM, hoc est, Joco-Seriorum Fasciculus, Exhibens Varia Variorum Auctorum Scripta, ...

ad Moenum, Frankfort (Francfort) 1615, in 16 (13x7,8cm), iv. 452pp., relié.

First Edition of this collection of humorous texts based primarily on smut and drink. Binding posterior mid nineteenth half glazed calf burgundy (back thinned) to nerves and gilt and cold. The book contains 12 texts by different authors whose titles are significant enough by their irreverent [...]

600 €

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