First edition

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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COMMIERS

Pratique curieuse, ou les Oracles des Sybilles sur chaque question proposée. Tirée des manuscrits ...

Chez Michel Brunet, à Paris 1694, in 12 (16x9,5cm), (38) 169 pp., relié.

First Edition. Full contemporary calf, spine tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Jaws open mind. Upper cover and lower cover torn threadbare. Corners bumped and without leather. Commiers was both mathematician and Kabbalist, the book is designed as a set of divination. Every thing is [...]

350 €

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Guillaume Hyacinthe BOUGEANT & DANTON père

La femme docteur, ou la théologie tombée en quenouille suivi de Le saint déniché, ou la ...

chez Pierre Sincère, chez Pierre Prudent, chez Pierre Fidèle, à Avignon, Bruxelles, Avignon [Bruxelles et La Haye?]

Places editions and publishers are obviously fictitious. Full contemporary calf. Smooth back decorated. Part of title in red morocco. Top cap partly threadbare. 2 gaps on the lower joint, two corners bumped. Meeting three satirical pieces against Jansenism. The Jesuits contributed to the diffusion [...]

400 €

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Fanny Comtesse de BEAUHARNAIS & FEUTRY

Le somnambule, oeuvres en proses et en vers, ou l'on trouve l'histoire générale d'une isle très ...

A l'Isle de France, Chez P. Fr. Didot le jeune, imprimeur de Monsieur, Paris 1786, 1779, fort in-8 (19,5x12,5cm), vj,

First Edition. Absent the BN of France and French catalogs, one copy to the British Library and some in English catalogs. The sleepwalker is on large paper. New booklets Fleury are first edition. Half blue buckram the first half of the nineteenth century. Corners bumped. Woman French letter [...]

500 €

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Thomas de LORME

La muse nouvelle, ou les agréables divertissements du parnasse

Chez Benoist Coral, à Lyon 1665, in-12 (14,5x9cm), (24) 269 pp. (17)., relié.

Very rare first edition, missing the French catalogs, English, and Hollis catalog of the Harvard library. Full portrait and frontispiece often lacking. Twentieth binding using a vellum manuscript of the nineteenth, smooth back with part of title in red morocco. Wettings throughout the autograph [...]

450 €

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Giovanni Battista Filippo GHIRARDELLI

Il Costantino tragedia, con la difesa della medesima

e Giovanni Andreoli, in Roma. Apresse di Gregorio 1660, petit in-12 (14x7,5cm), (32) 189pp. (1bc), 192pp. -33., deux parties en un volume relié.

Second edition. The first seems to be published in Rome in 1653, but announced the second part (first edition), which carries its own title page, The difesa by Ippolito Shiribandelo. Absent the French catalogs, present at the British Library and Oxford. Velin full time. Smooth back with respect to [...]

450 €

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Thomas CORNEILLE

Les tragedies et comedies de T. Corneille

Chez Guillaume de Luyne, à Paris 1669, 1673, 1680, in-12 (15,5x8,5cm), (2) 592pp. (4), 544pp. (4), 584pp. (4), 74,

The first three volumes of the collected edition appeared for the first time in 1662, volume IV, published in 1673, contains only pieces of first edition, namely: Laodice, Baron d'Albikrack, Hannibal Death , Countess of pride, Ariane, Teodate. The fifth volume contains original Death of Achilles, [...]

1 200 €

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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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