Jean-Louis GUEZ DE BALZAC

Le prince de Balzac

Chez Toussaint du Bray, à Paris 1632, in-8 (17,2x11,5cm), xl. 456pp. (xxi)., relié.

Second edition, the first edition being published in the previous year. Vellum flexible full time, dumb back. A torn vellum tail, the seams are somewhat loose. End of the book, 10 pages folded corner. The book is a political picture of Europe under Louis XIII laced with examples from antiquity [...]

500 €

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PLUTARQUE (Traduction)Jacques AMYOT)

Oeuvres morales et meslees. Translatées de grec en français, reveues & corrigées en plusieurs ...

Pour Samuel Crespin, à Cologni 1614, in-folio (38x25cm), (8f.) 674ff. (45f.)., relié.

The first edition of Amyot's translation dates back to 1572 in Vascosan Michel in Paris. Full contemporary calf, spine nerves 6, 6 jewels, double fillet border on covers. Jacques Amyot (1513-1594), was the tutor of the son of Henry II (future Charles IX and Henri III), it is also a professor at the [...]

1 500 €

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Antoine de. LAFOSSE D'AUBIGNY

Le théâtre de M. de la Fosse. Polixene. Thesee. Manlius Capitolinus. Gabinie. Le distrait

Chez Jacques Desbordes, Amsterdam 1703, petit in-12 (13,8x7,5cm), [4] ff. , 60 pp. dont front. , 71 pp. dont front. ,

Artificial collection consists of 5 rooms (separate pagination) of the pit illustrated frontispiece by Van of 5 Aveele published by Desbordes between 1798 and 1702. General title in red and black. Polixene. 1698. Theseus. 1702. Manlius Capitolinus (same date as the original). 1698. Gabinie. [...]

400 €

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First edition

Eustache Le NOBLE

Dialogues sur les affaires du temps, ou les pasquinades

Elzevier, Leyde 1689, petit in 12 (14,8x9cm), 48pp. (1bc)., 46pp. (1bc)., 41pp. (1bc)., 43pp. (1bc). 46pp., relié.

first editions. Editions elzéviriennes the Sphere. Full contemporary calf, spine tooled raised. Book consists of 5 texts in the first edition together in one volume: The Chamber of Accounts of Innocent XI (5 ° dialogue), The Dream of Pasquin or prom Europe (2 dialogue), The Feast of Guillemot '4 [...]

550 €

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First edition

Laurent Angliviel de la BAUMELLE

L'asiatique tolérant. Traité à l'usage de Zéokinizul roi des Kofirans, surnommé Le Chéri. ...

Chez Durand, à Paris L'an 24 du traducteur [1748], in-12, XXVIII, 145pp. (1) (10)., relié.

Rare first edition of this work with keys (catalog key end of the book) printed by Marc-Michel Rey in Amsterdam. Speckled brown cardboard late eighteenth or early nineteenth. "This book has been assigned Crébillon son, which finds the anagram in the name of the alleged traveler" QuÚrard II, 454., [...]

350 €

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Corneille SCHREVEL

Joannis Sartori adagiorum Chiliades tres sive sententiae proverbiales Graeca, Latina & Belgica, ex ...

Ex typographia Nicolai Herculis, Leyde 1656, fort in-12 (9x15,5cm), (4) 696pp. (42)., relié.

Elzévirienne Edition branded printer (Hercules foot on a dragon floored). No trace in the catalogs of the National Library. Bound in full vellum contemporary, under the pen laces apparent. Sali back, endpapers detached, good condition inside. Shrevel (1615-1664) is a Dutch grammarian, best known [...]

450 €

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Marquis. DE LA GRANGE

Pensées de Jean-Paul Richter extraites de tous ses ouvrages traduites de l'allemand

F.G. Levrault, Paris & Strasbourg 1836, 13,5x22cm, broché.

Second edition. Light spots on the front cover, two small gaps on the back, some interior foxing. A bit split on foot. Rare.

70 €

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Jean de LA FONTAINE

Les oeuvres posthumes de monsieur de La Fontaine

Guillaume de Luyne, Paris 1696, 9,5x15cm, XXIV + 276pages, relié.

First Edition. Bound in full sheepskin rooted back with four nerves decorated double boxes and golden jewels, part of title in brown calf tail date, elegant pastiche signed binding. Headbands, initials and tail-lamp burned. A page of handwritten note regarding the work-in fine.

600 €

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