First edition

Jean-François TRABAUD

Principes sur le mouvement et l'equilibre, pour servir d'introduction aux mécaniques & à la ...

Chez Jean Desaint & Charles Saillant, Paris 1741, In-4 (20x27,2cm), (4) xxiv, 616pp. lvij (1).

First Edition
Binding in full brown contemporary brown. Back with richly ornate nerves. Title piece in brown morocco. Head cap partly torn off 1.5 cm. A lack in tail, another with the upper bit in tail. Lower joint open at the tail. 2 holes along the lower joint. Blunt corners. Rubbed boards.

2 500 €

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Sophie COTTIN

Malvina

Chez Maradan, à Paris 1800, In-12 (10x17cm), (4) iv, 255pp. (2) ; (4) 259pp. (2) et (4) 251pp. (2) ; (4) 259pp. (2), 4 tomes en 2 volumes reliés.

first edition, rare, illustrated with 4 frontispieces legendary and framed by Tardieu and engraved by Binet.
Bindings in full brown fleece of speckled contemporary. Smooth backs richly adorned with 2 caissons with an irradiating diamond, a box with the grotesque and roulettes. Title and tomato [...]

550 €

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Mungo PARK

Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique fait en 1795, 1796 et 1797, par M. Mungo Park

Chez Dentu, à Paris 1799 (An XII), In-8 (11,5x19,8cm), xij, 412pp. et (4) 376pp., 2 volumes reliés.

first edition illustrated with a portrait at the frontispiece, 2 boards of botany, 3 views and 3 folding maps.
Bindings of half brown contemporary brown. Back Jansenists. Parts of title in red morocco, pieces of tomato in green morocco. A snag at the tail of volume 2.

780 €

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François-Guillaume DUCRAY-DUMINIL

Les soirées de la chaumière

Chez Le Prieur, à Paris 1806, In-16 (8x13,5cm), 249pp. et 247pp. et 240pp. et 260pp. et 290pp. et 268pp. et 252pp. et 274pp., 8 volumes reliés.

Mention of fourth edition, after the first in 1797. 8 frontispieces by Chaillou, legend.

250 €

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Honoré Gabriel Riquetti Comte de MIRABEAU & TIBULLE

Elégies de Tibulle. Suivies des Baisers de Jean Second et de Contes et nouvelles par Mirabeau

S.n., Paris An IV - 1798, In-8 (12,5x20cm), (4) XIX ; 375 pp. et (4) ; 393pp. (2) et (4) 388 pp., 3 volumes reliés.

Second edition of this edition adorned with two portraits (Mirabeau in the first volume and Sophie in the second volume) and 12 full-page figures engraved by Dupréel and Eluin after Borel. The first edition appeared in Year III.
Bindings in full marble calf of time. Smooth back with 2 lyre [...]

350 €

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Hans SLOANE

Histoire de la Jamaïque

Chez Nourse, à Londres 1751, In-12 (9,5x17cm), (4) 285pp. et (4) 248pp., 2 volumes reliés.

SLOANE Hans
Histoire de la Jamaïque
Chez Nourse, à Londres 1751, in-12 (9,5 x 17 cm),
(4) 285 pp & (4) 248 pp., 2 volumes, contemporary calf
First edition in French, translated by Raulin, six folding plates at [...]

1 200 €

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Nicolas BOILEAU DESPREAUX

Oeuvres complètes

De l'imprimerie de Mame frères, Paris 1810, In-8 (12,5x20cm), CXXXVI 368pp. et (4) 492pp. et (4) 379pp., relié.

Second edition of this edition.
Bindings in full rooted rowan of time. Smooth backs decorated with an iron in the sun, 2 caissons to the grotesque and a fleuron. Double frieze framing on the boards. Title and tomato pieces in red morocco. Head cap of Volume 2 partially cropped, but slightly. [...]

200 €

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LONGUS

Les amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé

Chez Jean Néaulme, à La Haye 1764, In-12 (10,5x17cm), (10) 159pp. (1) xx, relié.

New edition, reprint of the edition called "Regent" originally published in 1734, and illustrated
Pastic binder from the beginning of the 20th century. Smooth back decorated with 2 boxed cold irons and 2 caisson to the grotesque. Title piece in red morocco. Number on the boards. Beautiful copy.

200 €

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