Louis Elisabeth de la Vergne, Comte de TRESSAN

Histoire du petit Jehan de Saintré et de la dame des Belles-Cousines

Chez Lepetit & Guillemard, à Paris 1792, in-18 (8x14cm), (4) 227pp. (2), relié.

New edition, illustrated with a frontispiece and 3 figures by Square on strong paper, and dated 1791.
Copy to arms
Bound in full morocco vintage claret. Back with nerves decorated. Triple net with angular irons in the spandrels and angular jewels, weapons centers boards. upper joint split [...]

280 €

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Giovanni Paolo MARANA

L'espion dans les cours des princes chrétiens

Chez Erasme Kinkius, à Cologne 1739, in-12 (10x17cm), (2) 34pp. (14) 513pp. et (10) 486pp. et (4) 530pp. (16) et (4)

New edition. This edition has been successively increased and it is very difficult to find the date of the original, certainly in 2 volumes. It is illustrated with 21 pretty faces, 5 folding (portrait Méhemet; a view of Constantinople, Richelieu portraits, Knights of Malta, the figures of the [...]

1 300 €

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Claude Joseph DORAT

Mes fantaisies. Mes nouveaux torts.

Chez Delalain & Monory, A Paris & Amsterdam 1770-1775, In-8 (13,5x20,5cm), 363pp. et xxij, 23-232p., 2 volumes reliés.

Third edition statement (significantly increased) for My fantasies; My new wrongs are on the date of the original, but from another distributor that Delalain. frontispiece engraved by Marillier by Ghendt and a figure of the same engraved by Gaucher for My new wrongs. A [...]

600 €

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First edition

François Baculard D'ARNAUD

Epreuves du sentiment

Chez Le Jay & Delalain, à Paris 1774-1778, Grd. in-8 (14,5x22cm), (2) 372pp. et (2) 179p. (2) 80p. 120p. 136p. et (4)

collective edition of this collection of short stories whose five volumes appeared from 1774 to 1778. 1774 the first two volumes, in 1775 for the third volume in 1777 and 1778 for the fourth to the fifth volume. Due to the spread of the publication, it is rare to meet a continuum with all the good [...]

900 €

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First edition

Antoine DEZALLIER D'ARGENVILLE

Vies des fameux architectes depuis la Renaissance des arts, avec la description de leurs ouvrages. ...

Chez Debure, à Paris 1787, in-8 (12,5x20cm), lxxxiv 494pp. et (2) xxxvj 324pp., 2 volumes reliés.

first edition, rare, illustrated by two allegorical frontispiece by Renou and engraved by Robert.
Binding in full mottled calf contemporary. Back with nerves decorated with irons caissonés the onion and wheels. parts of title in red morocco, and volume number in green calf. Lack head of Volume [...]

900 €

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[BIBLE] Sanctum Iesu Christi Evangelium. Acta apostolorum.

Apud Franciscum Regnault, Parisiis (Paris) 1542, fort in-16 (7,5x11,5cm), 209ff. 128ff. 133-165ff. (15f.), relié.

New edition after the first published in 1531, at Yolande Bonhomme, but that was not illustrated.
Bound in full brown calf iced contemporary. Back to dumb nerves. Binding having played, the portion formed by the leaves form a rounded outgrowth exceeding boards binding. very browned title page. [...]

2 500 €

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Jean-François REGNARD

Œuvres complètes

De l'imprimerie de Monsieur & la veuve Duchesne et fils, à Paris 1789, in-8 (13x21cm), (4) xxxvj, 406pp. et (4) 556pp.

La plus belle et la plus complète des éditions de Regnard, quand elle contient bien les cinquième et sixième volumes, tirés à petit nombre (ainsi que l'indique Cohen), et que l'on trouve rarement joints aux quatre premiers. Ces deux volumes n'ont pas été ajoutés à cet exemplaire.
Elle [...]

600 €

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Roland LE VAYER DE BOUTIGNY, Charles EISEN

Tarsis et Zélie

Chez Musier fils, à Paris 1774, in-8 (14,5x23,5cm), (4) iv,xxiij, 305pp. et (2) 305-563pp. et (4) 206pp. et (2)

Nouvelle édition illustrée en premier tirage. L'illustration comprend trois frontispices par Cochin, Moreau et Eisen, gravés par Gaucher, Ponce et Née ; et 20 en-têtes par Eisen, gravés par Helman, De Longueil, Masquelier et Massard. Elégant illustré à la mise en page soignée, imprimée [...]

800 €

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