Nicolas BOILEAU DESPREAUX

Oeuvres

Chez Les libraires associés, à Paris 1772, in-8 (12x21cm), (4) cxvi 431pp. et (8) 617pp. et (10) 540pp. et (6) 562pp.

New edition, illustrated with a frontispiece engraved by Picart Winkeles, 2 allegorical figures by van der Meer (the Epistle and the poetic Art), and 6 figures after re-engraved by Picart Vinkeles for the lectern, 4 thumbnails As van der Meer and F. Bakker. This edition is also published at [...]

800 €

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First edition

PROCLUS & Georg HENISCH

Commentarius in sphaeram procli diadochi. Cui adiunctus est Computus Ecclesiasticus, cum Calendario ...

Typis Davidis Franci, Augustae Vindelicorum (Augsburg) 1609, in-4 (15x20cm), (8) 367pp. (20) (1), relié.

First edition, rare. Printing on both columns. Vignette of a sphere in the title page. 14 figures and in-text tables and many diagrams, including a timetable for the position of the stars and the zodiac figures, tables of latitudes and longitudes.Plein soft vellum vintage flap. Smooth back silent. [...]

1 600 €

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LONGUS

Les amours de Daphnis et Chloé

S.n., à Londres 1779, in-12 (10x16,2cm), (4) viij 9 - 176p., relié.

New reprint edition called the Regent, small 4to published in 1718 by Coypel frontispiece and 29 figures of regent (Phillipe d'Orléans) engraved by B. Audran. Some figures are folded. Translation of Amyot. This edition of 1779 is also published in the format in-4 with pages of text in a [...]

350 €

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P. J. MAIRAN

Lettres d'un missionnaire a Pekin, contenant diverses questions sur la Chine, pour servir de ...

Chez Nyon, à Paris 1782, in-8 (12x20cm), xi (1) 368pp. (1), relié.

Second edition and first edition under this title, the book was titled: Letters to Father ... Parennin on China. Illustrated boards and a calf figure.Plein granita. Smooth spine decorated. Part of title in red morocco. Torn off caps. Upper jaw and split open the tail and head. Corners bumped. [...]

450 €

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First edition

Pierre Laurent Buirette de BELLOY

Oeuvres complettes

Chez Moutard, à Paris 1779, in-8 (12x20cm), xiij, (3) 445 pp. et (4) 387 pp. et (4) 427 pp. et 407 pp. et 381 pp. et

First Edition collective adorned with a portrait frontispiece, which is Gabriel Henri Gaillard.
Full mottled calf time. Smooth spine decorated. Part of title and volume number in red morocco. Head cover of Volume I threadbare, the volumes V and VI partly frayed. Volume VI of the upper jaw split [...]

550 €

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First edition

Pierre-Jean-Claude MAUDUYT

Mémoire sur les différentes manières d'administrer l'électricité, et observations sur les ...

De l'Imprimerie Nationale, à Paris 1784, in-8 (12x19,7cm), (2) 301p. 46p., relié.

First Edition, illustrated with 2 folding plates on heavy paper. Paged party to share: Summary of newspapers, door colophon date 1786 Full brown calf and marbled ice.. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. 2 corners bumped. of p.96 in the end, foxing and pale yellow in margins; on the [...]

550 €

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First edition

Joannes Aurelius KNIPINGA

Facetiarum epigrammaticarum centuriae sex. [Ensemble] Musa miscellanea [Ensemble] Ephemeris ...

Typis Jacobi Mesii, Antverpiae (Anvers) 1672, in-16 (7x12,5cm), (8) 98pp. (1) (1bc.) ; 48pp. ; (8) 98pp., relié.

First edition of the two books published on the same date, and illustrated two headpieces. The second title is separated from the first by a false titre.Plein vellum rigid time. Smooth spine with title in black pen. The title is reproduced in black pen on the front cover. Rare, missing electronic [...]

400 €

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First edition

Charles de SAINTE-AGNES

Le grand homme considéré dans les excellences de Saint Jean-Baptiste

Chez Alexandre Fumeux, à Lyon 1652, in-8 (10,2cmx17,2cm), (8) 389pp., relié.

First Edition, a great rarity, adorned with a frontispiece title: Saint John the Baptist and Christ capped with arms, probably those of the dedicatee, lord of Fontenille Full red morocco of the late nineteenth signed David. Back to nerves decorated with threads forming boxes. Gilt title, date and [...]

600 €

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