First edition

Pierre Louis Moreau de MAUPERTUIS

Essai de philosophie morale

S.n., Berlin 1749, In 12 (9,5x16,5cm), (4) 107pp., relié.

First edition, rare. A vignette title by Eisen. Full glossy and marbled calf contemporary. Smooth back adorned with grotesque. Part of title in red morocco. Threadbare cap. Friction to the joints and corners. The test of moral philosophy is one of two main texts (and the first chronologically) [...]

800 €

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Emmanuel SWEDENBORG

Traité curieux des charmes de l'amour conjugal dans ce monde et dans l'autre. [Ensemble] Du ...

Chez George-Jacques & J. Henri Decker; chez Barrois & chez Guillot, à Berlin et Basle ; à Londres & se trouve à

French Edition of these two works of Swedenborg, probably translated from Latin (Amor Conjugialis 1768) by Guyton Guyton and not Brumore. Rare. In addition to the end from the commerce of the soul and body: From White Horse spoken of in the Apocalypse. Full sheepskin vintage blonde. Back tooled [...]

900 €

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Charles BONNET

La palingénésie philosophique ou Idées sur l'état passé et sur l'état futur des êtres ...

Chez Claude Philibert et Barthelemi Chirol, à Genève 1769, in-8 (11,5x20cm), xxvj (2) 427pp; (1) et (2) iv (2) 448pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First edition, rare; infringement is published on the same date in Amsterdam. Full glossy blond calf and marbled contemporary. Back smooth decorated. Parts of title and volume numbers of red morocco. A small loss in head volume I. Five corners bumped. Friction. Without doubt the most ambitious and [...]

900 €

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[ VOLTAIRE] & [Pierre Louis Claude GIN]

Prix de la justice et de l'humanité. [Ensemble] Les vrais principes du gouvernement françois, ...

S.n., Geneve 1777, in-8 (12x20cm), (6) vij, (1) 316pp. (3) ; iv, 120pp., relié.

first editions, rare both Full mottled calf contemporary. Smooth back 4 irons. Parts of title and volume number in red morocco. Triple fillet border on covers. Little lack in mind. Lack the upper joint head. Upper joint split tail. Slight lack tail. Friction. Gin's work is primarily a defense [...]

1 400 €

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Antoine GUENEE & VOLTAIRE

Lettres de quelques Juifs portugais et allemands, à M. de Voltaire ; avec des réflexions ...

Chez Moutard, à Paris 1776, in-12 (9x16,5cm), xxvij (1) 424pp. et (4) 476pp. et (8) 444pp., 3 volumes reliés.

Edition partly original, published for the first time in 1769 in a Vol. in 8. Two volumes were added for this edition. Full sheepskin vintage blonde. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Petis gaps in mind. Tail headdress of Volume III threadbare. 7 corners bumped. Friction. The book [...]

450 €

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Alexander POPE

Oeuvres diverses, traduites de l'anglois. Nouvelle édition, revue et augmentée d'un grand nombre ...

Chez Arkstée & Merkus, à Amsterdam & Leipzig 1767, in-12 (9,5x16,5cm), LX,LX, 343 ; IV, 358 ; II, 352 ; II, 418 ; IV,

New edition, illustrated with a frontispiece by Delamonce, a portrait engraved by Kornlein and 23 figures by Frankendaal. This edition contains two volumes of more than 1754. Full Sheepskin brown mottled. Back tooled raised. Part of title and volume number in red morocco. Caps head partly [...]

550 €

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Caspar MANZ

Patrocinii debitorum calamitate belli depauperatorum pars prima suivi de Pars secunda

typis Willem Eder, Ingolstadii (Ingolstadt) 1639, in 8 (16x10cm), (8) 526pp. -1., relié.

First edition of the two parts that are rarely met. Manz was later published two other parties. Absent German catalogs, there is an edition of Part IV (1640) in Scotland (because the parties were sold separately as they dealt with specifics.) Absent Brunet. Scroll to full recovery reusing a [...]

600 €

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Nicolas Antoine BOULANGER

Recherches sur l'origine du despotisme oriental

Par la Compagnie des Libraires Associés, à Paris 1763, in-12 (93,5x16,3cm), xiv, 235pp. (2), relié.

New edition after the original published posthumously by D'Holbach (some attribute part of its authorship) in 1761.
The edition contains well letter to Helvetius absent from most rééditions.Plein Calf granite contemporary. Smooth back decorated. Gilding seem performed on the part of [...]

550 €

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