First edition

Antoine-Augustin BRUZEN DE LA MARTINIERE

Le Grand dictionnaire géographique, historique et critique

Chez P. G. Le Mercier & Le Mercier & Boudet, à Paris 1739-1741, in-4 (25,5x38,5cm), (4) XII pp. (2) 525 pp. (3) 334

original and complete well Editing six volumes
Binders of the time in the open marbled brown calf,

1 000 €

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Jérémie DREXEL

Ioseph Aegypti prorex descriptus et morali doctrina illustratus

chez Jehan Cnobbart, à Anvers 1641, in-8 (5x10,5cm), (10p.) 321pp., relié.

Second edition after the first published the previous year. False statement "1646" on the part of title.
Then brown calf binding aciné r, back smoothes decorated with warm florets, gilded dotted frame and a title part including the false mention of editing year, net gilded on the cuts, golden [...]

100 €

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First edition

Jean de LA BRUYERE

Dialogues posthumes du sieur de La Bruyère sur le quietisme

Chez Charles Osmont, à Paris 1699, in-8 (8x14cm), (22p.) 382pp., relié.

first edition. Tchemerzine VI, 331.
Bound in full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back with nerves decorated. Headdresses threadbare. Rubbed together. Large brown spot on the top plate. 3 corners bumped. P. 158-168 scorched.
All posthumous books of La Bruyère (died 1696) were completed by [...]

450 €

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First edition

Antoine ARNAULD & Pierre NICOLE

La perpetuité de la foy de l'eglise catholique touchant l'eucharistie deffendue contre le livre du ...

Chez Charles Savreux, à Paris 1669, In-4 (18,5x25,5cm), (74) 970, 172, 86p (12), relié.

first edition. Maque the title page printer, a thumbnail of arms of Clement VI.
Binding in full speckled brown sheepskin contemporary. Back to ornate nerves. As part of speckled brown sheepskin. A head slot. A white spot at the tail. Friction. Good copy.

500 €

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ANONYME

Biblia ad vestustissima exemplaria castigata

Joannes Stelcius, Antverpiae (Anvers) 1570, in-16 (6,5x11cm), (12f.) 319ff., relié.

New edition of the Bible, with the privilege on the back of the title page of 20 January 1558. Prepared by Johannes Hentenius. Brand printer in title page.
Bound in full red morocco seventeenth. Back smooth decorated with four finials, with supervision of irons to small points. gilt titles. [...]

1 400 €

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First edition

François CHAUVEAU, Eustache LE SUEUR

La vie de St. Bruno, fondateur de l'ordre des Chartreux

Chez René Cousinet, à Paris s.d. (ca 1660), In-folio (27,5x41cm), (4) 22pl., relié.

first edition, rare, illustrated with a title frontispiece and 22 plates from the tables of Eustache Le Sueur and engraved by Francois Chauveau.
Binding half shagreen iced chocolate ca 1860 with corners L. signed Fixon bottom of the last page. Back to jansenist nerves. Engraved title and the [...]

1 200 €

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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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Joanne Dominico MANSI

Epitome doctrinae moralis et canonicae ex constitutionibus, aliisque operibus felicis recordationis ...

Apud Joseph Galeatium, Mediolani (Milan) 1780, in-8 (12,5x19,5cm), 167pp., relié.

New edition seems to have appeared published for the first time in 1767.
Bound in full vellum flexible time. Smooth back with respect to the pen. Binding in large part detached. Trace yellow wetting at the beginning and end of the book. Foxing.
Study based on the writings of Benedict XIV.

80 €

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