First edition

Louise Françoise Duchesse de LA VALLIERE

Reflexions sur la misericorde de Dieu. Par une dame penitente

Chez Antoine Dezallier, à Paris 1688, in-12 (8,5x15,5cm), (22) 189pp., relié.

New edition after the original published in 1680. Copies fully settled.
Binding full glossy burgundy morocco contemporary. Back to Jansenist nerves. Gilt. Indoor Friesland. gilt edges.
Work inseparable from the life of Madame de la Valliere, she wrote at the end of a long illness, during [...]

700 €

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Felix MINUCIUS OCTAVIUS & J. GRONOVIUS

Octavius cum integris Woweri, Elmenhorstii, Heraldi & Rigaltii notis [...] Caecilius cyprianus. De ...

apud Cornelium Boutestein, Samuelem Luchtmans, Lugduni Batavorum (Leyde) 1709, In-8 (11,5x20cm), (10) 496pp. (24), relié.

New edition. A thumbnail title. title page in red and black.
Bound in full morocco post green due to Derôme. Back smooth decorated uniformly irradiated 5 small diamonds, nets. Triple mentoring net on the boards. Indoor Friesland. Gilt edges.

500 €

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François de Salignac de La Mothe FENELON

Demonstration de l'existence de Dieu tirée de la connoissance de la nature

Chez Jacques Etienne, à Paris 1713, Pet. in-8 (9,5x16,5cm), relié.

First edition, scarce
Binding in full burgundy morocco signed XIXth Chambrolle mid-Duru.

700 €

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Guillaume Emmanuel Joseph SAINTE CROIX (de)

L'Ezour-Vedam ou Ancien commentaire du Vedam. Contenant l'exposition des opinions religieuses et ...

Dans l'Imprimerie de M. de Felice, Yverdon 1778, in-12 (9,5x16cm), xij 13-332pp. et 264pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First edition of this religious pastiche composed by Jesuit missionaries in India. Printed on the presses of Fortune Barthelemy Felice in Yverdon, it was published by the Holy Cross baron.
Binding post (1840) full fair calf. Back with five nerves decorated with gilded boxes and nets, as well as [...]

400 €

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Hugo GROTIUS

Traité de la vérité de la religion chrétienne

Élie Jacob Ledet & Compagnie, Amsterdam 1728, in-12 (9,5x15,5cm), LVI (5f. tab.) 455pp., relié.

New French edition, translated by Lejeune, the Christian apologetics Treaty philosopher and diplomat Hugo
Grotius (1583-1645); it is adorned with a sticker on the title, engraved intaglio by Duflos according Debrie.
Contemporary binding in full fawn calf. Back smooth decorated with the [...]

400 €

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Thomas A KEMPIS

Libri quatuor de Imitatione Christi

S.n. [Pierre-François Didot], Paris 1788, grand in-4 (24,5x32,5cm), (3f.) 338pp., relié.

Sumptuous edition printed on wove paper by Pierre-François Didot, decorated with a portrait of the Child Jesus engraved in intaglio by Klauber.
Binding slightly later (1800) in full fair calf. Back with five false nerves decorated with double gilded boxes and nets, and irons anchor, a red [...]

600 €

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Claude Pierre GOUGET (Pierre NICOLE)

Continuation des essais de morale contenant la vie de M. Nicole

Chez André Chevalier, à Luxembourg 1732, in-12 (9x16,5cm), relié.

First edition of this volume 14 of the Moral Essays, the volumes appeared alone and whose publication covers several spent decades.
Bound in full morocco old vintage red. Back to Jansenist nerves. Gilt. Roll on turns and inner frieze. A slight lack tail. A sheet emerged. A dull corner. Dark [...]

350 €

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Duc d' AYEN

Les larmes de Saint Ignace; ou dialogue entre Saint Thomas et Saint Ignace. L'an de las destruction ...

Chez Juan Velasco, Arevalo, en Castille 1762 S.d., 10,5x17,5cm, relié.

first edition.
Binding half morocco old red ca 1860. spine smooth mirror decorated with two chains.

200 €

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