First edition

Louis de GRENADE

Le Paradis des prières

Chez Eustache Foucauld, à Paris 1603, In-12 (8,5x15,2cm), (18f.) 426ff. ; 19ff. ; 16ff., relié.

New illustrated edition of 17 figures finely engraved on copper, including an architectural title-frontispiece, a figure of the Holy Trinity and 15 religious subjects in frames of flowers, fruits, insects and macabre emblems on a black background, signed Jacob de Weert and Leonard [...]

700 €

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Gabriel Francisco LE JAY

Le triomphe de la religion sous Louis Le Grand

Chez Gabriel Martin, à Paris 1687, In 12 (9x16,5cm), 131pp., relié.

First edition illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece and 22 large unsigned in-text figures, a title band and a drop cap.
Binding full Brown Basin contemporary. Back with ornate nerves. title label in red morocco. Headdresses torn off. Missing the bit. Primer of a narrow slit at the upper [...]

400 €

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Andreas MARCHTALLO

Quadragesima Christo patinti sacra, seu passio domini nostri Jesu Christi

Apud Fratrum Klauber, Augsbourg 1778, In-12 (10x16cm), (12) 100pp., relié.

Second edition, illustrated with a frontispiece and 46 figures illustrating the Passion of Christ, etched by Catherine Klauber, in the German Rococo style, characteristic of Augsburg engravers, frameless and with rocaille framing, in compositions Baroque sometimes complex.
Binding in full [...]

400 €

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Artus de LIONNE

Lettre de Mr. l'abbé de Lionne, évêque nommé de Rosalie, vicaire apostolique de la province de ...

S.n., à Rome 1700, In-16 (8x15cm), 249pp. (2), relié.

First edition.
Binding in full speckled brown sheepskin. Back with ornate nerves. title label of brown sheepskin. Headdress partly torn off. A lack in the lower tail. A corner trimmed, 2 corners blunt. Rubbed together.
The work, written in the form of a letter to M. Charmot, Director of the [...]

160 €

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Giovanni Lodovico VIVALDI

Aureum opus de veritate contrionis, in quo mirifica documenta aeterna aperientur

Apud Iacobum Giunta, Lugduni 1547, In-8 (11x16cm), Fo cliij, relié.

New edition after the first edition of 1503.
Binding full vellum flexible of time. Smooth back with title to the feather faded. Open joints in tail. Tail cap with a tear on 1 cm. Body of the work disengaged from binding. Last detached sheet.

500 €

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BOUIS

La chaire des curez, ou la vraye methode de bien annoncer les festes aux eglises parrochialles ...

Chez Benoist Bachelu, à Lyon 1652, Fort. in-8 (10,5x17,2cm), (30) 440pp. ; (16), relié.

First edition. A title-frontispiece by Du Roy.

Binding full parchment contemporary. Smooth back mute. Back seams become loose, bringing out the notebooks. Dirt.

250 €

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Père CASIMIR

Manuscrit original : Le triomphe de la croix sur les attraits de la souveraineté ou la vie du duc ...

1800, In-12 (9x16cm), 123pp., relié.

Original manuscript of a work published in 1674 under the same title. The text, in a state certainly before the publication presents many variants with the edition which contains additions and variations of style. The manuscript thus presents a state prior to the edition, the copy is clean and [...]

700 €

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Bertrand de MOLLEVILLE

Costumes des Etats héréditaires de la Maison d'Autriche

Imprimé pour William Miller, Londres 1804, In-Folio (26x36cm), xxviij (2) 50 Pl. 50f., relié.

First edition, beautifully illustrated with 50 engraved plates and watercolors, all are numbered and signed William Ellis. Bilingual text, first English, then French on the following pages.

1 500 €

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