First edition

Johann Baptist HOMANN

Accurate Vorstellung der Orientalisch- Kayserlichen Haupt- und Residenz-Stadt Constantinopel - ...

s.d. (circa 1720), 62x53,5cm, une feuille rempliée.

Carte originale, entièrement rehaussée en couleurs, montrant la régon du Bosphore. Grande vue panoramique de Constantinople vue de Scutari en bas de la carte. Une légende nomme et localise 30 bâtiments importants, tels que le Sérail, Sainte-Sophie et plusieurs mosquées. Une vue de [...]

1 500 €

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Johann Baptist HOMANN

Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae implantata Anglorumque coloniis florentissima Geographica ...

Nuremberg s.d. (circa 1716), 61,4x53cm, une feuille rempliée.

Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae implantata Anglorumque coloniis florentissima Geographica exhibita


Nuremberg | [ca 1716] | 61.4 x 53 cm | one map
Beautiful copy of one of the rare maps of the American North-East in the early eighteenth century, showing the region as [...]

1 500 €

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Charles PATIN

Quatre relations historiques

S.n., à Basle 1673, In-12 (9x15,8cm), (8) 3-336p., relié.

First edition.

Binding full brown speckled brown and glossy vintage. Back with ornate nerves. title label of brown calf. Restorations in caps, joints and corners. Missed marbled cover pages on the blank sheets.
Ex libris of the twentieth: Bibliotheca Altholii doctoris.

350 €

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Claude DU MOLINET

Figures des differents habits des chanoines reguliers en ce siecle

Chez Simeon Piget, à Paris 1666, Pet. in-4 (17x23cm), (6) 144pp. (3), relié.

First edition, illustrated with an engraved title and 31 pretty full-page figures included in the pagination, as well as 2 headers, 2 initials and a cul-de-lamp, all engraved by The Doyen.
Binding full morocco blue night ca 1860 signed bottom of the Belz-Niedrée contreplat. Back to Jansenist [...]

800 €

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Amable Robin de LA TREMBLAYE

Sur quelques contrées de l'Europe, ou Lettres du Chevalier de ***, à madame la Comtesse de ***

à Londres 1788, In-8 (12,5x19,2cm), 2 volumes reliés.

First edition.
Binding half blond sheepskin contemporary at small corners. Smooth back decorated with nets. Tome and title label of tawny morocco. Traces of friction on the backs but beautiful copy.
Man of letters and poet, this work is the fruit of the travels of the Chevalier de la [...]

250 €

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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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Samuel de SORBIERE

Relation d'un voyage en Angleterre

Chez Pierre Michel, à Cologne 1666, In-16 (7,5x13cm), (8) 180pp. (3), relié.

First edition.
Binding full marbled brown calfskin eighteenth time. Smooth back decorated with irons to the urn. title label in red morocco. Cold fillet of framing on the boards. rubbed together. 2 blunt corners.

250 €

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Jacques François GROBERT

Description des pyramides de Guizé, de la ville du Caire et de ses environs

Chez Logerot-Petiet & Rémont, à Paris 1801, In-4, (6) 160pp., relié.

Illustrated first edition of 5 plates (a Mameluke figure on horseback, a view of the Mourat Bey palace, a plan, elevation and a section of the pyramids of Giza) and a large folding map of Cairo.
Binding half marbled mauve modern fawn with small corners. The back is a clever and confusing [...]

1 500 €

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