First edition

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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Guillaume Thomas RAYNAL

Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des Européens dans les deux ...

Chez Jean-Léonard Pellet, Genève 1781, in-8 (12,5x20cm), xvj ; 348pp. (1) et xij, 378pp. (1) et (4) VII (1) 372pp. (1)

Third and last edition, the best and the most complete as to the text, bringing the number of volumes to 10 against 7 published until then. The work published in a luxurious version, in 4 and in this version in-8. The illustration includes a portrait of Raynal by Cochin (with the mention: The [...]

3 300 €

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Charles de BROSSES

Lettres sur l'Italie

Chez Ponthieu, à Paris 1799 (An VII), In-8 (12,5x19,5cm), viij, 415pp. et (4) 455pp. et (4) 400pp., relié.

First edition.
Binding half brown sheepskin speckled flat flamed yellow paper, cunning pastiche of the late nineteenth. Smooth back decorated with fat and lean fillets. Black shagreen pieces. Tiny traces of friction. Nice copy, very fresh.

1 300 €

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Frances BROOKE

Histoire d'Emilie Montague

ChezChanguion, A Amsterdam 1770, in-12 (10x16,5cm), (4) 192pp. ; (2) 193-384p. et (2) 162pp. (2) ; (2) 156pp., 4 parties reliées en 2 volumes.

Original French edition, rare, translated by Jean-Baptiste Robinet, after the English premiere published in 1769. Four beautiful title pages engraved and separated. Changuion catalog in fine of the third part.
Binding full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin. Back with ornate nerves. title [...]

650 €

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Joseph Bernard Marquis de CHABERT

Voyage fait par ordre du Roi en 1750 et 1751, dans l'Amérique septentrionale, pour rectifier les ...

De Imprimerie Royale, à Paris 1753, In-4 (20x26cm), (2) viij, 288pp. (10), relié.

First edition
Copy to the figure and arms of Louis XV.
Binding full brown marbled and glossy brown sheepskin.

4 000 €

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