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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Jean-Pierre-Louis de LA ROCHE DU MAINE, Marquis de [...]

Paris en miniature, d'après les dessins d'un nouvel argus

S.n., à Amsterdam 1784, 130pp., relié.

Several editions appeared the same year in Paris, London, Berlin.
Binding full flamed brown sheepskin late nineteenth. Smooth back richly decorated Restoration type. title label in red morocco. Nice copy.

250 €

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John BARROW

Voyage dans la partie méridionale de l'Afrique ; fait dans les années 1797 et 1798

Dentu, Paris 1801, In-8 (12,5x20,7cm), xvj, 403pp. (1) et (4) 326pp. (2), 2 volumes reliés.

First edition
Bindings in full brown sheepskin vintage flamed. Smooth back decorated with 2 florets and 2 grotesque boxes, and multiple wheels. Title pieces in red morocco, pieces of tomaison in morocco green. Frieze framing on the boards. Epidermures on the boards, near the external borders. [...]

1 000 €

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Jean-François de LA HARPE

Abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages

Chez Ledoux et Tenré, à Paris 1816, In-8 (12,5x20,5cm), 24 volumes reliés.

New edition, without the folio atlas of 15 boards.
Bindings half blond sheepskin contemporary. Smooth back nicely adorned with anchor and ship irons, wheels and ornaments. Title pieces in red morocco, pieces of tomaison in morocco green. Little lack in the tail of Volume I and at the head of [...]

1 800 €

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Marie-Joseph Marquis de FORESTA

Lettres sur la Sicile, écrites pendant l'été de 1805 par le Marquis de Foresta

Chez Pillet aîné, à Paris 1821, In-8 (13x20cm), xxij (2) 299pp. et (4) 299pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First edition.
Bindings in full sheepskin rooted and icy. Smooth backs decorated with 2 boxes to the grotesque

500 €

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