First edition

Charles de COURCY

Tableau religieux et politique de l'Indostan, ou précis historique des révolutions de l'Inde, où ...

Chez Marchant, à Paris 1803, In-8 (12,5x20cm), (4) xxiij, 472pp., relié.

Edition originale, rare. L'ouvrage est suivi de deux mémoires présentés en 1781, à Louis XVI, par l'auteur de cet ouvrage, contenant un plan pour anéantir la puissance anglaise dans l'Inde, et d'un troisième sur les moyens actuels d'y parvenir encore.

Reliure en plein veau raciné [...]

650 €

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Jean-François PEYRON

Essais sur l'Espagne faits en 1777 et 1778 ; où l'on traite des moeurs, du caractere, des ...

S.n., Geneve 1780, In-8 (13x20cm), 3 volumes reliés.

first edition, rare.
Bindings in full veal blond speckled vintage. Smooth ornate back, wheels in tails and heads. Title and tomato pieces in red morocco.

1 200 €

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Philippe-Auguste de Sainte-Foix, Chevalier d' ARCQ

Histoire générale des guerres. Tome premier contenant l'histoire de la Grande Arménie [...] Tome ...

Imprimerie Royale, à Paris 1756 - 1758, In-4 (20x26cm), (6) vij-xij clxxvj, 372pp. et viij, 614pp., 2 volumes reliés.

first edition, rare, these two volumes published two years apart and whose result will never see the day.
Copy the arms of Louis XV hit on the boards, and the figure repeated on the back, a symbol that certifies the origin of the Royal Library in Versailles. Louis XV had a very large library [...]

4 000 €

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Robert de LO-LOOZ [LO de RADELET]

Les militaires au-dela du Gange

Chez Bailly, à Paris 1770, in-8 (12,7x19,7cm), (8) xvj, 506pp. (6) et (4) 480pp. (2), 2 volumes reliés.

Edition
Binders full mottled brown sheepskin contemporary. Back with nerves decorated, wheels and tail head. parts of title in red morocco and volume number in green morocco. Slotted cap to the lower joint. Lack the volume number part of Volume II. Friction.

900 €

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GMELIN

Voyage en Sibérie

Chez Desaint, à Paris 1767, In-12 (9,5x17cm), xxii, 430pp. et xx-xxij, 324pp. (4), 2 volumes reliés.

French Edition, translated by Louis Félix Guynement of Keralio, and illustrated with a figure and an extendible board music.
Binders full mottled calf contemporary. Back with nerves decorated. parts of title and volume number in red morocco. Lack head of Volume I. Part of the missing volume [...]

1 300 €

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Jean MOCQUET

Voyages en Afrique, Asie, Indes Orientales et Occidentales, faits par Jean Mocquet

Imprimé aux frais du gouvernement, Paris 1830, In-8 (13x25cm), (8) 381pp., relié.

New edition after the original very rare to 1617.
Bound in full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back smooth decorated with screened dining chains, wheels and multiple threads. part of title in red morocco. frieze framing on the boards. Central medallion with the emblem of the Hallays-Dabon [...]

700 €

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James BRUCE

Voyage aux sources du Nil

Chez Lepetit, à Paris An VII, in-18 (8,5x13,5cm), 237pp. et 225pp. et 244pp. et 255pp. et 255pp. et 223pp. et 213pp.

New illustrated edition, after the original was published in 1790. Our edition presents good volume atlas consists of a map and twenty-two engraved plates by Tardieu the Elder. The first board was connected frontispiece of the first volume of text. Cardboard brown time marbled paper. Parts of title [...]

800 €

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Guillaume Hyacinthe BOUGEANT

Voyage merveilleux du prince Fan-Férédin dans la Romancie; contenant plusieurs observations ...

Chez P. G. Le Mercier, à Paris 1735, In-12 (10x17cm), (2) vj (6) 275pp., relié.

first edition, attributed to Bougeant according Barbier (IV, 1091). Title page in red and black.
Binding in full speckled roan. Back to ornate nerves. as Exhibit in Havana morocco. A tail wormhole. Traces of friction. Good copy.

450 €

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