First edition

Lady Mary Wortley MONTAGUTE

Lettres de Milady Wortlay Montagute écrites pendant ses voyages en diverses parties du monde

Chez Duchesne, à Paris 1764, in-12 (10x17cm), viij, 240pp. ; (4) 223pp., 2 parties en un volume relié.

first edition.
Copy the arms of Anne-Louis-Alexandre de Montmorency, (Or, a cross Gules cantoned with sixteen azure alerions ordered 2 and 2) Lieutenant General of the King's army, captain of the king's body grades.
Binding right calf granite contemporary. Back smooth decorated [...]

750 €

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DE LA FLOTTE

Essais historiques sur l'Inde, précédés d'un journal de voyages et d'une description ...

Chez Herissant, à Paris 1769, in-12 (10x17cm), (4) 360pp. (12), relié.

first edition, rare, illustrated in Figures 3
Binding sheepskin half contemporary. Back smooth decorated. part of title in red morocco. Flush caps. largely split upper joint, lower joint cracked head. Corners bumped.

500 €

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Giovanni Paolo MARANA

L'espion dans les cours des princes chrétiens

Chez Erasme Kinkius, à Cologne 1739, in-12 (10x17cm), (2) 34pp. (14) 513pp. et (10) 486pp. et (4) 530pp. (16) et (4)

New edition. This edition has been successively increased and it is very difficult to find the date of the original, certainly in 2 volumes. It is illustrated with 21 pretty faces, 5 folding (portrait Méhemet; a view of Constantinople, Richelieu portraits, Knights of Malta, the figures of the [...]

1 300 €

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Abbé Jérôme RICHARD

Description historique et critique de l'Italie, ou nouveaux mémoires sur l'état actuel de son ...

Chez François Des Ventes & Saillant, A Dijon & à Paris 1766, in-12 (10x17cm), (20) clxiv, 320pp. (3) et (4) viij,

First edition, illustrated with two cards of folding Italy.
Back with nerves decorated with florets 4 boxed. Part of title and volume number in red morocco. Triple mentoring net on the boards. Roll on turns.

900 €

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Alexis COLLIN de BAR

Histoire de l'Inde ancienne et moderne, ou l'Indostan

Le Normant, Paris 1814, In-8, (4) xvj, 372pp. et (4) 408pp., 2 volumes reliés.

first edition, rare, illustrated in a very nice large folding map in color on heavy paper.
Binding half speckled brown sheepskin contemporary. Back smooth decorated with irons the lyre and the ballot box. Part of title and volume number adorned with sheepskin chocolate. Gaps in mind. 2 Volume [...]

830 €

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Claude Emmanuel Lhuillier CHAPELLE & François Le [...]

Voyage de messieurs Bachaumont et La Chapelle

Chez Pierre de Coup, Amsterdam 1708, petit in-8 (9,5x16cm), (2) XIV ; 478pp. (2), relié.

first edition.
Contemporary binding in full mottled brown calf. Back with five nerves decorated with gilded boxes and jewels as well as a piece of red morocco. boards hit weapons. Cups and caps decorated with golden wheels. All edges gilt.

300 €

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Jean-Louis SCHERER

Recherches historiques et geographiques sur le Nouveau-Monde

Chez Brunet, à Paris 1777, in-8 (12,5x20,2cm), xii (2f.) 352pp., relié.

SCHERER Jean-Louis
Recherches historiques et geographiques sur le Nouveau-Monde
Chez Brunet, Paris 1777, in-8 (12,5 x 20,2 cm), xii (2 f.) 352 pp., contemporary sheep
The rare first edition with eight illustrations (Chinese coins and [...]

1 500 €

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Pietro & Achille PARBONI

Raccolta di N°60 vedute antiche e moderne della citta di Roma e sue vicinanze : con la giunta ...

Presso Agapito Franzetti, in Roma 1820 S.d., Trois volumes in-12 oblong (15,5x22cm), reliés.

Edition illustrated with 158 figures etchings depicting views of Rome. The engravings are different signatures: Parboni, Franzetti, Olivieri, or not carry any, and sometimes the date of 1824. Drawing on strong vellum.
Binding half calf contemporary hazelnut. Back smooth decorated with long [...]

1 300 €

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