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Abraham STANYAN

Tableau historique et politique de la Suisse, où sont décrits sa situation, son état ancien & ...

Chez Lottin le jeune, Imprimé à Fribourg & se trouve à Paris 1766, in-12 (10x16,5cm), relié.

Original French edition, translated from English by Jacques Rebauld Chapel (Barbier). Full mottled calf time. Back tooled raised. Part of title in black morocco. Caps restored. A thin slit in the lower joint first. Stanyan lived in Switzerland from 1705 to 1714. Haller enjoy the presentation [...]

400 €

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LE GRAND D'AUSSY

Voyage d'Auvergne

Chez Eugène Onfroy, à Paris 1788, In 8 (12x21cm), XII, 551pp., relié.

First edition, rare, illustrated with a view of the city of Clermont and surrounding volcanoes. Half Calf midnight blue boards. Smooth back to great romantic long iron. Good copy. The last page of the table is so frayed margins. The author who spent five months in Clermont Ferrand and Auvergne [...]

700 €

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Louis DOMAIRON

Recueil historique et chronologique de faits mémorables, pour servir à l'histoire générale de ...

Chez Nyon, Onfroy, à Paris 1781, in-12 (9,5x17cm), x, 538pp. et 571pp. (1), 2 volumes reliés.

Second edition, after the original published in 1777.
Full Calf blond marbled contemporary. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco, and volume number in green morocco. Hat Volume 2 threadbare. 2 corners bumped. Pretty good copy, good outfit.
The book is based on a simple premise, [...]

500 €

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Johann Michael VANSLEB & VANSLEBEN

Nouvelle relation en forme de journal, d'un voyage fait en Egypte. En 1672. & 1673

Chez Estienne Michallet, à Paris 1677, in-12 (8,5x15,5cm), (16) 423pp. (17), relié.

First edition, rare and precious. Full Sheepskin brown time. Back tooled raised. Epidermis together. Lacks the joints head cover; and tail to the upper joint. A dull corner. Important relationship for the western KNOWLEDGE Egypt. Vansleb, German philologist and theologian, began serving Colbert for [...]

1 100 €

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Guillaume BERTOUX

Anecdotes espagnoles et portugaises

Chez Vincent, à Paris 1773, 2 tomes en 2 Vol. in 8 (10,5x17cm), 648pp. et 700pp., relié.

First Edition. Full Calf blond contemporary. Piece of red morocco title and volume number in black morocco. 2 corners lightly bumped. Missing page marbled clearance Volume I. A fine copy otherwise. Chronological History of Spain and Portugal in the form of anecdotes, ie short articles. Anecdotes [...]

700 €

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Pedro Roman MELENDEZ

Epilogo de Utrera: Sus grandezas, y hazañas gloriosas de sus hijos

Por Juan Francisco Blas de Quesada, En Sevilla, Impressor Mayor de dicha ciudad 1730, Pet. in-4 (15x20cm), relié.

First edition. Large arms of Utrera on second leaf. Title in red and black with a floral frame.
Contemporary vellum, spine titled in ink (smudged). One tie in good condition, spine partly detached. Traces of glue to final endpaper. A good copy without significant faults, generally fresh.
A [...]

1 400 €

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John PERRY

Etat present de la grande Russie ou Moscovie

Chez André Cailleau, à Paris 1718, in-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (8) 76, 83 (13) 339pp., 3 parties reliées en un volume.

New French Edition, quite rare. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Peter the 1st and a large folding map. Reprint of the French original published in 1717 in John Boudot. Full Sheepskin brown time. Back tooled raised. Head cap partly threadbare. Scuffs on the boards. Friction in caps and [...]

1 000 €

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J. M. J. COUTELLE

Description de l'Egypte. Observations sur la topographie de la presqu'île de Sinaï, les moeurs, ...

Imprimerie Impériale, Paris 1809, In Folio (27x44cm), 277 - 304p., relié.

First edition, text from the Description of Egypt, Volume II, State Moderne.Cartonnage modern cream parchment to bradel. Part of title sheepskin noire.Coutelle Rozière and were charged by the French government to collect accurate information on Sinai; lean caravan was formed, composed of [...]

350 €

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