First edition

Paolo FRISI

Traité des rivières et des torrents. Augmenté du traité des canaux navigables

De l'Imprimerie Royale, à Paris 1774, In-4 (19,5x25,7cm), xxiij-248pp, relié.

Original edition.
Binding in full mottled calf ice time. Back with nerves decorated. As an exhibit in red morocco. Triple mentoring net on the dishes. gilt edges. Beautiful specimen, in a beautiful period binding.

1 200 €

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First edition

Charles BROSSES de

Traité de la formation mechanique des langues, et des principes physiques de l'étymologie

Chez Saillant & Vincent & Desaint, à Paris 1765, in-12 (9,5x17cm), 2 volumes reliés.

Edition originale, rare, composée de 9 tableaux, dont 3 dépliants.
Reliures en plein veau brun d'époque marbré. Dos à nerfs orné. Pièce de titre et de tomaison en maroquin brun. Tranches cailloutées bleues. bel exemplaire.
Il s'agit certainement de l'ouvrage le plus important de [...]

1 000 €

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Sextus Pompei FESTUS & Marcus Flaccus VERRIUS

De verborum significatione lib. XX notis et emendationibus Andreas Dacerius

Sumptibus Hugutanorum, Amstelodami (Amsterdam) 1699, In-4 (19,8x25,8cm), relié.

First edition by André Dacier, illustrated frontispiece of a beautiful crowned arms of the Dauphin, and a title thumbnail weapons of the same; a title banner with the arms of repeated dolphin.
Binding open flexible vellum time. Smooth back with title in black pen. Cold dishes hit multiple [...]

500 €

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First edition

Joseph de LA PORTE

La France littéraire

Chez La veuve Duchesne, à Paris 1769, in-12 (10,5x17cm), 2 volumes reliés.

New edition partly original and amply increased.
Binding full marbled fair calf and then chilled. Back smooth decorated. Part of title and volume number in red morocco. Slight lack of Volume I. head Low friction. Nice copy.
Full Title: The literary France, containing I. The Academies [...]

500 €

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François VERON DE FORBONNAIS

Elemens du commerce

Chez Briasson, David l'aîné, Lebreton, à Leyde & se trouve à Paris 1754, in-12 (10x17cm), relié.

Second edition of mention, partly original, published the same year as the first one. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are inaccurate. Contact us for any information!

780 €

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Amédée François FREZIER

Traité des feux d'artifice pour le spectacle

Chez Charles Antoine Jombert, à Paris 1747, in-8 (12x20cm), relié.

The best edition of this work increased and enriched by the author, whose original published in 1706. The author explains the importance of this new edition revised in a warning. Frontispiece, title 3 beautiful vignettes by Cochin and 13 folding plates (the 1741 edition contained only 8). Boards [...]

950 €

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Le maître de CLAVILLE

Traité du vrai mérite de l'homme

Aux dépens de la Compagnie, à Amsterdam 1748, 2 tomes en un Vol. fort in-12 (9,5x16,5cm), relié.

New edition. Title page in red and black.
bound in full brown calf marbled contemporary. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Head cap partly missing. 2 corners bumped.
Treaty of moral philosophy and education in the style of the eighteenth century, that is written with wit, [...]

200 €

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Charles - Irénée CASTEL

Projet de taille tarifée

Chez Jean Daniel Beman, à Rotterdam 1737, petit in-8 (9,5x15,5cm), (1p. tit.) 338pp. ; 96pp., relié.

Second edition in the partly original, rare. The original was published in Paris in 1723, the author dissatisfied with his work proposed this revised and expanded second edition of the second part, the draft Suplémant priced size in which he answers the objections of his critics.
Full speckled [...]

1 500 €

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