First edition

Richard ROE

Concubitus sine lucina, ou le plaisir sans peine. Réponse à la lette intitulée Lucina sine ...

S.n., à Londres 1750, in-12 (10x17cm), 59pp., relié.

French Edition. Full calf and marbled ice time. Back tooled raised florets 5. Part of title in red morocco. A slot in the lower joint first. Response to letter to the Royal Society of London by John Hill, where it affirmed and demonstrated that a woman can conceive and bear without carnal, and [...]

300 €

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Chansons choisies, avec les airs notés

S.n. [Cazin], à Londres [Reims] 1784, in-16 (8,5x14,5cm), 6 volumes reliés.

Second edition and first in Cazin, with two volumes added; a first edition in 4 volumes appeared in Geneva in 1782. Sheet tunes end volumes. Only volumes 5 and 6 do not have to partition the songs are singing tunes already noted in other volumes on the benchmark numbers through the air. 48p. [...]

500 €

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Jacques-Louis MOREAU

Histoire naturelle de la femme, suivie d'un traité d'hygiène

Chez L. Duprat, Letellier, à Paris 1803, in-8 (12x20cm), (4) 358pp. et 360 - 744p. et (4) 459pp., 3 volumes reliés.

First Edition, illustrated with 11 plates including 7 folding (anatomy, hermaphrodite sex, Hottentot ...). Full Sheepskin rooted contemporary. Smooth back decorated with boxes to the grotesque. Part of title and volume number in morocco beige. Roulette cold-framing on the boards. Upper joint split [...]

900 €

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Théophile RAYNAUD

Le moine marchand, ou traité contre le commerce des religieux.

Chez Pierre Brunel, à Amsterdam 1714, In 12 (9,2x15,4cm), (18) 263pp., relié.

First edition of this French translation, illustrated with a frontispiece containing 3 figures and a vignette title by Quinau. A first translation was published under the title of Hipparchus in 1645; one can not say, however, that this new translation made by a Protestant or literal, but rather a [...]

400 €

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First edition

Le petit chansonnier françois, ou choix des meilleurs chansons sur des airs connus

S.n., à Genève 1778, in-12 (10x17cm), vj, 374pp., relié.

First Edition. A frontispiece. Full sheepskin vintage blonde. Smooth back decorated? Part of title in red morocco. Head cap threadbare. A hole in the rear. 2 corners bumped. Friction. The collection is divided into living and dead authors authors, with the most beautiful hand made contemporary [...]

250 €

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First edition

Abbé MANN

Le Pour et Contre les spectacles

Chez Beugnies, à Mons 1782, Pet. in 8 (10,5x17,5cm), 145pp. (2), relié.

First Edition. Full sheepskin contemporary. Smooth back decorated. Part of title in red morocco. Double fillet border on covers. Jaw cracked. Head cap partly threadbare. A dull corner. The author, replying to a letter, puts himself in a moral stance toward shows that condemns and encyclopaedists. [...]

130 €

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Claude QUILLET

La callipédie, ou la manière d'avoir de beaux enfants

Chez Dupuis et Bastien, à Amsterdam et se trouve à Paris 1774, in-12 (10,5x16,5cm), xx, 409pp., relié.

New edition, after the original was published in 1749. French text next to the original Latin. Full of glossy marbled calf time. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Label library tail. A wormhole tail. Good copy. The poem was published in its first Latin a great success, it is also [...]

300 €

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Isaac VOSSIUS

De sibyllinis. Aliisque quae Christi natalem praecessere oraculis.

E theatro Sheldaniano, Oxoniae (Oxford) 1680, In 12, viij, 104 56 5pp., relié.

Second edition, rare, after the first edition published in 1679, also rare. Beautiful brand of printer theater Sheldon.Pleine Sheepskin brown vintage. Back tooled raised. Jaws open with gaps. Highly rounded corners. Binding usagée.Etudes by the famous scholar and scientist Isaac Vossius on oracles [...]

450 €

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