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Jacques BASNAGE DE BEAUVAL & Abbé GIUSTINIANI

Histoire des ordres militaires ou des chevaliers, des milices seculieres et regulieres de l'un & de ...

Chez Pierre Brunel, à Amsterdam 1721, In-8 (11,5x18cm), XXXII (16) 163pp. (10) 254pp. et (4) 441pp. (1) et (4) 471pp.

Edition originale illustrée de 188 planches, la plupart de costumes et d'autres d'insignes ou décorations de ces ordres, dessinés par Bernard Picard et par Schoonebeck, gravées au burin par W. Jonkman. Pages de titre en rouge et noir. une page de titre spécifique pour la Dissertation [...]

1 500 €

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Nicolas BRULART DE SILLERY

Omen Ludovico XIII coronato christianissimo Francorum et Navarrae regi.

Jean Libert, Paris 1611, In-4 (17x22cm), 16pp., relié.

first edition.
Binding in half percaline chocolate ca 1860. Smooth Jansenist back. Golden title.

150 €

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FERDINAND EMPEREUR

Lettre écrite à un jurisconsulte de la ville de... au sujet des dispositions faites par ...

S.n., s.l. 1741, in 4 (21,5x27cm), 22pp., broché.

first edition.
Since the XVIth century, there had always been a man for head of the house of Austria, and the succession had been transmitted from male to male, but the Emperor Charles VI had only daughters. He wanted to leave his inheritance to his eldest daughter, Marie-Thérèse, and [...]

200 €

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Agricol-Joseph, marquis de FORTIA D'URBAN

Vie de Louis de Berton de Crillon des Balbes, surnommé le brave Crillon suivie de notes ...

A. Dupont & Roret & Firmin Didot père & fils , Paris 1825-1826, 13,5x22cm, 3 volumes brochés.

first edition.
Our copy is presented in its original pinout.
Small gaps on the backs and joints, a pale marginal wetting on the first volume, scattered foxing.

150 €

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MALLET DU PAN

Essai historique sur la destruction de la ligue et de la liberté helvétique

de l'imprimerie de Spilsbury, et se trouve chez l'auteur, à Londres 1798, in-8 (13,5x21cm), viij, 296pp., broché.

First edition of a suite of five issues of the English Mercure (published by Du Pan himself), with a preface and additions.
There were in fact 3 editions on the date of 1798.
The work paints a picture of the oppression exercised by the young French republic after the Revolution on the Swiss [...]

180 €

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Arthur de GOBINEAU

La Renaissance, scènes historiques

Plon, Paris 1877, 14x20,5cm, relié.

first edition.
Binding in half cherry morocco with corners, smooth slightly browned back decorated with decorative patterns in cold and set with golden dots, flat, guards and counterplates of marbled paper, covers and back preserved.
Some small foxinges.

150 €

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Théodore Agrippa d' AUBIGNE

Memoires de la vie de Theodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné. Avec les memoires de Frederic Maurice de la ...

Chez Jean-Frederic Bernard, à Amsterdam 1731, In-12 (10x17cm), (12) 222pp. ; 235pp. (4), 2 tomes en un volume relié.

New edition, but first in this form and this title.

Binding in full fawn marbled calf of time. Ornate nerved back. title label in red morocco. A lack in mind. Narrow slit in the lower joint at the head on 1cm. Friction. Good copy.
These memoirs had appeared for the first time in [...]

500 €

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Pietro GIANNONE

Histoire civile du royaume de Naples

Chez Pierre Gosse & Isaac Beauregard, à La Haye 1742, In-4 (21x25cm), (2) XXVIII, 656pp. et (2) VIII, 755pp. et (2)

First french edition, the translation of which is attributed to Louis de Bochat and Desmonceaux. It is illustrated with a portrait on the frontispiece, 4 title vignettes and a plate of medals.
Binding in half brown sheepskin, small corners. Back to nerves decorated with nets. title label of [...]

1 200 €

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