First edition

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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First edition

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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Gatien COURTILZ DE SANDRAS

Maximes des princes et estats souverains

S.n., Cologne 1686, in 12 (8x13,5cm), (8) 222pp. (2), relié.

Edition at the Sphere, of the Elzevier press. The meaning of the word Maximes is quite far from the modern meaning, it is more related to what presides over the interests of Princes, and by what precisely they are linked. The book constitutes a history of international relations, studying the [...]

280 €

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O.P. SCHEIL

Une page de l'histoire de l'église de Mardin au commencement du XVIIIe siècle ou les tribulations ...

S.n., Paris 1896, 16,5x25cm, broché.

First Edition printed in small numbers of this reprinted from the newsletter of the Revue de l'Orient chrétien.
Back and flat slightly and marginally insolated, nice interior state.
Rare brochure.
 

80 €

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José Maria de HEREDIA & Bernal DIAZ DE CASTILLO

Véridique histoire de la conquête de la Nouvelle Espagne

Alphonse Lemerre, Paris 1877-1887, 10x17,5cm, 4 volumes reliés.

First edition of the French translation by José Maria de Heredia.
Bindings in half brown morocco with corners, back with five nerves set with gilded nets and adorned with crossed golden swords overcoming a honorific golden distinction, golden dates in tails, framing of gilt fillets on marbled [...]

900 €

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