Porte-feuille XVIIIe

1750, (19,5x28cm), relié.

Porte-feuille en velin souple à rabats avec lacet. Filets d'encadrement à froid sur les plats et le rabat.
Le porte-feuillet contient un cahier de 29 pages à l'intérieur. 10 pages ont été arrachées. Certains feuillets contiennent des onglets destinés à des photos ou cartes, ils ont [...]

800 €

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Philippe de Laurens Abbé de REYRAC

Poésies tirées des Saintes Ecritures

Chez Delalain, à Paris 1770, In-8 (12x19cm), (4) xlviij, 96pp. (3), relié.

first edition.

Binding in full marbled contemporary sheepskin. Smooth decorated back. title label in red morocco. 3 blunt corners. Rubbed together. Missing a mottled cover page. Good copy.
Reyrac has compiled and versed passages from the Bible. The long preface is an apology for [...]

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Alessandro NEGRI

Maniliani Bononiensis monumenti historico-mystica lectio

HH. de Ducciis, Boboniae 1661, in-4 (16x22cm), (8) 37pp., broché.

Rare first edition illustrated with a frontispiece with the emblem of Cardinal Mazarin and a plate out of text representing a cippe (funerary monument) found in Bologna in 1601.
It is a presentation and an interpretation of the funerary stele of the centurion Manilius Quintus Cordus (1st [...]

450 €

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FOSSE

Idées d'un militaire pour la disposition des troupes confiées aux jeunes officiers dans la ...

Chez Alexandre Jombert, à Paris 1783, In-4 (21x27,5cm), (14) 116, 60pp., relié.

First edition illustrated with a vignette at the head of the dedication in colors and 11 plans drawn by Fossé and engraved in colors by Louis Marin Bonnet.
Used binding in full tawny sheepskin.

1 600 €

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Pierre de Bourdeille BRANTOME

Oeuvres du Seigneur de Brantome

Aux depens du Libraire, à La Haye 1740, In-16 (7,5x13,5cm), (14) 532pp. (4) et (16) 448pp. et (2) 453pp. (2) et (10)

The best and most complete edition to date. It was established by Le Duchat and contains historical notes by the latter, Prosper Marchand and Lancelot. It is the first edition described by Brunet (Manual of the bookseller and the book lover).
Binding in full glossy brown marbled calf of the [...]

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Claude Joseph DORAT et al.

Bibliothèque choisie de contes, de facéties, et de bons mots

Chez Royer, à Paris 1786, In-18 (8,5x13,5cm), (2) xj (1) xix (1) ; (4) iv, 208pp., relié.

First edition, decorated with an unsigned blood frontispiece.
Slightly posterior red full Russian leather binding. Smooth back of 5 finials and wheels. title label of red Russian leather. Border frieze on the boards. Inner caster. Golden slices. Back infinitely cleared. Very nice copy.

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Etienne DECHAMPS

Le secret du Jansenisme descouvert et réfuté par un docteur catholique

Chez Sebastien Cramoisy, à Paris 1651, In-12 (8x14,2cm), (20) 299pp. (1), relié.

Mention of second edition. The first was published on the same date, in in-4 format.
Binding in full soft vellum of time. Smooth back with feathered title, blured. Double golden framing net on the boards. Dirty back, some stains on the boards. Moisture traces from p. 287 at the end, at the [...]

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CHOLET DE JETPHORT

Etrennes lyriques, anacréontiques, pour l'année 1782

Chez L'auteur, à Paris 1782, In-16 (8x13,5cm), (24) 366pp. (1), relié.

first edition.
Binding in full brown sheepskin contemporary. Smooth decorated back. title label in red morocco. Slight lack in the upper tail joint.
Collection of gallant and light poems collected by Cholet de Jetphort to whom they were addressed. A play by Beaumarchais, three by Boufflers, [...]

150 €

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