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Johann Baptist HOMANN

Accurate Vorstellung der Orientalisch- Kayserlichen Haupt- und Residenz-Stadt Constantinopel - ...

s.d. (circa 1720), 62x53,5cm, une feuille rempliée.

Carte originale, entièrement rehaussée en couleurs, montrant la régon du Bosphore. Grande vue panoramique de Constantinople vue de Scutari en bas de la carte. Une légende nomme et localise 30 bâtiments importants, tels que le Sérail, Sainte-Sophie et plusieurs mosquées. Une vue de [...]

1 500 €

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Jean-Louis-Marie DU GAST DE BOIS SAINT JUST

Paris, Versailles et les provinces au Dix-huitième siècle.

Chez H. Nicole, à Paris 1811, In-8 (12,5x20,4cm), (4) 392pp. et (4) 374pp. ; 8pp., 2 volumes reliés.

Mention of third edition, after the original published in 1809. A third volume of new anecdotes will appear in 1817.

Binding full brown sheepskin contemporary. Smooth back decorated with 3 boxes to the grotesque. title labels missing. Piece of volume of volume 1 absent. Part of [...]

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Johann Baptist HOMANN

Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae implantata Anglorumque coloniis florentissima Geographica ...

Nuremberg s.d. (circa 1716), 61,4x53cm, une feuille rempliée.

Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae implantata Anglorumque coloniis florentissima Geographica exhibita


Nuremberg | [ca 1716] | 61.4 x 53 cm | one map
Beautiful copy of one of the rare maps of the American North-East in the early eighteenth century, showing the region as [...]

1 500 €

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CURIUS SESTIUS

Epitome instituti societatis Jesu

Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandea, Pragae 1690, In-12 (9,5x15cm), (20) 583pp. (71), relié.

First edition. A title sticker with IHS figures.
Binding full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back to the nerves mute and Jansenist. Golden slices chiselled.

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Donato FERRARIO

Pythagorae vita

Ex typographia Collegij Ambrosiani, Mediolani [Milan] 1629, Pet. in-8 (10x16cm), (14) 71pp. (13), relié.

First edition, rare. Editor's mark on the title page, the Ambrosian Library, founded in 1609 by Cardinal Borromeo in Milan.
Binding half brown sheepskin vintage flat velin. Jansenist smooth back. title label in red morocco. Tail cap a little damaged. Back rubbed. The back of sheepskin seems to [...]

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Charles PERRAULT

Les hommes illustres qui ont paru en France pendant ce siecle : avec leurs portraits au naturel

Chez Antoine Dezallier, à Paris 1696 - 1700, In-Folio (29x43cm), (8) 100pp. (2) et (4) 102pp. (1), 2 tomes en un volume relié.

First edition illustrated with a frontispiece by Bonet and engraved by Edelinck, and 102 portraits dasn medallions engraved by Lubin and Edelinck.
Binding full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin. Back with nerves richly adorned. title label in red morocco. Headdresses torn off. Upper joint [...]

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François BEDOS DE CELLES

La gnomonique pratique, ou l'art de tracer les cadrans solaires avec la plus grande précision, par ...

Alexandre Jombert, à Paris 1780, In 8 (12,5x19,7cm), xl, 510pp. 39 Pl., relié.

New edition, the original seems to have appeared in 1755; it is illustrated with a frontispiece by Gazot, engraved by Maniere, and 38 folding planks at the end of the volume engraved by Meunier, as well as a large folding map of France drawn by Bonne. These boards include different types of dial, [...]

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Algernon SIDNEY

Discours sur le gouvernement

Chez Louis & Henri Van Dole, à La Haye 1755, In-12 (9,5x16,7cm), xviij (6) 448pp. et (6) 432pp. et (8) 430pp. et (8) 438pp., 3 volumes reliés.

New edition, after the first French edition of 1702, the original English dating from 1698.
Binding full brown marbled and glazed vintage calf. Back with ornate nerves. Title and volume piece in red morocco. Except traces of friction of use, very beautiful copy.

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