Nicolas BOILEAU DESPREAUX & LONGIN (Pseudo-Longin)

Traité du Sublime ou du merveilleux dans le discours, traduit du grec de Longin par M. D***.

Chez la Veuve de Claude Thiboust et Pierre Esclassan 1694, In-12 (9x16cm), (2) 231pp., relié.

First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece. Title page in red and black. Bilingual edition with translation in glance.
Binding full marbled fair calf contemporary. Back with nerves decorated with florets 5 boxed.

400 €

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Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de RACAN

Les Bergeries de Mre Honorat de Bueil, chevalier, sieur de Racan. Dédiées au Roy. Cinquième ...

Chez Toussainct du Bray, à Paris 1632, In 8 (11x16,8cm), 207pp. (1), relié.

Fifth Edition, the latest revised and corrected by the author. Printing Italics.
Bound in full sheepskin textured brown vintage. Smooth back nicely decorated. Part of title in red morocco. Foxing. nice copy.
According to Louis Arnoult, Racan (Anecdotal History and criticism of his life [...]

800 €

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Paul SCARRON

Le Virgile travesty

S.n., à Paris 1668, 2 volumes petit in-12 (8x13cm), relié.

XIX Binding in full morocco brown back with five nerves decorated with boxes and gilded florets, date tail, triple net gilded framing dishes, gold lace coaching contreplats, all edges gilt. Back insolated, otherwise fine copy.

1 200 €

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Denys d' HALICARNASSE

Dyonisii Halicarnassei scripta, quae extant, omnia, et historica, et rhetorica

Impensis Mauritii Georgii Weidmanni, Lipsiae (Leipsig) 1691, 2 parties en un volume in-folio (24x38cm), (16) 792pp.

New edition whose achievement is due to Friedrich Sylburg; the first edition of Sylburg seems to have appeared in 1586 in Frankfurt. Two title pages shown in red and black with a large thumbnail title, brand Weidmann printer. Bilingual edition in double column with the Latin look. This edition also [...]

1 400 €

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First edition

Antoine BIET

Voyage de la France equinoxiale en l'isle de Cayenne, entrepris par les François en l'année MDCLII

Chez François Clouzier, à Paris 1664, in-4 (17x24cm), (24) 432pp., relié.

BIET Antoine
Voyage de la France equinoxiale en l'isle de Cayenne, entrepris par les François en l'année MDCLII
Chez François Clouzier, Paris 1664, in-4 (17 x 24 cm), (24) 432 pp.,contemporary calf
First edition.
Contemporary brown calf, [...]

3 500 €

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First edition

Vincent Marie CAPECE

L'état de la Republique de Naples sous le gouvernement de Monsieur le Duc de Guise

Chez Frédéric Léonard, à Paris 1679, in-12 (7x13,8cm), relié.

Original rare Edition. Translated from Italian by Miss Turge-Loredano (Marguerite Léonard).
Binding in full brown sheepskin contemporary. As an exhibit in red morocco. Lack of head. Torn tail fairing. Friction.

--- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, [...]

300 €

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First edition

Michel LE FEVRE

Théâtre de la Turquie, où sont representées les choses les plus remarquables qui s'y passent ...

Chez Jacques Le Febvre, à Paris 1688, in-4 (18x25,5cm), (20) 558pp. (11), relié.

Chez Jacques Le Febvre, in Paris 1688, in-4 (18 x 25.5 cm), (20) 558pp(11), bound

New Edition. The author wrote this work in Italian and published it in Milan in 1674, he did the translation himself.

Bound in full brown calf. Spine in decorated compartments. Title piece in [...]

2 500 €

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Edward CHAMBERLAYNE

L'état présent d'Angleterre

Chez Paul Marret, AAmsterdam 1688, in-12 (9x16cm), relié.

New edition, rare. As a frontispiece representing the King of England
Copy the arms of Jacques Nicolas Colbert, Archbishop of Rouen.
Bound in full calf icy blond. Back tooled raised the figure crowned. Arms stamped on boards and triple net framing. Flush caps. Jaw cracked and open. Corners [...]

900 €

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