First edition

Adriaan SCHOONEBEEK , Ludolph SMIDS & Adriaan [...]

Pictura loquens

Ex officina Hadriani Schoonebeek., Amstelodami (Amsterdam) 1695, In-12 (9x16cm), relié.

The rare first edition, with a frontispiece and 61 illustrations.
Brown sheep, spine with decorated raised bands, roulette to head and foot, red morocco title piece. Three corners bumped.
A good and fresh copy.
The work puts together on two pages an extract from a literary work and its [...]

1 500 €

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First edition

François Maréchal de BASSOMPIERRE

Ambassade du Mareschal de Bassompierre en Espagne l'an 1621 ; en suisse l'an 1625 ; en Angleterre ...

ChezPierre du Marteau [Elsevier], à Cologne [Amsterdam] 1668, Pet. in-12 (7,5x13,5cm), 4 parties reliées en 2 volumes.

Edition, printing Elsevier. 4 title pages to the sphere including two Embassy in Switzerland.
Full sheepskin brown speckled time. Back tooled raised. Part of title and volume number in brown morocco, ornate wheels. A slight lack the bit at the top of each volume. Good copy.
Important [...]

550 €

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Charles de SAINTE-AGNES

Le grand homme considéré dans les excellences de Saint Jean-Baptiste

Chez Alexandre Fumeux, à Lyon 1652, in-8 (10,2cmx17,2cm), (8) 389pp., relié.

First Edition, a great rarity, adorned with a frontispiece title: Saint John the Baptist and Christ capped with arms, probably those of the dedicatee, lord of Fontenille Full red morocco of the late nineteenth signed David. Back to nerves decorated with threads forming boxes. Gilt title, date and [...]

600 €

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Gilbert Saulnier du VERDIER & Claude de VARENNES

Le Voyage de France, dressé pour la commodité des François et Estrangers. Avec une Description ...

Chez Nicolas Le Gras, à Paris 1687, in-12 (9x16,7cm), (4) 368pp., relié.

New edition of Travel France Claude de Varennes, edited and enhanced by the Verdier. Latest edition of this trip that contains 100p. additional. Full sheepskin brown ice. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Top plate split tail. Friction, dull and bare edges in the corners. Good copy. [...]

450 €

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Giovanni BOTERO

Relationi universali

Perli Bertani, in Venetia 1671, in-4 (16x22,8cm), (8) 747pp. (36), relié.

New edition, after the original was published in 1591 and 1593. Illustrated with 4 folding maps of Gioseppe Rosatio, Europe, Asia, America and Africa, on gray background. The work went through many reprints in the seventeenth. Full vellum flexible time. Back to nerves Jansenist. Title in black pen. [...]

1 500 €

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PFEFFINGER

Nouvelle fortification françoise, espagnole, italienne & hollandoise ou Recueil de différentes ...

Chez George Gallet, à Amsterdam 1698, in-8 (11x19,5cm), (8) 255pp., relié.

First edition, rare, adorned with a frontispiece Picart and 46 folding plates depicting patterns fortification. Title page in red and black. Full brown calf at the time. Back with five nerves ornate coffered and gilded finials, and a piece of red morocco. Caps absent center serving the cap head [...]

800 €

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First edition

Jacques DU FOUR DE LA CRESPELIERE

Les divertissemens d'amour et autres poésies burlesques et sérieuses

Chez Olivier de Varennes, à Paris 1667, in-12 (8,5x14,5cm), (12) 293pp., relié.

Rare édition originale.
Plein vélin blanc d'époque. spine lisse. Quelques épidermures et taches. binding en partie désolidarisée. Quelques mouillures et nombreuses traces de pliures.
Jacques du Four de la Crespelière (1625-1680), Poète burlesque et licencieux étalant dans ses [...]

500 €

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Claude François MILLIET DECHALES

L'Art de fortifier, de défendre et d'attaquer les places

S.n., Franckfurt 1677, in-12 (8,5x14cm), (10p.) (1f.bl.) (12p.) 851pp. (49p.), relié.

French-German Bilingual Edition, illustrated with 71 plates and a table of fortification. Full vellum antique ivory. Smooth back adorned with triple blind fillets, title and author pen. boards framed triple blind fillets; traces of clasps. All slices blue. Six small leather bookmarks that time. [...]

850 €

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