Jean de PARIVAL

Les delices de la Hollande

Chez Charles Ger Stecoren, à Leide 1660, In-12 (8x13,8cm), (8) 419pp. (4), relié.

Nouvelle édition.
binding en demi chagrin rouge ca 1820. spine à nerfs orné de fers Restauration. Titre doré. Frottements.
Premier guide touristique français sur la Holland papere et qui connut de multiples éditions, notamment au XVIIIe avec figures.

200 €

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Nicolas BRULART DE SILLERY

Omen Ludovico XIII coronato christianissimo Francorum et Navarrae regi.

Jean Libert, Paris 1611, In-4 (17x22cm), 16pp., relié.

first edition.
Binding in half percaline chocolate ca 1860. Smooth Jansenist back. Golden title.

150 €

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Jean-Louis GUEZ DE BALZAC

Carminum libri tres

Augustin Courbé, Paris 1650, In-4 (17,5x24cm), (16) 475pp. (10), relié.

first edition. A beautiful allegorical frontispiece by François Chauveau engraved by Regnesson, a title vignette by Picart and various engraved ornaments: headbands, dead ends, drop caps ...

Binding in full speckled brown contemporary sheepskin. Richly decorated back to nerves. title [...]

450 €

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Jean de SILHON

Le ministre d'estat, avec le veritable usage de la politique moderne

Chez Antoine Michiels [Elzevier], Amsterdam [Leyde] 1661 - 1662, Pet. in 12 (7,5x12,5cm), (24) 384pp. et (24) 485pp.

Rare meeting of the three parts of the Minister of State having appeared separately. The first part appeared for the first time in Paris, at Toussaint du Bray, in 1631, the second and third appeared respectively in 1643 and 1651 with the same publisher and were later picked up by the Elzeviers. [...]

1 600 €

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Jean DESMARETS DE SAINT SORLIN

Les delices de l'esprit : dialogues dediez aux beaux esprits du monde

Chez Florentin Lambert, à Paris 1661, In-Folio (24x36cm), (18) 125pp. (1bc) (9) ; 63pp. (1bc) (6) ; (18) 195pp. (1bc)

first edition of 1658, with a relay title to Lambert's address and to the date of 1661. Apart from the title page, the only notable difference is the removal of the epistle to Cardinal de Mazarin who died on March 9 1661. The illustration is due to François Chauveau: 5 ornate frontispiece titles, [...]

3 000 €

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Antoine de COURTIN

Nouveau traité de la civilité qui se pratique en France, parmi les honnestes gens

Chez Elie Josset, à Paris 1673, In-12 (9x16cm), (16) 224pp., relié.

Mention of third edition. The original was published in 1671. Printer's mark on the title page, with fleur-de-lys.

Binding in full brown contemporary sheepskin. Ornate nerved back. title label of brown sheepskin. A tail hole. Rubbed together.
The success of this treaty of civility [...]

450 €

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (dit) HORACE

Les oeuvres

Chez Toussainct Quinet, à Paris 1652 , Fort in-8 (11,5x17,5cm), (48) 523pp. (17) et (16) 679pp. (25), 2 volumes reliés.

First edition of the translation of Michel de Marolles, bilingual, French compared to the Latin version.
Binding in full soft vellum of time. Smooth back with title to the pen at the head. Soiling on the backs and boards. Several notebooks brought out in volume I, one in volume II. Good [...]

650 €

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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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