First edition

Nicolaes PIETERSZ BERCHEM (BERGUEM)

Paysages animés

Landry 1660 (S.d.), In-8 oblong (20,5x31cm), relié.

First print of this series of 4 engravings numbered 1 to 4.
Binding
Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem (1620-1683) is a Dutch painter, draftsman and engraver who copted among the main Dutch Italianists. His work had a lasting influence on landscape painting. He excelled in representing animals. [...]

600 €

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Gatien COURTILZ DE SANDRAS

Maximes des princes et estats souverains

S.n., Cologne 1686, in 12 (8x13,5cm), (8) 222pp. (2), relié.

Edition at the Sphere, of the Elzevier press. The meaning of the word Maximes is quite far from the modern meaning, it is more related to what presides over the interests of Princes, and by what precisely they are linked. The book constitutes a history of international relations, studying the [...]

280 €

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Jean LEPAUTRE

Veue grottes et fontaines de jardins à l'italienne inventez et gravez par I. le Pautre

Chez Pierre Mariette, Paris 1650 (S.d.), In-8 oblong (20,5x31cm), relié.

Premier tirage de cette suite à l'eau-forte numérotée de 1 (frontispice) à 7. La planche numérotée 2 ne se trouve pas après le numéro 1, la planche suivante portant le numéro 3. Le recueil conservé à la Bibliothèque de Madrid (Biblioteca historica Marques de Valdocilla) fait également [...]

500 €

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Jean léon Le Gallois de GRIMAREST

La vie de monsieur de Moliere

Chez Jacques Lions, ALyon 1692, In-12 (9x15,5cm), 101pp. (6), relié.

New edition. By J.-L. Le Gallois, sieur de Grimarest, after Barbier. Counterfeit backdated from the 1st ed., Paris, P. Ribou, 1705, after P. Lacroix, n ° 982.
Binding in full soft vellum of time. Smooth dumb back. Beautiful copy.

250 €

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Louis de GRENADE

Le Paradis des prières

Chez Eustache Foucauld, à Paris 1603, In-12 (8,5x15,2cm), (18f.) 426ff. ; 19ff. ; 16ff., relié.

New illustrated edition of 17 figures finely engraved on copper, including an architectural title-frontispiece, a figure of the Holy Trinity and 15 religious subjects in frames of flowers, fruits, insects and macabre emblems on a black background, signed Jacob de Weert and Leonard [...]

700 €

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Gabriel Francisco LE JAY

Le triomphe de la religion sous Louis Le Grand

Chez Gabriel Martin, à Paris 1687, In 12 (9x16,5cm), 131pp., relié.

First edition illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece and 22 large unsigned in-text figures, a title band and a drop cap.
Binding full Brown Basin contemporary. Back with ornate nerves. title label in red morocco. Headdresses torn off. Missing the bit. Primer of a narrow slit at the upper [...]

400 €

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Charles PATIN

Quatre relations historiques

S.n., à Basle 1673, In-12 (9x15,8cm), (8) 3-336p., relié.

First edition.

Binding full brown speckled brown and glossy vintage. Back with ornate nerves. title label of brown calf. Restorations in caps, joints and corners. Missed marbled cover pages on the blank sheets.
Ex libris of the twentieth: Bibliotheca Altholii doctoris.

350 €

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Claude-François MENESTRIER

Des decorations funebres. Ou il est amplement traité des tentures, des lumières, des mausolées, ...

Chez J.B. de La Caille, à Paris 1683, In-8 (12x19cm), (4) 38pp. ; 367pp., relié.

First edition, rare, and illustrated with many in-text woods including 11 vignettes, a large figure (p.179), 4 shields and 14 tiny portraits.

Copy to the arms of the nineteenth Baron Pavée de Vendeuvre, with its motto: Ardeo persevero spero.
Binding full brown sheepskin [...]

500 €

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