First edition

Jean VAILLANT

Selectiora numismata in aere maximi moduli e museo

Apud Antonium Dezallier, Parisiis 1694, (8) 132pp. (15), relié.

First Edition illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece in a portico engraved and drawn by Erlanger, and 59 boards

600 €

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Jean de LA FONTAINE

Contes et nouvelles en vers

Chez Henry Desbordes, à Amsterdam 1695, In-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (16) 236 pp. (2) ; (8) 216 pp. (2), relié.

This edition is a slightly modified impression of the first illustrated edition of 1685. The illustration consists of 2 frontispieces and 58 half-page vignettes designed by Romeyn de Hooghe (except the second frontispiece which is not in the edition of 1685). "The frontispiece of the first volume [...]

3 000 €

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Claude de MALLEVILLE

Nouvelles poesies et prose galantes

Chez Estienne Loyson, à Paris 1661, In-12 (8x14,5cm), (4) 352pp. (10), relié.

Third posthumous edition of the works of Malleville, adorned with a frontispiece. This reception appeared for the first time in 1649. Absent at Brunet and Querard.
Binding in full glossy blond calf XVIII. Back with nerves adorned with 5 florets. title label in red morocco.
Ex libris of the [...]

260 €

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Adrien de MONTLUC Comte de CRAMAIL

Les jeux de l'inconnu

Chez Charles Osmont, à Rouen 1637, In-12 (10x16cm), (12) 338pp., relié.

New edition, rare, after the premiere of a rare insignia published in 1630.
Binding full marbled brown calf XVIII. Back with ornate nerves. title label in red morocco. Headdress torn off. Lack of tail. Upper joint open in tail and head. Lower joint split at the top. 3 blunt corners.

1 500 €

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First edition

Rabbi Juda (Yehouda) ben Shmouel ibn Alhassan HALEVI, [...]

[Kuzari] Liber Cosri : continens colloquium seu disputationem de religione, habitam ante nongentos ...

Sumptibus authoris, typis Georgi Deckeri, Basileae [Bâle] 1660, in-4 (16x20,5cm), (50 p.) 455 pp. (29 p.), relié.

Sumptibus authoris. Typis Georgi Deckeri | Basileae [Basel] 1660 | 4to (16 x 20.5 cm) | (50 pp.) 455 pp. (29 pp.) | modern vellum

First edition of the Latin translation by Johannes Buxtorf The Younger of the first translation into Hebrew by Juda ibn Tibbon, Juda Halevi's Arabic text not [...]

4 000 €

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First edition

Comte d' AVAUX & Abel SERVIEN

Lettres de messieurs D'Avaux et Servien, ambassadeurs pour le roy de France en Allemagne

S.n., s.l. 1650, In-12 (9x14,6cm), (2) 211pp. ; (2) 62pp., relié.

First edition.
Binding full vellum flexible of time. Smooth spine with long pen head (faded and unreadable).

300 €

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First edition

Pierre IARRIGE

Les Iesuistes mis sur l'eschafaut, pour plusieurs crimes capitaux par eux comis dans la province de ...

Chez les heritiers de Jean Nicolas, à Dorp 1649, In-12 (9,5x16cm), 175pp., relié.

Second edition, after the original published in 1648 in Leide.
Binding full icy blond calf vintage. Back to nerve decorated with 5 florets. title label in red morocco. Traces of friction. 2 blunt corners. burnished paper. Good copy.

350 €

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[MAZARINADE] La resiouissance publique et banquet provincial au retour du roy en sa bonne ville de ...

Chez Pierre Margat & Thomas La Carriere, à Paris 1649, In-4 (15,5x21,5cm), (4) 19pp. (1), relié.

First edition.
Binding in maroon half navy sheepskin Ca 1860. Back smooth, golden title. Traces of friction in caps, bits, boards and corners. Good copy.

300 €

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