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This is the penultimate edition of the most famous historical dictionary, an inexhaustible source that remains highly sought after for both history and genealogy. This edition was refined by Platel and considerably expanded. The first edition was the only one published during the author's lifetime, in 1664, in one folio volume.
Bindings in full dark brown glazed mottled calf, spine with raised bands decorated with animal tools, red morocco title labels. Unidentified arms on the boards (possibly of a town or the Oormsgard family, but non-French arms) with a lion facing forward (and not in profile as usual) holding a castle.
Copy complete with the frontispiece.
Volume I has the...

Rare. We have found nothing concerning this work, absent from libraries.
Half calf Romantic binding with corners in red, smooth spine with 4 tools and fillets. Foxing. One corner of the title page border reinforced.
In the form of a tale and dialogue between a father and son, the author examines the nobility of character of a good merchant, how he should be a good father to his son and a good father to his country. Numerous passages on the importance of agriculture. « Ce travail lui donna des vues très étendues sur les rapports du commerce, avec le bonheur particulier & général des hommes? » (This work gave him very extensive views on the relationship of commerce with the particular...

Rare second edition by Blaes illustrated with 12 plates. Rare edition by Thomas Syndenham, not found in European libraries. We do not know if this is the first. Title pages in red and black. Absent from Brunet.

Contemporary full calf binding, decorated spine with raised bands, red morocco title label. Rubbing.

This work by Gerard Blaes (1625-1692), Dutch physicist, anatomist (he was the creator of comparative anatomy) and physician who practiced in Amsterdam and was a famous leader in his field, is one of the most celebrated treatises on teratology, the science of monsters.

Thomas Syndenham (1624-1689) was an English physicist and...

New edition after the original of 1709. Red and black title pages.
Contemporary full calf binding, decorated raised spine. Red morocco title label. Upper headcap worn. Rubbing. Corners slightly bumped.

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First edition. Printed in two columns.
Contemporary full calf binding. Spine with raised bands, compartments gilt-tooled. Red morocco label. Some pages slightly browned. A good copy overall.
A study based on the Tabula of Cebes of Thebes, a Socratic philosopher and disciple of Socrates, as well as on Xenophon's Memorabilia and Epictetus' Enchiridion. Numerous Greek and Hebrew quotations. The author discusses the Phoenicians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, with particular attention to the chronology of events.
Heinrich Mascamp was a professor in Duisburg. He was born and educated in the Netherlands.

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First edition.
Full green cloth Bradel binding 19th century. Smooth spine with fillets. Some foxing at beginning of work. A dampstain in lower margin in middle section over 75p.
History of French fashions and "everything concerning the head": the study focuses on hair, wigs, and hair. Work richly documented and containing multiple anecdotes. Some copies, rarer, contain a supplement on artificial hair.

Reprint in 12mo published the same year as the first edition in 4to. Both issued from the Elzevier press.

Pastiche binding in half light brown sheep, spine with five raised bands ruled in gilt and six compartments decorated with gilt rolls, one containing the title in gilt, marbled paper boards, sprinkled edges, shell-pattern marbled pastedowns and endpapers.

Hinges rubbed, one with a slight split at the upper right extending 2...

Two works bound in one volume: first edition of Principia philosophiae fol­lowed by the first Latin edition of Spec­imina philosophiae. Complete with blank leaves b4 and 2Q4.

Printer's mark representing Minerva and her owl, as well as the motto “Ne extra oleas” on the title page. Numerous in-text engrav­ings.

Bound in full calf, spine with five raised bands framed in gilt, elaborately decorat­ed in gilt, gilt arms of the Society of Writers to the Signet at center of boards framed in blind, marbled endpapers, speckled edges. Library shelfmark glued to the pastedown endpaper, additional penned shelfmarks on the pastedown, and a manuscript...

Illustrated edition featuring a frontispiece, three plates, and ten engraved maps (cf. Sabin 38397. Borba de Moraes I, 376. Chadenat 115 & 619. Ryckebusch 4986).

Contemporary full mottled calf bindings, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt floral tooling, red morocco title labels and black volume labels (some minor losses), marbled endpapers and pastedowns, red edges, corners worn, gilt fillets on board edges.

Minor defects and worming to the boards, occasional foxing.

Little-known travel narrative, the first to recount a circumnavigation completed by a Frenchman, whose first edition appeared in 1725–1727.

The illustrations include: one frontispiece...

New edition, partly original (cf. Quérard VII, 308. See Blackmer and Atabey for other editions. Not in Conlon.)

Contemporary full mottled fawn calf binding, smooth spine decorated with panels adorned with a bird tool surrounded by small gilt fleurons, green calf title-piece, gilt fillets to edges, red edges.

Spine and joints restored.

The title-page is engraved and enhanced with wash (two Turks in conversation with a European).

"This work contains [the 21] letters of Neddim Coggia, supposedly describing his experiences in Paris as secretary to the embassy of Mehemet Effendi in 1721 (…) Blackmer incorrectly states that the Letters of Nedim Coggia and the...

First edition of the complete works of Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède and de Montesquieu, edited by François Richer under the supervision of the author's son. Volumes 1 and 2 contain the celebrated Spirit of the Laws, introduced by a headpiece depicting the 1753 Dassier medal and illustrated with two maps—a world map and one of Europe—in the second volume. This copy is enriched with a frontispiece, painted by Jacques de Sève and engraved by Claude-Antoine Littret, from the 1767 London edition, as well as 10 additional pages containing the "Additions" in volume 3.

First edition.

Full marbled calf binding, spine with five raised bands and decorated rolls, red morocco title label, boards ruled in blind, marbled paper pastedowns and endpapers, a slight dampstain to corner of first few leaves, a tear to first folding plate and one of the ensign plates not affecting either illustration.

With a frontispiece by Lamsveld and 31 superb plates all hand-coloured except the last two of the ensigns, numerous woodcuts throughout.

Rare first edition of this naval...

Complete and illustrated 1756 edition of naval lieutenant general Duguay-Trouin's memoirs, that were first published posthumously in 1740, in accordance with the author's wishes. In 1730, from the same publisher as our copy, an unauthorized edition prepared by Pierre de Villepontoux revealed Duguay-Trouin's achievements during his lifetime. Manuscript ownership inscription in black ink on the title page.

Contemporary binding in full brown sheep, richly decorated spine with five raised bands...

Counterfeit edition published only one year after the octavo and duodecimo first editions. This copy in the same format as the octavo first edition that was corrected by Rousseau.

Contemporary full calf, smooth spine decorated with five gilt fleuron tools, red morocco lettering-piece, single fillet ruled in blind to boards, gilt fillet to board edges, red edges, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.

Head of spine missing, usual wear...

The rare first French edition, translated by Jean-Baptiste Robinet, after the first English edition published in 1769. Four attractive separate engraved title pages. Changuion catalogue at the end of the third part. The edition shared in Paris with Le Jay appeared a few months later and does not have engraved titles.
Contemporary binding in full marbled brown sheep. Decorated raised-band spine. Beige morocco title label, tobacco morocco volume label. Triple fillet frame on boards. Loss to lower joint at foot of volume I. 3 corners bumped. Handsome copy, fresh overall.
Epistolary novel set in Canada. "The romantic customs of Canada and the manners of its inhabitants are described...