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First edition.
Plain paper cover. rare.

First edition.
Plain paper cover. Rare.

First edition.
Plain paper cover. Rare.

First edition.
Plain paper cover. Rare.

Comedies of Plautus, translated into French by mademoiselle Le Fevre, with remarks and an examination according to the rules of theatre.
New edition. Illustrated with two frontispieces. Lacking the third frontispiece of volume III replaced by a blank leaf.
Contemporary full brown sheepskin binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Title illegible. Spine rubbed and cracked.
Fine edition and esteemed translation of these three comedies by Plautus (Amphitryon, Rudens, Epidicus) with numerous notes and remarks at the end of each play and a substantial preface. Anne Le Fèvre Dacier published numerous editions of Greek authors and was an authority on the matter, even though her...

First edition.
Plain paper cover. Rare.

First edition.
Plain paper cover. Rare.

First edition.
Plain paper cover. Rare.

Second corrected edition. There were four editions the same year, including the first. Quérard V, 306.
Contemporary half calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with 4 different tools in compartments, fillets. Orange morocco title label. Corners slightly bumped. Rubbing. The half-title page has been backed.
Anthology of these letters between the Prince de Ligne, soldier and writer, and his intimate friends, collected and published by the Baroness de Stael.

First edition on ordinary paper.

First French edition. The first edition appeared in London, in English, in 1782. The French edition was nonetheless reworked, corrected, and translated by the author himself who then added a second volume and even went so far as changing the name of the narrator, James, to his own. What's more, the French edition is much more anti-English and pro-American.
Contemporary light brown marbled calf, spines gilt, red morocco title- and volume- pieces. Orange edges. Very good copies in very good condition.
Crèvecoeur (1735-1813) came to New France in 1755 as an officer and geographer during the French and Indian Wars. He fought for the French, then travelled extensively before eventually...

First edition.
Plain paper cover.
Rare.

First edition.
Plain paper cover. Rare.

First edition.
Plain paper cover.
Rare.

First edition.
Plain paper cover. Rare.

First edition.
Plain paper cover. Rare.

First edition on vergé d'édition, there were only 10 Hollande large paper copies.
Spine faded, otherwise a good and rare copy of the first book of the author.

First edition of this poster composed by Hans Arp.
With reproductions of artist's works des artistes.
Small spot and tiny angular lack to upper cover.

First edition.
Retaining a portrait of the author as frontispiece, a table and two cartes at end, publisher's catalogue to head of fourth volume.
A rare uncut copy in its original wrappers, two small lacks to foot of spine, some pale foxing.

First edition, one of 647 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only large paper copies with 109 reimposed.
Slight stains mostly affecting the endpapers.

Edition illustrated with 300 engravings.
Half red shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands one of which has a small tear, percaline boards with double frame of blind fillets, contemporary binding.
Organography, classification, botany.

First edition, a numbered copy on alfa paper.
With an autoportrait frontispiece from the author.

First edition.
Plain paper cover. Rare.

First edition.
Plain paper cover. Rare.

First edition.
Plain paper cover.
Rare.

First edition.
Plain paper cover. Rare.

First edition.
Plain paper cover. Rare.

First edition.
Plain paper cover. Rare.