The Hague

Superb illustrations etched by Bernard Picart, comprising a frontispiece, 3 title fleurons, 5 figures and more than 170 vignettes and endpieces. One of the rare folio format large paper copies with the text in a frame.
Later (19th century) red morocco by Chatelin. Jansenist spine in six compartments. Double gilt fillet to edges of covers and head- and tail-pieces. Large gilt dentelle frame to pastedowns. All edges gilt.
Binding slightly rubbed, spine of third volume lightly faded.
From the library of H. Houyvet, with his ex libris.

Original Edition for Part 3 to 12, parts one and two in the second edition, but have the same number as the original. Some titles are without place or address Neaulme Rare meeting of different parts in uniform binding Different parts seem to have appeared simultaneously in Paris and Holland..; so there was a Parisian original edition, and Dutch. Our copy combines the two runs.
Binders in full sheepskin blonde then. Back smooth decorated with parts of title and volume number of red morocco, flower boxes and small golden chains, golden lace bird tail. All edges gilt. Eight bumped corners and a few tiny scuffs. Marginal tear without lack on page 23 of Part...

First edition in latin and german.
A good copy.

First edition.
The work presents numerous manuscript annotations.
A handsome copy.

First edition.
A very good copy.

First edition.
A very good copy.

First edition in Latin and German.
Some pencil and ink annotations by previous entomologist owners, otherwise a rare and handsome copy of this issue from the greatest catalogue of beetles ever published.

First edition in Latin and German.
Some pencil and ink annotations by previous entomologist owners, otherwise a rare and handsome copy of this issue of the greatest catalogue of beetles ever published.

First edition in Latin and German.
Some pencil and ink annotations by previous entomologist owners, otherwise a rare and handsome copy of this issue of the greatest catalogue of beetles ever published.

First edition in Latin and German.
Some pencil and ink annotations by previous entomologist owners, otherwise a rare and handsome copy of this issue of the greatest catalogue of beetles ever published.

First edition in Latin and German.
Some annotations in pencil and ink by previous entomologist owners, otherwise a rare and handsome copy of this number of the greatest catalogue of Coleoptera ever published.

First edition in Latin and German.
Some pencil and ink annotations by previous entomologist owners, otherwise a rare and handsome copy of this issue of the greatest catalogue of Coleoptera ever published.

First edition.
Publisher's full brown cardboard bindings, smooth spines, brown top edges.
Work illustrated with 725 figures hors-texte.
Fine copy.

Edition published the same year as the first edition.
Half chocolate sheep binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt friezes and blind fillets, joints lightly rubbed at head and foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, lower corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
Some foxing, marginal pen annotations on certain pages by a former owner.

First edition. Uncommon. One copy at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (and a reprint from 1730) and another at Oxford. Absent from the British Library and French catalogues.
Late 18th-century full pasteboard binding. Red morocco title label. Upper and lower joints cracked 5 cm on lower board. The upper corner in right margin of title page has been torn away without loss of text. Title page of second volume missing. Pages 1 to 12, the upper corner of each page has been torn away with occasional loss of a few letters. A hole in the middle of the last page of the table of contents. The beginning of the fourth part is annotated, certain paragraphs are crossed out, some lines deleted...

First edition.
Rare.
Contemporary grey wrappers. Light marginal dampstaining affecting most leaves as well as the original blank covers, spine defective. Numerous leaves with folded corners.
A work of philosophical and political law, the work constitutes a refutation of Rousseau's work: The Social Contract. The author proves most serious in his analysis and reflection and pays homage to his master.

first edition.
Binding to bradel full embossed cardboard bottle green, smooth spine and golden dates in long, binding signed P. Goy & C. Vilaine.
Signed autograph of Maurice Merleau-Ponty Professor Georges Blin and his wife.
We enclose, mounted upside tab specification, "Philosophy" by the same author and consists of an excerpt from the book of the College of France.
Beautiful and rare copy pleasantly established.