Clousier

First edition illustrated with a frontispiece depicting the takeoff of a flying machine.
Contemporary full marbled sheep binding, smooth spine richly decorated, red morocco title label, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, all edges marbled.
Headcap partly damaged with loss, three corners slightly bumped, joints rubbed, the one on the upper board slightly cracked for a few centimeters at its center.
A handsome copy of this scientific utopia recounting the arrival on earth of an inhabitant of Mercury in an electric flying machine, whose description is considered the first anticipation of the dynamo.

First edition illustrated with 17 plates, 6 of which folding, as well as a frontispiece and two plans. Placement leaf for the engravings at end. The only edition of this work considered rare, part of the copies are said to have been destroyed after printing. Brunet III, 1.888: "Work that has become rare, the edition having been partly destroyed."
Contemporary full tree sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with grotesque compartments, three composed of lozenges and three others of stars. Frieze and framing fillet on boards. Roll on leading edges. Brown sheep title label. Tissue guards have been preserved. Handsome copy, particularly fresh.
Canon of the Sainte-Chapelle, Morand had access to the best sources to construct his work and it is one of the few restoring the long history of the edifice. It was an edict of 1787, which ordered the suppression of the Holy chapels and the suspension of liturgical services, that prompted Morand to produce this monograph which he deemed essential, but which found little echo in the midst of the revolutionary period.

First edition.
Contemporary full marbled calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets and fleurons as well as a red morocco title-label. All edges speckled.
Some rubbing and two wormholes on the tail headcap.
The collection brings together various pieces in verse published in different periodicals. Guyétand reflects the poetry of the pre-revolutionary period, and his most accomplished work is a defense of Voltaire, Le génie vengé; he was an upright character who claimed his Jura and social origins, it is claimed that he was one of the models for the character created by Stendhal, Julien Sorel, which is undoubtedly his greatest glory.
Manuscript note by a modern reader on the verso of the first endpaper. Manuscript gift inscription from 1792 on the title page.