Hippolyte-Louis Guerin: Rare and antiquarian books, inscribed books and letters, and manuscripts

Pierre BRUMOY
Histoire de Tamerlan, empereur des Mogols et conquérant de l’Asie[History of Tamerlane, Emperor of the Moguls and Conqueror of Asia]
Hippolyte-Louis Guerin • Jacques Guérin|Paris 1739|9.5 x 15.3 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition (cf. Cordier, Bibl. Sinica, 2772; Chadenat, 912; Barbier, II, 736 d; Brunet, Table, 28267.)
Contemporary half marbled sheep over green parchment corners, smooth spines decorated with gilt fillets and floral tools, red morocco title labels, pink paste-paper boards.
A small wormtrack at the foot of the spine of the second volume, some rubbing to the spines and boards, light foxing.
The epistle to the Comte de Maurepas is signed Margat, a member of the Society of Jesus, and notes that he was a missionary in Saint-Domingue. However, Barbier and Cordier attribute the work to Father Brumoy.
Tamerlane (or Timur-Leng) was born in 1336 in the Djagatai, at Kech
€500
John KEILL, Pierre Charles LEMONNIER
Institutions astronomiques, ou leçons élémentaires d'astronomie
Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin|à Paris 1746|20 x 26 cm|relié
First French edition, translated from Latin by Lemonnier according to Barbier and J. de Lalande (astronomical bibliography). It is illustrated with 16 folding plates (moon, zodiac, astronomical calculations), numerous tables of the sun and moon, of Jupiter and Saturn, and logarithms. General privilege granted to the Royal Academy of Sciences on November 12, 1734. It should be noted with interest that this edition is, according to Lalande, so extensively augmented and so different from its English counterpart that it is considered original. The selenographic maps noted I, II, III, inserted on page 140, are reproduced respectively from the works of: Hevelius (1645), Royal Academy of Sciences (
€800
William WARBURTON, Marc-Antoine Léonard de MALPEINES
Essai sur les hieroglyphes des Egyptiens, où l'on voit l'origine & le progrès du langage & de l'écriture, l'antiquité des sciences en Egypte, & l'origine du culte des animaux
Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin|à Paris 1744|9.50 x 17 cm|2 volumes reliés
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Jean-Baptiste MARGAT DE TILLY
Histoire de Tamerlan, empereur des Mogols et conquerant de l'Asie
Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin|à Paris 1739|10 x 17 cm|2 volumes reliés
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Jacques ALLEXANDRE
Traité général des horloges
Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin • et Jacques-Guerin|Paris 1734|12.50 x 19 cm|relié
First edition illustrated with 27 folding engraved plates and four charts.

Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Spine with five raised bands. All edges red. Head slightly worn, corners bumped, upper joint cracked at head for 3cm.

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