La Compagnie

Second edition, illustrated with 70 plates, featuring military costumes, fortifications, land and naval battles, artillery...
Armorial binding of Marquis Claude Gustave Chrétien des Salles, Marshal of the King's camps and armies.
Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Raised band spine decorated. Beige morocco title label, brown sheep volume label decorated. Arms stamped on covers. Lacks at tail. Headcap of volume 2 missing. Upper joint of volume 2 cracked at head over the first 2 compartments. Rubbing, surface wear on covers. Foxing and browning.
The first and important history of warfare in France, from the Gauls to Louis XIV, on armament, institutions and troops. The...

First complete collected edition with supplements, notes and explanations, as well as important chronological tables at the beginning of each century. The volumes were initially published from 1748 to 1755, the year of the author's death.
Contemporary full marbled and speckled calf binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with 4 compartmentalized fleurons. Brown morocco title and volume labels. Overall fresh paper despite the defects mentioned below volume by volume.
Volume 1: trace of dampstain in margin at middle bottom up to page xv at beginning of work, and resuming on the index from p. 577 to 585. Lacks at tail, and at upper joint at tail, as well as at lower joint at tail...

New edition, after the original published in 1735.
Contemporary full marbled brown sheep binding. Ornamented spine with raised bands. Blonde calf title label. One lack at head. One corner slightly bumped. Rubbing. Browning to margins of the first 2 leaves.
Novel and false autobiography, it was with this work that the Marquis d'Argens made his literary debut. "Real or imaginary, the picaresque escapades of this Provençal knight, whose sentimental caravans lead him to the Grand Turk's Divan, form a joyous amorous Odyssey. There follow in succession buffooneries of Italian comedy, sketches, reflections and obligatory adventures of the travel tale. The adventures of this resourceful...

New edition, with mention of Second and third augmented edition. The illustration includes 3 repeated title vignettes and eight folding plates of Paris, depicting the state of the city at different periods since its foundation. Title pages in red and black. The first volume of the Treatise on Police originally appeared in 1707, volume 2 in 1710, volume 3 in 1719, and a fourth volume (On Roads), written by Delamare's secretary, appeared posthumously in 1738, the latter not included in this 4-volume edition which reproduces the 1719 Paris edition in three volumes.
Contemporary binding in full marbled calf. Raised spine decorated. Red morocco title-labels. Brown calf volume labels, heavily...

New edition, considerably expanded with several volumes. These 5 volumes gather the poetry in verse and prose of the Countess of Suze and Pellisson, but also numerous pieces falsely attributed to them, such as those by Régnier des Marais, pieces by Mademoiselle de Scudery, the journey by Bachaumont and La Chappelle, the poetry of the Chevalier d'Aceilly, Les Visionnaires, pieces by Jean Desmarets, but also La princesse de Montpensier by the princess of Clèves, declared anonymous, letters, several short novels.
Contemporary full glazed blonde calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with 4 sun ornaments with scattered stars. Red morocco title label. Blonde calf volume label. Decorative...

New edition in four languages following that cited on p. 59 by Mortier in 1659. This is the third edition, the first having been published in Paris in 1694, 8vo, in French only. The remarkable illustration includes an allegorical frontispiece by Jan van Vianen, a large folding plan of the city and château of Versailles, and 218 numbered plates, five of which are folding, all engraved by P. le Gros, Garnier, I. la Clerion, N. Coustous, Cornu, after drawings by Thomassin.
The work is divided into four parts with 3 title pages in red and black for the whole (one in Dutch, one in French, and one dated 1695 by Pierre Mortier), and 4 title pages in red and black for each of the volumes...

New edition, rare, of which the first edition appears to have been published in 1715. 2 frontispieces and 4 figures for volume I, 2 for the second, all unsigned. Title pages in red and black.
Contemporary full glazed brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Red morocco title label. Split headcaps. Lacks to title label. Upper joint split at tail.
In 1609 appeared Homicidio de la fidelidad y la defensa del honor, which brought together for the first time in France under an invented Spanish title, various texts and stories extracted from Don Quixote in French in Nicolas Baudoin's translation. These first extracts were assembled over 125 pages, they were expanded in...

First edition, rare. Title pages in red and black. The work was reprinted in the Collection des voyages imaginaires, songes, visions et romans cabalistiques, volume XXV.
Contemporary full glazed and marbled calf binding. Smooth decorated spine. Havana morocco title-label. 2 corners bumped, one trimmed. Rubbing, particularly to edges. Scattered browning. A reasonably good copy.
A tale set in an imaginary country in South America between two peoples, the moon-worshipping Amazons, and the sun-worshipping Solinians. The story begins with the abduction by the Amazons of the prince of the Solinians. It is a marvelous tale, in the tradition of oriental tales of the period, including...

First edition, rare, decorated on title page with a large vignette showing the arms of a fool flanked by two booted monkeys.
Full black morocco binding ca. 1760. Smooth Jansenist spine. Gilt title. Hatching on edges and interior. Gilt edges. Despite a spine very slightly faded, a very handsome copy.
« A curious and violent pamphlet, now quite rare, against the Franciscans and Dominicans, which forms a sort of counterpart to the Alcoran des Cordeliers » (Caillet). More generally, the pamphlet is directed against monasticism.

Rare first French edition, comprising the first three volumes published in 1762, and the continuation published in 1768. Title pages printed in red and black. Translation by J. B. Robinet. The novel is attributed in the preface to the author of Pamela, Richardson; Frances Sheridan is the true author according to Barbier.
Near-contemporary half marbled blonde sheep bindings. Smooth spine decorated with fillets. Beige morocco title and volume labels. Speckled brown paper boards. Tail of volume 2 split. Crack to upper joint at head and tail of volume 1, to lower joint of volume 2, to upper joint at tail and lower joint at head of volume 4, to upper and lower joints at tail of volume 5...

New edition. Title page in red and black.
Contemporary full marbled brown calf binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title-label. Head of spine partly lacking. 2 corners slightly bumped.
A treatise on moral philosophy and education in the taste of the 18th century, that is to say written with wit, style and eloquence, irony and seriousness, finesse and didacticism, and for good reason, this treatise was much read and appreciated in its time. If it invents nothing, the author assembles all the moral thought of the 18th century, heir to the moralists of the previous century, which is no small thing.

New edition, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait. One of the rare titles with the false Amsterdam imprint.
Publisher's binding in full marbled blonde sheep. Smooth spine decorated. Red morocco title-label. Triple fillet frame on boards. A tear to the spine. Small lacks to joints at foot and one to upper board. Edges gilt.

New edition, illustrated with 32 figures by Punt and a title vignette repeated on all 4 volumes. Title pages in red and black. This appears to be the first edition to be fully illustrated, as previous editions presented only four frontispieces, however it should be noted that the figures bear the date 1742. The mention of third edition refers only to Dutch editions and is therefore not significant. Translation by Abbé Prévost and Aubert de la Chesnaye des Bois.
Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title and volume labels. Head of volume I split at head. A lack at head of volume II. A lack to the upper joint at foot of volume I. Tailpiece...

New edition in four languages after that cited on p. 59 at Mortier in 1659. This is the third edition, the original having been published in Paris in 1694, in 8vo, in French only. The remarkable illustration includes an allegorical frontispiece by Jan van Vianen, a large folding plan of the city and castle of Versailles, and 218 numbered plates, five of which are folding, all engraved by P. le Gros, Garnier, I. la Clerion, N. Coustous, Cornu, after drawings by Thomassin.
The work is divided into four parts with 3 title pages in red and black for the whole (one in Dutch, one in French, and one dated 1695 at Pierre Mortier), and 4 title pages in red and black for each of the volumes...

First illustrated edition of a work that was initially published in 1542 in Wittenberg. 2 frontispieces and 21 engravings by Bernard Picard representing hagiographical episodes from the life of Saint Francis. Cohen, 5. Red and black title pages. The half-title in an engraved border by Picard bears the date 1733.
Contemporary full navy morocco bindings. Smooth Jansenist spine. Series of hatchings on the leading edges. Edges gilt. Spines slightly faded. Handsome binding, quite rare.
Famous pamphlet, particularly violent, against the book by Barthelemy de Pise which highlighted the similarities between the life of Jesus Christ and the life of Saint Francis. The book begins with a...

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Le Prince, les délices des cœurs ou Traité des qualités d’un grand roi, et système général d’un sage gouvernement [The Prince, the delights of the heart, or, A treatise on the qualities of a great king and system of wise government]
Aux dépens de la compagnie, Amsterdam 1751, in-8 (10,5 x 16,5 cm), ix (3) 168 pp (7) et (4) 188 pp (12), 2 volumes, early 19th-century sheep
The rare first edition, published with the author’s name obscured with asterisks, complete with its folding table of the “General Table of Taxes on a Million Subjects”.
Early 19th century brown marbled sheep, spine richly gilt with compartments and...