Idées cadeaux XVIIIᵉ siècle – Lumières & Rococo

First edition of this map of Guadeloupe and its archipelago created by Rigobert Bonne, engraved on copper by André and heightened with watercolor.
This map served as illustration for Guillaume Raynal's Atlas de toutes les parties connues du globe terrestre.
A handsome copy.

First edition of this very first dictionary devoted to dance.
Later (19th century) half blonde russia morocco binding with corners, smooth spine decorated with gilt tools and fillets, pebbled paper boards. Some rubbing, otherwise handsome copy.
Interesting work in which Compan names and describes all ancient and modern dances as well as the rules and movements that govern them.
Provenance: from the library of Léon Duchesne de la Sicotière - politician and polygrapher - with his bookplate pasted to front pastedown.

First edition, published without the author's name, and illustrated with a frontispiece by Guérard and 26 folding plates by the same artist. The second work is also in its first edition and is illustrated with a frontispiece and 4 plates by Guérard.
Contemporary full brown calf binding. Richly decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title-label. Headcaps worn. Upper joint cracked at head and foot. Lower joint cracked at head. Corners bumped and trimmed. Overall rubbed.
A great classic on bridge construction and regulation. The second work is a technical analysis of bridge construction and the knowledge and calculations necessary for their realization. It includes...

New and latest early edition corrected by Abbé Souchay. It is illustrated with 60 figures including ten frontispieces, all engraved by Guelard after drawings by Gravelot and Rigot.
Contemporary bindings in full brown grained calf, spines with five raised bands decorated with red morocco title and volume labels as well as gilt compartments and fleurons, gilt arms of Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon stamped at the foot of the spines, endpapers and pastedowns of combed paper, gilt roll on leading edges, all edges speckled red.
Head caps missing on three volumes (3, 5 and 10) and partially damaged on three others (1, 4 and 8), that of the tail of the first volume absent and...

The last edition, the first having appeared in Frankfurt in 1669. Very fine engraved allegorical frontispiece. The work has a preface by Georg Ernst Stahl and a second part paginated separately, entitled Specimen Beccherianum Fondamentorum Documentorum Experimentorum by the same. The work is in five parts, called “Physica Subterranea”, “Experimentum Chimicum Novum quo Artificialis et instantanea Metallorum Generatio et Transmutatio ad oculum demonstrator”, “In Physicam Subterraneam demontratio philosophica seu Theses Chimica” and “Experimentum novum ac curiosum de Minera Arenaria Perpetua”.
Contemporary vellum, ink title to head of spine, all edges speckled red. A few leaves a...

A later edition of this Bible, translated by Luther. Separate title page for the New Testament. This edition was edited by the Protestant theologian Hieronymus Burckhardt (1680-1737). Double column. Manuscript poem on Christian consolation to endpaper, dated 1774, with the name Johanna Josephine Magdalena. Constance.
Contemporary German marbled calf, spine in compartments, richly decorated with Rococo motifs and roulettes to raised bands. Red morocco title label. Covers with large morocco frieze. All edges gilt. Frieze to inside covers, green moiré silk endpapers. A little slight rubbing. The delicate Vergé paper very fresh.
A fine copy.
Martin Luther translated the Bible...

First French edition translated from the seventh English edition.
Contemporary full brown calf binding, marbled and glazed. Smooth spine decorated. Red morocco title-label. Headcap abraded. Upper joint cracked at head for 5cm. Traces of rubbing. Good copy.
Scottish Protestant author whose sermons focus essentially on reserve and modesty, reserve and modesty in dress, reserve and modesty in conversation, etc. Doubtless such moral preoccupations could only emerge in the late 18th century and under the Empire, which turned their backs on these vestimentary restrictions, the face of a prudish morality intended to conceal all femininity; a large part of the 19th century would, on the...

Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae implantata Anglorumque coloniis florentissima Geographica exhibita


Nuremberg | [ca 1716] | 61.4 x 53 cm | one map
Beautiful copy of one of the rare maps of the American North-East in the early eighteenth century, showing the region as it was considered before the British government commissioned more in-depth cartographic studies on the subject.
his map is the work of Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724), one of the most well-known cartographers, founder of one of the most important German publishing houses.
Conceived while the region was still being discovered, it shows a certain number of inaccuracies: Cape Cod is...