First edition

LUCIEN DE SAMOSATE

oeuvres de Lucien, traduites du Grec

Chez Jean-François Bastien, à Paris 1789, In-8 (13x20cm), (12) iij-xxxj (1) 446pp. et (4) 568pp. (2) et (4) 602pp.

First edition translated by Bellin of Ballu.

Binding in full marbled brown sheepskin. Back with nerves adorned with 4 small florets, nets and a roulette tail. title label in red morocco, piece of tomaison in green morocco. 4 corners slightly blunted. Part of tomaison of volume 3 [...]

450 €

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Théodore Agrippa d' AUBIGNE

Les avantures du Baron de Foeneste

à Amsterdam 1731, In-12 (10x16,8cm), (24) cxciv (12) et (8) 384pp., 2 volumes reliés.

New and best critical edition by Le Duchat, with a new warning, notes, and notes. Title pages in red and black. This edition contains a foreword, the Secret History of Theodore Agrippa d'Aubigné, written by himself & addressed to his children, and texts attributed to Master Guillaume, [...]

400 €

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DIOGENE LAERCE

De vita et moribus philosophorum libri X

Apud Haered. Seb. Gryphii (Sebastien Gryphe), Lugduni (Lyon) 1559, 468pp. (19), relié.

New edition.
Binding half ebony eighteenth marbled with small corners. Pink paper on the boards. Back with nerves adorned with nets. title label of beige morocco. Pale freckles marginal. Friction. Good copy.

450 €

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Charles de Secondat MONTESQUIEU

De l'Esprit des loix

Chez Barillot & fils [Prault], Genève [Paris] s.d. (1749), in-4 (19x25cm), (8) XXIV : 522pp. (1p. errata) et (4) XVI ; 564pp., 2 volumes reliés.

Counterfeiting of the first edition published by Barrillot (with two r ) in Geneva in 1748. This counterfeit was made by Laurent Durand. It would have been printed in Paris by Prault, and constitutes in the order the second printed edition. It is the first issue of the second edition, a [...]

3 500 €

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PLUTARQUE

Epitome vitarum Plutarchi

Apud Hyeronimum Olivier, Cenomanis [Le Mans] 1608 (S.d.), 694pp. (2), relié.

New edition, the first of which seems to have appeared in 1541 in Basel. It was done by Dario Tiberti.

350 €

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Charles de Secondat MONTESQUIEU

De l'esprit des loix

Barillot & fils [Durand], à Genève [Paris] s.d. (1749), in-4 (19x25cm), (8) XXIV, 522pp. (1) et (4) XVI, 564pp., 2 volumes reliés (18,8x25,1cm).

Second edition in order of publications. Parisian counterfeit published in January 1749 (it would have been printed by Prault); the original, extraordinarily rare, dates from October 1748. This counterfeit is distinguished by a few points: it reproduces the same pagination errors in the preface as [...]

3 800 €

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HOMERE & Sebastien CASTELLION

Homeri opera graeco-latina, quae quidem nunc extant, omnia [L'Iliade, L'Odyssée, La ...

Per Haeredum Nicolai Brylingeri [Brylinger], Basileae [Bâle] 1567, In-Folio (21,5x32cm), (20) 292pp. ; 317pp. (1), relié.

HOMER & Sebastian CASTELLIO
Homeri opera graeco-latina, quae quidem nunc extant, omnia

4 500 €

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Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU

Julie ou La Nouvelle Héloïse - Lettres de deux amans, habitans d'une petite ville au pied des ...

ChezMarc Michel Rey, à Amsterdam 1761, in-12 (10x16,8cm), (16) 407pp. ; (4) 319pp. (1) et (4) 255pp. ; (4) 331pp. et

original, unusual Edition.
Binders full glossy brown calf contemporary. Back with nerves decorated. as exhibits in Havana morocco, volume number of pieces in red morocco. torn off caps. Mors top of Volume I split with gaps; lower bit fragile and cracked head. Second volume in the upper joint [...]

1 400 €

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