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Antique books with engravings

This name generally refers to the books from the XVIth to the XVIIIth century enriched with engravings off-text copies sometimes reserved for luxury copies. Always prepared with art, antique books with engravings perpetuate ancestral tradition of illumination.

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First edition

François de LIGNY

Histoire de la vie de Jesus-Christ

Imprimerie de Crapelet, Paris 1804, in-4 (18,5x25cm), 514pp. Et (2) 534pp., 2 volumes reliés.

édition originale, richement illustrée de 75 figures, 40 au tome 1 (dont le frontispice) et 35 au tome 2 (dont le frontispice) et d'une carte dépliante de la Palestine. Entièrement imprimé sur papier vergé filigrané « Vie de J.C. ». « Belle édition de cet ouvrage estimé ; elle est [...]

2 000 €

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Louis-Pierre ANQUETIL & Jacques Marquet de Montbreton, [...]

Histoire de France depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à la Révolution de 1789 suivie de ...

Furne et Cie, Paris 1839, 17x26,5cm, 5 volumes reliés.

Edition offering more than 170 biographies of illustrious characters from the History of France, each of them enriched with an out-of-text portrait enhanced in color.
Bindings in half shagreen navy blue, back with four nerves decorated with gilded nets, small traces of friction on certain [...]

450 €

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Claude-Prosper Jolyot de CREBILLON (dit CREBILLON FILS)

L'ecumoire, Histoire japonoise. [Tansaï et Neadarné]

Chez Arkstée et Merkus, à Amsterdam 1743, In-16 (8x13,5cm), (2) XVIII (4) 208pp. ; (6) 328pp., 2 tomes en un volume relié.

Dutch counterfeiting of the illustrated edition of 1743 to Pekin, the first edition of the only text dating back to 1734. A frontispiece repeated in the 2 volumes (the Chinese emperor and his court with monkeys in trees). Title pages in red and black.
Bindings in full calfskin from the icy era. [...]

650 €

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First edition

Jacques BASNAGE DE BEAUVAL & Abbé GIUSTINIANI

Histoire des ordres militaires ou des chevaliers, des milices seculieres et regulieres de l'un & de ...

Chez Pierre Brunel, à Amsterdam 1721, In-8 (11,5x18cm), XXXII (16) 163pp. (10) 254pp. et (4) 441pp. (1) et (4) 471pp.

Edition originale illustrée de 188 planches, la plupart de costumes et d'autres d'insignes ou décorations de ces ordres, dessinés par Bernard Picard et par Schoonebeck, gravées au burin par W. Jonkman. Pages de titre en rouge et noir. une page de titre spécifique pour la Dissertation [...]

1 500 €

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Giulio Cesare CROCE

Bertoldo con Bertoldino et Cacasenno

Lelio dalla Volpe, In Bologna 1736, In-4 (21,5x29,5cm), (16) 346pp. (2) 128pp., relié.

First edition. The original dates from 1606. The illustration includes a frontispiece, a title vignette and 20 figures as well as 16 vignettes placed at the end of certain songs, all by Giuseppe Maria Crespi. Neat impression.
Binding in full vellum of the nineteenth ca1880. Back to nerves [...]

2 500 €

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First edition

Thomas A KEMPIS & Jacob STRATIUS, Christoffel van [...]

Die Alleen-Spraecke Der Zielen met Godt. Door den Eerw. Heere H. Thomas van Kempen, Regulier der ...

by Jan Maes, Loven (Louvain) 1628, in 12 (15,5x10,5cm), (8) 135ff. (5)., broché sous étui.

First illustrated edition of 20 engravings by C. Van Sichem (initials, ornaments, and text in a frame) and printed in Gothic.
Our copy is presented paperback in a contemporary case in half morocco with old rose nerves, golden date in the tail, cardboard vellum boards.
Jacob Stratius [...]

500 €

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Lorenzo PIGNORIA

De servis et Eorum apud Veteres Ministeriis, Commentarius, In quo familia, tum erbana, tum rustica, ...

Sumptibus Andrea Frisius, Amsterdam 1674, In-16 (7,5x13,3cm), (36) 582pp. (38), relié.

New, rare edition, illustrated with 6 full-page figures and 21 vignettes. Printer's mark on the title page, in pine. The boards include musical instruments, jewelry, kitchen utensils
Binding in full brown calf of marbled and glazed era. Smooth back decorated with 5 boxed florets. title label in [...]

750 €

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First edition

François-Augustin Paradis de MONCRIF

Oeuvres

Chez la veuve Regnard, à Paris 1768, In-12 (9,8x16,5cm), (2) xiv, 233pp. et (2) 200pp. (2) et (2) 233pp. (1) 21pp.

New edition
Binding in full marbled and glazed calf of time. Ornate nerved back. title label in red morocco, volume number with black wax. red slices. A small lack in the lower joint at the head of volume I. Gallery of worms at the end of volume II. 5 blunt corners. Traces of friction. Very [...]

650 €

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