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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First edition

Felice Maria NERINI

De templo et coenobio sanctorum Bonifacii et Alexii historica moumenta

Auod Jo. Laurenti Barbiellini, Romae 1752, In-4 (19,5x26cm), XXXI (1) 600pp. (12), relié.

Original illustrated edition of 13 plates out of text, including several fold-outs, including the famous image of Notre-Dame d'Édesse. Title page in red and black, with a vignette bearing the coat of arms of Cardinal Quirino.
Binding in full soft vellum of time. Smooth back. title label of [...]

800 €

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First edition

René-Antoine Ferchault de REAUMUR

Art de faire eclorre et d'élever en toute saison des oiseaux domestiques de toutes especes

De L' Imprimerie Royale, à Paris 1749, In-12 (9,5x16,8cm), xij, 342pp. et (4) 339pp., 2 volumes reliés.

Original illustrated edition of 9 fold-out plates for the first volume, and 6 for the second, as well as 11 header.
Binding in full speckled and glazed brown calf of time. Ornate nerved back. title label in red morocco, volume number decorated in green morocco. Small gaps at the head of the 2 [...]

1 000 €

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First edition

Michel-Jean SEDAINE

La tentation de St. Antoine, ornée de figures et de musique [Ensemble] Le pot-pourri de Loth. ...

S.n., s.l. 1784 (S.d.), In-8 (15x23,1cm), relié.

First edition of these 2 "vaudevilles".
Binding at the end of the 19th century in full glossy blond calfskin produced directly on a brochure. Richly decorated back to nerves. 2 pieces of black calf title, tail date on black calf. triple framing net on the boards. Large interior frieze. [...]

800 €

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William COXE

Voyage en Suisse

Chez Letellier, à Paris 1790, In-8 (12x20cm), vij (1bc.) iv, 454pp. et (4) iv, 432pp. et (4) 463pp., 3 tomes en 3 volumes reliés.

Original French edition illustrated with 7 folding plates, including 2 maps of Switzerland and Mont Blanc, and a panorama of the Alps.
Binders in half percaline beige nineteenth. Back with title labels in red morocco. Green paper boards. Dirty back. Very blunt corners. Small scattered pale [...]

450 €

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Jacques VANIER

Praedium rusticum

Apud Marcum Bordelet, Paris 1746, In-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (6) x, 320pp. (8), relié.

New edition. An allegorical frontispiece engraved by Brunet.

Binding in full glossy brown marbled calf of the time. Ornate nerved back. title label in red morocco. Upper leveled cap. Split upper joint with gaps. Blunt corners. Fronstispice browned in the margins.

180 €

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