First edition

Pierre Joseph MACQUER

Elemens de chymie theorique

Chez Jean-Thomas Herissant, à Paris 1749, In-12 (10x17cm), xxiv, 336pp. (24), relié.

First edition illustrated with 4 folding boards in fine (instruments and tables of different elements).
Binding full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back with ornate nerves. title label in red morocco. A lack in mind. Very rubbed together. 2 blunt corners.

350 €

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Joseph Aignan SIGAUD DE LA FOND

Description et usage d'un cabinet de physique experimentale

Chez Gueffier, à Paris 1775, in 8 (12,5x20,3cm), xxiv, 342pp. 24Pl. et (4) 456pp. 28Pl., 2 volumes reliés.

First edition, illustrated with 51 folding plates (23 for volume I and 28 for the second, at the end of volumes) on hard paper.
Binding full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back to ornate nerve. title label in red morocco and tomaison in black morocco. Headdresses of Volume II removed. Grip of [...]

800 €

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Samuel RICHARDSON

Clarisse Harlowe

Chez Paul Barde, à Genève 1785, Fort in-8 (13,3x20,8cm), lj (1bc.) 515pp. et (4) 527pp. et (4) 537pp. et (4) 512pp.

First edition in-8, illustrated with 21 figures of Chodowiecki and a frontispiece portrait by Pujos on hard paper. Draw the figures before the letter. The original English was published in 1748.
Bindings full porphyry antique sheepskin. Smooth back richly adorned with decorative boxes, Greek [...]

1 200 €

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First edition

Lorenzo PIGNORIA

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

Ad insigne pinus [ C. Daberholtzer for Marcus Welser], Augustae Vindelicorum [Augsbourg] 1613, In-4, xij, 280pp. (10), relié.

First edition, rare, illustrated with 6 full-page figures and 21 vignettes.
Modern binding in full lace parchment. Smooth back mute.

1 500 €

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First edition

Joseph Bernard Marquis de CHABERT

Voyage fait par ordre du Roi en 1750 et 1751, dans l'Amérique septentrionale, pour rectifier les ...

De Imprimerie Royale, à Paris 1753, In-4 (20x26cm), (2) viij, 288pp. (10), relié.

First edition
Copy to the figure and arms of Louis XV.
Binding full brown marbled and glossy brown sheepskin.

4 000 €

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First edition

John Theophilus DESAGULIERS

Cours de physique experimentale

chez Jacques Rollin & chez Charles Antoine Jombert, à Paris 1751, In-4 (20,5x26,5cm), (2) xij (2) 503pp. et (4) iv, 636pp., relié.

First french edition, in the translation of Jean Pezenas.

Copy to arms
Binding full brown sheepskin contemporary.

4 000 €

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First edition

Thomas BURNETT

Histoire de ce qui s'est passé de plus mémorable en Angleterre pendant la vie de Gilbert Burnet, ...

Chez Jean Néaulme, à La Haye 1735, In-4 (19,5x25cm), (10) 356pp. et 356-866p. (44) et 408pp. et 348pp. (34), 2 tomes en 4 volumes reliés.

Edition originale illustrée de 17 portraits dans des médaillons par Bernard Picart d'après divers peintres dont Van Dick, dont le frontispice. 4 pages de titre en rouge et noir. Le premier tome a été traduit par La Pilonnière, on ignore le traducteur du second ; ce premier tome avait paru en [...]

1 000 €

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Jacques de Chastenet de PUYSEGUR

Les memoires de Messire Jacques de Chastenet, Chevalier, seigneur de Puysegur, colonel du regiment ...

Chez Charles-Ant. Jombert, à Paris 1747, In-12 (9,5x17cm), xxiv, 308pp. et (4) 365pp. (7), 2 volumes reliés.

New illustrated edition of 2 portraits on the frontispiece and 2 large plans of leaflets. Edition produced by Du Chesne, historian of the King of France, from the manuscripts of Puysegur.
Binding full brown marbled vintage calf. Back with ornate nerves. title label in red morocco, piece of [...]

450 €

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