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Antique books - Bibliophily - Art works
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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Antoine DEZALLIER D'ARGENVILLE
Voyage pittoresque de Paris, ou description de tout ce qu'il y a de plus beau dans cette grande ...
Chez de Bure, à Paris 1770, In 12 (10x17cm), x, 496pp. (6), relié.
Third augmented edition of this important artistic guide of the Paris of Louis XV. A title-frontispice engraved in colors by J. Robert & 5 inset plates including 2 unfolding by Choffart, Saint-Aubin. Four of them, signed Choffard (1730-1809), reproduce the illustrations of the previous edition [...]
450 €
First edition
Pierre LE TOURNEUR, François-Anne DAVID
Histoire d'Angleterre représentée par figures
Chez l'auteur & François Anne David, à Paris 1784 - 1800, In-4 (19,5x26,5cm), (4) 194pp. et (4) 211pp. et (4) 116pp., 3 volumes reliés.
First edition, very rare, augmented by a third volume published 16 years later, in 1800, and dedicated to wars in the colonies, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Canada and the American war of independence. She is superbly illustrated with 111 hors-texte engraved figures engraved by François Anne DAVID after [...]
1 800 €
First edition
Guillaume-Germain GUYOT, François-Anne DAVID
Histoire de France représentée par figures, accompagnées de discours
Chez l'auteur & M. David, à Paris 1787-1796, in-4 (20x26,2cm), (4) 168 pp. et 204 pp. et (4) 200 pp. et (4) 184 pp.
First edition, rare, illustrated with 5 engraved titles and 140 hors-texte figures drawn in red on hard paper, with a specific ornamental border for each volume, corresponding to each era described by each volume. Print on large vellum paper.
Publisher's binding in full blond calf jasped and [...]
2 800 €
First edition
Elis BENNET
Henry Bennet et Julie Johnson, ou les esquisses du coeur, roman traduit de l'anglais, et orné de ...
Chez Louis, à Paris 1794, In-18 (8,5x13,8cm), (4) 192pp. ; (4) 188pp. et (4) 184pp. ; (4) 207pp. et (4) 216pp. ;
First edition of the French translation, illustrated with 6 anonymous figures.
Reliquure in half calf around 1820. Smooth backs decorated with 2 mirrored central irons, wheels. Title and volume pieces in black calf. Marbled slices.
450 €
First edition
Dom Charles Joseph BEVY
Histoire des inaugurations des rois, empereurs, et autres souverains de l'univers, depuis leur ...
Chez Moutard, à Paris 1776, In-8 (12,5x20cm), xvj, 559pp. (5), relié.
First edition, illustrated with 14 beautiful costume boards representing about 80 French costumes from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century.
Binding full brown marbled vintage calf. Back to nerves adorned. Title piece in red morocco. Worthy restorations at the head and tail joints, idem in [...]
700 €
Maurice Comte de SAXE
Les rêveries ou Mémoires sur l'art de la guerre
Chez Pierre Gosse, à La Haye 1758, In Folio (24x35cm), VIII (4) 228pp.(4) 40pl. 15pp., relié.
Second edition, reprint of the first edition in-folio in 1756 at the same publisher, rare, illustrated with 40 plates including 4 unfolding and 16 double page. Large vignette with weapons in title page, and 41 ornaments (header, culs-de-lampe). Title page in red and black.
Binding in full icy [...]
1 500 €
François LE VAILLANT
Voyage de Monsieur Le Vaillant dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance
De l'imprimerie de Crapelet, à Paris 1798 (An VI), In-8 (12x19,5cm), xxxij, 385pp. et (4) 403pp. (1), 2 volumes reliés.
New edition, illustrated with 20 plates (animals, views, camps, natives) against 12 in the first edition of 1790, including 6 unfolding, all on hard paper, including the famous board of the Hottentote apron, which is sometimes missing.
Reals in full sheepskin marbled ice. Smooth back decorated [...]
800 €
First edition
George KEATE
Relation des îles Pelew, situées dans la partie occidentale de l'Océan Pacifique, composée sur ...
Chez Le Jay et Maradan, A Paris 1788, in 8 (12,5x19,5cm), (4) 282pp. et (4) 274pp. (3), 2 volumes reliés.
First french edition, illustrated with 16 boards, including 11 unfolding and a large folding map (native views, objects ...). This edition was published the same year as the English original.
Bindings in full marbled and glossy sheepskin. Smooth back decorated with 4 boxed florets. Title pieces [...]
900 €
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