Maurice Comte de SAXE

Les reveries ou memoire 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 €

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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 €

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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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First edition

Luigi TANSILLO

Stanze di cultura sopra gli horti de le donne, stampate nuovamente. Et historiate [avec] Stanze in ...

s.l. [Venise] 1537, petit in-8 (14,6x9,2cm), (16 f.) ; (16 f.), 2 textes reliés en 1 volume.

Stanze di Cultura sopra gli Horti de le Donne, Stampate Nuovamente.
Et Historiate [with] Stanze in Lode della Menta

9 000 €

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First edition

Tobias SMOLLET

Aventures de Roderick Random, traduites de l'anglois de Fielding

Chez Jean Nourse, à Londres 1761, In-12 (9,5x17cm), (4) xvj, 400pp. et (4) 342pp. et (4) 320pp., 3 volumes reliés.

First french edition, illustrated with 3 frontispices by Eisen engraved by Pinssio.
Binders full marbled brown and glossy vintage. Title piece of red morocco, piece of beige morocco tomaison. Headdress of Volume I torn off. Bits of volume I closely split at the head and tail. Friction. Title [...]

950 €

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First edition

William VAUGHAN & Guillaume BLIGH

Relation des malheurs et de la captivité, pendant deux ans et cinq mois, du capitaine Woodard, et ...

Chez F. Buisson & Firmin Didot, à Paris 1805-1790, in-8 (12,5x20,5cm), (4) 322 pp. ; (4) xvj, 171 pp., relié.

First edition, rare, of the French translation, illustrated with a portrait with frontispiece profile, 2 folding maps of the island of Célebès in Indonesia, and 2 figures of ships on a folding board.
Binding full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin. Back with nerves decorated with urns in [...]

1 800 €

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First edition

Charles BONNET

Oeuvres d'histoire naturelle et de philosophie

Chez Samuel Fauche, à Neuchatel 1779 - 1783, In-8 (12x20,7cm), (2) xlviij, 362pp. et (4) 461pp. (2) et (4) 262pp. et

Collective first edition.
Bindings in full calf rooted blond slightly posterior. Smooth backs decorated with two flies and two alternating wasps; various wheels. Title pieces in red morocco; pieces of tomaison in a shield in black morocco. Triple framing net on the boards, with a second [...]

2 200 €

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First edition

NEEDHAM

Nouvelles observations microscopiques, avec des découvertes intéressantes sur la composition & la ...

Chez Louis-Etienne Ganeau, à Paris 1750, Fort in-12 (9,5x17cm), xviij, 524pp. (4) 29pp., relié.

First french edition, illustrated with 8 folding plates in fine. Translation of Louis Anne Lavirotte.
Binding full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin. Back with nerves adorned with 5 florets. Title piece in red morocco. Headdress very faded. Missing at the upper bit in the tail. Upper joint [...]

700 €

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