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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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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 €
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 €
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 €
Simon THOMASSIN
Recueil des statues, groupes, fontaines, termes, vases, et autres magnifiques ornemens du chateau & ...
Au dépens de la Compagnie, à La Haye 1723, in-4 (16,5x20,5cm), 59pp. 218pl., 4 tomes reliés en 1 volume.
New edition in four languages after the one quoted on p. 59 at Mortier in 1659. This is the third edition, the original having been published in Paris in 1694, in 8, in French only. The remarkable illustration includes an allegorical frontispiece by Jan van Vianen, a large leaflet of the city [...]
1 500 €
Abbé NOLLET & Chevalier ARCY (D')
Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1749
Chez Pierre Mortier, A Amsterdam 1757, In-12 (10x17cm), (12) 283pp. ; 95pp. et (2) 99-460p., 2 volumes reliés.
Illustrated edition. 4 plates for volume 1, 20 (including about 10 tables of the state of the sky) for volume 2, mostly full-page. 24 plates in total. Title pages in red and black.
Full brown marbled calf binding. Spine decorated, title labels in red morocco, and volume labels in black wax. [...]
350 €
BOUGUET & DE LA CAILLE
Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1751
Chez J. Schreuder & Pierre Mortier le jeune, A Amsterdam 1759, In-12 (10x17cm), (12) 292pp. ; 92pp. et (2) 96-462pp.
Illustrated edition of 6 boards for volume 1, 6 for volume 2 and 9 for volume 3, most unfolding, or 21 boards. Title pages in red and black.
Binding full brown marbled vintage calf. Back to nerves adorned. Title pieces in red morocco, and tomaison in black wax. Traces of friction. Good [...]
400 €
CASSINI DE THURY & Pierre Louis Moreau de MAUPERTUIS
Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1736
Chez Pierre Mortier, A Amsterdam 1740, In-12 (10x17cm), (18) 166pp. et 260pp. et (2) 266-658p. (2), 2 volumes reliés.
Illustrated edition of 10 boards for volume 1, 23 for volume 2, most folding, or 33 boards. Title pages in red and black. An allegorical frontispiece and a title sticker in volume 1.
Binding full brown marbled vintage calf. Back to nerves adorned. Title pieces in red morocco, and tomaison in [...]
380 €
Daniel BERNOULLI & Abbé BRAGELONGNE
Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1730
Chez Pierre Mortier, A Amsterdam 1733, In-12 (10x17cm), (14) 194pp. (2) 328pp. et (2) 334-824p., 2 volumes reliés.
Illustrated edition of 22 boards for volume 1, 21 for volume 2, most unfolding, or 41 boards. Title pages in red and black.
Binding full brown marbled vintage calf. Back to nerves adorned. Title pieces in red morocco, and tomaison in black wax. Upper joint of volume 2 narrowly split.
The [...]
400 €
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