DE LA CAILLE & CASSINI DE THURY

Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1741

Chez Pierre Mortier, A Amsterdam 1747, In-12 (10x17cm), (12) 274pp. ; 199pp. (2) 203-559p. (8), 2 volumes reliés.

Illustrated edition of 5 boards for volume 1, 13 for volume 2, most unfolding, or 18 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. Small part coming off in a headdress. 3 blunt [...]

380 €

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DE LA CAILLE & Abbé NOLLET

Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1748

Chez J. Schoeuler, A Amsterdam 1757, In-12 (10x17cm), (8) 371pp. et (2) 216-566p. et (2) 570-911p., 3 volumes reliés.

Illustrated edition of 5 boards for volume 1, most unfolding.
Binding full brown marbled vintage calf. Back to nerves adorned. Title pieces in red morocco, and tomaison in black wax. Small part coming off in a headdress. A blunt corner. Friction. Good copy.
The following remarkable articles [...]

450 €

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René-Antoine Ferchault de REAUMUR & CASSINI

Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1729

Chez Pierre Mortier, à Amsterdam 1733, In-12 (10x17cm), (12) 164pp. ; 256pp. et 259-597p., 2 volumes reliés.

A frontispiece and a title sticker in Volume 1. Title pages in red and black. 16 plates in volume 1, 11 in volume II.
Binders full marbled vintage brown calfskin. Back with ornate nerves. Title pieces in red morocco, and tomaison in black wax. 3 blunt corners. Friction. Trace of burning and [...]

400 €

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First edition

Otto Van VEEN

Q. Horati Flacci Emblemata. Imaginibus in aes incisis, notisque illustrata

Ex officina Hieronymi Verdussen, Agra, avec privilège du Grand Mogol 1607, in-4 (18x23cm), 213pp. (1), relié.

Q. Horati Flacci Emblemata. Imaginibus in aes incisis, notisque illustrata

4 500 €

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Louis LIGER

La nouvelle maison rustique, ou economie rurale, pratique et générale de tous biens de campagne

Chez Le veuve Guillaume, à Paris 1775, In-4 (20x26cm), (4) iv (4) 916pp. et (8) 918pp. (2), 2 volumes reliés.

It is illustrated with 38 numbered boards, including two fold-outs, 15 for the first volume and 23 for the second, and 35 in-text wooden figures.
Binding in full blonde blonde contemporary. Back with ornate nerves. Head and tail piece in blond morocco. Rubbed together. The planks are cut [...]

650 €

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First edition

Jean-François TRABAUD

Principes sur le mouvement et l'equilibre, pour servir d'introduction aux mécaniques & à la ...

Chez Jean Desaint & Charles Saillant, Paris 1741, In-4 (20x27,2cm), (4) xxiv, 616pp. lvij (1).

First Edition
Binding in full brown contemporary brown. Back with richly ornate nerves. Title piece in brown morocco. Head cap partly torn off 1.5 cm. A lack in tail, another with the upper bit in tail. Lower joint open at the tail. 2 holes along the lower joint. Blunt corners. Rubbed boards.

2 500 €

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First edition

Sophie COTTIN

Malvina

Chez Maradan, à Paris 1800, In-12 (10x17cm), (4) iv, 255pp. (2) ; (4) 259pp. (2) et (4) 251pp. (2) ; (4) 259pp. (2), 4 tomes en 2 volumes reliés.

first edition, rare, illustrated with 4 frontispieces legendary and framed by Tardieu and engraved by Binet.
Bindings in full brown fleece of speckled contemporary. Smooth backs richly adorned with 2 caissons with an irradiating diamond, a box with the grotesque and roulettes. Title and tomato [...]

550 €

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First edition

Mungo PARK

Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique fait en 1795, 1796 et 1797, par M. Mungo Park

Chez Dentu, à Paris 1799 (An XII), In-8 (11,5x19,8cm), xij, 412pp. et (4) 376pp., 2 volumes reliés.

first edition illustrated with a portrait at the frontispiece, 2 boards of botany, 3 views and 3 folding maps.
Bindings of half brown contemporary brown. Back Jansenists. Parts of title in red morocco, pieces of tomato in green morocco. A snag at the tail of volume 2.

780 €

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