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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
DE LA FLOTTE
Essais historiques sur l'Inde, précédés d'un journal de voyages et d'une description ...
Chez Herissant, à Paris 1769, in-12 (10x17cm), (4) 360pp. (12), relié.
first edition, rare, illustrated in Figures 3
Binding sheepskin half contemporary. Back smooth decorated. part of title in red morocco. Flush caps. largely split upper joint, lower joint cracked head. Corners bumped.
500 €
Laurence STERNE
Voyage sentimental suivi des Lettres d'Yorick à Eliza
1799 (S.d.), In-18 (8,5x14,3cm), xxxij, 207pp. et (4) 225pp. et (4) 275pp., 3 tomes en 3 volumes reliés.
New edition, illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and 6 figures on strong paper engraved by Monsiau by Patas, Pouquet, Miger & Dambrun. publishing reduction in folio by the same publisher.
Binding late nineteenth open green shagreen signed David. Back with nerves decorated with 4 small [...]
350 €
First edition
François CHAUVEAU, Eustache LE SUEUR
La vie de St. Bruno, fondateur de l'ordre des Chartreux
Chez René Cousinet, à Paris s.d. (ca 1660), In-folio (27,5x41cm), (4) 22pl., relié.
first edition, rare, illustrated with a title frontispiece and 22 plates from the tables of Eustache Le Sueur and engraved by Francois Chauveau.
Binding half shagreen iced chocolate ca 1860 with corners L. signed Fixon bottom of the last page. Back to jansenist nerves. Engraved title and the [...]
1 200 €
First edition
Thomas MANGEART
Introduction a la science des médailles, pour servir a la connoissance des Dieux, de la religion, ...
Chez d'Houry, à Paris 1763, In-folio (29x47cm), xxiv, 586 pp. XXXV pl., relié.
first edition, rare, illustrated with 35 boards in fine of multiple medals, several figures (machines, tools for medals ...).
350 €
CASSINI & René-Antoine Ferchault de REAUMUR
Histoire de l'Académie des sciences. Année 1718
Chez Panckoucke, à Paris 1777, In-12 (9,5x17cm), (8) 490pp., relié.
New Edition, considered an infringement of the regular édiiton published in Paris by the Royal Printing. It is illustrated with 12 figures extendible.
Binding full glossy marbled calf contemporary. Back with nerves decorated, wheels and tail head. part of title in red morocco, and volume [...]
350 €
JUSSIEU & CASSINI
Histoire de l'Académie des sciences. Année 1718
Chez Panckoucke, à Paris 1777, In-12 (9,5x16,8cm), (10) 416pp., relié.
New Edition, considered an infringement of the regular édiiton published in Paris by the Royal Printing. It is illustrated with 17 figures extendible.
Binding full glossy marbled calf contemporary. Back with nerves decorated, wheels and tail head. part of title in red morocco, and volume [...]
350 €
Louis Elisabeth de la Vergne, Comte de TRESSAN
Histoire du petit Jehan de Saintré et de la dame des Belles-Cousines
Chez Lepetit & Guillemard, à Paris 1792, in-18 (8x14cm), (4) 227pp. (2), relié.
New edition, illustrated with a frontispiece and 3 figures by Square on strong paper, and dated 1791.
Copy to arms
Bound in full morocco vintage claret. Back with nerves decorated. Triple net with angular irons in the spandrels and angular jewels, weapons centers boards. upper joint split [...]
280 €
Giovanni Paolo MARANA
L'espion dans les cours des princes chrétiens
Chez Erasme Kinkius, à Cologne 1739, in-12 (10x17cm), (2) 34pp. (14) 513pp. et (10) 486pp. et (4) 530pp. (16) et (4)
New edition. This edition has been successively increased and it is very difficult to find the date of the original, certainly in 2 volumes. It is illustrated with 21 pretty faces, 5 folding (portrait Méhemet; a view of Constantinople, Richelieu portraits, Knights of Malta, the figures of the [...]
1 300 €
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