Abbé NOLLET

Leçons de physique expérimentale.

Chez Durand, à Paris 1749 - 1764, fort in-12 (9x16cm), (6) lx ; 379 pp. et (4) 488 pp. et (4) 512 pp. et (4) 535 pp.

New edition, the volumes comprising three different editions (1749, 1753 and 1764), as is very often the case for this work when it is in a uniform binding, with editions and reprints spread over time. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 116 folding plates; particularly appreciated illustrations, [...]

1 300 €

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Marie Angélique de GOMEZ

Les journées amusantes

Par la compagnie, à Amsterdam 1766, in-12 (9,5x16,5cm), 8 tomes reliés en 4 volumes.

Mention eighth edition, illustrated with eight unsigned headpieces. The fun days were originally published from 1722 to 1731. Pages titles in red and black.
Full Sheepskin vintage blonde. Back tooled raised. Lack in the upper jaw of the head Volumes I and IV. Lack of Volume III in cap. Tail cap [...]

400 €

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Teofilo FOLENGO & Merlin COCAÏE

Opus Merlini Cocaii poetae Mantuani Macaronicorum

Apud Horatium de Gobbis, Venetiis (Venise) 1581, in-12 (8x15xm), 541pp., relié.

New edition, after the first collective published in Venice in 1564 Illustrated with 27 vignettes title on wood. It contains Zanitolla, 25 pounds of Baldus, the Moscheide (of the battle flies against ants) epistolarum.Plein soft vellum time. Smooth back. label title later. A hole in the tail. Title [...]

1 200 €

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Nicolas BOILEAU DESPREAUX

Oeuvres

Chez Les libraires associés, à Paris 1772, in-8 (12x21cm), (4) cxvi 431pp. et (8) 617pp. et (10) 540pp. et (6) 562pp.

New edition, illustrated with a frontispiece engraved by Picart Winkeles, 2 allegorical figures by van der Meer (the Epistle and the poetic Art), and 6 figures after re-engraved by Picart Vinkeles for the lectern, 4 thumbnails As van der Meer and F. Bakker. This edition is also published at [...]

800 €

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First edition

PROCLUS & Georg HENISCH

Commentarius in sphaeram procli diadochi. Cui adiunctus est Computus Ecclesiasticus, cum Calendario ...

Typis Davidis Franci, Augustae Vindelicorum (Augsburg) 1609, in-4 (15x20cm), (8) 367pp. (20) (1), relié.

First edition, rare. Printing on both columns. Vignette of a sphere in the title page. 14 figures and in-text tables and many diagrams, including a timetable for the position of the stars and the zodiac figures, tables of latitudes and longitudes.Plein soft vellum vintage flap. Smooth back silent. [...]

1 600 €

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LONGUS

Les amours de Daphnis et Chloé

S.n., à Londres 1779, in-12 (10x16,2cm), (4) viij 9 - 176p., relié.

New reprint edition called the Regent, small 4to published in 1718 by Coypel frontispiece and 29 figures of regent (Phillipe d'Orléans) engraved by B. Audran. Some figures are folded. Translation of Amyot. This edition of 1779 is also published in the format in-4 with pages of text in a [...]

350 €

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P. J. MAIRAN

Lettres d'un missionnaire a Pekin, contenant diverses questions sur la Chine, pour servir de ...

Chez Nyon, à Paris 1782, in-8 (12x20cm), xi (1) 368pp. (1), relié.

Second edition and first edition under this title, the book was titled: Letters to Father ... Parennin on China. Illustrated boards and a calf figure.Plein granita. Smooth spine decorated. Part of title in red morocco. Torn off caps. Upper jaw and split open the tail and head. Corners bumped. [...]

450 €

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First edition

Pierre Laurent Buirette de BELLOY

Oeuvres complettes

Chez Moutard, à Paris 1779, in-8 (12x20cm), xiij, (3) 445 pp. et (4) 387 pp. et (4) 427 pp. et 407 pp. et 381 pp. et

First Edition collective adorned with a portrait frontispiece, which is Gabriel Henri Gaillard.
Full mottled calf time. Smooth spine decorated. Part of title and volume number in red morocco. Head cover of Volume I threadbare, the volumes V and VI partly frayed. Volume VI of the upper jaw split [...]

550 €

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