Giovanni BOTERO

Relationi universali

Perli Bertani, in Venetia 1671, in-4 (16x22,8cm), (8) 747pp. (36), relié.

New edition, after the original was published in 1591 and 1593. Illustrated with 4 folding maps of Gioseppe Rosatio, Europe, Asia, America and Africa, on gray background. The work went through many reprints in the seventeenth. Full vellum flexible time. Back to nerves Jansenist. Title in black pen. [...]

1 500 €

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PANAGE

Les moeurs

S.n., s.l. 1748, in-12 (10x16,5cm), 3 parties reliées en un volume.

First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece, a vignette repeated three title pages title, and three vignettes title. Full brown calf marbled time. Smooth back decorated. Part of title in red morocco. Lower joint open tail. Gaps and holes along the lower joint. A dull corner. An essay on the [...]

180 €

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Pierre GUARIN

Grammatica hebraica et chaldaica

Typis Jacobi Collombat [Jacob Collombat], LutetiaParisiorum [Paris] 1724 - 1726, in-4 (19,5x26cm), xlv (17) 632pp. et

First edition, rare, two volumes published in 1724 and 1726 respectively; illustrated with vignettes 2 header, 8 pp sheet music, a cabalistic tree inset, the Samaritan Alphabet, 2 boards and 2 figures currencies also inset. Copy to arms stamped on the flat and within each box of the library of the [...]

1 500 €

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Claude-François MENESTRIER

La nouvelle methode raisonnée du blason

Chez Pierre Bruyset Ponthus, à Lyon 1754, in-12 (9x16,5cm), (8) 298pp. (30), relié.

New edition, illustrated with a frontispiece and 32 plates (several figures shields) as well as many shields in-text. Full sheepskin speckled blonde then. Back with five nerves ornate coffered and gilded finials, as well as a part of title sheepskin blonde. All marbled. Head cover rubbed, tail [...]

250 €

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Quintus Curtius Rufus (dit) QUINTE-CURCE

Alexander Magnus et illum commentarius Samuelis Pitisci quo antiquitates persarum, macedonum, ...

Apud Petrum van Thol, Hagae-Comitis (La Haye) 1708, 2 tomes en un vol. Fort in 8 (11,5x19,5cm), 855pp. (168), relié.

New edition with commentary by Samuel Pitiscus mentioning third edition, illustrated with a frontispiece and title, Pitiscus portrait, 4 folding maps and 11 boards with 29 numbered figures (most folding) often very curious (the Gardens of Babylon) by Johan van den Avelen d "after G. Hoet. First [...]

650 €

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BASAN

Dictionnaire des graveurs anciens et modernes

Chez l'auteur & Prault & Cuchet, à Paris 1789, 2 tomes en 2 vol. in-8 (12,5x20cm), relié.

Mentioned second edition, the original being published in 1767. Two frontispieces, one of Cochin, the second of Peter Delin and two header engraved by Choffart. Some copies at the request of the buyer who could command, contained 50 engravings. These copies appear very rare. Half brown marbled [...]

500 €

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Etienne ROBERT

Causes amusantes et connues

S.n., Berlin 1769, in-12 (9,5x17cm), (2) xij (2) 420pp., relié.

New edition, after the original from 1749, illustrated figures 5 unsigned and captions on strong paper. Full brown calf contemporary. Smooth back decorated. Part of title in red morocco. Head cap threadbare. 2 corners bumped. Friction. A filling with old paper title page. Collection of various [...]

250 €

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PFEFFINGER

Nouvelle fortification françoise, espagnole, italienne & hollandoise ou Recueil de différentes ...

Chez George Gallet, à Amsterdam 1698, in-8 (11x19,5cm), (8) 255pp., relié.

First edition, rare, adorned with a frontispiece Picart and 46 folding plates depicting patterns fortification. Title page in red and black. Full brown calf at the time. Back with five nerves ornate coffered and gilded finials, and a piece of red morocco. Caps absent center serving the cap head [...]

800 €

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