First edition

Kornelis Van ALKEMADE

De munt der graaven van Holland

Andriez Voorstad, Te Delft gedrukt 1700, pet. in-folio (20x32cm), (24) 192pp. (8), relié.

First edition, illustrated with a handsome frontispiece unsigned (Dutch lion in the middle of a ruined classical portico) and 64 boards with several figures of rooms (up to 10 per board). They are numbered I to XLV, some numbers are a series of several boards. Some figures in texte.Plein vellum [...]

850 €

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First edition

Abbé DOUAY

Histoire généalogique des branches de la maison de Béthune, existantes en Flandre et en Artois, ...

S.n., à Paris 1783, petit in-folio (23x37,5cm), iv, ix, 162 (2) (2) 269p., relié.

Rare first edition, and only edition of this book. Illustrated with numerous tables, a large folding plate depicting the genealogy emblazoned Desplanques, figures blazon in-text and notable feature of this book, 15 medallion portraits "in physionotrace" (process invented by Louis Christian and [...]

1 500 €

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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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First edition

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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