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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First edition

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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First edition

Monseigneur PASTORINI

Histoire générale de l'Eglise chrétienne

Chez Le Boucher et Durand, à Rouen & à Paris 1777, in-12 (10x17cm), (4) lxviij ; 373pp. (1) et (6) 455 (1) et (6) 387pp. (1), 3 volumes reliés.

First edition of the French translation, ornate frontispiece of blood unsigned. Translated from English by a Benedictine of the Congregation of St. Maur. Full speckled calf blond at the time. Smooth back casing adorned with jewels and gold, as well as parts of title and volume numbers morocco [...]

200 €

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Charles EISEN, Roland LE VAYER DE BOUTIGNY

Tarsis et Zélie

Chez Musier fils, à Paris 1774, 6 parties en 3 vol. in-8 (14,5x21,5cm), xxiij, 563pp. et 563pp. et 597pp., relié.

Illustrated new edition first printing. The figure includes three frontispiece by Cochin, Moreau and Eisen, engraved by Gaucher, Ponce Born; and 20 headers by Eisen, engraved by Helman, De Longueuil, Masquelier and Massard. Elegant shown in neat layout.
Full calf scales blond. Back with five [...]

800 €

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Samuel RICARD

Traité général du commerce plus ample et plus exact que ceux qui ont paru jusqu'à présent. ...

Chez Claude Segrain et Al, A Paris & à Rouen 1723, in-4 (18,5x25,5cm), (8) 574 (4) (2) 79 (35)p., relié.

New edition, after the first published in Amsterdam. The book has been constantly revised and increased in each of its outputs. Frontispiece by Scottin; two folding plates and numerous paintings. New edition, revised, corrected & augmented Tariff Rights Inputs & Outputs, with Apréciations [...]

950 €

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First edition

Claude François MILLIET DECHALES

L'Art de fortifier, de défendre et d'attaquer les places

S.n., Franckfurt 1677, in-12 (8,5x14cm), (10p.) (1f.bl.) (12p.) 851pp. (49p.), relié.

French-German Bilingual Edition, illustrated with 71 plates and a table of fortification. Full vellum antique ivory. Smooth back adorned with triple blind fillets, title and author pen. boards framed triple blind fillets; traces of clasps. All slices blue. Six small leather bookmarks that time. [...]

850 €

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First edition

Emmanuel de LAS CASES

Atlas historique, généalogique chronologique et géographique

De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné, Paris 1802-1804, in plano (39,5x51cm), relié.

Original French edition, rare, first edition having appeared in London in 1801. Enhanced 33 double pages in color, 22 maps (sometimes two per page) appeared in eight deliveries of 4 cards or boards between 1802 and 1826 (QuÚrard). Edition published under the pseudonym A. Lesage. Half sheepskin [...]

1 200 €

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