First edition

SPALLANZANI

Expériences pour servir à l'histoire de la génération des animaux et des plantes. Avec une ...

Chez Barthélémi Chirol, à Genève 1785, in-8 (12,5x20,6cm), (4) XCVI, 413pp., relié.

Original French edition, illustrated with 3 folding plates containing many figures. Full calf blond marbled time. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Two small restorations on the upper flat. Nice copy. Fundamental work on the theory of generation. The conclusions reached above those [...]

950 €

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Josias SIMLER & Johan Jakob LEU

Von dem Regiment de lobl. Eydgenossschaft zwey Bücher / In deren Ersterem ein kurtzgefasste ...

David Gessner, Zurich 1722, Pet. in-4 (15x20cm), (16) 717pp. (23), relié.

First edition, rare, this revised edition, annotated and commented Johann Jakob Leu of the major work of Josiah Simler, "De republica helvetiorum" (1576). A large folding map of Switzerland by Michael Kauffer by Christoph Weigel. Frontispiece of Fussli, also often absent, was not attached to this [...]

800 €

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François-Edme GOUGE DE CESSIERE

L'Art d'aimer, nouveau poème en six chants, par Monsieur *****

Aux dépens des Librairies Associés, à Londres 1760, in-8 (12x19,5cm), relié.

New edition, the original six songs being published in 1750, but the first illustrated edition of seven unsigned figures; Cohen attributes the frontispiece Eisen and figures Martinet.Pleine blond sheepskin speckled contemporary. Smooth back adorned with a piece of red morocco, caissons and small [...]

250 €

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Etienne PASQUIER

Les recherches de la France

Chez Martin Collet, Paris 1633, In Folio (22x34,4cm), (20) 1019pp. (1) (75), relié.

New edition, reprint of the first edition in ten books published in 1621; illustrated with a portrait by Leonardo Gautier and a large sticker with the royal arms. Title page in red and black. Printing on thin paper. Half time level. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Head cap [...]

950 €

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First edition

Utagawa SADAHIDE, Utagawa SADAHIDE & Batei SHUJIN

Nanchou Gaishi Buyuden

Sadahide, Edo 1856, 10 Vol. (14,5x23cm), cousu.

First edition, rare, with 35 engravings, many double page in black, grey, and white (several with grey and black ink wash). The title may be translated as: A History of the Braves of the Southern Court.
10 accordion-stitched volumes. Three different printed covers, the first series comprising [...]

1 200 €

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Pierre-Augustin GUYS

Voyage littéraire de la Grèce, ou Lettres sur les Grecs, anciens et modernes, avec un parallèle ...

Chez La veuve Duchesne, Paris 1783, in-8 (12,5x19,5cm), (4) viij ; 527pp. et (4) 382pp. et (4) 373pp. et (4) 240pp. [mal

Third illustrated edition of 10 boards inset with a frontispiece from Dalbou HOUEL, 5 boards inset Laurent according Favray and 4 boards inset folding Laurent according Massit. The first three volumes contain all letters of Greece, the last contains other pamphlets author: Essays on the Elegies of [...]

1 400 €

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Pierre Simon BALLANCHE

Antigone

De l'imprimerie de Didot l'aîné, Paris 1819, Grd. in 8 (14,5x23cm), 328pp., relié.

First illustrated edition and mention of second edition after the original, published in 1815 by the same publisher. 6 figures a Broth antique engraved by Baquoy. Beautiful print on Velin and elegant typographic realization of Didot.Plein green morocco long contemporary grains. spine 4-board [...]

500 €

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Richard STEELE & Joseph ADDISON

Le Spectateur ou le Socrate moderne, où l'on voit un portrait naïf des Moeurs de ce Siécle

Chez Mérigot, Paris 1754-1755, in-12 (9,5x17cm), 9 volumes reliés.

New edition adorned with seven frontispieces Scotin the elder. The newspaper appeared for the first time in volume in 1712 sheepskin. Full brown speckled time. Back with five nerves, parts of title and volume number of red morocco, gilt floral pedestals and finials. All red edges. Caps head of [...]

450 €

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