Francisco de JESUS MARIA

Horas de semana santa

Na regia officina typografica, Lisboa 1793, Fort in-16 (7x13cm), 584pp. (3), relié.

Edition wearing a privilege for 1790. Illustrated 7 figures of the Passion of Christ carved by Roy. Full contemporary calf. Back to silent nerves decorated with 5 florets; wheels between nerves. Roulette encarement on boards. Sliced golden and braced. Black spots on the lower flat. Good copy. --- [...]

350 €

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ANACREON & SAPHO, Charles EISEN

Anacréon, Sapho, Bion et Moschus, traduction nouvelle en Prose, suivie De la veillée des fêtes ...

Chez Le Boucher, à Paphos & se trouve à Paris 1773, In 8 (14x22,2cm), (4) iv, 280pp., relié.

First edition of this translation of Moutonnet Clairfonds and first print of the illustration, which includes a frontispiece, 12 headers and 13 tail-lamp Eisen, engraved by Massard and Duclos. Title page in red and red morocco noir.Plein late nineteenth signed Pickering. Spine ribbed Jansenist. [...]

800 €

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Claude Joseph DORAT

Merlin, Bel - Esprit

Chez Monory, à Londres & se trouve à Paris 1780, In 8 (14x21,5cm), xvj 136pp., relié.

First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece Marillier, engraved by De Veau launay.Plein blond glossy granite. Smooth back features 5 jewels compartmentalized roulette tail and head. Part of title in red morocco. Slices cailloutées blue. Wetting a high margin on a 4 cm wide (end of the book, the [...]

250 €

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Claude Joseph DORAT

Lettre de Barnevelt, dans sa prison, a Truman, son ami, précédée d'une lettre de l'auteur

Chez Sébastien Jorry, à Paris 1764, in-8 (12,5x19cm), 37pp., relié.

Second edition reprint of the original published in 1763 by the same publisher. It is illustrated with a frontispiece, a sticker and a cul-de-lamp Eisen, engraved by De Longueuil. Neat printing; Dorat indeed has ruined honing his publications, commander Eisen and engravers what was best ... Demi [...]

250 €

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Claude Joseph DORAT

Mes nouveaux torts, ou nouveaux mélanges de poésies, pour servir de suite aux Fantaisies

Chez Delalain, à Amsterdam & à Paris 1775, In 8 (11,5x18,2cm), xxvij (1) 300pp., relié.

First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece engraved by Marillier by Ghendt and a figure of the same engraved by Gaucher.Plein brown calf contemporary. Smooth back adorned with grotesque interlacing floral motifs. Part of title and volume number in red morocco. Triple net framing the golden [...]

300 €

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Miguel de CERVANTES

Nouvelles

Chez Arkstée & Merkus, A Amsterdam & Leipzig 1768, 2 tomes en 2 Vol. in 12 (9,5x17cm), XLIV 358pp. et (2) 396pp., relié.

Mention new edition, plus three new and life of the author (already published in 1744, and before that date, the edition included only 10 stories). The half-title of the second volume bears the title various works, these two volumes, although sold separately, could be placed after Dom Quixote in 6 [...]

700 €

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Pierre François Godard de BEAUCHAMPS

Les amours d'Ismene, et d'Ismenias

Chez François l'Honoré, à Amsterdam 1729, In 12 (10x17.5cm), (6) 158pp., relié.

First edition illustrated. A title vignette, a frontispiece and three pretty faces before the letter. The title vignette is signed by Bernard Picard. Title page in red and red morocco noir.Demi wedge signed late nineteenth-Dubois D'Enghien. Back tooled raised. Gilt title, date tail. Double mesh [...]

600 €

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Jean-François REGNARD

Œuvres complètes

De l'imprimerie de Monsieur, chez la veuve Duchesne et fils, à Paris 1790, 6 tomes en 6 Vol. in 8 (12,5x20cm), (4)

The best and most complete editions of Regnard, when it contains much the fifth and sixth volumes, fired small number (as indicated by Cohen), and are rarely found attached to four premiers.Elle is illustrated a portrait of the author by Rigaud engraved by Tardieu and 11 beautiful figures of Moreau [...]

1 200 €

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