First edition

Jean-François de LA HARPE

Tangu et Félime. Poeme en IV chants

Chez Pissot, Paris 1780, in-8 (16x24cm), 64pp., relié.

First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece and 4 thin figures by Marillier engraved by Ponce De Ghendt ... Cardboard navy late nineteenth century. Golden tail and date title. Copy uncut, connected as it was issued, in part uncut; sheets containing engravings have a smaller size; the blue [...]

200 €

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Joseph Aignan SIGAUD DE LA FOND

Description et usage d'un cabinet de physique experimentale

Chez Gueffier, à Paris 1784, 2 tomes en 2 Vol. in 8 (12,5x20,3cm), (4) xvj, 396pp. (23Pl.) et (4) 474pp. (2) (28Pl.), relié.

Second edition, illustrated with 51 folding plates (23 for Volume I and 28 for the second, at the end of volume) on paper fort.Pleine brown sheepskin contemporary. Back adorned nerve. Part of title in red morocco and volume number in black morocco. Caps of Volume II threadbare. Volume II of the jaw [...]

700 €

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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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First edition

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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First edition

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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First edition

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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Charles de Secondat MONTESQUIEU

Le temple de Gnide

Chez Le Mire, AParis 1772, Grd. in 8 (15,5x24cm), (2) vij, 104pp., relié.

Edition first edition of this famous illustrated eighteenth. The text was entirely engraved by Drouet. The illustration, entirely engraved by Le Mire includes a title engraved frontispiece (it is "avant la lettre." And nine figures by Eisen. Printing paper size. Calf Full sheepskin marbled period. [...]

400 €

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