First edition

Etienne Louis GEOFFROY

Histoire abrégée des insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris

Chez Durand, à Paris 1762, in-4 (19x25,5cm), (4) xxviij, 523pp. et (4), 2 volumes reliés.

First edition with 22 folding plates and a folding table engraved by Prévost and Defehrt.
Contemporary marbled sheep, spine in decorated compartments. Red morocco title and volume labels. Marbled edges. Triple blindruled fillet to covers. Headpiece of volume II fragile. A few leaves a little [...]

1 800 €

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YANAGAWA SHIGENOBU II

Yanagawa Gafu. Sansui no bu

Shubundo, Edo [Tokyo] 1856, 12x18cm, 50p., cousu.

First edition, rare. Illustrated with 44 plates including a double page, totaling 110 enhanced color figures of the time by Yanagawa Jushin. Vintage brochure, original binding embossed green cold cloud patterns paper. Excellent condition. The author has published five volumes of its kind addressing [...]

500 €

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Jacques DELILLE

Oeuvres

Chez Giguet et Michaud & Librairie Stéréotype, à Paris 1803 - 1817, in-18 (9,5x15cm), 8 volumes reliés.

Meeting at the same publishers, but on different dates, works of Jacques Delille; The complete edition is being spread over a decade; also some tracks were systematically reissued. Catalog Michaud at the end of the Three kingdoms is also good condition of the entire collection sold in 17 volumes [...]

250 €

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Giovanni Ambrogio MARINI

Les desesperés, histoire héroïque

Chez Pierre Prault, à Paris 1732, in-12 (9,5x17cm), (12) 213pp. ; (4) 174pp., 2 tomes reliés en un volume.

French Edition translated (and arranged) by Jean Rieux Tight; 9 figures which illustrated frontispiece by Humblot, engraved by Baquoy. Absent Cohen (Books for prints of the eighteenth) .Plein Calf time. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Head cover fragile. Loss of each jaw in head [...]

400 €

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Charles PALISSOT DE MONTENOY

Oeuvres

Chez Clement Plonteux, à Liège 1777, 7 tomes en 7 Vol. in 8 (12,5x20,5cm), relié.

Mention new edition, considerably increased. Indeed, it has been added to this multi-volume edition, in addition to the figures. llustrée a portrait by Monet frontispiece of Volume I and Figures 4 Meon. Volumes II: 4 figures Meon. Volume III: 10 figures by Monnet. Beautiful illustration, neat and [...]

950 €

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Germain-François Poullain de SAINT-FOIX

Oeuvres complettes

Chez La veuve Duchesne, à Paris 1778, in-8 (9,5x17,5cm), (2) xvj, (20) 504 pp. et (25) 527 pp. et (1) 455 pp.et (1)

First Edition collective. A portrait frontispiece and two engravings by Marillier the second volume (one of these prints often lack). False titles and titles in red and black.
Full sheepskin slightly later blonde. Smooth spine decorated with boxes and wheels. Part of title in red morocco, and [...]

800 €

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Etienne François de LANTIER

Contes en prose et en vers, suivis de pièces fugitives, du poème d'Erminie, et de métastase à ...

Chez Arthus Bertrand, à Paris 1809, 2 tomes en 2 Vol. in 8 (12x19,5cm), (6) iij, 308pp; (1) et (6) 328pp., relié.

Second edition, plus a few tales. The first edition was published in three volumes in 18 Illustrated three figures engraved by Tardieu.
Full Sheepskin rooted contemporary. Smooth back adorned with chains and wheels. Part of title in red morocco, and volume number in black morocco. Friction. A [...]

250 €

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Marie Catherine, Baronne d' AULNOY

Histoire et aventures d'Hypolite, comte de Duglas

Chez Valleyre, Cailleau, à Paris 1764, in-12 (8x14,5cm), (4) 278pp. ; (4) 272pp., 4 parties reliées en 1 volume.

New edition, after the original was published in 1690. Illustrated Figures 4 (finely engraved but unsigned) forming the frontispiece of 4 pounds. Securities in an engraved frame. Sheepskin half speckled contemporary. Smooth back features 5 jewels. Part of title in red morocco. Two irons gold faded. [...]

250 €

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