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Antique books with engravings

This name generally refers to the books from the XVIth to the XVIIIth century enriched with engravings off-text copies sometimes reserved for luxury copies. Always prepared with art, antique books with engravings perpetuate ancestral tradition of illumination.

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Natale CONTI

Mythologie, c'est-à-dire explication des fables, contenant les généalogies des Dieux, les ...

Chez Paul Frellon, à Lyon 1607, in-4 (19x25cm), Xij, 1066pp. (26) (2bc.), relié.

New edition, after the French first published in 1598. The original Latin date 1551, in Venice. Translation John Montlyard. Illustrated by a beautiful allegorical title frontispiece engraved by Thomas de Leu, and a portrait of Henry IV to twelve.
Bound in full calf antique brown. Back with [...]

1 600 €

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Gisbert CUPER

Harpocrates sive Explicatio imaguncula argentae perantiquae, quae in figuram Har pocratis formata ...

Apud Franciscum Halma, Trajecti ad. Rhenum (Utrecht) 1687, in-4 (16x21cm), (8) 294pp. (14), relié.

Second edition, illustrated with 6 folding plates and 43 vignettes in text; as a frontispiece signed and dated in the plate: Joh. van der Avele invention and fecit. Title page in red and black. This edition is enhanced with a letter of Etienne Le Moyne; this text has a half-title and the second [...]

1 000 €

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First edition

Louis-Charles de LAVICOMTERIE

Les crimes des papes depuis S. Pierre jusqu'à Pie VI

Au bureau des Révolutions de Paris, à Paris 1792, in-8 (12x20cm), (IV) XL; 568 pp., relié.

First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece and nine beautiful figures drawn and engraved by Ransonette illustrating crimes and exécutions.Demi fawn sheepskin wedge contemporary, smooth back with part of title and golden wheels. Friction. lack in mind. corners bumped. Frontispiece doubled. [...]

250 €

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First edition

ANSELME

Le palais de l'honneur, ou la science héraldique du blason. [Ensemble] Le palais de la gloire, ...

Chez Estienne Loyson et chez Pierre Bessin, à Paris 1664 - 1668, In 4 (18x24,6cm), (24) 711pp. (9) ; (6) 288 - 576p., relié.

Rare meeting of both parties constantly separated from Palace. If the Palace of glory is not really a sequel, it's a second part provided by the author. It is not known why it was published by another publisher, perhaps this change, and the year between the two editions has created this [...]

1 200 €

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Pierre de L'ESTOILE

Journal des choses mémorables advenuës durant tout le Regne de Henry III. Roi de France & de ...

Chez les héritiers de Pierre Marteau, A Cologne [Bruxelles] 1720, in-8 (10x16,5cm), (10) 280 (2) 281 - 532 (28)p. et

New and rare edition, illustrated with 15 figures by Harrewyn, including 13 portraits. Title page of Volume I in red and black. All first editions of this book were published in Hammer (Louis Elsevier); we do not know the true address it. This edition, after consultation copies identified in [...]

800 €

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Alexander POPE

Oeuvres diverses, traduites de l'anglois. Nouvelle édition, revue et augmentée d'un grand nombre ...

Chez Arkstée & Merkus, à Amsterdam & Leipzig 1767, in-12 (9,5x16,5cm), LX,LX, 343 ; IV, 358 ; II, 352 ; II, 418 ; IV,

New edition, illustrated with a frontispiece by Delamonce, a portrait engraved by Kornlein and 23 figures by Frankendaal. This edition contains two volumes of more than 1754. Full Sheepskin brown mottled. Back tooled raised. Part of title and volume number in red morocco. Caps head partly [...]

550 €

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Guillaume de CHOUL

Religio castrametatio disciplina militaris et balnae veterum romanorum

Apud Janssonio Waesbergios, Amstelodami (Amsterdam) 1685, in-4 (18x25cm), relié.

New edition and first printing of the illustrations: a frontispiece, 62 full-page and 241 figures in-text and a folding plate on the organization of a Roman camp. Title page in red and black. Velin from nineteenth century. Smooth spine.
This famous work is composed of three texts, the first on [...]

900 €

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First edition

Joseph Guichard DU VERNEY

Traité de l'organe de l'ouie, contenant la structure, les usages & les maladies de toutes les ...

Chez Estienne Michallet, à Paris 1683, in-12 (9x17cm), (24) 210pp., relié.

The very rare first edition with 16 unsigned folding plates.

 

 

Contemporary brown sheep, spine in compartments, headpiece and one corner repaired, wormtrack to middle of upper margin, a few insignificant wormholes. The final engraving is shaved and lacking the last lines [...]

3 000 €

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