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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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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 €
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 €
First edition
Antonio NERI & Christopher MERRET
Art de la verrerie, de Neri, Merret et Kunckel auquel on a ajouté le Sol Sine Veste d'Orschall ; ...
Chez Durand, Pissot, à Paris 1752, in-4 (19,5x26cm), (4) lv (1), 629pp. (3), relié.
First edition, translated by Baron d'Holbach German, illustrated frontispiece of 1 and 15 folding plates on cuivre.Plein Calf time. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Flush caps with headbands apparent. The lower jaw flat head split in the first two boxes. Scuffs with gaps on upper [...]
1 500 €
First edition
Amédée JAUBERT
Voyage en Arménie et en Perse, fait dans les années 1805 et 1806, par P. Amédée Jaubert
Chez Pelicier et Nepveu, à Paris 1821, Un Vol. in 8 (12,5x20,5cm), (4) xij, 506pp. (1), relié.
First edition, rare, illustrated with a large folding map of Constantinople between Tehran and regions, and 9 lithographs (by Aubry, Vernet ...), and a portrait frontispiece of the Persian prince Mirza Albas. Sheepskin half light brown boards. Smooth back decorated with nets and chains; roulette [...]
1 600 €
First edition
PASQUIER
Les recherches de la France
Chez Laurent Sonnius, à Paris 1607, In 4 (17x23,6cm), (18) 1175pp. (84), relié.
Edition partly original, plus Book VII, table of contents, many additions and a portrait by Thomas de Leu Pasquier. This portrait was made in 1583 in Troyes and had never been incorporated into editions. This is the last edition of the lifetime of the author. Full contemporary calf. Back to nerves [...]
1 000 €
Louis Jean LEVESQUE DE POUILLY
Theorie des sentimens agréables, où après avoir indiqué les règles que la nature suit dans la ...
Chez de Bure père, à Paris 1774, in-8 (10,5x17cm), xxxij, 352pp., relié.
Fifth and best edition, plus praised Mr. de Pouilly (lieutenant general presidial of Reims that Levesque Pouilly clung to embellish), by Father Saulx, the text to be engraved on a fountain erected in his honor, two of his speech in Reims March 6, 1748 and February 17, 1750 and the description of a [...]
350 €
Alexander POPE
Oeuvres complettes
Chez la veuve Duschene, Paris 1779, 8 volumes in-8 (12,5x20cm), civ ; 290pp. (2) et (2) vj ; 471pp. et (4) 466pp. et (4)
New expanded the English text for the "best parts" and illustrated with a portrait of the author as a frontispiece by Kneller, decorated and engraved by Marillier Lebeau edition, as well as 17 beautiful figures carved by Dambrun by Marillier, Duflos, Left Godfrey and Al.Plein blond marbled calf [...]
800 €
First edition
William GILPIN
Observations Pittoresques sur différentes parties de l'Angleterre, particulièrement sur les ...
Chez Defer de Maisonneuve, à Paris 1789, in-8 (12X19,3cm), 2 volumes reliés.
Original French edition, very rare. Illustrated with 28 plates including 2 containing two figures in Volume 2, 15 for Volume I and Volume II 13, as announced by the descriptions of the figures at the beginning of the book. Most of these boards are in aquatint and was designed by the author. Some [...]
600 €
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