François Antoine POMEY & Andrew TOOKE

The pantheon, representing the fabulous histories of the gods, and most illustrious heroes, in a ...

Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington…, London 1787, In 12 (11x17,5cm), relié.

Certainly erroneous entry of 28th edition, the 1824 edition is itself rated 25th. Illustrated with 28 full-page plates in the style of the late eighteenth unsigned. The first edition and contained only the following seven figures. The first edition of this book seems to date from 1694 Full Calf [...]

450 €

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Renatus Flavius Vegetius (dit) VEGECE

De re militari libri quatuor. Post omnes omnium editiones, ope veterum librorum correcti, a ...

Ex officina Plantiniana, apud Franciscum Raphelengium, Lugduni Batavorum (Leyde) 1592, in-8 (12x17cm), [16], 320,

Second edition Plantinian with comments Steewech after that of 1585 A title vignette of the printer on both title pages. Beautiful estimated edition. Illustrated edition of 51 woodcuts in text and out (military machines, military maneuvers ...) and a folding plate representing the organization of a [...]

1 800 €

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First edition

Charles Joseph de MAYER

Aventures et Plaisante éducation du Courtois Chevalier Charles-le-Bon, Sire d'Armagnac , contenant ...

S.n., à Amsterdam et se trouve à Paris 1785, 3 tomes en 3 Vol. in 12 (8,5x15cm), (6) 316pp. (5) et (6) 339pp. (1bc) (9) et (6) 259pp. (4), relié.

First Edition. Illustrated three frontispieces Marillier finely engraved by Le Beau. 4 tunes recorded on several boards. Half Velin early nineteenth to small corners. Smooth back. Parts of title and volume number of black gold-framed nets fat. Medieval novel set under Louis XI and Charles VI [...]

350 €

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First edition

Girolamo VITALI

Lexicon Mathematicum, Astronomicum, Geometricum, Hoc Est Rerum Omnium Ad Utramque Immo & Ad Omnem ...

Ex officina Ludovic Billaine, Parisiis (Paris) 1668, in8, (22),540, 100pp. (26), relié.

First Edition. A second text, separate paging without special title page follows, it is titled Digressio physio-theologica ad verbum Sympathia. Illustrated a allegorical frontispiece and a vignette title. Edition lowercase. Scroll of time to full flaps. Title pen. Head cover torn off. Cap tail [...]

900 €

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Pompeo SARNELLI

Guida de Forestieri per Napoli

presso Giuseppe Roselli, in Napoli 1697, in-12 (8,5x15,2cm), de (24) 399pp. (33)., relié.

New expanded and revised after the original 1685 edition Edited by Antonio Bulifon. Illustrated with a folding map of Naples, a frontispiece and 48 figures out text, the format is slightly smaller than the volume on a different paper, finer. Besides churches, monuments, fountains and treasures, we [...]

1 500 €

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First edition

Constantin-François de Chasseboeuf, Comte de VOLNEY

Les ruines, ou méditation sur les révolutions des empires

Chez Desenne, Volland, Plassans, à Paris 1792, in 8 (12,5x20cm), xvi, 295pp., relié.

First French edition. The first edition was published in Geneva in 1791 llustrée 3 plates, a frontispiece and two folding. Hemispherical card and birth. Full sheepskin marbled time. Smooth back decorated. Part of title in red morocco. Upper cap threadbare. Friction to the joints and borders. [...]

350 €

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Signed book

Arnaud BERQUIN

Romances

de l'imprimerie de Moutardier., à Paris 1796, in 16 (10,5x14cm), (4) vij (1bc) v-xxxij, 124pp. 44., deux parties reliées en un volume.

New illustrated edition of these Romances. Frontispiece and 13 figures unsigned, and 44 pages of engraved music. Printed on thick rod. Full marbled calf contemporary. Smooth spine decorated with arabesques and jewels. Triple Net framework on boards. Gilt edges. Good copy. Smear the corners and jaw. [...]

350 €

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First edition

Charles COTOLONDI

Arlequiniana ou les bons mots, les histoires plaisantes & agréables

Chez Florenti et Pierre Delaulne., à Paris 1694, pet. in 12 (8,5x13,8cm), (58) 354 pp (12)., relié.

First Edition? A similar edition was published on the same date by the same publisher, but in a slightly larger format, with a different snack, a flagship of different title and without title page red and black. This edition may be a counterfeit. A frontispiece representing Harlequin. Uncommon. [...]

700 €

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