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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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First edition

Luis de OLOD

Tratado del Origen y Arte de Escribir Bien...

en la imprenta de Carlos Sapera., Barcelona 1768, in Folio (21x31cm), (10) 116pp. 25 pl., relié.

first edition (edition of 1766 is a fictional statement for 1770) illustrated 25 boards calligraphy, the last three are the different alphabets, Samaritan, Arabic ... well above the three boards are boards engraved (dècor capital letters). Note p. 40 great vignette representing an alphabet in a [...]

1 300 €

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Jean SCOHIER

L'estat et comportement des armes. Livre autant util, que necessaire à tous gentils-hommes, ...

de l'imprimerie de Jean Mommart., Bruxelles 1626, in-4 (15,5x19,5cm), (8) 187pp. (5)., relié.

Second edition after the original from 1597, Brussels, in Folio. Illustrated with 114 emblazoned on wood, genealogical trees. Title page in red and black. Thumbnail of the printer on the title page. Initials. France has the BN edition 1630 in Paris. No copy in French catalogs. It is the 1597 [...]

700 €

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First edition

Thomas CORNEILLE

Les tragedies et comedies de T. Corneille

Chez Guillaume de Luyne, à Paris 1669, 1673, 1680, in-12 (15,5x8,5cm), (2) 592pp. (4), 544pp. (4), 584pp. (4), 74,

The first three volumes of the collected edition appeared for the first time in 1662, volume IV, published in 1673, contains only pieces of first edition, namely: Laodice, Baron d'Albikrack, Hannibal Death , Countess of pride, Ariane, Teodate. The fifth volume contains original Death of Achilles, [...]

1 200 €

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Lodovico DOLCE

Dialogo nel quale si ragion del modo di accrescere, & conservar la memoria

apresso Giambattista Sessa & fratelli, In Venetia (Venise) 1586, in-12 (15,3x10cm), 11ff., relié.

New edition after the original from 1562. Rare. Brunet II, 789. Edition italics illustrated twenty figures in and out of curious objects including text combining letters. A copy in the library of Manchester, we have found nothing in France and Germany. Vellum full time, smooth back and as long [...]

1 500 €

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John POTTER

Archeologia graeca sive veterum graecorum praecipue vero atheniensium, ritus ciciles, religiosi, ...

Excudit Petrus Vander, Lugduni Batavorum (Leyde) 1702, in-folio (41x26cm), (5f.) 394pp. (7f.)., relié.

First Latin edition. 1 illustrated frontispiece and 9 large plates are not included in the pagination with 41 figures, depicting scenes of battles, ships, war machines ... Full Vellum time, back to Jansenist nerves (as in black pen) , large central medallion on the boards with cold frames and [...]

1 200 €

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Gerard BLAES & Thomas SYDENHAM

Observationes medicae rariores in quibus multa ad anatomiam et medicinam spectantia deteguntur. ...

apud Henricum & Johanem Boom, Henricum Westenium, Amstelodami (Amsterdam) 1700, 1694, in 12 (16x9,5cm), (4) 69pp. (8) 96pp., relié.

Rare second edition of Blaes illustrated 12 boards. Rare edition of Thomas Sydenham, found in European libraries. We do not know if this is the first. Title pages in red and black. Absent Brunet. Calf full time, back with nerves tooled, red morocco title. Friction. This book by Gerard Blaes [...]

1 500 €

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First edition

Giulio Cesare CROCE

Bertoldino et Cacasenno

Pietro Pinolato, Venezia (Venise) 1782, in 8 (18,5x10,5cm), xii. 396pp., relié.

First edition. Neat print on thin paper. Illustrated with 20 woodcuts in a rough and popular taste, and a medallion portrait frontispiece (intaglio). The original date of 1606 Half Calf glossy navy late nineteenth, spine ribbed features 5 jewels. The copy, perfectly white, appears to have been [...]

400 €

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First edition

Isaac VOSSIUS

Isaaci Vossii variarum observationum liber

Apud Robertum Scott, Londini (Londres) 1685, in-4 (23,5x18,5cm), (8) 397pp., relié.

First edition. With some illustrations. Brunet V, 1374.
Contemporary vellum. Faint spotting to title.
Vossius (1618-1689) was one of the learned Huguenots who emigrated to England, where he became Canon of Windsor, and had the finest private library in the world. He also provided books for [...]

1 000 €

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