First edition

Thomas A KEMPIS & Jacob STRATIUS, Christoffel van [...]

Die Alleen-Spraecke Der Zielen met Godt. Door den Eerw. Heere H. Thomas van Kempen, Regulier der ...

by Jan Maes, Loven (Louvain) 1628, in 12 (15,5x10,5cm), (8) 135ff. (5)., broché sous étui.

First illustrated edition of 20 engravings by C. Van Sichem (initials, ornaments, and text in a frame) and printed in Gothic.
Our copy is presented paperback in a contemporary case in half morocco with old rose nerves, golden date in the tail, cardboard vellum boards.
Jacob Stratius [...]

500 €

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Lorenzo PIGNORIA

De servis et Eorum apud Veteres Ministeriis, Commentarius, In quo familia, tum erbana, tum rustica, ...

Sumptibus Andrea Frisius, Amsterdam 1674, In-16 (7,5x13,3cm), (36) 582pp. (38), relié.

New, rare edition, illustrated with 6 full-page figures and 21 vignettes. Printer's mark on the title page, in pine. The boards include musical instruments, jewelry, kitchen utensils
Binding in full brown calf of marbled and glazed era. Smooth back decorated with 5 boxed florets. title label in [...]

750 €

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Louis de GRENADE

Le Paradis des prières

Chez Eustache Foucauld, à Paris 1603, In-12 (8,5x15,2cm), (18f.) 426ff. ; 19ff. ; 16ff., relié.

New illustrated edition of 17 figures finely engraved on copper, including an architectural title-frontispiece, a figure of the Holy Trinity and 15 religious subjects in frames of flowers, fruits, insects and macabre emblems on a black background, signed Jacob de Weert and Leonard [...]

700 €

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Gabriel Francisco LE JAY

Le triomphe de la religion sous Louis Le Grand

Chez Gabriel Martin, à Paris 1687, In 12 (9x16,5cm), 131pp., relié.

First edition illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece and 22 large unsigned in-text figures, a title band and a drop cap.
Binding full Brown Basin contemporary. Back with ornate nerves. title label in red morocco. Headdresses torn off. Missing the bit. Primer of a narrow slit at the upper [...]

400 €

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Charles PATIN

Quatre relations historiques

S.n., à Basle 1673, In-12 (9x15,8cm), (8) 3-336p., relié.

First edition.

Binding full brown speckled brown and glossy vintage. Back with ornate nerves. title label of brown calf. Restorations in caps, joints and corners. Missed marbled cover pages on the blank sheets.
Ex libris of the twentieth: Bibliotheca Altholii doctoris.

350 €

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Claude-François MENESTRIER

Des decorations funebres. Ou il est amplement traité des tentures, des lumières, des mausolées, ...

Chez J.B. de La Caille, à Paris 1683, In-8 (12x19cm), (4) 38pp. ; 367pp., relié.

First edition, rare, and illustrated with many in-text woods including 11 vignettes, a large figure (p.179), 4 shields and 14 tiny portraits.

Copy to the arms of the nineteenth Baron Pavée de Vendeuvre, with its motto: Ardeo persevero spero.
Binding full brown sheepskin [...]

500 €

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Claude DU MOLINET

Figures des differents habits des chanoines reguliers en ce siecle

Chez Simeon Piget, à Paris 1666, Pet. in-4 (17x23cm), (6) 144pp. (3), relié.

First edition, illustrated with an engraved title and 31 pretty full-page figures included in the pagination, as well as 2 headers, 2 initials and a cul-de-lamp, all engraved by The Doyen.
Binding full morocco blue night ca 1860 signed bottom of the Belz-Niedrée contreplat. Back to Jansenist [...]

800 €

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Jean VAILLANT

Selectiora numismata in aere maximi moduli e museo

Apud Antonium Dezallier, Parisiis 1694, (8) 132pp. (15), relié.

First Edition illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece in a portico engraved and drawn by Erlanger, and 59 boards

600 €

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