Jean de LA FONTAINE

Contes et nouvelles en vers

Chez Henry Desbordes, à Amsterdam 1695, In-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (16) 236 pp. (2) ; (8) 216 pp. (2), relié.

This edition is a slightly modified impression of the first illustrated edition of 1685. The illustration consists of 2 frontispieces and 58 half-page vignettes designed by Romeyn de Hooghe (except the second frontispiece which is not in the edition of 1685). "The frontispiece of the first volume [...]

3 000 €

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Lorenzo PIGNORIA

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

Ad insigne pinus [ C. Daberholtzer for Marcus Welser], Augustae Vindelicorum [Augsbourg] 1613, In-4, xij, 280pp. (10), relié.

First edition, rare, illustrated with 6 full-page figures and 21 vignettes.
Modern binding in full lace parchment. Smooth back mute.

1 500 €

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Révérend Père André Thomas BARENGER

Le guide fidele de la vraie gloire présenté à Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne

Chez Landry, à Paris 1688, In-12 (10x16,5cm), 102f., relié.

First edition
Binding full calf vintage marbled and glossy. Back with ornate nerves. title label in Havana morocco.

600 €

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Gaspard LAUGIER

Ludovico Magni Galliarum regis, elucubratio anagrammatica-historica

Apud Claudium Marchy, In Platea [Aix-en-Provence] 1679, In-4 (18x25cm), (2) 60pp., relié.

First illustrated edition of 47 pretty emblematic figures arranged on 13 boards on fine paper. Only the title sticker is signed Gaudier. Absence of the frontispiece.
Binding at the end of the nineteenth half beige canvas. Smooth back with title label along with dark red shagreen. The boards are [...]

450 €

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Otto Van VEEN

Q. Horati Flacci Emblemata. Imaginibus in aes incisis, notisque illustrata

Ex officina Hieronymi Verdussen, Agra, avec privilège du Grand Mogol 1607, in-4 (18x23cm), 213pp. (1), relié.

Q. Horati Flacci Emblemata. Imaginibus in aes incisis, notisque illustrata

4 500 €

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Juste LIPSE & Philippe RUBENS

Saturnalium sermonum, libri duo, qui de gladiatoribus [Ensemble] Philippi Rubeni Electorum libri ...

Ex officina Plantiniana, Apud Ioannem Moretum, Antverpiae (Anvers) 1604 - 1607, In-4 (18x25cm), 236pp. (3) ; (16)

New edition for Saturnalium and first edition for the secon book Phillipe Reuben Electorum.

1 200 €

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Pierre LOUVET DE BEAUVAIS

Abregé de l'histoire de Provence contenant plusieurs memoires qui ont êté inconnûs aux auteurs ...

Chez Léonard Tetrode, à Aix 1676, in-12 (8,5x16,5cm), (16) 528pp. et (4) 556pp., 2 volumes reliés.

Édition originale, très rare, illustrée d'un frontispice et de 27 portraits. Première des études de l'auteur sur la Provence, ce dernier donnera L'Histoire des troubles de Provence en 1679, puis Additions et illustrations sur les deux tomes de L'Histoire des troubles de Provence en 1680. On ne [...]

2 600 €

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Vincent VOITURE

Les oeuvres

Chez Augustin Courbé, à Paris 1650, in-4 (17x24cm), (30) 848pp. (16) 174pp. (12), relié.

First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece of Mellan and a portrait by Nanteuil.
Bound in full sheepskin rooted late eighteenth. Back with nerves decorated with grotesque avev 2 different patterns. As part of rose veal. Mors cracked head. Wormholes tail. 2 corners bumped. Friction. Some [...]

700 €

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