First edition

Joannes Aurelius KNIPINGA

Facetiarum epigrammaticarum centuriae sex. [Ensemble] Musa miscellanea [Ensemble] Ephemeris ...

Typis Jacobi Mesii, Antverpiae (Anvers) 1672, in-16 (7x12,5cm), (8) 98pp. (1) (1bc.) ; 48pp. ; (8) 98pp., relié.

First edition of the two books published on the same date, and illustrated two headpieces. The second title is separated from the first by a false titre.Plein vellum rigid time. Smooth spine with title in black pen. The title is reproduced in black pen on the front cover. Rare, missing electronic [...]

400 €

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Charles de SAINTE-AGNES

Le grand homme considéré dans les excellences de Saint Jean-Baptiste

Chez Alexandre Fumeux, à Lyon 1652, in-8 (10,2cmx17,2cm), (8) 389pp., relié.

First Edition, a great rarity, adorned with a frontispiece title: Saint John the Baptist and Christ capped with arms, probably those of the dedicatee, lord of Fontenille Full red morocco of the late nineteenth signed David. Back to nerves decorated with threads forming boxes. Gilt title, date and [...]

600 €

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Giovanni BOTERO

Relationi universali

Perli Bertani, in Venetia 1671, in-4 (16x22,8cm), (8) 747pp. (36), relié.

New edition, after the original was published in 1591 and 1593. Illustrated with 4 folding maps of Gioseppe Rosatio, Europe, Asia, America and Africa, on gray background. The work went through many reprints in the seventeenth. Full vellum flexible time. Back to nerves Jansenist. Title in black pen. [...]

1 500 €

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PFEFFINGER

Nouvelle fortification françoise, espagnole, italienne & hollandoise ou Recueil de différentes ...

Chez George Gallet, à Amsterdam 1698, in-8 (11x19,5cm), (8) 255pp., relié.

First edition, rare, adorned with a frontispiece Picart and 46 folding plates depicting patterns fortification. Title page in red and black. Full brown calf at the time. Back with five nerves ornate coffered and gilded finials, and a piece of red morocco. Caps absent center serving the cap head [...]

800 €

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Claude François MILLIET DECHALES

L'Art de fortifier, de défendre et d'attaquer les places

S.n., Franckfurt 1677, in-12 (8,5x14cm), (10p.) (1f.bl.) (12p.) 851pp. (49p.), relié.

French-German Bilingual Edition, illustrated with 71 plates and a table of fortification. Full vellum antique ivory. Smooth back adorned with triple blind fillets, title and author pen. boards framed triple blind fillets; traces of clasps. All slices blue. Six small leather bookmarks that time. [...]

850 €

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Etienne PASQUIER

Les recherches de la France

Chez Martin Collet, Paris 1633, In Folio (22x34,4cm), (20) 1019pp. (1) (75), relié.

New edition, reprint of the first edition in ten books published in 1621; illustrated with a portrait by Leonardo Gautier and a large sticker with the royal arms. Title page in red and black. Printing on thin paper. Half time level. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Head cap [...]

950 €

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Vincent VOITURE

Les oeuvres de Monsieur de Voiture [Ensemble] Les nouvelles oeuvres de Monsieur de Voiture

Chez Augustin Courbé, à Paris 1656 - 1658, 2 parties en un Vol. in 4 (16,5x24cm), (30) 709p. (1) 210p. (17) (1bc.) ; 173pp. (5), relié.

Fifth edition of Car Works, whose original was published in 1648; and original edition of the New Car works. Mellan a frontispiece to the first volume, a headband and a drop cap in the epistle and a beautiful portrait of the author by Champaigne engraved by [...]

1 200 €

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Louis MAIMBOURG

Histoire du calvinisme

Chez Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, à Paris 1682, in-4 (19x26,5cm), (24) 513pp. (16), relié.

First edition, illustrated with a beautiful title frontispiece by Sevin, engraved by S. Gautrel, a title banner by Pollain engraved by Le Pautre, 7 initials and 6 big and beautiful cul-de-lamp, as well as 6 bands storied head of chapters Pollain. Brand of printer in the title page. Rather neat [...]

550 €

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