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Walter SCOTT

Beautés de Walter Scott. Portraits des principales héroïnes de ses romans. Peints et gravés par ...

Aubert et Cie, Paris S. d. [ca 1840], Pet in 4 (17x24cm), Un Vol. relié.

First Edition. Illustrated with 36 steel engravings by Herbert Drummond, Hayter, engraved by Cook, Stoddart ... Each of the prints is protected by winds. English Publisher's binding. Full blue morocco night. Smooth back ornate. boards decorated with a frieze and wide angle irons, and a central [...]

280 €

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John ROTHERAM

The New Week's Preparation for a Worthy Receiving of the Lord's Supper, as Recommended and ...

W. Bent, London S.d. [1824], in-12 (10x15,5cm), (6) VIII, 144pp., Un Vol. relié.

New edition. Illustrated with a blue morocco frontispice.Plein night time long grain. Spine ribbed boards adorned with coffered romantic irons. boards hit the center of a radiating sun, the triangle with the inscription in Hebrew and the dove of the Holy Spirit. Succession of two triple net framing [...]

150 €

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Charles SOREL & Nicolas de MOULINET

La vraye histoire comique de Francion. Composée par Nicolas de Moulinet, Sieur du Parc, ...

Chez les Hackes, A Leyde et Rotterdam 1668, 2 tomes en 2 Vol. pet. in 12 (8x13cm), (16) 368pp. et (4) 454pp., deux volumes reliés.

New edition, after the original from 1623. This edition is illustrated by 2 lovely frontispieces and 11 figures unsigned. Each figure has a top and bottom, as if it were two vignettes. All illustrations have a beautiful contrast and were perfectly printed. This edition of the hacked part of the [...]

1 000 €

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COLLECTIF

Paris-Londres Keepsake français 1840-1841, nouvelles inédites

H.L. Delloye, Paris 1841, 15x24cm, relié.

First Edition. Bound in full green morocco, smooth spine lightly faded with traces of friction romantic ornate decorative golden frames cold boards adorned in their centers romantic decorative gilt, corners bumped, guards and contreplats moiré, gilt edges, romantic binding signed Boutigny Length [...]

250 €

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SENEQUE

Senecae tragediae cum notis Th. Farnabii

Daniel Elzevier, Amstelodami (Amsterdam) 1678, In 16 (6,5x12cm), 428pp., relié.

Elzévirienne edition of the tragedies of Seneca with notes much esteemed English grammarian Thomas Farnaby (or Farnabie). The first edition with notes Farnabie is that of London, 1613 Brunet V, 286 Illustrated as a frontispiece. Full morocco marine time. Back tooled raised the Grotesque (castors [...]

600 €

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George ELLIS

Specimens of the early poets

Printed for Edwards [by T. Rickaby], London 1790, in 8 (12,5x19cm), (2) v (3) 323pp (1)., relié.

First Edition. The book was published for Edward Halifax. It was compiled and collected by George Ellis. Full red morocco long grain contemporary (English binding). Back to nerves nets. Fillets on flat frames. Gilt edges. A wormhole a bit. Nice copy, very fresh. The book brings together works of [...]

450 €

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Erasme ALBERE

L'Alcoran des Cordeliers. Tant en latin qu'en François. C'est à dire Recueil des plus notables ...

Aux dépens de la Compagnie, Amsterdam 1734, in-12 (10,5x17cm), XVIII, 396 pp et 419p., deux tomes reliés en deux volumes.

First illustrated edition of a book that was originally published in 1542 in Wittenberg. 2 frontispieces and 21 engravings of Bernard Picard representing episodes of hagiographic view of St. Francis .. Cohen, Pages red and black titles. 5. The half-title in an engraved frame Picard bears the date [...]

900 €

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Arsène HOUSSAYE

Les grandes dames

Dentu, Paris 1874, Grand in 8 (27,5x18,5cm), Un Vol. relié.

First edition of this Balzac novel that depicts a Don Juan and courtesans way nineteenth century, with all the darkness and the desired casually. Adorned with 20 steel engravings out text Flameng, The Guillermie ... most drawn blood. Engravings headbands, initials, cul-de-lamp ... Full black [...]

200 €

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