First edition

MAC GEOGHEGAN

Histoire de l'Irlande ancienne et moderne

Chez Antoine Boudet, à Paris 1758 - 1763, In-4 (19,5x25,5cm), xlviij (2) 488pp. (2) et lxxxiv, x, 376pp. et xj (1)

First edition.
Binding full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin. Back with ornate nerves. Title and volume piece in red morocco.

1 000 €

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First edition

Edward-Daniel CLARKE

Voyage en Russie, en Tartarie et en Turquie

Chez Fantin, à Paris 1812, In-8 (13x21cm), xviij, 559pp. (1) et (4) 500pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First edition, rare
Binding in plain brown calf of time. Smooth back decorated with 4 quadrilobed irons and multiple wheels. title labels and tomaisson in red morocco. Frieze framing on the splat lined with a golden net. Inner roulette. Epidermures on the backs and boards. Part of tomaion of [...]

1 400 €

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First edition

William COXE

Voyage en Pologne, Russie, Suède, Dannemarc, &c. & augmenté d'un voyage en Norvège par Mr. P.H. ...

Chez Barde, Manget, à Genève 1786, In-8 (12,5x20,5cm), x, 380pp. et (2) 404pp. et (6) 293pp. et (4) 303pp., 5 volumes reliés.

Original French edition published at the same time as an edition in 2 volumes in-4 at the same publisher, it is increased the trip to Norway Mallet. The first English edition was published in London in 1784. The illustration includes 12 maps and pamphlets (Poland, Russia, Caspian Sea, Dannemarc), 4 [...]

800 €

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Johann Baptist HOMANN

Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae implantata Anglorumque coloniis florentissima Geographica ...

Nuremberg s.d. (circa 1716), 61,4x53cm, une feuille rempliée.

Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae implantata Anglorumque coloniis florentissima Geographica exhibita


Nuremberg | [ca 1716] | 61.4 x 53 cm | one map
Beautiful copy of one of the rare maps of the American North-East in the early eighteenth century, showing the region as [...]

1 500 €

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First edition, Signed book

José Maria de HEREDIA & Bernal DIAZ DE CASTILLO

Véridique histoire de la conquête de la Nouvelle Espagne

Alphonse Lemerre, Paris 1877-1887, 10x17,5cm, 4 volumes reliés.

First edition of the French translation by José Maria de Heredia.
Bindings in half brown morocco with corners, back with five nerves set with gilded nets and adorned with crossed golden swords overcoming a honorific golden distinction, golden dates in tails, framing of gilt fillets on marbled [...]

900 €

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Jacques François GROBERT

Description des pyramides de Guizé, de la ville du Caire et de ses environs

Chez Logerot-Petiet & Rémont, à Paris 1801, In-4, (6) 160pp., relié.

Illustrated first edition of 5 plates (a Mameluke figure on horseback, a view of the Mourat Bey palace, a plan, elevation and a section of the pyramids of Giza) and a large folding map of Cairo.
Binding half marbled mauve modern fawn with small corners. The back is a clever and confusing [...]

1 500 €

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MILLIET DE SAINT ADOLPHE

Diccionario geographico, historico e descriptivo, do Imperio do Brazil

J. P. Aillaud, Pariz 1845, In-8 (12,5x20cm), 566pp. et 794pp., relié.

First edition, translated into Portuguese of the unpublished French manuscript by Gaetano Lopez de Moura. The map of Brazil and the 5 city maps have not been linked in this copy.
Binding half shagreen green fir contemporary. Back with false nerves adorned with 3 fetuses caissonés. Title and [...]

1 200 €

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Guillaume Thomas RAYNAL

Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des Européens dans les deux ...

Chez Jean-Léonard Pellet, Genève 1781, in-8 (12,5x20cm), xvj ; 348pp. (1) et xij, 378pp. (1) et (4) VII (1) 372pp. (1)

Third and last edition, the best and the most complete as to the text, bringing the number of volumes to 10 against 7 published until then. The work published in a luxurious version, in 4 and in this version in-8. The illustration includes a portrait of Raynal by Cochin (with the mention: The [...]

3 300 €

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