P. J. MAIRAN

Lettres d'un missionnaire a Pekin, contenant diverses questions sur la Chine, pour servir de ...

Chez Nyon, à Paris 1782, in-8 (12x20cm), xi (1) 368pp. (1), relié.

Second edition and first edition under this title, the book was titled: Letters to Father ... Parennin on China. Illustrated boards and a calf figure.Plein granita. Smooth spine decorated. Part of title in red morocco. Torn off caps. Upper jaw and split open the tail and head. Corners bumped. [...]

450 €

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Jean-Baptiste Marquis de BOYER D'ARGENS

Lettres chinoises , ou correspondance philosophique , historique & critique , entre un Chinois ...

Chez Pierre Paupie, à La Haye; à Berlin 1755 - 1746, in-12 (8x14,5cm), xxiv, 306pp. et 332pp. et 338pp. et 332pp. et

New edition (third?) And first in 6 volumes. The First edition date 1746.Les philosophical Dreams are publishing originale.Plein speckled antique brown calf. Smooth back decorated. Parts of titles and volume numbers in red morocco. Triple gold star and mesh spandrels on the boards. All red edges. [...]

900 €

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Dom PERNETY

Histoire d'un voyage aux isles Malouines, fait en 1763 & 1764; Avec des observations sur le ...

Chez Saillant & Nyon & Delallain, à Paris 1770, 2 tomes en 2 Vol. in 8 (12x19,5cm), iv, 385pp. et (2) 314pp. (2), relié.

Second edition, the first of some parts, following the first, which appeared in Berlin the year before. With 16 folding plates at the end of volume two, 3 maps, charts, fauna and inhabitants…(2 plates missing). This edition also contains the "Journal historique du voyage fait aux îles Malouines [...]

700 €

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Gilbert Saulnier du VERDIER & Claude de VARENNES

Le Voyage de France, dressé pour la commodité des François et Estrangers. Avec une Description ...

Chez Nicolas Le Gras, à Paris 1687, in-12 (9x16,7cm), (4) 368pp., relié.

New edition of Travel France Claude de Varennes, edited and enhanced by the Verdier. Latest edition of this trip that contains 100p. additional. Full sheepskin brown ice. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Top plate split tail. Friction, dull and bare edges in the corners. Good copy. [...]

450 €

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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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First edition, Signed book

Ricciotto CANUDO

Combats d'orient - Dardanelles - Salonique (1915-1916)

Hachette & Cie, Paris 1917, 12x19cm, relié.

First Edition. Binding to bradel half brown shagreen, smooth spine faded with a gold finial, when golden tail, flat marbled, endpapers and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers, gilded head, contemporary binding. Precious and beautiful autograph signed by the author (Leon) Abrami also [...]

480 €

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First edition

Benoît de MAILLET

Telliamed ou entretiens d'un philosophe indien avec un missionnaire françois sur la diminution de ...

Chez L'honoré fils, à Amsterdam 1748, in-8 (11,5x19,5cm), (10) cxix, (7) 208pp. (1) ; 231pp. (1), 2 tomes reliés en un volume.

First Edition. Telliamed is an anagram of Maillet, name of the author. Editing was done by J. Ant. Guers. The book is dedicated to Cyrano de Bergerac. Full sheepskin brown time. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Skillful restorations, almost invisible caps and nerves. Good copy, [...]

1 000 €

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First edition

Josias SIMLER & Johan Jakob LEU

Von dem Regiment de lobl. Eydgenossschaft zwey Bücher / In deren Ersterem ein kurtzgefasste ...

David Gessner, Zurich 1722, Pet. in-4 (15x20cm), (16) 717pp. (23), relié.

First edition, rare, this revised edition, annotated and commented Johann Jakob Leu of the major work of Josiah Simler, "De republica helvetiorum" (1576). A large folding map of Switzerland by Michael Kauffer by Christoph Weigel. Frontispiece of Fussli, also often absent, was not attached to this [...]

800 €

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