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  1. Règlement et réformations des taxes des écritures judiciaires et extrajudiciaires, épices de Mrs. Les juges et dépens curiaux, faits par son excellence monseigneur Grégoire, des ducs de Salviati, vice-légat

    Règlement et réformations des taxes des écritures judiciaires et extrajudiciaires, épices de Mrs. Les juges et dépens curiaux, faits par son excellence monseigneur Grégoire, des ducs de Salviati, vice-légat

    Chez Alexandre Giroud|Avignon 1765|24.50 x 19 cm|relié
    First edition. Absent from the BNF and French catalogues.
    Full marbled sheep binding, spine with raised bands. Title-label renewed in the 19th century. Upper headcap with surface wear. Old traces of marginal mould on some leaves.
    The work details all taxes received in all circumstances by the judicial system of Avignon.
    Bookplate in an engraved roundel: Picard Avenionsis.
    €800
  2. Grammatica, quatuor linguarum hebraicae, chaldaicae, syriacae et arabicae, harmonica, ita perspicue & compendiose instituta, ut ad linguam hebraicam, tanquam matrem, caeterum etiam, ceu filiarum, linguarum, accomodentur praecepta. Suivi de Dittionario della lingua volgare arabica et italiana (Fra Domenico germano de Silesia) In Roma. 1636. Suivi de Grammaire générale, théorie des signes par Klaproth
    Johann Heinrich HOTTINGER

    Grammatica, quatuor linguarum hebraicae, chaldaicae, syriacae et arabicae, harmonica, ita perspicue & compendiose instituta, ut ad linguam hebraicam, tanquam matrem, caeterum etiam, ceu filiarum, linguarum, accomodentur praecepta. Suivi de Dittionario della lingua volgare arabica et italiana (Fra Domenico germano de Silesia) In Roma. 1636. Suivi de Grammaire générale, théorie des signes par Klaproth

    Adriani Wyngaerden|Heidelberae [Heidelberg] 1659|21 x 15 cm|relié
    First edition. Brunet III, 347 only cites an edition of 1661 in Frankfurt.
    Half sheep binding mid-19th century, spine with raised bands, small blind tooling and roulettes on the bands. Rubbed throughout.
    Johann Heinrich Hottinger was a highly esteemed Swiss orientalist, and his numerous works in the field greatly advanced Oriental studies; he was professor of Oriental languages at Zurich and Heidelberg. This first work is followed by an Arabic-Italian dictionary full of numerous expressions and idioms. The third text contains no title page and appears to have been extracted from a journal.
    €700
  3. Le négociant philosophe, traduit de l'allemand par Doray de Longray, officier de cavalerie
    HIRZEL

    Le négociant philosophe, traduit de l'allemand par Doray de Longray, officier de cavalerie

    S. n.|à Amsterdam • [Rouen?] 1786|16.50 x 10.50 cm|relié

    Rare. We have found nothing concerning this work, absent from libraries.
    Half calf Romantic binding with corners in red, smooth spine with 4 tools and fillets. Foxing. One corner of the title page border reinforced.
    In the form of a tale and dialogue between a father and son, the author examines the nobility of character of a good merchant, how he should be a good father to his son and a good father to his country. Numerous passages on the importance of agriculture. « Ce travail lui donna des vues très étendues sur les rapports du commerce, avec le bonheur particulier & général des hommes? » (This work gave him very extensive views on the relationship of commerce with the particular...

    €300
  4. Opuscule ou essai tendant à rectifier des préjugés nuisibles et à former des vertueux éclairés. Par un ami du genre humain
    POOPDS

    Opuscule ou essai tendant à rectifier des préjugés nuisibles et à former des vertueux éclairés. Par un ami du genre humain

    Chez David Fowler (de l'imprimerie de J. Cooper)|à Londres [London] 1791|16.30 x 10.50 cm|relié

    First edition, the only one published.
    Bound in red half long-grain morocco in the Romantic style, flat spine with two vertical Romantic tools. Two small wormholes along the upper joint. Minor rubbing as usual, but a handsome copy, notably well-preserved.


    NB: This item is available at the bookshop on request within 48 hours.

    €650
  5. Dissertation sur la cause de la salure des eaux de la mer
    R.P. SARRABAT

    Dissertation sur la cause de la salure des eaux de la mer

    Chez la veuve & P. Brun fils|Bordeaux 1728|15.40 x 9 cm|broché

    First edition.



    In original wrappers, covered with brown paper from the XXth century.



    A scientific mind of the Society of Jesus, Sarrabat obtained the gold medal from the academy of sciences in 1728 for his work on the origin of the salinity of the sea, which he attributed primarily to waters flowing into the sea.

    €400
  6. L'art de la teinture des laines, et des étoffes de laine, en grand et petit teint. Avec une instruction sur les débouillis
    Jean HELLOT

    L'art de la teinture des laines, et des étoffes de laine, en grand et petit teint. Avec une instruction sur les débouillis

    Chez la veuve Pissot • et Jean Thomas Herissant|Paris 1750|17 x 10.50 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Contemporary glazed brown full calf binding. Decorated spine with raised bands, red morocco title label. One corner slightly bumped. Tail headcap and lower edge restored, as well as headbands. A small tear with slight loss below the title label. Scuffing to boards. This is the first treatise of its kind on dyeing wool and the most important work by the author, Jean Hellot (1685-1766), a renowned analytical chemist and industrial chemist. It is a practical treatise that details preparations and discusses techniques, and consequently enjoyed enormous success throughout Europe where it was widely applied. Hellot was appointed inspector general of the kingdom's dyeworks in...
    €900
  7. Archeologia graeca sive veterum graecorum praecipue vero atheniensium, ritus ciciles, religiosi, militares et domestici
    John POTTER

    Archeologia graeca sive veterum graecorum praecipue vero atheniensium, ritus ciciles, religiosi, militares et domestici

    Excudit Petrus Vander|Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] • (Leyde) [Leiden] 1702|41 x 26 cm|relié
    First Latin edition, rare, and illustrated with 1 frontispiece and 9 large plates not included in the pagination containing 41 figures, representing scenes of combat, ships, war machines... Printed in two numbered columns.
    Contemporary full vellum binding, Jansenist spine with raised bands (title in black ink), large central medallion on boards in blind with frame and fleur-de-lys in the corners. Vellum with stains. Some pages show worming and yellow dampstains in lower margins. Jump from column 661 to 736 on the same page, without loss. Upper joint largely split, lower joint split at foot, one tear without loss to a compartment, despite these defects a handsome copy, with quite an...
    €1,200
  8. Vitae caesarum quarum scriptores hi Suetonius Tranquillus, Dion Cassius, Aelius Spartianus, Iulius Capitolinus, Aelius Lampridius, Vulcatius Gallicanus, Trebellius Pollio, Flauius Vopiscus, Herodianus, Sex. Aurelius Victor, Pomponius Laetus, Io. Baptista Egnatius, Eutropij libri X. integritati pristinae redditi. Ammianus Marcellinus longe alius quàm antehac unquam / Annotationes D. Erasmi Rot. & Baptistae Egnatij in uitas Caess. Accesserunt in hac éditione Velleij Paterculi libri II. ab innumeris denuo uendicati erroribus. additio indice copiosissimo
    ÉRASME, Giovanni Battista EGNAZIO

    Vitae caesarum quarum scriptores hi Suetonius Tranquillus, Dion Cassius, Aelius Spartianus, Iulius Capitolinus, Aelius Lampridius, Vulcatius Gallicanus, Trebellius Pollio, Flauius Vopiscus, Herodianus, Sex. Aurelius Victor, Pomponius Laetus, Io. Baptista Egnatius, Eutropij libri X. integritati pristinae redditi. Ammianus Marcellinus longe alius quàm antehac unquam / Annotationes D. Erasmi Rot. & Baptistae Egnatij in uitas Caess. Accesserunt in hac éditione Velleij Paterculi libri II. ab innumeris denuo uendicati erroribus. additio indice copiosissimo

    Froben|Basilae [Basel] • (Bâle) [Basel] 1546|33 x 22.50 cm|relié
    Colophon: Basileae per Hieronymvm Frobenivm et Nic. Episcopvm mense Septembri, M.D.XLVI.
    First edition. Decorated with numerous historiated initials. Printer's device on the title page and verso of the final leaf. Absent from French catalogues, but present in English catalogues, 2 copies in Germany at the GBV (union catalogue of northern Germany) and one at the University of Munich. The 1544 edition published in Paris does not include Erasmus's notes and the complete assembly of authors gathered in this edition; the Parisian edition was reissued in 1551 in Lyon by Gryphium, but not this Froben edition, which reproduces only Egnazio's edition. The first edition of Suetonius dates from...
    €1,100
  9. Lexicon hebraicum
    Antonio ZANOLINI

    Lexicon hebraicum

    Typis seminari • Apud Joannem Manfrè|Patavii [Padua] • (Padoue) [Padua] 1732|24 x 18 cm (In-4)|relié

    First edition.
    Contemporary full vellum binding. Raised bands to spine. Hebrew title handwritten in ink. Two small wormholes at foot. Two defects with loss to the band of the third compartment and to the upper joint of the fourth compartment.
    Hebrew-Latin dictionary compiled by Zanolini, professor of Oriental languages at the seminary of Padua.

    €800
  10. Notes sur le concile de Trente, touchant les points les plus importants de la discipline ecclésiastique, et le pouvoir des évêques, les décisions des SS. Pères, des conciles et des papes, et les résolutions des plus habiles avocats sur ces matieres. Avec une dissertation sur la réception et l'autorité de ce concile en France
    Etienne RASSICOD

    Notes sur le concile de Trente, touchant les points les plus importants de la discipline ecclésiastique, et le pouvoir des évêques, les décisions des SS. Pères, des conciles et des papes, et les résolutions des plus habiles avocats sur ces matieres. Avec une dissertation sur la réception et l'autorité de ce concile en France

    Chez Balthazard d'Egmond|Cologne 1706|18.50 x 11 cm|relié
    First edition. Absent from Brunet.
    Contemporary full glazed brown calf, decorated spine with raised bands with red morocco title label. Copy lacking headcaps, corners slightly bumped. Joint cracked at foot along the first compartment.
    Notes collected by Etienne Rassicod, jurisconsult (1645-1718), from conferences on the Council of Trent given by M. de Caumartin, Bignon, Le Pelletier and De Bezons. On the title page, in the lower margin, in red ink: » Live au moins suspect, mais très utile si on le lit avec réserve ».
    Bookplate Libro Liber G. H.
    €500
  11. Le Chemin de la fortune ou les bonnes règles de la vie pour acquérir des richesses en toute sorte de conditions et pour obtenir les faveurs de la cour, les honneurs & le crédit , entretiens d'Ariste sur la vraye science du monde
    Charles SOREL

    Le Chemin de la fortune ou les bonnes règles de la vie pour acquérir des richesses en toute sorte de conditions et pour obtenir les faveurs de la cour, les honneurs & le crédit , entretiens d'Ariste sur la vraye science du monde

    Chez Jean Baptiste Loyson|à Paris 1663|15 x 9 cm|relié
    First edition. Rare. One copy at the university library of Tours, absent from the BN de France and the British Library, one copy in Edinburgh. Brunet does not cite this book among the works of Sorel.
    Contemporary full speckled brown sheep. Decorated spine with raised bands. Headcaps worn, upper joint cracked one-third down, corners slightly bumped. Attributed to Sorel by Barbier in the dictionary of anonymous works, the book treats an uncommon subject and a very free manner of making money in all trades and disciplines, from artisans to bankers and men of letters, the work extends its reflection to less official means such as court favors, inheritances. The whole constitutes an economic...
    €750
  12. Vitae germanorum philosophorum : qui seculo superiori, et quod excurrit, philosophicis ac humanioribus literis floruerunt. Collecte a Melchiore Adamo
    Melchior ADAM

    Vitae germanorum philosophorum : qui seculo superiori, et quod excurrit, philosophicis ac humanioribus literis floruerunt. Collecte a Melchiore Adamo

    Impensis Jonae Rosae • Typis Johannis Lacelloti|Haidelbergae [Heidelberg] • (Heidelberg) 1615|19 x 12 cm|relié
    First edition. Printer's device on title page. Not in Brunet or Graesse.
    Contemporary full calf binding. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Head worn. Lack to tail. Upper joint partially cracked. Lacking endpapers with marbled paper. Lives of Germanic philosophers from the late 15th century to 1614. The notion of Germanity and philosopher (in the humanist sense) is extended since the list includes Erasmus, Swiss, Dutch, and even Dürer... but also Joan Faustus, Georgius Fabricius, Christophorus Longolius, Copernicus, Mercator, Orlandus de Lasso, Nicodemus Frischlinus, Nicolas Clenard, Henricus Glareanus... that is mathematicians, physicians, astronomers, geographers...
    €600
  13. Clavis et fundamenta graeca linguae
    Eilhard LUBIN

    Clavis et fundamenta graeca linguae

    Lodovico Elzevirium (Elzevir).|Amstelodami [Amsterdam] • (Amsterdam) 1651|13.50 x 8.50 cm|relié
    First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece.
    Full vellum binding with overlapping edges. Smooth spine with handwritten title. Endpapers renewed.
    Important Greek-Latin dictionary. The German humanist E. Lubin (1565-1621) taught poetics at the University of Rostock from 1595 to 1605 before becoming professor of theology. Fine Elzevier edition in small type. Between 1620 and 1680, Elzevier production experienced a golden age of typography. The origin of small formats and small type (a technical feat at the time) lay in cost considerations, as printing was then in crisis.
    €380
  14. De la creance des peres sur le fait des images
    Jean DAILLÉ

    De la creance des peres sur le fait des images

    Chez Jean de Tournes|à Genève [Geneva] 1641|17.50 x 11.50 cm|relié
    First edition. Relatively rare. The Latin edition would appear the following year.
    Half glazed aubergine sheep binding, 19th century. Smooth spine with fillets slightly lightened and rubbed.
    Interesting work by Jean Daillé on the status of the image within Christianity, its history among the church fathers during the first centuries, the pros and cons of the dissension that animated the church during a great part of its history.

    NB: This work is available at the bookshop on request within 48 hours.
    €700
  16. Discours préliminaire au nouveau dictionnaire de la langue française
    Antoine de RIVAROL

    Discours préliminaire au nouveau dictionnaire de la langue française

    Chez Cocheris|à Paris 1797|18.50 x 24 cm|relié
    First edition. Two editions appeared at the same time, this one, and a second in Hamburg, published by Fauche. See Tchemerzine V, 409. The continuation of this preliminary discourse, as well as the famous dictionary, would never see the light of day. The second text appeared for the first time in Berlin in 1784, closely following the "subject proposed by the Berlin Academy".
    Tchemerzine V, 403: 'Cette édition, très bien imprimée, est aussi recherchée que l'originale'.
    Half black shagreen Jansenist binding from the mid-19th century. Spine with 4 raised bands.
    The preliminary discourse is an ambitious work, simultaneously a reflection on phonetics, a linguistic reflection, and a...
    €1,000
  17. Tratado del Origen y Arte de Escribir Bien...
    Luis de OLOD

    Tratado del Origen y Arte de Escribir Bien...

    en la imprenta de Carlos Sapera.|Barcelona 1768|21 x 31 cm|relié
    First edition (the 1766 edition being a fictitious statement for 1770) illustrated with 25 calligraphic plates, of which the last three are only the different alphabets, Samaritan, Arabic... likewise the three preceding plates are not engraved plates (floral capital letters). Of note on p. 40 is a large vignette representing an abecedary in a circle whose center is a star. The leaf following the title is also an engraved plate, it is the dedication to the king, with his portrait in a medallion, a succession of loops forming the figure and the decoration. We have been unable to determine if this first edition contained the author's portrait found in the 1770 editions, which moreover possess...
    €1,300
  18. La sage folie de Spelte. Poëte & historiographe du roy d'Espagne. Traduite d'italien en françois par Louys Garon. [Première partie: La sage folie, fontaine d'allegresse, mere des plaisirs, reyne des belles humeurs : pour la defense des personnes Ioviales, à la confusion des archisages & protomaistres... Seconde partie : La delectable folie, support des capricieux, soulas des fantasques , nourriture des Bigearres : pour l'utilité des cerveaux faibles, & retenuë des boutadeux]
    Antonio Maria SPELTA

    La sage folie de Spelte. Poëte & historiographe du roy d'Espagne. Traduite d'italien en françois par Louys Garon. [Première partie: La sage folie, fontaine d'allegresse, mere des plaisirs, reyne des belles humeurs : pour la defense des personnes Ioviales, à la confusion des archisages & protomaistres... Seconde partie : La delectable folie, support des capricieux, soulas des fantasques , nourriture des Bigearres : pour l'utilité des cerveaux faibles, & retenuë des boutadeux]

    Chez Claude Larjot.|à Lyon 1628|9 x 15 cm|deux parties reliées en un volume
    First French edition. The first edition of the Italian text dates from 1607. Illustrated with two allegorical frontispieces signed Gr. Huret. Uncommon edition. One copy at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France from 1628, and another at the British Library. Nothing in French and English union catalogues.
    Contemporary full vellum binding with overlapping edges. Smooth spine with manuscript title partly illegible. Traces of ties. Scattered pale foxing.
    Antonio Maria Spelta (1559-1632) was a writer, scholar and historian from Padua, and it was while recalling Erasmus's Praise of Folly that he wrote this collection composed partly of reflections on madness, and partly on various subjects...
    €700
  19. When the Misappropriation of Public Funds Was Punishable by Death
    Observations sur un manuscrit intitulé Traitté du péculat
    [Roland LE VAYER DE BOUTIGNY] (Nicolas FOUQUET)

    Observations sur un manuscrit intitulé Traitté du péculat

    [ F. Foppens]|s. l. [Brussels] 1666|8 x 13.50 cm|relié

    Anonymous first edition. This work is listed as no. 2023 in the bibliography of Elzevier editions (Willems, Vol. II). For the author's identity, see Barbier, Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes.
    Contemporary full limp vellum binding with yapp edges. Smooth spine. Faded manuscript title in red ink to spine.

    €450
  20. Histoire civile et commerciale des colonies anglaises dans les Indes occidentales depuis leur découverte par Christophe Colomb jusqu'à nos jour, suivie d'un tableau historique et politique
    Bryan EDOUARD

    Histoire civile et commerciale des colonies anglaises dans les Indes occidentales depuis leur découverte par Christophe Colomb jusqu'à nos jour, suivie d'un tableau historique et politique

    Dentu|Paris 1801|13.50 x 21.50 cm|broché

    BRYAN Edouard
    Histoire civile et commerciale des colonies anglaises dans les Indes occidentales depuis leur découverte par Christophe Colomb jusqu'à nos jour, suivie d'un tableau historique et politique
    Dentu, Paris 1801, 13,5 x 21,5 cm, original wrappers
    First edition in French.
    With the folding map at front present.
    Small insignificant wear with tiny lacks to head and foot of one joint, a little light insignificant foxing.
    A rare copy in its original wrappers.
    €500
  21. Lettres sur les nouveaux établissements [...] dans les parties occidentales des États Unis d'Amérique
    Morris BIRKBECK

    Lettres sur les nouveaux établissements [...] dans les parties occidentales des États Unis d'Amérique

    L'huillier, Delaunay.|Paris 1819|12.7 x 20 cm|relié

    BIRKBECK Morris
    Lettres sur les nouveaux établissements [...] dans les parties occidentales des États Unis d'Amérique
    L'Huillier, Delaunay, Paris 1819, in-8 (11,5 x 19,5 cm), de xvi, 156 pp., contemporary sheep
    First edition. Rare. Only one copy in the French Bibliothèque Nationale, nothing in French and British catalogues and only one copy in the British Library. The BNF copy has a map that is not present in this copy.
    Contemporary half speckled sheep. Spine with fillets, red sheep title-piece. Rubbing. Inkspot to p. 92. Stamp to title: Société de lecture de Genève.
    Birkbeck was an English gentleman farmer who emigrated to the...
    €1,000
  22. Histoire des modes françaises ou révolutions du costume en France, depuis l'établissement de la monarchie jusqu'à nos jours
    Guillaume MOLE

    Histoire des modes françaises ou révolutions du costume en France, depuis l'établissement de la monarchie jusqu'à nos jours

    Chez Costard|à Amsterdam • & se trouve à Paris 1773|10 x 17 cm|relié

    First edition.
    Full green cloth Bradel binding 19th century. Smooth spine with fillets. Some foxing at beginning of work. A dampstain in lower margin in middle section over 75p.
    History of French fashions and "everything concerning the head": the study focuses on hair, wigs, and hair. Work richly documented and containing multiple anecdotes. Some copies, rarer, contain a supplement on artificial hair.

    €300
  23. Extrait de l'embryologie sacrée, ou moyen de procurer le salut éternel aux enfants qui naissent avant le terme , à ceux qui ne sont pas encore nés...
    ANONYMOUS [Francesco CANGIAMILA]

    Extrait de l'embryologie sacrée, ou moyen de procurer le salut éternel aux enfants qui naissent avant le terme , à ceux qui ne sont pas encore nés...

    de l'imprimerie de G. Le Roy.|Caen Huitième année [1817]|10.50 x 17.50 cm|broché
    First edition. In original wrappers, under contemporary marbled paper. Upper headcap torn, lower headcap trimmed. Spine yellowed. The work is anonymous, but the preface leaves no doubt about the book's author; the translator appears to be Abbé Dinouard, who had published an Abrégé de l'Embryologie sacrée in 1775. A very interesting and remarkable reflection on caesarean operations and on the nature of the living in human beings. This is undoubtedly the first time that the foetus, or premature babies, were considered as living beings. It is striking to note that it was religious thought that led to reconsidering embryology through its conception of the living being
    €150
  24. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des Hommes illustres dans la République des Lettres [...] Vol . 3
    Jean-Pierre NICERON

    Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des Hommes illustres dans la République des Lettres [...] Vol . 3

    Chez Briasson|à Paris 1727|10 x 17 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Contemporary full sheep binding. Decorated raised band spine. Copy with the arms of Baron Carré de Vandeuvre, minister to Louis XVIII. The title and volume labels were renewed at the same period, in the early 19th century.
    This volume contains the following biographical and bibliographical articles: Joseph Saenz d'Aguirre, Noël Alexandre, Vincent Auria, Adrien Baillet, Redempt Baranzan, Gabriel Barelette, Jean Bona, Barthelemi de
    Chasseneuz, Guillaume Chillingworth, Nicolas Coffeteau, Philibert Collet, André Dacier, Jean Daillé, Simon Escopius, Tanegui Le Fèvre, Anne Le Fèvre, Vitale Giordani, Pierre Halle, Godefroy Herman, François Lamy, Hubert Languet, Jean A...
    €180
  25. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des Hommes illustres dans la République des Lettres [...] Vol . 6
    Jean-Pierre NICERON

    Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des Hommes illustres dans la République des Lettres [...] Vol . 6

    Chez Briasson|à Paris 1728|10 x 17 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Contemporary full sheep binding. Ornate raised spine. Armorial copy of Baron Carré de Vandeuvre, minister to Louis XVIII. The title and volume labels were renewed at the same period, in the early 19th century.
    This volume contains the following biographical and bibliographical articles: Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt, Pierre Alcuonus, Alexandre Ab Alexandro, Gaspar Bartholin, Thomas Bartholin, Pierre Bayle, Jean Begat, Nicolas Bergier, Gilbert Burnet, René le Bossu, Philippe Callimaco Eoperiente, Gerard Croese, Pierre Cuneus, Gisbert Cuper, Antoine Galland, Isaac Jaquelot, Jean Lightfoot, Alexandre Marchetti, Claude Gaspard Bachet de Meziriac, Jacques Ozanam, Olivier...
    €180
  26. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des Hommes illustres dans la République des Lettres [...] Vol . 21
    Jean-Pierre NICERON

    Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des Hommes illustres dans la République des Lettres [...] Vol . 21

    Chez Briasson|à Paris 1732|10 x 17 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Contemporary full sheep binding. Ornate raised spine. Armorial copy of Baron Carré de Vandeuvre, minister to Louis XVIII. The title and volume labels were renewed at the same period, in the early 19th century.
    This volume contains the following biographical and bibliographical articles: Luc d'Acheri, Jean Balesdens, Bessarion, Louis Boivin, Jean-François Buddeus, François Charpentier, Philippe Cluvier, Coelius Secundus Curion, Coelius Horace Curion, Coelius Augustin Curion, Etienne Dolet, Helius Eobanus, Barthelemi Facio, Epiphane Ferdinandi, Hubert Folieta, Marquard Freher, Jean Fronteau, Robert Garnier, Nicolas-Jerôme Gundling, Jean Hales, Matthieu de Laroque...
    €180
  27. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des Hommes illustres dans la République des Lettres [...] Vol . 24
    Jean-Pierre NICERON

    Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des Hommes illustres dans la République des Lettres [...] Vol . 24

    Chez Briasson|à Paris 1733|10 x 17 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Contemporary full sheep binding. Decorated raised spine. Armorial copy of Baron Carré de Vandeuvre, minister to Louis XVIII. The title and volume labels were renewed at the same period, in the early 19th century. A tear with loss to foot of spine, likewise to head of spine.
    This volume contains the following biographical and bibliographical articles: Jerôme Aleandre l'ancien, Jerôme Aleandre le jeune, Angelico Aprosio, Louis Doni d'Attichi, Germain Audebert, Pierre Belon, Gilles Boileau, Nicolas Boileau Despreau, Jean Botero, Amable de Bourzeys, Jacques Caviceo, Gilles Corrozet, Gilbert Cousin, François de la Croix du Maine, Charles Dati, Patthias Flacius Illoyricus...
    €180
  28. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des Hommes illustres dans la République des Lettres [...] Vol . 25
    Jean-Pierre NICERON

    Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des Hommes illustres dans la République des Lettres [...] Vol . 25

    Chez Briasson|à Paris 1733|10 x 17 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Contemporary full sheep binding. Decorated raised spine. Armorial copy of Baron Carré de Vandeuvre, minister to Louis XVIII. The title and volume labels were renewed at the same period, in the early 19th century. 2 corners slightly bumped.
    This volume contains the following biographical and bibliographical articles: Charles Aretin, Jean Aretin, Leonard Aretin, Philippe Beroalde Philippe Beroalde le Jeune, Zacharie Boverius, Herman Buschius, Constantin Cajetan, Jean Galbert de Campistron, Guillaume de Catel, Jean-Jacques Chifflet, Jules Chifflet, Jean Chifflet, Henri-Thomas Chifflet, Claude Chifflet, Philippe Chifflet, Pierre-François Chifflet, Claude Fauchet...
    €180
  29. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des Hommes illustres dans la République des Lettres [...] Vol . 31
    Jean-Pierre NICERON

    Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des Hommes illustres dans la République des Lettres [...] Vol . 31

    Chez Briasson|à Paris 1735|10 x 17 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Contemporary full sheep binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Copy with the arms of Baron Carré de Vandeuvre, minister to Louis XVIII. The title and volume labels were redone at the same period, in the early 19th century.
    This volume contains the following biographical and bibliographical articles: L. Addison, J. Addison, J. Almathée, C. de Beauregard, B. Bekker, R. Bellarmin, R. Belleau, P. Bertius, J. Buxtorf, J. Buxtorf the younger, T. Creech, J. M. Crescimbeni, R. Descartes, F. Garasse, P. Gaudenzio, G. Gratarole, S. Guichenon, L. Holstenius, M. de l'Hopital, C. Kortholt, W. Lazius, A. Lubin, C. Lycosthene, F. Macedo, E. Maignan, P. de Marcassus, O. Mencke...
    €180
  30. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des Hommes illustres dans la République des Lettres [...] Vol . 32
    Jean-Pierre NICERON

    Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des Hommes illustres dans la République des Lettres [...] Vol . 32

    Chez Briasson|à Paris 1735|10 x 17 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Contemporary full sheep binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Copy with the arms of Baron Carré de Vandeuvre, minister to Louis XVIII. The title and volume labels were redone at the same period, in the early 19th century.
    This volume contains the following biographical and bibliographical articles: Ottomanus Luciunus, Jean Alexandre Brassicanus, Symphorien Champier, André Alciat, Romulo Amaseo, François Rabelais, Louis Dolce, George Fabrice, Jean de Gorris, Marguerin de la Bigne, Erasme Bartholin, Conrad Rittershusius, Marc-Antoine Bonciari, Antoine Loisel, Antoine Montchretien, Jean-Baptiste Marino, Jean Rutgersius, Jean Isaac Pontanus, Simon de Muis, Pierre...
    €180
  31. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des Hommes illustres dans la République des Lettres [...] Vol . 40
    Jean-Pierre NICERON

    Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des Hommes illustres dans la République des Lettres [...] Vol . 40

    Chez Briasson|à Paris 1739|10 x 17 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Contemporary full sheep binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Copy with the arms of Baron Carré de Vandeuvre, minister to Louis XVIII. The title and volume labels were renewed at the same period, in the early 19th century.
    This volume contains the following biographical and bibliographical articles: Pierre Arcudoius, Isaac Barovv, Jacques de Billy, George Cassander, Jean de Chaumont, Paul Philippe de Chaumont, Jean Chenu, Jean Clauberge, Jean Cloppenburg, Gabriel de Collange, Noël Dargonne, Augustin Dati, Jason Denores, Paul Emile, Jean-Albert Fabricius, Emanuel Fremellius, Jean Garnier, Salomon Gesner, Jean-Pierre Gilbert, Louis Jacob, David Le Clerc, Jean le...
    €180
  32. Traite de Perspective a l'usage des Artistes, ou l'on demontre toutes les pratiques de cette Science, & ou l'on enseigne, selon la Methode de M. le Clerc, a mettre toutes sortes d'objets en perspectives, leur reverberation dans l'eau, & leurs ombres, tant au soleil qu'au flambeau.
    Edme-Sébastien JEAURAT

    Traite de Perspective a l'usage des Artistes, ou l'on demontre toutes les pratiques de cette Science, & ou l'on enseigne, selon la Methode de M. le Clerc, a mettre toutes sortes d'objets en perspectives, leur reverberation dans l'eau, & leurs ombres, tant au soleil qu'au flambeau.

    Chez Charles Antoine Jombert|à Paris 1750|20.50 x 26 cm|deux parties reliées en un volume
    First edition illustrated with 110 plates outside the text respectively illustrating the perspective lessons and 56 allegorical half-page tailpieces by Babel. The last 9 plates show the architectural orders.
    Contemporary cream full paper boards binding. Smooth spine with black sheep title-label. Treatise on perspective divided into 116 mathematical lessons, applicable to painting as well as architecture or other disciplines, each lesson being illustrated by a plate opposite. Jeaurat (1724-1803) was a French geographical engineer and astronomer, then professor of mathematics at the military school; his treatise had great success due to its practical and precise qualities. "This work has...
    €780
  33. Idée de la vie et de l'esprit de Messire Nicolas Choart de Buzanval, Evêque et Comte de Beauvais, Vidame de Gerberoy, Pair de France. [Suivi de] La vie de Godefroy Hermant, docteur de la maison et societé de Sorbonne, chanoine de l'Eglise de Beauvais, parfeu Adrien Baillet
    François-Philippe MÉSENGUY

    Idée de la vie et de l'esprit de Messire Nicolas Choart de Buzanval, Evêque et Comte de Beauvais, Vidame de Gerberoy, Pair de France. [Suivi de] La vie de Godefroy Hermant, docteur de la maison et societé de Sorbonne, chanoine de l'Eglise de Beauvais, parfeu Adrien Baillet

    Chez François Barrois|à Paris 1717|10 x 17 cm|relié
    First edition. The author is Abbé François Philippe Mesanguy according to Barbier.
    Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Ornamented spine with raised bands. Red morocco title-label. Headcap torn and tailcap damaged. Joint cracked at head and foot of upper cover.
    Initially a magistrate then diplomat, Nicolas de Buzenval (1611-1679) received the diocese of Beauvais in 1650 where he showed great diligence and profound rigor, developing policies favorable to the poor. He quickly took up the cause of Jansenism and opposed Rome's ability to dictate conduct to a French bishop.

    NB: This work is available at the bookshop on request within 48 hours.
    €200
  34. Disputatio juridica de regno arelatensi, quam consensu arque autoritate illustris jctorum ordinis
    Philipp Heinrich GOFFART VON

    Disputatio juridica de regno arelatensi, quam consensu arque autoritate illustris jctorum ordinis

    typis Mullerianis|Jenae [Jena] • (Iéna) [Jena] 1674|16 x 19 cm|Cousu
    First edition.

    Signatures sewn together. The first signature is detached. Pages browned.

    The work is a dissertation from the University of Jena on the kingdom of Arles under the patronage of Johannes Strauch, professor and advisor at various German universities. The kingdom of Arles is in fact the kingdom of Burgundy, and was thus named by writers who had been dazzled by the ancient city and who wished to give a Roman ancestry to Burgundy. The research, very scholarly, focuses particularly on the origins of Burgundy.
    €280
  35. Heliand poema saxonicum seculi noni ou poème de la vie de Jésus composé par ordre de l'Empereur Louis le Débonnaire sous les auspices de saint Luitger, évêque de Munster en 814
    V. MOHLER

    Heliand poema saxonicum seculi noni ou poème de la vie de Jésus composé par ordre de l'Empereur Louis le Débonnaire sous les auspices de saint Luitger, évêque de Munster en 814

    Librairie orientale et américaine • & J. Maisonneuve|Paris 1898|16.50 x 25.50 cm|broché
    First edition of the critical study and literal translation, verse by verse, from the Saxon manuscript discovered in 1794 at the library of Bamberg Cathedral by Canon G. Gley.
    Two tiny lacks at foot of spine and at head, otherwise handsome copy. Rare.
    €70
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