Louis MOREAU, Paul Henri Dietrich Baron d' HOLBACH & [...]

Le bon Sens du Curé Meslier suivi de son Testament

A l'enseigne du Pot Cassé, Paris 1930, 12,5x19cm, broché.

[ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
Nouvelle édition de la traduction française établie par Samuel Kahen, un des 50 exemplaires numérotés sur japon, tirage de tête.
Agréable exemplaire.
Ouvrage illustré de bois gravés en bandeaux et culs-de-lampes de Louis Moreau.

 

150 €

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CASSINI DE THURY & Pierre Louis Moreau de MAUPERTUIS

Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1736

Chez Pierre Mortier, A Amsterdam 1740, In-12 (10x17cm), (18) 166pp. et 260pp. et (2) 266-658p. (2), 2 volumes reliés.

Illustrated edition of 10 boards for volume 1, 23 for volume 2, most folding, or 33 boards. Title pages in red and black. An allegorical frontispiece and a title sticker in volume 1.
Binding full brown marbled vintage calf. Back to nerves adorned. Title pieces in red morocco, and tomaison in [...]

380 €

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Pierre Louis Moreau de MAUPERTUIS & Nicolas LEMERY

Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1727

Chez Pierre Mortier, A Amsterdam 1732, In-12 (10x17cm), (18) 239pp. ; 186pp. et (2) 189-564p., 2 volumes reliés.

Illustrated edition of 5 boards for volume 1, 18 for volume 2, most unfolding, or 23 boards. Title pages in red and black. An allegorical frontispiece in volume 1.
Binding full brown marbled vintage calf. Back to nerves adorned. Title pieces in red morocco, and tomaison in black wax. A lack at [...]

380 €

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Pierre Louis Moreau de MAUPERTUIS

Venus physique

S.n., s.l. [La Haye] 1751, petit in-12 (8x14cm), 5pp. (1) 240pp., relié.

Sixth edition, after the original without date in 1745. Edition consisting of two parts: Physical Dissertation on the Occasion of the White Negro and Varieties in the Human Species . The first text was published separately.
Binding full marbled blond calf of the time. Smooth [...]

550 €

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Pierre Louis Moreau de MAUPERTUIS

Oeuvres

Chez Jean-Marie Bruyset, à Lyon 1756, in-8 (12,5x20cm), (4) vj (2) XXVIII 309pp. (3) et (4) iv, 399pp. (7) et (4) vij

the most comprehensive collective Edition.
Binders full mottled brown sheepskin contemporary. Back with nerves decorated. parts of title and volume number in red morocco. Frayed headdresses, very threadbare in mind. As part of Volume I in missing part. Mors of Volume II in part closely split. [...]

1 800 €

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First edition, Signed book

Louis MOREAU, Marcel PENITENT

Flammes vertes

Editions Marcel Pénitent, Paris 1926, 16,5x22cm, broché.

First edition illustrated with original woodcuts inset color of Louis Moreau, one of 25 numbered copies on Imperial Japan, deluxe edition.
Signed autograph of the author to his friend Raymond Bezard.
Nice copy.

200 €

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First edition

Jacques-Louis MOREAU

Histoire naturelle de la femme, suivie d'un traité d'hygiène

Chez L. Duprat, Letellier, à Paris 1803, in-8 (12x20cm), (4) 358pp. et 360 - 744p. et (4) 459pp., 3 volumes reliés.

First Edition, illustrated with 11 plates including 7 folding (anatomy, hermaphrodite sex, Hottentot ...). Full Sheepskin rooted contemporary. Smooth back decorated with boxes to the grotesque. Part of title and volume number in morocco beige. Roulette cold-framing on the boards. Upper joint split [...]

900 €

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First edition

Pierre Louis Moreau de MAUPERTUIS

Essai de philosophie morale

S.n., Berlin 1749, In 12 (9,5x16,5cm), (4) 107pp., relié.

First edition, rare. A vignette title by Eisen. Full glossy and marbled calf contemporary. Smooth back adorned with grotesque. Part of title in red morocco. Threadbare cap. Friction to the joints and corners. The test of moral philosophy is one of two main texts (and the first chronologically) [...]

800 €

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