First edition

Eustache LE CLERC DE LESSEVILLE

Portefeuille évêque de Coutance

1659, In-4 (24x32cm), relié.

Portfolio of the Bishop of Coutance, Eustache le Clerc de Lesseville (1614-1665), azure with three gold crescents surmounted by a label.
Embroidered velvet binding. Smooth dumb back.

1 500 €

View more

First edition

Marien VADI

Itineraire instructif de Rome ancienne et moderne ou description generale des monumens antiques et ...

Chez l'Auteur, A Rome 1804, Pet. in-8 (10x17,5cm), XII 432pp. et (2) 433-883p., 2 volumes brochés.

New illustrated edition of a portrait of Pius VII at the frontispiece, 2 folding maps and 86 figures.
Publication brochures, in contemporary domed paper. Title labels. Back of volume I soiled. Various shortages of paper. p, 171 to 190, notebooks largely detached. Blue stamp on title page: Ecole [...]

250 €

View more

First edition

Pierre-Joseph ROUSSIER

Mémoire sur la musique des Anciens, ou l'on expose le Principe des proportions authentiques, dites ...

Chez Lacombe, A Paris 1770, In-4 (20,5x26,7cm), (4) xxiv, 252pp., relié.

First Edition, illustrated with two figures engraved in the text, an engraved plate of music, and a folding plate entitled "Chart of the correspondence of the planets with the hours of the day, & with the days of the week, Hours of the morning, Hours of the evening, for saturnedit, sold, [...]

700 €

View more

Andreas MARCHTALLO

Quadragesima Christo patinti sacra, seu passio domini nostri Jesu Christi

Apud Fratrum Klauber, Augsbourg 1778, In-12 (10x16cm), (12) 100pp., relié.

Second edition, illustrated with a frontispiece and 46 figures illustrating the Passion of Christ, etched by Catherine Klauber, in the German Rococo style, characteristic of Augsburg engravers, frameless and with rocaille framing, in compositions Baroque sometimes complex.
Binding in full [...]

400 €

View more

First edition

Isaac de BENSERADE

Vers du ballet royal dansé par leurs Maiestez entre les actes de la grande tragédie de l'Hercule ...

Par Robert Ballard, A Paris 1662, Pet. in-4 (16,5x22cm), 51pp., relié.

First edition. Tchemerzine, II, p. 131.
Binding in half morocco ca 1860. Smooth back of 2 irons in long tail and head.

300 €

View more

First edition

Henrich OFFELEN

Emblematische gemuths bergnugung ben betrachtung [Devises et Emblemes Anciennes & Modernes tireé ...

Lorentz Kroniger und Gottlieb Göbels, Augsburg 1693, 51pp. 51P., relié.

First edition illustrated with a frontispiece title and 51 boards containing 15 emblematic medallions.
Modern brown morocco binder signed Baytun-Riviere (Bath). Back with two nerves. Cold fillets on caps and nerves, golden title. Cold framing fillets on boards. The board 14 was laminated on the [...]

900 €

View more

First edition

L. F. REGNAULT

Catalogue raisonné du cabinet de feu Pierre-François Basan père

Chez L'auteur, A Paris 1798 (An VI), In-8 (13x21,5cm), (6) xv (1) 288pp., broché.

First edition.
Leaflet of gray paper, restored on blue paper plates. Mute back with small gaps of paper.

350 €

View more

First edition

Charles de BROSSES

Lettres sur l'Italie

Chez Ponthieu, A Paris 1799 (An VII), In-8 (12,5x19,5cm), viij, 415pp. et (4) 455pp. et (4) 400pp., relié.

First edition.
Binding half brown sheepskin speckled flat flamed yellow paper, cunning pastiche of the late nineteenth. Smooth back decorated with fat and lean fillets. Black shagreen pieces. Tiny traces of friction. Nice copy, very fresh.

1 200 €

View more