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 €

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François-Bernard LEPICIE

Catalogue raisonné des tableaux du Roy

De l'imprimerie royale, Paris 1752-1754, in-4 (22x29cm), xv ; 203 pp. ; vij ; 333 pp., 2 tomes reliés en 1 volume.

First Edition illustrated with 3 engraved headbands and 2 title vignettes.
Contemporary binding in full marbled blond calf, back with five nerves richly adorned with boxes and gilded florets, as well as a title label of red morocco, triple cold net framing boards, guards and contreplats of [...]

1 800 €

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Signed book

Jean-Joseph VADE & Charles Simon FAVART

Theâtre divers. Les amans inquiets, parodie de Thetis et Pelée. Les bergers de qualité, parodie ...

1760, Pet. in-4 (15,5x20cm), 2 volumes reliés.

Manuscript made around 1760 and bringing together several plays, vaudevilles, parodies, always accompanied by songs and music. The music and the songs are at the end of the volume, 104p. in fine of the volume I, 41p. in volume II.
8 pieces in the volume I, as well as several "pot pourris" of [...]

1 000 €

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Johann Joachim WINCKELMANN

Lettres familieres

Chez Couturier fils, A Paris 1781, In-8 (12,5x19,5cm), (4) xxxiv, 292pp. et (2) 290pp. (1), relié.

First french edition.
Binding full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin.

450 €

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KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI

Hokusai manga. Volume 15

Eirakuya Toshiro, Edo[Tokyo] 1878 (Meiji 11), 16x23,9cm, cousu.

First edition, rare, that can be translated under the title Sketch of Hokusaï, volume 15. 15 volumes have actually appeared covering the sketch work of Hokusaï. The first was published in 1815 and the last posthumously in 1878. This last posthumous volume was collected by Katano Toshiro. It [...]

850 €

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First edition

Jean MEYSSENS

Les pourtraits des souverains princes et comtes de Hollande [Ensemble] Image de divers hommes ...

Jean Meyssens, Anvers 1662 - 1649, 40f. ; 72f., relié.

First edition of these two portraits. The first is illustrated with a frontispiece title and 39 figures, the second with a frontispiece title and 70 figures, including 14 missing. Under each portrait of the first volume, a legend and coats of arms. In the second volume devoted to flamenco painters, [...]

500 €

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First edition

KAWANABE KYOSAÏ

Kyosai gafu shohen

Kinkado, Tokyo 1880, 12,5x18,5cm, 19f., cousu.

First edition of this album of drawings, mention of volume 1. 13 volumes would have appeared drawings of Kyosaï, but this information is not certain. 36 illustrated pages, including 4 on double page, 58 figures in all.

700 €

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First edition

Grégoire HURET

Optique de portraiture et peinture

Chez Charles de Sercy & Thomas Moette, A Paris 1672, In-Folio (24,5x37,5cm), (14) 159pp., relié.

New edition after the original published in 1670, at the author's. André Cramoisy's printing office at the colophon. The illustration includes a beautiful allegorical frontispiece depicting an animated scene in a 17th century church and 8 folding planks of diagrams, most with a figure and [...]

1 500 €

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