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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First edition

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

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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Castio Innocente ANSALDI

De sacro et publico apud ethnicos pictarum tabulurum cultu

In Regio typographeo, Augustae Taurinum [Turin] 1768, Pet. in-4 (16x21,5cm), (8) 330pp., relié.

New edition partly original and augmented by 3 chapters.
Binding full brown sheepskin contemporary patterned circles on the boards. Back to nerves adorned. title label in red morocco. A blunt corner. Rubbed together.
Treaty dealing with the religious and public worship of sacred images [...]

400 €

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First edition

Georg Friedrich HAENDEL

Apollo's feast or The harmony of the opera stage : Being a well-chosen collection of the favourite ...

Printed and sold by I. Walsh & Joseph Hare, London 1734 [1734], (5) 209pp. (2), relié.

Second impression after the first published in 1729. Very rare.

1 000 €

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