First edition

Thomas CORNEILLE & Bernard le Bovier de FONTENELLE

Le dictionnaire universel des arts et des sciences

Chez Jean-Baptiste Coignard, à Paris 1732, In-Folio (26x40cm), (10) 678pp. et (4) 645pp. (1), 2 volumes reliés.

Nouvelle édition, corrigée et augmentée par Fontenelle. Le tome I s'étend de A à L, le tome II de M à Z. 2 vignettes de titre et de lettrines gravés par Mariette. Pages de titre en rouge et noir. Impression sur 2 colonnes.
Exemplaire aux armes totalement grattées. On distingue encore [...]

600 €

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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 €

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Claude-François MENESTRIER & Lukas HOLSTE

Symbolica Dianae Ephesiae Statua a Clavdio Menetreio. Ceimeliothecæ Barberinæ Præfecto Exposita ...

Apud Io. Iacobum de Rubeis & Ioannem Baptistam Bussottum, Romae 1688, Pet. in-Folio (22,5x33cm), relié.

New edition, after the first, also published in Rome in 1657. The second text is also on the date of 1688, but not at the same address. A title page for the last part: Io. Petro Bellori notae in numistata tum Ephesia, tum aliarum urbium apibus insignata, without address and place, with a bee in [...]

1 300 €

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First edition

L. F. REGNAULT

Catalogue raisonné du cabinet de feu Pierre-François Basan père

Chez L'auteur, à 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 €

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First edition

Charles de BROSSES

Lettres sur l'Italie

Chez Ponthieu, à 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.

1 300 €

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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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First edition

Albrecht DÜRER

Alberti Dureri clarissimi pictoris et geometræ. De sym[m]etria partium in rectis formis ...

In aedib. viduae Durerianae [Hieronymus Andreae], Norimbergae [Nürimberg] 1532, in-folio (20,5x32cm), (80) f. -

Alberti Dureri clarissimi pictoris et geometræ. De sym[m]etria partium
in rectis formis hu[m]anorum corporum

30 000 €

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Castio Innocente ANSALDI

De sacro et publico apud ethnicos pictarum tabulurum cultu

In Regio typographeo, Augustae Taurinorum [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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