First edition

Lilio Gregorio GIRALDI

Syntagma de Musis

Matthias Schurerius, Strasbourg 1511, in-4 (14x20cm), (16f.) A4 B8 C4, relié.

Syntagma de Musis

Rare editio princeps illustrated with a large title vignette (86 x 95 mm) featuring the Muses playing their [...]

12 000 €

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François MAZOT

Le tableau de la croix représenté dans les cérémonies de la Sainte messe

Chez F. Mazot, à Paris 1653, Pet. in-8 (11,5x16cm), 53f., relié.

Second edition with the privilege of 1653, rare. Entirely engraved work of 92 pages (with text and figures), and illustrated with a portrait of Charles de l'Aubespine by Guillaume de Gheyn, with a beautiful frontispiece by Collin. This edition differs from the first by some notable points. Besides [...]

1 500 €

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Jean-Baptiste Joseph TOLBECQUE & Henri HERZ

[Partitions manuscrites] Recueil de contredanses et de valses

1820, In-18 oblong (15x22,5cm), 27 pp. ; 42-82 pp. ; 1 p. table et 35 pp., 2 volumes reliés.

Jean-Baptiste Joseph TOLBECQUE & Henri HERZ
Handwritten music scores.
Recueil de contredanses et de valses
[Collection of Contra Dances and Waltzes]
1820 | in-18 oblong (15 x 22.5 cm) | 27 pp. ; 42-82 pp. ;
1 p. table et 35 pp. | [...]

2 000 €

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Giovanni Battista MASCOLO, Johann Wolfgang BAUMGARTNER [...]

Encomia Coelituum, Digesta Per Singulos Anni Dies, Una Cum Veterum Fastis, Recensibitus Victorias, ...

Viennae 1753-1755, in-12 (11x17,5cm), (24) 158 pp. et 159-324 pp. et 325-505 pp. et 506-677 pp., 4 volumes reliés.

Édition originale viennoise, très rare, illustrée de 366 figures par Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner. Remarquable iconographie baroque. Un seul exemplaire repéré dans les catalogues électroniques de la bibliothèque de Strasbourg, un exemplaire à Cambridge et un autre à Oxford.
Reliures de [...]

2 000 €

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ANONYME

Methode curieuse et facile pour la connoissance des tableaux et sculptures, par qui ils sont faits, ...

Chez J. Moris, A Amsterdam& se vend a Bruxelles 1772, In-12 (10x16,5cm), (2) 405pp. (11), relié.

First edition.

Binding used half brown sheepskin contemporary. Back to nerves adorned. Title piece in beige morocco. Headdress ripped off with first box partly missing. Tailored headdress. Split upper joint, open lower joint with gaps. Coins trimmed. Trace of label on the second box.

180 €

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Pierre LE TOURNEUR, François-Anne DAVID

Histoire d'Angleterre représentée par figures

Chez l'auteur & François Anne David, à Paris 1784 - 1800, In-4 (19,5x26,5cm), (4) 194pp. et (4) 211pp. et (4) 116pp., 3 volumes reliés.

First edition, very rare, augmented by a third volume published 16 years later, in 1800, and dedicated to wars in the colonies, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Canada and the American war of independence. She is superbly illustrated with 111 hors-texte engraved figures engraved by François Anne DAVID after [...]

1 800 €

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Guillaume-Germain GUYOT, François-Anne DAVID

Histoire de France représentée par figures, accompagnées de discours

Chez l'auteur & M. David, à Paris 1787-1796, in-4 (20x26,2cm), (4) 168 pp. et 204 pp. et (4) 200 pp. et (4) 184 pp.

First edition, rare, illustrated with 5 engraved titles and 140 hors-texte figures drawn in red on hard paper, with a specific ornamental border for each volume, corresponding to each era described by each volume. Print on large vellum paper.
Publisher's binding in full blond calf jasped and [...]

2 800 €

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Jean MONET & Anne Gabriel MEUSNIER DE QUERLON

Anthologie françoise ou chansons choisies [avec] Chansons Joyeuses

1765, in-8 (11,5x18cm), 7 (1) 64 pp. 318pp. ; (2) 317pp. ; (2) 320pp. ; (2) 80pp. 16 pp. (1) 110pp. 16pp., 4 volumes reliés.

First edition illustrated with 4 engravings by Le Mire after Gravelot and a frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by Saint-Aubin after Cochin. Includes the fourth volume Chansons joyeuses, often missing.
Full brown marbled calf binding, motifs tooled in gilt, morocco title [...]

1 200 €

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