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Eléazar de MAUVILLON

Histoire de Pierre I. surnommé Le Grand, Empereur de toutes les Russies

Chez Arkstée et Merkus, A Amsterdam et Leipzig 1742, Pet. in-8 (10x17cm), (24) 464pp. et (2) 404pp. et (2) 504pp., 3 volumes reliés.

Original, rare edition, illustrated with 14 figures (of Pierre I and the Empress Catherine on the frontispiece, many folding engravings of the medals, the Croosnlot castle, the Neva, the battles of the Poltawa and the Pruth).
Dutch binding in full brown calf of marbled contemporary. Ornate [...]

900 €

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CARTIER DE SAINT PHILIP

Le je ne sais quoi

S.n., A La Haye 1723, In-12 (9x15,5cm), XIII (1) 261pp. et (2) 236pp. (11), 2 volumes reliés.

first edition under initials (MCDSP), rare, adorned with a title vignette repeated on the second volume. Title pages in red and black.
Half green sheepskin binding ca 1840. Back with Jansenist nerves. Golden title and number. Thinning back. Blunt corners.
The work is a collection of [...]

250 €

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MAZARINADE

Le ministre d'estat flambé. En vers burlesques

Chez Jean Brunet, A Paris 1649, In-4 (17x22,7cm), 16pp., relié.

Original, rare edition of this Mazarinade. Initials DB in fine.

19th century cardboard binding covered with marbled paper. Smooth dumb back. Title label on the dish. Good condition.
We read in the Bibliography of Mazarinades by Moreau: "Cheerful, witty, well-written pamphlet, which [...]

150 €

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Jacques-Bénigne BOSSUET

Discours sur l'histoire universelle pour expliquer la suite de la religion & les changemens des ...

Chez Sebastien Marbre-Cramoisy, A Paris 1681, In-4 (19,5x26,2cm), (2) 561pp. (7), relié.

First edition, adorned with the imprint of the printer on the title, a header representing time in the middle of ruins and holding the arms of the Dauphin, engraved by Jollain, as well as a drop cap and an ass -of unsigned lamp.
Copy with the arms of Guillaume-Claude de Laleu (1712-1775), [...]

850 €

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CHOLET DE JETPHORT

Etrennes lyriques, anacréontiques, pour l'année 1782

Chez L'auteur, A Paris 1782, In-16 (8x13,5cm), (24) 366pp. (1), relié.

first edition.
Binding in full brown sheepskin contemporary. Smooth decorated back. title label in red morocco. Slight lack in the upper tail joint.
Collection of gallant and light poems collected by Cholet de Jetphort to whom they were addressed. A play by Beaumarchais, three by Boufflers, [...]

150 €

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VIRGILE

Opera

Sumptibus Ant. Urb. Coustelier, LutetiaParisiorum [Paris] 1747, In 12 (9x15cm), xvj, xcvj, 205pp. et xxiv, 231pp. et xij, 254pp., 3 volumes reliés.

First edition of this Latin version given by Etienne Philippe, illustrated with a frontispiece and 16 figures by Cochin, engraved by Duflos. Beautiful headers and lamp bases, finely engraved and unsigned.
The last two volumes contain The Aeneid, the first volume brings together the other works, [...]

350 €

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Joannes Arnold CORVINUS & Germano COUSINIO

Elementa iuris civilis. Accesserunt partitiones regularum utriusque juris Germ. Cousinii

Apud Louis Elzevier, Amstelodami 1645, Pet. in-12 (7,5x13cm), (12pp.) 248pp. ; 53pp. (10), relié.

Title page and specific page for Receptarum juris utriusque regularum partitiones de Cousinio.

300 €

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Théodore GODEFROY

Entrevues de Charles VI empereur, de son fils Wenceslas roi des Romains, et de Charles V roi de ...

Chez Pierre Chevalier, A Paris 1613, In-4 (16x23cm), (4) 137pp. ; 29pp. (1) ; (2) 103pp., relié.

first edition.

Binding in full vintage brown calf. Back to nerves decorated with the grotesque. Caps torn off. 2 blunt corners. Friction. Clear wetting on the title page and on the privilege sheet.
Work written by the Geneva jurisconsult Théodore Godefroy (1580-1649) and divided [...]

450 €

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