First edition

Marcus Tullius CICERON

Entretiens de Ciceron sur les orateurs illustres

Chez Jacques Estienne, A Paris 1726, In-12 (10,16,3cm), (4) LXI (1) 237pp. (8), relié.

First edition of the edition and translation of Villefore.
Binding full morocco red long grain ca 1800. Smooth back decorated with 5 florets and wheels. title label of red morocco. Triple framing net on the boards. Inland frieze. Golden slices. Slight traces of friction.
Very nice copy, [...]

500 €

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RAUCOURT

L'heureuse infidélité, ou mémoires du Chevalier de Raucourt

Chez S. Fauche, A Neuchatel 1782, In-12 (11x16,2cm), (4) 235pp., relié.

First edition.
Binding half blond sheepskin contemporary corners. Smooth back decorated with 5 florets. title label in red morocco. Lower bit split in tail. Restorations at the head and tail. 3 wormholes on the upper dish.

350 €

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BOUIS

La chaire des curez, ou la vraye methode de bien annoncer les festes aux eglises parrochialles ...

Chez Benoist Bachelu, A Lyon 1652, Fort. in-8 (10,5x17,2cm), (30) 440pp. ; (16), relié.

First edition. A title-frontispiece by Du Roy.

Binding full parchment contemporary. Smooth back mute. Back seams become loose, bringing out the notebooks. Dirt.

250 €

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WALLACE

Essai sur la différence du nombre des hommes dans les tems anciens et modernes

S.n., A Londres 1754, Pet. in-8 (10,5x17cm), (2) ij, ij, 292pp., relié.

First french edition, translated by Joncourt.

Binding poster ca 1790 full sheepskin blonde rooted. Smooth back decorated with 5 florets. title label in black sheepskin. Friction. 2 blunt corners.

450 €

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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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Aleksey PETROVITCH

Mémoires en forme de manifeste sur le procès criminel jugé et publié à Saint-Pétersbourg en ...

Jean de la Rivière, Nancy 1718, in-12 (8x14,5cm), (8) 382 pp., relié.

First Edition illustrated frontispiece of a portrait of Tsar Peter the Great.

800 €

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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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Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU

Emile ou de l'éducation

Jean Néaulme [Duchesne], La Haye [Paris] 1762, 4 volumes in-8 (12.5x20cm), (2) viij (2) 466pp. (5) et (4) 407pp. et

First edition, very rare, with all of the characteristics described by Mac Eachern (Bibliography of the Writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau to 1800, Émile, ou de l'éducation, Voltaire Foundation, 1989): page numbering printing errors (vol. 1: S8 in place of 88, 433 in place of 443, 46 in place of [...]

4 000 €

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