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Dominique de COLONIA & Antonius SHAABNER

De arte rhetorica libri quinque [Ensemble] Ars rhetorica variis regulis illustrata [Ensemble] ...

Wilhelm Metternich & Friedrich Rutiger, Cologne & Prague 1723 - 1744, Pet. in-8 (10,5x17cm), 3 parties en un volume relié.

From arte rhetorica. Cologne, Wilhelm Metternich, 1723. New edition.
Ars rhetorica. Cologne, Wilhelm Metternich, 1725. New edition.

Breviarum studiosorum, Prague and Nuremberg, Johann Fridriech Rutiger, 1744. first edition.
Copy with the arms of Alexander III, abbot of [...]

800 €

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APULEE

Les metamorphoses ou L'ane d'or d'Apulée, philosophe platonicien, avec Le démon de Socrate

Chez Michel Brunet, A Paris 1707, In-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (10) xiv, 411pp. et (2) 452pp. (4), relié.

Edition illustrated with a beautiful allegorical frontispiece of the Metamorphoses by Desmaretz and engraved by Thomassin and with 12 figures of the same at the top of each book of The Golden Donkey and the Demon of Socrates.
Binding in full marbled and glazed blond sheepskin of the time. [...]

450 €

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Benedicto VERNIERO

Magnum & universale concilium ecclesiae militantis super veritate Eucharistiae sacramenti

Apud Sebastianum Nivellium, Paris 1554, In-8 (10,5x17,5cm), 106ff. (5), relié.

First edition, illustrated with a large title vignette representing the Council of Nicea with on the left the bishops and on the other the monks, Christ in the center, levitating on a pulpit; a sticker depicting the last supper on sheet 9; a dead-end sticker depicting a king and monks supporting [...]

800 €

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VOLTAIRE

Essay sur l'histoire générale, et sur les moeurs et l'esprit des Nations, depuis Charlemagne ...

S.n. [Cramer], s.l. [Genève] 1756, In-8 (11,5x20cm), (6) 399pp. (1) et (4) 380pp. (1) et (4) 391pp. (1) et (4) 328pp.

Partly first edition. It is the last edition to bear the title Essay on general history (that of 1764 only corrected the faults reported in the errata) before the choice of the final title by Voltaire in the 1771 edition: Essay on manners and the spirit of the nations . The [...]

1 200 €

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Louis-Adrien LE PAIGE

Lettres historiques sur les fonctions essentielles du Parlement ; sur le droit des Pairs, et sur ...

Aux dépens de La Compagnie, A Amsterdam 1753, In-12 (10x16,8cm), (4) 326pp. et 380pp., 2 volumes reliés.

first edition
Binding in full vintage red morocco. Ornate nerved back. Title and volume number in red morocco. Triple framing net on boards with angular finials. Inner frieze. Golden and chopped slices of foliage and flowers. Restored caps, corners also, and parts of the joints.

650 €

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MAC GEOGHEGAN

Histoire de l'Irlande ancienne et moderne

Chez Antoine Boudet, A Paris 1758 - 1763, In-4 (19,5x25,5cm), xlviij (2) 488pp. (2) et lxxxiv, x, 376pp. et xj (1) 379-798p. (2), 3 volumes reliés.

First edition.
Binding full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin. Back with ornate nerves. Title and volume piece in red morocco.

1 000 €

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Pierre-Joseph ROUSSIER

Mémoire sur la musique des Anciens, ou l'on expose le Principe des proportions authentiques, dites ...

Chez Lacombe, A Paris 1770, In-4 (20,5x26,7cm), (4) xxiv, 252pp., relié.

First Edition, illustrated with two figures engraved in the text, an engraved plate of music, and a folding plate entitled "Chart of the correspondence of the planets with the hours of the day, & with the days of the week, Hours of the morning, Hours of the evening, for saturnedit, sold, [...]

700 €

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Edward-Daniel CLARKE

Voyage en Russie, en Tartarie et en Turquie

Chez Fantin, A Paris 1812, In-8 (13x21cm), xviij, 559pp. (1) et (4) 500pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First edition, rare
Binding in plain brown calf of time. Smooth back decorated with 4 quadrilobed irons and multiple wheels. title labels and tomaisson in red morocco. Frieze framing on the splat lined with a golden net. Inner roulette. Epidermures on the backs and boards. Part of tomaion of [...]

1 300 €

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