First edition

Pierre LE MAISTRE

La coûtume de la prevosté et vicomté de Paris

Chez Guillaume Cavelier et chez Charles Osmont, à Paris 1700, in-folio (25x39cm), (10) 576pp. (4), relié.

First edition, brown sheepskin rare.Pleine contemporary. Back with five nerves ornate and having a piece of red morocco. Gaps at the head and tail awkwardly restored same for corners. Scuffs and nicks on the front cover. Some very tiny mouillures.Un banner bearing the address of Charles Osmont was [...]

800 €

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Charles EISEN, Roland LE VAYER DE BOUTIGNY

Tarsis et Zélie

Chez Musier fils, à Paris 1774, 6 parties en 3 vol. in-8 (14,5x21,5cm), xxiij, 563pp. et 563pp. et 597pp., relié.

Illustrated new edition first printing. The figure includes three frontispiece by Cochin, Moreau and Eisen, engraved by Gaucher, Ponce Born; and 20 headers by Eisen, engraved by Helman, De Longueuil, Masquelier and Massard. Elegant shown in neat layout.
Full calf scales blond. Back with five [...]

800 €

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Jacques DU FOUR DE LA CRESPELIERE

Les divertissemens d'amour et autres poésies burlesques et sérieuses

Chez Olivier de Varennes, à Paris 1667, in-12 (8,5x14,5cm), (12) 293pp., relié.

Rare édition originale.
Plein vélin blanc d'époque. spine lisse. Quelques épidermures et taches. binding en partie désolidarisée. Quelques mouillures et nombreuses traces de pliures.
Jacques du Four de la Crespelière (1625-1680), Poète burlesque et licencieux étalant dans ses [...]

500 €

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Jean Le Rond d' ALEMBERT

Histoire des membres de l'Académie française, morts depuis 1700 jusqu'en 1771. Pour servir de ...

Chez Moutard, à Paris 1787, in-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (4) xxxiv, vj 559pp. (5) et (4) xij, (4) 437pp. et (4) 523pp. et (4)

Original collective edition; only the first volume appeared in 1779, published by the author; it is reprinted unchanged with its title page relays. Series found rarely. Full sheepskin blond speckled contemporary. Smooth back two repeated irons (wheat sheaf and urn). Room decorated in black morocco [...]

1 500 €

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Emmanuel de LAS CASES

Atlas historique, généalogique chronologique et géographique

De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné, Paris 1802-1804, in plano (39,5x51cm), relié.

Original French edition, rare, first edition having appeared in London in 1801. Enhanced 33 double pages in color, 22 maps (sometimes two per page) appeared in eight deliveries of 4 cards or boards between 1802 and 1826 (QuÚrard). Edition published under the pseudonym A. Lesage. Half sheepskin [...]

1 200 €

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Charles BONNET

Considérations sur les corps organisés

Chez Marc Michel Rey, à Amsterdam 1762, in-8 (13,5x22,5cm), XLII (4) 274pp. et XX, 328pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First Edition. 2 vignettes title drawn by Picart. Cardboard to Bradel nineteenth black. Parts securities orange calf. Small friction cap. Nice copy. Work on capital generation and embrylogie, one discovers the hypothesis of chromosomes but also the influence of the environment. Bonnet there [...]

750 €

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SPALLANZANI

Expériences pour servir à l'histoire de la génération des animaux et des plantes. Avec une ...

Chez Barthélémi Chirol, à Genève 1785, in-8 (12,5x20,6cm), (4) XCVI, 413pp., relié.

Original French edition, illustrated with 3 folding plates containing many figures. Full calf blond marbled time. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Two small restorations on the upper flat. Nice copy. Fundamental work on the theory of generation. The conclusions reached above those [...]

950 €

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First edition

Josias SIMLER & Johan Jakob LEU

Von dem Regiment de lobl. Eydgenossschaft zwey Bücher / In deren Ersterem ein kurtzgefasste ...

David Gessner, Zurich 1722, Pet. in-4 (15x20cm), (16) 717pp. (23), relié.

First edition, rare, this revised edition, annotated and commented Johann Jakob Leu of the major work of Josiah Simler, "De republica helvetiorum" (1576). A large folding map of Switzerland by Michael Kauffer by Christoph Weigel. Frontispiece of Fussli, also often absent, was not attached to this [...]

800 €

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