Humphrey PRIDEAUX

Histoire des Juifs, et des peuples voisins depuis la decadence des Royaumes d'Israel & de Juda, ...

Chez Guillaume Cavelier, A Paris 1742, In-12 (9,5x17cm), (2) cxliv, 426pp. et (2) 527pp. et (2) 456pp. et (2) 505pp. et

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500 €

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Alexandre Joseph GUYOT, François Anne DAVID

Histoire de France sous l'Empire de Napoléon Le Grand représentée en figures accompagnées d'un ...

Chez L'auteur, David, A Paris 1809 - 1813, In-4 (19,5x26,3cm), (4) vj, 98pp. ; vij, 90pp. et viij, 88pp. ; viij, 86pp.

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2 000 €

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Pierre LE TOURNEUR, François Anne DAVID

Histoire d'Angleterre représentée par figures

Chez l'auteur, François Anne David, A 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 [...]

1 600 €

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Guillaume Germain GUYOT, François Anne DAVID

Histoire de France représentée par figures, accompagnées de discours

Chez l'auteur, M. David, A Paris 1787 - 1796, In-4 (20x26,2cm), (4) 168pp. et 204pp. et (4) 200pp. et (4) 184pp. et (4) 206pp., 5 volumes reliés.

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 [...]

2 600 €

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Cardinal de RETZ

Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz

Chez Frédéric Bernard, A Amsterdam 1731, In 12 (9,5x15,6cm), (36) 390pp. et (2) 399pp. et (2) 452pp. et (2) 331pp. (31), 4 volumes reliés.

Final edition, rare; "more complete than the preceding and the best that was given in the eighteenth century ..." Tchemerzine V, 396. A portrait engraved by Thomassin on the frontispiece. This will be the only edition of the Mémoires cited by De Bure in his bibliography.
Full sheepskin marbled [...]

1 400 €

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PLUTARQUE

Epitome vitarum Plutarchi

Apud Hyeronimum Olivier, Cenomanis [Le Mans] 1608 (S.d.), 694pp. (2), relié.

New edition, the first of which seems to have appeared in 1541 in Basel. It was done by Dario Tiberti.

350 €

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Benjamin FRANKLIN

Mémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin, écrits par lui-même, et adressés à son fils

Chez Buisson, A Paris 1791, In-8 (12,5x20cm), relié.

First edition
Binding half brown sheepskin used vintage. Smooth back decorated with nets. Title piece of brown sheepskin. Top hat trimmed. Lower headdress with missing, and upper joint open tail. Upper joint split several times along the bit, with gaps. Rubbed and blunt corners. 2 notebooks out.

500 €

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Pierre CHEVALIER

Recueil de divers memoires, harangues, remonstrances, et lettres servans à l'histoire de nostre ...

Chez Pierre Chevalier, A Paris 1623, In-4 (16,5x22,5cm), (8) 478pp. (1), relié.

First edition, rare, composed of 63 pieces, stops, letters, memories and others.
Binding in full modern velin. Back to 4 nerves. Title and date pieces in black sheepskin. On the upper plate, calligraphy in black ink, the title and date, and a frieze framing.

450 €

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