First edition

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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César Vichard de SAINT-REAL

Conjuration des Espagnols contre Venise

De L'imprimerie de Monsieur, A Paris 1781, In-16 (8x12,5cm), xxiv, 167pp., relié.

New edition.
Binding full icy blond calf vintage. Smooth back decorated with 5 small irons, roulette tail. title label in black morocco. Triple framing net on the splat with small angular irons. Friesian on the cuts and inner. Golden slices. Traces of friction. very nice copy, very [...]

200 €

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First edition

Henry de BOURBON-CONDE

Lettre de Monseigneur le Prince a la Royne

S.n., S.l. 1614, Pet. in-8 (10x15,6cm), 16pp., relié.

First edition, rare.
Binding in brown cardboard grained to the bradel. Title in the black pen on the upper plate. Slit in the head and tail along the upper joint.

250 €

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Signed book

Georges BARBARIN

Livre contenant les décrets de l'Assemblée Nationale sanctionnés par le peuple

1790, In-Folio (28,5x43,5cm), 261f., relié.

Original manuscript prepared by several copyists and signed on title page Barbarin under the notice: The present book containing one hundred and ninety-six pages was cotté and initialed by us Georges Barbarin and two aldermen of Chateauneuf, in all its pages and signed us to the first and [...]

2 500 €

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First edition

CLAUDE VANEL

Les galanteries des rois de France

Chez Pierre Marteau, A Cologne 1730 (S.d.), In-12 (8,5x14,2cm), (2) 223pp. et (2) 277pp. [267] et (2) 234pp., 3 volumes reliés.

New edition augmented by a third volume and the first two of which had appeared in 1694 for the first time. It is nicely illustrated with an allegorical forntispice (France in the power of love), 3 engraved titles and 5 captioned and unsigned figures.
Binding full icy blond calf vintage. Smooth [...]

450 €

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First edition

Lorenzo PIGNORIA

De servis et Eorum apud Veteres Ministeriis, Commentarius, In quo familia, tum erbana, tum rustica, ...

Ad insigne pinus [ C. Daberholtzer for Marcus Welser], Augustae Vindelicorum [Augsbourg] 1613, xij, 280pp. (10), relié.

First edition, rare, illustrated with 6 full-page figures and 21 vignettes.
Modern binding in full lace parchment. Smooth back mute.

1 600 €

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First edition

Fra Paolo SARPI

Histoire du Concile de Trente

Chez Wetstein et Smith, A Amsterdam 1751, In-4 (21,5x26cm), (14) LXXII, 562pp. et (2) 644pp. et (2) 561pp., 3 vollumes reliés.

New edition and first produced by François Le Courayer, who has not only provided the new translation but is responsible for comments and many critical annotations at the bottom of each page.
Binding full brown sheepskin speckled contemporary. Back with ornate nerves. title label in red [...]

900 €

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First edition

Adrien RICHER

Vies des plus célèbres marins

Chez Belin, A Paris 1789, In-24 (8x12,9cm), 263pp. ; 209pp. (1) et 252pp. ; 295pp. et 304pp. ; 220pp. et 260pp. ;

Collective first edition. The various parts composing this collection were published a first time separately from 1780 to 1786. The tomaison is placed on the subtitle. The 11th and 12th volumes are by mistake on the title page Volume 1 and Volume 2. The thirteenth part which completes the [...]

700 €

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