First edition

Jean-François de LA CROIX

Anecdotes arabes et musulmanes depuis l'an de J.C. 614, époque de l'établissement du Mahométisme ...

Chez Vincent, A Paris 1772, Fort. in-12 (11x17,2cm), vj, 733pp. (1), relié.

First edition.
Binding full icy blond calf vintage. Back with ornate nerves. title label in red morocco. Headdress slightly worn. 2 corners a bit dull. Traces of friction to the caps, nerves, bits, borders and corners. Good copy.
Stamp in title page: Library D'A Dutilleul.

450 €

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Cornelius NEPOS

Vitae excellentium imperatorum

Pierre Didot l'Aîné, Paris 1799 (An VII), In-12 (10x15,8cm), (4) 150pp., relié.

One of the first stereotype editions of Pierre Didot, printed in louvre, in the premises of the royal printing office. Copy on vellum paper.
Binding full green morocco contemporary. Smooth back of 4 florets and nets. title label of morocco green. Greek coaching roulette on boards. interior frieze.

250 €

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Charles PATIN

Quatre relations historiques

S.n., A Basle 1673, In-12 (9x15,8cm), (8) 3-336p., relié.

First edition.

Binding full brown speckled brown and glossy vintage. Back with ornate nerves. title label of brown calf. Restorations in caps, joints and corners. Missed marbled cover pages on the blank sheets.
Ex libris of the twentieth: Bibliotheca Altholii doctoris.

350 €

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Claude-François MENESTRIER

Des decorations funebres. Ou il est amplement traité des tentures, des lumières, des mausolées, ...

Chez J.B. de La Caille, A Paris 1683, In-8 (12x19cm), (4) 38pp. ; 367pp., relié.

First edition, rare, and illustrated with many in-text woods including 11 vignettes, a large figure (p.179), 4 shields and 14 tiny portraits.

Copy to the arms of the nineteenth Baron Pavée de Vendeuvre, with its motto: Ardeo persevero spero.
Binding full brown sheepskin [...]

500 €

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Frédéric Baron de TRENCK

La vie de Frédéric, Baron de Trenck

Chez Buisson & Maradan, A Berlin& à Paris 1788, In-12 (10x16,8cm), XXXV (1bc.) 394pp. (1) et 378pp. (1) et (4) 267pp. (5), relié.

Third edition, partly original and augmented by a volume. 3 frontispieces including a medallion portrait in volume 1, the Baron loaded with chains in volume 2, and a third pretty figure of the baron with a lady. Translation by Le Tourneur.

Binding in half marbled blonde sheepskin. Back [...]

400 €

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Pierre BERTUS & MONTANDRE

L'image d'un bon roy qui ayme ses sujets, et qui se fait aymer d'eux par ses vertus royales ...

S.n., S.l. 1652, In-4 (17x23,2cm), 4, 270pp. (6) ; 64pp. ; 210pp., relié.

first editions.

400 €

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Jacques LENFANT

Histoire de la guerre des Hussites et du concile de Basle

Chez Chez Pierre Humbert, A Amsterdam 1731, in-4 (19,5x24,7cm), (4) xvij (1) 355pp. et (4) 406pp. (17), 2 volumes reliés.

First edition illustrated with 22 title vignettes and 10 portraits engraved by Fillieul and Scottin, and published by his widow Emilie Lenfant. The Dissertation of M. de Beausobre on the Adamites of Bohemia follows the work of Lenfant (258-370p.). 2 title thumbnails. Biography of the author in the [...]

600 €

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Antoine AUBERY

Des justes pretentions du roy sur l'Empire

Chez Antoine Bertier, A Paris 1667, In-4 (17,5x22,5cm), (6) 159pp. (1), relié.

First edition, rare.
Binding full vellum flexible of time. Jansenist smooth back with black pen long title. Stains and soiling. A lack of leather on the lower plate, 2cm on one.
Ex libris engraved with the arms of the XIX AG Du Plessis. Second ex libris with arms of the twentieth: P. de la [...]

400 €

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