First edition

Abraham Nicolas AMELOT DE LA HOUSSAYE

Histoire du gouvernement de Venise

Chez Frederic Leonard, A Paris 1676, In-8 (12x19cm), (30) 398pp. (40), relié.

First edition.

Binding full sheepskin contemporary brown speckled. Back with ornate nerves. title label of brown sheepskin. restorations in caps, joints and corners. Traces of friction.

900 €

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Mélanie de BOILEAU

Cours élémentaire d'histoire universelle

J. G. Dentu, Paris 1809, in-12 (10x17,5cm), (6) vj, 324pp. (2) ; (4) 317pp. et (4) 319pp. ; (4) 312pp. et (4) 344pp. ;

First edition with a folding map frontispiece.
Copy to MS crowned number.
Binding full red morocco long grain vintage. Smooth back of a box to the grotesque riddled with central iron and 2 other caissons grotesque diamond, a final box carrying a central iron in a rhombus. Title and volume [...]

1 700 €

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Matteo EGYZIO

Senatus consulti de bacchanalibus sive aeneae vetustae tabulae Musei Caesarei Vindobonensis

Apud Felicem Muscam, Neapoli 1729, Pet. in-Folio (22x32cm), (4) iiij, 221pp. (1) 2Pl., relié.

First edition illustrated with a title vignette depicting a Roman bacchanal engraved by Picini and 2 large folding planks on strong paper engraved by Schmutzer, one with medals and a vase, the second being a fac simile of an epigraph on a bronze plaque, edict of the consul Quintus Marcius on the [...]

700 €

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Jean VAILLANT

Selectiora numismata in aere maximi moduli e museo

Apud Antonium Dezallier, Parisiis 1694, (8) 132pp. (15), relié.

First Edition illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece in a portico engraved and drawn by Erlanger, and 59 boards

600 €

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TROGUE POMPEE

Iustini ex Trogi Pompeii historiis externis libri XXXXIIII

ApudHieronymum de Marnef, Parisiorum 1585, In-12 (8x13cm), 210ff. (18f.), relié.

12 figures of portraits of emperors in medallions.
German binding in full morocco brown seventeenth.

800 €

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Donato FERRARIO

Pythagorae vita

Ex typographia Collegij Ambrosiani, Mediolani [Milan] 1629, Pet. in-8 (10x16cm), (14) 71pp. (13), relié.

First edition, rare. Editor's mark on the title page, the Ambrosian Library, founded in 1609 by Cardinal Borromeo in Milan.
Binding half brown sheepskin vintage flat velin. Jansenist smooth back. title label in red morocco. Tail cap a little damaged. Back rubbed. The back of sheepskin seems to [...]

300 €

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Godefroy HERMANT

La vie de St Athanase patriarche d'Alexandrie

Chez Antoine Dezallier, A Paris 1679, Fort. in-8 (12,5x19cm), (32) 908pp. et (2) 826pp. (1), 2 volumes reliés.

Mention of second edition after the original of 1671. Brand of the publisher in title page.
Hardcover full rigid vintage velin. Smooth back with title to the black feather.

500 €

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WALLACE

Essai sur la différence du nombre des hommes dans les tems anciens et modernes

S.n., A Londres 1754, Pet. in-8 (10,5x17cm), (2) ij, ij, 292pp., relié.

First french edition, translated by Joncourt.

Binding poster ca 1790 full sheepskin blonde rooted. Smooth back decorated with 5 florets. title label in black sheepskin. Friction. 2 blunt corners.

450 €

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