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Melchior ADAM

Vitae germanorum philosophorum : qui seculo superiori, et quod excurrit, philosophicis ac ...

Impensis Jonae Rosae Typis Johannis Lacelloti, Haidelbergae (Heidelberg) 1615, in 8 (19x12cm), (16) 526pp. (8)., relié.

First Edition. Brand of printer on the title page. Absent Brunet and Graesse. Full contemporary calf. Back tooled raised. Upper cap threadbare. A loss of the lower cap. Upper joint partially cracked. Lack endpapers with handmade paper. Life Germanic philosophers of the late fifteenth in 1614. The [...]

600 €

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Charles SOREL

Le Chemin de la fortune ou les bonnes règles de la vie pour acquérir des richesses en toute sorte ...

Chez Jean Baptiste Loyson, à Paris 1663, in-12 (15x9cm), (16) 362pp., relié.

First Edition. Rare. A copy of the University Library Tours, absent the BN France and the British Library a copy in Edinburgh. Brunet does not mention this book in the works of Sorel. Full Sheepskin brown textured contemporary. Back tooled raised. Caps frayed, upper joint split third, corners [...]

750 €

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Lodovico DOLCE

Dialogo nel quale si ragion del modo di accrescere, & conservar la memoria

apresso Giambattista Sessa & fratelli, In Venetia (Venise) 1586, in-12 (15,3x10cm), 11ff., relié.

New edition after the original from 1562. Rare. Brunet II, 789. Edition italics illustrated twenty figures in and out of curious objects including text combining letters. A copy in the library of Manchester, we have found nothing in France and Germany. Vellum full time, smooth back and as long [...]

1 500 €

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POOPDS

Opuscule ou essai tendant à rectifier des préjugés nuisibles et à former des vertueux ...

Chez David Fowler (de l'imprimerie de J. Cooper), à Londres 1791, in 12 (16,3x10,5cm), 286 pp., relié.

Edition originale, et seule parue.
Demi Veau romantique rouge , spine lisse à 2 fers romantiques en long.
Cet ouvrage fut rédigé par un quaker américain, et selon l'éditeur avant la Révolution française. L'auteur y condamne sévèrement « la fourberie et le fanatisme des prêtres [...]

650 €

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Frédéric ANCILLON

De la souveraineté et des formes de gouvernement, essai destiné à la rectification de quelques ...

Le Normant, Paris 1816, in-8 (13,5x21cm), 166pp., broché.

First edition of the French translation. Brochure blue tie. Angular gap in the first board, the author's name in pen on the back silent. Good copy. Test political philosophy, the natural and rational law, the state, laws and government; The last chapter is devoted to the French Revolution. The [...]

250 €

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Corneille SCHREVEL

Joannis Sartori adagiorum Chiliades tres sive sententiae proverbiales Graeca, Latina & Belgica, ex ...

Ex typographia Nicolai Herculis, Leyde 1656, fort in-12 (9x15,5cm), (4) 696pp. (42)., relié.

Elzévirienne Edition branded printer (Hercules foot on a dragon floored). No trace in the catalogs of the National Library. Bound in full vellum contemporary, under the pen laces apparent. Sali back, endpapers detached, good condition inside. Shrevel (1615-1664) is a Dutch grammarian, best known [...]

450 €

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